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Title:
PERISTALTIC MOVEMENT CONVEYANCE DEVICE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2005104722
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To solve a problem wherein it is not easy to provide a conveyance device capable of being installed even in a place of an inflexible shape of a transportation pipe, a curved part, and a place requiring flexibility and requiring no space for installing a power source.

This peristaltic movement conveyance device has the transportation pipe 1 having flexible expansion and contraction properties and a bidirectional shape memory alloy 2. The bidirectional shape memory alloy 2 is attached to a surface of the transportation pipe 1. When heating the bidirectional shape memory alloy 2 by carrying current into it, transportation passage cross sectional area of the transportation pipe 1 is also contracted by contraction force of the alloy. When releasing current carried into the bidirectional shape memory alloy 2, the transportation passage cross sectional area of the transportation pipe 1 is also restored to an original condition by restoration force of the alloy. A position for applying contraction and restoration on the transportation pipe 1 is sequentially moved in the fixed direction by a temperature controller to convey an object in the transportation pipe 1 in the fixed direction.


Inventors:
YAMAYA TOMOYUKI
MAEDA TAKESHI
Application Number:
JP2003373737A
Publication Date:
April 21, 2005
Filing Date:
October 31, 2003
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
TOKI CORP
YAMAYA TOMOYUKI
International Classes:
B65G54/00; A61F2/04; C22C1/00; F04B43/09; F04B43/12; F04B45/08; (IPC1-7): B65G54/00
Domestic Patent References:
JPH05103755A1993-04-27
JPH09512460A1997-12-16
JPH09126116A1997-05-13
JPH0318377A1991-01-25
JP2003510160A2003-03-18
JP2002508989A2002-03-26
JPH10118190A1998-05-12
JPH08502428A1996-03-19
JPH08317990A1996-12-03
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Sakaki Morishita