| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 414796500 | Removes highest article first from stack | 38 |
| 20110164954 | APPARATUS FOR LOADING A RELATIVELY RIGID MATERIAL, FOR EXAMPLE CARDBOARD, AND RELATIVE LOADING METHOD - An apparatus for loading a relatively rigid material in sheets into an operating station of a processing plant, comprises at least a store for storing and feeding the sheets and a loading device. The loading device is provided at least with feed means, disposed downstream of the store with respect to the direction of feed of the sheets, and able to feed the sheets into the operating station. The apparatus also comprises detection means, disposed in correspondence with the feed means, able to detect both the position of the sheets with respect to the feed means, and also the size of the sheets fed. The detection means are also able to vary in a coordinated manner the operating conditions at least of the feed means according to the position and sizes detected. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20120251288 | FEEDER, FEEDING METHOD, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In one embodiment, there is provided a feeder that includes: a feed table on which a plurality of papers are staked in one direction, wherein some of the papers are bundled by a staple; a take-out module configured to sequentially take out the stacked papers from an outermost surface of the papers; a first detector configured to detect whether or not the staple exists in the papers within a distance h measured from the outermost surface; a controller configured to control the take-out module in a first mode or a second mode. When the staple is detected in the papers within the distance h, the controller controls the take-out module in the first mode. When the staple is not detected in the papers within the distance h, the controller controls the take-out module in the second mode. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120269610 | Medium Transporting Unit and Medium Processing Apparatus - A holding mechanism is operable to hold a top medium from a plurality of plate-shaped media accommodated in a stacker in a stacked manner. A transport arm supports the holding mechanism. When the lift mechanism lifts down the transport arm, one of a first elastic pressing force and a second elastic pressing force greater than the first elastic pressing force is selectively applied from the holding mechanism to an upper surface of the top medium. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20140341694 | ROBOTIC CARTON UNLOADER - A robotic carton unloader for automatic unloading of cartons from a carton pile stacked within a trailer. In various embodiments, a robotic carton unloader may comprise a conveyor system, a manipulator movably attached to an end of a robotic positioner and configured to dislodge one or more cartons from a carton pile; and a frame comprising a bumper configured to be pressed against the carton pile below one or more cartons being dislodged from the carton pile by the manipulator to stabilize the carton pile below the one or more cartons being dislodged; and a shelf configured to catch the one or more cartons dislodged from the carton pile and guide the one or more cartons dislodged from the carton pile onto the conveyor system. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20150139772 | APPARATUS FOR TRANSPORTING ARTICLES, IN PARTICULAR PACKAGING MEANS - The invention relates to a device for transporting objects, in particular packaging means, said device comprising a continuous conveying section ( | 05-21-2015 |
| 20160039618 | DEPALLETISER FOR TRAYS OF EGGS - Described is a depalletiser for trays of eggs, comprising a head movable in space and comprising a plurality of elements for forking a tray of eggs and a unit for controlling means for moving the head designed to control the movement of the head in space. More specifically, the depalletiser comprises image acquisition means which are facing the tray of eggs and designed to acquire at least an image of a predetermined side of the tray to be depalletised. The control unit is designed to process the image for the purpose of identifying the position in space of the empty areas of the predetermined side of the tray for insertion of the forking elements of the head. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160138279 | TILE ASSEMBLING APPARATUS - There is provided a tile assembling apparatus ( | 05-19-2016 |
| 414796700 | With stack elevating means | 5 |
| 20090081018 | CONTINUOUS BREAKDOWN HOISTS - A breakdown hoist has a secondary stage that permits continuous operation. The breakdown hoist may be run with the secondary stage disabled. In some embodiments a primary and secondary stage can discharge lumber simultaneously onto two conveyors. Providing two conveyors can increase surge capacity. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20110274530 | Apparatus for Placing Battery Plates in a Line - This invention relates to apparatus for placing battery plates in a line. This includes a pick up and release unit generally indicated at | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110286829 | COMPONENT FEEDING DEVICE - A feeding device includes a support mechanism, a movable platform, a driving mechanism mechanism, a clutching mechanism, and two or more holding mechanisms. The movable platform is movably connected to the support mechanism, and loads feed trays stacked together. The driving mechanism drives the movable platform to move relative to the support mechanism. The holding mechanisms are fixed on the support mechanism, and switch from a first position to a second position. When the holding mechanisms are positioned in the first position, the holding mechanisms grasp one feed tray adjacent to a feed tray at a top of the feed trays, and the clutching mechanism clutches the feed tray at the top of the feed trays. When the holding mechanisms are positioned in the second position, the holding mechanisms separate from the feed trays. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20120076632 | Apparatus for Placing Battery Plates - This invention relates to apparatus for placing battery plates in a line from a stack of plates including an elevator for receiving a stack of plates and sequentially elevating the stack to maintain, in use, the uppermost plate in the stack in a datum region lying between two parallel generally horizontal planes and a plurality of vacuum heads arranged in a closed loop for sequentially passing over the elevator with a fixed gap from the upper plane of the datum range for picking up the uppermost plate and for subsequently releasing the plate at a release position. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20140010626 | FEEDING DEVICE - A feeding device includes a housing, a first conveying mechanism mounted on the housing, and a distribution mechanism. The housing forming a receptacle space includes a top surface defining a receiving opening communicated with the receptacle space. The distribution mechanism includes a slide platform slidably mounted on the top surface, a distribution member, and elastic members. The slide platform defines an unloading opening communicated with the receiving opening and a mounting groove adjacent to the unloading opening. The distribution member is movably mounted in the mounting groove. The elastic member elastically resists the distribution member to protrude out from the unloading opening. The stacked feeding trays resist the distribution member to move away from the unloading opening. When the top feeding tray is moved above the distribution member, the distribution member retracts by an elastic force to separate the top feeding tray from the stacked feeding trays located below. | 01-09-2014 |
| 414796900 | Includes article gripping device | 25 |
| 20100172736 | AUTOMATIC PALLET EXCHANGE DEVICE - An automatic pallet exchange device includes: a pallet magazine | 07-08-2010 |
| 20110200419 | SHUTTLE-TYPE CONVEYING DEVICE, MICROPLATE FEEDING AND COLLECTING DEVICE, PICKUP DEVICE FOR MICROPLATE, CASSETTE FOR MICROPLATE, AND SHELF FOR CONTAINING MICROPLATE - A shuttle-type conveying system to convey an article. The system includes a feeding and collecting device capable of setting a cassette in which articles to be conveyed are stacked as they are on a rotating and feeding table, a pickup device taking out the article and placing it on a receiving/delivery table, and a conveying device feeding the article on the receiving/delivery table to another receiving/delivery table by a shuttle conveying portion traveling on conveying paths below the receiving/delivery table. After the article is lifted up by the shuttle conveying portion and moved to outside the receiving/delivery table, the article is lowered below the receiving/delivery table and made to travel under the receiving/delivery table to another receiving/delivery table. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20120156001 | Method For Supplying Blanks To A Marking Apparatus. A Conveyor Device For Transporting Blanks And A Transfer Device For Blanks - Disclosed are a method for supplying blanks to a marking apparatus, a conveyor device ( | 06-21-2012 |
| 20130017053 | Depalletizing ToolAANM Forget; Jean-FrancoisAACI MontrealAACO CAAAGP Forget; Jean-Francois Montreal CAAANM Metivier; RegisAACI MontrealAACO CAAAGP Metivier; Regis Montreal CAAANM Morency; Sylvain-PaulAACI LavalAACO CAAAGP Morency; Sylvain-Paul Laval CAAANM Pain; AlexandreAACI LongueuilAACO CAAAGP Pain; Alexandre Longueuil CA - A tool and a method for depalletizing piles of objects separated by sheets are described herein. The tool comprises a plate assembly for insertion between the highest pile from the piles of objects and the next separator sheet. The plate assembly has a fixed portion and a tip provided at a distal end thereof and is movable between a detecting position, wherein an upward displacement of the tip is allowed relative to the fixed portion, and a depalletizing position, wherein the tip is immobilized relative to the fixed portion. The tool further comprises a plate sensor for detecting the displacement of the tip relative to the fixed portion and for generating a first detection signal responsive to said displacement, and a pressure assembly that defines a gripper with the plate assembly for receiving the highest pile of objects and for selectively applying pressure thereon. When the plate assembly is in the detecting position, the controller detects one of the separated sheets when the tip is displaced upwardly relative to the fixed portion following a downward movement of the tool. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130223969 | OPTICAL DISK RETRIEVAL DEVICE AND METHOD - The optical disk retrieval device that separates and retrieves a plurality of loaded optical disks one by one in order from top, includes: a base that loads the plurality of optical disks; pulling-up unit for pulling up the top optical disk of the plurality of loaded optical disks; a separation member that can cause a force to act on an inner wall of an inner hole of a plate-like member having the inner hole; and separation member elevating unit for moving the separation member in a vertical direction, wherein the pulling-up unit lifts the top optical disk upward, and the separation member elevating unit passes the separation member through an inner circumferential hole of the top optical disk lifted by the pulling-up unit from an upper side to a lower side, and the separation member causes the force to act on the inner wall of the inner hole of the plate-like member adhering directly beneath the top optical disk to thereby separate the plate-like member. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130287539 | MEDIUM TRANSPORTING UNIT AND MEDIUM PROCESSING APPARATUS - A holding mechanism is operable to hold a top medium from a plurality of plate-shaped media accommodated in a stacker in a stacked manner. A transport arm supports the holding mechanism. When the lift mechanism lifts down the transport arm, one of a first elastic pressing force and a second elastic pressing force greater than the first elastic pressing force is selectively applied from the holding mechanism to an upper surface of the top medium. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20140079524 | ROBOT SYSTEM AND WORKPIECE TRANSFER METHOD - There is provided a robot system including a first robot arm provided with a holding unit for holding one of workpieces arranged on a workpiece arrangement unit and configured to transfer the one workpiece held by the holding unit, and a second robot arm provided with a detecting unit for detecting an arrangement state of the one workpiece. The robot system further includes a detecting operation control unit configured to perform a control operation in such a way that, during the operation of the first robot arm, the detecting unit detects the arrangement state of another one of the workpieces. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140348626 | MEDIUM TRANSPORTING UNIT AND MEDIUM PROCESSING APPARATUS - A holding mechanism is operable to hold a top medium from a plurality of plate-shaped media accommodated in a stacker in a stacked manner. A transport arm supports the holding mechanism. The transport arm is provided with a separation mechanism operable to separate a second medium positioned just below the top medium which is held by the holding mechanism. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20150063972 | ROBOTIC CARTON UNLOADER - A robotic carton unloader for automatic unloading of cartons from a carton pile. In various embodiments, a robotic carton unloader may comprise a mobile body, a movable robotic arm attached to the mobile body and comprising an end effector configured to unload a row of cartons in a side-by-side orientation from the carton pile, and a conveyor system mounted on the mobile body and configured to receive the row of cartons from the end effector in the side-by-side orientation. In various embodiments the conveyor system may comprise a front-end descrambler and a central descrambler coupled to the front-end descrambler. In various embodiments, the robotic arm may be configured to straddle at least a portion of the mobile body and at least a portion of the conveyor system such that the conveyor system conveys cartons from the carton pile through the robotic arm. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150063973 | ROBOTIC CARTON UNLOADER - A robotic carton unloader for automatic unloading of cartons from a carton pile. In various embodiments, a robotic carton unloader may comprise a mobile body, a movable robotic arm attached to the mobile body and comprising an end effector configured to unload a row of cartons in a side-by-side orientation from the carton pile, and a conveyor system mounted on the mobile body and configured to receive the row of cartons from the end effector in the side-by-side orientation. In various embodiments the conveyor system may comprise a front-end descrambler and a central descrambler coupled to the front-end descrambler. In various embodiments, the robotic arm may be configured to straddle at least a portion of the mobile body and at least a portion of the conveyor system such that the conveyor system conveys cartons from the carton pile through the robotic arm. | 03-05-2015 |
| 414797000 | By suction | 15 |
| 20090060701 | Conveyor system for food products - An apparatus and method are disclosed for separating a pile of tortillas and individually depositing the tortillas on a conveyor to form a row of tortillas. The apparatus may include an accumulating device, an elevating device that is operable to remove a pile of tortillas from the accumulating device and elevate the pile of tortillas towards a vacuum conveyor. The vacuum conveyor is operable to continuously remove an uppermost tortilla from the pile of tortillas and transport the separated tortillas to a receiving conveyor. The separated tortillas are deposited on the receiving conveyor and may be transported to a subsequent processing operation. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20100266380 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR UNSTACKING PLATE-SHAPED PARTS - In a device for unstacking plate-shaped parts ( | 10-21-2010 |
| 20110116904 | System, Apparatus, and Method for Item Handling - Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products for item handling, including in-feeding and individually out-feeding of items, such as pieces of mail, parcels, or articles of manufacture. Destacking each successive leading item, individually, in a stack or series of items by automatically adapting, in real time, to varying item presentment conditions. Each successive leading item can be moved and output without unwanted or unacceptable movement of any following item or items, by selective activation of components to move and/or assist with moving the leading item for output therefrom. Selective activation can be based on presentment information associated with each leading item in the stack or series, and the leading item can be output after a series of controlled movements thereof. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20120027556 | SOUND FILM ADSORPTION DEVICE - A sound film adsorption device includes a bracket, which has a platform on which a sound film collect, which forms a chamber for receiving a sound film, is installed. A rotary mechanism includes a supporting post retained on the platform, a rotary plate in the form of a cantilever-shape having an end moveably coupled to the supporting post and an opposite end serving as an open end, and a spring member coupled with the supporting post to support between the platform and the rotary plate. A first absorbing mechanism includes a first vacuum generator and an absorbing head. The absorbing head has an end communicated with the first vacuum generator, and the other end extended through the open end of the rotary plate to align with the chamber of the sound film collect so as to absorb the sound film placed within the sound film collect. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120121372 | TOP UNLOADING TRAY DISPENSER - A tray dispenser and method for removing trays from the top of a stack of trays. The tray dispenser includes a tray delivery system that positions the top tray in a tray removal position, and a tray removal system that removes the top tray, moves it and releases it in a tray release location. The tray dispenser can include a rotary arm to which the tray removal system is coupled. The rotary arm can move the removal system from a first position where it removes the tray from the removal location to a second position where it releases the tray in the release location. The removal system can include a suction cup assembly that holds the tray when it is removed and moved, then releases the tray in the release location. The tray dispenser can include a limit switch that senses when the tray is in the removal position. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20130108408 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSFERRING CUTOUTS FOR PACKAGING BOXES | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130309058 | Suction transport device and method for taking off a sheet from a sheet stack - The suction transport device for taking off a sheet from a sheet stack in a sheet running direction (BL) includes at least two revolving suction means ( | 11-21-2013 |
| 20140010627 | ABSORBING MECHANISM - An absorbing mechanism includes a positioning member, an absorbing member, and at least one separating member. The positioning member defines a receiving chamber, for receiving a plurality of workpieces. The attaching member is constructed for absorbing the workpieces. The at least one separating member comprises a main body and a detaching portion. The main body is mounted on the positioning member. The detaching portion protrudes from the main body toward an axis of the positioning member, and forming an inclined surface away from the main body. The inclined surface defines at least one blow hole. The inclined surface towards the receiving chamber. | 01-09-2014 |
| 20140079525 | MANIPULATOR FOR FLAT OBJECTS - A manipulator for flat objects has a robot arm having an outer end, a support on the outer end, and a magazine holding a stack of the flat objects carried on the support. A grab is movable on the support adjacent the magazine between a pickup position facing the stack and engageable with an uppermost flat object of the stack of flat objects in the magazine so as to pull the uppermost flat object off the stack and a transfer position offset from the stack with the picked-up flat object turned away from the magazine. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140169925 | SYSTEM FOR AND METHOD OF TRANSFERRING PLATE-SHAPED MEMBER WITH INTERLEAVING PAPER THEREON - In a system for transferring a plate-shaped member with interleaving paper thereon, a suction adhesion device included in a suction adhesion unit includes suction pads that adhere to a surface of a glass plate by suction with interleaving paper in between the surface and the suction pads; an air blowing device blows air between the adhered glass plate and a glass plate positioned below the adhered glass plate; a robot moves the suction adhesion unit; a clamping device includes a pair of pushing members that are arranged at both sides, respectively, of the glass plates and move toward the glass plates to come close to each other; and at least before the suction adhesion unit lifts the adhered glass plate, a controller causes the pair of pushing members to move to push protruding portions of pieces of interleaving paper, the protruding portions protruding from the sides of the glass plates. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140271090 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ARTICLE FEEDER OPERATION - Embodiments of a system and method for shingulating, singulating, and synchronizing articles in an article feeder system are disclosed. The article feeder system may include a shingulating device configured to receive a stack of articles and to produce a positively lapped stack of articles, a plurality of picking devices configured to pick one or more articles from the positively lapped stack of articles and to produce one or more singulated articles, and one or more synchronization devices configured to deliver the one or more singulated articles to one or more sorter windows. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140341695 | ROBOTIC CARTON UNLOADER - A robotic carton unloader for automatic unloading of cartons from a carton pile, such as a carton pile stacked within a trailer. In various embodiments, a robotic carton unloader may comprise a conveyor system, a robotic positioner, and a manipulator having a conformable face configured to conform to irregularities of the carton pile, and the manipulator may be movable attached to an end of the robotic positioner. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20150037131 | ROBOTIC CARTON UNLOADER - A robotic carton unloader for automatic unloading of cartons from a carton pile, such as a carton pile stacked within a trailer. In various embodiments, a robotic carton unloader may comprise a conveyor system, a robotic positioner, and a manipulator having a conformable face configured to conform to irregularities of the carton pile, and the manipulator may be movable attached to an end of the robotic positioner. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150318200 | SUBSTRATE SEPARATION APPARATUS FOR STACKED BODY - A wedge-shaped jig ( | 11-05-2015 |
| 20160052730 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SEPARATING AN ITEM FROM A STACK OF ITEMS - The present invention relates to a separating device and to a respective method for separating an item from a stack ( | 02-25-2016 |
| 414797300 | Includes rotary article separator | 1 |
| 20110123308 | Apparatus for Order-Picking and / or Restacking a Plurality of Palletised Packs - A device and a method are disclosed for loading and/or restacking a plurality of palleted containers. The device ( | 05-26-2011 |
