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US 2009/0177324 A1Published application
Robot system and method for maxibags sampling in ore concentration processes
OwnerHugo Salamancainventor
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At present, the molybdenum sampling process in maxibags is carried out manually and it has the disadvantage of being carried out manually which causes the system efficiency to decrease due to the less representativeness of the samples obtained. Due to the above, a robot system and method have been developed for the sample taking of molybdenum in an automatic way so as to ensure the representativeness of the sampling as well as the control over the product to be commercialized. The robotic system is composed mainly of a robotic manipulator (1) of at least 5 degrees of freedom, and a gripping mechanism (2) which allows to take the sampling device (3) from a tool holder (4) located at on of its sides, moving it through a defined path to the sampling area (5), where the sampling process will take place, in a sequential and programmed way, to certain number of maxibags faces to be defined (7).
A robot system for the sampling of maxibags in ore concentration processes comprising an anthropomorphous robotic arm of at least 5 degrees of freedom, one control, communication and programming unit, one gripper adapter, one pneumatic gripper, its fingers, one pneumatic gripper driving system, one electric supply system and a sampling device or apparatus wherein the anthropomorphous robotic arm of at least 5 degrees of freedom is provided with a pneumatic gripping mechanism which allows in a sequential and programmed way to take, manipulate and release a sampling device and apparatus and moves it through a defined path, until reaching the maxibags area, where the concentrate sampling is carried out to a certain number of maxibags to be defined.
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