US 11,753,265 B2
Stamping strip reel replacing system
Yingcong Deng, Shanghai (CN); Dandan Zhang, Shanghai (CN); Lvhai Hu, Shanghai (CN); Fengchun Xie, Shanghai (CN); Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Bellevue, WA (US); Josef Sinder, Woert (DE); Zongjie Tao, Shanghai (CN); Xiaochen Yu, Shanghai (CN); Swapnilsinh Solanki, Middletown, PA (US); Jiankun Zhou, Middletown, PA (US); and Tim Darr, Middletown, PA (US)
Assigned to TE Connectivity Germany GmbH, Bensheim (DE); Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Shanghai (CN); and TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, Schaffhausen (CH)
Filed by Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., Shanghai (CN); TE Connectivity Services GmbH, Schaffhausen (CH); and TE Connectivity Germany GmbH, Bensheim (DE)
Filed on May 14, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/320,403.
Claims priority of application No. 202010407385.9 (CN), filed on May 14, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0354945 A1, Nov. 18, 2021
Int. Cl. B65H 18/10 (2006.01); B65H 19/30 (2006.01); B65H 19/26 (2006.01); B21D 43/00 (2006.01); B21D 22/02 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 19/305 (2013.01) [B65H 18/10 (2013.01); B65H 19/26 (2013.01); B21D 22/02 (2013.01); B21D 43/006 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A stamping strip reel replacing system adapted to replace a reel for winding a stamping strip, comprising:
an autonomous mobile robot for autonomously moving to a position where a reel driving shaft for mounting the reel is located, and including a grabbing tool adapted to grab the reel; and
an automatic guide vehicle moving together with the autonomous mobile robot and carrying an empty reel wound with no stamping strip, the autonomous mobile robot unloading a full reel wound with the stamping strip from the reel driving shaft and placing the unloaded full reel onto the automatic guide vehicle by operating the grabbing tool, the autonomous mobile robot further grabbing the empty reel with the grabbing tool from the automatic guide vehicle and mounting the empty reel onto the reel driving shaft.