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US 10,518,406 B2Granted
Component feeder and a system for picking components comprising the component feeder
AssigneeABB Schweiz AG
InventorsDaniel Sirkett, Peter Fransson
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Abstract
A component feeder including a stationary picking surface for receiving components to be picked, a vision system including an image unit arranged to take images of components distributed on the picking surface and a load device including one or more load sensors adapted to detect the presence of a component on the picking surface and the vision system is configured to automatically trigger the image unit to take an image upon detecting the presence of the component on the picking surface.
Claims20
A component feeder comprising:
- a picking surface for receiving components to be picked,
- an image unit arranged to take images of components distributed on the picking surface, and
- a load device including one or more load sensors adapted to detect the presence of a component on the picking surface, the load device being configured to automatically trigger the image unit to take an image upon detecting the presence of a component on the picking surface,
- wherein the picking surface is transparent and the image unit is located underneath the picking surface.
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A system for picking components comprising:
- a component feeder and an industrial robot having a robot controller and being configured to pick components from the component feeder, the component feeder including:
- a picking surface for receiving components to be picked,
- an image unit arranged to take images of components distributed on the picking surface, and
- a load device including one or more load sensors adapted to detect the presence of a component on the picking surface, the load device being configured to automatically trigger the image unit to take an image upon detecting the presence of a component on the picking surface;
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- the component feeder configured to provide the robot controller with information about locations of the components to be picked when the component feeder has detected that a component is present on the picking surface,
- wherein the picking surface is transparent and the image unit is located underneath the picking surface.
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A component feeder comprising:
- a picking surface for receiving components to be picked,
- an image scanner,
- an image unit arranged to take images of components distributed on the picking surface, and
- a load device including one or more load sensors adapted to detect the presence of a component on the picking surface, the load device being configured to automatically trigger the image unit to take an image upon detecting the presence of a component on the picking surface,
- wherein said one or more load sensors are disposed underneath the image scanner so that said one or more load sensors measure the weight of the image scanner as well as the components on the picking surface.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.