Geared motor for self-traveling carrier.

摘要

In a geared motor for a self-traveling carrier, a projected area in an advancing direction of the carrier is made small to reduce the space required around a track, and despite of the geared motor being a single type of a geared motor (the same geared motor), it is possible to select a suitable mounting mode from among various mounting modes, thus permitting a smoother operation of a physical distribution system as a whole. For example, in a geared motor (112) for a self-traveling carrier, a reduction mechanism (108) housed in a gear box (110) comprises an output shaft (114) with a wheel (102) mounted thereon, an output shaft gear (116), an intermediate shaft (118) disposed in parallel with the output shaft (114), an intermediate pinion (120) and a hypoid gear (122) both mounted on the intermediate shaft (118), and a hypoid pinion (124) mounted on a motor shaft (106). The motor shaft (106) is disposed between the intermediate shaft (118) and the output shaft (114) orthogonally thereto. Further, three faces (110A - 110C) of the gear box (110) are used as mounting faces for mounting the geared motor (112) to the carrier.