Variable-pitch spot welding gun assembly for a welding robot
AssigneeFanuc Corporation
InventorsNobutoshi Torii, Yasuo Naito, Kunio Ueda
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Abstract
A variable pitch spot welding gun assembly for a welding robot has a fixed base (16) directly attached to the robot wrist (12) of an industrial welding robot, welding transformers (24, 26) fixed to the fixed base (16), a fixed spot welding gun (22) provided apart from the welding transformers (24, 26), a movable spot welding gun (20) provided apart from the welding transfomers (24, 26) and capable of being moved relative to the fixed spot welding gun (22), to adjust a pitch between the fixed spot welding gun (22) and the movable spot welding gun (20), and secondary conductors (44a to 44e) connecting the fixed and movable spot welding guns (22, 90) respectively to the welding transformers (24, 26).
Claims5
A variable-pitch spot welding gun assembly for a welding robot, comprising;
- a base means directly fixed to a robot wrist of the robot;
- an electrical transformer means, fixedly attached to said base means at a portion as near as possible to an axis of motion of said robot wrist, for transforming an electric primary voltage into an electric secondary voltage necessary to spot-welding, wherein said electric transformer means comprises first and second electric transformers fixedly disposed with a fixed space therebetween along a predetermined axis;
- a fixed spot welding gun attached to said base means and separated from said electrical transformer means, said first electric transformer being connected to said fixed spot welding gun;
- a movable spot welding gun movably mounted on said base means and movable relative to said fixed spot welding gun along said predetermined axis to adjust a pitch therebetween, said second electric transformer being connected to said movable spot welding gun;
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- an electric secondary flexible conductor means electrically connecting said fixed and movable spot welding guns to said electrical transformer means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.