Industrial robot having a mounting mechanism on which a plurality of conveyance objects is mounted

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12191189-B2
Application number	US-202117467416-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 6, 2021
Priority date	Sep 18, 2020
Publication date	Jan 7, 2025
Grant date	Jan 7, 2025

Abstract

An industrial robot includes a mounting mechanism on which multiple conveyance objects is mounted. The mounting mechanism includes multiple hands overlapped with each other at a predetermined pitch in an upper and lower direction. Each of the hands includes: a fixing part to which a fixed part of the mounting part is fixed, and a bolt for fixing the fixed part to the fixing part. When the mounting mechanism includes a hand having an upward bolt, all of the fixing parts and the fixed parts of the hands disposed on a lower side of the upward bolt are formed with through holes for engaging a tool with a head part of the upward bolt from a lower side of the hand disposed at the bottom. An inside diameter of the through hole is larger than an outside diameter of the head part.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An industrial robot, comprising:
a mounting mechanism, on which a plurality of conveyance objects is mounted, wherein
the mounting mechanism comprises a plurality of hands whose number is at least three or more, each of the hands comprising a mounting part for the conveyance object, and the plurality of the hands being overlapped with each other at a predetermined pitch in an upper and lower direction,
each of the hands comprises:
a blade holding member of the mounting part,
a fixing member, to which the blade holding member is fixed, and
a bolt, having a head for fixing the blade holding member to the fixing member,

the fixing members of the plurality of the hands are overlapped with each other at the predetermined pitch in the upper and lower direction,
the blade holding member is fixed to the fixing member in a state that the blade holding member is overlapped with the fixing member in the upper and lower direction by the bolt disposed with the upper and lower direction as an axial direction,
when the bolt whose head part is disposed on a lower side is referred to as an upward bolt, and the bolt whose head part is disposed on an upper side is referred to as a downward bolt and, when each of the hands having the upward bolt except the hand disposed uppermost and except the hand disposed at a bottom among the plurality of the hands is referred to as a first hand, and each of the hands having the downward bolt except the hand disposed uppermost and except the hand disposed at the bottom among the plurality of the hands is referred to as a second hand,
in a case that the mounting mechanism comprises the first hand, all of the fixing members and the blade holding members of the hands which are disposed on a lower side with respect to the upward bolt of the first hand are formed with through holes for engaging a tool with the head part of the upward bolt of the first hand from a lower side with respect to the hand disposed at the bottom, and
in a case that the mounting mechanism comprises the second hand, all of the fixing members and the blade holding members of the hands which are disposed on an upper side with respect to the downward bolt of the second hand are formed with through holes for engaging a tool with the head part of the downward bolt of the second hand from an upper side with respect to the hand disposed uppermost, and
an inside diameter of the through hole is larger than an outside diameter of the head part.

2. The industrial robot according to claim 1 , wherein
the bolt provided in the hand disposed uppermost is the downward bolt, and
the bolts provided in remaining hands of the plurality of the hands except the hand disposed uppermost are the upward bolts.

3. The industrial robot according to claim 2 , wherein
each of the hands is linearly moved in a horizontal direction at a time of conveyance of the conveyance object,
when a direction perpendicular to a moving direction of each of the hands and the upper and lower direction is referred to as an orthogonal direction, the blade holding member is fixed to the fixing member by the bolts disposed on both sides in the orthogonal direction with respect to a center of each of the hands in the orthogonal direction, and
the bolts provided in the remaining hands of the plurality of the hands except the hand disposed uppermost are successively shifted to an inner side in the orthogonal direction from the hand disposed on an upper side to the hand disposed on a lower side.

4. The industrial robot according to claim 1 , wherein
the mounting part comprises a mounting part main body on which the conveyance object is mounted, and
the mounting part main body is separately formed from the blade holding member.

Assignees

• Nidec Sankyo Corp

Inventors

• Kuribayashi Tamotsu
• Kazama Toshimichi

Classifications

• H10P72/7602 Primary

  the wafers being placed on a robot blade or gripped by a gripper for conveyance · CPC title

• H10P72/3412

  Batch transfer of wafers · CPC title

• H10P72/3402

  Mechanical parts of transfer devices · CPC title

• H10P72/3311

  Horizontal transfer of a batch of workpieces · CPC title

• H10P72/3302 Primary

  Mechanical parts of transfer devices · CPC title