Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho

Saburo Tsurutani

Shuzo Ito

Yoshiharu Nishida

Nobuyuki Nagai

Minoru Kitamura

Takefumi Horiuchi

Yoshio Kawate

Masahiko Ohgami

Akihira Nishikawa

Kenichi Tochimori

Toshio Inoue

According to the present invention there is provided a component assembling method capable of assembling a plurality of components in a successive manner, in which method faces of each component are contacted successively with two or more reference planes by using the known servo float function as a method for controlling each robot axis. The component assembling method uses a reference table 4 having at least two planes which are a first reference plane 5 and a second reference plane 6 different in the direction of normal line from each other, and a robot system for grasping and moving each component to a given position on the reference table 4. The method in question includes at least a first step of pushing the component as grasped by the robot system against the first reference plane 5, changing the posture of the robot system to let the component lie along the first reference plane 5, and storing or fixing the said change in posture of the robot system, and a second step, subsequent to the first step, of pushing the component as grasped by the robot system against the second reference plane 6, changing the posture of the robot system to let the component lie along the second reference plane 6, and storing or fixing the said change in posture of the robot system.

Method and equipment for assembling components

A probe for detecting wear of a refractory wall, including plural sheathed probe elements of different lengths each consisting of a pair of high melting point wires disposed in parallel and insulated from each other except at least the fore end portions of the wires which form a normally closed or normally open sensing point, a sheath enclosure accommodating the probe elements such that the sensing points of the respective probe elements are located at different positions along the length of the sheath enclosure and holding the probe elements in parallel relation and out of contact with each other, and a number of dummy elements formed of a material similar to the probe elements and connected to the fore ends thereof in a manner to complement the lengths of the shorter of the probe elements. There is also disclosed a detection circuit for monitoring wear of a refractory wall in a molten metal processing apparatus in a simple and accurate manner by the use of the probe.

Probe and a system for detecting wear of refractory wall

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Kobe, Japan

Saburo Tsurutani