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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2021
Applicant:
Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX (US);
Inventors:
Cody Eli Bressler, San Antonio, TX (US);
Cody Michael Porter, Helotes, TX (US);
Branson Patrick Brockschmidt, San Antonio, TX (US);
Assignee:
Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/12 (2006.01); B25J 19/00 (2006.01); B25J 9/10 (2006.01); B25J 13/08 (2006.01); B25J 9/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 19/0029 (2013.01); B25J 9/102 (2013.01); B25J 9/126 (2013.01); B25J 9/1633 (2013.01); B25J 9/1674 (2013.01); B25J 13/085 (2013.01);
Abstract
A dress pack manager for use with a robotic arm having an end-of-arm tool supplied with power or working fluid via a dress pack. A pair of rollers are spaced apart such that the dress pack may pass between them, and such that rotation of the rollers applies friction to the dress pack and causes the dress pack to move. An electric motor rotates one of the rollers in both a forward and backward rotation and is torque-controlled to maintain a constant tension applied to the dress pack by the rollers.