US 12,221,291 B2
Conveyance system
Takayuki Kikuchi, Yokohama (JP); Junichi Takada, Yokohama (JP); Kazuhiko Nakayama, Yokohama (JP); and Taketoshi Manou, Yokohama (JP)
Assigned to TOYO SEIKAN CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by TOYO SEIKAN CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jul. 28, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/361,259.
Application 18/361,259 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2022/006070, filed on Feb. 16, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-031502 (JP), filed on Mar. 1, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0017935 A1, Jan. 18, 2024
Int. Cl. B65G 43/08 (2006.01); B07C 5/342 (2006.01); B65G 47/68 (2006.01); B65G 47/91 (2006.01)
CPC B65G 43/08 (2013.01) [B07C 5/342 (2013.01); B65G 47/68 (2013.01); B65G 47/91 (2013.01); B65G 2203/0225 (2013.01); B65G 2203/044 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A conveyance system, comprising:
a conveyance device configured to convey a plurality of containers having a bottomed cylindrical shape arranged in a conveyance direction and in a width direction orthogonal to the conveyance direction;
an imaging device configured to capture an image of the containers that are being conveyed by the conveyance device;
a detection device configured to detect, by using the image, a container not having a predetermined posture of a plurality of the containers that are being conveyed;
a rejection device configured to selectively reject the containers from the conveyance device; and
a control device configured to control operation of the rejection device, wherein
the control device causes the rejection device to reject at least the container not having the predetermined posture in accordance with a detection result of the detection device,
the conveyance device has a shape of a platform continuously extending in the conveyance direction and is configured to have the containers mounted thereon and convey the containers in the conveyance direction,
the predetermined posture is an inverted posture with a bottom facing upward, and
the rejection device is configured to move the containers not to be rejected in the conveyance direction across a gap provided in the platform of the conveyance device by sucking the containers from above and to drop the container to be rejected into the gap.