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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2018
Omron Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Yosuke Iwai, Kusatsu, JP;
Masahiro Murai, Kusatsu, JP;
OMRON Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
A pair of claws and included in a gripper of a robot have specific shapes and for bending or flexing a specific part of a workpiece in a thickness direction when approaching each other to clamp the workpiece. The pair of claws and are made to approach each other and clamp the workpiece in a state where the specific part is protruded to the outside while making the workpiece and also the specific part undergo an elastic deformation so as to bend or flex in the thickness direction within a range of a transverse-direction dimension of the slot. The specific part of the workpiece is inserted into the slot along an insertion direction perpendicular to a tip end surface by a compliance control based on an output of a force sensor.