Invention Grant
- Patent Title: End effector assembly for holding a workpiece
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Application No.: US16337753Application Date: 2017-07-20
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Publication No.: US10889007B2Publication Date: 2021-01-12
- Inventor: Raphael Reinhold , Sascha Quast
- Applicant: Broetje-Automation GmbH
- Applicant Address: DE Rastede
- Assignee: Broetje-Automation GmbH
- Current Assignee: Broetje-Automation GmbH
- Current Assignee Address: DE Rastede
- Agency: Pauly, DeVries Smith & Deffner LLC
- Priority: DE102016011618 20160928
- International Application: PCT/EP2017/068305 WO 20170720
- International Announcement: WO2018/059776 WO 20180405
- Main IPC: B25J15/06
- IPC: B25J15/06 ; B65G47/91

Abstract:
The disclosure relates to an end effector arrangement having an end effector for a manipulator and having a control for the end effector, wherein the end effector has a tool arrangement having a plurality of gripper devices for holding a planar workpiece, wherein at least one gripper device has a Bernoulli gripper unit, which has a discharge unit for channeling a flow SB from the Bernoulli gripper unit between gripper device and workpiece in a manner such that, in a delimited region between gripper device and the workpiece, the flow SB generates a low pressure for holding the workpiece, and wherein at least one gripper device has a different gripper unit, which carries the workpiece according to a physical principle which differs from that of the Bernoulli gripper unit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200039092A1 END EFFECTOR ASSEMBLY Public/Granted day:2020-02-06
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