Patents by Inventor WEI-DER CHUNG

WEI-DER CHUNG has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10328581
    Abstract: A device for robotic direct lead-through teaching includes a robot, a replacing member and a lead-through teaching member. The robot has an operation member coupled with the replacing member. The lead-through teaching member mounted replaceably at the replacing member has a force sensor. The force sensor has six-axis load information. A path teaching is executed manually upon the operation member of the robot so as to store coordinate information. In additional, a method for robotic direct lead-through teaching is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Wei-Der Chung, Chun-Chieh Wang, Ping-Cheng Hsieh, Xiao Hu
  • Publication number: 20170312917
    Abstract: A device for robotic direct lead-through teaching includes a robot, a replacing member and a lead-through teaching member. The robot has an operation member coupled with the replacing member. The lead-through teaching member mounted replaceably at the replacing member has a force sensor. The force sensor has six-axis load information. A path teaching is executed manually upon the operation member of the robot so as to store coordinate information. In additional, a method for robotic direct lead-through teaching is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventors: WEI-DER CHUNG, CHUN-CHIEH WANG, PING-CHENG HSIEH, XIAO HU
  • Patent number: 9073208
    Abstract: A gripper apparatus and its control method are provided. The gripper apparatus includes at least one gripper unit, and each gripper unit is configured with a first connecting rod and a second connecting rod. In addition, there is an elastic part disposed at the joint of the first and the second connecting rods, an encoder and a controller. Thereby, the controller is enabled to control the gripper apparatus to move toward an object in a first mode so as to enable the gripper unit to engage the object and thus exert a force upon the object. Consequently, the elastic part is deformed and the deformation of the elastic part is measured and encoded by the encoder into a force information to be transmitted to the controller for enabling the controller to switch the control of the gripper apparatus into a second mode according to the force information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Wei-Der Chung, Yan-Chen Liu, Chwan-Hsen Chen, Cheng-Yen Li
  • Publication number: 20140180477
    Abstract: A gripper apparatus and its control method are provided. The gripper apparatus includes at least one gripper unit, and each gripper unit is configured with a first connecting rod and a second connecting rod. In addition, there is an elastic part disposed at the joint of the first and the second connecting rods, an encoder and a controller. Thereby, the controller is enabled to control the gripper apparatus to move toward an object in a first mode so as to enable the gripper unit to engage the object and thus exert a force upon the object. Consequently, the elastic part is deformed and the deformation of the elastic part is measured and encoded by the encoder into a force information to be transmitted to the controller for enabling the controller to switch the control of the gripper apparatus into a second mode according to the force information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: WEI-DER CHUNG, YAN-CHEN LIU, CHWAN-HSEN CHEN, CHENG-YEN LI