Gripper point contacts for part alignment

Gripper point contacts for part alignment

— The initial resting pose of many industrial parts differs from the orientation desired for assembly. We show that it is possible to align parts during grasping using a standard parallel-jaw gripper. A solution is an arrangement of four gripper point contacts that will align the part in the vertical plane as the jaws close. Given a n-sided polygonal part and k uniformly distributed sample poin...

Aluminum break-point contacts

Curved Fences for Part Alignment

In automated packing or assembly it is often necessary to bring randomly oriented parts into uniform alignment. Mechanical methods such as vibratory bowl feeders are often used for this purpose, although there is no theory for the systematic design of such feeders. A slanted “fence” attached to the stationary sides of a conveyor belt is also capable of orienting a stream of parts and a sequence...

Imaging in Quantum Point Contacts

Alessandro Cresti , Giuseppe Grosso (2) and Giuseppe Pastori Parravicini (3) (1) NEST-INFM, Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, I-56126 Pisa, Italy, and Dipartimento di Fisica E. Fermi, Largo B. Pontecorvo 3, I-56127 Pisa, Italy [email protected] (2) NEST-INFM and Dipartimento di Fisica E. Fermi, Largo B. Pontecorvo 3, I-56127 Pisa, Italy (3) NEST-INFM and Dipartimento di Fisica ...

Sensing with Superconducting Point Contacts

Superconducting point contacts have been used for measuring magnetic polarizations, identifying magnetic impurities, electronic structures, and even the vibrational modes of small molecules. Due to intrinsically small energy scale in the subgap structures of the supercurrent determined by the size of the superconducting energy gap, superconductors provide ultrahigh sensitivities for high resolu...