Parts feeding system
AssigneeNtn Corporation
InventorsSeigo SAKATA, Toru MIYAKE, Yukihiro KURITA, Naoki MARUI
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Abstract
A parts feeding system includes: a conveyance carrier having an arc shape including a circular shape or an elliptic arc shape including an elliptic shape for conveying a workpiece; a parts feeder feeding the workpiece to the conveyance carrier; and a robot fixed at a base end thereof and picking up the workpiece on the conveyance carrier at a tip end thereof. The robot has a plurality of arm members rotating around rotational axes, and a first rotational axis at the most basal end side is located inside a virtual circle or a virtual ellipse of the conveyance carrier.
Claims12
A parts feeding system comprising:
- a conveyance carrier having an arc shape including a circular shape or an elliptic arc shape including an elliptic shape for conveying a workpiece;
- a parts feeder feeding the workpiece to the conveyance carrier;
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- a robot fixed at a base end thereof and picking up the workpiece on the conveyance carrier at a tip end thereof, wherein
- the robot has an arm member rotating around a rotational axis, and
- the rotational axis at the most basal end side is located inside a virtual circle or a virtual ellipse of the conveyance carrier.
A parts feeding system comprising:
- a conveyance carrier having a rotating disk shape for conveying a workpiece;
- a robot fixed at a base end thereof and picking up the workpiece moving on the conveyance carrier at a tip end thereof;
- a workpiece detector that detects the position of the workpiece on the conveyance carrier;
- a rotation sensor that detects a phase position of the rotating disk;
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- a controller that controls the robot based on the detected values by the workpiece detector and the rotation sensor, wherein
- the robot has an arm member rotating around a rotational axis,
- the robot is located so that the rotational axis at the most basal end side is located at a center portion of the conveyance carrier, and
- the robot rotates around the rotational axis at the most basal end side.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.