Rotary crankpin turntable actuator for industrial automation
OwnerSergio Enrique Castellanos Villanuevainventor
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a rotary crankpin turntable actuator whose basic operation concept involves moving a product or workpiece instead of moving a tool. The actuator eliminates the need to use robotic arms for repetitive automated manufacturing. Instead, only one fixed tool is needed. The actuator will perform the necessary motions to work the piece. The rotary crankpin turntable creates a desired trajectory (7) in one or more defined dispensing-inspection-assembly (DIA) points (5) and is made up of four components: a rotary crankpin (1), a center shaft (2), a pinion (3), and a transporter (4). It has a gear-based motion transmission system for the rotary crankpin's (1) positioning.
Claims13
A two-dimensional (2D) rotary crankpin turntable actuator that generates a desired trajectory (7) in one or more defined dispensing-inspection-assembly (DIA) points (5), said rotary crankpin turntable actuator comprising
- a rotary crankpin (1);
- a center shaft (2);
- a pinion (3);
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- a transporter (4),
- the center shaft (2) is mechanically connected to the rotary crankpin (1), and when it starts a rotational motion, it rotates the rotary crankpin (1),
- wherein the pinion (3) is mechanically connected to the transporter (4), and when it starts a rotational motion, it rotates the transporter (4),
- wherein the rotary crankpin (1) is mechanically connected to the transporter (4),
- whose center is concentric with the center shaft (2),
- wherein the center of the rotary crankpin (1) is at a greater than zero distance (d2) from the center shaft's (2) center, and
- wherein when the center shaft (2) moves in a mechanical rotational motion, along with the pinion (3), it starts an XY two-dimensional motion.
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