Products/Services for Robot Pressure Pad Grippers
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Grippers - (312 companies)Grippers activate jaws or fingers to pick up, hold, or move work pieces in an automated or robotic system. The gripping elements can be angular or fingers that pivot about base points or jaws that slide parallel or in the same plane... -
Pressure Sensors - (1185 companies)Pressure sensors include all sensors, transducers and elements that produce an electrical signal proportional to pressure or changes in pressure. The device reads the changes in pressure, and then relays this data to recorders, controllers... -
Tactile Pressure Sensors - (16 companies)Tactile pressure sensors are used to detect the pressure distribution between a sensor and a target. They are often used as robot grippers or flat tactile arrays. Flexible sensors can be molded to curved surfaces such as the human body. Solid-state... -
Washers - (1242 companies)Washers are disks of metal or non-metallic material placed beneath a nut, an axle bearing, or a joint, to relieve friction, prevent leakage, isolate, prevent loosening, or distribute pressure. Washers are disks of metal or non-metallic material... -
Robots - (1069 companies)Robots are programmable manipulators that contain rotary and/or prismatic joints in order to perform precise, repetitive movements. They are designed to move parts, tools, materials, and devices through variable, programmed motions. Types... -
Gripper Products - (31 companies)...or surface-mounted for use as a rest pad. When installed in a hole, round grippers should project 50 - 100% of the serration height for maximum effectiveness. For blind-hole installation, round grippers also come in counterbored configurations. Square...
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Hand Clamps - (416 companies)...to weld an assembly in a frame. A vise grip is used to hold the work or job for assembly, forming, welding, machining, and inspection. An adjustable band is a band that can be adjusted to hold hardware of various shapes and sizes. Thus hand clamps which...
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Machining Clamps - (314 companies)Machining clamps are used for machine setup and tool or part fixturing. Types include cam, cylinder, hook or swing, pull, push, retracting, rocker, side or edge, and toe clamps. Clamp straps and clamp strap assemblies are also commonly available.
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Back-up Pads - (60 companies)...allowing for the fine sanding of straight edge corners, contours, and small imperfections. Palm sander back-up pads: Such pads feature finger indentations for ergonomic reasons. They convert H &L and PSA (pressure sensitive adhesives) discs into palm...
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Abrasive Pads - (137 companies)...and alumina-zirconia abrasive grain. Both synthetic diamond and CBN are superabrasives that are produced in a high temperature, high-pressure process anvil press. When selecting abrasives pads, grain or grit size is also important to consider. Typically, grit sizes...
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Fairlane Products, Inc.
Gripper Pads for Automation & Handling GP-Series Gripper Pads. Grippers pads from Fairlane Products (R) are ideal for industrial grade contact wear points in automation and positioning applications. Black nitrile rubber is molded to a malleable aluminum backing that can be formed to round or sharp corners. Highly customizable and easily replaceable for a wide variety of uses. Standard sizes available off-the-shelf for designers and end users to make final size and mounting preparation, or custom sizes made to order. Fairlane... (read more)Browse Gripper Products Datasheets for Fairlane Products, Inc. -
Fairlane Products, Inc.
Gripper Pads for automation & positioning apps GP-SERIES GRIPPER PADS. Grippers pads from Fairlane Products (R) are ideal for industrial grade contact wear points in automation and positioning applications. Black nitrile rubber is molded to a malleable aluminum backing that can be formed to round or sharp corners. Highly customizable and easily replaceable for a wide variety of uses. Standard sizes available off-the-shelf for designers and end users to make final size and mounting preparation, or custom sizes made to order. Fairlane... (read more)Browse Gripper Products Datasheets for Fairlane Products, Inc. -
Fairlane Products, Inc.
Designing custom robot gripper fingers CNC Robot Gripper Fingers - Streamlining Manufacturing. The process of designing, manufacturing and integrating robot gripper finger tooling can be very time consuming and taxing on a company 's resources. One of the main areas of focus for GripShape is providing a streamlined approach to all aspects of this process including the CNC robot gripper fingers manufacturing. When we first started evaluating whether or not to produce the gripper fingers in-house vs. outsourcing the manufacturing... (read more)Browse Gripper Products Datasheets for Fairlane Products, Inc. -
Compact Automation
Highly Engineered Magnetic Grippers The COMPACT (R) magnetic gripper is great for picking up ferromagnetic materials such as iron or steel in applications where other types of grippers and vacuum cups are currently being utilized. Our four new models with grip forces from 20 to 130 lbs. are now available. The new magnetic grippers from Compact (R) provide safe operation since the gripper will continue to hold the workpiece even with the loss of pneumatic pressure. Ideal for pick-and-place type systems or applications... (read more)Browse Grippers Datasheets for Compact Automation -
Compact Automation
Gripper Products for Diverse Applications COMPACT (R) Grippers are designed for use in industrial applications such as robotics, automated assembly and manipulator/tooling. All units feature self-contained, double-acting COMPACT (R) actuators. All models feature low unit weight, high output and compact size. (read more)Browse Grippers Datasheets for Compact Automation -
Jergens, Inc.
Jergens Introduces NEW MT-S Gripper! Jergens Introduces NEW MT-S Gripper!. Automatic Workpiece Change: Seamlessly switches workpieces from the tool magazine to the clamping device. Pneumatic Actuation: Operates using compressed air routed through the machine spindle. Adjustable Gripping Force: Easily tailored to your specific workpiece requirements with a pressure control valve. Versatile Gripper Inserts: Effortlessly handle various workpiece geometries. Unmanned Shifts: Maximize machine utilization and flexibility with automated... (read more)Browse Grippers Datasheets for Jergens, Inc. -
Jergens, Inc.
NEW MT-S Gripper! Jergens Introduces NEW MT-S Gripper!. Automatic Workpiece Change: Seamlessly switches workpieces from the tool magazine to the clamping device. Pneumatic Actuation: Operates using compressed air routed through the machine spindle. Adjustable Gripping Force: Easily tailored to your specific workpiece requirements with a pressure control valve. Versatile Gripper Inserts: Effortlessly handle various workpiece geometries. Unmanned Shifts: Maximize machine utilization and flexibility with automated... (read more)Browse Grippers Datasheets for Jergens, Inc. -
Fairlane Products, Inc.
Replaceable rest pads for contact and positioning Replaceable rest pads are ideal for contact, position, and wear points on jigs and fixtures. Rest pads can provide a great deal of flexibility in any set up. Mounting styles include tapped, counter-bored, and bonded. Steel pads - Made from 8620 steel, carburized and hardened to Rc 58/60. Stainless Pads - High strength and protection against corrosion. Delrin Pads - Non-marring and non-absorbing. Carbide Pads - Solid carbide for high wear resistance (read more)Browse Gripper Products Datasheets for Fairlane Products, Inc. -
Fairlane Products, Inc.
Workholding grippers with superior holding power. and position irregular and contoured surfaces. GRIPPERS Grip and penetrate the work piece to provide superior holding power. Used in jigs, fixtures, and chuck jaws, these grippers. THREADED SWIVOTS Body is threaded for mounting. Self-aligning components designed to hold and position irregular and contoured surfaces. HEADED THRUST SCREWS Free floating ball design allows the thrust screw to continue to rotate while the ball remains stationary against the contact surface. GP-SERIES GRIPPER PADS Ideal... (read more)Browse Gripper Products Datasheets for Fairlane Products, Inc. -
Fairlane Products, Inc.
Faster feeds with Fairlane grippers & positioners Achieve faster speeds, faster feeds with Fairlane grippers and positioners. Fairlane Products manufactures a wide variety of workholding and positioning components designed to achieve higher productivity. Their modular and economical replaceable wear surfaces extend the life of expensive jigs, fixtures, chuck jaws and clamping mechanisms. Penetrate and grip with a full range of replaceable grippers, rest pads, Swivots and more. Fairlane Products, Inc. We design, manufacture and stock a wide... (read more)Browse Rest Buttons and Rest Pads Datasheets for Fairlane Products, Inc.
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International Encyclopedia of Robotics: Applications and Automation Volume 3 Complete Document
Pressure distribution across the surface of a gripper finger enables the robot to decide if the part has been grasped firmly enough or to decide the part orientation. Typically, a pressure distribution sensor is composed of a pad with an x-y array of pressure …
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http://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/ETD-UT-2010-08-1734/O%27NEIL-THESIS.pdf?sequence=1
This can be accomplished on robots equipped with joint torque transducers or a six-axis force/torque sensor … Tactile sensing at the fingertips can be accomplished by means of pressure -sensitive pads installed on the contact surfaces of grippers .
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An Integrated Smart Tactile Sensor For 2-Axis Robot Grippers
However, this is a problem that is common to all tactile sensors and the use of larger pad areas would require greater gripper forces so as to exceed the minimum pressure for an acceptable image. SPIE Vol. 848 Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision: Sixth in a Series (1987) / 167 .
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Improved Traction for a Mobile Robot Traveling on the Heart
For this reason, it is critical that the gripper pads be designed to maximize traction when vacuum pressure is applied to the tissue. Although there has been research into the traction of mobile robots in the human body by Rentschler …
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Integrated gripper and cutter in a mobile robotic system for harvesting greenhouse products
This end-effector was composed of a two-finger gripper , a vacuum suction pad , peduncle cutting laser knife, and other sensors such as vacuum pressure , distance, proximity and force sensors. Van Henten et. al. [12] designed a cucumber harvesting robot in 2002, which was made up of …
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Get a Grainy Grip » American Scientist
The part of our gripper that was really new was using the jamming transition as a way of pinching and holding … … fingers around something, that we could use only the soft, granular material with just some confining pressure to do that work … The team is exploring the idea of creating jamming-based pads on the fingers of existing robot grippers in order to expand their versatility.
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Non-Destructive Assessment of Mango Firmness and Ripeness Using a Robotic Gripper
After a stabilization period of time, a negative pressure changes the pad state from soft to hard and the vacuum of the suction cup starts. The hard state was used during robot displacements and impacts for sensing the mangoes. Robot moves up the gripper and mango fruit and starts a cycle loop of five quick opening …
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A Multi-Sensory End-Effector for Spherical Fruit Harvesting Robot
It performs fruit singulation with a vacuum suction pad device, fruit gripping and peduncle locating with a two-finger (an upper finger and a lower finger) gripper and peduncle cutting with a laser cutting device. … harvesting object and environment, different types of sensors are configured, including a vacuum pressure sensor, distance sensors … … open, flexible, universal and lighter to be more suitable for a mobile harvesting robot and end-effector.
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http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/78163/829681457-MIT.pdf?sequence=2
In order to increase friction without increasing the clamping pressure, the design engineer can add rubber pads to the part grippers which have a coefficient of friction of 0.90 - thus providing more friction force from the same clamping pressure . There are a number of different ways parts are commonly presented for manipulation by a robot .
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Vision Guided Intelligent Robot Design And Experiments
In the application the imaging system was designed to locate and guide the robot in placing columns … Tactile sensors use a small array of pressure sensors located in a pad -like structure which can be attached to the fingers of the gripper or end- effectors.
