Mobile robot and method for changing label rolls on a labeling assembly
AssigneeKrones AG
InventorsAndreas Hack, Manuel Kraus
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Abstract
The invention relates to a mobile robot, to a supply system, and to a method for changing label rolls on a labeling assembly for labeling containers. The mobile robot accordingly comprises a vehicle unit for changing locations of the robot and a manipulator unit with a multi-axle manipulator and an associated end effector for manipulating label rolls. Because the end effector is designed to grip the outer circumference of the label rolls and emptied roll cores of label rolls so as to carry them, ergonomically problematic work steps when introducing label rolls can be accomplished exclusively by machine with a high degree of precision and in a material-saving manner.
Claims17
Mobile robot for changing label rolls on a labeling assembly for labeling containers, with a vehicle unit for changing locations of the robot and with a manipulator unit comprising a multi-axle manipulator with an end effector for manipulating label rolls, wherein the end effector is designed to grip an outer circumference of the label rolls and emptied roll cores of label rolls so as to carry them, wherein the end effector is further designed to engage in the roll cores of the label rolls in such a way that the label rolls can be carried and deposited with an internal grip, and wherein the manipulator unit comprises a label roll magazine for receiving at least two label rolls in a lying state and a deposition site for temporarily depositing a label roll during manipulation.
Method for changing label rolls on a labeling assembly for labeling containers, wherein, by means of a multi-axle manipulator and an end effector formed thereon, a mobile robot removes at least one emptied roll core of a label roll with an external grip from the labeling assembly and introduces a label roll with an external grip there in exchange, wherein the end effector picks up the label roll with an internal grip and deposits it, in a lying state, in a roll magazine carried along on the mobile robot, and wherein the label roll is temporarily deposited during manipulation on a deposition site of the mobile robot.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.