IP Library Granted Patent US 12697692
Granted Patent B2
US 12697692 · App. 17/759,523 · Granted Aug 4, 2026

Installation device for carrying out installation steps on a wall and method for exchanging a tool of an installation apparatus

Inventors: Andrea Cambruzzi (Zürich, CH); Luciano Passoni (Castelnuovo Rangone, IT); Oliver Simmonds (Lucerne, CH); Philipp Zimmerli (Härkingen, CH)
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 12697692
App. No.
17/759,523
Granted
Aug 4, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

An installation device for carrying out installation steps on a wall, and a method for exchanging a tool received by the installation apparatus, include an installation apparatus having a drive unit coupled to a tool holder. The tool holder receives a tool that extends away from the tool holder in a tool direction and which tool is driven by the drive unit. The tool holder can assume a locked state and an unlocked state, wherein a tool received by the tool holder can be removed from the tool holder in the unlocked state and is fixed in the tool holder, and therefore cannot be removed, in the locked state. The installation apparatus has an unlocking device controllable by an actuator and the tool holder can be brought from the locked state into the unlocked state by the actuator to release the tool.

Claims (42)

1 . An installation device for carrying out installation steps on a wall, the installation device comprising:

an installation apparatus having a drive unit and a tool holder, the tool holder being coupled to the drive unit;

wherein the tool holder is adapted to receive a tool, the tool extending away from the tool holder in a tool direction and being driven by the drive unit;

wherein the tool holder can assume a locked state and an unlocked state, wherein the tool received by the tool holder can be removed from the tool holder when the tool holder is in the unlocked state, and wherein the tool received by the tool holder is fixed in the tool holder when the tool holder is in the locked state;

an unlocking device having a controllable actuator that brings the tool holder from the locked state into the unlocked state;

a mobile installation frame having at least a longitudinal frame element and a transverse frame element;

a mechatronic installation component;

a controllable gripper adapted to fix the tool; and

wherein the mechatronic installation component is arranged on the transverse frame element,

wherein the gripper is arranged on the longitudinal frame element of the installation frame via a holder that is arranged of the installation frame in a stationary manner,

wherein the gripper is movable in the tool direction relative to the tool holder from a rest position to a further position that is displaced in the tool direction from the rest position, the gripper being pressed into the rest position by a spring, and

wherein the installation apparatus is received and moved by the mechatronic installation component to the gripper, said gripper configured to exchange the tool.

2 . The installation device according to claim 1 wherein the installation device has a sensor unit adapted to detect a position of the gripper relative to the tool holder in the tool direction.

3 . The installation device according to claim 1 wherein the gripper is adapted to fix at least the tool and a different tool.

4 . The installation device according to claim 1 wherein the gripper is movable between an open state and a closed state, and including a sensor unit arranged on the gripper and adapted to detect the open state and the closed state.

5 . The installation device according to claim 1 including a light barrier arranged on the gripper wherein the tool can be moved perpendicularly to the tool direction through the light barrier.

6 . An installation system for performing installation steps on a wall in a shaft, the installation system comprising:

the installation device according to claim 1 ; and

a movement component adapted to move the installation device in the shaft.

7 . A method for exchanging the tool, wherein the tool is an old tool that is received by the installation apparatus of the installation device according to claim 1 , the method comprising the steps of:

moving, via the mechatronic installation component, the installation apparatus with the old tool held in the tool holder such that the old tool assumes a holding position in which the gripper can fix the old tool;

fixing the old tool using the gripper;

bringing the tool holder into the unlocked state via the unlocking device; and

moving the installation apparatus away from the old tool in the tool direction at least until the old tool is no longer inside the tool holder.

8 . The method according to claim 7 comprising the further steps of:

causing the mechatronic installation component to set down the installation apparatus; by the mechatronic installation component;

causing the mechatronic installation component to receive a gripping tool;

receiving a new tool from a magazine via the gripping tool;

causing the mechatronic installation component to move the gripping tool with the new tool until the new tool assumes a holding position in which the gripper can fix the new tool;

fixing the new tool via the gripper;

causing the mechatronic installation component to set down the gripping tool;

causing the mechatronic installation component to receive the installation apparatus;

using the mechatronic installation component to move the installation apparatus into a preparation position; and

moving the installation apparatus in the tool direction until the new tool is inserted in the tool holder.

9 . The method according to claim 8 , the method further comprising:

moving the installation apparatus with the new tool in the tool direction while rotating the tool holder about an axis extending in the tool direction.

10 . The method according to claim 7 comprising the further steps of:

causing the mechatronic installation component to set down the installation apparatus;

causing the mechatronic installation component to receive a gripping tool;

causing the mechatronic installation component to receive, via the gripping tool, the old tool that is fixed in the gripper;

causing the gripper to release the old tool; and

using the gripping tool to set down the old tool in a magazine.