Robot Base Segmentation for Easier Component Maintenance
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Solution Overview
Problem
The configuration of robots with numerous components housed in a base leads to interference, making it difficult to attach and detach components.
Innovation Solution
The base is divided into multiple housings, with specific components attached to separate housings, allowing easy attachment and detachment while minimizing interference.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If all components (reducer, motor, control board, power supply board) are housed together in a single base, then the robot structure is compact, but the components interfere with each other making it difficult to attach and detach
Solution Approach 1:
The base is divided into multiple housings (first housing and second housing) that are coupled together. Different components are attached to different housings, allowing the base to be segmented for easier component attachment and detachment while maintaining a compact overall structure when assembled.
2Volume of stationary object
If all components are housed together in the base, then space utilization is maximized, but component interference occurs reducing maintainability
Solution Approach 1:
The base is segmented into multiple housings that can be separately accessed. This allows maintenance personnel to access and service specific components by working with individual housings rather than disassembling the entire base, improving maintainability while maintaining compact space utilization.
Solution Approach 2:
The housing structure can be removed or detached from the base, allowing components to be extracted for maintenance or replacement without affecting other components remaining in the base, thus facilitating easier repair operations.
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AI summary
A robot includes a base, a robot arm rotating relative to the base, a reducer coupling the base and the robot arm, a motor coupled to the reducer, a control board controlling driving of the motor, and a power supply board supplying electric power to the control board, in which the base includes a first housing to which at least one of the reducer, the motor, the control board, and the power supply board is attached, and a second housing to which at least one of the reducer, the motor, the control board, and the power supply board excluding the at least one attached to the first housing is attached.