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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 choice 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, mentioned 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 mentioned it additionally took into consideration present and future developments within the collaborative robotic market. These developments embrace larger software range, development within the variety of producers, elevated co-presence with operators, and dealing with of heavier hundreds.
The brand new CVGC affords an a variety of benefits, claimed Coval. First, due to its carbon design, the gripper is ultra-light and compact. It’s additionally appropriate with a variety of cobots and has a spread of configuration potentialities, making it extremely versatile, mentioned the corporate, whose world headquarters are in France.
Coval affords two customary variations of its grippers: the M2 Model with a vacuum generator, and the CVGC GO Model with out a vacuum generator. The M2 model is a plug-and-play system that Coval designed to adapt to all fashions of cobots. It integrates the mandatory gripper features 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 unbiased vacuum generator, mentioned Coval. It’s geared up with a VRU-series vacuum rotary union, which the corporate mentioned ensures vacuum provide to the gripper through an exterior supply. From these two variations, clients have totally different choices in the case of measurement and configurability.
Coval goals to supply most flexibility
On request, Coval mentioned its design group is on the market to develop personalized vacuum grippers. The CVGC is on the market 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 on the market 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 affords 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 spread of industries, together with meals processing, packaging, plastics processing, and extra. The corporate mentioned it designed the gripper to be a flexible device for all producers, integrators, and customers of cobots for palletizing, gripping bins, plastic elements, and all kinds of different functions.
