Pneumatic Clean Series

234Air Gripper/Common Precautions 2Be sure to read before handling. Refer to pages 7 to 16 for safety instructions and commonprecautions with clean series. Refer to the main text for precautions for each series.MountingeWhen the gripper is used for work piece insertion,align the centers carefully so that no excessiveforce will be applied to the finger.In a test run, confirm safety by conducting manual operationor operating the cylinder at a lower pressure to ensure there isno danger of impact force.Impact loadMaintenanceWarningq Keep off the air chuck transfer route frompersonnel or objects.It may cause injury or accident.w Do not put hand between air chuck fingers andattachments.It will cause injury or accident.e Before removing the air chuck, confirm that it is notholding a work piece and exhaust compressed air.If there is a remaining work piece, it may drop to causedanger.Hoding point is adjustedHoding point is not adjustedrControl the opening/closing speed with thespeed controller to avoid excessive high-speedoperation.Continuous opening and closing of the fingers at an excessivespeed will increase the impact force acting on the fingers,which may cause degradation of repeatability in work pieceholding or have an adverse effect on the product's life time.Air GripperHow to control opening/closing speed of the fingerExample using SMC speed controllersDoubleactingConnect 2 speed controllers and adjust the speedby meter-out control.CautionRefer to pages 5 to 7 for common precautions onauto switches.Applicable speed controllerAir gripper mounted typePiping typeAS1200–M3/M5AS2200–01, etc.Series AS1000AS1001F, AS2051F, etc.215