Robotic weight measurement and sorting system
AssigneeFanuc Corporation
InventorYuuji Taira
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A weight measurement system able to hold a plurality of articles and measure the respective weight thereof. A weight measurement system includes a robot arm, a weight measurement device attached to the robot arm, a plurality of hand movement mechanisms attached to the weight measurement device, and a plurality of hands separately moved by respective motions of the plurality of hand movement mechanisms, wherein the weight measurement device measures a weight of a first article held by a first of the hands moved by a motion of a first of the hand movement mechanisms and a weight of a second article held by a second of the hands moved by a motion of a second of the hand movement mechanisms.
Claims7
A weight measurement system comprising:
- a robot arm;
- a weight measurement device attached to the robot arm;
- a plurality of hand movement mechanisms attached to the weight measurement device;
- and
- a plurality of hands respectively moved by respective motions of the plurality of hand movement mechanisms,
- wherein, when a second hand of the plurality of hands moved by the motion of a second hand movement mechanism of the plurality of hand movement mechanisms holds a second article while a first hand of the plurality of hands moved by the motion of a first hand movement mechanism of the plurality of hand movement mechanisms is holding a first article, the weight measurement device is configured to measure a total weight of the first article and the second article,
- wherein the weight measurement system is configured to measure a weight of the first article and
- a weight of a second article, respectively, based on the total weight.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.