Pin-type gripper
AssigneeKorea Pneumatic System Co., Ltd.
InventorHo-Young Cho
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Abstract
A pin-type gripper adapted for holding and transferring a target made of soft material. The pin-type gripper includes: a cylinder unit; a pair of slide blocks which are obliquely disposed at the left and right sides of the end of a piston rod and extend in a skirt shape; and links which transmit the piston motion to the slide blocks. A pin which pegs a target is installed on an end of each slide block. One cylinder unit controls two slide members at the same time. Thus, the pin-type gripper is superior in structure, control, and economic performance to a typical gripper that requires two cylinders and a complicated design.
Claims6
A pin-type gripper, comprising:
- a housing in which a cylinder unit and an actuating part are organically arranged, with pin holes formed in a bottom of the housing so that pins of slide blocks are extracted from or retracted into the housing through the pin holes;
- the single cylinder unit comprising:
- a cylinder provided in an upper end of a medial portion of the housing;
- a piston reciprocating upwards and downwards in the cylinder;
- and a rod extending from the piston to a predetermined position below the cylinder;
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- the actuating part comprising:
- a pair of slide blocks obliquely disposed at left and right sides of an end of the rod, the slide blocks extending in a skirt shape, with one or more pins provided in an end of each of the pair of slide blocks;
- and links connected at first ends thereof to the rod and connected at second ends thereof to the respective slide blocks so that movement of the rod generated by the cylinder is transmitted to the slide blocks by the links.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.