Conveyor apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9387993-B2
Application number	US-201314439554-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 2, 2013
Priority date	Oct 30, 2012
Publication date	Jul 12, 2016
Grant date	Jul 12, 2016

Abstract

To provide a conveyor apparatus that is capable of performing an operation of a bagged electrode with the bagged electrode being in a non-expanding state.
A conveyor apparatus 1 conveys a bagged electrode 100 that is formed by sandwiching an electrode 110 by a pair of separators 120, 130 and by partly welding an outer circumference of the pair of separators 120, 130 . The conveyor apparatus 1 has a conveyor unit 10 , an operating unit and an air-blowing unit 20 . The conveyor unit 10 conveys the bagged electrode 100 while holding the bagged electrode 100 . The operating unit performs an operation of the exposed bagged electrode 100 at a part of a conveyor line of the conveyor unit 10 . The air-blowing unit 20 blows toward a surface that is an opposite side to a held surface of the bagged electrode 100.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A conveyor apparatus conveying a bagged electrode that is formed by sandwiching an electrode by a pair of separators and by partly welding an outer circumference of the pair of separators, the conveyor apparatus comprising:
a conveyor unit conveying the bagged electrode while holding the bagged electrode;
an operating unit performing an operation of the exposed bagged electrode at a part of a conveyor line of the conveyor unit; and
an air-blowing unit blowing toward a surface that is an opposite side to a held surface of the bagged electrode.

2. The conveyor apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein:
the operating unit has at least one of a shooting unit that shoots the bagged electrode from a side facing the held surface of the bagged electrode and a transferring unit that transfers the bagged electrode to a different position from the conveyor line of the conveyor unit.

3. The conveyor apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein:
the air-blowing unit has a static electricity removal unit that removes static electricity charged to the bagged electrode.

4. The conveyor apparatus as claimed in claim 2 , wherein:
the air-blowing unit blows on a shooting area of the shooting unit, and
the conveyor unit conveys the bagged electrode while covering both surfaces of the bagged electrode at an upstream side in a conveying direction of the bagged electrode with respect to the shooting area.

5. The conveyor apparatus as claimed in claim 2 , wherein:
the transferring unit has at least one of a mounting transfer section that transfers the bagged electrode while mounting thereon the bagged electrode and a suction transfer section that transfers the bagged electrode while sucking the bagged electrode.

6. The conveyor apparatus as claimed in claim 2 , wherein:
the transferring unit has a storage unit that has a slot and temporarily stores the bagged electrode, and
the transferring unit drops the bagged electrode into the storage unit from the slot.

7. The conveyor apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein:
the conveyor unit conveys the bagged electrode with an opening being disposed at a downstream side or an upstream side in a conveying direction of the bagged electrode,
the air-blowing unit blows on the bagged electrode whose opening is positioned at the downstream side in the conveying direction of the bagged electrode to a direction toward the downstream side of the bagged electrode, and
the air-blowing unit blows on the bagged electrode whose opening is positioned at the upstream side in the conveying direction of the bagged electrode to a direction toward the upstream side of the bagged electrode.

Assignees

• Nissan Motor

Inventors

• Kinoshita Masafumi
• Ohrui Toshiaki

Classifications

• H01M10/0404

  Machines for assembling batteries · CPC title

• H01M6/005 Primary

  Devices for making primary cells · CPC title

• B65G57/04

  by suction or magnetic devices · CPC title

• B65G49/00 Primary

  Conveying systems characterised by their application for specified purposes not otherwise provided for · CPC title

• H05F3/00

  Carrying-off electrostatic charges ({from shoes A43B7/36}; from living beings A61N1/14; {from tyres B60C19/08; from vehicles B60R16/06; from aircraft B64D45/02; from large containers B65D90/46}) · CPC title