Robot finger

US3981528A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Firma Carl Freudenberg · DE

Inventors

• Paul Andorf
• Dietmar Franz
• Alfred Lieb
• Gerd Upper · Hoisdorf, DE
• Walter Guttropf · Brugg, CH

Key dates

• Filing date: May 19, 1975
• Grant date: Sep 21, 1976
• Expiry date: May 19, 1995

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B25J15/12
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A robot finger comprising a substantially enclosed, hollow elongated body, which body has integral therewith and running lengthwise exteriorly thereof a gripping pad, said hollow body being deformable by fluid pressure in the direction of said gripping pad, said gripping pad being nondeformable in the direction of said body by said fluid pressure, said elongated body having a fluid injection inlet in a wall thereof.