Modular Material Handling Robot Platform
AssigneePersimmon Technologies Corporation
InventorsMartin Hosek, Sripati Sah
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Abstract
An apparatus including a first base plate, where the first base plate is configured to have at least one linear drive component and/or at least one power coupling component connected to a top side of the first base plate, where the first base plate is configured to be located inside a vacuum chamber; and a plurality of rails or transport guides on the top side of the first base plate. An end of the first base plate includes at least one alignment feature configured to align an end of the first base plate to an end of a second base plate. The first base plate is configured to provide, in combination with the second base plate, a structural platform inside the vacuum chamber for a robot drive to move in the vacuum chamber along the plurality of transport guides.
Claims7
A method comprising:
- connecting a first base plate assembly inside a vacuum chamber, where the first base plate assembly comprises a first base plate and a first plurality of transport guides on a top side of the first base plate;
- and
- connecting a second base plate assembly inside the vacuum chamber, where the second base plate assembly comprises a second base plate, where an end of the second base plate is connected to an end of the first base plate,
- where the first base plate assembly comprises at least one alignment feature configured to align the end of the first base plate to the end of the second base plate, where the first base plate is configured to provide, in combination with the second base plate, a structural platform inside the vacuum chamber for a robot drive to move in the vacuum chamber along the first plurality of transport guides.
A method comprising:
- providing a base plate;
- providing a plurality of transport guides on a top side of the base plate;
- providing an end of the base plate with at least one alignment feature configured to align the end of the first base plate to an end of a second base plate;
- connecting to the top side of the base plate at least one of:
- a power coupling component configured to transfer power to another power coupling component on a robot drive, where the transfer of power is with induction, or
- a linear motor component configured to provide a magnetic field to move the robot drive along the plurality of transport guides,
- where the base plate is configured to be connected inside a vacuum chamber with the second base plate to provide a structural platform inside the vacuum chamber for the robot drive to move in the vacuum chamber along the first plurality of transport guides.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.