JPH0665563B2 - Automatic warehouse equipment - Google Patents

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an automatic warehouse facility installed in, for example, a hospital and used for storing files such as medical records.

As a conventional technique for storing files and the like, there is a form using a carousel as shown in US Pat. No. 3,383,147. However, according to this type, an operator who faces the desk must operate it, and the access to and removal from the carousel must be done manually. Therefore, in order to automate, an automatic warehouse facility such as that disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 58-42505 has a shelf having a plurality of compartment storage spaces in the vertical and horizontal directions, and can freely run along this shelf. And a traveling device, and the traveling device is provided with a load delivery tool that can be raised and lowered and can be retracted in the lateral direction. According to this conventional type, the combination of the traveling of the traveling device, the raising and lowering of the lifting platform, and the lateral movement of the load transfer tool allows the transfer of the load between the desired compartment storage space and the cargo handling space. Therefore, by handling the file as a package, the file can be automatically stored.

Problems to be Solved by the Invention When the conventional automatic warehouse equipment as described above is adopted,
Since the space for the load delivery tool to enter and the space for raising and lowering after the entry are required, the vertical height of each compartment storage space must be taken sufficiently, especially when storing thin files. It will be bad. Further, since the traveling device has to be operated each time a file is loaded and unloaded one by one, work efficiency is also poor.

An object of the present invention is to store holders holding files and the like one by one in a shelf, but the height of the compartment storage space of the shelf can be made sufficiently low. For the shelves, the traveling device is capable of easily performing storage work, output work, and compound work, and can handle multiple sheets in one operation, and also has an automatic warehouse facility that can sufficiently cope with changes in file thickness. It is in the point of providing.

Means for Solving the Problems In order to achieve the above object, the automatic warehouse equipment of the present invention is a shelf having a plurality of compartment storage spaces in the vertical direction and the horizontal direction, and a rack that can travel along the shelf and is movable up and down. And a traveling device having a horizontal direction, and the shelf forms a compartment storage space in the horizontal direction by a pair of holding pieces, and the elevating table is provided with a temporary holding body that can be raised and lowered and a laterally movable loading and unloading device. ,
The temporary holding body has left and right side surfaces and a lower surface opened, and upper and lower holding protrusions are provided on front and rear inner surfaces, so that a plate-shaped holder having a locked portion can be held in a plurality of upper and lower steps. The loading / unloading device has a laterally movable movable body and a locking body provided on the movable body so as to be movable back and forth.

Operation According to the configuration of the present invention, the holder can hold the locked portion on the side opposite to the shelf and hold the holder in multiple stages in the temporary holding body. Then, while the locking body of the loading / unloading device is projected and engaged with the locked portion, the movable body is moved to the shelf side to push the holder held between the pair of holding projections to the shelf side. And can be passed between the holding pieces. After that, by retracting the locking body and removing it from the locked portion, it is possible to store in the target compartment storage space. In addition, it is possible to carry out the warehousing from the target compartment storage space by the action opposite to the above. These operations can be performed a plurality of times (a plurality of steps) without returning the traveling device to the home position by moving the temporary holder up and down.

Embodiment One embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

As shown in FIGS. 6 to 9, the file 1 is an existing file, has a front cover 2 and a back cover 3, and uses a stopper 4 previously set on the inner surface side of the back cover 3 to make a medical record ( One example of the material) 8 is configured to be bound. The second clip 5, which is detachably attached to the opening side edge of the cover sheet 2, is attached by, for example, its own elasticity, and the second surface fastener 6 is attached to the inner surface side thereof. The holder 10 for holding the file 1 has a plate-like plate 11 having a thin body, and the plate 11 is formed of a synthetic resin or the like into a rectangular shape. A first clip 12 for holding a file is provided at two locations (a plurality of locations) in the longitudinal direction on one surface near one of the two edges in the longitudinal direction of the plate 11. These first clips 12 hold the open side edges of the back cover 3 by their elasticity, for example, and the plate 11 is attached via a pad sheet 13 attached to one surface of the plate 11.
It is fixed to the side. A strip-shaped first surface fastener 14 is attached between both the first clips 12, and the base end of the first surface fastener 14 is fixed via the pad sheet 13 or the like. Two through holes (an example of a locked portion) 15 that are long in the short side direction are formed near one of the two edges of the plate 11 in the short side direction (two or more places).

In FIGS. 1 to 5, reference numeral 20 denotes a shelf in which a passage 21 is placed in parallel, and a plurality of compartment storage spaces 22 are arranged in the vertical and horizontal directions.
Have. The shelf 20 is framed by a vertical frame 23, a horizontal frame 24, and the like, and the pair of left and right holding pieces 25 in the horizontal direction form the partitioned storage space 22. The traveling device 26 provided in the passage 21 is supported and guided by the floor rail 27 and the ceiling rail 28 via wheels 29 and rollers 30, and the traveling drive device 32 provided in the control unit 31 is interlocked with the wheels 29. As a result, the vehicle can travel back and forth on the fixed route 33 in the passage 21. The traveling device 26 has a post 35 at the center of a machine body 34, and an elevator platform 36 guided by the post 35 interlocks with an elevator drive device 37 provided in the control unit 31. Then, a temporary holding body 40 that can be raised and lowered is mounted on the lifting table 36.
And a loading / unloading device 60 movable in the lateral direction.

The temporary holding body 40 is formed in a box shape with the top plate 41 and the front and rear side plates 42 open to the left and right side surfaces and the lower side.
A plurality of upper and lower tiers (three tiers in the embodiment) of holding protrusions 43 are provided on the inner surface of 42.
Is provided. Here, a pair of holding projections 43 facing each other in the front and rear
Is for holding the holder 10 without falling off, and the distance ₁ between the end faces of the holding projection 43 is the file width ₂
Formed longer than. The distance between the end faces of the holding pieces 25 on the shelf 20 is also set to ₁ . A standing plate 44 is provided at the front part of the lifting platform 36, and a plurality of vertical guide rails 45 are provided on the rear surface side of the standing plate 44. On the front surface of the side plate 42 at the front portion, a sliding body 46 that fits into the guide rail 45 and moves up and down is provided. A frame body 47 is attached to the rear portion of the lift table 36, and the frame body 47 rotatably supports a vertical screw shaft 48. A nut body 49 that is externally fitted and screwed onto the screw shaft 48 is integrated with the rear side plate 42 via a bracket 50. And the lower end of the screw shaft 48 is a transmission device.
It is interlockingly connected to a motor 52 with a reducer via 51.

The body 61 of the loading / unloading device 60 has a channel shape,
It is fixed on the lift table 36 below the temporary holder 40 with the open portion facing upward and the lengthwise direction being the horizontal direction. Guide rollers 62 are provided on both inner surfaces of the main body 61 facing each other.
And runout regulation roller 63, etc.
A movable base 64 is provided which is supported and guided by 2, 63 and is movable left and right. The reciprocating drive device 65 of the movable table 64 is a lift table.
A motor with a speed reducer, which is arranged in 36 and can be driven in the reverse direction.
66 and a drive gear 68 attached to the output shaft 67 of this motor 66
And an intermediate gear 69 that meshes with the drive gear 68,
The intermediate gear 69 is meshed with the rack 70 attached to the lower surface of the movable table 64. A pair of left and right guide rails 71 are provided on the movable base 64 in the front-rear direction, and a movable body 73 supported and guided by the guide rails 71 via a sliding body 72 is provided. The movable body 73 has a channel shape in a side view, and moves twice in the same direction in conjunction with the movement of the movable table 64.
That is, the sprocket is on each of the left and right ends of the movable base 64.
74, 75 are attached, and the lower part of the endless chain 76 hung from above between the sprockets 74, 75 is crossed, then both ends of the endless chain 76 are fixed to the main body 61, and the upper part of the endless chain 76 is fixed. The points are connected 79 to the movable table 64. The movable body
A horizontal shaft 80 is rotatably mounted in the 73, and a disk 81 and a passive wheel body 82 are mounted on the horizontal shaft 80. A driving wheel body that interlocks with the passive wheel body 82 through an endless rotating body 83.
84 is fixed to the output shaft 86 of the pin actuator 85. The pin actuating device 85 is fixed to the movable body 73, is driven in forward and reverse directions, and the output shaft 86 is sufficiently decelerated. A pair of left and right rotating shafts 87 is provided in the front and rear on the upper part of the movable body 73, and locking pins (an example of a locking body) 8 are provided at both ends of the rotating shafts 87.
8,89 fixed. Therefore, the locking pins 88 and 89 are moved up and down by standing up and sideways by the rotation of the rotary shaft 87. Link 91 to lever 90 fixed to the rotary shaft 87
Are swingably connected to each other, and the free end of the link 91 is swingably connected to the disk 81.

Outside the end of the shelf 20 is a loading and unloading area 95, and a wagon trolley 96 for loading and unloading can be stopped at a fixed position, for example.

Next, the work of handling the medical chart 8 in the above embodiment will be described.

Usually, the medical record 8 is bound in the file 1 and the cover 2
The contents can be confirmed and new description can be made by opening the door, and addition and removal can be made by operating the stopper 4. When such a medical record 8 is stored in the automatic warehouse, the file 1 is first set in the holder 10. This attaches the second clip 5 to the front cover 2 and the back cover 3 to the first of the holder 10.
After holding the clip 12 and positioning the second surface fastener 6 on the medical chart 8, the cover 2 is closed and the second surface fastener 6 of the second clip 5 is engaged with the first surface fastener 14. Good. Thereby, as shown in FIGS. 8 and 9, the file 1 in which the cover 2 is not opened can be set in the holder 10. By reverse operation, the file 1 can be easily removed from the holder 10 that has been unloaded, and the file 1 can be stored in an ordinary shelf or used for examination.

The holder 10 in which the file 1 is set is loaded on the wagon trolley 96 and then transported to the loading and unloading area 95. Then, the holder 10 in the wagon trolley 96 is moved into the temporary holder 40.
Here, since the inside of the wagon trolley 96 has the same structure as the formation of the compartment storage space 22 of the shelf 20, and the delivery work using the loading / unloading device 60 is also the same as for the shelf 20,
Since the work on the shelf 20 will be described later, the work on the wagon carriage 96 will be omitted. The medical record number is read at the time of storage, and which medical record 8 is stored and where is managed.

In the temporary holder 40, the holder 10 is supported between the left and right holding protrusions 43, and is stored in three upper and lower stages. In this state, the temporary holding body 40 is at the upper limit and the locking pins 88 and 89 are in the sideways state.
Do not interfere with 0.

When entering the warehouse, first, the traveling motion of the traveling device 26 and the lifting platform
By the combined operation with the ascending / descending movement of 36, the loading / unloading device 60 is made to correspond to the intended compartment storage space 22. And through hole
The pin actuator 85 is started with the locking pin 88 or 89 positioned below 15. Then, the rotation of the output shaft 86 is transmitted to the horizontal shaft 80 to rotate the disk 81. The rotation of the disc 81 is transmitted to the rotating shaft 87 via the link 91 and the lever 90. The rotation of the rotating shaft 87 causes the locking pins 88 and 89 to gradually rise from the sideways state, and the locking pin 88 or 89 facing the through hole 15 projects into the through hole 15 and is engaged. Will be done. When the motor 66 is started in this state, the rotation of the drive gear 68 is transmitted to the intermediate gear 69, so that the movable base 64 moves via the rack 70. The movement of the movable table 64 is performed toward the shelf 20 to be stored, and at that time, the end chain 76 between the sprockets 74 and 75 moves in the same direction with respect to the movable table 64. As a result, the movable body 73 is guided by the guide rail 71 and moves at a double speed, and the holder 10 is pushed by the locking pins 88 and 89. By pushing this, the holder
10 moves out of the temporary holding body 40 while being guided by sliding contact between the holding projections 43, and then transfers between the holding pieces 25 of the shelf 20.

Next, the pin actuating device 85 is actuated in the opposite direction to the above, the disc 81, the lever 90, etc. are actuated in reverse to cause the locking pins 88, 89 to lie down and to be pulled out from the through hole 15. As a result, the intended storage can be carried out in the compartment storage space 22, which is repeatedly carried out sequentially from the lowest one. The holder 10 in the shelf 20 can be taken out into the temporary holding body 40 by the operation reverse to the above, and can be taken out, but the holding projections 43 are taken out sequentially from the upper stage to the lower stage. The raising and lowering of the temporary holding body 40 for changing the holding position by the holding protrusion 43 is performed by the motor.
This can be performed by rotating the screw shaft 48 forward and backward by starting 52 and moving the nut body 49 up and down. At that time, the sliding body 46 is guided up and down by the guide rail 45.

By controlling the stop position, that is, the working position,
For example, as shown in FIG.
Side engaging pin at the same time as engaging the other holder 10
The 89 can be engaged with the holder 10 in the temporary holder 40. Therefore, by moving the movable body 73 in this state, warehousing and warehousing can be performed simultaneously, that is, a combined operation can be performed.

When the medical record 8 bound to the file 1 becomes thick, the number of handlings in one operation is reduced in the temporary holder 40 due to the relationship of ₁ > ₂ described above, and as shown by the virtual line a in FIG. It suffices to store the plurality of partitioned storage spaces 20.

As shown in the above embodiment, when the locking pins 88 and 89 are provided separately on both sides of the movable body 73, one of the locking pins is engaged with the holder 10 in the temporary holding body 40 and the other engagement pin is engaged. By moving the movable body 73 with the retaining pin engaged with the holder 10 in the shelf 20, the shelf on the side opposite to the delivery from the shelf 20 is moved.
It is possible to carry out the compound work at the same time as warehousing to 20. However, in the present invention, it is possible to provide an embodiment in which only one of the locking pins is provided to act on the shelf on only one side.

Although the through hole 15 is shown as the locked portion in the above embodiment, this may be formed with a concave portion or a convex portion, and the locking body is formed with a convex portion instead of the locking pins 88, 89. But it's okay.

EFFECTS OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention having the above-described configuration, the movable body is moved in a state in which the locking body is engaged with the locked portion of the holder held in the temporary holding body, and thus the holding body is held between the pair of holding projections. The holder can be pushed out to the shelf side and passed between the holding pieces, and the holder on the shelf side can be taken out into the temporary holding body by the reverse operation. In this way, the holders can be put into or taken out of the shelves one by one, but the engaging form via the locking body does not require an operation space in the compartment storage space, The height can be made sufficiently low to enable efficient storage. Also, the holder is
Since it is held in a plurality of stages in a temporary holding body that can be raised and lowered, it is possible to perform work a plurality of times (a plurality of stages) without returning the traveling device to the home position. Further, even if the file or the like becomes thick, it can be sufficiently dealt with by using a plurality of compartment storage spaces in the vertical direction.

[Brief description of drawings]

The drawings show one embodiment of the present invention. Fig. 1 is a front view of a main part with a part thereof cut away, Fig. 2 is a side view of the same part with a part notched, Fig. 3 is an overall side view, and Fig. 4 is the same. A plan view, FIG. 5 is a rear view of the same, FIG. 6 is a perspective view of a holder, FIG. 7 is a perspective view with the file attached, and FIGS. 8 and 9 show a handleable state. FIG. 1 ... File, 8 ... Chart (material), 10 ... Holder, 15 ... Through hole, 20 ... Shelf, 22 ... Compartment storage space, 25
…… Holding piece, 26 …… Travel device, 36 …… Elevating table, 40 …… Temporary holding body, 43 …… Holding projection piece, 45 …… Guide rail, 48…
… Screw shaft, 49… Nut body, 60… Injection / extraction device, 64…
… Movable platform, 65 …… Reciprocating drive, 73 …… Movable body, 85 ……
Pin operating device, 87 …… Rotary shaft, 88,89 …… Locking pin, 95
…… A handling area.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A shelf having a plurality of compartment storage spaces in the vertical direction and the horizontal direction, and a traveling device having a lifting platform that can travel along the shelf, and the shelf is a pair of holding pieces in the horizontal direction. A partitioned storage space is formed by the
A temporary holding body that can be raised and lowered and a retractable device that is movable in the lateral direction are provided.The temporary holding body has left and right side surfaces and a lower surface opened, and holding projections of a plurality of upper and lower stages are provided on front and rear inner surfaces, A plate-shaped holder having a locked portion can be held in a plurality of upper and lower stages, and the loading / unloading device has a laterally movable movable body and a locking body provided on the movable body so as to be retractable. Automatic warehouse equipment characterized by.