Robot hand of an industrial robot
AssigneeFujitsu Fanuc Limited
InventorsHajimu Inaba, Ryo Nihei
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Abstract
A robot hand provided for an industrial robot used in association with a machine tool for carrying out a manipulating operation of attaching a workpiece to and detaching a workpiece from a workpiece chucking means of the machine tool, said robot hand being characterized by including means for removing chips and other foreign materials attached to the workpiece holding means during the manipulating operation.
Claims10
A robot hand provided for an industrial robot which is used in association with a machine tool for carrying out a manipulating operation of attaching a workpiece to and detaching a workpiece from a workpiece holding means of the machine tool, said robot hand comprising:
- two sets of grasper means arranged side by side, each grasper means having a finger assembly for grasping a workpiece therein, and
- means attached to grasper means for removing chips and other foreign materials attached to said workpiece holding means of said machine tool while said manipulating operation of said robot hand is carried out.
A robot hand for an industrial robot which is used in association with a machine tool for carrying out a manipulating operation of attaching a workpiece to and detaching a workpiece from a workpiece holding means of the machine tool, said robot hand comprising:
- two sets of grasper means arranged side by side, each grasper means having a finger assembly for grasping a workpiece therein;
- nozzle means projecting from said grasper means for ejecting a pressurized fluid agent to remove chips and other foreign materials attached to said workpiece holding means of said machine tool while said manipulating operation of said robot hand is carried out;
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- supply conduit means for supplying said pressurized fluid agent from a pressurized fluid agent source to said nozzle means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.