Processing method and processing device

• US 20070164009A1
• Filed: 04/10/2004
• Published: 07/19/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: KUKA Systems GmbH (Midea Group Co., Ltd)
• Original Assignee: KUKA Systems GmbH (Midea Group Co., Ltd)
• Inventors: Hesse, Johann
• Application Number:
  US10/552,157
• Publication Number:
  US 20070164009A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 219/158
• CPC Class Codes: A61P 3/10 for hyperglycaemia, e.g. antidiabetics
• CPC Class Codes: B23Q 39/026 simultaneous working of toolheads
• CPC Class Codes: B25J 15/0052 multiple gripper units or multiple end effectors
• CPC Class Codes: B25J 15/0061 mounted on a modular gripping structure
• CPC Class Codes: C07D 207/16 Carbon atoms having three bonds to hetero atoms with at the most one bond to halogen, e.g. ester or nitrile radicals

Abstract

A processing device (5) is provided for automobile body parts (2). The device (5) includes a multiaxial conveying robot (6) on which at least one support or carrier (7) is disposed. The at least one support (7) is provided with one or several multiaxial processing units, preferably small robots (10). The small robots (10) support different tools and can be controlled individually.

Claims

1. A machining device for components, the device comprising:

a multiaxial transport means;

a carrier with a multiaxial machining unit with a tools arranged at a transport means.

2. A machining device in accordance with claim 1, wherein the transport means is designed as a multiaxial transport robot.

3. A machining device in accordance with claim 1, wherein the machining units are designed as multiaxial small robots each with one of said tools.

4. A machining device in accordance with claims 1, wherein the machining units are arranged on different sides of the carrier.

5. A machining device in accordance with claim 1, wherein the machining units can be controlled individually.

6. A machining device in accordance with claim 1, wherein the machining units can be controlled from the transport means.

7. A machining device in accordance with claim 1, wherein the carrier is designed as an essentially straight girder.

8. A machining device in accordance with claim 1, wherein the small robots are designed as six-axis articulated arm robots.

9. A machining device in accordance with claim 1, wherein the machining units are arranged on different sides of the carrier, offset in relation to one another.

10. A machining device in accordance with claim 1, that wherein the machining units carry said replaceable tools.

11. A machining device in accordance with claim 1, wherein the tools of the machining units are designed at least partly as said joining tools.

12. A machining device in accordance with claim 1, wherein an additional support is provided for the carrier.

13. A machining station, comprising:

a multiaxial robot transport;

a carrier connected to said multiaxial robot transport for movement therewith;

a plurality of multiaxial machining units carried by said carrier;

a plurality of tools, each of said multiaxial machining units being connected to a respective one of said tools.

14. A machining station in accordance with claim 13, wherein each machining device is arranged at a station frame.

15. A machining station in accordance with claim 13, wherein each machining device is designed as a portal robot/portal robots.

16. A method of machining cubic components, by means of a multiaxial transport means and at least one tool, and further comprising the steps of:

employing the transport means for introducing at least one carrier with one or more multiaxial machining units into the interior space of the component, wherein the machining units carry out machining operations on the inside of the component.

17. A method in accordance with claim 16, wherein the component is clamped on the inside by one or more said machining units and is machined by said other machining units.

18. A method in accordance with claim 16, wherein the carrier with the machining units is introduced through an opening into the component.

19. A method in accordance with claims 16, wherein the carrier with the machining units is additionally supported in the working position by a support means.