Development of Parallel Robot Cables by OKI Electric Cable
Use of high-flex robot cables on industrial machines such as factory automation is for their capability in supporting repetitive operation. In order to achieve this, usually a number of cables and air tubes are stored in the cable veyor. But this method requires wiring one cable at a time resulting in a poor productivity as well as leading to incorrect wiring with low bending performance. To over comes this issue each cable needed to be adhered but the use of durable and flexible adhesion in order to maintain the original sliding characteristics of the individual cable was difficult. In response to this issue, OKI Electric Cable announced the launch of VEYOR-CABLE (TM), a parallel robot cables which allows various high-flex robot cables to be combined and bonded to meet specific customer requirements. The VEYOR-CABLE can withstand more than 50 million bending cycles by incorporating an engineering plastic based elastomer adhesive for bridging bonding of cable sheaths resulting in the parallel configuration of cables that have different external diameters as well as air tubes, PCV-sheath cables and urethane cables made of different materials. The shipping of the new cable has already begun. The sales target for VEYOR-CABLE by March of 2010 is at 200 million yen.
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