Loading device, loading system, transport system, installation and method for loading the installation
AssigneeE. Zoller GmbH & Co. KG Einstell- und Messgeraete
InventorsAlexander Zoller, Christian Pfau
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Abstract
A loading device for a loading of an installation, in particular a multi-clamping and measuring and/or presetting station for tools and/or tool holders, and/or a machine tool, in particular includes at least one handling robot, having at least tool holders and/or tool assemblies, having a rollable undercarriage unit and having a storage unit, arranged on the rollable undercarriage unit, for a storage of the tool holders and/or of the tool assemblies, wherein the storage unit has at least one holding device at least for an oblique-positioned holding of the tool holders and/or of the tool assemblies relative to a put-up direction of the storage unit.
Claims26
A loading device for a loading of an installation and/or a machine tool with tool holders and/or tool assemblies, the loading device comprising a rollable undercarriage unit and comprising a storage unit, arranged on the rollable undercarriage unit, for a storage of the tool holders and/or of the tool assemblies, wherein the storage unit comprises at least one holding device at least for an oblique-positioned holding of the tool holders and/or of the tool assemblies relative to a put-up direction of the storage unit,
- wherein the put-up direction is a vertical direction that runs vertically from an underside of the storage unit to an upper side of the storage unit, wherein an angle of a rotary axis of a tool holder, of the tool holders, held in an oblique-positioned manner or of a tool assembly, of the tool assemblies, held in the oblique-positioned manner with respect to the put-up direction of the storage unit differs from 0° and differs from 90°, wherein the rotary axis of the tool holder or of the tool assembly is a rotary axis that is designated for a regular use of the tool holder or of the tool assembly, wherein the at least one holding device comprises at least three holding rails which are arranged above one another in a receiving space formed by the storage unit,
- wherein within the receiving space, neighboring holding rails are offset from each other in a depth direction of the storage unit in a way that with increasing heights above a bottom of the receiving space, the holding rails are offset in the depth direction further inwards away from a loading and/or unloading opening of the storage unit, and
- wherein the rollable undercarriage unit comprises a coupling apparatus for a coupling with an autonomously driving transport device.
A transport system with a loading device for a loading of an installation and/or a machine tool with tool holders and/or tool assemblies, the loading device comprising a rollable undercarriage unit and comprising a storage unit, arranged on the rollable undercarriage unit, for a storage of the tool holders and/or of the tool assemblies, wherein the storage unit comprises at least one holding device at least for an oblique-positioned holding of the tool holders and/or of the tool assemblies relative to a put-up direction of the storage unit,
- wherein the put-up direction is a vertical direction that runs vertically from an underside of the storage unit to an upper side of the storage unit, wherein an angle of a rotary axis of a tool holder, of the tool holders, held in an oblique-positioned manner or of a tool assembly, of the tool assemblies, held in the oblique-positioned manner with respect to the put-up direction of the storage unit differs from 0° and differs from 90°, and wherein the rotary axis of the tool holder or of the tool assembly is a rotary axis that is designated for a regular use of the tool holder or of the tool assembly, and with the transport system further comprising an autonomous driving transport device or a remote-controlled transport device which is operatively couplable with the loading device and is operatively separable from the loading device.
A loading device for a loading of an installation and/or a machine tool with tool holders and/or tool assemblies, the loading device comprising a rollable undercarriage unit and comprising a storage unit, arranged on the rollable undercarriage unit, for a storage of the tool holders and/or of the tool assemblies, wherein the storage unit comprises at least one holding device at least for an oblique-positioned holding of the tool holders and/or of the tool assemblies relative to a put-up direction of the storage unit, wherein the put-up direction is a vertical direction that runs vertically from an underside of the storage unit to an upper side of the storage unit, wherein an angle of a rotary axis of the tool holder held in an oblique-positioned manner or of the tool assembly held in the oblique-positioned manner with respect to the put-up direction of the storage unit differs from 0° and differs from 90°, and wherein the rotary axis of the tool holder or of the tool assembly is a rotary axis that is designated for a regular use of the tool holder or of the tool assembly, the loading device further comprising a fully automated and/or sensor-controlled docking device for a docking of the loading device in a place of the installation that is configured for a docking, wherein the docking device comprises at least one docking sensor, which is specially designed to check whether the loading device is correctly positioned in a docking region of the installation, and wherein the docking sensor is embodied as a camera, as a radar sensor, as a lidar sensor and/or as a contact sensor, and
- wherein the storage unit comprises a loading and/or unloading opening, which is arranged at least partly sidewise on the storage unit, and comprises a lockable closure unit closing the loading and/or unloading opening, wherein a locking state of the closure unit depends on a measurement signal of the docking sensor.
A loading device for a loading of an installation and/or a machine tool with tool holders and/or tool assemblies, the loading device comprising a rollable undercarriage unit and comprising a storage unit, arranged on the rollable undercarriage unit, for a storage of the tool holders and/or of the tool assemblies, wherein the storage unit comprises at least one holding device at least for an oblique-positioned holding of the tool holders and/or of the tool assemblies relative to a put-up direction of the storage unit, wherein the put-up direction is a vertical direction that runs vertically from an underside of the storage unit to an upper side of the storage unit, wherein an angle of a rotary axis of the tool holder held in an oblique-positioned manner or of the tool assembly held in the oblique-positioned manner with respect to the put-up direction of the storage unit differs from 0° and differs from 90°, and wherein the rotary axis of the tool holder or of the tool assembly is a rotary axis that is designated for a regular use of the tool holder or of the tool assembly, the loading device further comprising a fully automated and/or sensor-controlled docking device for a docking of the loading device in a place of the installation that is configured for a docking,
- wherein the docking device comprises at least one interface, which is configured at least for a transmission of a drive energy for an opening and/or closing movement of a closure unit that closes a loading and/or unloading opening of the storage unit, and/or for an external controlling of the opening and/or closing movement of the closure unit,
- wherein the storage unit, the rollable undercarriage or the installation comprises a drive motor for driving a movement of a closure element of the closure unit between an open state and a closed state,
- wherein a mobile part of the loading device is free of an energy source and/or free of a control unit for an energy supply and/or for a controlling of the drive motor,
- wherein the installation comprises at least one connection element, which is configured for a connection to the interface for the transmission of the drive energy and/or of controlling signals for the drive motor, and
- wherein the installation comprises an energy source and/or a control unit, which is configured for an energy supply and/or for a controlling of the drive motor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.