JP2000016523A - Automatic storage equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make it possible to install a storage equipment even in a space where a width corresponding to the depth direction of a storage shelf is narrow. SOLUTION: This automatic storage equipment is provided with storage shelves E1, E2 having a receiving section H which laterally arranges a plurarity of thin rectangular articles A at fixed placing intervals and placingly receives them and a carrying means G which carrys the article according to a carrying in-out command in order to deliver it between the storage shelf and a carrting in-out section, and the storage section is composed so as to placedly receive a plurarity of articles with a thickness direction set along a horizontal direction and in a posture where the articles are inclined to the arranging direction of the articles in a plane view.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a storage shelf provided with a storage section for storing a plurality of rectangular thin articles in a horizontal direction at a predetermined interval and for storing the articles based on a carry-in / out instruction. And a transfer means for transferring the transfer between the storage shelf and the carry-in / out section.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in the above-mentioned automatic storage facility, as described in, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 61-262959, a storage shelf is a rectangular thin article (video cassette).
For storing a plurality of products in a horizontal direction with a constant placement interval, with the thickness direction along the horizontal direction, and in a posture perpendicular to the arrangement direction of the articles in plan view. A storage shelf provided with a section is provided, and when an article is delivered between the storage shelf and the transporting means, the article is moved in a direction orthogonal to the article arrangement direction and delivered. I have.

[0003]

According to the above-mentioned prior art, the storage shelf mounts and stores a plurality of rectangular thin articles in a posture perpendicular to the arrangement direction of the articles in plan view. Since the storage unit is provided, not only is the depth of the storage shelf large, but also on the front side of the storage shelf, articles can be transferred between the storage shelf and the transport means.
It is necessary to secure at least a delivery space having a width corresponding to the length of the article in the delivery direction, and it may not be possible to install the product in a space having a small width corresponding to the depth direction of the storage shelf. The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances,
By devising the storage posture of articles on the storage shelf,
It is an object of the present invention to enable installation in a space having a narrow width corresponding to a depth direction of a storage shelf.

[0004]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an automatic storage facility, wherein a plurality of articles are inclined with respect to a direction in which the articles are arranged in a plan view in a thickness direction along a horizontal direction. The storage shelf can be placed and stored in the storage section in a posture in which the length in the depth direction of the storage shelf is short, and when the articles are transferred between the storage shelf and the transporting means, the articles are arranged in a line. It can be transferred by moving it diagonally to the direction.
Therefore, the depth dimension of the storage shelf can be reduced, and the width of the delivery space that needs to be secured on the front side of the storage shelf can also be reduced, so that the space corresponding to the storage shelf depth direction is narrow. But it can be installed. The automatic storage facility according to claim 2, wherein the transporting body is moved to a position where articles can be transferred between the guide section provided in the storage section and the holding section provided in the transporting body, and the automatic transporting facility is provided in the transporting body. The transfer means can push and pull the article in the front-rear direction perpendicular to the thickness direction and transfer the article between the storage shelf and the transport body. Then, at the time of delivery from the storage section of the article to the carrier, the drive roller is pressed against a side portion that does not overlap with the article adjacent to the article, and the article is drawn out to the carrier by the drive rotation of the drive roller. When the article is delivered from the carrier to the storage section, the drive roller is pressed against a side portion of the article that does not overlap with an adjacent article, and the article is driven by the drive roller to rotate. Can be pushed into the storage section. Therefore, there is little operation error at the time of starting the delivery of the article from the storage unit to the carrier or at the time of finishing the delivery of the article from the carrier to the storage unit, and the product can be reliably delivered. The automatic storage facility according to claim 3, further comprising detection means for detecting the timing of pressing the drive roller against the side portion of the article, so as to start delivery of the article from the storage section to the transport body, or to transport the article. The drive roller can be reliably pressed against the side surface portion at a predetermined timing so that there is no operation error at the time of completion of the transfer to the storage unit. Since the automatic storage facility according to the fourth aspect is provided with a plurality of holding units and a transfer unit corresponding to each of the holding units, a plurality of articles are transferred between the storage shelf and the carry-in / out unit. It can be efficiently transported at the same time. Further, since the plurality of holding units are provided at an arrangement interval that is an integral multiple of the mounting interval of the articles in the storage unit, when the plurality of articles are sequentially transferred between the storage shelf and the carrier, any of the holding units is used. Even when the transfer is performed by using the unit, the moving amount of the carrier along the storage unit can be set as an integral multiple of the mounting interval based on the mounting interval of the articles in the storing unit. In addition, the control structure of the carrier can be simplified. In the automatic storage facility according to the fifth aspect, two storage shelves are provided at intervals so that the article loading / unloading sides are opposed to each other, and the storage units are arranged so that the transfer directions by the transfer means in each storage shelf are parallel to each other. Since it is provided, articles can be transferred to and from any of the storage shelves by using the transfer means provided on one carrier, and the transport structure can be simplified.

[0005]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS FIGS. 1 to 3 show an article in which a compact disk is placed in a rectangular thin resin transparent case which is an example of a rectangular thin article as an example of an automatic storage facility according to the present invention (hereinafter referred to as a case). A shows an automatic lending / returning machine of A). This automatic lending / returning machine is provided inside a cabinet 1 in which a reception / operation unit B for lending / returning and a carry-in / out unit F on which a plurality of case-containing disks A are placed so as to be able to be taken in and out from the outside are provided on the front side. , Two storage shelves E1 and E2 for storing the disk A in the case, a transport means G for transporting the disk A in the case, and a control device D for controlling the lending / returning operation.

The reception operation section B includes a card reader for reading a user card, an input section for inputting a code name of a disk A with a case which the user wants to rent or return, a charge display section for displaying a rental fee, a rental fee. Charge input section,
An operation panel B1 including a liquid crystal display unit and the like for displaying operation procedures and the like as images is provided.

[0007] The storage shelves E1 and E2 are provided with a storage portion H for mounting and storing a plurality of cased disks A side by side at a constant mounting interval K (25 mm in the present embodiment) with the thickness direction being adjacent to each other. Provided in a plurality of upper and lower stages, the conveying means G
Based on a lending command or a return command as a loading / unloading command, a loading / unloading transport that transports the cased disk A by a transporting trolley 4 as a transporting body in order to transfer the disc A between the storage shelves E1, E2 and the loading / unloading unit F. It is configured with a device.

[0008] The plurality of storage sections H are provided at any of the storage shelves E where the delivery height of the disk A with the case to and from the transport trolley 4 is different.
1 and E2, the storage shelves E1 and E2 are provided in a plurality of upper and lower stages so that the transfer directions of the cased disks A in the two storage shelves E1 and E2 are parallel to each other in plan view. E1 and E2 are installed at an interval in the front-rear direction with the case A in and out sides facing each other, and a carrier 4 is movably provided between the storage shelves E1 and E2.

As shown in FIGS. 4 to 7, the housing portion H is provided with a resin lower end locking member 3 which is assembled vertically.
a and one resin upper end locking member 3b are provided, and the combination of each lower end locking member 3a and the upper end locking member 3b corresponds to ten case-containing disks A in the thickness direction. At a fixed angle θ with respect to the direction in which the cased discs A are arranged in a horizontal direction and in a plan view.
It is configured to be placed and stored side by side in an inclined position.

Each of the lower end locking members 3a is provided with a plurality of lower locking grooves 5a for mounting and supporting ten cased disks A and locking only the lower ends thereof from the lateral sides. The upper end locking member 3 is formed in a
Each of the b has a plurality of upper locking grooves 5b for locking only the upper end portions of the same ten cases of disks A as the lower locking member 3a from the lateral side, and is formed in a parallelogram in plan view. Have been.

A lower end locking member 3a is provided corresponding to the upper storage portion H of the vertically adjacent storage portions H.
And the upper end locking members 3b provided corresponding to the lower storage portions H are attached to the required number of shelves 2 fixed to the storage shelves E1 and E2 so as to be opposed in the vertical direction and parallel to each other. A storage guide portion that guides each of the discs A with the case in a posture for preventing the case A from falling down and movably in the front-rear direction perpendicular to the thickness direction by the disposed lower locking groove 5a and upper locking groove 5b. 5 are configured. The upper end locking member 3b provided in the uppermost storage section H is provided with storage shelves E1, E.
2 is fixed to the lower surface of the top plate.

A guide surface 7a is formed at the distal end of the lower locking groove 5a and the upper locking groove 5b for guiding the direction of insertion of the disk A with a case. The article placement surface 7b of the lower end locking member 3a is placed so that the lower end locking member 3a is placed at a higher inclination toward the end so as to prevent the disc A in the case from moving toward the delivery side with the carrier 4 due to the vibration of the disc A in the case. The upper end of the transfer carriage 4 is formed with a higher slope. Then, the upper end of the disk A with the case is inserted along the upper locking groove 5b, and the lower end of the disk A with the case is brought into contact with the rear end along the lower locking groove 5a. The disc A is guided in such a manner that the disc A in the case can slide freely.

As shown in FIGS. 8 to 10, the loading / unloading portion F is provided at a part of the storage shelf E1 on the front side of the cabinet.
The cased disks A are arranged side by side in a horizontal direction, and in a plan view, a posture parallel to the cased disks A stored in the storage portion H, that is, a posture inclined at a fixed angle θ with respect to the arrangement direction. The mounting plate 8 and each of the case-containing disks A are tilted in the front-rear direction orthogonal to the thickness direction, that is, at a fixed angle θ with respect to the direction in which the case-containing disks A are arranged. And a loading / unloading guide section 9 for guiding the slide operation freely along the transfer direction.

The loading / unloading section F has an opening 10 at the front of the cabinet for opening and closing the disk A with a case from outside, a door 10a for opening and closing the disk 10, and a disk A with a case. Delivery port 11 for delivery to and from cart 4 and delivery port 1
And a delivery door 11a that opens and closes the delivery door 1.

The loading / unloading guide section 9 is arranged at an interval L (50 mm in this embodiment) which is twice as long as the interval K for mounting the cased disk A in each storage section H, and is provided with a plurality of lower guide members 9a. The upper guide member 9b is provided up and down so that the upper end portion of the disk A in the case is adjacent to the upper guide member 9b.
The cased disc A is inserted between the adjacent lower guide members 9a and the lower end of the cased disc A is guided between the adjacent lower guide members 9a so as to guide the cased disc A to be slidably moved. It is configured.

The upper guide members 9b are mounted parallel to each other on the lower surface of a wide mounting frame 12 fixed above the carry-in / out portion F, and the lower guide members 9a correspond to the upper guide members 9b one by one. It is attached to the upper surface of the mounting plate 8 in parallel and facing up and down. A loading detection microswitch S1 that contacts the lower surface of the cased disk A and detects the presence or absence of the disk A is attached to the mounting plate 8 corresponding to each space between the adjacent lower guide members 9a.

The access door 10a and the delivery door 11
a is provided so as to be slidable in the vertical direction along guide rails 13 attached to the left and right sides of the cabinet 1, and an opening / closing device 14 for driving and opening these doors is provided. The opening / closing device 14 includes a pair of left and right drive belt wheels 15 supported on the upper front side of the loading / unloading unit F, and a loading / unloading unit F.
A pair of left and right driven belt wheels 16 supported on the upper back side of
Two timing belts 17 are wound around a pair of left and right driven belt wheels 16 supported on the lower front side and the upper rear side of the carry-in / out portion F, respectively.
7, right and left sides of the entrance door 10a and the delivery door 11a
Are connected to each other so that one of the doors opens and the other opens and closes when the drive belt wheel 15 is rotated forward and reverse by the door opening and closing electric motor M1.

The mounting plate 8 has an access door open / close detection microswitch S2 for detecting the closed state of the access door 10a by coming into contact with the access door, and contacting the delivery door. A delivery port door opening / closing detection microswitch S3 for detecting the closed state of the delivery port door 11a is attached.

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the carrying-in / out carrying device G includes an elevating frame 18 for guiding the carrier 4 so as to be able to travel in the width direction of the storage shelf, and two elevating frames 18. A drive elevating device 19 for driving up and down between the storage shelves E1 and E2, and a drive traveling device 20 for reciprocatingly driving the transport vehicle 4 along the elevating frame 18 are provided. By moving along the frame 18 and moving up and down the lifting frame 18, the disk A with the case is transported between the storage shelves E <b> 1 and E <b> 2 and the loading / unloading unit F for transfer. .

The drive elevating device 19 comprises two guide columns 22 for rolling up and down guide rollers 21 provided at the left and right ends of the elevating frame 18 to guide the ascending and descending directions. The two timing belts 25 wound around a pair of drive belt wheels 23 and a pair of left and right driven belt wheels 24 on the upper side of the cabinet are attached to the lifting frame 18.
The right and left sides are connected to each other, and the lift frame 18 is driven up and down by forward and reverse drive rotation of the drive belt wheel 23 by the lift electric motor M2, and a lift position attached to one end of the lift frame 18 Shielding the detection photosensor T1 from light,
A light-shielding plate 26 for detecting an ascending / descending position corresponding to a transfer position between the storage shelves E1 and E2 is attached to the guide column 22 corresponding to each of the storage portions H in each stage.

The driving and traveling device 20 includes a driving belt wheel 27 and a driven belt wheel 28 provided at both left and right ends of the lifting frame 18.
, And the timing belt 29 is connected to the transport carriage 4 so that the lifting frame 1
The transport cart 4 is moved up and down by the forward / reverse driving rotation of the drive belt wheel 27 by the traveling electric motor M3 fixed to one end of the carriage frame 8.
8 to reciprocate.
In addition, the traveling frame corresponding to each transfer position of the disc A in the case between the storage unit H and the storage position H is shielded from the traveling position detecting photosensor T2 attached to the lower part of the transporting carriage 4 on the lifting frame 18. And a cable bearer (not shown) that accommodates a power supply cable to the traveling electric motor M3 and a control signal input / output cable between the controller D.

FIGS. 4, 10 to 1
As shown in FIG. 4, the case-containing disk A is arranged in a posture parallel to the case-containing disk A stored in the storage portion H in a plan view, with the thickness direction of the disk A being horizontal.
Two holding portions 31a and 31b for mounting and holding the posture in which the carrier 4 is inclined at the above-mentioned constant angle θ with respect to the traveling direction.
A bar code reader 32 for reading a bar code for identification of the case-cased disc A held in correspondence with each of the holding portions 31a and 31b;
And a transfer means N for pushing and pulling in the front-rear direction perpendicular to the thickness direction to transfer between the storage section H or the carry-in / out section F and the holding sections 31a, 31b.

The two holding portions 31a and 31b are arranged at a spacing K of 8 for the case-mounted disk A stored in the storage portion H.
The holders 31a and 31b are provided at a double arrangement interval (200 mm in this embodiment) M, and hold the cased disk A between the two support plates 33a and 33b fixed to the carrier 4 side. Is configured.

Each of the transfer means N includes a holding portion 31a,
The cased disk A held in the storage section 31b is transferred to the storage section H or the carry-in / out section F, or the cased disk A mounted in the storage section H or the carry-in / out section F is held in the holding section 3b.
When transferring the disc A containing the case A from the left and right sides when transferring the disc A into and out of the case 1a and 31b, and transferring the disc A containing the case placed in the storage section H or the carry-in / out section F. A pressing drive roller 35 that presses against a side surface portion A1 that does not overlap with the adjacent cased disk A in the thickness direction when viewed from the thickness direction, and pushes and pulls the cased disk A in the transfer direction. And the pressing drive roller 35
Are provided at the front and rear in the transfer direction so that the disc A with the case can be pushed and pulled in the transfer direction between the storage shelves E1 and E2.

The holding and conveying device 34 includes two support plates 3
Two clamping rollers 36a, 36b are provided on each of 3a, 33b.
Gears 37a, 37b, which are rotatably supported about the longitudinal axis, and which are adjacent to each other and sandwich the holding portions 31a, 31b of the holding rollers 36a, 36b.
And a driven belt wheel 38 is mounted on the upper portion of the two holding rollers 36b supported by one support plate 33b, and the driven belt wheel 38 and the drive belt wheel 39 are attached.
The timing belt 40 is wrapped between them, and can be transferred between the storage portions H of the storage shelves E1 and E2 by the forward and reverse drive rotation of the drive belt wheel 39 by the nipping and conveying electric motor M4. There is provided a cable carrier 41 configured to accommodate a power supply cable to the nipping and transporting electric motor M4 and a cable for inputting and outputting a control signal to and from the control device D.

Each of the pressing drive rollers 35 is
A vertically movable center of the holding rollers 36a and 36b is rotatably supported on a swing frame 42 which is swingable about the same axis as the center of the holding rollers 36a and 36b. The timing belt 43 is wound around the upper and lower intermediate positions of the
Is rotated, the pressing drive roller 35 is also rotated. When the solenoid 44 is turned on, the pressing drive roller 35 swings to a pressing position where the pressing roller 35 presses against the lateral side portion A1 of the disk A in the case against the urging force of the coil spring 45. When the solenoid 44 is turned off, the urging force of the coil spring 45 causes the lifting frame 18 to swing to a position where it does not hinder the lifting and lowering of the lifting frame 18 to a pressing release position.

On the bottom surfaces of the holding portions 31a and 31b, there are two load detection micro switches S4 for detecting the presence or absence of the cased disk A by contacting the lower surface of the cased disk A in the front and rear directions in the transfer direction. These micro switches S4 for detecting the presence of goods are mounted on both sides of the disk A, and serve as detecting means for detecting the pressing timing of the driving roller 35 for pressing against the lateral side portion A1 of the disk A in the case.

FIG. 16 is a block diagram showing a control structure of the automatic lending / returning machine. The control device D includes the reception information input at the reception operation section B, the photo sensors T1, T2 and the microswitches S1. Based on the detection information of S4 to S4, the read information of the barcode reader 32, and the storage information of each case-containing disk A stored in the memory 46, the electric motor M1 for opening and closing the door and the electric motor M2 for elevating and lowering move. The driving of the electric motor M3 for holding and the electric motor M4 for holding and conveying and the operation of the solenoid 44 are controlled.

The entrance door 10a is closed in a standby state in which neither a lending request nor a return request is received, and when the lending request is received, the requested lending case disk A is stored in a predetermined storage shelf. When the disk A taken out of the storage sections H of E1 and E2 is conveyed to the carry-in / out section F and the case-containing disc A is detected to be placed in the carry-in / out section F, the lending transfer control for opening the access door 10a is executed. It is configured.

When the return request is accepted, the door 10a is opened so that the disk A with the return case can be placed in the loading / unloading section F, and the disk A with the case is returned.
When it is detected that the disc A has been placed in the carry-in / out section F, the entrance / exit door 10a is closed, and the return carrying control for storing the loaded disc A in the storage section H of the predetermined storage shelf 2 is executed. It is configured to be.

The lending transport control will be described. When the lending request is received, it is confirmed that the delivery door 11a is open based on the detection result of the access door opening / closing detection microswitch S2, and based on the storage information stored in the memory 46, A position where the lending case disk A can be transferred from the storage portion H to one of the holding portions 31a, 31b by the transfer means N, that is, as shown in FIGS. A
The entrance sides of the holding portions 31a and 31b face the front end in the transfer direction of the first and second portions, and the bottom surfaces of the holding portions 31a and 31b and the lower locking groove 5
The product is moved to a position at which the article mounting surface 7a of FIG.

Then, as shown in FIG. 15A, the pressing drive roller 35a (35) swings to the pressing release position, and then, as shown in FIG. 15B, the solenoids 44a (44). ), The pressing drive roller 35a (35) is swung to the pressing position to start pulling the disk A containing the case from the storage portion H to the holding portion 31a, and the two discs provided on the holding portion 31a are started. Of the loading detection microswitch S4 on the upper side in the transfer direction of the loading detection microswitch S4
As shown in FIG. 15C, when the solenoid 44a (44) is turned off, the pressing drive roller 3 is turned off.
5a (35) is swung to the pressing release position, and the disk A with the case pulled out is slid by the holding / conveying device 34 until the presence-detecting microswitch S4 on the lower side in the transfer direction is detected. It is held by the holding portion 31a. At this time, the barcode for identification of the cased disk A is read by the barcode reader 32 to check whether or not the disk A is a cased disk corresponding to the lending request. In this case, the cased disk A is returned to the original position of the storage section H by the procedure reverse to the above.

The disk A with a case for rent is 2
If there are more than one, the transport carriage 4 is moved in the same procedure as described above, and the clamping transport device 34 and the pressing drive roller 3 are moved.
5 holds the disc A in the case in the other holding portion 31b. At this time, the moving distance along the longitudinal direction of the storage portion H of the carrier 4 is set as a moving distance of an integral multiple of the mounting interval K based on the mounting interval K of the cased disk A. become.

When a predetermined lending case disk A is held in the holding portions 31a and 31b, the carrier 4
Can be transferred to the mounting plate 8 along the empty carry-in / out guide 9, that is, as shown in FIGS. The front end in the transfer direction faces, and the bottom surfaces of the holding portions 31a and 31b and the upper surface of the mounting plate 8 are moved to positions at substantially the same height.

Then, in a procedure reverse to that when the disk A with a case is transferred from the storage section H to the transport trolley, that is, the disk A with the case is inserted so that the disk A with the case enters the guide section 9 for carrying in and out. Is conveyed by the holding / conveying device 34. When none of the two load detection microswitches S4 provided on the holding portions 31a and 31b detect the disc A in the case, the solenoid 44 is turned on to drive the pressing. By swinging the roller 35 to the pressing position,
After the disk A in the case is pushed into the carry-in / out guide section 9 for a predetermined time, the pushing drive roller 35 is swung to the pushing release position by the OFF operation of the solenoid 44.

When there are two or more case-attached discs A for lending, the remaining case-attached discs A are transferred to the mounting plate 8 along the empty carrying-in / out guide section 9 in the same procedure as described above. The transport cart 4 is moved so that the disc A with the case is pushed into the carrying-in / out guide section 9. At this time,
The amount of movement of the carrier 4 in the direction along the carry-in / out portion F is set as an integral amount of the mounting interval K with respect to the mounting interval K of the cased disks A.

Next, the opening / closing door 10a is opened, and the opening / closing door opening / closing detection micro switch S3 detects the closed state of the opening / closing door 11a so that the disk A with the case for lending can be taken out of the carrying-in / out section F so that the opening / closing door 10a can be taken out. Switchgear 1 until
4 is operated, and the disk A in the case is taken out.
When the presence detection micro switch S1 stops detecting the placement, the entrance door open / close detection micro switch S1 is detected.
The opening / closing device 14 is operated until 2 detects the closed state of the door 10a.

In the return transport control, the disk A with case is transferred from the loading / unloading section F to the transport trolley 4 and transported, and the transported disk A with case is transported by the transport trolley 4.
If the disc A with the return case transferred to the carrier 4 does not correspond to the return request, the disc A with the case is returned to the original position of the carry-in / out section F. Although there is a difference in returning to the above, the procedure may be executed in the reverse procedure to the procedure described in the lending transport control, and the description thereof will be omitted.

[Other Embodiments] In the above embodiment, a compact disk in a case is shown as an example of a rectangular thin article, but a video cassette, a DVD in a case, or books in a case may be used. 2. In the above-described embodiment, the automatic lending and returning machine of the compact disk is shown as the automatic storage facility. It may be a storage facility. 3. In the above-described embodiment, the automatic storage facility in which the plurality of storage units are provided in a plurality of upper and lower stages is shown. However, an automatic storage facility in which a single storage unit is provided may be used. 4. In the above-described embodiment, the transport unit including the transport body that travels left and right along the lifting frame that is driven up and down is shown.
It is also possible to use a so-called stacker clean type transport means in which a support is provided on a traveling body that travels along a fixed rail, and the transport is driven up and down along the support. 5. In the above-described embodiment, the transfer means for pushing and pulling the article by the pressing drive roller and the holding / conveying device has been described. However, a locking tool for engaging and disengaging the article is provided. A transfer means for pushing and pulling an article by operation may be used. 6. In the above embodiment, the travel position of the transport vehicle is detected by the photo sensor. However, the travel position may be detected based on detection information of a rotary encoder that detects the travel distance of the transport vehicle. . 7. In the above-described embodiment, the carry-in / out section in which the carry-out section and the carry-in section are used is provided. However, the carry-in / out section in which the carry-out section and the carry-in section are separately provided may be provided. 8. In the above-described embodiment, the automatic storage facility for carrying out and carrying in articles by the transporting means has been described. However, an automatic storage facility for carrying out only or carrying in only by the transporting means may be used.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an automatic lending / returning machine.

FIG. 2 is a schematic perspective view showing the inside of the automatic lending / returning machine.

FIG. 3 is a plan view showing the inside of the automatic lending / returning machine.

FIG. 4 is a main part plan view showing the inside of the automatic lending / returning machine.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a main part of a storage shelf.

6 is a sectional view taken along the line VI-VI of FIG. 4;

FIG. 7 is a bottom view of a main part showing an upper part of the storage unit.

FIG. 8 is a plan view of a main part of a carry-in / out portion.

FIG. 9 is a front view of a main part of the carry-in / out section.

FIG. 10 is a cross-sectional side view of a main part of the carry-in / out section.

FIG. 11 is a plan view of a transport vehicle.

FIG. 12 is a view taken along line XII-XII in FIG. 11;

FIG. 13 is a sectional view taken along line XIII-XIII of FIG. 11;

14 is a view taken along line XIV-XIV in FIG. 11;

FIG. 15 is an explanatory diagram of a transfer operation.

FIG. 16 is a control block diagram.

[Explanation of symbols]

 4 Conveyor 5 Guides 31a, 31b Holder 35 Drive roller A Article A1 Side surface part E1, E2 Storage shelf F Carry-in / out part G Transport means H Storage part K Mounting interval M Arrangement interval N Transfer means S4 Detecting means

Continued on the front page F term (reference) 3E046 AA01 AA06 BA01 BB02 BB06 CA12 CA14 CC02 CC04 DA07 EA04 EA20 EB03 FA10 HA01 HA02 HA03 HA04 HA06 HA08 3F022 AA12 CC02 EE05 FF01 JJ11 JJ19 KK12 KK16 MM01 MM22 MM01

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A storage shelf provided with a storage section for placing and storing a plurality of rectangular thin articles in a horizontal direction at a predetermined mounting interval, and unloading the articles from the storage shelf based on a loading / unloading instruction. An automatic storage facility provided with a transporting unit that transports the article to and from the entrance, wherein the storage unit is configured to place the plurality of articles in a thickness direction along a horizontal direction, and in a plan view. An automatic storage facility configured to store and store the articles in a posture inclined with respect to the direction in which the articles are arranged. 2. The storage section is provided with a guide section for movably guiding an article placed and stored in a front-rear direction orthogonal to a thickness direction of the article, and the transporting means includes A holding unit that holds the articles in the storage unit in a posture parallel to the thickness direction along the horizontal direction and in plan view, and pushes and pulls the articles in a front-rear direction orthogonal to the thickness direction. And a transfer unit that transfers the article between the storage unit and the holding unit. The transfer unit includes a transfer unit that transfers the articles stored and stored in the storage unit. 2. The automatic storage facility according to claim 1, further comprising a drive roller that presses against a side portion of the side surface along the direction that does not overlap with an adjacent article and pushes or pulls the article in the transfer direction. 3. The automatic storage facility according to claim 1, further comprising detection means for detecting a timing of pressing the drive roller against the side surface portion. 4. A plurality of the holding units are provided on the carrier.
4. The automatic storage facility according to claim 2, wherein the storage unit is provided at an arrangement interval that is an integral multiple of the mounting interval of the articles in the storage unit, and the transfer unit is provided corresponding to each of the holding units. 5. 5. The transfer body is movably provided between two storage shelves provided at an interval with the article taking-out side facing each other, and the transfer means is provided in the two storage shelves. The automatic storage facility according to any one of claims 2 to 4, wherein the storage portions are provided so that transfer directions are parallel to each other.