Patent ID: 8238053
Filing Date: 2012-08-07
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A robot hand comprising: a drive source; a baseboard; a housing that is capable of advancing and retreating on the baseboard by means of the drive source; a pair of hands that are provided to grasp an object and held by the housing; an operation body that is provided to be capable of being pushed by the object and is held by the housing; and a close mechanism that changes a state of the hands from a non-grasping state where the hands release the object into a grasping state where the hands grasp the object, in response to pushing of the operation body, and that is held by the housing, wherein the close mechanism comprises: wherein the operation portion is pushed by the object to push the restriction portion from the restricted position to the released position, and wherein the close mechanism comprises a transmission body that transmits a movement of the operation body to the restriction portion or escapes the movement of the operation body without transmitting the movement of the operation body to the restriction portion, in response to a positional relationship between the operation body and the transmission body.