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Title:
WORKPIECE CONVEYOR
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2012139805
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide a workpiece conveyor capable of allowing a loader to change its posture of grasping one end of the workpiece to a posture of grasping the other end without using another device.

The workpiece conveyor 1 includes a guide rail 2, a loader 3, a workpiece mount 31 and a workpiece holding posture shifting control means 42. A loader head 7 of the loader 3 can change a rotation angle of a lift 6 around an axis O in an elevating/lowering direction by a loader head rotation mechanism 13. The workpiece holding posture shifting control means 42 controls the loader 3 to perform a motion of grasping, with a chuck 8, one end of the workpiece W machined by a machine tool 30, a motion of carrying the workpiece W grasped by the chuck 8 to the workpiece mount 31, a motion of releasing the workpiece W from the chuck 8 and putting the workpiece W on a workpiece mounting surface 31a of the workpiece mount 31 in a lying posture, and a motion of turning the loader head 7 and grasping the other end of the workpiece W on the workpiece mounting surface 31a by the chuck 8.


Inventors:
TOMITA KENICHI
Application Number:
JP2011000937A
Publication Date:
July 26, 2012
Filing Date:
January 06, 2011
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
MURATA MACHINERY LTD
International Classes:
B23Q7/04
Domestic Patent References:
JPH0717447U1995-03-28
JP2007030125A2007-02-08
JPH0655308A1994-03-01
JPS5771706A1982-05-04
JP2010131730A2010-06-17
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Masashi Noda
Shuji Sugimoto
Kenro Tsutsumi