CABLE HANDLING APPARATUS FOR ARMS OF INDUSTRIAL ROBOT

摘要

An industrial robot having a construction wherein the robot includes a structural arm (18) disposed as a structural element on the side portion of a robot drum (12) of a robot machine and a cable handling arm (20) disposed in a double-arm structure. A cable bundle (58) is stored inside a cable storage element (50) of this cable handling arm (20), and the cable storage element (50) itself can be removed from the side portion of the robot drum (12) as a unit element. Power feed cables and transmission cables, that are removably mounted in a unitized structure to the robot machine body, are stored without being exposed to the outside. When breakage of the cables occurs, the disconnected cables can easily be removed from the robot machine body and repaired.