Patent ID: 6412622
Filing Date: 2002-07-02
Classification: B23Q,H05K

Abstract:
An apparatus for the automated processing of workpieces, said apparatus comprising two manipulation means which are operated independently of one another, each manipulation means having a movable gripper for holding a workpiece, said apparatus having a workstation disposed between an input station and an output station, said gripper being displaceable for processing positioning of the workpiece at the workstation, each of the grippers having a displacement range overlapping at the workstation with the displacement range of one gripper extending from the workstation to the input station and the range of the other gripper extending from the workstation to the output station, said grippers temporarily gripping a workpiece at the workstation and moving the piece in displacement steps at the workstation so that a workpiece can be transferred from the one gripper to the other gripper at the workstation.