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US 12,667,958 B2Granted
Picking-up robot
AssigneeSintokogio, Ltd.
InventorsYoshikane Tanaami, Miyuki Hayashi
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Abstract
A picking-up robot is successfully made more compact. The robot arm includes a plurality of arm tubes that fit one within another in a nested manner. A push chain is inserted in the robot arm. The push chain is connected to a foremost arm tube at one end of the push chain. A sprocket is rotatably attached to the strut. The push chain is engaged on the sprocket.
Claims8
A picking-up robot comprising:
- a traveling body capable of traveling;
- a strut set upright on the traveling body;
- a robot arm attached to an arm supporting section located on an upper end side of the strut;
- a robot hand that is provided at a distal end of the robot arm and that grasps an article;
- a first rotary motor that causes the strut to rotate about an axis of the strut;
- a tilt motor that causes the robot arm to tilt in an up-and-down direction;
- and
- a second rotary motor that causes the robot arm to extend and contract, wherein
- the robot arm is a telescopic robot arm having a plurality of arm tubes that fit one within another in a nested manner,
- the picking-up robot comprising:
- a push chain inserted in the plurality of arm tubes and having an end that is connected to a foremost arm tube of the plurality of arm tubes;
- and
- a sprocket which is rotatably attached to the strut and on which the push chain is engaged, wherein
- the second rotary motor rotates the sprocket, thereby causing the robot arm to extend and contract.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.