Fanuc Corporation

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Ryouji Kitamura

Mitsuru Sayama

Keisuke Tsuta

Ichiro Fujimoto

Masato Sato

Mami Anzai

A workpiece rotating apparatus including a first rotary positioner and a second rotary positioner which are arranged to face each other in a direction along a substantially horizontal rotation axis, which hold, respectively, one end portion and the other end portion of a long workpiece, and which can rotate the workpiece around the rotation axis, a linear motor which linearly moves the second rotary positioner in a direction along the rotation axis, and a motor controller which controls the linear motor to adjust a position of the second rotary positioner in a direction along the rotation axis, and the motor controller controls the linear motor so that magnitude of force acting on the linear motor from the other end portion of the workpiece via the second rotary positioner becomes equal to or smaller than a predetermined threshold.

Workpiece rotating appartus and robot system

A press apparatus including: a frame including a support surface, the support surface allowing a lower die support for supporting a lower die to rest on the support surface in close contact therewith; a press shaft configured to support an upper die facing the lower die from vertically above the lower die and to vertically move the upper die relative to the frame in a state where the lower die support rests on the support surface; a chip discharge mechanism configured to rotate the lower die support around a horizontal axis; a force detection unit configured to detect a pressing force of the lower die support against the support surface; and a control unit configured to control the chip discharge mechanism so that the pressing force detected by the force detection unit is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold.

Press apparatus

Provided is a tool switching/holding device including: a base; a Y-axis slide base; a Y-axis actuator that moves the Y-axis slide base in a Y-axis direction; X-axis slide bases that are provided on the Y-axis slide base; tool mounting members that are provided on the X-axis slide bases and on which a tool is mounted; an X-axis actuator that selectively holds one of the tool mounting members and that moves the held tool mounting member in the X-axis direction; and retreating/locking sections that cause the tool mounting member other than the tool mounting member that is selectively held by the X-axis actuator to retreat to a position away from the X-axis actuator in the Y-axis direction or the X-axis direction and that lock the retreating tool mounting member.

Tool switching/holding device and robot system

A press machine includes a frame, a press shaft, a lower mold support rotatably attached to the frame about a first axis line and configured to support a lower mold, a lower mold support rotating device configured to rotate the lower mold support about the first axis line, a scrap shooter configured to receive a scrap falling from the lower mold, and a link member one end part of which is rotatably coupled to the lower mold support about a second axis line, Wherein the scrap shooter has one end side rotatably coupled to the other end part of the link member about a third axis line, and has the other end side rotatably supported by the frame or another support member about a fourth axis line.

Press machine

The friction stir welding apparatus includes a pin () on which a soft nitrided layer () is formed. The soft nitrided layer () is formed of an iron lithium oxide layer () and a nitrided diffusion layer (). The atom of the iron lithium oxide layer () penetrates into a space between atoms at the surface of the pin () to form the nitrided diffusion layer ().

Friction stir welding apparatus

An article supply device includes a storage unit in which a plurality of articles are stored, a supply path, a partition/passing-through member that forms a predetermined gap between a surface of the supply path and the partition/passing-through member, a driving unit that allows the supply path and the partition/passing-through member to relatively move each other, and a gas injection unit that injects gas to the articles on the supply path in at least one of the upstream and the downstream of the partition/passing-through member.

Article supply device for individually supplying articles

An article supply device includes a plurality of storage units in which a plurality of types of articles are respectively stored, a plurality of supply paths, a plurality of open/close stoppers that control the supply amounts of articles for each supply path, a plurality of partition/passing-through members that form gaps depending on the types of the articles, between the surfaces of the supply paths and the plurality of partition/passing-through members, and a driving unit that allows the supply paths and the partition/passing-through members to relatively move each other.

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Yamanashi, Japan

Ryouji Kitamura