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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 1994
Filed:
Feb. 09, 1993
Tatsuya Rembutsu, Kawasaki, JP;
Tokico Ltd., , JP;
Abstract
A control method for use in industrial robots, and particularly an advantageous control method for use in industrial robots having attached thereto and using work tools (for example, a spray gun having a state in which paint is sprayed and a state in which paint is not sprayed) having a plurality of operational states is disclosed. That is, it is a control method for use in industrial robots which teaches the first data, which determine the path of the robot, and the second data, which determine the position of the switching of the operational state of the work tool attached to the robot in the path, and controls the operation of the work tool by means of the switching of the operational state of the work tool based on the second data during the operation, based on the first data, of the robot.