US 12,623,360 B2Granted

Grasping device

AssigneeMINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.

InventorsShotaro Miyawaki, Yukimasa Funasugi, Chizumi Moteki, Shinichi Narita

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Abstract

A grasping device of the embodiment includes claw holding parts, a cam, pins, a motor, and a rail holding part. The claw holding parts are supported by rails in a slidable manner. The cam includes grooves or curved holes having a spiral shape provided around the rotation center and a hole provided at the rotation center. The pins each have one end engaged with the claw holding parts side and the other end engaged with the grooves or the curved holes of the cam. The motor includes a shaft to be fixed to the hole of the cam. The rail holding part is configured to hold the rails and engage a positioning jig with an end portion of the shaft at the side fixed to the cam and including a hole part with an inner peripheral surface where the outer peripheral surface of the jig is contactable.

Claims2

Dependent claims

A grasping device, comprising:

claw holding parts supported by rails in a slidable manner;
a cam including grooves or curved holes having a spiral shape provided around a rotation center of the cam and a hole provided at the rotation center of the cam;
pins each having a first end engaged with a side of the claw holding parts and a second end engaged with the grooves or the curved holes of the cam;
a motor including a shaft to be fixed to the hole of the cam;
and
a rail holding part configured to hold the rails and engage a positioning jig with an end portion of the shaft at a side fixed to the cam and including a hole part with an inner peripheral surface where an outer peripheral surface of the jig is contactable, wherein
a protruding part configured to engage with a recess part of the jig is provided at a leading end of the shaft exposed from the hole of the cam.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.