Metal working – Plural diverse manufacturing apparatus including means for... – Common reciprocating support for spaced tools
Patent
1985-03-08
1986-10-07
Weidenfeld, Gil
Metal working
Plural diverse manufacturing apparatus including means for...
Common reciprocating support for spaced tools
279 1TS, 279 4, 279 50, B23Q 3155, B23B 3130
Patent
active
046151010
ABSTRACT:
A tool interface has a rotatable tool changer for holding a tool on the end of a robot arm. The tool changer is a socket chuck having spring jaws in a socket for clamping the tool. A spring actuated sleeve slides longitudinally into wedging engagement with an inclined surface on the jaws. Fluid pressure moves an annular piston against the spring to disengage the sleeve from the jaws, and thus release the tool. A motor couples through a harmonic wave generator to a shaft on the axis of the tool changer for rotating a tool. An angular position sensor and encoder, such as an inductosyn, is used to determine the orientation of the tool. Fluid and electrical supply lines from the robot arm are connected to the tool changer for supplying electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and vacuum connections to the tool.
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Edwards Jeffrey A.
Peterson Thomas W.
Bishop Steven C.
Intelledex Incorporated
Weidenfeld Gil
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