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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 1988

Filed:

Mar. 21, 1986
Applicant:
Inventor:

Gregory A Phillips, Anderson, IN (US);

Assignee:

General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B66C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
414589 ; 414732 ; 901 16 ; 901 45 ;
Abstract

The present invention provides an apparatus and method of utilization thereof of a robot with a floating arm. The floating arm aspect of the robot allows the robot to align its associated tooling with the workpiece in situations where the workpiece may be in a variety at different locations. By use of the present invention the requirement for use of a vision system to accomplish alignment between the robot and the workpiece is eliminated.


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Phillips, Gregory. (1988). Robot with floating xy plane arm (U.S. Patent No. 4778329). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/4778329

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