公开(公告)号：US09656395B2

公开(公告)日：2017-05-23

申请号：US14265198

申请日：2014-04-29

申请人： REKLUSE MOTOR SPORTS, INC.

发明人： Albert James Youngwerth ,  Shane Christopher Dittrich ,  Benjamin Thomas Blaine ,  Sean Gabriel Brown ,  Eric James Lebsack

IPC分类号： B25J13/00 ,  B25J15/04 ,  B23Q1/01 ,  B23Q3/06 ,  B23Q7/04

CPC分类号： B23Q7/043 ,  B23Q1/01 ,  B23Q3/066 ,  B23Q7/04 ,  B25J15/0475 ,  Y10T29/49998

摘要： A system and method for using a robotic arm and a part gripping jaw to tend a CNC machine. A robotic arm picks up a part gripping jaw and used the jaw to grip a part, and moves the part into a vise in the CAN machine. The part gripping jaw has features which the vise engages, and secures the part in the part gripping jaw for processing in the CNC machine. The system and method includes a novel racking system, robotic end of arm tool, jaw grippers and vise system. The jaw grippers that hold the part are moved from the rack system, with the part to be processed, by the robot, to the vise where the vise uses the jaw grippers to secure the part for processing. After the part is processed, the robot removes the part from the vise with the jaw grippers and stores the part back into the rack system using the jaw grippers.