Patents Examined by Abby A Jorgensen
  • Patent number: 11965833
    Abstract: A detection device includes a frame, a transport mechanism, detection mechanisms, and a grasping mechanism. The transport mechanism includes a feeding line, a first flow line, and a second flow line arranged in parallel on the frame. The detection mechanisms are arranged on the frame and located on two sides of the transport mechanism. The grasping mechanism is arranged on the frame and used to transport workpieces on the feeding line to the detection mechanisms, transport qualified workpieces to the first flow line, and transport unqualified workpieces to the second flow line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignees: HONGFUJIN PRECISION ELECTRONICS (ZHENGZHOU) CO., LTD., HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jing-Zhi Hou, Lin-Hui Cheng, Yan-Chao Ma, Jin-Cai Zhou, Zi-Long Ma, Neng-Neng Zhang, Yi Chen, Chen-Xi Tang, Meng Lu, Peng Zhou, Ling-Hui Zhang, Lu-Hui Fan, Shi-Gang Xu, Cheng-Yi Chao, Liang-Yi Lu
  • Patent number: 11964823
    Abstract: A conveyor belt is arranged in tiers at spiral stack conveyor unit. A ceiling is positioned over the spiral stack(s). A circulation fan draws thermal processing medium laterally from the tiers of the spiral stack, up the exterior of the stack and across the ceiling and through a heat exchanger. The treated thermal processing medium is then routed across the remainder of the diameter of the spiral stack and then down the side of the spiral stack diametrically opposite to the circulating fan to enter the spiral stack in a lateral direction diametrically toward the circulating fan. The thermal processing medium flows into an opening formed in the ceiling downstream of the heat exchanger and into the interior of the conveyor drive hub and then into the spiral stack through openings in the drive hub outer wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: JOHN BEAN TECHNOLOGIES AB
    Inventor: Leif Teddy Svensson
  • Patent number: 11958696
    Abstract: A method of lining up portions of slices of food, the portions are transported by a belt conveyor on a plurality of tracks along a conveying direction, one of the plurality of tracks is selected as a first reference track, conveying speeds of a remainder of the plurality of tracks excluding the first reference track are adapted in such a way that the portions are arranged in straight rows arranged orthogonally to the conveying direction when the portions reach a lining-up position, and when the lining-up position is reached, the conveying speeds of the plurality of tracks including the first reference track are aligned to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: GEA Food Solutions Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Daniel Klein, Stefan Maidel, Lars Peter
  • Patent number: 11952222
    Abstract: A material conveying device includes a base frame, a first conveying unit, a second conveying unit and a transfer assembly. The first conveying unit is provided on the base frame, the second conveying unit is provided on the base frame, and the transfer assembly is provided on the base frame and can transfer a material between the first conveying unit and the second conveying unit. The present disclosure further provides a processing equipment facilitating material distribution and a material distribution method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: CHANGZHOU MINGSEAL ROBOT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dongsheng Qu, Changfeng Li, Junsheng Xia, Jian Yang, Hongjun Wu, Feng Yin, Jin Zha, Kaicang Ruan, Jiming Huang, Fuliang Gao, Dianqiu Zhou
  • Patent number: 11945656
    Abstract: A door assembly is provided. The door assembly includes: a guide frame unit including a first guide track and a second guide track spaced apart from and disposed in parallel with the first guide track; an inner door disposed to be upwardly and downwardly movable along the first guide track and provided with a first locking part protruding in a first direction at a lower end; an outer door disposed to be upwardly and downwardly movable along the second guide track and provided with a second locking part protruding in a second direction from above a point at which the first locking part is formed; and a drive unit configured to move the inner door upwardly and downwardly, wherein the second locking part is formed to contact the first locking part as the inner door moves upwardly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Superbin Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Bbun Byul Lee
  • Patent number: 11945666
    Abstract: A manufacturing device has a manufacturing cell for processing workpieces, with a laterally circumferential safety partition, in which a lock is formed for performing a loading operation of the workpieces, wherein a first light barrier arrangement is formed at the lock, and with a driverless conveyor with a load receiver for conveying the workpieces. For performing the loading operation, a second light barrier arrangement and a third light barrier arrangement are formed between the conveyor and the lock, so that the load receiver and the workpieces are laterally bounded on opposite sides by the second light barrier arrangement and by the third light barrier arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: TRUMPF Maschinen Austria GmbH & Co. KG.
    Inventor: Gerhard Kirchmayr
  • Patent number: 11912521
    Abstract: A conveyor belt includes: —a support structure; —a mobile belt; —a plurality of rollers, which are associated to the support structure and are suitable to support and move the belt along a closed path. The plurality of rollers includes a drive roller and at least three idler rollers. Two rollers are supported directly by the support structure, while two rollers are supported by a mobile frame, which is slidingly associated to the support structure to be moved between a retracted position, in which a roller arranged at the second end is positioned completely inside the support structure, and an extracted position, in which the roller protrudes outside the support structure. In the transition between the two positions, the length of the useful conveyor area of the belt varies and is compensated by an equivalent variation in length of another portion of the closed path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: DALLAN S.P.A.
    Inventor: Andrea Dallan
  • Patent number: 11905123
    Abstract: Apparatus for varying a pitch between moving articles includes a phaser conveyor having a dosed-loop central belt and two closed-loop side belts including respective rows of stop elements configured to engage side portions of articles projecting laterally outside the central belt. As compared to rotary repitching devices, the apparatus according to the invention is much simpler and more energy-efficient, which has a positive impact on sustainability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Fameccanica.Data S.p.A.
    Inventor: Gabriele Vicentini
  • Patent number: 11896982
    Abstract: A material processing device includes a conveyor belt for transporting material from or to a material processing unit. The conveyor belt is swivel connected to a machine body by an articulated link, wherein the conveyor belt can be moved from a folded-down working position into a folded-up transport position by an actuating unit and the articulated link. The articulated link is part of an actuating mechanism which guides a proximal free end of the of the conveyor belt during the swiveling motion from the folded-down working position to the folded-up transport position in such a way that the proximal end of the conveyor belt is swiveled and raised against the direction of gravity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Inventors: Monika Wagner, Christian Knoblich, Benjamin Kazmaier
  • Patent number: 11878866
    Abstract: The tray body comprises a support surface and a spring for spring biasing the tray door relative to the tray body to urge the tray door to open. When the tray door is fully opened, it rests against the support surface under the influence of a spring biasing force, provided by the spring, that exceeds a first non-zero threshold. The tray body comprises a tray frame and a door shaft that defines an axis of rotation of the tray door and the spring comprises a torsion spring arranged around the door shaft. The tray door comprises a shaft channel in which the door shaft is rotatably accommodated. The torsion spring has one end fixed coupled to the door shaft and another end to an inside wall of the shaft channel and/or the damper is arranged in the shaft channel and fixed in position relative to the door shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: EAE SOLUTIONS HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Erik Andreas Van Holten, Menno Jansen
  • Patent number: 11858754
    Abstract: A machine for handling bottles includes first and a second conveyor belts to advance the bottles. The first conveyor belt has a first direction of advancement and the second conveyor belt has a second direction of advancement. The first and second directions of advancement are incident to each other. A deflector device connects the first and second conveyor belts, and includes outer and inner guide bodies to contain the bottles. The inner guide body includes a belt to advance the bottles. Conditioning elements change the configuration of the inner guide body varying its relative position with respect to the outer guide body and the radius of curvature of the advancing belt. The conditioning elements include an element pushing a respective element for tensioning the belt. The pushing element has adjustment elements to vary the thrust applied on the tensioning element and the curvature of the belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: RUFFINO S.R.L.
    Inventors: Gianni Papiani, Elisa Bugatti, Niccoló Perini
  • Patent number: 11851281
    Abstract: A tensioner assembly for a belt of a device useful in printing, the tensioner assembly including a bracket, including a first plate including at least one slot, and a second plate, a third plate slidably connected to the first plate, a connector engaged with the at least one slot and connected to the third plate, and a resilient member including a first end engaged with the third plate and a second end engaged with the second plate, wherein the resilient member is operatively arranged to bias the third plate away from the second plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Sean R. Keyes
  • Patent number: 11827455
    Abstract: A conveyor assembly is provided for use with a mobile vehicle. The conveyor assembly includes a conveyor module. The conveyor module includes a first roller assembly. The first roller assembly includes a first rotatable roller body and a second rotatable roller body. The first and second roller bodies are interconnected to each other in such a manner as to share a first rotational axis yet be at least substantially rotationally independent of each other, such that each of the first and second roller bodies can rotate without causing or interfering with rotation of the other of the first and second roller bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Nidec Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Joshua M. Biro, William D. Moore
  • Patent number: 11798826
    Abstract: A wafer-measuring apparatus and a wafer-transferring method of the wafer-measuring apparatus. The wafer-measuring apparatus includes a body, a wafer-measuring unit, a wafer storage, and a robot. The robot is disposed on the body and configured to move a wafer from a first wafer container to the wafer-measuring unit. The first wafer container is disposed on a load port area. The robot moves the wafer from the wafer-measuring unit to the wafer storage after the wafer-measuring unit measures the wafer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: NANYA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jih-Cheng Huang
  • Patent number: 11764091
    Abstract: A semiconductor wafer cassette warehouse transportation structure system includes a wafer cassette lift transportation structure body, a wafer cassette frame structure body, an arm structure body, an arm gripping wafer cassette structure body, and a wafer cassette warehouse structure body. The suspension support rods are suspended on a ceiling. The wafer cassette lift transportation structure body lifts the wafer cassettes to the inlet and outlet. The arm structure body grips the wafer cassettes and puts same on the tracks so that the wafer cassettes can be transported to the wafer cassette warehouse structure body to be precisely accessed. The system saves space and facilitates the access of the wafer cassettes because the wafer cassettes are stored on the wafer cassette warehouse structure body suspended on the ceiling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: EDDIE AND SONS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventor: James Teng
  • Patent number: 11753248
    Abstract: In a picking facility, if both a first picking operation and a second picking operation are performed based on order information, a third container is transported from a housing portion to a second picking portion, a fourth container is transported from the housing portion to the second picking portion, after the second picking operation has been performed, the fourth container in which a target article has been housed by the second picking operation is transported as a second container to a first picking portion, a first container is transported from the housing portion to the first picking portion, and, after the first picking operation has been performed, the second container in which the target articles have been housed by the first picking operation and the second picking operation is transported to a shipping portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Daifuku Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaya Miyamoto, Hiroaki Haruta
  • Patent number: 11724918
    Abstract: There is provided a method of renewing a passenger conveyor that is capable of preventing the passenger conveyor from being unavailable for a long time period when the passenger conveyor is renewed in a stepped manner. The method of renewing a passenger conveyor includes a safety device update process of updating an existing safety device to a new safety device in the passenger conveyor, and a drive machine and control panel update process of, after the safety device update process, updating an existing drive machine of the passenger conveyor to a new drive machine and updating an existing control panel of the passenger conveyor to a new control panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yukiyasu Nagao