Robot Tool for Setting Sealing Plugs
AssigneeBayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsMax KOSSMANN, Johannes BIX, Ingo SCHMIEDEL
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Abstract
A robot tool is provided for setting sealing plugs in openings in a vehicle body component by way of a placing installation, in which a plug magazine having a plurality of plugs is accommodated, which can be set into the respective openings in direct succession by the placing installation without reloading. A method is provided for securely setting the plugs, wherein a peripheral elastic lip is provided at an outlet of the setting device, which lip retains the plugs in the plug magazine and can be elastically bent by an axial motion of the plugs in the axial direction of the robot tool.
Claims10
A robot tool for placing sealing plugs into openings in an automotive body component, comprising:
- a sealing plug magazine having a plurality of lined-up sealing plugs;
- a placing installation on which the sealing plug magazine is disposed, wherein by way of the placing installation the sealing plugs are capable of being placed in a directly sequential manner and without reloading into respective openings of the automotive body component;
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- an encircling elastic lip provided on an outlet of the placing installation, wherein the encircling elastic lip holds the sealing plugs in the sealing plug magazine and, by way of an axial movement of the sealing plugs, is capable of being elastically bent in an axial direction of the robot tool.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.