Feeder and robot system
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsToyotaro Kinoshita, Hirohisa Umeda, Yuki Yahiro, Yoshitake Kobayashi
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Abstract
A feeder that feeds objects to be picked up by a robot, includes an object container unit having a first planar portion including a first planar surface in which the objects are thrown, and a groove portion including a plurality of grooves extending in a first direction from the first planar portion as seen from a normal direction in which a normal of the first planar surface extends, and a vibrator unit that applies vibration to the object container unit, wherein the vibrator unit has a first vibration mode in which the objects are moved in the first direction.
Claims9
A feeder that feeds objects to be picked up by a robot, comprising:
- an object container unit having a first planar portion including a first planar surface in which the objects are thrown, and a groove portion including a plurality of grooves extending in a first direction from the first planar portion as seen from a normal direction in which a normal of the first planar surface extends;
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- a vibrator unit that applies vibration to the object container unit,
- wherein the vibrator unit has a first vibration mode in which the objects are moved in the first direction,
- wherein the object container unit has a container, a first member provided in the container, and a second member provided in the container,
- the first planar portion includes a surface of the first member,
- the groove portion includes a surface of the second member, and
- the first member and the second member are detachably placed on a bottom surface of the container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.