Liquid supply device and control method for liquid supply device
AssigneeSurpass Industry Co., Ltd.
InventorHiroshi IMAI
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Abstract
Provided is a liquid supply device including: a plug having a plug side liquid channel; and a socket having a socket side liquid channel. The plug has a groove having a fixing groove, the socket has a body having the socket side liquid channel, a gripping unit gripped by a robot, and a sleeve member configured to adjust a position of the body relative to the gripping unit, the tip of the body runs annularly about the socket axis and has lock balls, and the sleeve member switches a state between a connected state where the lock balls are secured in the fixing groove and a released state where the lock balls are not secured in the fixing groove.
Claims7
A liquid supply device comprising:
- a plug fixed to an opening provided to an upper surface of a liquid storage container and having a plug side liquid channel extending along a plug axis;
- and
- a socket detachably attached to the plug and having a socket side liquid channel extending along a socket axis,
- wherein the plug has a groove extending annularly about the plug axis and having a plug side fixing part,
- wherein the socket has
- a body formed cylindrically along the socket axis and having the socket side liquid channel,
- a gripping unit formed cylindrically along the socket axis and gripped by a gripping mechanism configured to grip the socket, and
- an adjustment unit configured to adjust a position on the socket axis of the body relative to the gripping unit,
- wherein a tip of the body runs annularly about the socket axis and has a socket side fixing part, and
- wherein the adjustment unit switches a state between a connected state where the socket side fixing part is fixed to the plug side fixing part and the socket side liquid channel is connected to the plug side liquid channel and a released state where the socket side fixing part is not fixed to the plug side fixing part.
A control method of a liquid supply device comprising a plug, which is fixed to an opening provided to an upper surface of a liquid storage container and has a plug side liquid channel extending along a plug axis, and a socket having a socket side liquid channel extending along a socket axis,
- wherein the plug has a groove extending annularly about the plug axis and having a plug side fixing part,
- wherein the socket has
- a body formed cylindrically along the socket axis and having the socket side liquid channel, and
- a gripping unit formed cylindrically along the socket axis and gripped by a gripping mechanism configured to grip the socket
- wherein a tip of the body runs annularly about the socket axis and has a socket side fixing part,
- the control method comprising:
- a connecting step of controlling a position on the socket axis of the body relative to the gripping unit to switch a released state where the socket side fixing part is not fixed to the plug side fixing part into a connected state where the socket side fixing part is fixed to the plug side fixing part and the socket side liquid channel is connected to the plug side liquid channel;
- and
- a releasing step of controlling a position on the socket axis of the body relative to the gripping unit to switch the connected state into the released state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.