Robot hand tool mounting device
AssigneeSMC Corporation
InventorsHiroshi Miyachi, Yoshihiro Toshimori, Motohiro Sato
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Abstract
A plurality of connecting members are provided to a tool adaptor to which a tool is mounted, a plurality of connecting jaw members having inclined faces which are engaged with and detached from the connecting members when the connecting jaw members are displaced in radial directions, a rod that expands and contracts due to operation of air pressure, and a cam-type converting mechanism for converting the expanding/contracting operation of the rod to operations of displacement of the jaw members are provided to a mounting unit mounted to a robot hand, and a stopper portion for preventing the connecting member from being detached and falling from the inclined face when the air pressure reduces is provided to each the jaw member.
Claims5
A robot hand tool mounting device comprising a tool adaptor to which a robot hand tool is mounted and a mounting unit which is mounted to a robot hand and to which said tool adaptor is detachably connected,
- wherein said tool adaptor has a plurality of connecting members for locking connecting jaw members provided to said mounting unit, said mounting unit has a rod that expands and contracts by operation of air pressure, said plurality of connecting jaws disposed at regular angles about an axis of said rod and displaced in radial directions, a converting mechanism for converting at least one of an expanding operation and a contracting operation of said rod to operations of displacement of said jaw members, and connecting locked portions formed at outer end portions of said respective jaw members,
- and each said locked portion has an inclined face which is inclined downward as it extends outward and which performs a function of being engaged with said connecting member to draw said tool adaptor wedgewise and a stopper portion connected to said inclined face for preventing falling of said connecting member from said locked portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.