Laser machining cell
US5192848A · kind A · utility
Assignee
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 31, 1991 |
| Grant date | Mar 9, 1993 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 31, 2011 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB23Q7/1421
- WIPO fieldMachine tools
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
Various kinds of raw workpieces are stocked in a stocker. A predetermined kind of the workpiece is selected from the stocker with a lifter so as to move to a loading station. The workpiece is held with a vacuum pad of a loader of a workpiece carrying unit. The workpiece carrying unit is moved to a position adajacent to a laser processing machine so as to make the workpiece carrying unit stood by at the position. When machining finishes in the laser processing machine, a supporting unit like a comb of an unloader of the workpiece carrying unit is inserted below the machined workpiece, put on the table of the laser processing machine. The supporting unit is lifted up so as to pick the workpiece up out of the table. The raw workpiece is immediately put on the table with the loader. The workpiece carrying unit is moved to the unloading station. The machined workpiece is put on rollers of the unloading station with the unloader. The rollers are moved so as to drop the machined workpiece on the pallet.
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