Patent ID: 8061748
Filing Date: 2011-11-22
Classification: B25B,B25J,B62D

Abstract:
1. Handling system for components having a similar shape, that are congruent in several places but have a different height relative to each other, the system comprising: an arm of a robot; and a gripper on the arm of the robot, wherein the gripper is equipped with several clamp devices having contour pieces adapted to the components, with which the respective component can be gripped on areas, which are spatially staggered to one another, wherein each clamp device comprises two gripper chucks, each with gripper jaws that can be pivoted from a parking position into a grab position, wherein the parking position is a position in which one of the gripper chucks is outside of a grab movement of the other of the gripper chucks, wherein when the gripper jaws of the one of the gripper chucks are held in the parking position the gripper jaws of the other of the gripper chucks are pivoted into the grab position and when the gripper jaws of the other of the gripper chucks are held in the parking position the gripper jaws of the one of the gripper chucks are pivoted into the grab position, and wherein the gripper jaws are coupled to a common displacement drive.