Intelligent device for conveying, grading and aligning of tube products

    公开(公告)号:US20220388784A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-08

    申请号:US17890597

    申请日:2022-08-18

    IPC分类号: B65G47/24 B65G21/20

    摘要: An intelligent device for conveying, grading and aligning of tube products includes: a conveying and grading mechanism, which includes: a timing belt, a timing belt power unit, a swing rod, a track, and a swing rod cylinder; wherein multiple baffles are evenly arranged on a surface of the timing belt; multiple track openings are evenly arranged on a surface of the track; the swing rod cylinder is fixed on a side wall of the track; the swing rod is fixed with an output end of the swing rod cylinder; and multiple single-bundle aligning assemblies, each includes: a cross beam, a vertical beam, a stacking unit, a bracket cylinder, a bracket, an aligning cylinder, and a swing bracket; wherein the bracket is fixed with a telescopic end of the bracket cylinder; the stacking unit is fixed on a surface of the vertical beam along a height direction thereof.

    Article storage device, palletizing system and article storage method

    公开(公告)号:US11338999B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-24

    申请号:US16759786

    申请日:2018-09-30

    发明人: Jinxing Hu

    IPC分类号: B65G1/137 B65G47/24

    摘要: An article storage device includes a first conveying line, a second conveying line, and a temporary storage passage, wherein the first conveying line and the second conveying line ascend spirally around the temporary storage passage to form a double spiral structure, and two ends of the temporary storage passage respectively are in communication with the first conveying line and the second conveying line, the first conveying line conveys the article to the temporary storage passage, the temporary storage passage receives the article from the first conveying line and conveys the article to the second conveying line, and the second conveying line receives the article from the temporary storage passage and conveys the article.

    ORIENTATION DEVICE FOR ELONGATED OBJECTS

    公开(公告)号:US20220023980A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-01-27

    申请号:US17277339

    申请日:2019-09-18

    发明人: ANDREA TORO

    IPC分类号: B23P19/00 B65G47/14 B65G47/24

    摘要: An orientation device for objects (O) provided with a stem (S) and with a head (H) that has a minimum width (R), characterised in that it comprises: a slot (3) which has two edges separated by a predetermined distance (D), less than the minimum width (R) and greater than the maximum width of the stem (G); an uncoupling device (4), movable between an active configuration, in which it is able to retain an object (O) with respect to lifting, and an inactive configuration, in which it is not able to interact with an object (O); a magnetic gripping element (2), movable along at least a vertical direction between an upper position and a lower position, in which an object (O) associated with the gripping element (2) is in a position such as to be retained by the uncoupling device (4) so as to be detached from the gripping element (2).

    Automated parcel singulator
    14.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11142406B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-10-12

    申请号:US17049518

    申请日:2019-08-22

    发明人: Brent Daboub

    摘要: An automated parcel singulator includes a conveyor system, a control and monitoring system, an infeed table, and a hopper system. The hopper system stores and dispenses parcels and boxes onto the infeed table. The infeed tables singulates and moves the boxes and parcels, so that when the boxes and parcels are placed on the conveyor system they form a single line of packages.

    MAGNETIC WORKPIECE CONVEYOR FOR ROBOTIC WELDING CELL

    公开(公告)号:US20210198051A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-01

    申请号:US17058387

    申请日:2018-06-06

    申请人: Doben Limited

    IPC分类号: B65G47/24 B23Q7/18 B65G54/02

    摘要: A conveyor for ferrous workpieces includes a frame. A static bed is affixed to the frame. The static bed has a workpiece support portion constructed from a non-magnetic material. The workpiece support portion defines a workpiece flow path. A drive assembly is arranged beneath the workpiece support portion. The drive includes multiple discrete magnets configured to move in a direction of the workpiece flow path. At least one guide rail extends upward with respect to the workpiece support portion on a side opposite the drive assembly. The guide rail is configured to orient a workpiece to a desired position with respect to the workpiece flow path.

    System and method for thickness measurement in tortilla production

    公开(公告)号:US20210164773A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-03

    申请号:US17172688

    申请日:2021-02-10

    IPC分类号: G01B11/06 B65G47/24

    摘要: A production system for measuring product thickness in tortilla and tortilla chip production includes a production line, including a cooker/grinder, a sheeter/cutter, and a conveyor belt; and a displacement measurement unit, including a processor, non-transitory memory, an input/output component, a laser sensor for measuring vertical displacement of the conveyor belt and objects thereon, a laser controller, and a displacement calculator. Also disclosed is a method for thickness measurement, including capturing samples, calculating a vertical displacement probability density function, and calculating average product thickness.

    Article loading facility
    17.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10947057B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-03-16

    申请号:US16777462

    申请日:2020-01-30

    申请人: Daifuku Co., Ltd.

    摘要: A control unit performs first loading control that is to be performed when a target article that has been determined by a determination unit as being an article that is in an appropriate orientation is to be loaded onto a first supporting member in the appropriate orientation, and second loading control that is to be performed when a target article that has been determined by the determination unit as being an article that is in an inappropriate orientation is to be loaded onto the first supporting member in the appropriate orientation. The first loading control is performed to control a loading operation unit to suck and support a first sucking-target surface of a target article that is supported by the second supporting member, from above, then move a sucking portion, and thereafter release the target article from the state of being sucked by the sucking portion, and the second loading control is performed to control the loading operation unit to perform an orientation changing operation, and thereafter release the target article from the state of being sucked by the sucking portion when the target article is located immediately above the first supporting member and the first sucking-target surface faces upward.

    Object orientation device, object orientation and printing system and method for use thereof

    公开(公告)号:US10858200B1

    公开(公告)日:2020-12-08

    申请号:US16821105

    申请日:2020-03-17

    发明人: Yu-Hung Lin

    摘要: An object orientation device includes a shaking stand and a slide provided on the shaking stand; the slide includes a sliding groove and a retaining member on the sliding groove. A retaining member is parallel to and extends along a sliding direction, and has a retaining surface parallel to a side wall of the sliding groove. The retaining surface and the side wall form an orientation space which is parallel to the sliding direction. After asymmetric objects are on the slide and shaken by the shaking stand, each object has a first end restricted into the orientation space, and has a seat orientation and moves towards a predetermined direction. Such object orientation device allows objects to be aligned in the slide and have consistent seat orientations; a printing equipment can print on the same position of each object. Additionally, a system and a method of orientation and printing are provided.

    APPARATUS FOR UNSCRAMBLING RANDOMLY ARRANGED CONTAINERS

    公开(公告)号:US20200346878A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-11-05

    申请号:US16759416

    申请日:2018-10-25

    发明人: CESARE RONCHI

    IPC分类号: B65G54/02 B65G47/24

    摘要: Apparatus for unscrambling articles, in particular containers (100), comprising: a transport system (20) for transporting through the apparatus articles randomly arranged on a transport plane; a system (40;140,50) for extracting the articles (100) arranged with a predefined orientation and/or position; devices (31;32) for picking and releasing the articles (100), configured to pick up the articles randomly arranged on the transport system (20) and release them to the extraction system (50) with a predefined orientation and/or position; a detection system (60) designed to detect the position and the arrangement of the articles (100) in transit on the transport system and to provide the information for controlling the gripping and release devices (30); a unit (500) for processing and controlling the components and the drives of the apparatus, designed in particular to receive the position and/or arrangement information of the articles and to control the gripping and release devices (30). The transport system (20) extends substantially in the form of a “U” with a first outward section (21) configured to transport the containers in a first advancing direction (A1) and a second return section (22) configured to transport the containers in a second advancing direction (A2) different from the first direction (A1), the two sections (21;22) being connected by a curved section (23); and the pick and release devices (31;32) comprise at least one robot (31) arranged upstream of the curved section (23), for picking up articles only from said first section (21), and at least one robot (32) arranged downstream of the curved section, for picking up articles (100) only from the second section (22) of the transport system (20).

    LIM CAN MOVER
    20.
    发明申请
    LIM CAN MOVER 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20200307920A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-01

    申请号:US16649816

    申请日:2018-09-20

    申请人: Laitram, L.L.C.

    发明人: Bryant G. Ragan

    IPC分类号: B65G47/24 B65G54/02

    摘要: Can conveyors using various stator coil configurations to spread, gap, align, lane, reject, singulate, and rotate aluminum cans as they are propelled along the length of the conveyor. The electrically conductive cans acting as rotors form linear-induction motors (LIMs) with the stators to move the cans.