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US 10,639,796 B2Granted
Vehicle e-coat drain plug insertion tool
AssigneeFanuc America Corporation
InventorRichard William Turner
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AssigneeFanuc America Corporation
InventorRichard William Turner
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Methods and systems for installing a plug into an aperture of an article are provided, such as drain hole in an electrocoated vehicle floor pan. A robot system used herein includes a robot and a tool, where the tool includes a plug reservoir, a sensor, and an actuator. The sensor is configured to detect the aperture of the article and the actuator is configured to place one of the plugs from the plug reservoir into the aperture. The robot system can include a tool change nest, where the plug reservoir can be received with the tool change nest and the removed from a remainder of the tool. Quick change of plug reservoirs using the present technology improves operation speed and use of one or more tool change nests can reload and/or reconfigure the robot system for plugging various apertures with minimized input or interaction.
A robot system for installing a plug into an aperture of an article, the robot system comprising:
A method of installing a plug into an aperture of an article, the method comprising:
A method of configuring a tool for installing a plug into an aperture of an article, the method comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.