Work grasping apparatus and work grasping method
AssigneeMayekawa Mfg. Co., Ltd.
InventorsKousuke MATSUMOTO, Hiroyuki SAKURAYAMA, Yusuke KOYAMA
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Abstract
A work grasping apparatus includes: a gripper, a rotation unit, a driving device, and a controller. The gripper grasps a work conveyed by a conveyance unit. The rotation unit rotates the gripper so as to adjust an angle of the gripper with respect to a horizontal plane. The driving device includes a traversing unit and a lifting unit for moving the gripper and the rotation unit in an up-down direction and a front-back direction. The controller controls the driving device and the rotation unit so that the work is grasped by the gripper at a grasping position on the conveyance unit.
Claims15
A work grasping apparatus, comprising:
- a gripper for grasping a work conveyed by a conveyance unit;
- a rotation unit for rotating the gripper so as to adjust an angle of the gripper with respect to a horizontal plane;
- a driving device including a traversing unit and a lifting unit for moving the gripper and the rotation unit in an up-down direction and a front-back direction;
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- a controller for controlling the driving device and the rotation unit so that the work is grasped by the gripper at a grasping position on the conveyance unit.
A work grasping method, comprising:
- a gripper for grasping a work conveyed by a conveyance unit;
- a rotation unit for rotating the gripper so as to adjust an angle of the gripper with respect to a horizontal plane;
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- a driving device including a traversing unit and a lifting unit for moving the gripper and the rotation unit in an up-down direction and a front-back direction,
- wherein the method includes controlling the driving device and the rotation unit so that the work is grasped by the gripper at a grasping position on the conveyance unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.