METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STORING AND PROCESSING VARIOUS PART SHAPES USING ROBOTIC TENDER

• Main Authors: SEAN GABRIEL BROWN, ALBERT JAMES YOUNGWERTH, ERIC JAMES LEBSACK, SHANE CHRISTOPHER DITTRICH, BENJAMIN THOMAS BLAINE
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 08.08.2019
• Subjects: CHAMBERS PROVIDED WITH MANIPULATION DEVICES; COMBINATIONS OR ASSOCIATIONS OF METAL-WORKING MACHINES, NOTDIRECTED TO A PARTICULAR RESULT; DETAILS, COMPONENTS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR MACHINE TOOLS, e.g.ARRANGEMENTS FOR COPYING OR CONTROLLING; HAND TOOLS; MACHINE TOOLS; MACHINE TOOLS IN GENERAL CHARACTERISED BY THE CONSTRUCTION OFPARTICULAR DETAILS OR COMPONENTS; MANIPULATORS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PORTABLE POWER-DRIVEN TOOLS; TRANSPORTING

To provide a robotic system that can tend a wide variety of parts with minimal engineering costs and a minimum of setup costs for each part to be run.SOLUTION: The present invention relates to a part gripping apparatus for restricting objects to be processed for processing in a computer numerical control device and relocation by a robotic tender, in which the objects to be processed define an axis of the objects to be processed and includes first and second lateral sides of the objects to be processed. The part gripping apparatus includes: a first lateral side including a first mechanical connection portion with a robotic tender end-of-arm tool for engagement and release of the part gripping apparatus; a second lateral side, different from the first lateral side, including a second mechanical connection with an operation restriction portion operatively connected to the computer numerical control device and configured to restrict the part gripping apparatus; and a third lateral side provided vertically to the first lateral side and different from the first lateral side, and opposingly engaging the first lateral side of the objects to be processed to process the second lateral side of the objects to be processed.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】運転に用いられる各部品の立ち上げ費用の最小限と最小限のエンジニアリング費用で広く種々の部品に部品提供するロボットシステムを提供する。【解決手段】コンピュータ数値制御装置内での処理及びロボットテンダーによる再配置のために加工対象物を拘束する部品把持装置であって、加工対象物は縦の加工対象物軸を規定するとともに第１及び第２の加工対象物側部を含み、部品把持装置は、部品把持装置を係合及び開放すべくロボットテンダーの腕先ツールとの第１の機械的連結部を含む第１の側部と、第１の側部とは異なるものであって、コンピュータ数値制御装置と動作可能なように連結され部品把持装置を拘束するよう構成された作動拘束部との第２の機械的連結部を含む第２の側部と、第１の側部に対して垂直であり第２の側部とは異なるものであって、第２の加工対象物側部を処理すべく第１の加工対象物側部と対峙して係合する第３の側部とを備える。【選択図】図１