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Part feeding and assembling system

  • US 4,527,326 A
  • Filed: 11/23/1983
  • Issued: 07/09/1985
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/24/1982
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A part feeding and assembling system, comprising:

  • (a) a bowl feeder composed of storage means for storing parts and a transporting track member for transporting the parts stored in the storage means in the form of at least a row, said transporting track member having a terminal end opening into the interior of said storage means;

    (b) visual recognition means for imaging the parts being transported on said transporting track member, determining whether a part as imaged is proper for assembling, and recognizing position and direction of the part determined to be proper; and

    (c) a robot for picking up the proper part recognized by said visual recognition means by generating pick-up position data of the robot on the basis of the data representing the position and direction of the proper part and assembling said proper part to a part to be assembled at another location;

    said robot taking out the part proper for the assembling from those being transported on said transporting track member, while said bowl feeder introduces a part determined improper for the assembling to said storage means through said opening formed at the end of said transporting track member so that said part is again placed on said transporting track member to be recirculated.

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