Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Robotic attacher and method of operation
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Application No.: US15634457Application Date: 2017-06-27
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Publication No.: US09901067B2Publication Date: 2018-02-27
- Inventor: Henk Hofman , Peter Willem Van der Sluis , Ype Groensma
- Applicant: TECHNOLOGIES HOLDINGS CORP.
- Applicant Address: US TX Houston
- Assignee: Technologies Holdings Corp.
- Current Assignee: Technologies Holdings Corp.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Houston
- Agency: Baker Botts L.L.P.
- Main IPC: A01J5/01
- IPC: A01J5/01 ; A01J5/017 ; B25J19/02 ; A01J7/04 ; G06K9/00 ; G06T7/70 ; G06T1/00 ; H04N13/02

Abstract:
A method of operating a robotic attacher, comprises extending a robotic attacher between the legs of a dairy livestock. The method further comprises attaching milking equipment to the dairy livestock using a gripping portion of the robotic attacher during a milking operation, wherein the gripping portion has a nozzle that is positioned away from a teat of the dairy livestock during the milking operation. The method further comprises rotating the gripping portion of the robotic attacher so that the nozzle is positioned to face a teat of the dairy livestock during a spraying operation.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170290287A1 ROBOTIC ATTACHER AND METHOD OF OPERATION Public/Granted day:2017-10-12
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