Conveyor system and conveyance method
AssigneeFanuc Corporation
InventorsShunichi Saito, Yoshitake Furuya
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Abstract
The conveyor system of the present invention comprises a conveyor robot having a hand and arm, and a pair of gripping jigs attached to a conveyed object. The hand of the conveyor robot comprises a body part attached to an arm, a pair of projecting parts projecting out from different positions of the body part in the same direction, hook parts provided on the pair of projecting parts, and pushing parts attached to the body part adjoining the pair of projecting parts and configured to move along the projection direction of the pair of projecting parts to generate a pushing force. Each gripping jig attached to a conveyed object comprises of a pushed part pushed by a pushing part of the hand, and a rod-shaped part caught on a hook part of the hand.
Claims6
A conveyor system comprising a conveyor robot having a hand and arm, and a pair of gripping jigs attached to a conveyed object, wherein
- said hand comprises
- a body part attached to said arm,
- a pair of projecting parts projecting out from different positions of said body part in the same direction,
- hook parts attached to said pair of projecting parts, and
- pushing parts attached to said body part adjoining said pair of projecting parts and configured to move along the projecting direction of said pair of projecting parts to generate pushing forces, and
- said pair of gripping jigs comprises
- rod-shaped parts caught on hook parts of said hand and
- pushed parts pushed by said pushing parts of said hand.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.