Device for enabling camera viewing of an object

    公开(公告)号:EP1947615B1

    公开(公告)日:2018-09-26

    申请号:EP08152915.8

    申请日:2006-01-24

    申请人: Tomra Systems ASA

    摘要: The invention relates to a drive device in a reverse vending machine to forcibly drive at least one handling unit therein suited to handle empty packaging in the form of empty beverage containers. The handling unit is free of any electrical wiring or electrical components, is configured to be fully cleanable through use of water or other cleaning agent, and has a mechanical drive which is connected, via a mechanically separable power transfer coupling, to a separate electrically powered drive installed on a wall, a framework or part of a cabinet of the return vending machine. Further, the handling unit is locatable in a releasable manner inside the cabinet. The device is useful in a reverse vending machine (RVM) for receiving, handling, sorting and storing returnable items or objects. The RVM includes an item supporting, rotating, sorting and conveyor unit, an upwardly oriented storage chamber for such items, a safety apparatus to avoid operational hazards, a camera aided detection device for detecting at least one of a bar code on and other characteristics, e.g. contour, of an item, a simplified token system , and the drive system with a releasable power coupling for operating the sorting device and a further storage device.

    ELECTRONIC COMPONENT HANDLER
    2.
    发明授权
    ELECTRONIC COMPONENT HANDLER 有权
    搬运设备电子元件

    公开(公告)号:EP1109629B1

    公开(公告)日:2006-11-15

    申请号:EP00979232.6

    申请日:2000-04-24

    IPC分类号: B07C5/344

    摘要: A handler for testing and sorting randomly oriented parallel piped-shaped ceramic components (2), each component (2) having at leas one set of metal terminations (6) located on opposite edges, comprising a rotating feed wheel (16) mounting on a central shaft and including an upper surface to receive randomly oriented components (2), a plurality of radially-pointing, spaced-apart bosses (28) extending upward and outward terminating at component-sized cavities (30) to receive a component (2), a rotating carrier plate (10) having an upwardly extending circular peripheral wall (12) which has test seat notches (14) in spaced-apart arrangement with the cavities in the feed wheel (16), first vacuum pressure device (36) to draw the component (2) into the seat notch and a second vacuum pressure device (86) to hold the component therein, a device (22) for testing including at least one roller assembly (62) arranged to contact the component terminals (6), and a device (26) for separately ejecting the components from the notches (14).

    Mail sorting and distributing transfer system
    3.
    发明公开
    Mail sorting and distributing transfer system 有权
    Vorrichtung zurÜbergabevon Postgut an ein Postsortier和Verteilsystem

    公开(公告)号:EP1378297A2

    公开(公告)日:2004-01-07

    申请号:EP03012025.7

    申请日:2003-05-28

    IPC分类号: B07C3/08

    CPC分类号: B07C3/08 Y10S209/919

    摘要: To provide a mail sorting and distributing transfer system (100), which extends transformable time of mail (M) fed from a mail charging line (1) so that the mail can be timely, reliably transferred to conveyor baskets (B) on a mail sorting line (O), there is a mail sorting and distributing transfer system (100) in which transfer timing levers (140) maintain the receipt ports of transfer baskets (120) provided on an outer circumferential edge of a sorting and distributing turntable (110) in a state where the receipt ports of the transfer baskets (120) are in registry with a mail charging line during the receipt of mail and where the lever pivots so it moves the associated transfer basket (120). Underlying conveyor baskets (B) on a mail sorting line are moved parallel to and in synchronization with the transfer baskets (120) during the transfer of the mail (M). The lever is pivoted about an axis parallel to the axis of the mail sorting and distributing turntable.

    摘要翻译: 提供一种邮件分拣和分发传送系统(100),其扩展从邮件收费线(1)馈送的可转换邮件时间(M),以便邮件能够及时地可靠地以邮件方式传送到传送筐(B) 分拣线(O),存在邮件分拣分配传送系统(100),其中传送定时杆(140)保持设置在分拣分配转盘(110)的外周边缘上的传送筐(120)的接收端口 ),其中所述转移篮(120)的接收端口在邮件接收期间与邮件充电线对齐,并且所述杠杆枢转以使得所述移动篮移动所述相关联的转移篮(120)。 在传送邮件(M)期间,邮寄分拣线上的底层输送筐(B)在传送筐(120)平行移动并与传送筐(120)同步移动。 杠杆围绕平行于邮件分拣和分配转台的轴线的轴线枢转。

    PRODUCE SIZING TRANSPORT MECHANISM
    4.
    发明公开
    PRODUCE SIZING TRANSPORT MECHANISM 审中-公开
    设备运输和校准新鲜产品

    公开(公告)号:EP1105326A1

    公开(公告)日:2001-06-13

    申请号:EP99907187.1

    申请日:1999-02-22

    发明人: PARSONS, Ian, A.

    摘要: A transport system for use in a produce sizing or sorting apparatus is disclosed having a plurality of pivotally interconnected carrier members (10) forming an endless conveyor, each said carrier member (10) having a pair of finger members (25, 26) connected thereto in a manner whereby the finger members depend downwardly at least along a portion of the endless conveyor, each pair of finger members (25, 26) together with adjacent such pairs defining a produce retaining zone (22) extending in the direction of the endless conveyor when the finger members (25, 26) are positioned in a first closed position, and at least one of each finger member pair (25, 26) being selectably pivotable, in use, to a second open position enabling produce to be released from the produce retaining zone (22) at desired and spaced locations along the path of the endless conveyor.

    Recirculation system for a robotic pickup
    5.
    发明公开
    Recirculation system for a robotic pickup 审中-公开
    RückführungssystemfürRobotergreifwerkzeug

    公开(公告)号:EP0952099A3

    公开(公告)日:2000-10-11

    申请号:EP99250132.0

    申请日:1999-04-23

    IPC分类号: B65G47/14

    CPC分类号: B65G47/1457 Y10S209/919

    摘要: A recirculating device receives parts in bulk which are bunched together. The device includes a cone-shaped rotating disk which receives the parts and redistributes the parts into separate units. The parts are delivered to an inner periphery of the cone of the cone-shaped disk, and then slide down the inclined slope of the cone. As the parts slide down the rotating cone, they become spaced further apart due to the increase in radius of the outer periphery of the cone as compared with the radius of the inner periphery of the cone. The separated parts may then be effectively handled by a picker-type robot utilizing a vision system or sensor means to discriminate the individual parts.

    摘要翻译: 再循环装置容纳块状的部件,它们聚集在一起。 该装置包括锥形旋转盘,其接收部件并将部件重新分配到单独的单元中。 将部件输送到锥形盘的锥体的内周,然后向下滑动锥体的倾斜斜面。 随着部件向下滑动旋转锥体,由于与圆锥体的内周半径相比,圆锥体的外周半径的增加,它们进一步间隔开。 分离的部件然后可以由利用视觉系统或传感器装置的拾取器型机器人有效地处理以区分各个部件。

    Recirculation system for a robotic pickup
    6.
    发明公开
    Recirculation system for a robotic pickup 审中-公开
    对于机器人抓取工具再循环系统

    公开(公告)号:EP0952099A2

    公开(公告)日:1999-10-27

    申请号:EP99250132.0

    申请日:1999-04-23

    IPC分类号: B65G47/14

    CPC分类号: B65G47/1457 Y10S209/919

    摘要: A recirculating device receives parts in bulk which are bunched together. The device includes a cone-shaped rotating disk which receives the parts and redistributes the parts into separate units. The parts are delivered to an inner periphery of the cone of the cone-shaped disk, and then slide down the inclined slope of the cone. As the parts slide down the rotating cone, they become spaced further apart due to the increase in radius of the outer periphery of the cone as compared with the radius of the inner periphery of the cone. The separated parts may then be effectively handled by a picker-type robot utilizing a vision system or sensor means to discriminate the individual parts.

    SORTING OF DIFFERENTLY IDENTIFIED ARTICLES
    7.
    发明授权
    SORTING OF DIFFERENTLY IDENTIFIED ARTICLES 失效
    分拣得到确认,文章不同的方式

    公开(公告)号:EP0597939B1

    公开(公告)日:1997-11-05

    申请号:EP92916467.1

    申请日:1992-08-04

    IPC分类号: B07C5/36 B07C5/02

    摘要: Apparatus is disclosed for sorting differently identified articles, particularly for sorting differently coloured gaming chips. The apparatus comprises transfer means (2) arranged to remove individual chips from a random store and transfer them to a conveyor (19). The conveyor carries the chips first to sensing means arranged to sense the identifiable characteristic of the chip and then to a chip ejector (25) arranged to remove the chips from the conveyor and deposit them in a respective selected one of a plurality of receptacles (26) depending on the characteristic of the chip previously identified.

    Conveyor means for returnable items

    公开(公告)号:EP1947614B1

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-10

    申请号:EP08152913.3

    申请日:2006-01-24

    申请人: Tomra Systems ASA

    摘要: The invention relates to a drive device in a reverse vending machine to forcibly drive at least one handling unit therein suited to handle empty packaging in the form of empty beverage containers. The handling unit is free of any electrical wiring or electrical components, is configured to be fully cleanable through use of water or other cleaning agent, and has a mechanical drive which is connected, via a mechanically separable power transfer coupling, to a separate electrically powered drive installed on a wall, a framework or part of a cabinet of the return vending machine. Further, the handling unit is locatable in a releasable manner inside the cabinet. The device is useful in a reverse vending machine (RVM) for receiving, handling, sorting and storing returnable items or objects. The RVM includes an item supporting, rotating, sorting and conveyor unit, an upwardly oriented storage chamber for such items, a safety apparatus to avoid operational hazards, a camera aided detection device for detecting at least one of a bar code on and other characteristics, e.g. contour, of an item, a simplified token system , and the drive system with a releasable power coupling for operating the sorting device and a further storage device.