Robot pedestal having support structure for controller

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10449667-B2
Application number	US-201615292524-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 13, 2016
Priority date	Oct 16, 2015
Publication date	Oct 22, 2019
Grant date	Oct 22, 2019

Abstract

A lightweight and low-cost robot pedestal, by which a robot mechanical unit and a robot controller can be integrally conveyed. The pedestal has a mount part on which the robot mechanical unit is mounted, and a plurality of legs arranged on a lower portion of the mount part and configured to support the mount part. The neighboring legs among the plurality of legs have respective protruding portions opposed to each other and configured to support the controller, and have respective fixing members configured to fix the controller supported by the protruding portions to the neighboring legs.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A robot pedestal comprising:
a mount part for mounting a robot mechanical unit;
a robot controller for controlling the robot mechanical unit, the robot controller including a top surface arranged beneath the mount part and a bottom surface arranged below the top surface;
a plurality of legs arranged beneath the mount part on a lower portion of the mount part and configured to support the mount part, each of neighboring legs among the plurality of legs including a protruding portion arranged beneath of the mount part, the protruding portions of the neighboring legs extending in horizontal directions opposed to each other, the protruding portion of each of the neighboring legs including a top surface facing in a first direction towards the mount part and a bottom surface facing in a second direction opposite the first direction and away from the mount part, and the bottom surface of the robot controller seated on the top surface of the protruding portion of each of the neighboring legs; and
a plurality of brackets fixed to the robot controller and fixing the robot controller to the neighboring legs, each of the plurality of brackets fixed to a respective one of the neighboring legs above the top surface of the protruding portion of the respective one of the neighboring legs, each of the plurality of brackets including a first bracket portion fixed to a respective one of side surfaces of the robot controller and a second bracket portion fixed to a side surface of the respective one of the neighboring legs, and
wherein a fastening section for fixing the robot mechanical unit to the mount part is formed on an upper portion of the mount part.

2. The robot pedestal as set forth in claim 1 , wherein each of the protruding portions of the neighboring legs extends in a respective one of the horizontal directions from a lower end of a corresponding one of the neighboring legs, and the protruding portions of the neighboring legs extend towards one another.

Assignees

• Fanuc Corp

Inventors

• Kohzaki Shigeru

Classifications

• B25J9/0009 Primary

  Constructional details, e.g. manipulator supports, bases · CPC title

• F16M9/00

  Special layout of foundations with respect to machinery to be supported (foundations for machinery E02D27/44) · CPC title

• B25J9/0096

  co-operating with a working support, e.g. work-table · CPC title