US 11,987,445 B2
Lid opening-and-closing device
Akifumi Sakamoto, Inuyama (JP); Ryota Yamazaki, Inuyama (JP); and Ryoma Nunome, Inuyama (JP)
Assigned to Murata Machinery, Ltd., Kyoto (JP)
Appl. No. 17/432,522
Filed by Murata Machinery, Ltd., Kyoto (JP)
PCT Filed Jan. 20, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/001662
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 20, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/170672, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 27, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-030400 (JP), filed on Feb. 22, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0135326 A1, May 5, 2022
Int. Cl. B65G 1/10 (2006.01); G03F 1/66 (2012.01); H01L 21/673 (2006.01)
CPC B65G 1/10 (2013.01) [G03F 1/66 (2013.01); H01L 21/67359 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A lid opening-and-closing device that opens and closes an upper lid of a container, the container comprising: a container body; the upper lid; a locking mechanism that locks the upper lid onto the container body when the upper lid is mounted on the container body; and a strip provided to the upper lid, extends in a horizontal direction, and releases locking by the locking mechanism when being rotated upward to an extent exceeding a predetermined value with respect to the container body, the lid opening-and-closing device comprising:
a placement platform on which the container is placed;
a guide provided on both sides above the placement platform and comes into contact with a lower face of the strip to rotate the strip upward to an extent exceeding the predetermined value with respect to the container body during a process of inserting the container is inserted in the horizontal direction to a specified position of the placement platform; and
a raising/lowering mechanism that moves the container body and the upper lid for which locking by the locking mechanism has been released, relatively in an up-and-down direction.