CONFIRMATION METHOD FOR TEACHING POSITION IN INDUSTRIAL ROBOT

• Main Author: RAN NOBORU
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 30.08.1994
• Edition: 5
• Subjects: CHAMBERS PROVIDED WITH MANIPULATION DEVICES; CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING; CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; CONTROLLING; CUTTING BY APPLYING HEAT LOCALLY, e.g. FLAME CUTTING; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; HAND TOOLS; MACHINE TOOLS; MANIPULATORS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS ORELEMENTS; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; PORTABLE POWER-DRIVEN TOOLS; REGULATING; SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING; TRANSPORTING; WELDING; WORKING BY LASER BEAM

PURPOSE:To provide the confirmation method for a teaching position in an industrial robot improving an operation efficiency in the confirmation operation of a teaching position. CONSTITUTION:When teaching each teaching point, information whether the supply operation of a wire is performed for each teaching point or not, is allowed to store. When confirming the teaching position of each teaching point, a wire protective tube is moved to the position of a wire protective tube corresponding to the position of each teaching point at a state in which the projection quantity of the wire is short. When the wire protective tube reached a position corresponding to a teaching point where the supply operation of the wire is performed, the wire is sent out, and the sending-out operation of the wire is stopped by a detected signal caused by an electric contact with the wire and a work, and the teaching position of a teaching point is confirmed. When there is a following teaching point, after retracting the wire, the wire protective tube is moved to a position corresponding to the following teaching point to confirm the teaching position of a teaching point.