Device for positioning a tool within a predetermined working area

• Main Authors: WAECKERLE UWE, HELM MANFRED BURKHARD, HESSELBACH JURGEN, MUELLER LOTHAR, SOETEBIER SVEN, SCHULZ HOLGER
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 20.03.2003
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; 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; ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ELECTRICITY; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; HAND TOOLS; MACHINE TOOLS; MACHINE TOOLS IN GENERAL CHARACTERISED BY THE CONSTRUCTION OFPARTICULAR DETAILS OR COMPONENTS; MANIPULATORS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PORTABLE POWER-DRIVEN TOOLS; PRINTED CIRCUITS; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS; TRANSPORTING

A device for positioning a tool within a predetermined working area includes two guides which are parallel to one another and run in a first coordinate direction, and on which in each case a guide slide is mounted in a longitudinally adjustable manner. The guide slides are connected by a supporting structure which carries the tool and which also permits a movement of the tool in a second coordinate direction. It is connected to the guide slides so as to be movable about in each case a first or second joint axis, respectively, parallel to a third coordinate direction. It includes two coupler links which are connected to one another by a third joint axis parallel to the first and second joint axes. Coaxially to this third joint axis, the supporting structure is provided with a spindle which carries the tool and is adjustable linearly in the direction of the third coordinate direction and independently thereof by a rotation angle about the third joint axis.