公开(公告)号：US20240199350A1

公开(公告)日：2024-06-20

申请号：US18555736

申请日：2022-04-14

申请人： EGG-CHICK AUTOMATED TECHNOLOGIES

发明人： Frédéric LÉRAN ,  Bertrand MALET ,  Steven TALARMIN ,  Lionel ROLLAND

IPC分类号： B65G47/91 ,  A01K43/00 ,  B25J15/06 ,  B65G45/22

CPC分类号： B65G47/918 ,  A01K43/005 ,  B25J15/0625 ,  B65G45/22 ,  B65G47/914 ,  B65G2201/0208

摘要： The present invention relates to an apparatus for transferring objects comprising: —an object take-off roller (10) comprising, on the periphery thereof, members (11) for individually gripping said objects, —a device for rotating said object take-off roller (10)—said individual gripping members being arranged in at least one ring, said apparatus comprising, for each ring, a linear actuator (13), placed in the interior volume defined by said roller, for moving an individual gripping member (11) appearing opposite this linear actuator (13) between a rest position and a gripping position in which this individual gripping member (11) extends radially, projecting from this take-off roller (10) to grip an object, the gripping position being obtained by one free mobile end of said linear actuator (13) bearing against said individual gripping member (11), said take-off roller (10) being configured to move an individual gripping member (11) in its rest position one by one in front of each linear actuator (13) as it rotates. According to the invention—the free end of said linear actuator (13) being mobile between a folded position and a deployed position in which this free end is in contact with an individual gripping member (11), this linear actuator (13) is rotationally mobile between at least an engaged position and a disengaged position such that, with the free end of said linear actuator (13) being in its deployed position or in an intermediate position between its deployed position and its folded position, said linear actuator (13) is freely moved from its engaged position to its disengaged position when it comes into contact with another individual gripping member (11), in its rest position, carried by said rotating take-off roller (10), —said disengaged position corresponding to a position in which said actuator is spaced apart from said individual gripping members, said assembly comprising a return member (15) to return said actuator from its disengaged position to its engaged position when the free end of said actuator is in its folded position or in an intermediate position not able to interact with an individual gripping member (11) in its rest position.

公开(公告)号：US20240173806A1

公开(公告)日：2024-05-30

申请号：US18551625

申请日：2022-05-11

申请人： AUDI AG

发明人： Norbert HORNBOSTEL ,  Frank WREDE

IPC分类号： B23P19/04 ,  B65G47/91 ,  H01M10/04

CPC分类号： B23P19/04 ,  B65G47/91 ,  H01M10/0404

摘要： A process arrangement for carrying out a fully automatic setting process, in which a setting device drives a clip element into a component pilot hole. The process arrangement has a transfer unit, in particular a robot, to which the setting device is attached, and the transfer unit is adjustable between a pickup position, in which the setting device grabs the clip element, and a setting position, in which the setting device drives the clip element into the component pilot hole.

公开(公告)号：US11993465B2

公开(公告)日：2024-05-28

申请号：US17097361

申请日：2020-11-13

申请人： Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. ,  TE Connectivity Services GmbH ,  Measurement Specialties (Chengdu) Ltd. ,  Kunshan League Automechanism Co., Ltd.

发明人： Yingcong Deng ,  Dandan Zhang ,  Fengchun Xie ,  Lvhai Hu ,  Bo Pang ,  Haidong Wu ,  Jianyong Fan ,  Rong Zhang ,  Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu

IPC分类号： B65G47/91 ,  B25J15/06 ,  H05K13/00

CPC分类号： B65G47/917 ,  B25J15/0625 ,  H05K13/0069

摘要： A vacuum adsorption module includes a supporting block, a carrier installed and positioned on the supporting block, and a plurality of valves installed on the supporting block. The supporting block has a plurality of air connection holes, each row of air connection holes is connected to a total air path formed in the supporting block via a branch air path formed in the supporting block. The carrier has a plurality of air suction holes corresponding to the air connection holes. The valves control closing and opening of the branch air paths between the plurality of rows of air connection holes and the total air path. An adsorption length of the carrier in a column direction of the array is adjustable to match a length of an article to be adsorbed by the carrier by changing a number of the valves to be closed or opened.

公开(公告)号：US20240166455A1

公开(公告)日：2024-05-23

申请号：US18425651

申请日：2024-01-29

申请人： John Bean Technologies Corporation

发明人： Jon A. Hocker ,  George R. Blaine ,  Harrison T. Gill ,  Jonathan Keogh ,  Erick A. Sorenson

IPC分类号： B65G47/91 ,  B25J9/00 ,  B25J11/00 ,  B26D5/00 ,  B65G43/00

CPC分类号： B65G47/917 ,  B25J9/0093 ,  B25J11/0045 ,  B26D5/007 ,  B65G43/00 ,  B65G2201/0202

摘要： A conveyor system 24, 24E, 24F carries work items, such as flexible, pliable, food products 22, through a scanning system 28 which generates data pertaining to various physical parameters of the food products. Thereafter, the food products are transported through a processing station which may be in the form of a portioning system 30. Next, the portioned food products are transported to a harvesting system 32-32F utilizing an actuator 34-34F to unload the food product portions 36 by vacuuming the portions into at least one nozzle 90, 90E, 90F. Such food products are transported to one or more desired locations through a hose/tube connected to a nozzle or may be launched through the air in a trajectory aimed at the desired placement location.

公开(公告)号：US20240140733A1

公开(公告)日：2024-05-02

申请号：US18499696

申请日：2023-11-01

申请人： APTERA MOTORS CORP.

发明人： Aiden CROWE ,  Anuj THAKKAR

IPC分类号： B65G47/91

CPC分类号： B65G47/91

摘要： A pick-and-place assembly tool, system and method comprising a flexible array of gripper heads is adapted to pick a sheet of flexible material or a pre-assembled array of flexibly coupled elements from a flat surface and place it on a convex, doubly curved surface. Gripping action may be provided by a suction force. When picking the pre-assembled array of elements, the array of gripper heads may conform to the flat surface. The assembly tool may then be moved above and aligned to the compound curved placing surface. When lowered onto the receiving surface, the assembly tool passively may precisely conform to the convex surface. Distortion of the material or array may be controlled by flexible couplers disposed between the gripper heads. Heating elements disposed on some or all of the gripper heads may be used to tack the workpiece in place to maintain registration during subsequent processing, e.g., lamination.

公开(公告)号：US11970341B2

公开(公告)日：2024-04-30

申请号：US17289955

申请日：2019-09-18

申请人： Daifuku Co., Ltd.

发明人： Kiyoshi Shimizu

IPC分类号： B65G47/52 ,  B25J9/00 ,  B65G47/90 ,  B65G47/91 ,  B25J9/02

CPC分类号： B65G47/52 ,  B25J9/0093 ,  B65G47/905 ,  B65G47/912 ,  B25J9/026

摘要： In an article transfer facility, a drive portion includes a first Z-axis drive portion configured to move a holding portion in a Z direction, a first X-axis drive portion configured to move the holding portion in an X direction, a first Y-axis drive portion configured to move the holding portion in a Y direction, and a second X-axis drive portion configured to move a placement portion in the X direction. A control portion executes first control in which an article at a first position is placed on the placement portion, and second control in which the article placed on the placement portion is arranged at a second position. In the first control, the drive portion is controlled such that the holding portion picks up the article at the first position and moves to a position on an upper side of the placement portion, and thereafter releases the article to place the article on the placement portion.

公开(公告)号：US11949058B2

公开(公告)日：2024-04-02

申请号：US18202695

申请日：2023-05-26

申请人： Wuxi Autowell Technology Co., Ltd.

发明人： Xiaolong Jiang ,  Kejian Qiu ,  Cong Ma ,  Chun Feng

IPC分类号： H01M10/04 ,  B65G47/04 ,  B65G47/91 ,  B65G47/92

CPC分类号： H01M10/0404 ,  B65G47/04 ,  B65G47/918 ,  B65G47/92

摘要： The present disclosure provides a battery piece feeding device and a soldering stringer, the battery piece feeding device is configured to lay battery pieces onto a soldering conveying device, the battery piece feeding device includes two picking mechanisms, both of the picking mechanisms are configured to alternately pick up the battery pieces from a battery piece picking position and lay the picked battery pieces onto the soldering conveying device. When one picking mechanism picks up the battery piece from the battery piece picking position, the other picking mechanism lays the picked battery piece onto the soldering conveying device. By arranging the two picking mechanisms and controlling the two picking mechanisms to alternately pick up the battery pieces from the battery piece picking position and lay the picked battery pieces onto the soldering conveying device, the battery piece feeding device greatly improves the battery piece feeding efficiency.

公开(公告)号：US11938617B1

公开(公告)日：2024-03-26

申请号：US17145987

申请日：2021-01-11

申请人： Amazon Technologies, Inc.

发明人： Jude Jonas ,  Bertan Atamer ,  Gregory Thomas Merlino ,  Gregory Coleman ,  Robert Kevin Katzschmann ,  Erica Aduh ,  Manikantan Nambi ,  Beth A. Marcus ,  Kristin Covelle ,  Areej Pirzada

IPC分类号： B25J15/06 ,  B65G47/91

CPC分类号： B25J15/0683 ,  B65G47/91

摘要： Examples described herein are directed to methods, computer-readable media, and systems for controlling an end of arm tool with one or more suction zones to pick up an item. Sensor data regarding the item is obtained. The sensor data is used to determine which of the one or more suction zones should be used to pick up the item. A rotational orientation is also determined that orients the determined suction zone(s) with the item. The end of arm tool is then instructed to create a suction force at the one or more suction zones and to pick up the item using the suction force.

公开(公告)号：US11926489B2

公开(公告)日：2024-03-12

申请号：US16981385

申请日：2019-03-18

申请人： Colin Maxwell Wade

发明人： Colin Maxwell Wade

IPC分类号： B25B11/00 ,  B21D28/02 ,  B21D28/34 ,  B25J15/06 ,  B32B3/12 ,  B32B7/12 ,  B32B15/04 ,  B65G47/91 ,  B65H3/08 ,  B65G47/90

CPC分类号： B65G47/91 ,  B21D28/02 ,  B21D28/34 ,  B25B11/005 ,  B25J15/0616 ,  B25J15/0683 ,  B32B3/12 ,  B32B7/12 ,  B32B15/04 ,  B65H3/0816 ,  B65H3/0883 ,  B65G47/90 ,  B65G2249/04 ,  B65G2249/045 ,  B65H3/08 ,  B65H3/085 ,  B65H2406/351

摘要： A vacuum plate which may be used in a system in which sheet material articles are handled by a vacuum plate. The vacuum plate comprises a first wall, a plurality of bores in the first wall, and at least one air outlet for connection to a source of vacuum pressure for applying a vacuum pressure to the bores. The first wall provides, in use, a vacuum lifting surface for pulling and holding the sheet material article to the vacuum surface when vacuum pressure is applied to the bores. Each bore comprises a flared opening terminating at the vacuum surface for admitting air pulled through the bore by the applied vacuum pressure, and opposite this opening, an exit for the air pulled through the bore, this exit being surrounded by a rim that extends above a surrounding surface of the second side of the first wall.

公开(公告)号：US20240076142A1

公开(公告)日：2024-03-07

申请号：US18271039

申请日：2021-03-16

申请人： SHINKAWA LTD.

发明人： Katsutoshi Nomura

IPC分类号： B65G49/06 ,  B65G43/08 ,  B65G47/91

CPC分类号： B65G49/061 ,  B65G43/08 ,  B65G47/917 ,  B65G2201/0297

摘要： This conveyance device comprises: a suction head which suctions and conveys an electronic component; a movement control unit which moves the suction head; a rotation control unit which controls a rotation position of the suction head centered on a predetermined axis of rotation; and a suction control unit which causes the suction head to suction the electronic component such that a load exerted on the electronic component from the suction head in conjunction with the movement of the suction head is less than or equal to a predetermined pressure. The movement control unit sets a correction amount of the predetermined pressure based on the self-weight of the suction head on the basis of the rotation position of the suction head. Using a conveyance device such as the foregoing makes it possible to improve the accuracy of load control during suction or suction release of an electronic component.