Comau, Inc.

Stefano Bordegnoni

Francesco Ciniello

Giuseppe Colombina

Alberto Vizio

Gabriele Cingano

An automated device has a movable structure covered at least in part by a sensorised covering. The sensorised covering comprises a plurality of covering modules, which includes one or more sensorised covering modules. Each sensorised covering module includes a plurality of distinct layers stacked on top of one another and including a load-bearing layer and at least one cushioning layer. Each sensorised covering module integrates at least one contact sensor device (C), which includes a first lower electrically conductive layer () and a second upper electrically conductive layer (), set between which is an electrically insulating layer ().

Automated device with a sensorized covered movable structure, in particular a robot

A portable safety control device for use with a portable electronic device to communicate with an industrial machine. The control device includes a body having gripping portion for engagement by a human hand and a supporting portion for engagement with the portable electronic device. In one example, separate enabling and emergency stop switches are positioned on the body proximate the gripping portion within reach of the hand engaged with the gripping portion, and is configured for ease of use by left or right-handed users. The supporting portion is configured and oriented to rest on the forearm of an operator. A control circuit is used to communicate with both the portable electronic device and the industrial machine controller.

Portable safety control device for industrial machines in particular robots

Described herein is a multi-axial industrial robot, in particular of a SCARA type, where the base structure designed to enable installation of the robot on an external supporting structure, can be mounted according to two opposite orientations, where one orientation is upside down with respect to the other, while at the same time the operating head of the robot may instead maintain one and the same orientation.

Multi-axial industrial robot

Described herein is a multi-axis industrial robot, in particular of a SCARA type, wherein the arm bearing the operating unit comprises a base body and a covering body, which constitute a hermetically closed housing that contains the actuation assembly of said unit. The robot is characterized in that the arm further comprises an internal intermediate body via which the covering body can be fixed to the base body without any need to envisage direct fixing between these two bodies.

Multi-axis industrial SCARA robot

Industrial robot

A sensorized covering, prearranged for covering at least part of a movable structure of an automated device. The sensorized covering is useful for sensing an actual impact or anticipating an imminent impact to the automated device. The sensorized covering includes one or more covering modules wherein each covering module may include contact sensors and/or proximity sensors, a loading bearing structure and/or controls. The individual sensorized modules may be independently connected or controlled, or connected together and collectively controlled. Examples of the automated device my include a movable robots or an automated guided vehicles (AGVs).

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Grugliasco, Italy

Stefano Bordegnoni