Design of a Capillary Gripper for a Submillimetric Application
| Autor: | Pierre Lambert, Jacques Jacot, Sandra Koelemeijer, Frank Seigneur |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
| Předmět: |
Bearing (mechanical)
business.industry Capillary action Mechanical engineering Structural engineering engineering.material law.invention Surface tension Coating submillimetric application law Microassembly surface tension engineering capillary forces SMT placement equipment Micro-Assemblage business Pressure.drive |
| Zdroj: | IFIP International Federation for Information Processing ISBN: 0387312765 IPAS |
| DOI: | 10.1007/0-387-31277-3_1 |
| Popis: | This paper describes the study of a gripper using the surface tension effects to pick and place the 0.5mm or 0.3mm diameter balls of a millimetric watch bearing. Two liquid supply strategies have been tested (pressure drive and tip dip). The effects of the coating (through the measurement of the contact angles), the presence of an internal channel and the size of the gripper have been studied. Analytical and numerical force models have been developped and validated thanks to a test bed allowing the measurement of the developped force (typically of the order of 100 µN) with a resolution of 1 µN. A complete pick and place cycle has been performed using the 0.5mm diameter gripper. Such a test has still to be done in the future with the 0.3mm diameter gripper. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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