公开(公告)号：US12063907B2

公开(公告)日：2024-08-20

申请号：US16467701

申请日：2017-11-27

申请人： LELY PATENT N.V.

发明人： Gerard Mostert ,  Rik Steenbergen ,  Frans Emo Diderik Van Halsema

IPC分类号： A01J5/013 ,  A01J5/01 ,  A01J5/08

CPC分类号： A01J5/0135 ,  A01J5/01 ,  A01J5/08

摘要： A milking system for milking a dairy animal includes a milking cup and a measuring chamber which is in flow communication with the milking cup for the obtained milk where the chamber has a sensor system for measuring at least one property of the milk. The sensor system includes at least three optical sensor devices, each configured to measure values of a property of the milk, and a sensor control unit for actuating the sensor system and for processing the measured values. The sensor control unit is configured to repeatedly select one of the sensor devices. Two of the optical sensor devices are identical, and the sensor system is configured to in each case measure the local value of the property of the milk and to determine a value of the at least one property of the milk in the measuring chamber on the basis of the values measured locally.

公开(公告)号：US11510389B2

公开(公告)日：2022-11-29

申请号：US17014053

申请日：2020-09-08

申请人： GEA Farm Technologies, Inc.

发明人： Nathan Hedlund ,  Terry Thornton

IPC分类号： A01J5/08 ,  A01J5/06

摘要： A milker unit teat cup assembly for dairy animals having a shell and liner combination that resists twisting by the liner barrel relative to the shell using a recess in the liner that is spaced apart from the longitudinal axis in the liner and engaged by a key in the shell.

公开(公告)号：US20220346343A1

公开(公告)日：2022-11-03

申请号：US17283093

申请日：2020-09-18

申请人： TOKUYAMA CORPORATION

发明人： Hitoshi Kondo ,  Yoji Inui

IPC分类号： A01J5/08

摘要： A liner for a teat cup of a milking device is provided. The liner has a cylindrical shape and including: a bore part in a cylindrical shell to form a space between an inner surface of the shell and the bore part, and elastically deformable; a mouthpiece part disposed at one end of the bore part and closing one end of the shell, and being configured to allow a teat to be inserted therethrough and provided with a vent; a short milk tube part disposed at the other end of the bore part, closing the other end of the shell, and allowing milk from the teat at the bore part to flow therethrough; and a groove shaped vent line on an inner surface of the liner and extending on the bore part from the vent.

公开(公告)号：US20220312719A1

公开(公告)日：2022-10-06

申请号：US17219418

申请日：2021-03-31

申请人： Stanley BROWN ,  Jason LEGASSICK

发明人： Stanley BROWN ,  Jason LEGASSICK

IPC分类号： A01J5/08

摘要： A teat cup liner is disclosed that includes an attachment section having an opening therein, a barrel joined to and in fluid communication with the attachment section, and a tube section, joined to and in fluid communication with the barrel. The barrel includes a transition section and a triangular section. A combined length of the attachment section and the transition section is (i) from 5.5 to 8.5 cm long, (ii) an average teat length (after elongation), optionally minus a minimum uniform pressure length, ±20%, or (iii) 40-65% of a combined length of the attachment section and the barrel. Alternatively, the transition section has a surface with a slope of less than 0.3, where the slope is defined by a change in the radius of the barrel in the transition section relative to the length of the transition section. The tube section includes a connection mechanism.

公开(公告)号：US11330791B2

公开(公告)日：2022-05-17

申请号：US16762528

申请日：2018-11-06

申请人： DELAVAL HOLDING AB

发明人： Kamlesh Rajasekaran ,  Nils Älveby

IPC分类号： A01J5/00 ,  A01J5/08

摘要： A teatcup to be attached to the teat of an animal and a teatcup liner (1) for mounting in a shell (2) of the teatcup, where the teatcup liner includes a barrel (3) enclosing an inner space (7) for receiving the teat. The barrel includes a lower section (3′) and an upper section (3″) adjoining the lower section. The barrel has a polygonal cross-sectional shape, defining a plurality of side portions (18) and a plurality of corner portions (19), each connecting two of the side portions. Each side portion has a side wall thickness at a center line of the side portion. Each corner portion has a corner wall thickness at a center line of the corner portion. The corner wall thickness is thicker than the side wall thickness along the barrel. The corner wall thickness decreases along the upper section of the barrel towards the lower section.

公开(公告)号：US20220079107A1

公开(公告)日：2022-03-17

申请号：US17534579

申请日：2021-11-24

申请人： GEA Farm Technologies GmbH

发明人： Thomas Grüter ,  Benedikt Schürmann

IPC分类号： A01J5/06 ,  A01J5/08 ,  A01J5/04

摘要： The present invention provides a rubber teat element which, on account of the radial expandability of the head part, is able to adapt to different teat geometries, in particular in the case where an animal has small, thin and short teats. A teat cup and a milking cluster with a corresponding rubber teat element are also provided.

公开(公告)号：US11116173B2

公开(公告)日：2021-09-14

申请号：US16098780

申请日：2017-05-03

申请人： DELAVAL HOLDING AB

发明人： David Samuelsson ,  Anna Andersson

IPC分类号： A01J5/08 ,  A01J5/16

摘要： A teatcup and a cartridge insertable into a connector of the teatcup to be attached to the teat of an animal to be milked are disclosed. The cartridge includes an elongated sleeve, having an upper end section and a lower end section, and a teatcup liner pre-mounted in the elongated sleeve. The teatcup liner includes an upper end portion located at the upper end section, a lower end portion located at the lower end section, and a barrel portion extending between the upper end portion and the lower end portion. The elongated sleeve includes three separate primary hook members provided circumferentially after each other on an outer surface of the elongated sleeve. Each primary hook member has a lower slide surface sloping upwardly and outwardly, and an upper hook surface extending inwardly.

公开(公告)号：US10548291B2

公开(公告)日：2020-02-04

申请号：US15536876

申请日：2015-12-14

申请人： DELAVAL HOLDING AB

发明人： Johanna Appelquist ,  Thomas Johansson

IPC分类号： A01J5/08 ,  A01J5/04

摘要： A teatcup includes a sleeve, a teacup liner provided in the sleeve, and a milk receptacle including a milk space. An inlet channel extends between an inner space of the teatcup liner and the milk space for conveying milk from a teat into the milk space. An outlet channel extends from the milk space and is connectable to a milk conduit for conveying the milk in a milk flow from the milk space. A gas supply channel conveys a gas into the milk space for promoting the milk flow. The gas supply channel has an inlet communicating with a gas source, and an outlet into the milk space. The milk space is partly delimited by a side wall. The gas supply channel extends within the side wall and along a surface of the side wall.

公开(公告)号：US10383305B1

公开(公告)日：2019-08-20

申请号：US16157673

申请日：2018-10-11

申请人： Technologies Holdings Corp.

发明人： Mark A. Foresman ,  Bradley J. Prevost ,  Marijn Van Aart ,  Peter Willem van der Sluis ,  Alireza Janani

IPC分类号： A01J5/00 ,  A01J5/007 ,  A01J5/017 ,  A01K1/12 ,  A01J7/04 ,  A01K11/00 ,  A01J5/08

摘要： A leg (205) detection system comprising: a robotic arm (200) comprising a gripping portion (208) for holding a teat cup (203, 210) for attaching to a teat (1102, 1104, 1106, 1108, 2038, 203) of a diary livestock (200, 202, 203); an imaging system coupled to the robotic arm (200) and configured to capture a first three-dimensional (3D) image (138, 2400, 2500) of a rearview of the dairy livestock (200, 202, 203) in a stall (402), the imaging system comprising a 3D camera (136, 138) or a laser (132), wherein each pixel of the first 3D image (138, 2400, 2500) is associated with a depth value; one or more memory (104) devices configured to store a reference (3D) 3D image (138, 2400, 2500) of the stall (402) without any dairy livestock (200, 202, 203); and a processor (102) communicatively coupled to the imaging system and the one or more memory (104) devices, the processor (102) configured to: access the first 3D image (138, 2400, 2500) and the reference (3D) 3D image (138, 2400, 2500); subtract the first 3D image (138, 2400, 2500) from the reference (3D) 3D image (138, 2400, 2500) to produce a second 3D image (138, 2400, 2500); perform morphological image (138, 2400, 2500) processing on the second 3D image (138, 2400, 2500) to produce a third 3D image (138, 2400, 2500); perform image (138, 2400, 2500) thresholding on the third 3D image (138, 2400, 2500) to produce a fourth 3D image (138, 2400, 2500); cluster (2616, 2618, 2626, 2628) data from the fourth 3D image (138, 2400, 2500); identify, using the clustered data from the fourth 3D image (138, 2400, 2500) to avoid the identified one or more legs (205) while attaching the teat cup (203, 210) to the teat (1102, 1104, 1106, 1108, 203S, 203) of the dairy livestock (200, 202, 203).

公开(公告)号：US10285378B2

公开(公告)日：2019-05-14

申请号：US15009297

申请日：2016-01-28

申请人： Technologies Holdings Corp.

发明人： Bradley A. Schaller ,  Robert J. Godfrey

IPC分类号： A01J5/02 ,  A01J5/08

摘要： A milking cup comprising a body having a top portion and a bottom portion. The top portion has a first lip formed thereon and the bottom portion has a second lip formed thereon. The first lip and the second lip are separated by a distance. The milking cup further comprises a rotating shell positioned between and secured by the first lip and the second lip, wherein the rotating shell encircles the body and is operable to rotate around the body independently of the movement of the other portions of the body. The rotating shell has a length that corresponds to the distance between the first lip and the second lip.