Patent ID: 6924473

Claim:
A work support apparatus comprising: a parts shelf in which a plurality of parts storage boxes with a parts ejection port facing forward are housed; and an information processor, for properly notifying an operator of position of a parts storage box in which a necessary part is stored via a monitor or an indicator disposed for each of the parts storage boxes, and verifying execution of pickup of a part from the notified parts storage box by detecting a hand of the operator reaching a storage box by a photoelectric sensor, wherein the parts shelf has a configuration in which a storage box holding member for holding a plurality of parts storage boxes and a sensor holding member for holding a photoelectric sensor are provided separately from each other, the photoelectric sensor is an area sensor capable of detecting the coordinates of a position in which light is shielded in a predetermined two-dimensional region close to the front side of the storage box holding member, information of parts corresponding to a plurality of parts storage boxes of the storage box holding member and sizes and positions of the storage boxes is pre-stored in the information processor, and on the basis of the information and the coordinates of the light-shielded position sensed by the area sensor, a storage box including parts, to which a hand of the operator reached is sensed.