Protective device for a gripping device on a handling apparatus, especially a handling robot

US8991888B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Peter Schlaich · Leonberg, DE
• Joachim Frangen · Heilbronn, DE
• Andreas Rueb · Tamm, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 9, 2011
• Grant date: Mar 31, 2015
• Expiry date: Dec 9, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S901/49
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A protective device is provided for a gripping device on a handling apparatus, e.g., a handling robot. The gripping device has gripping parts in the form of gripping fingers, which gripping parts are movable using a transmission mechanism. The gripping device has at least one overload safety device as the protective device which, in response to the exceeding of a certain force on the gripping device, has the effect of an evasion of the gripping device. The protective device responds exclusively in response to forces which occur from a direction and which act upon the gripping parts outside a direction of forces required for gripping objects.