Patent ID: 6791291
Filing Date: 2004-09-14
Classification: B25J,G05B

Abstract:
An industrial robot, comprising:a plurality of arms coupled by a plurality of revolvable joints; motors provided on respective ones of the arms, each of said arms being movable in response to a driving force imparted by respective one of the motors to each of the revolvable joints; control circuits for controlling the motors each being provided on a same arm of said plurality of arms as a corresponding one of the motors to be controlled thereby; a main control circuit for controlling whole of the industrial robot; control signal cables respectively connected between the main control circuit and the control circuits and for transmitting control signals used for controlling the motors; electric power cables respectively connected between the main control circuit and the control circuits and for supplying electric powers used for driving the motors; signal cables for transmitting signals corresponding to motions of respective of the arms owing to the driving forces of the motors to the control circuits, each of the signal cables being terminated in each of the arms.