Electricity: conductors and insulators – Conduits – cables or conductors – Combined
Patent
1996-06-28
1998-07-07
Kincaid, Kristine L.
Electricity: conductors and insulators
Conduits, cables or conductors
Combined
310 71, H02G 300
Patent
active
057772673
ABSTRACT:
A harness assembly including a first spiral conduit wound in a helical shape and a conduit guide. The harness assembly is designed for use with an industrial robot which has a arm and a wrist, where the arm is capable of having an end effector mounted on or connected to it. The first end of the spiral conduit is capable of being coupled to a first signal transmission point positioned on the robot arm, and the second end of the first spiral conduit is capable of being coupled to the end effector when the end effector is mounted on the robot wrist. The conduit guide is mounted on the wrist and includes a core and a first disk. In operation, the spiral conduit is capable of being arranged so that a portion of it is positioned on the first disk and wrapped around a portion of the core. The harness assembly has additional features which permit several types of signals to be transmitted through it, to keep the conduits in it from being caught in robot joints, and to reduce the amount of flexing the conduits in the harness assembly are subjected to.
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ABB Flexible Automation Inc.
Kincaid Kristine L.
Patel Dhiru R.
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