US 12,440,961 B2
Robot system and method for driving robot
Yuta Itozawa, Nagoya (JP); Hirotaka Komura, Tokyo-to (JP); Kunihiro Iwamoto, Nagakute (JP); and Yutaro Takagi, Tokyo-to (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Sep. 14, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/467,106.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-168791 (JP), filed on Oct. 21, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0131686 A1, Apr. 25, 2024
Prior Publication US 2024/0227165 A9, Jul. 11, 2024
Int. Cl. B25J 9/00 (2006.01); B25J 5/00 (2006.01); B25J 9/10 (2006.01); B25J 9/16 (2006.01)
CPC B25J 9/0048 (2013.01) [B25J 5/007 (2013.01); B25J 9/1005 (2013.01); B25J 9/106 (2013.01); B25J 9/162 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A robot system comprising a robot, the robot comprising:
a movable moving part;
an upper body part disposed above the moving part; and
a driving mechanism for tilting the upper body part and moving a lower end of the upper body part in a direction in which the upper body part is tilted, the driving mechanism being a spherical link mechanism for moving a support surface supporting the upper body part from below along a spherical surface, wherein:
the spherical link mechanism includes a pair of links,
a first link of the pair of links has (i) a first base end mounted for rotation about a first rotational center of the first base end and (ii) a tip end,
a second link of the pair of links has (i) a second base end mounted for rotation about a second rotational center of the second base end, the second base end being rotatably connected to the tip end of the first link,
the spherical link mechanism includes a support base including the support surface, the support base being rotatably connected to a connecting part connected to the second link, wherein
the connecting part is a speed reducer configured to lower a rotational speed of the support base relative to the second link of the pair of links to a half of a rotation speed of a third link of another pair of links relative to the second link.