Robot wiring additional routing method and robot
AssigneeFanuc Corporation
InventorKazutaka Nakayama
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Abstract
A robot wiring additional routing method that includes detaching some fasteners to detach a cover member from a housing member, thus forming a gap between the detached cover member and the housing member; disposing additional wiring at such a position as to be routed across an inside and an outside of the housing member via the formed gap; and, in a state in which a spacer that maintains the gap is sandwiched between the cover member and the housing member, attaching the detached cover member to the housing member by the detached fasteners or other fasteners.
Claims9
A robot wiring additional routing method in which additional wiring is additionally routed for a robot that is provided with:
- a plurality of housing members that are coupled so as to be relatively movable;
- a cover member that is detachably attached to at least one of the housing members by fasteners;
- and existing wiring that is routed via a communication space communicating with internal spaces of the housing members, the method is performed in a following order:
- (a) detaching some of the fasteners to detach the cover member from a-first housing member that is one of the housing members, thus forming a gap between the detached cover member and the first housing member;
- (b) disposing the additional wiring at such a position as to be routed across an inside and an outside of the first housing member, via the formed gap;
- (c) disposing a spacer that maintains the gap sandwiched between the cover member and the first housing member, and disposing an elastic member that surrounds an outer circumference of the additional wiring at the position of the gap;
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- (d) attaching the detached cover member to the first housing member by the detached fasteners or other fasteners, in a state in which the additional wiring is fixed at the position of the gap by sandwiching and elastically deforming the elastic member between the cover member and the first housing member.
A robot comprising:
- a plurality of housing members in a coupled configuration, wherein the plurality of housing members are movable relative to one another in the coupled configuration;
- a cover member that is detachably attached to at least one of the housing members by fasteners;
- existing wiring that is routed via a communication space communicating with internal spaces of a first housing member that is one of the housing members;
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- a spacer that forms and maintains a gap that allows, in a state in which the spacer is sandwiched between the first housing member and the cover member, additional wiring to be disposed between the first housing member and the cover member, the gap having an elastic member that surrounds an outer circumference of additional wiring at the position of the gap.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.