Abstract: A hose clamp installation tool and a method for installing a hose assembly. A first rod engages the clamp and releases the clamp from an open position to a closed position. A sensor indicates release of the clamp.

Abstract: A hose clamp installation tool and a method for installing a hose assembly. The hose clamp installation tool includes a hook that engages a clamp. A first rod engages the clamp and releases the clamp from an open position to a closed position. A sensor indicates release of the clamp.

Abstract: An automotive vehicle body can be sanded with a robotic sanding (polishing) disk that is carried on a robotic head, such that the sanding disk has a relatively constant unit pressure on the vehicle surface as the head moves the sanding disk along the vehicle surface. An automatic supply mechanism can be employed to periodically remove a worn sanding disk from the head, and replace the worn sanding disk with a new sanding disk.

Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, machining chips (34) left in the slots (31) of an end face commutator (28) of a motor's rotor (20) are removed using a high-pressure water spray. The windings (26) of the rotor (20) are substantially shielded from water spray by the rotor (20) being located within a cavity (42) of a pallet carrying the rotor (20). Any water which gets on the windings (26) is dried by a brief application of heated forced air.

Abstract: A system including a specifically-shaped probe and a complementarily-shaped hole formed in a surface of a part to be picked up ensures proper alignment between an end effector which picks up the part and the part itself. The probe includes first, second, third and fourth mutually converging locating surfaces terminating at a rounded tip at a free end of the probe. The probe is preferably diamond-shaped in cross-section along its entire length and the hole, consequently, is also diamond-shaped. The hole is defined by an inner peripheral diamond-shaped surface configured to be immediately adjacent and substantially parallel to each of the locating surfaces only when the end effector is in a proper pick up position and orientation with respect to the part. Preferably, the end effector is a gripper wherein the probe is adapted to be secured between gripping jaws of the gripper. In the preferred embodiment, the part comprises dunnage.