Robotic automobile assembly
AssigneeClay-Mill Technical Systems, Inc.
InventorsCraig S. Pearce, Clayton V. Pearce, Carl Utz
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Abstract
A new robotic system is provided in which the robotic tool is mounted for movement on a gantry above the work piece upon which the work is to be performed. The tool is supported on two carriages each of which is movable with respect to each other and with respect to the gantry so that the tool has the capacity to move through five degrees of freedom and permit a more accurate response to a sensing system which determines the position of the work piece relative to a master and then moves the tool to a working position in substantial operational compliance with the master position.
Claims10
For use in a robotic assembly system, means for moving a tool mount through five axes, said means comprising:
- first motor means operably connected to said tool mount for rotating said mount about a first axis;
- second motor means operably connected to said tool mount for rotating said mount about a second axis normal to said first axis;
- third motor means for moving said tool mount along a third axis normal to said first axis;
- a first movable carriage on which said first, and said second motor means and said tool mount are carried;
- a second movable carriage, said first carriage being carried on said second carriage and movable relative thereto;
- means for moving said first carriage relative to said second carriage along a fourth axis inclined to said first axis;
- second carriage motor means operably connected to said second carriage for moving said second carriage along a fifth axis, said fifth axis being inclined to said first and said fourth axes;
- said first motor means being connected in driving relation with a first shaft, gear means connecting said first shaft to said tool mount, to drive said tool mount about an axis inclined to said first shaft;
- said second motor means being connected in driving relation with an elongate cylindrical member having a main axis, and surrounding said first shaft and connected in supporting relation with said tool mount, to rotate said tool mount about said cylindrical member main axis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.