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Document | Title | Date |
20090060699 | Support arm for a clamping and centering element of a gripper frame for holding three-dimensional components in the motor vehicle industry - A support arm for a clamping and/or centering element of a gripper frame for holding three-dimensional components includes an adjustment mechanism, such as a ball that can pivot and/or a cylindrical pin that slide and rotate, held in a clamping and release unit with clamping jaws that can be radially clamped. A mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, or electromagnetic force generator applied to at least one of the clamping jaws is integrated in the support arm and generates a clamping force, against whose force the clamping jaws can be released by means of an adjusting element of a driven eccentric or cam mechanism. | 03-05-2009 |
20090067973 | Gripper Device - Gripper devices for handling syringes and automated pharmacy admixture systems (APASs) that utilize such gripper devices. The gripper devices may include various gripper finger profiles, substantially tapered or angled gripping surfaces and/or gripper fingers interleaving to reduce radial distortion of the syringes to be grasped while opposing axial motion of the syringes. | 03-12-2009 |
20090104012 | GRAPPLE ATTACHMENT - A fork and jaw grapple attachment having two forks and a jaw for wedging under, prying up, gripping, moving and handling materials. The forks have tips with angles for prying between and under materials. The jaw being a hydraulically actuated upper jaw that moves about a pivot point via a cylinder for grabbing, gripping and holding materials during pick-up, transport and place down. | 04-23-2009 |
20090208316 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REMOVING A COVERING FILM FROM A CONTAINER - An apparatus and a method are proposed for removing a covering film from a container. The apparatus has at least one gripping apparatus and a mechanism for producing a predetermined breaking point on a container. After production of the predetermined breaking point, the gripping apparatus grips a gripping face which is delimited by the predetermined breaking point, for removing the covering film from the container, and separates the gripping face during the removal of the covering film from the container. | 08-20-2009 |
20090238671 | EQUIDISTANCE PICK-AND-PLACE DEVICE FOR ICS - An equidistance pick-and-place device for ICs is disclosed. It comprises a housing, a driving device, a guideway structure, a moving structure, a lazy tongs, a plurality of pick-and-place structures, and a transmission structure. The housing supports the equidistance pick-and-place device. The guideway structure is set on the housing. The moving structure slides on the guideway structure. The pick-and-place structures are set on the moving structure. The free end and the shafts of the lazy tongs are fixed in the moving structure. The transmission structure is connected with the driving device and the moving structure for driving the moving structure. The equidistance pick-and-place device utilizes the lazy tongs to drive the pick-and-place structures moving with equidistance to pick and place a plurality of ICs at a time. Therefore, the present invention can improve the efficiency and reduce cost. | 09-24-2009 |
20090269180 | Industrial Robot Device, An Industrial Robot And A Method For Manipulating Objects - An industrial robot device includes a swivel with an attachment mechanism for the attachment of a tool. The attachment mechanism includes at least two different attachment devices for two different kinds of tools. A first attachment device includes a positioning mechanism defining a certain angular position of an attached tool relative to the swivel. A second attachment device is arranged for allowing an arbitrary angular position of an attached tool relative to the swivel. Also contemplated is an industrial robot that is provided with the invented device and to a method for manipulating objects. | 10-29-2009 |
20100068024 | REMOTELY CONTROLLED ROBOTS HAVING IMPROVED TOOL DEPLOYMENT SYSTEMS - A remote controlled robot for handling hazardous material, such as explosive devices, includes a support frame, an articulating arm having a proximal end coupled with the support frame and a distal end remote therefrom, and a gripper connected with the distal end of the articulating arm, the gripper having gripper fingers that oppose one another. The robot includes a transporting assembly, such as wheels or a track, coupled with the support frame for selectively moving the robot to a desired location. The robot includes a tool basket disposed adjacent the proximal end of the articulating arm. The tool basket includes a plurality of tool receiving slots adapted to receive tools, with different tools stored in each of the slots. By carrying a plurality of tools in a basket, the robot may stay downrange when changing tools, rather than requiring the robot to return up range for changing tools. | 03-18-2010 |
20100202865 | COMPONENT TRANSFER DEVICE AND METHOD - A component transfer device according to the present invention includes a holding mechanism ( | 08-12-2010 |
20100296904 | GRIPPING DEVICE OF WORKING MACHINE AND WORKING MACHINE WITH THE SAME - A gripping device includes a gripping-device body mounted to an end of a working arm; two gripping members pivotably supported by this body in an opening-closing direction; and a driver that drives the gripping members to open and close them. At least one of the gripping members includes one of various kinds of detachable sections each including a gripping segment; a holding section pivotably connected to the gripping-device body about a central pivot shaft and selectively holding the detachable section in a detachable manner; and a coupling member for detachable coupling. The detachable section has a restrained segment having a detachable-section through-hole extending parallel to the central pivot shaft. The holding section has an opening-closing-direction restraining segment that restrains the restrained segment in the opening-closing direction and a holding wall to which the restrained segment is fastened with the coupling member from a direction parallel to the detachable-section through-hole. | 11-25-2010 |
20110081224 | HANDLING SYSTEM FOR TRANSPORTING, REMOVING OR INSERTING ROD-LIKE ELEMENTS - The invention relates to a handling system for transporting, removing or inserting rod-like elements from or into a storage frame ( | 04-07-2011 |
20110110754 | SYSTEM FOR TRANSPORTING PLANAR SOFC STACK - A system for transporting planar SOFC stack is disclosed, which comprises: a frame, for carrying a cell stack; a robotic arm, for grabbing and holding the cell stack; and a driver, coupled to the frame and the robotic arm and being used for driving the robotic arm. With the aforesaid system, the cell stack can be moved in and out a high-temperature furnace smoothly and rapidly, and then into a fuel cell control system while keeping one's balance without worrying the cell stack being damaged or tipping over by collision or losing of balance. | 05-12-2011 |
20110135436 | GRIPPER FOR TAILGATE OF VEHICLES - Featured is a gripper for a tailgate; such a gripper includes a rotation pad at each regulation surface of a locator and a clamper of each clamping unit, where a swivel ball is mounted on the rotation pad. Each clamping unit is movable in a vertical direction or a horizontal direction by a movement means of a frame so as to be adaptable to angle differences of each regulation surface of the tailgate. Such a tailgate gripper further includes a frame having a tool mounting portion to mount a tool changer of a robot in a lower portion of a rear surface thereof. | 06-09-2011 |
20110243701 | OPTICAL POSITION DETECTING DEVICE, ROBOT HAND, AND ROBOT ARM - An optical position detecting device includes a plurality of light source sections which emits detection light, a light detection section which receives the detection light reflected by a target object located in an emitting space of the detection light, a light source driving section which turns on some light source sections among the plurality of light source sections in a first period and turns on, in a second period, light source sections different from the light source sections turned on in the first period, and a position detecting section which detects the position of the target object on the basis of a light-receiving result of the light detection section in the first period and the second period. Each of the light source sections includes a plurality of light-emitting elements arrayed in a direction intersecting the direction of the optical axis of the detection light. | 10-06-2011 |
20110243702 | OPTICAL POSITION DETECTING DEVICE, ROBOT HAND, AND ROBOT ARM - In an optical position detecting device, a position detecting section detects the position of a target object on the basis of a result obtained by receiving detection light, which is emitted from a light source section and reflected by the target object, using a light detection section. As seen from an emitting direction of the detection light, the light detection section is located inside a region surrounded by a closed circuit passing through a plurality of the light source sections or inside a region pinched by the plurality of light source sections. The plurality of light source sections has a first light-emitting element, and a second light-emitting element located closer to the light detection section side than the first light-emitting element. The light source driving section alternately turns on the first light-emitting element and the second light-emitting element. | 10-06-2011 |
20120183383 | Mechanism and method of operation for polymorphic tracked vehicles such that the vehicle's weight can be spread between multiple supporting wheels - A method and apparatus is disclosed, for construction and operation of an all terrain polymorphic tracked vehicle. This invention extends and improves on the prior art disclosed in USPTO patent pending “A polymorphic tracked vehicle”, filed August 2009, USPTO application Ser. No. 12/540,391. The improvement concerns a mechanism and method of operation by which a track mechanism can be polymorphic, but can also distribute the weight of the vehicle over multiple supporting wheels. In contrast, in most configurations of the mechanism disclosed in application Ser. No. 12/540,391, the weight of the vehicle rests on just two wheels per track (i.e. on four wheels if the vehicles possesses a left track and a right track). | 07-19-2012 |
20120301260 | Horizontal Displacement Mechanism for Cleanroom Material Transfer Systems - A spiral cam has a tubular shaped portion defined by an interior cavity and an exterior surface that includes a cam contour. A linear slide assembly having a length defined along a rotational axis is defined to slide lengthwise into the interior cavity of the spiral cam. The linear slide assembly allows for movement of the spiral cam along the rotational axis and prevents rotation of the spiral cam relative to the linear slide assembly. A cam roller is fixed at a position proximate to the exterior surface of the spiral cam. The cam roller is disposed separate from the linear slide assembly and within the cam contour of the spiral cam. The cam roller engages the cam contour to move of the spiral cam along the rotational axis when the linear slide assembly and spiral cam are rotated in unison about the rotational axis relative to the cam roller. | 11-29-2012 |
20120308355 | MOTOR, ROBOT HAND, AND ROBOT - A motor includes: a driven unit having a cylindrical shape; an actuator having a protrusion abutting on the driven unit; and an impelling unit impelling the actuator against the driven unit, wherein, assuming that the trajectory of the protrusion is disposed to abut on a side surface of the cylindrical shape at a contact point P and a point of action where an impelling force is exerted on the actuator is a point of action Q, the relation between an angle θ1 between the impelling direction of the impelling unit and a direction connecting a rotational center R of the driven unit and the contact point P and an angle θ2 between the impelling direction of the impelling unit and a direction connecting the contact point P and the point of action Q satisfy a relationship of θ1<θ2. | 12-06-2012 |
20130017050 | PARALLEL LINK ROBOT AND PICKING SYSTEMAANM FUKUDOME; KazuhiroAACI FukuokaAACO JPAAGP FUKUDOME; Kazuhiro Fukuoka JPAANM Sanada; TakashiAACI FukuokaAACO JPAAGP Sanada; Takashi Fukuoka JPAANM Mihara; NobuhikoAACI FukuokaAACO JPAAGP Mihara; Nobuhiko Fukuoka JP - A parallel link robot includes a housing, a plurality of driving devices, and a plurality of arms. The housing includes arm coupling openings and a receiving opening. The plurality of driving devices are disposed in the receiving opening of the housing. The plurality of driving devices are attachable and detachable from and in a direction above the receiving opening. The plurality of arms are coupled to the respective driving devices through the respective arm coupling openings. | 01-17-2013 |
20130064634 | SALT Ring Handling System and Method - A SALT ring handling system having a platform, a track system operatively connected to a lower side of the platform, and a pickle fork operatively connected to the track system. The platform may include an upper deck, a lower deck, a spacer for positioning the deck near a riser, and an engaging mechanism for operatively connecting the platform to a carrier system. The track system may include a vertical track assembly and a horizontal track assembly for transferring the vertical track assembly in a substantially horizontal direction. The vertical track assembly may include a lift mechanism that is operatively connected to the pickle fork, and the lift mechanism may transfer the pickle fork in a substantially vertical direction. The pickle fork may include one or more extensions for engaging a portion of a SALT ring. | 03-14-2013 |
20130142608 | PARALLEL MECHANISM - A parallel mechanism includes a fixed plate, four turnable actuators, four peripheral driving mechanisms, and a movable plate. The four turnable actuators are disposed in respective four directions of the fixed plate with pivot axes of two adjacent turnable actuators being orthogonal to one another and with pivot axes of two opposing turnable actuators being parallel to one another. The four peripheral driving mechanisms each include an upper arm made up of a bar integral with a rotor of a turnable actuator corresponding to the upper arm. An upper joint couples the upper arm to the lower arm. A lower joint couples the lower arm to the movable plate. The movable plate is driven by the four turnable actuators through the four peripheral driving mechanisms with at least four degrees of freedom including one rotational degree of freedom along a plane direction of the movable plate. | 06-06-2013 |
20130156533 | ATTACH AND DETACH DEVICE OF BATTERY FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE - Disclosed is an electric vehicle battery attaching/detaching device including a battery mounting unit formed on an electric vehicle to detachably mount a battery and provided with a connector pin module adapted to be lifted/lowered by a lifting/lowering means; a loader having a plurality of battery stands, each battery stand being adapted to detachably mount a fully-charged battery to be exchanged with the battery mounted on the battery mounting unit; and a battery attaching/detaching unit adapted to move along X-axis, Y-axis, and Z-axis between the battery mounting unit and the battery stand by means of a movement device, detach a battery mounted on the battery mounting unit or the battery stand, and exchange/mount the battery on the battery stand or the battery mounting unit. | 06-20-2013 |
20130183128 | DEVICE FOR TREATING AND/OR HANDLING ARTICLES - A device for treating and/or handling articles ( | 07-18-2013 |
20130183129 | ROBOT HAND AND ROBOT APPARATUS - A robot hand is provided, the robot hand including three finger sections, a supporting section which supports a proximal end of each of the three finger sections, and a circumferential movement section which circumferentially moves a second finger section and a third finger section of the three finger sections about a position where the three finger sections are supported on the supporting section is provided. The circumferentially moving second finger section and third finger section are circumferentially movable in a range of 180 degrees or greater in a circumferential direction substantially around a hand axis of the robot hand, about the position where the three finger sections are supported on the supporting section. | 07-18-2013 |
20130209209 | PARALLEL LINK ROBOT SYSTEM - A parallel link robot system includes a picking section from which a target object is picked, a placing section on which the target object picked from the picking section is placed, the placing section being arranged in a height position lower than the picking section, a parallel link robot including a plurality of parallel-connected link mechanism units and a holding unit attached to tip end portions of the link mechanism units, and a control unit for controlling an operation of the parallel link robot. The control unit is configured to execute a control for causing the parallel link robot to perform a picking operation by which the target object is held and picked from the picking section and a placing operation by which the target object picked by the picking operation is placed on the placing section. | 08-15-2013 |
20130309057 | ROBOT HAND, ROBOT SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING WORKPIECE - This robot hand includes a first finger portion and a second finger portion being relatively movable in a direction in which an object to be grasped is grasped and bar-shaped claw members fixed to the first finger portion and the second finger portion. A plurality of claw members are fixed in parallel to at least either the first finger portion or the second finger portion. | 11-21-2013 |
20140154036 | Apparatus for the automated handling of workpieces - An apparatus for the automated handling of workpieces comprising at least one gripper for picking the workpiece; a control for controlling the at least one gripper and an intermediate station for placing the workpiece, with the apparatus being configured such that the workpiece is placed in a defined position and/or defined orientation on the intermediate station and is picked up again with a changed orientation and/or with greater accuracy. | 06-05-2014 |
20140234064 | Sealing System, An Industrial Robot With A Sealing System, And Method For Providing A Sealing Surface - A sealing system including a rotary sealing surface on a rotary shaft and a rotary shaft lip seal, of which the rotary sealing surface has a surface coating layer of a solid lubricant substance. The invention further includes an industrial robot having several axes of rotation, including a manipulator with drive units for rotating robot parts according to the axes of rotation of the robot, and at least one of the drive units having a rotary shaft provided with such a sealing system. In addition, the invention includes a method for providing a rotary sealing surface on a rotary shaft, including coating the intended sealing surface of the rotary shaft with a surface coating layer of a solid lubricant substance. | 08-21-2014 |
20140271079 | HYDRAULIC GRAPPLE DAMPER - A work vehicle is disclosed having a chassis, a work tool rotatably coupled to the chassis, and one or more hydraulic dampers. The hydraulic damper includes a moveable body that resists rotation in a hydraulic chamber to resist rotation of the work tool relative to the chassis. | 09-18-2014 |
20150030426 | Mobile Conductor Lift - A conductor lift attachment for a mobile boom or crane vehicle allowing temporarily support of power transmission conductors, e.g., for installation, repair, or maintenance operations. The conductor lift is hingedly attached to a boom tip so that the conductor lift is readily movable between deployed and stowed positions. The conductor lift comprises hinged arms that are selectively movable between opposed, parallel, and intermediate positions. | 01-29-2015 |
20150037126 | LAYER FORMATION TABLE AND PROCESS - An apparatus for transferring articles is disclosed herein. The apparatus includes a layer formation table. The apparatus also includes means for supplying articles to the layer formation table. At least one row of the articles is formed at a first end of the layer formation table. The apparatus also includes a programmable robot including an end of arm tool for transferring the at least one row of the articles towards a second end of the layer formation table. The programmable robot is configured to form a plurality of rows of articles on the layer formation table. Each of the rows comprises a plurality of articles in side by side contact creating a void between adjacent articles in each of the rows. The programmable robot is configured to nest the articles of one of the rows in the voids of an adjacent row. The end of arm tool includes a multiplicity of guides which form lanes. The rows of articles fill the lanes. The end of arm tool includes clamping tools which lock the individual rows of articles between the guides. | 02-05-2015 |
20150139769 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A SELF-CONTAINED LIFTING DEVICE - A modular lifting system, including an enclosable lifting device support structure. The enclosable lifting device support structure includes a deployable top, a plurality of lateral sides, a base coupled to the plurality of lateral sides, and a plurality of extension arms. The deployable top is configured to support a lifting device on a first side of the deployable top. The plurality of extension arms are configured to extend and support the deployable top when the deployable top is deployed. | 05-21-2015 |
20150329331 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A SELF-CONTAINED LIFTING DEVICE - A modular lifting system, including an enclosable lifting device support structure. The enclosable lifting device support structure includes a deployable top, a plurality of lateral sides, a base coupled to the plurality of lateral sides, and a plurality of extension arms. The deployable top is configured to support a lifting device on a first side of the deployable top. The plurality of extension arms are configured to extend and support the deployable top when the deployable top is deployed. | 11-19-2015 |
20150343649 | TENTACLE MECHANISM - A tentacle mechanism comprising an elongate helicoid stage of windings having multiple through bores formed therethrough which carry control lines for controlling the shape of stages of the helicoid tentacle. An actuator and motor control the control lines and additional cables positioned in other sets of through bores can change the length and shape of the tentacle as well as desired spatial attitude. Embodiments of the tentacle carry end effectors at the distal end-effector actuation cables couple the end-effectors to actuator and motor. | 12-03-2015 |
20160023850 | PART CONVEYOR SYSTEM AND ATTITUDE ADJUSTING JIG - The present invention provides a part conveyor system comprising an attitude adjusting jig which adjusts the attitude of a part which has an axis part and a head part, and a conveyor device which takes out and conveys the part from the attitude adjusting jig. The attitude adjusting jig is provided with a recessed part which has an inside space which is sandwiched between a pair of upward slanted surfaces facing each other, a groove part which is formed at the bottom of the recessed part for holding the axis part of the part, and a magnet which is arranged in the groove part. | 01-28-2016 |
20160031084 | DOUBLE ARM ROBOT - There is provided a double arm robot having a first arm to which a first end effector is attached and a second arm to which a second end effector is attached. The first arm and the second arm are different from each other in at least one of an arm length, an arm thickness, an arm surface shape, an arm surface color, an arm surface pattern, the number of arm joints, an arm joint shape, a shape of accessory components disposed on an arm surface, an arrangement of the accessory components, and the number of the accessory components. | 02-04-2016 |
20160114481 | DEVICE FOR THE MOVEMENT AND POSITIONING OF AN ELEMENT IN SPACE - An industrial robot includes a parallel kinematics mechanism that provides three degrees of freedom to a ring structure while maintaining the ring structure substantially in a fixed orientation relative to a reference plane established by a stationary base plate. A pivot sleeve is suspended within the stationary base plate and may pivot on two perpendicular axes of an intermediate gimbal. An elongate boom is mounted within the pivot sleeve and extends from an upper end through the pivot sleeve to a lower end. An end effector is mounted at the lower end of the elongate boom and is arranged for carrying a work element. Gimbal rings are located at the upper and lower ends of the elongate boom and are interconnected by a control linkage to maintain the end effector substantially parallel to the ring structure during movement of the end effector through a three-dimensional work envelope. | 04-28-2016 |
20160121488 | DEVICE FOR USE IN THE HANDLING OF A LOAD AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SUCH A DEVICE - A device for use in handling a load and a method for producing the device are provided. The device comprises a three-dimensional framework that comprises a plurality of single parts, a cover made of a fiber-reinforced plastics with which the framework is covered, and at least one mounting unit for a handling unit for handling a part that is useable in the production of an object and that forms the load. | 05-05-2016 |
20160185579 | Hydraulic Crane System for Lifting a Crane on a Vehicle - A hydraulic manifold system for lifting, installing, or repairing large industrial field equipment. The system includes a hydraulic motor, which is fluidly connected to a hydraulic line of a vehicle, which is drivingly connected to a high-pressure hydraulic pump and fluidly connected to above-ground jack, ram, or lifting device. An above-ground jack, ram, or lifting device is hydraulically actuated by the fluid supplied by the hydraulic pump wherein a remote electronic controller can be utilized to provide a signal in order to depressurize the auxiliary device using an electronically actuated valve. | 06-30-2016 |
20160194852 | MULTIUSE GRASPING ATTACHMENT FOR EXCAVATORS | 07-07-2016 |
20160250755 | Handling System for Different Component Variants and Method for Operating a Handling System | 09-01-2016 |
20220134540 | INDUSTRIAL ROBOT - An industrial robot comprises a modular robot arm having a plurality of arm modules, where a rotation transfer device for optical signal transmission is provided in an arm module or between a first and a second arm module. The rotation transfer device comprises an optomechanical rotation interface having a first interface side and a second interface side, which face each other and are substantially rotationally symmetrical and complementary. The first and second interface sides are configured to rotate relative to each other. The first and second interface sides are mechanically mounted with respect to each other, with a radial plain bearing on one interface side and a slide bearing shell complementary thereto on the other interface side. A gap is formed between the first and second interface sides, in the axial direction of the rotation transfer device, across which the optical signal transmission takes place. | 05-05-2022 |