Workpiece picking device
AssigneeFanuc Corporation
InventorsKyouhei Asao, Naoki Akagawa
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Abstract
A picking device for picking up plate-like or pillar-shaped workpieces one at a time from the top of the workpieces stacked in the vertical direction, the workpiece picking device including: a chuck including a plurality of gripping claws arranged around a topmost workpiece, the plurality of gripping claws configured to grip a side surface of the topmost workpiece, the chuck being movable in a vertical direction; and an air blowing circuit provided inside at least one of the gripping claws, including a blowing port having an opening toward a second workpiece, the air blowing circuit configured to blow air downward from the blowing port.
Claims4
A workpiece picking device configured to pick up plate-shaped or pillar-shaped workpieces one at a time from a top of the workpieces stacked in a vertical direction, the workpiece picking device comprising:
- a chuck including a plurality of gripping claws arranged around a topmost workpiece, the plurality of gripping claws configured to grip a side surface of the topmost workpiece, the chuck being movable in a vertical direction;
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- an air blowing circuit provided inside at least one of the gripping claws, including a blowing port having an opening facing downward along a central-axis in a vertical direction and toward a second workpiece, the blowing port further having an output on a bottom surface of the gripping claw, the air blowing circuit configured to blow air from the blowing port upon an area beneath a bottom surface of the topmost workpiece and above a top surface of the second workpiece, wherein the chuck moves in an upward direction while the blowing port simultaneously blows air upon the second workpiece to press the second workpiece downwardly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.