Patent ID: 8991888
Filing Date: 2015-03-31
Classification: B25J,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A protective device for a gripping device on a handling robot, the gripping device having gripping parts in the form of gripping fingers, and the gripping parts being movable using a transmission mechanism, wherein the protective device comprises: at least one overload safety device which, in response to exceeding of a threshold force on the gripping device, causes evasion by the gripping device, wherein the overload safety device responds exclusively in response to forces which occur from a selected direction and which act upon the gripping parts outside a direction of forces required for gripping objects; wherein each of the gripping parts has an overload safety device, and each overload safety device is configured as a force-locking overload safety device; wherein the force-locking overload safety device includes at least one spring-loaded element which, in response to the responding of the overload safety device, at least indirectly causes an active motion of the associated gripping part in a direction of evasion.