Mercedes-benz Aktiengesellschaft

Thyssen Laser-technik Gmbh

Reis Gmbh & Co. Kg Maschinenfabrik

Reis Gmbh & Co., Maschinenfabrik

Kuka Industries Gmbh

Axel Fischer

Eberhard Kroth

Wolfgang Zesch

Adolf Kremer

Reinhard Steinkaemper

Friedrich Behr

Franz Som

Günter Neumann

Rolf P Maisch

Tilo Schumann

Stefan Seiler

In a method for robot-controlled cutting of workpieces to be joined by laser radiation, a first workpiece is arranged in vicinity of a second workpiece in a first position. A laser is focused onto the first workpiece. A contour of the first workpiece is cut with the laser beam; this contour is to be assembled and joined with the second workpiece. During cutting, a first spacing of a focal point of the laser beam from the second workpiece is repeatedly determined in a distance direction that is identically oriented during cutting and is adjusted to a direction of assembling the first and second workpieces. During cutting, a second spacing of a processing point of the laser beam from the second workpiece is maintained at a constant value.

Method and device for the robot-controlled cutting of workpieces to be assembled by means of laser radiation

A buckling arm robot for machining workpieces with laser radiation has at least a first axis, a second axis, a third axis, a fourth axis, and a fifth axis. A laser device is arranged in the second axis and configured to emit a laser beam. The laser beam emitted by the laser device is guided within the third, fourth, and fifth axes before striking a workpiece to be machined.

Buckling arm robot

A filling system for robot-capable filling of a vehicle with fuel has a filler nozzle and a tank filler neck on which a docking extension provided with a central opening is mounted on the filling side. The extension is rotatable by an upper section around the axis of symmetry for opening and closing a tank closure. The filler nozzle is dockable by its end on an outlet side, forming a positive connection between the filler nozzle and the docking extension, with positive elements in the form of teeth distributed around its circumference. The teeth have a hub section and interlock with one another positively when the filler nozzle is ready for filling. In order to achieve functionally reliable docking of the filler nozzle on the filler neck of the vehicle fuel tank and to permit rapid undocking of the filler nozzle from the filler extension, a locking body, urged radially outward by a pretensioning spring, is provided on the outlet side of the filler nozzle. The locking body is guidable relative to an upwardly adjacent positive element of the filler nozzle along a guide path that runs in the circumferential direction, and is inserted completely into the filler nozzle by rotating the filler nozzle at one end of the guide path. The body also projects radially out of the filler nozzle at the other end in such fashion that its bevelled surface abuts underneath the matching positive element of the docking extension beneath which it grips.

Filling system for robot-capable filling of a vehicle with fuel

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Obernburg, Germany

Axel Fischer