Patent ID: 6484612
Filing Date: 2002-11-26
Classification: B25J,Y10T

Abstract:
A robot hand tool mounting device comprising a tool adaptor to which a robot hand tool is mounted and a mounting unit which is mounted to a robot hand and to which said tool adaptor is detachably connected,wherein said tool adaptor has a plurality of connecting members for locking connecting jaw members provided to said mounting unit, said mounting unit has a rod that expands and contracts by operation of air pressure, said plurality of connecting jaws disposed at regular angles about an axis of said rod and displaced in radial directions, a converting mechanism for converting at least one of an expanding operation and a contracting operation of said rod to operations of displacement of said jaw members, and connecting locked portions formed at outer end portions of said respective jaw members, and each said locked portion has an inclined face which is inclined downward as it extends outward and which performs a function of being engaged with said connecting member to draw said tool adaptor wedgewise and a stopper portion connected to said inclined face for preventing falling of said connecting member from said locked portion.