A Volume-Tuning Capillary Gripper That Enhances Handling Capabilities and Enables Testing of Micro-Components.

ABSTRACT: Capillary forces are shown to be extremely effective for micro-assembly and pick-and-place processes, especially for their ability to self-align the handled objects. However, in today's machines, micro-objects are submitted to high loads, such as compressions for the electrical testing of the micro-components, or inertial forces coming from the high accelerations of the machines. There, capillary grippers may show some limits. These issues, as well as the difficulty to perform precise visual inspections (due to the tilt of the handled micro-object that can occur after a perturbation, such as the displacement of the gripper), can all be solved by temporarily removing the liquid meniscus. Therefore, we present a novel volume-tuning capillary gripper that provides a solution to these limitati

SUBMITTER: Chafai A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9412535 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature