SERVICE PROVIDING SYSTEM AND SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD

• US 20130103198A1
• Filed: 12/11/2012
• Published: 04/25/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
• Inventors: UMENO, Makoto, NAKAMOTO, Zenta, MATSUKUMA, Kenji
• Granted Patent: US 8,948,912 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/257
• CPC Class Codes: A23G 9/08 Batch production A23G9/06 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A23G 9/288 for finishing or filling ice-cream cones or other edible containers; Manipulating methods therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A23G 9/322 Products for covering, coating, finishing, decorating
• CPC Class Codes: B25J 9/0003 Home robots, i.e. small robots for domestic use
• CPC Class Codes: B25J 9/0084 comprising a plurality of manipulators
• CPC Class Codes: B25J 9/0087 Dual arms double SCARA arms B25J9/043
• CPC Class Codes: B25J 9/161 Hardware, e.g. neural networks, fuzzy logic, interfaces, processor
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 11/70 in which the articles are formed in the apparatus from components, blanks, or material constituents
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/26 for printing, stamping, franking, typing or teleprinting apparatus ticket printing or the like apparatus G07F17/42

Abstract

A service providing system according to an embodiment includes a robot unit, an interface that receives input of order input information, and a control unit that is connected to the robot unit and the interface, and causes the robot unit to execute an operation based on the order input information input with the interface. Furthermore, the service providing system receives input of the order input information with the interface, causes the robot unit to execute the processing operation based on the order input information input with the interface, and provides a product on which the processing operation has been performed by the robot unit.

Claims

1. A service providing system comprising:

a robot unit;

an interface that receives input of order input information; and

a control unit that is connected to the robot unit and the interface and causes the robot unit to execute an operation based on the order input information input with the interface.

2. The service providing system according to claim 1, further including:

a housing surrounding the robot unit;

a single or a plurality of product processing unit(s) that is (are) arranged around the robot unit, and store(s) therein equipment or a material for processing a product; and

a carrying-in/out port through which the product is capable of being carried in/out to an inner side and an outer side of the housing, wherein the control unit includes;

an operation storage portion that stores therein at least equal to or more than one processing operation;

a settling unit that performs settling processing in accordance with input from the interface;

a processing selecting portion that selects the processing operation from the operation storage portion based on the order input information from the interface;

a processing operation directing portion that operates the robot unit in accordance with the processing operation selected by the processing selecting portion to execute the processing operation by the robot unit using the equipment and the material stored in the product processing unit(s) when the settling processing has been completed by the settling unit; and

a product carrying-out directing portion that carries out the product on which processing has been performed by the processing operation to the outer side of the housing through the carrying-in/out port when the processing operation has been completed.

3. The service providing system according to claim 2, wherein the interface includes:

a display screen that displays a plurality of types of specifications of the product that are stored in the control unit; and

an order input screen that receives input of the specification of the product from the display screen.

4. The service providing system according to claim 3, wherein the order input information includes equal to or more than one piece of set information for one product, and

the order input screen is configured to be capable of receiving the equal to or more than one piece of set information for the one product.

5. The service providing system according to claim 1, wherein the robot unit includes:

a foundation;

a first arm that has a plurality of joints;

a second arm that is a separated body from the first arm and has a plurality of joints; and

a body portion that is installed on the foundation so as to revolve and supports the first arm and the second arm.

6. The service providing system according to claim 1, wherein the robot unit includes at least a manipulator having seven degrees of freedom.

7. The service providing system according to claim 2, wherein

each of the product processing unit(s) includes:

a base material accommodating portion that accommodates a base material of a product;

a small member accommodating portion that accommodates equal to or more than one type of decorative member(s) to be bonded to the base material;

an adhesive supply tool accommodating portion that accommodates an adhesive supply tool; and

an operation stage on which the base material is capable of being positioned and placed at a predetermined position, and

the processing operation directing portion of the control unit causes the robot unit to execute;

an operation of taking the base material from the base material accommodating portion, and placing the base material on the operation stage; and

an operation of applying an adhesive to the base material on the operation stage with the adhesive supply tool based on the processing operation selected by the processing selecting portion; and

an operation of placing the decorative member(s) taken out from the small member accommodating portion at a place to which the adhesive has been applied.

8. The service providing system according to claim 7, wherein the processing selecting portion causes the interface to display a plurality of types of arrangement designs of the decorative member(s) on the base material, so that a desired arrangement design is made to be selected.

9. The service providing system according to claim 8, wherein an input port that receives input of data of the arrangement designs is provided on the interface, and

the processing selecting portion is configured to be capable of selecting data of the arrangement designs to be input from the input port as an arrangement design on the base material.

10. The service providing system according to claim 2, wherein

each of the product processing unit(s) includes:

a container accommodating portion that accommodates a container of food/drink;

a food/drink supplying machine that supplies food/drink; and

a topping accommodating portion that accommodates equal to or more than one type of toppings to be topped on the food/drink, and

the processing operation directing portion of the control unit causes the robot unit to execute;

an operation of serving the food/drink from the food/drink supplying machine into the container taken out from the container accommodating portion; and

an operation of arranging the toppings on the container in which the food/drink has been put or the food/drink based on the processing operation selected by the processing selecting portion.

11. The service providing system according to claim 10, wherein the processing selecting portion causes the interface to display a plurality of types of arrangement designs of the toppings, so that a desired arrangement design is made to be selected.

12. The service providing system according to claim 1, further comprising a product delivery device that includes:

a partitioning member that partitions between a robot unit side and an outer side;

a communicating member that communicates with the partitioning member;

a robot-side partitioning member that partitions between the communicating member and the robot unit side;

a first opening/closing mechanism that opens/closes the robot-side partitioning member;

an outer-side partitioning member that partitions between the communicating member and the outer side;

a second opening/closing mechanism that opens/closes the outer-side partitioning member;

a movement member that is capable of performing a reciprocating operation of reciprocating in the communicating member; and

a product placement portion that is provided to the movement member.

13. The service providing system according to claim 12, wherein the movement member includes a movement mechanism that causes the robot unit to perform the reciprocating operation.

14. The service providing system according to claim 12, wherein the product delivery device includes an opening/closing adjusting unit that prohibits the first opening/closing mechanism and the second opening/closing mechanism from being made into opened states at the same time.

15. The service providing system according to claim 13, wherein the control unit includes:

an operation directing portion that causes the robot unit to perform an operation relating to a product based on a predetermined operation procedure; and

a delivery directing portion that checks whether the second opening/closing mechanism is in an opening-prohibited state when the operation has been completed, and if the second opening/closing mechanism is in the opening-prohibited state, makes the first opening/closing mechanism into an opened state, places the product on the product placement portion, and causes the robot unit to move the movement mechanism to the outer side.

16. The service providing system according to claim 13, wherein the robot unit includes:

an operation directing portion that causes the robot unit to perform an operation relating to a product based on a predetermined operation procedure; and

a delivery directing portion that checks whether the second opening/closing mechanism is in an opening-prohibited state when the operation has been completed, and if the second opening/closing mechanism is in the opening-prohibited state, makes the first opening/closing mechanism into an opened state, places the product on the product placement portion, and causes the robot unit to move the movement mechanism to the outer side.

17. A service providing method comprising:

receiving input of order input information with an interface; and

causing a robot unit to execute a processing operation on a product based on the order input information input with the interface, and providing the product on which the processing operation has been performed.