US 12,403,614 B2
Holding device, cargo handling apparatus, and holding method
Motojiro Shibata, Yokohama (JP); Yukihiro Ikeya, Yokohama (JP); Takeshi Toyoshima, Yokohama (JP); Toshikazu Taki, Yokohama (JP); Hiroaki Fujihara, Kawasaki (JP); and Yusuke Mitsuya, Yokohama (JP)
Assigned to KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, Tokyo (JP); and TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION, Kawasaki (JP)
Filed on Jan. 13, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/574,849.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-004521 (JP), filed on Jan. 14, 2021; and application No. 2021-145766 (JP), filed on Sep. 7, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0219337 A1, Jul. 14, 2022
Int. Cl. B25J 15/00 (2006.01); B25J 15/06 (2006.01)
CPC B25J 15/0052 (2013.01) [B25J 15/0004 (2013.01); B25J 15/0691 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A holding device, comprising:
a first holder configured to hold an upper surface of an object; and
a second holder configured to hold a side surface of the object,
the holding device performing at least
a first operation of the first and second holders holding the object, the first operation being performed in a first state in which the second holder can hold the side surface of the object, and
a second operation of the first holder holding the object, the second operation being performed in a second state in which the second holder is positioned higher than at least a portion of the first holder,
in a switching from the first state to the second state, as the second holder moves upward, a distance between the first holder and the second holder in a longitudinal direction, when viewed along a vertical direction, becomes shorter.