Guiding a robot in an array

US5183377A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Mannesmann AG · DE

Inventors

• Eberhard Becker · Hagen, DE
• Franz Schulte · Herdecke, DE
• Hartwig Sprung · Wetter, DE
• Ronald Staggl · Wetter, DE
• Manfred Stoeber · Witten, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 30, 1989
• Grant date: Feb 2, 1993
• Expiry date: May 30, 2009

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T403/4602
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A two-dimensional mounting structure for an industrial robot or robot manipulator on a carriage with a lifting post and a manipulator connected to the post, the mounting structure includes longitudinal rail carriers, transverse connectors and a movable rail, carriages are connected to the movable rail which runs on the longitudinal carriers, the carriage for the robot runs on the movable rail; the improvement includes essentially similarly constructed end elements, first ones of the end elements connecting the ends of the longitudinal carriers to ends of the transverse connectors, others of the end elements connecting respective two ends of the movable rail to carriage means by means of which the transverse rail carrier runs on the longitudinal carrier; each end element comprises a basic configuration that includes two flat plates and a shaft in the bores with aligned bores, a connecting plate interconnecting the two plates from which they extend in downward direction, for connection to a transverse connector or a carriage, a lateral bar extending upright from said connecting plate parallel to an axis of the aligned bores for connection to the front end of a longitudinal rail carri…