Electricity: motive power systems – Motor-reversing – Armature or primary circuit control
Patent
1997-07-10
1999-11-23
Grant, William
Electricity: motive power systems
Motor-reversing
Armature or primary circuit control
395 80, 395 85, 395 89, 395901, 31856811, 31856813, 31856823, 711115, G05B 1904
Patent
active
059915102
ABSTRACT:
A robot drive has operating and configuration parameters at an installation location stored in an easily removable storage device on the drive, or nearby, so that special data, such as that associated with arm design and system layout, including taught stations, can remain associated with the drive and installation whereby the drive system can be installed or replaced in minimal time since the storage device does not need reprogramming. This removable storage device, in the form of a static memory or Master Key, e.g., a Dallas Key or E Prom or the like, may be affixed to the robot body or off board nearby, and may store arm design parameters, programmed while on the robot body or off-line, and becomes a unique part structured for manufacturing with respect to the arm set design. Further, nominal system layout parameters can be prestored in the Key, and when this Key is affixed to the robot drive, the robot automatically has the information regarding both arm design and system layout, which will help avoid collisions and provide a starting point for the fine teaching of the transfer stations. Additionally, the fine location parameters for each transfer station may be stored in the Key when the robot is installed. Thus, the Key will contain all the information needed to make a robot unique to a unique system, and when a robot drive is replaced, by affixing the original Key to the new robot or nearby, it will assume all of the parameters of the initial robot.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4954761 (1990-09-01), Kimura et al.
patent: 4956765 (1990-09-01), Iwagaya
patent: 5041991 (1991-08-01), Fujiki
Brooks Automation Inc.
Grant William
Robinson Victoria
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