Coval releases redesigned CVGC carbon vacuum grippers

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The upgraded CVGC carbon vacuum gripper has a wide range of customizations, together with sizing, configurability, and compatibility. | Supply: Coval

Vacuum grippers are a preferred 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 instances extra energy than their electromechanical counterparts, making them good at lifting heavy weights, mentioned Coval Inc. The supplier of vacuum automation know-how 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 under consideration present and future developments within the collaborative robotic market. These developments embody better utility range, progress within the variety of producers, elevated co-presence with operators, and dealing with of heavier masses. 

The brand new CVGC presents a number of benefits, claimed Coval. First, due to 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, mentioned the corporate, whose international headquarters are in France.

Coval presents two customary variations of its grippers: the M2 Model with a vacuum generator, and the CVGC GO Model and not using 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 required gripper features beneath 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 outfitted with a VRU-series vacuum rotary union, which the corporate mentioned ensures vacuum provide to the gripper by way of an exterior supply. From these two variations, clients have totally different choices with regards to dimension and configurability. 

Coval goals to supply most flexibility

On request, Coval mentioned its design group is on the market to develop custom-made 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 presents flow-control nozzles in a number of diameters and has two varieties 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 aimed toward a variety of industries, together with meals processing, packaging, plastics processing, and extra. The corporate mentioned it designed the gripper to be a flexible software for all producers, integrators, and customers of cobots for palletizing, gripping bins, plastic elements, and all kinds of different functions.