公开(公告)号：US20060006190A1

公开(公告)日：2006-01-12

申请号：US10886494

申请日：2004-07-07

申请人： Jason Janet ,  David Reinfeld

发明人： Jason Janet ,  David Reinfeld

IPC分类号： B23Q7/04 ,  B65G59/04

CPC分类号： G07F11/44 ,  A61J7/02 ,  G06F19/00 ,  G07F17/0092

摘要： Disclosed is a system for collecting, sorting, counting and consolidating an unorganized pool of solid or semi-solid articles such as pills for dispensation. Specifically, the articles are extracted from inside a bin using attraction points on a transport substrate and sorted into containers in finite quantities. The system consists of several components, preferably including a torque source, a counter and a vacuum source, which are uniquely integrated onto a single end-effector to reduce cost and redundancy by servicing several bins. Further, the system presents a method of attracting and carrying pills using negative vacuum pressure, gravity and centrifugal force. This centrifugal force holds articles to the local attraction points and is provided by the spinning of the transport substrate. Pills are collected from the bin or plenum at the local attraction points, counted, cleaved from the local attraction points and guided to a container or vial.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种用于收集，分类，计数和整合无组织的固体或半固体制品池（如用于分配的药丸）的系统。 具体地说，使用传送基板上的吸引点从箱体内取出物品，并将其分类成有限量的容器。 该系统由几个组件组成，优选地包括扭矩源，计数器和真空源，其被独特地集成到单个末端执行器上，以通过维修多个箱来降低成本和冗余。 此外，该系统提供使用负真空压力，重力和离心力吸引和携带药丸的方法。 该离心力将物品保持在局部吸引点上，并通过运送基板的旋转来提供。 药丸从当地吸引点的仓库或集气室收集，计数，从当地吸引点切割并引导到容器或小瓶。

公开(公告)号：US06378801B1

公开(公告)日：2002-04-30

申请号：US09371485

申请日：1999-08-10

申请人： Charles A. Pell ,  Hugh C. Crenshaw ,  Jason Janet ,  Mathieu Kemp

发明人： Charles A. Pell ,  Hugh C. Crenshaw ,  Jason Janet ,  Mathieu Kemp

IPC分类号： F41G700

CPC分类号： G05D1/108

摘要： A self-orienting device comprises: a housing; a sensor mounted to the housing that is sensitive to a signal field and configured to produce a signal responsive to the signal field; a translation-inducing unit associated with the housing; rotation-inducing unit attached to the housing, wherein the translation-inducing unit and the rotation-inducing unit are configured such that the housing travels along a helical trajectory having an axis and is free to rotate about the axis; and a controller operably associated with the sensor for controlling the output of at least one of the translation-inducing unit and the rotation-inducing unit, wherein the controller is configured such that it receives the signal from the sensor and, responsive to the signal, controls the output of at least one of the translation-inducing unit and said rotation-inducing unit. A device so configured can automatically orient to a signal. In this configuration, orientation is robust—wide variance in the parameters relating &ohgr; to signal intensity are tolerated. In fact, if &ohgr; changes as a function of signal intensity, then orientation to the signal is the only stable outcome. Exemplary signal fields for the device include light, magnetic fields, and gradients of temperature, chemical concentration and depth. The devices can be employed to perform such tasks as locating lost objects, identifying foreign objects, performing transect sampling, guiding munitions, disabling mines, delivering chemical agents, and the like.

摘要翻译： 自动定向装置包括：壳体; 安装到壳体的传感器，其对信号场敏感并且被配置为产生响应于信号场的信号; 与壳体相关联的翻译感应单元; 附接到壳体的旋转诱导单元，其中，所述平移感应单元和所述旋转感应单元被构造成使得所述壳体沿着具有轴线的螺旋轨迹行进并且围绕所述轴线自由旋转; 以及与所述传感器可操作地相关联的控制器，用于控制所述转换感应单元和所述旋转感应单元中的至少一个的输出，其中所述控制器被配置为使得所述控制器从所述传感器接收所述信号，并且响应于所述信号， 控制转换感应单元和旋转感应单元中的至少一个的输出。 如此配置的设备可以自动地定向到信号。 在这种配置中，相对于信号强度相关参数的方位是稳健的方差。 事实上，如果欧米茄随着信号强度的变化而变化，那么信号的方向是唯一稳定的结果。 器件的示例性信号场包括光，磁场和温度梯度，化学浓度和深度。 可以使用这些装置执行诸如定位丢失的物体，识别异物，执行横断面取样，引导弹药，禁止地雷，输送化学试剂等的任务。