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.
Claims10
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 means of fasteners;
- and existing wiring that is routed via a communication space communicating with internal spaces of the housing members, the method comprising:
- detaching some of the fasteners to detach the cover member from the corresponding housing member, thus forming a gap between the detached cover member and the housing member;
- disposing the 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
- attaching the detached cover member to the housing member, with a spacer provided between the cover member and the housing member and having a notch disposed therein, with the detached fasteners or other fasteners, in a state in which the cover member and the housing member are separated from each other by a thickness of the spacer by sandwiching the spacer that maintains the gap between the cover member and the housing member, wherein the notch forms a channel through which the additional wiring passes.
A robot comprising:
- 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 means of fasteners;
- existing wiring that is routed on a first path via a communication space communicating with internal spaces of the housing members;
- and
- a spacer that forms a gap between the housing member and the cover member by sandwiching the spacer between the housing member and the cover member, wherein the cover member is separated from the housing member by loosening the fasteners, the robot further comprising additional wiring disposed between the housing member and the cover member and extending through the gap along a second path different from the first path,
- wherein the cover member is sized to fully blocks an opening of the housing member if directly attached to the housing member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.