公开(公告)号：US20050120965A1

公开(公告)日：2005-06-09

申请号：US10962474

申请日：2004-10-13

申请人： Karel Van Den Berg ,  Greorgius Rudolphius Bos

发明人： Karel Van Den Berg ,  Greorgius Rudolphius Bos

IPC分类号： A01J5/017 ,  A01J7/04 ,  A01K1/12 ,  A01K5/02 ,  A01J3/00

CPC分类号： A01K1/126 ,  A01J5/017 ,  A01J5/0175 ,  A01J7/04 ,  A01K1/12 ,  A01K5/02

摘要： A method of milking an animal, in which method a movable milking platform is used. The method comprises the following steps: setting the movable milking platform in motion, allowing an animal access to the milking platform, supplying a sort of feed to an animal on the milking platform, subsequently allowing the animal exit from the milking platform, and milking the animal on the milking platform during a milking period. The method further comprises the step of providing the animal a span of time on the milking platform in which the animal is not milked, the span of time having a magnitude that amounts to at least approximately half the milking period. The speed of movement of the milking platform being selected at least partially on the basis of a feed consumption duration of an animal present on the milking platform, such that the span of time has such a magnitude that an animal is provided a sufficient time to substantially complete its feed consumption during their stay on the platform, said span of time being smaller than 75 minutes.

摘要翻译： 一种挤奶动物的方法，其中使用可移动的挤奶平台。 该方法包括以下步骤：使可移动的挤奶平台运动，允许动物进入挤奶平台，向挤奶平台上的动物提供一种饲料，随后允许动物从挤奶平台出口，并将挤奶 在挤奶期间在挤奶平台上的动物。 该方法还包括在动物未被挤奶的挤奶平台上为动物提供一段时间的步骤，时间跨度至少大约等于挤奶时间的一半。 挤奶平台的移动速度至少部分地基于存在于挤奶平台上的动物的饲料消耗持续时间来选择，使得时间跨度具有这样的大小，以使得动物被提供足够的时间以基本上 在停留在平台上完成其饲料消耗量，时间长度小于75分钟。

公开(公告)号：US06823818B2

公开(公告)日：2004-11-30

申请号：US10085060

申请日：2002-03-01

申请人： Karel van den Berg ,  Howard Sie ,  Lucien Eliza Niels Voogd

发明人： Karel van den Berg ,  Howard Sie ,  Lucien Eliza Niels Voogd

IPC分类号： A01K502

CPC分类号： A01K5/02 ,  A01K5/0275

摘要： A feed metering apparatus for supplying a consumable substance to a feeding trough for consumption by an animal, such as a dairy cow, while at least one further animal that has voluntary access to the same trough to consume a consumable substance therefrom is waiting for the animal at the feeding trough to depart. The feeding trough has an entrance opening which can be closed by a closing member. The apparatus intermittently supplies a quantity of a consumable substance to the feeding trough. The feeding trough has a weighing mechanism for continuously weighing the amount of the consumable substance in the feeding trough. A control mechanism is provided for closing the feeding trough's opening and there is a timing component. The control mechanism closes the opening of the feeding trough based on the combination of a lower threshold value of the amount of consumable substance remaining in the feeding trough as determined by the weighing mechanism and an upper threshold value of the duration of time since an animal at the feeding trough either stopped consuming a consumable substance therefrom or slowed its pace of doing so to a predetermined amount.

摘要翻译： 一种饲料计量装置，用于将消耗性物质供给到饲养槽以供动物（例如奶牛）消费，同时至少另外一种进一步动物进入同一槽以消耗消耗性物质等待动物 在送料槽出发。 进料槽具有能够被封闭构件封闭的入口。 设备间歇地向供给槽供给一定量的消耗品。 进料槽具有称量机构，用于连续称量供料槽中的消耗物质的量。 提供一个控制机构用于关闭进料槽的开口，并且有一个定时部件。 控制机构基于由称量机构确定的进料槽中剩余的可消耗物质的量的下限阈值与从动物的时间长度的上限阈值的组合来关闭供给槽的开度 进料槽停止消耗可消耗物质或将其步骤的速度放慢到预定的量。

公开(公告)号：US06796271B2

公开(公告)日：2004-09-28

申请号：US10249955

申请日：2003-05-22

申请人： Karel van den Berg

发明人： Karel van den Berg

IPC分类号： A01J504

CPC分类号： A01J5/007 ,  A01J5/041 ,  A01J5/047

摘要： A device for automatically milking an animal. The device is provided with at least two teat cups to be connected to respective teats of the animal. The milking vacuum unit generates a milking vacuum in the teat cups, which milking vacuum unit comprises at least two vacuum lines that are each connectable to a respective teat cup. The milking vacuum unit comprises a common vacuum pump and a common buffer vessel to which vacuum can be applied by use of the common vacuum pump. All vacuum lines are connectable to the common buffer vessel. An individual buffer vessel is provided in each vacuum line and is disposed between the common buffer vessel and the respective teat cup. An individual buffer vessel is provided with a respective individual vacuum pump for applying vacuum to the individual buffer vessel.

摘要翻译： 用于自动挤奶的装置。 该装置设置有至少两个奶杯以连接到动物的相应乳头。 挤奶真空单元在挤奶杯中产生挤奶真空，挤奶真空单元包括至少两根各自连接到相应的奶杯的真空管线。 挤奶真空装置包括一个共用的真空泵和一个通用的缓冲容器，真空可以通过使用普通的真空泵进行加压。 所有真空管线都可连接到公共缓冲容器。 在每个真空管线中设置单个缓冲容器，并且设置在公共缓冲容器和相应的奶杯之间。 单独的缓冲容器设置有相应的单独的真空泵，用于向单个缓冲容器施加真空。

公开(公告)号：US06651584B2

公开(公告)日：2003-11-25

申请号：US09828911

申请日：2001-04-10

申请人： Karel van den Berg

发明人： Karel van den Berg

IPC分类号： A01K502

CPC分类号： G01G21/23 ,  A01K5/0275 ,  A01K5/0283 ,  G01G13/22

摘要： A feed metering device for distributing feed (fodder or drink, or both) in metered portions to an animal. The device comprises a feed unit for receiving and containing said feed which includes an entrance opening and receives said feed from a feed supplying device. The amount of feed provided by the feed supplying device to the feed unit is governed by data from an animal identification device that identifies the animal that will consume the feed in the feed unit and a weighing device that determines the amount of feed remaining from the last feeding in the feeding unit. Deterring devices include a closing device for the entrance opening to the feed unit which can be closed to deter animals found ineligible by the animal identification device to consume feed at the feeding unit. The closing device for the entrance opening rotates about an axis and is driven by a roll that contacts the closing device. The roll is driven by a motor and may provide data to the feed supplying device as to the amount of feed remaining in the feed unit so that the amount metered to the feed unit is governed by the amount of feed remaining in the feed unit and the identity of the animal which will then consume feed from the feed unit. Other deterring devices include a loudspeaker, a light and a voltage applied to parts which the animal may touch.

摘要翻译： 一种用于将饲料（饲料或饮料或两者）分配给计量部分的饲料计量装置。 该装置包括用于接收和容纳所述进料的进料单元，所述进料包括入口，并从进料供应装置接收所述进料。 由饲料供给装置提供给饲料单元的饲料量由动物识别装置的数据支配，动物识别装置识别将在饲料单元中消耗饲料的动物，以及用于确定最后饲料剩余饲料量的称重装置 喂饲单元。 防护装置包括用于进入进料单元的入口的关闭装置，其可以被关闭以阻止动物识别装置发现不合格的动物消耗进料单元上的进料。 用于入口开口的关闭装置围绕一个轴线旋转并且由接触闭合装置的辊驱动。 辊由电动机驱动，并且可以向进给供给装置提供关于供给单元中剩余的进料量的数据，使得计量到进料单元的量由进料单元中剩余的进料量决定， 然后动物的身份将从饲料单元消耗饲料。 其他阻止装置包括扬声器，光和施加到动物可能接触的部分的电压。

公开(公告)号：US06520113B2

公开(公告)日：2003-02-18

申请号：US10058795

申请日：2002-01-30

申请人： Karel van den Berg ,  Lucien Eliza Niels Voogd ,  Howard Sie

发明人： Karel van den Berg ,  Lucien Eliza Niels Voogd ,  Howard Sie

IPC分类号： A01K6102

CPC分类号： A01K5/02 ,  A01K5/0275

摘要： A device for supplying fodder to animals such as cows which has a plurality of hoppers containing fodder wherein each hopper may have a different type of fodder. A plurality of feeding troughs are provided which are accessible to animals to feed therefrom. Each hopper has a conveyor for conveying fodder from that hopper to a control component that has a receptacle which receives fodder from selected hoppers. Under control of the control component selected conveyors in the hoppers convey predetermined amounts of fodder therefrom to the receptacle. The receptacle has a bottom which can be opened and from which fodder falls through a pipe or chute to a selected trough. The device is provided with a container which may be one of the hoppers edible separating material which may be supplied to the receptacle to form a layer on top of which fodder is received and is wrapped, at least in part, by the edible separating material as it falls through the bottom of the receptacle into the underlying pipe or chute. The control component includes a memory that contains data as to the adhesiveness of the fodder contained in each of the hoppers and causes fodder to be conveyed to the receptacle and therefrom in the order of increasing adhesiveness thereof. The edible separating material is a material that at least substantially does not adhere to components of the device with which it comes into contact.

摘要翻译： 用于向诸如母牛的动物供应饲料的装置，其具有多个含有饲料的料斗，其中每个料斗可以具有不同类型的饲料。 提供了可供动物进入的多个供给槽。 每个料斗具有用于将饲料从该料斗输送到具有从所选料斗接收饲料的容器的控制部件的输送机。 在控制部件的控制下，料斗中选择的输送机将预定量的饲料从其输送到容器。 容器具有可以打开的底部，并且从其中的饲料通过管道或滑槽落到选定的槽中。 该装置设置有容器，该容器可以是可食用分离材料之一，其可以供应到容器以在其顶部上形成一层，饲料被接收并且至少部分地由可食用分离材料包裹，如 它通过容器的底部落入下面的管道或滑道。 控制部件包括存储器，其包含关于每个料斗中所含的饲料的粘附性的数据，并且使得饲料以增加其粘附性的顺序被输送到容器和其中。 可食用分离材料是至少基本上不粘附到与其接触的装置的部件的材料。

公开(公告)号：US06508109B2

公开(公告)日：2003-01-21

申请号：US09881809

申请日：2001-06-18

申请人： Karel van den Berg

发明人： Karel van den Berg

IPC分类号： G01F172

CPC分类号： G01F1/74 ,  A01J5/01 ,  G01F1/72 ,  G01F3/38

摘要： A method and device for making measurements of the characteristics of a fluid, particularly the milk, which flows in pulsations in a conduit. The device has a measuring region wherein at least one characteristic of the fluid is determined. The measurement is made during an optimal measuring window which constitutes a time interval while a pulsation of the fluid is received in the measuring region which contains a sensor or sensors for measuring one or more selected characteristics of the fluid, such as color, conductivity or acoustic qualities. The measuring region may be in a bypass passageway in the conduit which may be incorporated in a teat cup. The pulsations in the teat cup may be used to define an optimal measuring window for measuring one or more characteristics of the fluid as it flows in pulsations through the conduit. The sensed entry or approach of a pulsation into the measuring region may also be used to define the optimal measuring window.

摘要翻译： 一种用于测量在管道中脉动中流动的流体特别是牛奶的特性的方法和装置。 该装置具有其中确定流体的至少一个特性的测量区域。 在包含传感器的测量区域中接收到流体的脉动的最佳测量窗口期间进行测量，并且测量流体的一种或多种选定特性的传感器，例如颜色，导电性或声学 品质 测量区域可以在导管中的旁路通道中，其可以并入奶杯中。 乳头杯中的脉动可以用于限定用于测量流体在通过导管的脉动中流动的一个或多个特性的最佳测量窗口。 感测到的进入或进入测量区域的脉动也可以用于定义最佳测量窗口。

公开(公告)号：US06493071B2

公开(公告)日：2002-12-10

申请号：US09965081

申请日：2001-09-28

申请人： Karel van den Berg ,  Helena Geralda Maria Vijverberg

发明人： Karel van den Berg ,  Helena Geralda Maria Vijverberg

IPC分类号： G01J350

CPC分类号： A01J5/0133 ,  A01J5/00 ,  A01J5/013 ,  A01J5/0135 ,  A01J5/0136 ,  A01J5/0175

摘要： An apparatus for detecting physical abnormalities in milk which comprises a light source for irradiating milk with light of red or green or blue colors or any combination of such colors. The intensity of light reflected or diffused or transmitted, or any combination thereof, by the milk, or from background light of the milk, is measured by light sensors. A computer processes the measurement data and is programmed to select, based on comparisons of the values derived from the measured light intensities with reference values, a diagnostic basis or diagnostic bases for abnormalities in the milk from a plurality of diagnostic bases of possible abnormalities stored in the memory of the computer.

公开(公告)号：US06463876B2

公开(公告)日：2002-10-15

申请号：US09899859

申请日：2001-07-09

申请人： Alexander van der Lely ,  Karel van den Berg ,  Renatus Ignatius Josephus Fransen

发明人： Alexander van der Lely ,  Karel van den Berg ,  Renatus Ignatius Josephus Fransen

IPC分类号： A01J5017

CPC分类号： A01J5/0175

摘要： An apparatus for automated milking of animals which comprises a milking compartment and a milking robot that is provided with teat cups and a mechanism for connecting the teat cups to the animals being milking in milking compartment. A carrier element for the teat cups is disclosed which is movable in three dimensions while being supported and moved by three sets of controlled piston and cylinder elements, each set of said elements having one end on ends thereof connected to the milking compartment and the other end thereof connected to the carrier element, the connections to the carrier element (as seen in plan) not being aligned. Each set of controlled piston and cylinder elements consists of two controlled piston and elements which are in “V” configurations so that there are three non-aligned connections of each set to the carrier element and six non-aligned connections to the milking compartment.

摘要翻译： 一种用于动物自动挤奶的装置，包括挤奶室和挤奶机器人，该挤奶机和挤奶机器人设置有奶杯和用于将挤奶杯连接到在挤奶室中挤奶的动物的机构。 公开了一种用于乳头杯的载体元件，其可在三个维度上移动，同时被三组受控活塞和气缸元件支撑和移动，每组所述元件的一端在其一端连接到挤奶室，另一端 连接到载体元件，与载体元件的连接（如平面图所示）不对准。 每套控制的活塞和气缸元件由两个受控的活塞和“V”构造的元件组成，因此每个组与承载元件有三个不对齐的连接以及与挤奶室的六个非对齐连接。

公开(公告)号：US06460403B1

公开(公告)日：2002-10-08

申请号：US09765387

申请日：2001-01-22

申请人： Karel van den Berg

发明人： Karel van den Berg

IPC分类号： G01N104

CPC分类号： G01N11/08

摘要： A device which may be carried by and part of an unmanned vehicle which measures characteristics of manure of animals such as dairy cows that are milked and fed in a stable provided for them. The vehicle is supported by three driven wheels and carries a mechanism for analyzing manure which comprises a compression chamber for receiving a manure sample. A sieve is provided on one side of the chamber and a piston forces the manure sample through the sieve. By measuring the pressure required to squeeze the manure sample through the sieve, characteristics such as the fibrousness and the viscosity of the manure sample can be determined. The vehicle also carries an identification instrumentality for identifying the animal that provided the manure sample and may carry a temperature sensor and an inertia meter. It is operatively associated with a computer which registers data provided from analysis of each animal's manure sample and provides same as displayable data.

摘要翻译： 可以由无人驾驶车辆的一部分携带的一种装置，该装置测量动物的粪便的特性，所述动物例如在为其饲养的稳定器中被挤奶和喂养的奶牛中。 车辆由三个从动轮支撑并且携带用于分析粪便的机构，其包括用于接收粪便样品的压缩室。 在室的一侧设置有筛子，活塞迫使粪便样品通过筛子。 通过测量挤压粪便样品通过筛子所需的压力，可以确定粪便样品的纤维性和粘度等特征。 车辆还具有用于识别提供粪便样品的动物的识别工具，并且可以携带温度传感器和惯性计。 它可操作地与计算机相关联，计算机记录从每个动物粪便样品的分析提供的数据，并提供与可显示数据相同的数据。

公开(公告)号：US06439162B1

公开(公告)日：2002-08-27

申请号：US09765386

申请日：2001-01-22

申请人： Karel van den Berg

发明人： Karel van den Berg

IPC分类号： A01K2900

CPC分类号： A01K1/0103 ,  A01K1/0128 ,  A01K13/003 ,  A01K15/003 ,  A01K15/029 ,  A01K29/00 ,  Y10S119/908

摘要： An unmanned vehicle for use in a stable such as a cowshed or for use in a meadow or for use in both which is provided with detection components for determining the health and behavior of the animals in the stable or meadow. The detection components comprise an animal identification system including a radar and an infrared camera. The animals are fitted with identifying reflectors. The vehicle also has a herd control element for herding animals and for segregating one or more of the animals from other animals in the herd. Also the vehicle includes an extendible disinfecting member for disinfecting at least portions of the stable as well as parts of animals in the stable or meadow. An alarm is provided on the vehicle for alerting an operator that an animal is ill or acting abnormally. The vehicle also carries a mechanism to analyze manure on the stable floor.

摘要翻译： 一种在诸如牛棚或用于草地的稳定器中使用或用于两者的无人驾驶车辆，其具有用于确定稳定区域或草地中的动物的健康和行为的检测组件。 检测部件包括动物识别系统，其包括雷达和红外相机。 动物配有识别反射器。 车辆还具有用于放牧动物并将一个或多个动物与群体中其他动物隔离的群体控制元件。 车辆还包括用于对稳定区域或草甸中的动物的稳定部分和部分的至少部分进行消毒的可扩展消毒构件。 在车辆上提供警报以警告操作者动物生病或异常行动。 车辆还具有分析稳定地板上粪便的机制。