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Award-winning item: Wheel [FUJI NINJA WHEEL]
Business Owner: FUJI SEISAKUSHO CO.,LTD
Category: Transportation system and service (logistics / physical distribution)
Company: FUJI SEISAKUSHO CO.,LTD. (Japan)
Award Number: 20G130817
Outline of Good Design Award winners: Outline of Good Design Award winners 2020

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Outline: This is an omni-directional drive wheel that can travel to "all directions". In the face of global labor shortages and rising labor costs, I am confident that the emergence of "AGV" will change the next "carrier culture". This WHEEL is suitable for remote control and program-driven trace driving without shaking due to the swinging of a general caster, so it is useful for automation in the world.
Producer: Yoshihide Murakami, President, FUJI SEISAKUSHO CO., LTD.
Director: Atsushi Nakahira, Manager Sales Division, FUJI SEISAKUSHO CO., LTD.
Designer: Akiyoshi Takai, Managing Director Development Desing, FUJI SEISAKUSHO CO., LTD.
More information: http://www.fuji-bearing.com/japanese/index.html
Already in service/use: 2020/1/1

Evaluation

The rotation of each of these wheels can be controlled separately, enabling movement in all directions. Used in the logistics sector in automated guided vehicles, which are growing in importance, this item offers a dramatic increase in load capacity, despite having a smaller outer diameter than conventional wheels. We wish to offer high praise for the manufacturer’s success in achieving a very difficult target by exercising the ingenuity that it has cultivated over the years, as seen in the smooth rotation ensured by dividing the rollers in the center and offsetting the axles. The lean geometric design has an aesthetic appeal of its own.