APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING BOARD-LIKE WORK

摘要

An apparatus (10) for transferring a board-like work is provided with a multijoint robot (11), which has a series of movable arms (13) having multiple joints and a holding section (23) for holding and acquiring one surface of a board-like work (3) on the leading end of the series of movable arms (13).  The multijoint robot (11) holds a supply-side lower surface (3a) of the board-like work (3) supplied to an acquiring position (4), and places an upper surface (3b) opposite to the lower surface (3a) on a placing surface (26) at a placing position.  The acquiring position (4) and the placing position are arranged to face each other, and the multijoint robot (11) is arranged on a side of a facing space.  The multijoint robot (11) transfers the board-like work (3) from the acquiring position (4) to the placing position over the facing space by turning, bending and stretching operations of the series of movable arms (13).  A part of the transfer operation includes a reversing operation for placing the upper surface (3b) of the board-like work (3) on the placing surface (26).