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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 23, 1998
Yuji Murata, Takaoka, JP;
Isao Arai, Takaoka, JP;
Nobutaka Fukayama, Toyamaken, JP;
Kiyoshi Kanitani, Toyama, JP;
Nachi-Fujikoshi Corp., Toyama, JP;
Abstract
An industrial robot is provided which has a compact and of low height body operable within an operating range not exceed the height of the robot during operation, and yet is able to secure a wide operating range of the near front side of the robot. The robot has a fixed base, a rotary base mounted on the fixed base rotatably around a vertical swing axis, a first arm mounted on the rotary base rotatably around a horizontal first rotational axis, a second arm mounted on the first arm rotatably around a horizontal second rotational axis and a wrist mounted on the distal end of the second arm rotatably around a longitudinal axis thereof. The first arm is made operable to hang down in a position where the axis of the first arm is perpendicular to the installation surface of the robot and outwardly offset from the outer surface of the fixed base, the operating range of the first arm which interfere with the fixed base is made so small and the operating range of the front side of the robot is much enlarged.