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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 1996
Filed:
Feb. 20, 1996
Fanuc Ltd, Yamanashi, JP;
Abstract
A weld-position detector, attached to an automatic welding machine such as a welding robot, having three independently produced indispensable units, i.e., a laser-beam projecting unit for projecting a detection laser-beam, a scanning unit for directing the detection laser-beam towards weld portions of a workpiece and scanning the detection laser-beam across the welded portions, and a light-receiving unit for detecting the detection laser-beam reflected by the workpiece to thereby detect the position of the weld portions. The weld-position detector further having a fixture provided with reference faces on which the three independent units are accurately mounted. The scanning means having a movable reflecting mirror is provided with an optical axis adjusting unit for adjusting the position and the posture of the scanning unit so as to adjust the optical axis of the detection laser-beam until the optical axis of the detection laser-beam, after being reflected from the workpiece, arrives at the light-receiving unit.