| 摘要 |
<p>Provided is a low cost floating transport device configured in such a manner that: the collision of rolling bodies with an object being transported and a transport surface is prevented; and the drive force of the rolling bodies can be efficiently transmitted to the object being transported. A transport surface (40) in which jet openings (41) are formed has one or more swirl flow generation sections (44) provided to each transport roller (50) for sending an object (9) to be transported in the Y-axis direction. Compressed gas (A1) is jetted from the jet openings (41) by the supply of compressed gas (A3) from a pump, compressed gas (A4) in the direction tangential to the inner peripheral surfaces of the circular cylinder chambers (441) of the swirl flow generation sections (44) is jetted into the circular cylinder chambers (441), and thus the swirl flows (B) of the gas are formed. When the object (9) being transported, which is transported while floating due to the compressed gas (A1) from the jet openings (41) and which has entered above circular cylinder chambers (441), covers the entire region above the circular cylinder chambers (441) after the front end surface (91) of the object (9) being transported passes through the top part (53) of a transport roller (50), the object (9) being transported is sucked to the transport surface (40) side by negative pressure occurring in the centers of the swirl flows (B).</p> |
