Fanuc Corporation

Mitsuhiro Yasumura

Nobutoshi Torii

Ryo Nihei

Akihiro Terada

Shigemi Inagaki

Hikaru Yamashiro

Satoshi Kinoshita

Kenichiro Abe

Shinsuke Nakao

A molded component retrieving apparatus and a molding machine with the molded component retrieving apparatus include first and second units. The first unit includes a base, first to third arms and a first lift arm. The second unit includes fourth to sixth arms and a second lift arm. The second unit is removably mounted on the third arm through an intermediate base member. Rotary shafts of the arms are parallel. A holding unit to hold and retrieve the molded component or the runner is arranged at the forward end of the first and second lift arms. The third and sixth arms can be kept in position even when the drive sources are reduced in number and other arms are pivoted using a belt and a pulley.

Molded component retrieving apparatus and a molding machine having the molded component retrieving apparatus mounted thereon

An emergency stop switch mechanism for a robot which can take an emergency position when an external operation force is released and when a strong external operation force is applied. When the robot operation is started, a main lever La is pushed down from the OFF state with a normal external operation force. Since an elastic biasing force S,is sufficiently larger than S,a second ancillary lever Lc is pushed by a plunger PL and is turned downward together with a first ancillary lever Lb. A movable contact element ME of a contact mechanism section CM is moved to the ON position by the second ancillary lever Lc, so that the ON state (motion permitting state) is established. If emergency stop becomes necessary, the pressure of the main lever La is released from this state, or a specially strong force is applied to the main lever La. When the former is selected, the movable contact element ME is returned to the OFF position. When the latter is selected, a strong torque is applied to an axis AX,so that the first and second ancillary lever Lb and Lc become in a bent state. As a result, the OFF state is established, by which the robot is stopped.

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Minamitsuru-gun, Japan

Mitsuhiro Yasumura