Automatic assembling system
AssigneesTe Connectivity Corporation, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
InventorsLvhai Hu, Dandan Zhang, Fengchun Xie, Robert Neil Shaddock
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Abstract
An automatic assembling system, comprising: a robot performing an operation of inserting a first member into a second member; a force sensor for detecting an insertion force exerted on the first member by the robot; and a controller for controlling the insertion force with a closed-loop feedback control according to a difference between the insertion force detected by the force sensor and a predetermined insertion force, so that the insertion force is less than the predetermined insertion force to protect the first member and/or the second member from damage due to an overlarge insertion force. The present invention also is directed to a method for automatically assembling a product.
Claims12
An automatic assembling system, comprising:
- a robot for inserting a chip into a housing;
- a cutting and bending mechanism for cutting and bending legs of the chip before inserting the chip into the housing;
- a force sensor positioned to detect an insertion force emanating from the robot and exerted by the robot while inserting the chip into the housing;
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- a controller preset with a predetermined insertion force and responsive to the force sensor for (a) measuring the difference between the predetermined insertion force and the insertion force emanating from the robot and detected by the force sensor while the chip is being inserted in the housing, and (b) controlling the insertion force emanating from the robot in the insertion of the chip into the housing to be less than the preset predetermined insertion force to protect the chip and/or the housing from damage due to an overlarge insertion force.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.