ROTATING CASTER WITH POWER GENERATION FUNCTION

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technology that supplies electric power to a vehicle body through a conducting wire in a rotating caster with a power generation function which is provided in the vehicle body.;SOLUTION: A rotating caster 10 is a rotating caster with a power generation function provided in a vehicle body 200 and includes: a wheel 20; a wheel rotary shaft 21 which is provided at a rotation center of the wheel 20 and rotates with the wheel 20; a power generator 30 which has coils fixed to the vehicle body 200 and magnets facing the coils and generates power by the magnets rotating; a magnet rotary shaft 50 which rotates the magnets and supports the wheel 20 so that the wheel 20 can rotate relative to the vehicle body 200; and a power transmission mechanism 60 which transmits rotation of the wheel rotary shaft 21 to the magnet rotary shaft 50.;SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1;COPYRIGHT: (C)2018,JPO&INPIT