Tool mounting stocker, tool storing device and tool/hand storing device, and tool replacing method by robot and control device thereof
AssigneeAmada Company, Limited
InventorMasaaki Sato
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Abstract
In a tool storing device handling a tool mounting stocker in which a punch and a die of a press brake are mounted in one stocker with rear surfaces facing each other, each of the stockers is supported on both sides by endless belts having one driving shaft, and the endless belts are circulated so that each of the supported stockers does not protrude to a worker side, whereby a position of a path line of the appropriate one of the stockers can be freely positioned at a position of the path line PL of a tool holder on the press brake side. This enables rapid and easy tool replacement by a bending robot by storing not only the tool made of the punch and the die but also the hand for the robot together.
Claims17
A tool mounting stocker mounting a punch and a die of a press brake in one stocker with rear surfaces facing each other.
A tool/hand storing device comprising:
- a tool mounting stocker for mounting a punch and a die of a press brake;
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- a hand mounting stocker for mounting a hand used by a bending robot.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.