公开(公告)号：US20190321982A1

公开(公告)日：2019-10-24

申请号：US16157500

申请日：2018-10-11

申请人： Toyota Research Institute, Inc.

发明人： Erik C. Sobel ,  Calder Phillips-Grafflin ,  Aimee Goncalves ,  Guy Danner ,  Ira Spool ,  Jonathan Kalow ,  Nicholas Brennan ,  Seth Newburg ,  Joseph Fenton

IPC分类号： B25J9/16 ,  B23P19/08 ,  B25J15/06

摘要： A robotic grommet installer includes a robotic arm and an installation unit. The installation unit includes a rotary grommet holder rotatively coupled to the robotic arm and an installer coupled to the robotic arm. The rotary grommet holder includes a plurality of grommet chambers spaced circumferentially about a rotational axis of the rotary grommet holder. Each grommet chamber of the plurality of grommet chambers is configured to hold a plurality of grommets. The installer is configured to retrieve a grommet from the rotary grommet holder, wherein the rotary grommet holder is configured to rotate to align the installer with an available grommet positioned within one of the plurality of grommet chambers.