公开(公告)号：US12162700B2

公开(公告)日：2024-12-10

申请号：US17987992

申请日：2022-11-16

Applicant: G.D S.p.A.

Inventor： Giovanni Madera ,  Fabio Roversi ,  Luca Lanzarini

IPC: B65G54/02 ,  A24F40/70 ,  B65G17/32

Abstract: A conveyor for transporting assembled or semi-assembled cartridges for electronic cigarettes includes a rail extending along a path and a carriage movable on the rail and including a unit for housing cartridge that includes: a seat on which a single cartridge is received; first and second levers positioned on opposite sides of the seat, and being reciprocally rotatable between an open position, to allow the arrangement and/or picking-up of a cartridge, and a closed position, to retain the cartridge in its receiving position on the seat; a follower member for bringing the first lever into rotation as a result of a pushing action executed on the follower member. The housing unit includes a gear mechanism for rotationally connecting the first and second levers, so that the rotation of the first lever induced by the follower member causes, via the gear mechanism, a corresponding rotation of the second lever.

公开(公告)号：US11576439B2

公开(公告)日：2023-02-14

申请号：US16768100

申请日：2018-11-22

Applicant: G.D S.p.A.

Inventor： Giovanni Madera ,  Luca Lanzarini ,  Luca Testoni ,  Luca Federici

IPC: A24F13/00 ,  A24F17/00 ,  A24F25/00 ,  A24F40/70 ,  A24F40/42 ,  B65B3/04 ,  B65B7/28 ,  B65G47/84 ,  A24F40/10

Abstract: A welding station for welding parts of electronic cigarettes includes feeding means, set in a feeding area for feeding parts of electronic cigarettes to be welded; welding means, set in a welding area, downstream of the feeding area, for welding the parts of electronic cigarettes; and a transfer device, set between the feeding means and the welding means for receiving from the feeding means the parts of electronic cigarettes to be welded and transferring them from the feeding area to the welding area. The transfer device includes a first transfer sector and a second transfer sector, pre-arranged for receiving from the feeding means, respectively, first parts and second parts of electronic cigarettes to be welded and transferring them into the welding area. The first transfer sector and the second transfer sector are mobile in rotation about an axis, independently of one another.

公开(公告)号：US10994353B2

公开(公告)日：2021-05-04

申请号：US15264817

申请日：2016-09-14

Applicant: G.D S.p.A.

Inventor： Michael Andre Lemay ,  Giovanni Madera ,  Enrico Medina ,  Alessandro Venturi ,  Alexander Shneyder ,  Massimo Sartoni ,  Luca Federici

IPC: B23K1/00 ,  B23K1/005 ,  B23K1/19 ,  B23K26/0622 ,  B23K26/08 ,  A24F47/00 ,  B23K101/36 ,  B23K101/38

Abstract: A laser soldering device for laser soldering an electric circuit of a heating portion of an electronic cigarette, the soldering device including a head having an emitting area where a laser beam is emitted and a feeding device to feed a heating portion of an electronic cigarette along a feed path, where the heating portion faces the head at the emitting area. A movement device is operatively connected to the head to move the head between first and second points of the electric circuit such that the laser beam is perpendicular to the respective surface to be soldered at the first and second points to form first and second connections, respectively. The head generates two distinct pulses of the laser beam at the first and second points.