Device for spreading shapeable thin items and method for spreading shapeable thin items

Abstract

It is an object of the present invention to provide a deformable thin object spreading device capable of spreading a deformable thin object with a simple structure. In the deformable thin object spreading device of the present invention, a control part is configured to: control a clamping unit and a moving mechanism to cause the clamping unit to clamp a first point of a deformable thin object (S1); cause an end point detecting part to detect an end point (S3); control the clamping unit and the moving mechanism to cause the clamping unit to clamp the end point detected in S3 (a first end point) of the deformable thin object (S4); cause the end point detecting part to detect an end point (S6); control the clamping unit and the moving mechanism to cause the clamping unit to clamp both of "the first end point" and "the end point detected in S6 (a second end point) " of the deformable thin object (S7); cause the end point detecting part to detect an end point (S9); and control the clamping unit and the moving mechanism to cause the clamping unit to clamp both of "the first end point or the second end point" and "the end point detected in S9" of the deformable thin object (S10).

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a deformable thin object spreading device and a deformable thin object spreading method for spreading deformable thin objects such as clothes. Background technique [0002] In recent years, in the clothing industry, laundry industry, linen supply industry, welfare business, medical industry, etc., it is expected to develop a robot that can automatically handle fabrics, such as automatically conveying fabrics, accumulating fabrics, folding fabrics, etc. . [0003] However, in order to realize the fully automatic processing of the cloth, it is necessary to determine the automatic unfolding technology of the cloth. Furthermore, various proposals have been disclosed so far regarding the automatic unfolding technology of such cloth (for example, refer to Patent Document 1). [0004] The spreading device disclosed in Patent Document 1 includes: a first tong that holds the corner of the cloth; a cloth spreading tong that spr...

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Problems solved by technology

As described above, according to the spreading device disclosed in Patent Document 1, in order to spread the cloth, it is necessary to use a cloth spreading clamp with a suction function, and the structure of the spreading device becomes complicated.

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