JP2019165825A - Food transport vehicle - Google Patents

Abstract

To provide a food transport vehicle capable of avoiding collision between a bumper and a leg of an operator, and suppressing entry of water from a lower part in cleaning or the like.SOLUTION: A re-heating cart 10 comprises a main body part 11, a plurality of travel wheels 12a, 12b, an operation handle 15, and a bumper 20. The main body part 11 comprises a front surface 11a and both side surfaces 11b, 11b. The plurality of travel wheels 12a, 12b are attached to a lower part of the main body part 11. The operation handle 15 is provided on the front surface 11a of the main body part 11, and is gripped by an operator when the cart is traveled by the travel wheels 12a, 12b. The bumper 20 is attached to cover a lower peripheral part of the main body part 11, and comprises: a recess 21 provided at a center of a lower part of the front surface 11a; and an extension part 22 extended from the recess 21 toward the main body part 11 side along a direction almost parallel to a travel plane 31 where the travel wheels 12a, 12b travel.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 7

Description

  The present invention relates to a food transport vehicle used for providing meals in a hospital, for example.

In facilities such as hospitals, health care facilities for the elderly, hotels, and schools, food transport vehicles such as a distribution car and a reheating cart for providing meals to patients and residents are used.
Such a food transport vehicle is provided with a bumper in the lower part for receiving an impact when it collides with a wall surface or a ledge of the corridor when traveling in a corridor of a hospital or the like. For this reason, when the operator travels so as to grip and pull the operation lever provided on the side surface of the food transport vehicle, the operator's feet (for example, the heel or the instep portion) may hit the bumper and become difficult to walk. There is.

For example, Patent Document 1 discloses that the lower end of the bumper and the running surface are provided by hanging the lower end of the bumper downward in a skirt shape so that the operator's foot does not enter the lower part of the bumper. A wheelchair with a small gap between the two is disclosed.
Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2003-228561 discloses a layout vehicle in which a notch portion is provided at a lower portion of a side surface where an operator is located.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 08-33523 JP 2006-192192 A

However, the conventional food transport vehicle has the following problems.
That is, in the wheeled vehicle disclosed in Patent Document 1, since the lower end of the bumper is provided so as to spread in a skirt shape and hang downward, the distance between the operator's foot and the bumper is reduced, and the bumper There is a risk that the foot may easily collide.
In addition, in the layout car disclosed in Patent Document 2, the risk of a collision between the operator's foot and the bumper is reduced, but the hose or the like is used for washing the layout car where cleanliness is always required. There is a risk that water bounced off the ground from the notch formed in the bumper may enter from the lower side of the distribution vehicle.

  An object of the present invention is to provide a food transport vehicle capable of preventing a collision between a bumper and an operator's foot while preventing water from entering from the lower part during cleaning or the like.

  A food transport vehicle according to the present invention includes a main body, a plurality of traveling wheels, an operation handle, and a bumper. A main-body part has a front surface, the side surface which cross | intersects a front surface, and the opening part formed in the side surface, and food is taken in / out from the opening part. The plurality of traveling wheels are attached to the lower part of the main body. The operation handle is provided on the front surface of the main body, and is gripped by the operator when traveling with the traveling wheels. The bumper is a bumper attached so as to cover the lower outer peripheral portion of the main body, and is provided with a concave portion provided in the center of the lower portion of the front surface and a traveling surface on which the traveling wheels travel from the concave portion toward the main body. And a stretched portion stretched along a substantially parallel direction.

  According to the food transport vehicle according to the present invention, it is possible to make a structure in which water hardly enters during cleaning or the like while avoiding a collision between the bumper and the operator's foot.

The perspective view which shows the whole structure of the reheating cart which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. The perspective view which shows the state which opened the opening-and-closing door of the reheating cart of FIG. The side view of the reheating cart of FIG. The front view of the reheating cart of FIG. (A) is a top view of the reheating cart of FIG. (B) is a bottom view of the reheating cart of FIG. (A), (b) is a side view of the reheating cart of FIG. (A) is a rear view of the reheating cart of FIG. (B) is the sectional view on the AA line of the reheating cart of FIG. The front view which shows the structure of the bumper attached so that the lower outer peripheral part of the main-body part of the reheating cart of FIG. 1 may be covered. (A) is a top view of the bumper of FIG. (B) is a bottom view of the bumper of FIG. (A), (b) is a side view of the bumper of FIG. (A) is a rear view of the bumper of FIG. (B) is the BB arrow directional cross-sectional view of the bumper of FIG.

A reheating cart (food transport vehicle) 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS.
The reheating cart 10 according to the present embodiment is capable of traveling in corridors of various facilities such as hospitals and elderly care facilities, and re-cooked cooked, rapidly cooled and refrigerated food placed on the tray T. Used to heat and provide to patients and residents. And in this embodiment, it moves so that it may be pulled by the direction of the dashed-dotted line arrow in FIG. 1 normally using the operation handle 15 provided in the front surface 11a of the main-body part 11 of the reheating cart 10 as a pull.

Here, in this embodiment, the surface of the main body 11 of the reheating cart 10 on the traveling direction side shown in FIG. 1 and the like intersects the front surface 11a and the front surface 11a, and the surface provided with the open / close doors 13a and 13b is the side surface 11b. 11b, the surface opposite to the front surface 11a is the rear surface 11c, the ceiling surface is the upper surface 11d, and the surface opposite to the upper surface 11d is the bottom surface 11e.
As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the reheating cart 10 of the present embodiment includes one traveling wheel 12 a, 12 a on the main body 11 and the operation handle 15 side, and the other two traveling wheels 12 b, 12 b, 2, Drive units 12 and 12, doors 13a and 13b for driving each of the traveling wheels 12b and 12b, a traveling operation panel 14, an operation handle 15, a temperature control operation panel 16, a magnetic outlet insertion portion 17, a leakage breaker 18, and a bumper 20 Etc.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the main body 11 constitutes a housing portion including a front surface 11a, side surfaces 11b and 11b, a rear surface 11c, an upper surface 11d, and a bottom surface 11e of the reheating cart 10. And the main-body part 11 forms heating space S1 and cooling space S2 in the internal space in which the tray T (refer FIG. 3) which loaded the foodstuff is accommodated. The heating space S1 and the cooling space S2 are blocked from the external space when the open / close doors 13a and 13b are closed, and heat, cool, and keep the stored food. As shown in FIG. 2, the heating space S <b> 1 and the cooling space S <b> 2 communicate with the external space and can take out the food together with the tray T (see FIG. 3) when the open / close doors 13 a and 13 b are opened.

The front surface 11a is a surface of the main body portion 11 on the traveling direction side (see the arrow in FIG. 1 and the like), and has a front surface concave portion 11aa and convex surfaces 11ab and 11ab respectively disposed on both sides of the front surface concave portion 11aa. . An operation handle 15 described later is disposed in the front recess 11aa.
The side surfaces 11b and 11b are formed with openings 11ba and 11ba, respectively, through which a tray T on which food is placed is taken in and out. And opening 11ba, 11ba is covered by the door 13a, 13b mentioned later.

As shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 7A, the rear surface 11c is a surface opposite to the front surface 11a arranged in the traveling direction, and the reheating cart 10 is in the traveling direction (see arrows in FIG. 1 and the like). ) Is on the back side while moving.
The upper surface 11d is a surface that intersects the front surface 11a, the side surfaces 11b and 11b, and the rear surface 11c, and forms the ceiling surface of the main body 11 as shown in FIG.

The bottom surface 11e is a surface opposed to the upper surface 11d, and is disposed substantially parallel to the traveling surface 31 (see FIG. 3). As shown in FIG. 5B, the drive unit 12 including the traveling wheels 12a and 12b is attached to the bottom surface 11e.
The drive unit 12 is equipped with an electric motor, a speed reducer, an electromagnetic clutch, an electromagnetic clutch release lever, an encoder, various sensors, etc. (all not shown) and drives the driving wheels 12b and 12b on the driving side. The drive unit 12 is controlled based on the magnitude and direction of the operator's human power applied to the operation handle 15 detected by a handle sensor (not shown) installed on the operation handle 15.

The traveling wheels 12 a and 12 b are wheels that rotate around a rotating shaft that is disposed along the horizontal direction, and two traveling wheels 12 a and 12 b are provided in the lower portion of the main body 11. Thereby, when the operator is pushed and pulled in a state where the operator holds the operation handle 15, the reheating cart 10 is transported, for example, on a corridor (conveyance path) of a hospital or the like.
The four traveling wheels 12a and 12b include two traveling wheels 12a provided at the lower portion on the front surface 11a side of the main body 11 of the reheating cart 10, and two traveling wheels 12b provided at the lower portion on the rear surface 11c side. Including.

The two traveling wheels 12a provided on the front surface 11a side are each attached to the bottom surface of the main body 11 so as to be rotatable around a rotation shaft provided along the vertical direction, and the traveling direction can be freely set. It is a free wheel that can be changed.
On the other hand, the two traveling wheels 12b provided on the rear surface 11c side are driving wheels driven by a driving unit 12 including a speed reducer (not shown).

  As a result, at a turning corner or the like, the traveling wheel 12a rotates in the horizontal direction to become a steering wheel, whereby the reheating cart 10 can be turned to the right or left according to the handle operation of the operator. Further, for example, when the operator grasps and operates the operation handle 15, the pair of traveling wheels 12b on the drive wheel side are rotated independently from each other so as to assist the operation force, and the reheating cart 10 can travel straight ahead. It can be made to turn.

  FIG. 5B is a bottom view of the reheating cart 10 and shows an arrangement of four traveling wheels 12a, 12b and the like. The traveling wheel 12a is attached to a traveling wheel mounting portion 41 provided on the bottom surface 11e. The drive unit 12 is attached to a drive unit attachment portion 43 provided on the bottom surface 11e. The traveling wheel 12 b is attached to the drive unit 12. A battery mounting portion 42 is disposed between the traveling wheel 12a and the traveling wheel 12b, and a battery 44 (not shown) serving as a power source during traveling is mounted, and is electrically connected to the traveling control portion (not shown). It is connected to the. A drain tank 40 for draining dew condensation water in the warehouse or draining residual water at the time of cleaning is disposed between the traveling wheels 12a and 12a. Note that the drain tank 40 and the battery mounting portion 42 are not shown in FIGS. 4 and 7 for easy understanding of the drawings.

The traveling speed and traveling direction of the reheating cart 10 can be detected using an encoder (not shown) provided in the drive unit 12.
As shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, each of the open / close doors 13a and 13b constitutes a pair of left and right doors, and each of the rotation shafts disposed at both ends along the vertical direction. By rotating around the center, it is opened and closed in a double-spreading manner.

In the reheating cart 10 of this embodiment, the side doors 11b on both sides are viewed from the front, and the doors 13a and 13b are arranged as a set of two. That is, in the reheating cart 10, as shown in FIGS. 6 (a) and 6 (b), two sets of four doors 13a and 13b are provided on each of the side surfaces 11b and 11b on both sides as a set. Has been placed.
When the open / close doors 13a and 13b are opened, as shown in FIG. 2, the heating space S1 and the cooling space S2 are exposed to the outside. Then, the tray T on which food is placed is put in and out with the open / close doors 13a and 13b opened.

The tray T has a food placement surface divided into a warm side and a cold side. As shown in FIG. 3, when the tray T is inserted into the partition portion 11f installed in the main body 11, the warm side of the tray T is on the heating space S1 side, and the cold side is on the cooling space S2 side. Respectively.
As shown in FIG. 1 and the like, the traveling operation panel 14 is provided on an upper portion of the operation handle 15 on the front surface 11a of the reheating cart 10. Then, the travel operation panel 14 performs setting and display (travel power on / off, emergency stop switch, travel melody volume, brake release, battery remaining amount display, etc.) related to travel of the reheating cart 10.

The travel operation panel 14 is connected to a travel control unit (not shown). The traveling control unit is supplied with electric power from a battery 44 that is charged by a charger that receives electric power supplied from a magnetic outlet inserting unit 17 to which a magnetic outlet (not shown) that supplies a commercial power supply (AC 200 V) is connected. Then, traveling control of the reheating cart 10 is performed.
Thereby, the reheating cart 10 can run for about 1 to 2 hours by fully charging the battery 44. Further, the reheating cart 10 can further extend the travelable time as the performance of the battery 44 is improved.

Further, the traveling control unit drives the driving wheels 12b and 12b on the driving side based on the condition set and input via the traveling operation panel 14 and the detection result of the handle sensor attached to the operation handle 15. The unit 12 is controlled.
The operation handle 15 is attached to the front surface 11a along a substantially horizontal direction, and is used as a puller when the reheating cart 10 is moved in the traveling direction shown in FIG. And the operation handle 15 is provided in the hollow (front surface recessed part 11aa) in the front surface 11a of the main-body part 11, as shown in FIG.1 and FIG.2. Furthermore, the operation handle 15 is attached to a height position (for example, within a range of about 750 to 950 mm) that is easily grasped by the operator.

Further, as shown in FIG. 3, the operation handle 15 is mounted in the front recess 11aa in a side view of the reheating cart 10 (viewed from the side surface 11b side), and is a cylindrical portion that is gripped by the operator. The tip of is slightly arranged on the front surface 11a side than the tip of the bumper 20 described later.
Thereby, even when the reheating cart 10 collides with a wall surface or the like while traveling in a hallway in a facility such as a hospital, the bumper 20 collides before the operation handle 15. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the occurrence of problems such as failure of the operation handle 15 including various sensors (handle sensor, photoelectric sensor 15a, etc.) due to collision with a wall surface or the like.

The operation handle 15 is provided with a handle sensor used for the above-described travel control and a photoelectric sensor 15a (see the dotted line portion in FIG. 4).
As described above, the handle sensor detects the magnitude and direction of human power when the operator pushes and pulls the handle.
The photoelectric sensor 15 a is provided on the front surface 11 a side near the center of the operation handle 15. A light emitting unit and a light receiving unit are provided inside the photoelectric sensor 15a. When the operator holds the operation handle 15, light emitted from the light emitting unit is reflected by the palm of the operator and received by the light receiving unit. . On the other hand, when the operation handle 15 is released, the light diffuses to the outside and is not received.

The photoelectric sensor 15 a detects that the operator has grasped the operation handle 15 and detects that the operator has released his / her hand from the operation handle 15.
As shown in FIG. 1 and the like, the temperature adjustment operation panel 16 is provided on an upper portion of the side surface 11b of the main body 11 to which the open / close doors 13a and 13b are attached. And the temperature control operation panel 16 performs setting and display, such as heating temperature and refrigeration temperature. In addition, near the temperature control operation panel 16, a magnetic outlet plug 17 for receiving power for reheating from a commercial power supply (AC 200 V) (see FIG. 1 and the like), and a safety earth leakage breaker 18 (see FIG. 1 etc.) is arranged.

  The temperature adjustment operation panel 16 is connected to the temperature adjustment control unit. The temperature control unit is supplied with power via a magnet outlet plug 17 connected to a magnet outlet (not shown) for supplying commercial power (AC 200 V). In addition, the temperature control unit is installed in the main body 11 based on the conditions set and input via the temperature control operation panel 16 and the detection results of the temperature sensors installed in the heating space S1 and the cooling space S2. The heater, cooling device, fan, etc. provided are controlled.

As shown in FIG. 4 etc., the contact sensor 19 is arrange | positioned at the convex surfaces 11ab and 11ab arrange | positioned at the both sides of the front-surface recessed part 11aa of the front surface 11a of the main-body part 11, respectively. And the contact sensor 19 is arrange | positioned so that the attachment position of the operation handle 15 may be included in the height direction.
As a result, the contact sensor 19 detects that an object of the operator's body (such as an arm) has come into contact when the operator makes a right or left turn at a corner or the like while holding the operation handle 15, The heating cart 10 can be urgently stopped. Therefore, it is possible to prevent an accident such as an operator's arm being caught when the reheating cart 10 is turned right or left.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the bumper 20 has a main body as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 in order to reduce the impact on the main body 11 when the reheating cart 10 is in contact with the wall surface of the corridor while traveling in a facility such as a hospital. It is attached so that the lower outer peripheral part of the part 11 may be covered. As described above, the bumper 20 is disposed so as to protrude outward (right side in the figure) from the operation handle 15 when viewed from the side surface 11b side intersecting the front surface 11a (in side view) (see FIG. 3).

Moreover, the bumper 20 has the recessed part 21, the extending | stretching part 22, the 1st R surface 23, the convex part 24, the plane part 25, and the 2nd R surface 26, as shown in FIGS. 8-11 (b).
As shown in FIG. 5B, the concave portion 21 is a concave portion provided at the lower portion of the front surface concave portion corresponding to the front concave portion 11aa formed in the front surface 11a, and as shown in FIG. It is provided at the center in the left-right direction when viewed from the front. Moreover, the recessed part 21 is arrange | positioned so that a substantially flat surface may be formed with the front surface recessed part 11aa formed in the front surface 11a of the main-body part 11, as shown in FIG.7 (b).

Thus, in the reheating cart 10 of this embodiment, the dent (concave part 21) is provided in the center part of the bumper 20 provided in the lower part of the front surface 11a of the main body part 11.
This effectively prevents the operator's feet (mainly the heel portion) from colliding with the bumper 20 when the reheating cart 10 is run so that the operator pulls while holding the operation handle 15. Can be prevented.

In particular, as in this embodiment, the operation handle 15 gripped by the operator is disposed in a recessed position (front recess 11aa) on the front surface 11a in order to avoid contact of the operation handle 15 with an object. In this case, the distance between the operator and the front surface 11a is shortened. For this reason, the operator's feet are likely to come into contact with the bumper 20.
Therefore, in the present embodiment, in order to ensure the distance between the operator's foot and the front surface 11a side of the bumper 20, the concave portion 21 is provided in the central portion on the front surface 11a side of the bumper 20.

Thereby, the operator can run without causing the bumper 20 to collide with the foot when the reheating cart 10 is running.
As shown in FIGS. 7A and 11A, the bumper 20 is not provided with a recessed portion corresponding to the recessed portion 21 on the rear surface 11 c side opposite to the front surface 11 a of the main body 11. . This is because no operation handle is provided on the rear surface 11c side.

However, in the case of the reheating cart in which the operation handles 15 are provided on both the front surface 11a and the rear surface 11c, it is preferable that the concave portions 21 of the bumper 20 are provided on the front surface 11a side and the rear surface 11c side, respectively.
As shown in FIGS. 7B and 11B, the extending portion 22 extends along a direction substantially parallel to the running surface 31 from the recess 21 toward the main body portion 11 through the first R surface 23. It is formed to stretch.

  Thereby, even if the extending part 22 is washed with water using a hose or the like when cleaning the reheating cart 10, the water bounced off from the ground (traveling surface 31) enters the lower part of the main body part 11 of the reheating cart 10. Can be prevented. An electric system such as a battery 44 and a drive unit 12 is installed in the lower part of the main body 11 of the reheating cart 10, and it is desirable to avoid the ingress of water as much as possible.

As shown in FIGS. 7B and 11B, the first R surface 23 is a curved surface arranged in a direction substantially parallel to the side surface 11 b of the main body 11, and includes the concave portion 21 and the extending portion 22. Are provided to connect the two. Moreover, the 1st R surface 23 is formed so that it may become a convex curved surface toward the outer side seeing from the main-body part 11, as shown in FIG.7 (b) and FIG.11 (b).
As shown in FIGS. 9A and 9B, the convex portions 24 are protruding portions respectively provided on the left and right sides of the concave portion 21 in plan view, and as shown in FIG. 11 are arranged at positions corresponding to the convex surface 11ab.

As shown in FIGS. 10A and 10B, the flat surface portion 25 is disposed along a direction substantially parallel to the traveling surface 31 from the lower end portion of the convex portion 24 via the second R surface 26. Yes.
As shown in FIGS. 10A and 10B, the second R surface 26 is a curved surface arranged in a direction substantially parallel to the side surface 11b of the main body 11, and includes the convex portion 24 and the flat surface portion. 25 is provided to connect the two. Further, the second R surface 26 is formed so as to be a convex curved surface toward the outside as viewed from the main body 11.
As described above, the reheating cart 10 of the present embodiment includes the main body 11, the plurality of traveling wheels 12a and 12b, the operation handle 15, and the bumper 20. The main body 11 has a front surface 11a and side surfaces 11b and 11b on both sides. The plurality of traveling wheels 12 a and 12 b are attached to the lower part of the main body 11. The operation handle 15 is provided on the front surface 11a of the main body 11, and is gripped by an operator when traveling by the traveling wheels 12a and 12b. The bumper 20 is attached so as to cover the lower outer peripheral portion of the main body 11, and a recess 21 provided at the center of the lower portion of the front surface 11 a and traveling wheels 12 a and 12 b from the recess 21 toward the main body 11 are provided. An extending portion 22 that extends along a direction substantially parallel to the traveling surface 31 that travels.

  Thereby, it can suppress that an operator's leg | foot contacts the bumper 20 by the recessed part 21 provided in the position of the bumper 20 corresponding to front surface recessed part 11aa of the front surface 11a of the main-body part 11. FIG. Furthermore, when the reheating cart 10 is cleaned with a hose or the like when the reheating cart 10 is cleaned, the water bounced off from the ground (traveling surface 31) is less likely to enter the inside of the main body 11 by the extending portion 22 provided in the lower portion of the recess 21. It can be a structure.

As a result, while avoiding a collision between the bumper 20 and the operator's foot, it is possible to make a structure in which water does not easily enter the lower portion of the main body 11 where the electric system is installed during cleaning or the like.
[Other Embodiments]
As mentioned above, although one Embodiment of this invention was described, this invention is not limited to the said embodiment, A various change is possible in the range which does not deviate from the summary of invention.

(A)
In the embodiment described above, the reheating cart 10 in which the operation handle 15 is attached only to the front surface 11a on the traveling direction side of the main body 11 is described as an example. However, the present invention is not limited to this.
For example, the structure by which the operation handle 15 was provided in both surfaces of the front surface 11a and the rear surface 11c may be sufficient.

(B)
In the above-described embodiment, the first R surface 23 formed from the concave portion 21 of the bumper 20 to the extending portion 22 is described as an example of the R surface protruding outward as viewed from the main body portion 11. However, the present invention is not limited to this.
For example, it may be an R surface formed so as to be recessed when viewed from the main body.

(C)
In the above embodiment, the second R surface 26 formed from the convex portion 24 to the flat portion 25 of the bumper 20 is described as an example of the R surface protruding outward as viewed from the main body portion 11. However, the present invention is not limited to this.
For example, it may be an R surface formed so as to be recessed when viewed from the main body.

(D)
In the said embodiment, the operation handle 15 demonstrated and demonstrated the example arrange | positioned in the concave surface (front surface recessed part 11aa) formed in the front surface 11a of the main-body part 11 of the reheating cart 10. FIG. However, the present invention is not limited to this.
For example, the operation handle may be disposed on the front surface on which no concave surface is formed.

(E)
In the said embodiment, the example which applied the food conveyance vehicle of this invention to the reheating cart 10 was given and demonstrated. However, the present invention is not limited to this.
For example, the present invention is not limited to a reheating cart that has a function of heating a food that has been quickly frozen (including ingredients) and then refrigerated and stored to a safe temperature before meals. The present invention may be applied to a food transport vehicle such as a distribution car having a function of keeping warm cooked food (including ingredients).

  The food transport vehicle of the present invention has an effect that water can hardly enter from the lower part at the time of cleaning or the like while avoiding a collision between the bumper and the operator's foot. The present invention can be widely applied to transport vehicles used in facilities.

10 Reheating cart (food transporter)
11 body 11a front 11aa front recess 11ab convex 11b side 11ba opening 11c rear 11d upper 11e bottom 11f partition 12 drive unit 12a, 12b traveling wheel 13a, 13b opening / closing door 14 traveling operation panel 15 operation handle 15a photoelectric sensor (gripping sensor)
16 Temperature control panel 17 Magnetic outlet insertion part 18 Earth leakage breaker 19 Contact sensor 20 Bumper 21 Recess 22 Extension part 23 First R surface 24 Projection part 25 Flat part 26 Second R surface 31 Travel surface 40 Drain tank 41 Traveling wheel mounting part 42 Battery mounting portion 43 Drive unit mounting portion 44 Battery S1 Heating space S2 Cooling space T Tray

Claims (10)

A front surface, a side surface intersecting the front surface, and an opening formed in the side surface, and a main body portion into which food is taken in and out from the opening,
A plurality of traveling wheels attached to a lower portion of the main body,
An operation handle that is provided on the front surface of the main body and is gripped by an operator when traveling by the traveling wheel;
A bumper attached so as to cover a lower outer peripheral portion of the main body portion, a concave portion provided in the center of the lower portion of the front surface, and a running surface on which the running wheel runs from the concave portion toward the main body portion side A bumper having a stretched portion stretched along a direction substantially parallel to
Food transport vehicle equipped with. The main body further includes a front recess formed in the front surface provided with the operation handle,
The operation handle is provided in the front recess.
The food carrier according to claim 1. The recess is disposed so as to form a substantially flat surface with the front recess.
The food carrier according to claim 2. The main body further has convex surfaces arranged on both sides of the front concave portion,
A contact sensor that is provided on the convex surface and detects contact with an object;
The food carrier according to claim 2 or 3. The bumper is disposed so as to protrude outward from the operation handle when viewed from a side surface intersecting the front surface.
The food conveyance vehicle according to any one of claims 1 to 4. A handle sensor that is provided on the operation handle and detects the magnitude and direction of human power applied to the operation handle by the operator;
The food conveyance vehicle according to any one of claims 1 to 5. The bumper further includes a first R surface that connects the surface forming the recess and the extending portion.
The food carrier according to any one of claims 1 to 6. The first R surface is formed to be convex outward from the main body,
The food carrier according to claim 7. The bumper includes a convex portion provided on both right and left sides of the concave portion, a flat portion disposed along a direction substantially parallel to the traveling surface from a lower end portion of the convex portion, the convex portion, and the flat portion. And a second R surface arranged to connect the two,
The food carrier according to any one of claims 1 to 8. The second R surface is formed to be convex outward from the main body,
The food carrier according to claim 9.

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