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The upgraded CVGC carbon vacuum gripper has quite a lot of customizations, together with sizing, configurability, and compatibility. | Supply: Coval
Vacuum grippers are a well-liked possibility for producers and warehouse operators hoping to get probably the most payload capability out of their robots. These grippers can present between 4 and 10 occasions extra energy than their electromechanical counterparts, making them good at lifting heavy weights, stated Coval Inc. The supplier of vacuum automation expertise has launched its redesigned CVGC carbon vacuum gripper.
Coval it designed this upgraded gripper with suggestions from its clients, integrators, producers, and operators. The Raleigh, N.C.-based firm stated it additionally took into consideration present and future tendencies within the collaborative robotic market. These tendencies embody higher software range, progress within the variety of producers, elevated co-presence with operators, and dealing with of heavier hundreds.
The brand new CVGC presents a number of benefits, claimed Coval. First, because of its carbon design, the gripper is ultra-light and compact. It’s additionally suitable with a variety of cobots and has a variety of configuration potentialities, making it extremely versatile, stated the corporate, whose world headquarters are in France.
Coval presents two customary variations of its grippers: the M2 Model with a vacuum generator, and the CVGC GO Model with no vacuum generator. The M2 model is a plug-and-play system that Coval designed to adapt to all fashions of cobots. It integrates the required gripper capabilities below a protecting cowl for optimum use, the corporate famous.
The CVGC gripper is designed for versatile configurations. Supply: Coval
The GO Model can be utilized with an impartial vacuum generator, stated Coval. It’s outfitted with a VRU-series vacuum rotary union, which the corporate stated ensures vacuum provide to the gripper through an exterior supply. From these two variations, clients have completely different choices in terms of measurement and configurability.
Coval goals to supply most flexibility
On request, Coval stated its design workforce is offered to develop personalized vacuum grippers. The CVGC is offered in three sizes to fulfill buyer’s exact wants — 240 x 120 mm (9.45 x 4.72 in.), 320 x 160 mm (12.6 x 6.3 in.), 350 x 250 mm (13.78 x 9.84 in.).
The gripper is offered with a selection of three mounting choices and 6 connection cables. It additionally has comes with suction cups or foam gripping interfaces.
Coval constructed its foam Interface for the dealing with of inflexible merchandise and gripping textured or uneven surfaces. It has move management nozzles and two customary gap diameters, 12 mm (.47 in.) and rectangular 27 x 12 mm (1.06 x 0.47 in.).
The CVGC Suction Cup Interface can deal with versatile merchandise and comes with a variety of cup choices. It additionally presents flow-control nozzles in a number of diameters and has two forms of customary suction cups measuring 25 mm (0.98 in.) and 33 mm (1.3 in.).
Coval added that its upgraded CVGC vacuum gripper is geared toward a variety of industries, together with meals processing, packaging, plastics processing, and extra. The corporate stated it designed the gripper to be a flexible software for all producers, integrators, and customers of cobots for palletizing, gripping packing containers, plastic components, and all kinds of different purposes.
