US 12,440,932 B2
Device for automatically producing screw connections
Ingo Engler, Soest (DE); Miguel Lebrato-Rastrojo, Paderborn (DE); Thomas Albert Roebbecke, Erwitte (DE); Frank Jagow, Erwitte/ Bad Westernkotten (DE); and Dirk Rokossa, Unna (DE)
Assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA, Lippstadt (DE)
Filed by HELLA GmbH & Co. KGaA, Lippstadt (DE)
Filed on Apr. 18, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/136,122.
Application 18/136,122 is a continuation of application No. PCT/EP2021/076205, filed on Sep. 23, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 127 488.2 (DE), filed on Oct. 19, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0356371 A1, Nov. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. B23P 19/06 (2006.01); B25B 23/04 (2006.01); B25B 23/08 (2006.01); B25J 11/00 (2006.01); B25J 15/00 (2006.01)
CPC B23P 19/06 (2013.01) [B25B 23/04 (2013.01); B25J 11/005 (2013.01); B25J 15/0019 (2013.01); B25B 23/08 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device to automatically produce screw connections, the device comprising:
an articulated arm robot;
a screwing unit adapted to be rotated about an effector axis by an output element of an end element of the articulated arm robot, the screwing unit having a housing, wherein a screwing tool is movably received in the housing along the effector axis between a feed position and at least one screwing position; and
a mouthpiece for providing a screw is arranged on the housing.