| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
|---|
| 119140020 |
Methods of milking
| 167 |
| 119140030 |
Milking station arrangements; e.g., parlors
| 68 |
| 119140080 |
With automatic control
| 63 |
| 119140470 |
Teat compressor or cup
| 49 |
| 119140180 |
Combined
| 18 |
| 119140140 |
With signals, indicators, registers, and timers
| 7 |
| 119140540 |
Claw
| 6 |
| 119140100 |
With supporting means | 5 |
| 20080282986 | Milking Machine Hose Support - A device for supporting milk and/or vacuum conduits ( | 11-20-2008 |
| 20080202429 | Milking Device - The invention refers to a milking device for milking an animal during a milking operation. A milking member ( | 08-28-2008 |
| 20090078206 | AUTOMATIC MILKING APPARATUS FOR LABORATORY ANIMALS - An automatic milking apparatus for laboratory animals that can facilitate and stabilize the positioning of a teat cup | 03-26-2009 |
| 20110168095 | Breakaway arm for a rotary milker unit detacher - A dairy milker unit detacher having a milker unit support arm that resists damage and breakage by incorporating a breakaway mechanism that disengages and then automatically or easily returns the support arm to a functional arrangement when a dairy animal or other force engages the support arm. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20140060436 | Milking Cluster and Milking Parlor Having Such a Milking Cluster - A milking cluster used for milking a dairy animal in a milking parlor, the milking cluster including a teat cup unit, a teat cup, a drive device, a hose arrangement joined to the teat cup, a hose guide engaging the hose arrangement, and a flexible element that pivots the hose guide between a fixed position and a second position. | 03-06-2014 |
| 119140270 |
With fluid compression | 4 |
| 20120067289 | Electrically isolated milk pump - A milk pump that is connected to, but electrically isolated from dairy lines, pipes, and other electrically conductive components using insulators in the milk pump between a motor and a pump. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20090064937 | Milking device provided with cleansing means - Device for pneumatically milking a cow, comprising a number of milk extractors, each comprising a teat cup as well as milk line connected to the lower end of the teat cup, which line leads from the teat cup to a collection chamber for the milk from the teat cup, each milk extractor being provided with a supply for a cleansing medium, such as a disinfectant, to the teat cup, in particular to a teat present in the teat cup, the supply comprising a line having an end portion with discharge end, and each milk extractor being provided with means for closing off the passage of the milk extraction at or downstream of the discharge end of the line for cleansing medium, preferably at that level, when discharging the cleansing medium, the closing means comprising a reciprocating closing body that can be moved between a position leaving the passage of the milk extractor free and a position closing it off, the closing body being provided with a squirt line forming the end portion with discharge end of the line for supply of cleansing medium, and being positioned to debouch into the milk extractor, particularly the milk line, when in the closing-off position. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20190141942 | MILKING SYSTEM AND METHOD | 05-16-2019 |
| 20110120379 | Gripper device, robot arm, and milking robot - A griper device mountable on a robot arm of a milking robot provided for automatically attach teat cups to the teats of a milking animal, the gripper device comprises an electromagnet from gripping teat cups made of a magnetic material, the electromagnet including a coil feedable with a current a core of a magnetic material arranged at least partly within the coil; and a support structure for holding the electromagnet. The core comprises two end and portions in a single face of the electromagnet wherein the two end portions constitute different poles of the electromagnet and are shaped to be engagable with each of the teat cups in a close fit. | 05-26-2011 |
| 119140190 |
Catheter | 2 |
| 20100162959 | HOSE ELEMENT - A hose element is configured for a milking device. The hose element includes a first end ( | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100180822 | MILKING SYSTEM - A milking system for extracting milk from milk producing animals and especially with elements for taking samples of the extracted milk includes in a flow direction from the animal: milk extracting elements for attachment to the animal, a milk conduit and a suction source, wherein the suction source is arranged to provide a vacuum to draw milk from the animal to a container. The milk extracting elements are adapted to provide air and milk intermittently into the milk conduit and are connected to the container via the milk conduit. The system also includes a milk sample conduit which is connected to the milk conduit. The milk conduit includes a bend for creating acceleration forces in the flow, and the sample conduit is connected to the milk conduit at the bend so as to sample milk subjected to the acceleration forces. | 07-22-2010 |
| 119140450 |
With nonuse securing means | 2 |
| 20110226184 | ARRANGEMENT FOR GRIPPING AT LEAST ONE TEAT CUP - An arrangement for gripping at least one teat cup (1). The arrangement includes a storing device ( | 09-22-2011 |
| 20130019807 | POSITIONING SYSTEM FOR AT LEAST ONE FLEXIBLE TUBULAR ELEMENT CONNECTED TO A CUP-SHAPED MEMBER - A positioning system for at least one flexible tubular element ( | 01-24-2013 |
| 119140430 |
With receiver between teat cups and pump; e.g., vacuum pump | 1 |
| 20160066531 | A CARTRIDGE, AND A TEAT CUP - A teatcup to be attached to a teat of an animal to be milked includes a connector and a cartridge received in the connector. The cartridge includes a sleeve having an upper end and a lower end, a teatcup liner mounted in the sleeve and having an inner space for receiving the teat, and a pulsation chamber provided between the sleeve and the teatcup liner. The teatcup liner includes an upper end portion located at the upper end of the sleeve, a barrel portion and a lower end portion extending beyond the lower end of the sleeve. The lower end portion forms an end nozzle extending beyond the lower end of the sleeve and having a circumferential external surface. An annular seal element is provided at the circumferential external surface to seal between the lower end nozzle and the connector. | 03-10-2016 |
| 119140050 |
Releasers | 1 |
| 20130239898 | DAIRY ANIMAL TREATMENT SYSTEM - There is provided a method and system for connecting a teat cup ( | 09-19-2013 |
| 119140090 |
With cooling means | 1 |
| 20170231188 | COOLING SYSTEM FOR COOLING A FLOW OF MILK, MILK STORAGE FACILITY, MILKING SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR RECONFIGURING A COOLING SYSTEM | 08-17-2017 |
| 119140240 |
With mechanical compression | 1 |
| 20110168098 | COPULSATION MILKING SYSTEM - There is provided a method for improving the reliability and performance of a valve device that transitions between the pressure and vacuum phases for the purpose of milking animals. The improvement reduces physical wear of the movable parts within the valve device while ensuring proper function of said movable parts. | 07-14-2011 |
| 119140460 |
Receiver | 1 |
| 20160007559 | A MILK CONDUIT, A MILK CONDUIT DEVICE, A MILK-RECEIVING MEMBER AND A MILKING MEMBER | 01-14-2016 |
| Entries |
| Document | Title | Date |
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| 20090217879 | RIBBED HOSE FOR MILK EXTRACTION - A hose used for extracting milk has an outer wall; an inner wall; at least two ribs formed on the outer wall; and at least one recess formed between said at least two ribs. A milk extraction system has a hose having an outer wall; an inner wall; a plurality of ribs formed on said outer wall, and the ribs extend beyond an outer perimeter of the outer wall. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20100012038 | SYSTEM FOR MANAGING A GROUP OF DAIRY ANIMALS - A system for managing a group of dairy animals to be milked fully automatically, where the dairy animals go through a lactation cycle comprising phases of calving, inmilking, producing milk, and being dry. The system includes a computer executing program instructions for recording information and processing data indicating a division of the group of dairy animals into subgroups of a plurality of dairy animals, an insemination period determined per subgroup within which the dairy animals of the subgroup concerned are to be inseminated, which insemination period is so short that substantially all dairy animals in the subgroup concerned go simultaneously through the lactation cycle, and a separation of pregnant dairy animals of at least one of the subgroups in a separate area, around the beginning of the being dry phase of the subgroup concerned. The system also includes at least one milking robot for automatically milking the dairy animals, operatively connected to the computer for receiving first instructions from the computer for milking the dairy animals in the non-separated subgroups, and second instructions from the computer for milking the dairy animals in the separated subgroup in the separate area. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100282171 | ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING THROUGHPUT IN A ROTARY MILKING SYSTEM - A method for improving the throughput of milking animals in a rotary milking system including a rotary platform, which milking animals enter and leave in a sequential order in order to be milked provides that a plurality of milking animals to be milked by the rotary milking system are identified; a measure indicative of the expected time required for performing at least one action on the rotary platform with respect to each of the milking animals is retrieved; and the milking animals are allowed to enter the rotary platform of the rotary milking system in an order, which is based on the measures indicative of the expected times required for performing the at least one action on the rotary platform with respect to the milking animals. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100326359 | MILKING STATION ARRANGEMENT FOR AND METHOD OF OBTAINING A REPRESENTATIVE MILKING SAMPLE - An arrangement for and method of providing a representative sample of milk from one animal, after stirring the milk, includes a receiver, milk extracting parts, a pump transferring milk from the receiver to a sample unit, a circulation line extending from the receiver via the pump and back to the receiver, for stirring the milk in the receiver. The arrangement stirs the extracted milk without injecting air into the milk, before a sample part of the milk is transferred from the receiver to the milk-sampling unit, thereby ensuring that the sampled part is representative of the milk from one animal. | 12-30-2010 |
