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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 14, 2020
Fanuc America Corporation, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Andrzej Grzegorz Bania, Warren, MI (US);
Michael G. Beem, Lake Orion, MI (US);
James Bryon Gerds, II, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Marcin Gora, Shelby Township, MI (US);
Stan Henry McClosky, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
David Michael Moore, Chesterfield Township, MI (US);
Matthew Ray Sikowski, Clarkston, MI (US);
FANUC AMERICA CORPORATION, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Abstract
A robotic apparatus for painting a workpiece includes a redundant axis robot for use in a robotic painting system. The redundant axis of rotation provides the robot arm additional flexibility in avoiding obstacles and reaching an interior of the workpiece to apply paint thereto. The robotic apparatus could be a seven-axis robot arm or a five-axis parallel link panel opener robot arm for opening and/or closing the panel. The robot arms are mounted on at least one vertically oriented column adjacent a path of travel of the workpiece through a painting booth and the robot arms can be mounted on a common base.