Workstation

US9981394B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• KUKA Systems GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Robert Haman · New Carlisle, US
• Richard Zunke · Augsburg, DE
• Willi Klumpp · Esslingen am Neckar, DE
• Michael Zürn · Sindelfingen, DE
• Ralf Kühnemann · Birkenfeld, DE
• Otmar Honsberg · Fürstenfeldbruck, DE
• Matthias Reichenbach · Stuttgart, DE
• Simon Klumpp · Bad Liebenzell, DE
• Andreas Domke · Stuttgart, DE
• Konrad Wirth · Tiefenbronn, DE
• Christian Eberdt · Stuttgart, DE
• Kurt Strauss · Wildberg, DE
• Alexander Gürtler · Königs Wusterhausen, DE
• Reinhard Neureiter · Birkenfeld, DE
• Thomas Rau · Stevensville, US
• Julian Stockschläder · Ulm, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 17, 2014
• Grant date: May 29, 2018
• Expiry date: Sep 17, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G05B2219/45067
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A human-robot cooperation (HRC) workstation has a programmable industrial robot (4) and a manual working area (14) for a worker (5) in a region surrounding the industrial robot (4). In the HRC workstation (1), the working areas of the industrial robot (4) and the worker (5) overlap. Contact between the worker (5) and the industrial robot (4) is possible. The workstation (1) is divided into a plurality of different zones (17, 18, 19, 20) having differently high levels of risk of hazard from the industrial robot (4) for the worker (5). The industrial robot (4) is suitable for human-robot cooperation.