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US 11,679,462 B2Granted
Workpiece transfer system
AssigneeFanuc Corporation
InventorYoshitake Furuya
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Abstract
A workpiece transfer system including a robot that transfers a workpiece taken out of a furnace to a press forging device, a temperature measuring device that measures a temperature distribution of the workpiece being transferred by the robot, and a heating device that is capable of locally heating the workpiece in a low temperature region of the temperature distribution measured by the temperature measuring device.
Claims6
A workpiece transfer system comprising:
- a robot that transfers a workpiece taken out of a furnace to a press forging device;
- a camera that has a view field range including a path where the workpiece is transferred by the robot and that acquires an image of the view field range;
- a thermometer that measures a temperature distribution of the view field range;
- a controller that stores a target temperature distribution of the workpiece;
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- a heating device, wherein the controller detects, while the workpiece is transferred by the robot, a position of the workpiece based on the image acquired by the camera and compares the temperature distribution measured by the thermometer with the stored target temperature distribution so as to sequentially determine a low temperature region of the workpiece, and the heating device heats the determined low temperature region each time the low temperature region is determined by the controller.
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