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US 8,850,696 B2Granted
Robot tool
AssigneeDr. Ing. h.c.F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsMatthias Baudisch, Joerg Zietemann
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Abstract
A robot tool for setting plugs (18) in industrial production has a robot attachment region (2) for attaching the robot tool (1) to an industrial robot. To further simplify or automate the setting of plugs in industrial production, in particular of motor vehicles, the robot tool (1) has a pushrod (42) that can be moved back and forth and with which a plug (18) can be picked up and advanced.
Claims10
A robot tool for setting plugs in industrial production, the robot tool comprising:
- a robot attachment region for attaching the robot tool to an industrial robot;
- and a pushrod that can be moved back and forth and with which a plug can be picked up and advanced, a vacuum feed integrated in the pushrod, a vacuum being applied selectively at a free end of the pushrod to hold a plug on the free end of the pushrod, an advancing cylinder, the pushrod being slidably engaged in the advancing cylinder for selective extension and retraction from and into the advancing cylinder, the advancing cylinder being attached pivotably to a pivoting holder of a pivoting unit so that the pushrod can be pivoted between a plug picking-up position and a plug mounting position.
A robot tool for setting plugs in a body of a vehicle, the robot tool comprising:
- a robot attachment region for attaching the robot tool to an industrial robot;
- at least one tubular magazine attached to the robot attachment region for storing a stack of the plugs along an axis;
- a pivoting arm mounted on the robot attachment region and pivotable about a pivot axis spaced from and substantially orthogonal to the axis of the stack of the plugs;
- a pushrod cylinder mounted to an end of the pivoting arm spaced from the pivoting axis and a pushrod mounted in the pushrod cylinder for movement along an axis of the pushrod cylinder that is spaced from and substantially orthogonal to the pivot axis of the pivoting arm, a vacuum feed integrated in the pushrod for applying a vacuum at a free end of the pushrod to hold a plug on the free end of the pushrod, the axes of the stack of the plugs and the pushrod cylinder being substantially equidistant from the pivoting axis of the pivoting arm so that pivoting of the pivoting arm about the pivoting axis can move the free end of the pushrod between a plug picking-up position where the free end of the pushrod can pick up a top plug in the stack and a plug mounting position where the free end of the pushrod is positioned to mount the plug in the vehicle.
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