Gripper
AssigneeKitagawa Iron Works Co., Ltd.
InventorsMakoto OTSUKA, Shuuji FUJII
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Abstract
The disclosure provides a compact and low-cost gripper which allows an outside diameter of a piston to be increased. Provided is a gripper including a body case having, at one end, a cylinder part having a cylinder chamber which houses a piston so as to slide the piston along a central axis of the piston, and having, at the other end, a plurality of guide parts formed at regular intervals around the center axis and extending in a direction orthogonal to the center axis; a plurality of master jaws, on which top jaws can be removably mounted, guided by each of the guide parts; and a plunger having a plurality of interconnecting means which are respectively interconnected with each of the master jaws and slides along the central axis associated with a sliding operation of the piston.
Claims7
A gripper comprising:
- a body case having, at one end, a cylinder part having a cylinder chamber which houses a piston so as to slide the piston along a central axis of the piston, and having, at the other end, a plurality of guide parts formed at regular intervals around the center axis and extending in a direction orthogonal to the center axis;
- a plurality of master jaws, on which top jaws can be removably mounted, guided by each of the guide parts;
- and
- a plunger having a plurality of interconnecting means which are respectively interconnected with each of the master jaws and slides along the central axis associated with a sliding operation of the piston, wherein:
- the gripper is configured such that each of the interconnecting means moves, by a sliding operation of the plunger, each of the master jaws in either direction along each of the guide parts, so as to cause each of the top jaws to grip a workpiece or to release the gripped workpiece;
- the body case has a first case which is provided on one side of the central axis and formed so that the cylinder chamber opens to the other side of the central axis, and a second case which is provided on the other side of the central axis and has each of the guide parts;
- and
- the second case is fixed to the first case so as to cover an opening of the first case on a side of the second case.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.