公开(公告)号：US20240301618A1

公开(公告)日：2024-09-12

申请号：US18669901

申请日：2024-05-21

申请人： Mihir Kothari

发明人： Mihir Kothari ,  Alexander Chan ,  Jeff Faye ,  Michael Infanger

IPC分类号： D06F93/00 ,  B07C5/02 ,  B07C5/342 ,  B07C5/36 ,  B65G47/90 ,  D06F95/00 ,  G06T7/00

CPC分类号： D06F93/00 ,  B07C5/02 ,  B07C5/3422 ,  B07C5/362 ,  B65G47/905 ,  D06F95/00 ,  G06T7/0002 ,  B65G2201/0229

摘要： A laundry system includes a robotic singulator. The robotic singulator includes an articulating arm and an end effector configured to grasp an item of laundry from a loading zone and to transport the item of laundry to a destination location. A camera is positioned in proximity to the end effector and configured to obtain at least one laundry image representing the item of laundry. A controller is configured to receive the at least one laundry image and create a point-cloud from the at least one image. A peak of the point-cloud is selected in reference to a reference point. The end effector is controlled to close on a predetermined position relative to the peak of the point-cloud to grasp the item of laundry. The articulating arm and effector are operated to release the item of laundry at the destination location.

公开(公告)号：US20240269711A1

公开(公告)日：2024-08-15

申请号：US18592751

申请日：2024-03-01

申请人： Berkshire Grey Operating Company, Inc.

发明人： Thomas WAGNER ,  Kevin AHEARN ,  Benjamin COHEN ,  Michael DAWSON-HAGGERTY ,  Christopher GEYER ,  Thomas KOLETSCHKA ,  Kyle MARONEY ,  Matthew T. MASON ,  Gene Temple PRICE ,  Joseph ROMANO ,  Daniel Carlton SMITH ,  Siddhartha SRINIVASA ,  Prasanna VELAGAPUDI ,  Thomas ALLEN

IPC分类号： B07C5/36 ,  B07C3/02 ,  B07C5/02 ,  B07C5/34 ,  B07C5/38 ,  B25J9/00 ,  B25J9/16 ,  B60P3/00 ,  B65G1/137

CPC分类号： B07C5/362 ,  B07C3/02 ,  B07C5/02 ,  B07C5/3412 ,  B07C5/38 ,  B25J9/0018 ,  B25J9/1679 ,  B60P3/007 ,  B65G1/1378

摘要： An object processing system within a trailer for a tracker trailer is discloses. The object processing system includes an input area of the trailer at which objects to be processed may be presented, a perception system for providing perception data regarding objects to be processed, and a primary transport system for providing transport of each object in one of at least two primary transport directions within the trailer based on the perception data.

公开(公告)号：US20240116081A1

公开(公告)日：2024-04-11

申请号：US18546106

申请日：2022-01-25

申请人： Körber Supply Chain Logistics GmbH

发明人： Oliver Schitthelm

IPC分类号： B07C5/342 ,  B07C5/36

CPC分类号： B07C5/342 ,  B07C5/362

摘要： An apparatus for classifying items in a logistic process including an item manipulating device that includes a plurality of conveying elements for moving items, a vision system configured to produce visual information of at least one item of the items that performs a movement caused by conveying elements of the plurality of conveying elements, and a control system configured to receive the visual information and to perform a classification of the at least one item dependent on the visual information into one more classes.

公开(公告)号：US11897001B2

公开(公告)日：2024-02-13

申请号：US17137995

申请日：2020-12-30

申请人： Ackley Machine Corporation

发明人： E. Michael Ackley ,  Mark Ford

IPC分类号： B07C5/342 ,  B07C5/34 ,  B07C5/36 ,  G01N21/88 ,  G01N21/95 ,  G01N21/85 ,  G01N21/84

CPC分类号： B07C5/3422 ,  B07C5/34 ,  B07C5/3412 ,  B07C5/362 ,  B07C5/363 ,  G01N21/85 ,  G01N21/8806 ,  G01N21/8851 ,  G01N21/9508 ,  G01N2021/845 ,  G01N2021/8592 ,  G01N2201/02 ,  G01N2201/062 ,  G01N2201/0621 ,  Y10T29/49826

摘要： An inspection system is configured for use with a conveyer apparatus including carrier bars. Each carrier bar conveys pellet-shaped articles along a predetermined path. The inspection system includes at least one camera unit for sensing a predetermined characteristic of the pellet-shaped articles, a removal unit, and a controller. The removal unit, downstream from the at least one camera unit, removes selected pellet-shaped article(s) from the carrier bar(s) depending on whether the characteristic is sensed by the at least one camera unit. The controller is in communication with the at least one camera unit and the removal unit. The controller provides a signal to the removal unit in accordance with the sensed characteristic. The removal unit includes a rotatable ejection drum having extended vacuum nozzles along its length, equal to the number of articles conveyed in each carrier bar. Each vacuum nozzle selectively removes article(s) from the carrier bar(s) by suction.

公开(公告)号：US11858008B2

公开(公告)日：2024-01-02

申请号：US17706432

申请日：2022-03-28

申请人： CYTONOME/ST, LLC

发明人： Gary Durack ,  William J. Williams, V

IPC分类号： B07C5/34 ,  B07C5/342 ,  B07C5/36

CPC分类号： B07C5/3425 ,  B07C5/362

摘要： Systems and methods for particle sorting are presented including a monitoring system downstream of a particle separator or sorter. The system can utilize the monitoring system to adjust or calibrate operational parameters of the system in real time. When a particle of interest is mis-sorted, the probability is high that the particle of interest has been sorted into a non-targeted sortable unit that was adjacent in sequence to the sortable unit that was expected to include the particle of interest. The monitoring system monitors non-targeted sortable units in the system that were adjacent in sequence to targeted sortable units that are predicted to contain particles of interest. Signals from the monitoring system enable automated adjustment or calibration of operational parameters of the system such as sort delay or purity mask parameters.

公开(公告)号：US11851293B2

公开(公告)日：2023-12-26

申请号：US17748479

申请日：2022-05-19

申请人： Material Handling Systems, Inc.

发明人： Carl David Graston ,  Thomas Anthony Hillerich, Jr. ,  Paul Receveur

IPC分类号： B65G47/96 ,  B65G43/08 ,  B65G47/78 ,  B07C5/36

CPC分类号： B65G47/96 ,  B07C5/362 ,  B65G43/08 ,  B65G47/78 ,  B65G2201/0285 ,  B65G2203/0208 ,  B65G2203/041

摘要： A trapdoor rejection subsystem includes one or more trapdoor rejection mechanisms. Each trapdoor rejection mechanism is configured to be selectively transitioned between a closed position to support parcels and an open position to allow parcels identified as unconveyable to pass through the trapdoor rejection mechanism. Each trapdoor rejection mechanism includes a first door, a second door, and one or more actuators which can be selectively actuated to rotate the first door and the second door and transition the trapdoor rejection mechanism between the closed position and the open position. The trapdoor rejection subsystem can be utilized in a conveyor system in combination with one or more robot singulators, an upstream conveyor, a place conveyor, and a vision and control subsystem. Detection of unconveyable parcels and the transition of each trapdoor rejection mechanism of the trapdoor rejection subsystem is controlled by the vision and control subsystem.

公开(公告)号：US11826790B2

公开(公告)日：2023-11-28

申请号：US17815476

申请日：2022-07-27

申请人： Ishida Co., Ltd.

发明人： Shuichi Maeda ,  Yujiro Obayashi ,  Masaaki Hojo

IPC分类号： B07C5/28 ,  B07C5/24 ,  B07C5/36 ,  B65G11/00 ,  B65G47/12 ,  B65G47/90

CPC分类号： B07C5/28 ,  B07C5/24 ,  B07C5/362 ,  B65G11/00 ,  B65G47/12 ,  B65G47/905 ,  B65G47/907

摘要： An article discharge system includes a placement unit in which the article group is placed, plural grippers, a movable member, a robot that moves the movable member, weight acquisition units, and a control unit. The plural grippers grip some articles with gripping member. The plural grippers are attached to the movable member. The weight acquisition units acquire weight values of the articles that each of the grippers grips. The control unit moves the movable member, brings the plural grippers closer to the placement unit, causes the plural grippers to grip some of the articles of the article group placed in the placement unit, and, based on the result of a combination calculation using the weight values of the articles that each of the grippers grips and which the weight acquisition units have acquired, causes predetermined grippers among the plural grippers to release the articles and thereby discharge the articles.

公开(公告)号：US20230356265A1

公开(公告)日：2023-11-09

申请号：US18321958

申请日：2023-05-23

申请人： 9754741 Canada Ltd.

发明人： David Prystupa ,  John Pacak ,  Robert Kozakewich

IPC分类号： B07C5/36 ,  B07B13/16 ,  B65G47/14 ,  A01C1/08

CPC分类号： B07C5/36 ,  B07B13/16 ,  B65G47/1435 ,  B65G47/1457 ,  A01C1/08 ,  B07C5/362 ,  B07C2501/009 ,  B07B13/04

摘要： Particles are sorted into paths based on a measurable parameter by forming them into a stream in at least one duct carried on a body rotating around an axis where the duct is shaped so that the particles are accelerated to cause the particles separated into the duct to be aligned one after another in a row in the duct. The parameter of the particles are measured in the aligned stream one after the other and the particles are directed into one of a plurality of paths as determined by the measurement. In one arrangement the body comprises a disk member having a front face facing a supply conduit and the duct lies in a radial plane of the disk member. In one arrangement the measurement of the parameter is carried out by one or more measurement devices either carried on the disk or outside the edge of the disk.

公开(公告)号：US11745948B2

公开(公告)日：2023-09-05

申请号：US17488799

申请日：2021-09-29

申请人： Gachisoft Inc.

发明人： Ho Yon Kim

IPC分类号： B65G11/02 ,  B07C3/00 ,  B07C5/36

CPC分类号： B65G11/023 ,  B07C3/005 ,  B07C5/362 ,  B07C2501/0063 ,  G05D2201/0216

摘要： A method of sorting cargo using an automated guided vehicle is provided. The method of sorting cargo includes: recognizing the pieces of cargo; assigning a location of a carrier pocket into which the recognized cargo is loaded among the plurality of carrier pockets in the automated guided vehicle and a location of the destination chute from which the carrier pocket discharges the cargo; loading the cargo into the location of the assigned carrier pocket; for consecutively supplied pieces of cargo thereafter, repeatedly performing identifier information recognition of the cargo, location assignment, and cargo loading sequentially; sequentially discharging the pieces of cargo to the locations of the assigned destination chutes by allowing the automated guided vehicle into which all pieces of cargo are loaded to start and move along a movement path; and returning the automated guided vehicle after the automated guided vehicle has finished discharging.

公开(公告)号：US20190154599A1

公开(公告)日：2019-05-23

申请号：US16166640

申请日：2018-10-22

申请人： Mettler-Toledo, LLC

发明人： Kamil Kaminski ,  Ivana Nanut

IPC分类号： G01N23/083 ,  G01N23/18 ,  B65G47/46 ,  B07C5/36 ,  B65G47/82 ,  B65G43/00

CPC分类号： G01N23/083 ,  B07C5/362 ,  B65G43/00 ,  B65G47/46 ,  B65G47/82 ,  B65G2201/0235 ,  B65G2203/0208 ,  B65G2203/042 ,  B65G2207/30 ,  G01N23/04 ,  G01N23/18 ,  G01N2033/0081

摘要： In an X-ray inspection system (1), a reject bin (14) is split into a reject bin top (15) and a reject bin bottom (16) along a separation gap (17) which is arranged at the level of a transport section (21) of a conveyor belt loop (10) and runs uninterrupted from the outfeed opening (26) to the conveyor access opening (43) which, in turn, continues uninterrupted to the infeed opening (8). After a conveyor access door (19) has been opened and a tensioning mechanism (32) has been released, the conveyor belt loop can be taken out of the enclosure cabinet (5) by sliding the transport section (21) through the separation gap and the conveyor access opening and simultaneously slipping a return section (22) of the conveyor belt loop around the reject bin bottom.