Tabbed Lid Opening Hand, Tabbed Lid Opening System, And Method Of Opening Tabbed Lid
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsYuki YAHIRO, Tsubasa MATSUSHITA
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Abstract
A tabbed lid opening hand for use in an opening lid operation for removing a tabbed lid, which has a lid main body that closes a circular shaped opening section of a container and a tab that is connected to the lid main body and that is disposed along the outer side surface of the container, from the opening section, the tabbed lid opening hand includes a base section that is attached to a robot arm; two claw sections that are supported by the base section and that approach and separate from each other; and a hook that is disposed with its tip end section facing in a direction intersecting the approach and separation directions and that is configured to engage with the tab.
Claims10
A tabbed lid opening hand for use in an opening lid operation for removing a tabbed lid, which has a lid main body that closes a circular shaped opening section of a container and a tab that is connected to the lid main body and that is disposed along the outer side surface of the container, from the opening section, the tabbed lid opening hand comprising:
- a base section that is attached to a robot arm;
- two claw sections that are supported by the base section and that approach and separate from each other;
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- a hook that is disposed with its tip end section facing in a direction intersecting the approach and separation directions and that is configured to engage with the tab.
A method of removing a tabbed lid, which has a lid main body that closes a circular shaped opening section of a container and a tab that is connected to the lid main body and that is disposed along an outer side surface of the container, from the opening section by an automatic machine, the automatic machine having a claw section, a tab holding section, and a robot arm that moves the tab holding section relative to the container, the method of opening the tabbed lid comprising:
- extending a distance between the container and the tab by inserting the claw section between the container and the tab along a tangential direction, assuming that the tangential direction is a direction parallel to a tangential line of the outer edge of the opening section;
- holding the tab by the tab holding section;
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- removing the tabbed lid from the container by the robot arm by moving the tab holding section, which is holding the tab, relative to the container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.