PICK-AND-PLACE SYSTEM AND METHOD
    1.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240262638A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-08

    申请号:US18163812

    申请日:2023-02-02

    IPC分类号: B65G47/90

    CPC分类号: B65G47/907 B65G2201/0294

    摘要: A pick-and-place system includes a rigid elongate strongback, configured to be supported by a robotic arm of a robotic device. In addition, the pick-and-place system includes a plurality of actuator-clamp assemblies, mountable in spaced relation to each other on the strongback. Each actuator-clamp assembly includes one or more jaw assemblies, each configured to clamp onto a localized segment of a workpiece. Each actuator-clamp assembly also includes a multi-axis actuator, configured to couple the one or more jaw assemblies to the strongback and adjust an orientation of the localized segment prior to placement of the workpiece onto a mating structure.

    AUTOMATED MULTI-ARM ROBOTIC  SYSTEM
    2.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240217756A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-04

    申请号:US18402653

    申请日:2024-01-02

    IPC分类号: B65G47/31 B65G47/32 B65G47/90

    摘要: A conveyance system includes an in-feed conveyor for conveying a high density flow of a plurality of parcels. The system further includes a first pick conveyor configured for being selectively activated and deactivated in order to space out the plurality of parcels and turn the high density flow into a low density flow of parcels. A second pick conveyor is in series with and downstream of the first pick conveyor. The system further includes a first place conveyor and a second place conveyor in series with and downstream of the first place conveyor. A first robot is configured for transferring parcels from the first pick conveyor to the first place conveyor. A second robot is configured for transferring parcels from the second pick conveyor to the second place conveyor. As such, robots each have their own dedicated workspace and do not interfere with each other.

    Robot for simultaneous substrate transfer

    公开(公告)号:US11948817B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-02

    申请号:US17965491

    申请日:2022-10-13

    摘要: Exemplary substrate processing systems may include a transfer region housing defining an internal volume. A sidewall of the transfer region housing may define a sealable access for providing and receiving substrates. The systems may include a plurality of substrate supports disposed within the transfer region. The systems may also include a transfer apparatus having a central hub including a first shaft and a second shaft concentric with and counter-rotatable to the first shaft. The transfer apparatus may include a first end effector coupled with the first shaft. The first end effector may include a plurality of first arms. The transfer apparatus may also include a second end effector coupled with the second shaft. The second end effector may include a plurality of second arms having a number of second arms equal to the number of first arms of the first end effector.

    Method for transporting a blister strip of ophthalmic lenses into an autoclave magazine

    公开(公告)号:US11851291B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-12-26

    申请号:US17173461

    申请日:2021-02-11

    申请人: ALCON INC.

    IPC分类号: B65G47/90 A45C11/00 A61F2/16

    摘要: A method for transporting a blister strip of ophthalmic lenses: only one single blister strip is provided at a start location and one magazine compartment of two magazine compartments contains n blister strips while the other magazine compartment contains n+1 blister strips, the single buster strip is picked up at the start location by one of the gripper units of a first gripper and is transported into that magazine compartment containing the n blister strips, by moving the first gripper to that magazine compartment containing the n blister strips and releasing the single blister strip from the first gripper into that magazine compartment, or by moving the first gripper to a hand-over station and releasing the single blister strip from the first gripper into the hand-over station, transporting the single blister strip from the hand-over station into that magazine compartment containing the n blister strips using a second gripper.

    TROUGH MANIPULATOR AND METHOD FOR LIFTING OBJECTS AND TROUGH

    公开(公告)号:US20230321844A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-12

    申请号:US18042908

    申请日:2021-08-24

    摘要: This disclosure presents a manipulator for lifting objects and an upwards open container within which the objects are at least partly arranged. The manipulator includes a first object engaging device for engaging a first object, a second object engaging device for engaging a second object. The manipulation is configured for forcing the first and second objects apart when engaged by the first and second object engaging devices, such that the objects exert an internal force on the container. The disclosure also presents a method for lifting objects and an upwards open container.

    Variable pitch device
    7.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11780685B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-10

    申请号:US17125170

    申请日:2020-12-17

    申请人: SMC CORPORATION

    发明人: Takeshi Seo

    摘要: A variable pitch device includes a body, a drive unit fixed to the body, a plurality of movable fingers disposed movably along a longitudinal direction of the body, and a driving force transmission mechanism that transmits a driving force of the drive unit to the movable fingers. The driving force transmission mechanism is formed of a connecting block connected to an end block driven in a vertical direction, a cam plate accommodated in the body and connected to the connecting block, and four finger pins inserted through first to fourth cam grooves of the cam plate. The finger pins are disposed movably in the longitudinal direction along guide holes of the body and connected to the movable fingers.

    SUBSTRATE HOLDING APPARATUS
    8.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230234791A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-07-27

    申请号:US18009494

    申请日:2021-05-31

    发明人: Shinya KINOSHITA

    IPC分类号: B65G47/90

    CPC分类号: B65G47/907

    摘要: A substrate holding apparatus includes a base and holders attached to the base to hold substrates. The holders is aligned in a predetermined alignment direction, and is attached to the base so as to be detachable in parallel with a reference plane as a plane crossing the alignment direction.

    Transport device
    9.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US09685360B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-06-20

    申请号:US14471203

    申请日:2014-08-28

    申请人: Daifuku Co., Ltd.

    发明人: Tomotaka Kinugawa

    摘要: A transport device includes a large-article drive portion that moves each of a pair of large-article supporting portions between a large-article supporting position and a large-article retracted position, and a small-article drive portion that moves each of a pair of small-article supporting portions between a small-article supporting position and a small-article retracted position. The small-article retracted position is set at a height at which the pair of small-article supporting portions are located above a supported portion supported by the pair of large-article supporting portions, and the pair of small-article supporting portions are provided between the pair of large-article supporting portions in a lateral width direction.

    Robotic container reorganizer
    10.
    发明授权
    Robotic container reorganizer 有权
    机器人重组器

    公开(公告)号:US09365366B2

    公开(公告)日:2016-06-14

    申请号:US14313226

    申请日:2014-06-24

    发明人: Michael Girtman

    摘要: A robotic container reorganizer has a robot arm that holds a robotic tool. The robotic tool can reconfigure a plurality of articles from a first configuration to a second configuration. The robotic arm may pick up a collection of articles in a first configuration with the robotic tool, and may reconfigure the articles with the robotic tool into a second configuration. The second configuration of articles may be set down after reconfiguration. The first configuration of articles has a first width and a first length, and the second configuration has a second length and a second width. The first width and the first length of the first configuration differ from the second width and the second length of the second configuration.

    摘要翻译: 机器人容器重组器具有保持机器人工具的机器人手臂。 机器人工具可以将多个物品从第一配置重新配置到第二配置。 机器人手臂可以用机器人工具拾取具有第一配置的物品的集合,并且可以用机器人工具将物品重新配置成第二配置。 重新配置后可以设置第二个配置文件。 物品的第一构造具有第一宽度和第一长度,并且第二构造具有第二长度和第二宽度。 第一构造的第一宽度和第一长度不同于第二构造的第二宽度和第二长度。