Cable Track Layout for Robot Rail Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional robot traveling systems lack sufficient space for maintenance and access to machines installed along the rail, making it difficult for users to physically access these machines for maintenance and other work.
Innovation Solution
A robot traveling system with a rail, movable carriage, and a cable track that is laid along the lower side of the rail, incorporating a servo motor-powered drive mechanism and a timing belt system to move the carriage and robot, ensuring the cable track's width does not exceed the rail and carriage dimensions, allowing for reduced space occupation and easy access to machines.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the cable track is laid at the bottom side of the carriage, then the cable is protected and organized, but the space for accessing machines installed along the rail is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The cable track is moved from a horizontal arrangement to a vertical arrangement along the lower side of the rail. This dimensional change allows the cable track to occupy vertical space rather than horizontal space, thereby protecting cables while maintaining horizontal accessibility for machine maintenance.
2Area of stationary object
If the cable track width is reduced to match the rail width, then space occupation is minimized, but cable housing capacity is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The cable track utilizes the vertical dimension by running along the lower side of the rail, allowing it to provide adequate cable housing capacity without increasing the horizontal width beyond the rail width, thus minimizing space occupation while maintaining cable protection.
3Adaptability or versatility
If machines are installed along the rail, then the system functionality is enhanced, but the space for maintenance access is further reduced
Solution Approach 1:
By positioning the cable track vertically along the lower side of the rail, the invention frees up horizontal space that would otherwise be occupied by the cable track, thereby maintaining adequate access space for machine maintenance even when machines are installed along the rail.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This configuration allows for improved access and maintenance efficiency of machines installed alongside the rail by reducing the overall width occupied by the rail assembly and cable track, enhancing work efficiency during maintenance and operation.
Implementation Method 1
a timing belt which is connected to an output shaft of the servo motor
Data Source
AI summary
A robot traveling system, which enables sufficient space to be secured by a machine that is installed along a rail. The robot traveling system is provided with a rail, a carriage which can move along the rail and which supports a robot, a drive mechanism which drives the carriage, and a cable track which houses a cable which has a connecting end which is connected to the robot and is laid at the bottom side of the rail along that rail.