Patent Issued for Workpiece Removing Device and Method

摘要

Supplementing the background information on this patent, VerticalNews reporters also obtained the inventors' summary information for this patent: "One aspect of the present invention provides a workpiece removing device comprising a camera for imaging a workpiece loading area including a plurality of workpieces loaded in bulk, a workpiece detection section for detecting a workpiece based on a camera image imaged with the camera, a workpiece selection section for selecting a workpiece adapted to be removed based on a detection result by the workpiece detection section, a robot for removing the workpiece selected by the workpiece selection section, a loading state determination section for determining whether a loading state of the workpiece in the workpiece loading area has changed due to a operation of the robot, and an area setting section for setting a workpiece detection area where the workpiece detection section detects a workpiece, wherein, if the loading state determination section determines that the loading state of the workpieces has changed, the area setting section sets the workpiece detection area in a portion of the workpiece loading area, the portion being a peripheral area of a changing position of the loading state.