Box unpacking device and method of unpacking box using the same
AssigneeKawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsToshiyuki Tsujimori, Kentaro Azuma, Yukio Iwasaki, Ippei Nagahiro, Kazunori Hirata, Shoichi Miyao, Hideshi Yamane
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Abstract
A box unpacking device includes a robot, and a cutting device. A robot hand is attached to a wrist of the robot. The robot hand has a holding device configured to hold a packed box. The cutting device has a cutting blade of which the point is oriented downward or obliquely downward. The robot can move the box held by the holding device in a vertical plane, and change an angle of the box in the vertical plane.
Claims24
A box unpacking device, comprising:
- a robot;
- and
- a cutting device,
- wherein a robot hand is attached to a wrist of the robot,
- wherein the robot hand has a holding device configured to hold a packed box,
- wherein the cutting device has a cutting blade of which the point is oriented downward or obliquely downward, and
- wherein the robot moves the box held by the holding device in a vertical plane.
A method of unpacking a box by using a box unpacking device including a robot and a cutting device, a robot hand being attached to a wrist of the robot, the robot hand having a holding device configured to hold a packed box, and the cutting device having a cutting blade of which the point is oriented downward or obliquely downward, comprising the step of:
- (A) moving, by the robot, the box held by the holding device in a vertical plane.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.