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US 4,510,684 AGranted
Robot tool system
AssigneeZymark Corporation
InventorsBurleigh M. Hutchins, Louis Abrahams
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Abstract
A means for automatically replacing tool means on a robot arm comprising a novel automatically releasable tool means, comprising electrical control conduits communicating with said robot and, in proper circumstance, with a tool rack to signal its position and condition on said rack.
Claims6
A tool assembly apparatus for use in connection with a robot, said tool comprising (1) a robot connector subassembly permanently attached to an arm of said robot and (2) a tool;
- said tool assembly comprising means to automatically connect and disconnect, both mechanically and electrically, said tool from said permanently attached subassembly in response to relative movement of said tool and said robot arm, and code means positioned on said tool to communicate information specific to its identity and condition from said tool, through said robot.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.