| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 212071000 | OVERHEAD | 46 |
| 20080230503 | Device for Suspending a Rail, Particularly a Running Rail of an Overhead Conveyor or of a Lifting Apparatus - A device for suspending a rail, particularly a running rail of an overhead conveyor or of a lifting apparatus, on a traveling mechanism or supporting framework with a traction element, which is fastened at one end to the rail. The traction element is passed through by a bolt, which is fastened to the rail via a fixing device. The traction element consists of a single part and comprises a lower borehole for the bolt and an upper borehole for fastening to the traveling mechanism or to the supporting framework. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20090178992 | SEMICONDUCTOR AUTOMATION BUFFER STORAGE IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system for reading substrate carriers that includes at least one overhead transport vehicle (OHT) utilizing at least one device for at least one of sensing and/or reading a substrate carrier, and/or wafers arranged therein, when the substrate carrier is proximate the at least one overhead transport vehicle. A method of sensing or reading a substrate carrier includes sensing and/or reading a substrate carrier and/or wafers arranged therein with the overhead transport vehicle. | 07-16-2009 |
| 20090206048 | Suspended platform for overhead traveling carriage - A suspended platform is provided which can prevent an article from overturning and falling even when a great quake such as an earthquake occurs. The suspended platform according to the present invention is intended for an overhead traveling carriage which transfers an article having an abutting surface facing upward in a transfer direction on a horizontal plane and mounts the article on the suspended platform, the suspended platform including a tilt regulating part positioned, in relation to a receiving part on which the article is mounted, such that the tilt regulating part (i) does not touch the article when the article is transferred and mounted on the suspended platform, (ii) is above the abutting surface of the article when the article is transferred and mounted on the suspended platform, (iii) and regulates, by abutting the mounted article at the abutting surface, the tilt range of the article. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20110024377 | OVERHEAD TRAVELLING VEHICLE - An overhead travelling vehicle stores and transports, through a suspended flange, a FOUP having a body, the flange provided on top of the body, and a pair of side flanges projecting laterally from side positions of the body above the bottom of the body. The overhead travelling vehicle is provided with a vehicle body, a pair of article drop preventing members, and a drive mechanism. The pair of article drop preventing members is provided at the vehicle body and is moveable between a drop preventing position under the side flanges and a receding position receding from the drop preventing position. The drive mechanism drives the article drop preventing members. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110062103 | OVERHEAD CONVEYING VEHICLE - An overhead conveying vehicle is arranged to contain and convey a suspended FOUP including a lid that is removably provided on a side surface thereof. The overhead conveying vehicle includes a conveying vehicle body, a hoist mechanism, a lid drop preventing member, and a power transmitting mechanism. The hoist mechanism is provided at the conveying vehicle body and is arranged to raise and lower the FOUP. The lid drop preventing member is arranged in close proximity to a front surface of the lid. The power transmitting mechanism retracts the lid drop preventing member away from the front surface of the lid when the FOUP is being raised or lowered. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110089129 | HOIST COMBINATION - A hoist combination includes a hoist, a trolley that is arranged to move along a beam provided with side flanges, whereby the trolley includes two trolley flanges arranged on opposite sides of the beam and provided with wheels, by which the trolley moves along the side flanges of the beam; and a securing and adjusting device for securing the hoist to the trolley flanges beneath the beam and for adjusting the mutual distance between the trolley flanges, the securing and adjusting device including supporting slide coupling between the hoist and the trolley flanges and an adjustment bar connected between the trolley flanges, the sliding direction of the adjustment bar and the slide coupling being transverse to the beam. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110303627 | PRECAST COPING LIFTING SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a precast coping lifting system, and more particularly to, a lifting system for lifting precast coping composed of a main segment and a subsegment, characterized in comprising: a hoist crane for installing a horizontal support on the top of the main segment and forming a pair of carriers on the horizontal support; a plurality of clamps for being installed on the top of the horizontal support of the hoist crane, being moved by the carrier of the hoist crane and fixing the subsegment to the top of the horizontal support; and work vehicle for being installed on the horizontal support of the hoist crane and being moved by self power along the horizontal support. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20120000875 | GRIPPER DEVICE FOR TRANSPORT VEHICLE, TRANSPORT VEHICLE AND OVERHEAD HOIST TRANSPORT VEHICLE - A gripper device for a transport vehicle includes a base plate, a guide rail provided on an upper surface of the base plate, a pair of guide blocks arranged to be movable in a substantially horizontal direction toward and away from each other along the guide rail, and a pair of gripping parts. Each of the gripping parts includes a horizontal portion fixed to an upper surface of one of the guide blocks and arranged to extend substantially parallel to the upper surface of the base plate, a vertical portion arranged to extend downward from the horizontal portion to a position lower than that of the base plate, and a claw section provided on a lower end of the vertical portion and arranged to grip an object. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120006779 | CONTAINER CRANE - The invention provides a container crane comprising a frame having a trolley rail along which a trolley travels; said trolley supporting a twin spreader assembly for engaging one or more containers, and; a docking station mounted to said frame; wherein said trolley is arranged to move said twin spreader assembly to the docking station and be placed therein. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120055898 | GANTRY WITH SUSPENDING LINKS - The gantry system ( | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120080396 | Article Transport Device - An article transport device having a housing space for housing an article retained by an article-retaining unit located in a raised position, is formed in a moving body of the article transport device, and an aperture for allowing the article-retaining unit to be raised and lowered between the raised position and a lowered position, is formed in the lower-end part of the housing space. The article transport device further comprising purified air ventilation means for ventilating purified air through an air purification filter, an opening/closing element capable of changing positions to an open position for opening the aperture and a closed position for blocking the aperture by pivoting around a lateral axis, and opening and closing control means for positioning the opening/closing element in the open position in a case in which the article-retaining unit is raised or lowered between the raised position and the lowered position. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120118845 | Ceiling Transport Vehicle - A ceiling transport vehicle in which articles may be transferred precisely while allowing its travel portion to travel smoothly along a set travel path is provided. The ceiling transport vehicle has a pair of guiding bodies which guide the travel portion along a set travel path by contacting each of right and left lateral sides of a guide rail with a pair of contacting members that are supported by the travel portion such that the contacting members can be moved away from each other and moved toward each other in a lateral width direction. The ceiling transport vehicle also has a switching portion for moving each of the pair of contacting members away from each other and toward each other to switch between a holding state and a holding release state. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20130264301 | HOIST APPARATUS - A hoist apparatus includes a traveling portion disposed to travel along a transfer path, a rotation portion installed at the traveling portion to rotate with respect to the traveling portion, an ascending and descending portion to ascend or descend with respect to the rotation portion and for loading an object, and an object support member installed at the traveling portion, having an accommodation space to accommodate the object, and including at least one object support portion disposed at one side of the object support member and having a shape corresponding to the object so as to support the object rotated by the rotation portion. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20130264302 | TILTING MULTIPLIER - A tilting carrier assembly for a finishing process includes a load bar configured to convey a work piece relative to a work station. A skid is configured to receive the work piece. Each of a pair of links is pivotally coupled to the load bar at a first end and pivotally coupled to the skid at an opposite second end. A horizontal span between the first ends of the pair of links is substantially greater than a horizontal span between the second ends of the pair of links. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20140001137 | CRANE HAVING A CRANE JIB, IN PARTICULAR A BRACKET CRANE | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140144859 | Overhead Transport Carriage - An overhead transport carriage 1 comprises a body 4 containing an object 30 and traveling along a traveling rail 3, a lifting mechanism 6 including a holding unit 8 holding the object 30 and a lifting unit 7 moving the unit 8 up and down with respect to a predetermined position P at which the object 30 is contained, an anti lid-dropping-off member 20 facing a lid 31 of the object 30 when the unit 8 is located at the position P, and a moving mechanism. The mechanism 10 moves the member 20 in response to the motion of the unit 8 so that the member 20 is located at an anti dropping-off position when the unit 8 is located at the position P, and the member 20 is located at the escape position when the unit 8 moves with respect to the position P. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140263139 | ROLL LIFTING ASSEMBLIES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS - The present disclosure relates, according to some embodiments, to roll lifting assemblies, systems, and methods for lifting, handling, and/or maneuvering rolled material. According to some embodiments, a roll lifting system may be configured to move a single roll and/or to concurrently move two or more rolls. For example, a roll lifting system may comprise a translocation apparatus and/or a lift assembly. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20150053636 | CRANE, PARTICULARLY BRIDGE CRANE OR GANTRY CRANE, COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE CRANE GIRDER - The invention relates to a crane, particularly a bridge crane or gantry crane, including at least one crane girder extending horizontally and designed as a truss with a plurality of braces, on which girder a crane trolley with a lifting gear is movable. At least some of the braces have a flat shape. The flat-shaped braces each have a flat main surface that extends in each case transversely to a longitudinal direction of the crane girder. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20160133488 | Article Transport Vehicle - An article transport vehicle is provided in which it is difficult for the transported article support portions to interfere with the supported portion of the transported article while reducing transmission of vibrations to the transported article, during a travel of the travel member or during a vertical movement of the vertically movable portion. A support unit which is vertically moved relative to a travel member is provided with: a guiding supporting portion for guiding and supporting transported article support portions for supporting a supported portion of a transported article such that the transported article support portions can be moved to support positions and to retracted positions; and a damper element which is located between a vertically movable portion and the guiding supporting portion and receives load from the guiding supporting portion and which is elastically deformable in a vertical direction. | 05-12-2016 |
| 212073000 | Shiftable track | 1 |
| 20110000865 | CRANE IMPROVEMENTS - Aspects of the present invention relate to crane systems and/or hoists. One aspect includes in combination with a pair of runways in a crane system, a pair of hoist assemblies moveable on the runways, a pair of transfer rails selectively disposable transversely to the runways, the transfer rails including racks for at least a portion of one or both of the hoist assemblies to travel on, a spreader assembly locatable between the hoist assemblies and engaging the runways and/or the hoist assemblies to push the runways or hoist assemblies apart during insertion of the transfer rails between the runways. | 01-06-2011 |
| 212076000 | Cable | 8 |
| 20080251484 | Tie-Back System for Cranes, in Particular Heavy Load Offshore Cranes - The invention relates to a tie-back system for a crane comprising a rotatable base with a generally vertical support frame and a lifting arm which is with a lower end hingedly connected to the base in a hinge point, an upper part of the frame carrying a displacement member movable relative to the frame, the displacement member carrying a first cable guide means, a first cable extending from a first connection point on the arm along the first cable guide means to a first pulling device. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20100270252 | Ceiling Lift and Ceiling Lift Components - The present application relates to ceiling lifts and ceiling lift components. One embodiment relates to a ceiling lift gear box that is made from multiple plates. One embodiment relates to a swivel assembly. One embodiment relates to a ceiling lift display. One embodiment relates to use of an optocoupler in a ceiling lift. | 10-28-2010 |
| 212077000 | Load-handling | 1 |
| 212083000 | Load suspension | 1 |
| 212084000 | Grab | 1 |
| 20150021287 | GRAPPLE CARRIAGE FOR LOGGING - A grapple carriage for logging having at least two articulated arms, each arm comprising a vertical movement actuator to control vertical movement of the arm, and a horizontal movement actuator to control horizontal movement of the arm. | 01-22-2015 |
| 212087000 | Draft-rope, hoist-rope traverse | 2 |
| 20110247991 | MULTI-STAGE TROLLEY FOR A CRANE AND A CRANE THEREWITH - A crane for loading and unloading a cargo includes multi-stage trolley. The multi-stage trolley for a crane includes a first trolley movable in a longitudinal direction along a boom of the crane; a second trolley movable in a lateral direction on the first trolley; a hoisting wire provided in the longitudinal direction along the boom; spreader connected to the hoisting wire through the first trolley and the second trolley and supported by the hoisting wire, the spreader being movable in a vertical direction according to a movement of the hoisting wire. The multi-stage trolley further includes a sheave block unit for changing a direction of the hoisting wire to maintain a vertical level of the spreader constant when the first trolley and/or the second trolley is moved. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20160002009 | HOISTING ROPE ARRANGEMENT IN CRANE TROLLEY - A hoisting rope arrangement in a trolley moving along a main girder of a crane and driven by an outside mechanism is provided. Both sides of the trolley are provided with successive rope pulley pairs located at a distance from one another in a longitudinal direction of the trolley and, below these, sheaves situated in a hoisting member, whereby on both sides of the trolley, a first hoisting rope is led from a first end of the main girder of the crane via one rope pulley of a first rope pulley pair down to the sheave and therefrom via an other rope pulley to a second end of the main girder, and a second hoisting rope is led from the second end of the main girder via one rope pulley of a second rope pulley pair down to the sheave and therefrom via an other rope pulley to the first end of the main girder. The arrangement employs rope pulley pairs which comprise differently sized rope pulleys but which are mounted in successive fastening points of the trolley such that they are reversed in relation to one another and such that in successive pulley pairs the differently sized rope pulleys are aligned with one another as viewed in the longitudinal direction of the trolley. | 01-07-2016 |
| 212097000 | Load suspension | 2 |
| 212098000 | Hoist, carry and lower | 1 |
| 20110056900 | Article Transport Facility - Articles are stored while preventing disruption of the flow of clean air from an upper region to a lower region to alleviate degradation of clean air with an article supported by an article support. The article support ( | 03-10-2011 |
| 212110000 | Rope grip | 1 |
| 20100012609 | Adaptable hoist fixture - Apparatus for securing hoist rigging comprising a first and a second polyhedral frame, and support members having two ends, wherein one end is attached to a corner of the first polyhedral frame and the second end is attached to a corner of the second polyhedral frame, so as to position the frames in a substantially parallel and superposed position. | 01-21-2010 |
| 212123000 | Pulley changers | 1 |
| 20090166308 | APPARATUS FOR CARRYING A LOAD - An apparatus for use in carrying a load particularly in theatrical performances comprising a supported guide rail, with a first and second carriage movably mounted on the guide rail, the first carriage being adapted to carry a movable lift line for carrying the load, and a compensator system linking the first and second carriage and being arranged such that on movement of the first carriage or the second carriage, the other carriage moves in the same direction and the second carriage moves a shorter distance than the first carriage. Lifting and lowering of the load may be achieved independently of travel along the rail and a load may be transported at a constant height. | 07-02-2009 |
| 212328000 | Self-propelled trolley | 10 |
| 20090301984 | MOVABLE PULLEY HEADS FOR A LATERAL SPREADER MOVEMENT - Movable pulley head assembly for a lateral spreader movement, where the lateral movement of the spreader is carried out directly on hoist pulley assemblies, the assembly including structurally rigid bridges where a beam of the bridge is long enough for the travel of the mechanism, cross members attached to pulley heads, where each cross member supports a bridge at each end by means of elements allowing relative movement between bridge and cross member, where the cross members can be extended outside the bridges to serve as support for other elements or mechanisms, the assembly further including worm screws for the lateral movement of the spreader. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20130134120 | HOIST APPARATUS AND HOIST TRANSPORTING SYSTEM - Disclosed is a hoist apparatus having an improved structure to load an object to be transported in a horizontal direction. The hoist apparatus includes a travel unit to travel along a rail, a carrier unit coupled to the travel unit so as to move in a first direction, and a cart unit coupled to the carrier unit so as to move in a second direction different from the first direction, wherein the cart unit includes a body portion, in which an object to be transferred is located, and a drive portion to drive the body portion in the second direction. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20140291271 | Lifting Device With An Adjustable Carriage - The lifting device according to the invention comprises a carriage ( | 10-02-2014 |
| 20160152450 | Travel Facility | 06-02-2016 |
| 212330000 | Load-handling | 6 |
| 20100096353 | TURNING DEVICE FOR HOIST - A turning device for a hoist is disclosed, in which a weight thing with a narrow width can be stably turned with a stable support. A rope end unit or an upper sheave unit is easily installed at a hoist frame. A rope end unit or an upper sheave unit is installed in a hoist frame and is freely movable in opposite positions. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20110006026 | Intersection navigation system - Disclosed herein is an intersection navigation system for a hoist to prevent a hoist unit of the hoist from falling when the hoist unit passes an intersection. The intersection navigation system may include a hoist unit including an auxiliary mover and a railway on which the hoist unit travels. The railway may include an intersection having auxiliary rails on which the auxiliary mover moves. Furthermore, the auxiliary mover may be configured to prevent the hoist unit from falling when the hoist unit passes through the intersection. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20150357211 | TRANSPORT DEVICE - Provided is a transport device that can simultaneously transport a plurality of articles with a simple device configuration. The transport device includes a chucking device that holds a magazine. An overhead carriage that transports the magazine held by the chucking device includes article storage parts that each accommodate the magazine held by the chucking device. The article storage parts include rotary tables that receive, from the chucking device, the magazine held by the chucking device. The rotary tables having received the magazines from the chucking device move from the chucking device to the article storage parts. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20160165837 | WEAR-RESISTANT LIVESTOCK FEED GRIPPING JAW | 06-16-2016 |
| 212331000 | Electric | 2 |
| 20090095698 | Electric motor driven traversing balancer hoist - A balancer hoist has an electric servomotor driving irreversible gearing in turn driving a hoist chain drive. A float mode and a manual mode are provided using two independent load sensors for sensing the load weight and force applied to a control grip. A traversing control is produced by a tractor carriage rolling on an overhead rail connected to a trolley also traveling on the rail and supported on upper hoist assembly. A load sensor interconnects the tractor carriage and upon hoist assembly to sense forces created by an operator pulling on the chain, which are used to control an electric motor on the tractor carriage driving a pinion gear engaged with a gear rack on the overhead rail to positively drive the carriage, trolley and upper hoist assembly along the rail. A stationary dual hoist system is also described in which two hoist assemblies are interconnected by a chain and sprockets to provide synchronized operation. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090294394 | CONVEYING DEVICE FOR A TROLLEY IN AN AIRCRAFT CABIN - The invention relates to a conveying device for a trolley, in particular to a refreshments trolley, in an aircraft passenger cabin and consists in the fact that the conveying device comprises an electric drive with two drive wheels | 12-03-2009 |
| 212336000 | Nonmotor traverse | 3 |
| 20120000876 | LIFT SYSTEMS WITH CONTINUOUS IN-RAIL CHARGING - Rail-mounted lift systems are disclosed. In one embodiment, the lift system includes a rail having at least one conductor positioned on an upper interior surface of the rail. A carriage may be slidably disposed in the rail for relative movement to the rail. The carriage generally includes a carriage body, at least one pair of support wheels rotatably coupled to the carriage body and slidably engaged with the rail, and a conductor truck comprising at least one conductive roller rotatably attached to the conductor truck. The conductor truck may be mounted to the carriage body with a biasing member upwardly biasing the conductive roller into rolling engagement with the at least one conductor. A lift unit may be coupled to the carriage body and includes a motor paying out and taking up a lifting strap. The lift unit is electrically coupled to the at least one conductive roller. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20140138340 | Overhead Hoist - The hoist winch system of the present invention uses a cable drum that allows a web cable to be attached to the wind drum at a mid-point along the length of cable. The single cable has web loops at the two opposite ends. The wind drum winds both sections of the web cable at the same time, but the cable ends are routed by separate guide pulleys extended horizontally to the lift pulleys that direct each line segment down to the object to be lifted at separated points | 05-22-2014 |
| 212338000 | With load-handler | 1 |
| 212339000 | Discharging | 1 |
| 20120261373 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A CONCRETE MIX CASTING EQUIPMENT DISMOUNTABLY ATTACHED TO A CRANE AND A CONCRETE MIX CASTING EQUIPMENT DISMOUNTABLY ATTACHED TO A CRANE - A method for controlling concrete mix casting equipment to be dismountably attached to a crane, said casting equipment being controlled on the horizontal plane by moving the crane, so that a substantially vertical motion of the casting equipment is achieved during the operation of the casting equipment by vertical motion of the lifting element of the crane. The invention also relates to a concrete mix casting equipment to be dismountably attached to a crane. | 10-18-2012 |
| 212343000 | Surface vehicle | 2 |
| 20130248478 | GANTRY CRANE VEHICLES AND METHODS FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC ARRAYS - Gantry crane vehicle for performing one or more tasks in a photovoltaic array and method thereof. The gantry crane vehicle includes one or more base plates, and one or more tracks above the one or more base plates. Additionally, the vehicle includes one or more gantry assemblies configured to slide along the one or more tracks, and one or more first support trusses configured to support the one or more tracks above the one or more base plates. Moreover, the vehicle includes one or more second support trusses connected to at least some of the one or more first support trusses, and one or more storage cabinets located on the one or more base plates. The one or more storage cabinets include one or more top surfaces and one or more side surfaces, and the one or more top surfaces are located below the one or more tracks. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20150122763 | SYSTEM FOR LOADING AND UNLOADING IN PORT OPERATIONS , COMPRISING OF A CRANE; AND A BASE LOCATED IN THE BODY OF THE CRANE THAT HOLDS AND STOCKS THE HATCH COVERS - The invention relates to a system (I) for loading and unloading during port operations and equipment for supporting hatchway covers (II) of marine-vessel holds, comprising: a loading and unloading crane ( | 05-07-2015 |
| 212346000 | Trolley having wheels which contact different sides or planes of a beam | 3 |
| 20080210654 | Trolley for loading - The object of the present invention is to provide a trolley for loading able to comply with a force other than a direction of movement based on a premise of usage of a circular pipe as a rail. The present invention is a single-track suspension trolley for loading applied to a single rail, of which at least an upper half part is formed in arch, having a V-shaped groove having symmetric taper planes slanting to a center at midspan, having a drum-shaped wheel running on the rail while the taper plane of the V-shaped groove is in a contact condition with the upper half part in two points, having a flame provided with a pivot side plate enabling to roll the wheel, and having a cargo handling member provided with the flame beneath the wheel. A wheel is connected integrally with a pair of piece having a conical surface, each of which is faced or a V-shaped groove is produced at a center of a cylindrical member by abrading thereof. Further, a wheel is formed from a material such as a rubber and a synthetic resin having a sound absorption effect of a rolling noise. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20090173710 | CHASSIS FOR A CABLE OR PIPELINE TROLLEY - The invention relates to a chassis ( | 07-09-2009 |
| 20110147332 | Trolley Wheel Technology - The invention provides a trolley wheel assembly for a conveyor system, e.g., an overhead conveyor system. In certain embodiments, the wheel assembly includes at least one wheel face having a contour (optionally a funneling configuration and/or one or more surface features) configured to facilitate flow of a fluid toward an open bearing assembly of the wheel assembly. In some embodiments, the wheel assembly includes an inner race, outer race, and bearings having a particular hardness arrangement, optionally together with a polymer wheel having certain filler features. Methods for cleaning such a trolley wheel assembly are also provided. | 06-23-2011 |
