Engagement component, female member, and tool replacement apparatus
AssigneeNitta Corporation
InventorsRyosuke Matsumoto, Nobuhiro Omote
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Abstract
An engaging member, a female member and a tool changer that can be downsized are provided, and the engaging member is an engaging member including: an engaging surface that allows a cam provided in a male member to engage therewith; and a dispersing surface that transmits a force provided from the cam via the engaging surface, to a female member body, wherein the dispersing surface includes a first dispersing surface and a second dispersing surface perpendicular to each other, and a cross-sectional shape perpendicular to a longitudinal direction is formed in a substantially triangular shape by the dispersing surface and the engaging surface.
Claims5
An engaging member of a tool changer including a male member to be detachably attached to a body side of an apparatus and a female member to be detachably attached to a tool side, the engaging member being detachably attached to a female member body included in the female member, the engaging member comprising:
- an engaging surface that allows a cam provided in the male member to engage therewith;
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- a dispersing surface that transmits a force provided from the cam via the engaging surface, to the female body member, wherein
- the dispersing surface includes a first dispersing surface and a second dispersing surface that are substantially perpendicular to each other, the first dispersing surface is formed in a substantially square shape having a longitudinal direction, wherein a cross-sectional shape perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the engaging member is formed in a substantially triangular shape by the first dispersing surface, the second dispersing surface and the engaging surface, and
- a plurality of fastening holes arranged only in one line in the longitudinal direction are formed in the first dispersing surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.