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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2009
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2005
Jambunathan Vangal-ramamurthy, San Jose, CA (US);
Walter W. Butler, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Jambunathan Vangal-Ramamurthy, San Jose, CA (US);
Walter W. Butler, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Lake Forest, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of driving screws may include steps of providing a robotically controlled screw driver, a servo motor assembly for moving the screw driver, at least one controller for controlling the screw driver and the servo motor assembly, and a machine vision assembly coupled to the controller. The screw may be coupled to the screw driver, and the screw may be aligned with a threaded hole using the machine vision assembly and the controller to control the servo motor assembly, such that the screw is aligned with a center of the threaded hole. The aligned screw may then be driven into the threaded hole.