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US 11,077,978 B2Granted
Product transfer apparatus and product transfer system
AssigneeAmada Company, Limited
InventorsJun Hirono, Koji Tsuda, Hideto Fukushige, Kuniaki Abe, Ryoma Kitano
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Abstract
A product transfer apparatus includes a product suction pad part having a suction cup part capable of sucking a plate-like product, a transfer base whose lower part has the product suction pad part, and a label suction part having a label pad, which is able to suck a label to be pasted to the product, and an up-down function of moving the label pad up and down between a position upper than and a position lower than the position of a front end of the suction cup part.
Claims11
A product transfer apparatus, comprising:
- a product suction pad part having a suction cup part capable of sucking a generally planar product;
- a transfer base provided by the product suction pad part;
- and
- a label suction part installed on the transfer base and having a label pad, which is able to suck a label to be pasted on the product, and the label suction part is configured to move the label pad up and down between a position higher than a position of a front end of the suction cup part and a position lower than the position of the front end of the suction cup part,
- a rotation part configured to rotate the label suction part around a label suction rotation axis extending in an up-down direction, wherein
- the label suction part has an arm extending in a diametral direction from the label suction rotation axis and having the label pad at a front end thereof, wherein the arm is turned by operation of the rotation part between a first rotation position outside an external shape of the transfer base and a second rotation position inside the external shape of the transfer base.
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A product transfer apparatus, comprising:
- a product suction pad part having a suction cup part capable of sucking a generally planar product;
- a transfer base provided by the product suction pad part;
- and
- a label suction part attached to installed on the transfer base and having a label pad, which is able to suck a label to be pasted on the product, and the label suction part is configured to move the label pad up and down between a position higher than a position of a front end of the suction cup part and a position lower than the position of the front end of the suction cup part.
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A product transfer system, comprising:
- a work pallet that supports a generally planar product;
- a printer that discharges a label printed with information of the product;
- and
- a product transfer apparatus that has a product suction pad part having a suction cup part capable of sucking the product, a transfer base provided by the product suction pad part, and a label suction part installed on the transfer base and having a label pad to suck the label discharged from the printer, and the label suction part is configured to move the label pad up and down between a position higher than a position of a front end of the suction cup part and a position lower than the position of the front end of the suction cup part, wherein:
- the label has, on a bottom face, a non-adhesive part along each of a pair of width-direction edge parts;
- and
- the printer has a support tool to support the pair of non-adhesive parts of the discharged label.
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A product transfer system, comprising:
- a work pallet that supports a generally planar product;
- a printer that discharges a label printed with information of the product;
- and
- a product transfer apparatus that has a product suction pad part having a suction cup part capable of sucking the product, a transfer base provided by the product suction pad part, and a label suction part installed on the transfer base and having a label pad to suck the label discharged from the printer, and the label suction part is configured to move the label pad up and down between a position higher than a position of a front end of the suction cup part and a position lower than the position of the front end of the suction cup part, wherein
- the printer has a label receiving plate having a plurality of air holes and a non-adhesive layer on a top face formed by coating.
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A product transfer system, comprising:
- a work pallet that supports a generally planar product;
- a printer that discharges a label printed with information of the product;
- and
- a product transfer apparatus that has a product suction pad part having a suction cup part capable of sucking the product, a transfer base provided by the product suction pad part, and a label suction part installed on the transfer base and having a label pad to suck the label discharged from the printer, and the label suction part is configured to move the label pad up and down between a position higher than a position of a front end of the suction cup part and a position lower than the position of the front end of the suction cup part.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.