Patent ID: 11878824
Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
Field: Handling (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. An electric wire bundling robot, comprising:
a robot arm that is installed in a work space in which a plurality of electric wires are arranged in parallel in a substantially horizontal plane;
a robot hand that is provided at a tip end of the robot arm and includes a gripping mechanism configured to bundle and grip any plurality of electric wires among the plurality of electric wires by being controlled to any position and posture; and
a control device that drives and controls the robot arm and the robot hand to cause the gripping mechanism to perform an operation of bundling and gripping the any plurality of electric wires,
wherein the gripping mechanism includes at least a pair of gripping claws that face each other in a horizontal direction intersecting with an extending direction of the electric wires and perform an opening and closing operation, and that bundle and grip the plurality of electric wires by a closing operation,
wherein at least one gripping claw of the pair of gripping claws facing each other has a lower claw portion directed obliquely downward and an upper claw portion directed obliquely upward providing a V-shaped recess as a space for taking in electric wires on a surface facing the gripping claw on the other side, the lower claw portion functioning as a scooping claw by moving obliquely upward from below, and
wherein before or during a bundling operation, the control device drives and controls at least any one of the robot arm and the robot hand to move the lower claw portion of the one gripping claw obliquely upward from below so as to scoop up electric wires to be bundled.