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US 2013/0199010 A1Published application
Assembly equipment and assembly method
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsToshiaki Osato, Takashi Arai, Shuichi Hirasawa
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AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsToshiaki Osato, Takashi Arai, Shuichi Hirasawa
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Assembly equipment comprises a base, a first holding hand provided in a first robot arm set on the base, a second holding hand provided in a second robot arm set on the base, and a control device configured to control the first and second robot arms and the first and second holding hands. The first holding hand comprises an attachment connected to the first robot arm and having a rotation shaft, and an aligning holding mechanism provided in a rotation mechanism having a rotation shaft located to intersect the rotation shaft of the attachment or located in a skewed positional relationship with the rotation shaft of the attachment. A cooperative working area of the first and second holding hands is provided in an overlapping area where working areas of the first and second holding hands overlap with each other.
Assembly equipment comprising:
An assembly method that assembles an article, the method comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.