首页|'Impact-Protection Safety Device For A Robot' in Patent Application Approval Process (USPTO 20240025060)
'Impact-Protection Safety Device For A Robot' in Patent Application Approval Process (USPTO 20240025060)
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A patent application by the inventor Volk, Wolfgang (Frensdorf, DE), filed on December 8, 2021, was made available online on January 25, 2024, according to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by NewsRx correspondents. This patent application is assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany). The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background information supplied by the inventors: “A generic impact-protection safety device is known, for example, from DE 36 05 505 A1. The known safety device has a buffer or damping mechanism to be arranged between a swivel arm and a working arm of a robot. If an impact force acts on the working arm during operation of the robot, it is intended to be absorbed by the buffer mechanism, wherein a sensing switch, which is part of the safety device, gives a signal to immediately stop the operation of the robot. “A plate of the impact-protection safety device according to DE 36 05 505 A1 that is connected to the swivel arm of the robot is referred to as a “stationary plate”. Compared to the so-called stationary plate, a movable plate, which is attached to the working arm of the robot and is also to be assigned to the impact-protection safety device, can be displaced to a limited extent. A conical guide part is screwed to the movable plate and engages in a guide hole located in the stationary plate. In the stationary plate there are also a plurality of through holes, in each of which a peg can be displaced. Each of these pegs is fixed to a piston located on the opposite side of the stationary plate to the movable plate. Each piston simultaneously contacts a depression in the surface of the movable plate. If the movable plate is displaced in the direction of the stationary plate, the pegs, which are not rigidly attached to the movable plate and thus also allow relative rotations between the two plates, push the piston away from the stationary plate. This movement of the piston is counteracted by compression springs, which directly load the piston. In addition, the piston can be loaded with compressed air in the effective direction of the springs.
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