Fall impact reducing apparatus for chip component and wire jig

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9783374-B2
Application number	US-201615192467-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 24, 2016
Priority date	Dec 26, 2013
Publication date	Oct 10, 2017
Grant date	Oct 10, 2017

Abstract

A fall impact reducing apparatus for reducing an impact on a falling chip component includes a wire assembly which is formed by stacking a plurality of wire jigs. The wire jig includes a plurality of wires arranged parallel to each other at intervals which allows the chip component C to pass through the wire jig, and the wire jig is formed of an integral body by working a base material having a predetermined thickness, the integral body constituted of a pair of frame portions and the plurality of wires extending parallel to each other between the frame portions. When the chip component is made to fall on the wire assembly, the chip component collides with the wire of any one of wire jigs.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A fall impact reducing apparatus for reducing an impact on a falling chip component, the fall impact reducing apparatus comprising
a wire assembly formed by stacking a plurality of wire jigs, and
each of the wire jigs including a plurality of wires arranged parallel to each other at intervals which allows the chip component to pass through the plurality of wires, and
each of the wire jigs being formed of an integral body by working a base material having a predetermined thickness, the integral body being constituted of a pair of frame portions and the plurality of wires extending parallel to each other between the frame portions.

2. The fall impact reducing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein each of the wire jigs is formed by etching a metal plate.

3. The fall impact reducing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the wires are arranged in a slackened state by fixing the frame portions of each of the wire jigs to support members which are arranged in a spaced-apart manner with a predetermined distance therebetween in a length direction of the wires.

4. The fall impact reducing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the wires extending between the frame portions of each of the wire jigs are formed into a curved or bent shape in a plane direction of the base material.

5. The fall impact reducing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein a predetermined gap is formed between the wire jigs by stacking the plurality of wire jigs with a spacer between the frame portions, and by fastening the frame portions and the spacer to each other using a fastening jig.

6. The fall impact reducing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein an elongated hole extending in a direction orthogonal to a length direction of the wires is formed in the frame portions of each of the wire jigs, and
positions of the wires of any pair of upper and lower wire jigs are displaced from each other in a direction orthogonal to the length direction of the wires by inserting a fastening jig into the elongated hole at the time of fastening the frame portions to a support member using the fastening jig.

7. The fall impact reducing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein a plurality of insertion holes arranged in a direction orthogonal to a length direction of the wires are formed in the frame portions of each of the wire jigs, and
positions of the wires of any pair of upper and lower wire jigs are displaced from each other in a direction orthogonal to the length direction of the wires by inserting a fastening jig into any one of the plurality of insertion holes at the time of fastening the frame portions to a support member using the fastening jig.

8. A wire jig used in a fall impact reducing apparatus for reducing an impact on a falling chip component, the wire jig comprising
a plurality of wires arranged parallel to each other at intervals which allow the chip component to pass through the plurality of wires, and
an integral body formed by working a base material having a predetermined thickness, the integral body constituted of a pair of frame portions and the plurality of wires extending parallel to each other between the frame portions.

9. The fall impact reducing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of wires are arranged to directly contact the falling chip component.

10. The fall impact reducing apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein the plurality of wires are arranged to directly contact the falling chip component.

Assignees

• Murata Manufacturing Co

Inventors

• Akimoto Shigeru

Classifications

• B65G2207/28

  Impact protection · CPC title

• B65G2207/42

  Soft elements to prevent damage to articles, e.g. bristles, foam · CPC title

• B65G2814/0205

  for preventing breakage, pulverisation or damage to materials · CPC title

• B65G47/52 Primary

  Devices for transferring articles or materials between conveyors i.e. discharging or feeding devices (loading or unloading by means not incorporated in, or not operatively associated with, conveyors B65G65/00; transfer of workpieces during metal rolling B21B41/00) · CPC title

• B65G11/203

  for articles · CPC title