Means Responsive To Weight Or Dimension Patents (Class 156/360)
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Patent number: 11492163Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a random case sealer including a pneumatically-controlled top-head-actuating assembly configured to vary the speed of the top-head assembly when ascending (to make room for the case beneath the top-head assembly) and when descending onto the case (to engage the top surface of the case during sealing). The case sealer includes a pressure sensor that monitors the pressure of gas incoming from a gas source delivered to the top-head-actuating assembly via one or more valves. A controller controls the open level and/or the open time of the valves based on the pressure of the incoming gas to ensure the top-head-actuating assembly operates as desired regardless of whether the pressure of the incoming gas is equal to, below, or above a desired pressure. These features result in increased throughput compared to prior art random case sealers without requiring stronger cases or more protective dunnage.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2020Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Signode Industrial Group LLCInventors: William J. Menta, Bryce J. Fox
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Patent number: 11293798Abstract: In a method and apparatus for length measurement of a flat good in a goods processing system having first and second stations, each having a sensor in the transport direction of the flat good, a control processor implements a path control and counts encoder pulses of an encoder in the first station. An event is determined by the sensor of the second station, and an associated numerical value Z1 of the encoder pulses is stored in the control processor, as is a numerical value Z2 for a distance between the two sensors is also stored. An additional event is determined by the sensor of the first station, and an associated numerical value Z3 of the encoder pulses is stored. As soon as both events are present, Z2 and the difference ?=Z3?Z1 are added by the control processor, and the sum is used to designate the length.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2017Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: Francotyp-Postalia GmbHInventors: Frank Geserich, Volker Baum
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Patent number: 11203455Abstract: A wrapping machine for wrapping trayed food products includes a wrap station at which trayed food products are wrapped and a film dispensing system for drawing out film at the wrap station. A conveying system moves trayed food products through the wrapping machine. The machine may include a printer and label apply arrangement positioned for applying labels to trayed food products after wrapping, where the printer and label apply arrangement includes a support that is pivotable between an operating position and an access position. The film dispensing system may include a knife movable for cutting the film, and opposite ends of the knife are mechanically linked via spaced apart first and second belts to maintain alignment of the opposite ends.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2019Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.Inventors: Justin T. Blackford, Michael A. Whitby
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Patent number: 10919660Abstract: A labeling apparatus includes a label holder and a controller. The label holder is configured to move between a retracted position and an extended position that is closer to a conveyer than is the retracted position, and receive a label on an end of the label holder facing the conveyer. The controller is configured to control the label holder to move towards a standby position between the retracted position and the extended position until an object to be labeled is conveyed on the conveyer to a position facing the label holder, and then towards the extended position such that the label is attached to the object.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2019Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hisashi Tsujimura
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Patent number: 10569922Abstract: The present application relates to a method and system for labeling one or more products such as packages transported along a conveyer, and more specifically to applying a label on a respective package by way of a vertically adjustable assembly positioned above the conveyor. The adjustable assembly includes at least a label printer and an applicator for printing and applying the label on a surface of the package on the conveyor.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2017Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Fluence Automation LLCInventors: Richard Wojdyla, Brian Bowers, Tim Palmer, Tomasz K. Bednarek
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Patent number: 10450099Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for automatically printing and applying one or more label to at least one item to enable shipping of the at least one item by a carrier are provided. In some aspects, a movable label applicator device includes a printer for printing the one or more label onto a supply of labeling material, wherein the one or more printed label contains unique information associated with the at least one item. In some aspects, the device further includes an applicator for applying the one or more printed label to a surface of the at least one item, wherein the applicator is configured to apply multiple labels to the surface of the at least one item such that the multiple labels are removably stacked on top of one another.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2017Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: Fluence Automation LLCInventors: Brian Bowers, Tim Palmer
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Patent number: 10399361Abstract: A printer is provided which includes a control unit and a print head with a burn line and a platen roller. The print head is coupled to the control unit. The print head is positioned in a vertical orientation relative to the platen roller over which a media label passes during printing. A radio frequency identification (RFID) reader, coupled to the control unit, for programming RFID tags on the media label is also provided. The RFID reader is coupled to a RFID antenna. The RFID antenna is above the media label path, the print head's vertical orientation allowing the RFID antenna to be accommodated in close proximity to the print head burn line. Further, a label stop sensor (LSS) module is provided, coupled to the control unit, for monitoring movement of the media label along a media path. The LSS module is disposed adjacent to the RFID antenna.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2017Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: Datamax-O'Neil CorporationInventors: Sébastien Michel Marie Joseph d'Armancourt, Chin Young Wong
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Patent number: 10338390Abstract: Techniques and mechanisms for fabricating an eyepiece from a lens blank including blank bodies that are bonded to each other. In an embodiment, the blank bodies are formed by injection molding and adhered to one another. Fabrication of the eyepiece includes variously machining the blank bodies to shape respective lens bodies of the eyepiece. One or more blocking structures are coupled to reinforce the lens blank during at least part of such machining. In another embodiment, any blocking structures that are to resist forces of a particular machining process are coupled only indirectly to one of the blank bodies.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2016Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Ozan Cakmakci, Oscar A. Martinez, James C. Dunphy, Hongqin Shi, John Fitch, Omar Negrete, Yeh Tung
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Patent number: 10308388Abstract: Provided is a method and a device for processing containers, the containers being transported along a predefined transport path and being combined with at least one product that can be defined in terms of its amount, such that the product is supplied to each individual container in a predetermined supply region of the transport path, the product being guided to the supply region along a supply path.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2016Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: KRONES AGInventors: Alexander Kasarin, Armin Pueschner
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Patent number: 10179669Abstract: An apparatus and method for labelling packs including an advancement device for transporting a pack in a transporting direction, a dispensing device for dispensing a label into a dispensing position, and an application device for applying the dispensed label to the pack. A punch including a punch shank and punch foot moves the dispensed label from a receiving position, where the punch foot receives the label, to a discharging position, where the label is applied to the pack by the punch foot. The punch shank is pivotally mounted about a first pivot axis transverse to the transporting direction, and is movable axially in a guide element. The punch shank is connected to a lifting element of a lifting device via an articulation. The lifting element is movable parallel to a direction angled relative to the transporting direction. A first drive with a motor drives the lifting element.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2015Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Espera-Werke GmbHInventors: Marcus Korthäuer, Peter Wolff, Winfried Vicktorius, Ralf Dippe
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Patent number: 9926096Abstract: The present application relates to a method and system for labeling one or more products such as packages transported along a conveyer, and more specifically to applying a label on a respective package by way of a vertically adjustable assembly positioned above the conveyor. The adjustable assembly includes at least a label printer and an applicator for printing and applying the label on a surface of the package on the conveyor.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2016Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: Fluence Automation LLCInventors: Richard Wojdyla, Brian Bowers, Tim Palmer, Tomasz K. Bednarek
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Patent number: 9828130Abstract: A container handling machine including at least one operative unit comprising support means to support a shaped container, and a plunger selectively moved along a given axis to deform a base of the container from a first swollen configuration to a second configuration, in which the base is in part retracted inwardly of the container with respect to the first configuration so as to form a recess delimited by a boundary surface defining an internal volume of the container smaller than that in the first configuration. The plunger is provided with a shaped head interacting with the container base and comprising: first engaging means and an interacting surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2014Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: SIDEL S.P.A. CON SOCIO UNICOInventors: Godet Florian, Stefano Molinari, Raffaele Pace
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Patent number: 9809343Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for automatically printing and applying one or more label to at least one item to enable shipping of the at least one item by a carrier are provided. In some aspects, a movable label applicator device includes a printer for printing the one or more label onto a supply of labeling material, wherein the one or more printed label contains unique information associated with the at least one item. In some aspects, the device further includes an applicator for applying the one or more printed label to a surface of the at least one item, wherein the applicator is configured to apply multiple labels to the surface of the at least one item such that the multiple labels are removably stacked on top of one another.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2015Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: Fluence Automation LLCInventors: Brian Bowers, Tim Palmer
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Patent number: 9802728Abstract: Printing systems may include a rotatable tamp head that may be repositioned, as necessary, in order to cause a label to be printed in a specific location or in a certain alignment on an object. Such tamp heads may be repositioned as necessary where the label may cross a seam, a crease, a fold or another surface feature which might cause the label to be bowed or damaged in transit. The tamp head may be positioned in a manner that would enable any information, markings or bar codes thereon to remain legible and intact even if the label is applied across such a surface feature. An orientation of the object may be determined using one or more sensors aligned at various angles with respect to a direction of travel of the object.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2015Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Tyler B Rodgers, Patrick Joseph Houlihan, David Arthur Ogle, II
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Patent number: 9656479Abstract: A labelling machine comprises a first motive apparatus configured to advance a label web along a label web path; an encoder arranged to output a sensor signal which is indicative of a rate of movement of said label web along said label web path; and a printer configured to print on said label web, the printer including a second motive apparatus configured to advance a print ribbon along a ribbon path. The labelling machine further comprises a controller configured to receive said sensor signal and control the second motive apparatus based on the sensor signal. The controller is configured to supply a pulsed control signal to the second motive apparatus, the intervals between pulses of the pulsed control signal being a function of a desired rate of movement of the print ribbon along the ribbon path.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2014Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: Videojet Technologies Inc.Inventor: Jeremy Ellis
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Patent number: 9645006Abstract: A method of calibrating a mass flow sensor while harvesting grain includes sensing an accumulated mass of a portion of grain within the grain tank with a first sensor. A mass flow rate sensor is calibrated based at least in part on a signal of the first sensor.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2014Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignees: Deere & Company, Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc.Inventors: James J. Phelan, Jeremiah K. Johnson, Aaron J. Bruns, Matthew J. Darr, Robert McNaull
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Patent number: 9469427Abstract: There is disclosed a labelling machine for applying sleeve labels on respective articles, comprising: a conveyor movable along a path comprising, in turn, a first inlet station for the articles still to be labelled and a second outlet station for the labelled articles; the conveyor comprises a handling device adapted to displace at least one first of the sleeve label and the article still to be labelled along a first segment of the path, so as to insert the article still to be labelled within the sleeve label; the conveyor also comprises a positioning device adapted to actively position a second of the sleeve label and the article in a desired position with respect to the first of the article and the sleeve label along a second segment of the path; the first segment is comprised within the second segment.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2013Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: SIDEL S.p.A. con Socio UnicoInventor: Mattia Giuliani
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Patent number: 9352872Abstract: The present application relates to a method and system for labeling one or more products such as packages transported along a conveyer, and more specifically to applying a label on a respective package by way of a vertically adjustable assembly positioned above the conveyor. The adjustable assembly includes at least a label printer and an applicator for printing and applying the label on a surface of the package on the conveyor.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2013Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: Bell and Howell, LLCInventors: Richard Wojdyla, Tim Palmer, Brian Bowers, Tomasz K. Bednarek
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Publication number: 20150136304Abstract: To provide a method of friction welding and an apparatus of friction welding in which a length of time for manufacturing one product is reduced as much as possible regardless of the dimension errors of works. The fast forwarding distance Lx1 is calculated for the fast forwarding by using the results of measuring the dimensions of works W1, W2 under the condition of the constant slowly forwarding distance Lx2, Thereby, for the work of a legitimate dimension and even for the work having a dimension smaller than the legitimate dimension, the elongation of the slowly forwarding distance is prevented compared with the work having the longer dimension than the legitimate dimension, and the relative proportion of the fast forwarding distance Lx1 is increased by making shorter the specified slowly forwarding distance.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2012Publication date: May 21, 2015Applicant: NITTAN VALVE CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryo Onose, Takehiro Okuno
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Patent number: 9017497Abstract: A method of manufacturing laminated core segments including: a process to blank and laminate, wherein the segment core sheets formed in the adjacent virtual lines are aligned so that directions of the segment core sheets alternate, each of the segment core sheets are blanked and formed by a die device, and the laminated core segments are formed by laminating the blanked segment core sheets in the die device; a process to eject, wherein each of the laminated core segments formed by blanking and laminating in each virtual line is ejected from the die device; and a process to identify a blanking position, wherein the distinguishing marks are provided for the laminated core segments to identify the virtual lines therefor.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2012Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Mitsui High-Tec, Inc.Inventors: Kazuki Namaike, Tadashi Shibuta, Akikazu Higuchi, Takeshi Sato
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Patent number: 9011617Abstract: A method and an arrangement for manufacturing a multi-layer composite (13) by laminating a sheet-like element (6) onto a backing (2) in a laminating unit (1), having steps, in this order, of conveying the element (6) in a longitudinal direction, detecting a position of the element (6), correcting the position of the element (6) on the basis of the detected position and on the basis of a reference position (15), and bonding said element (6) onto the backing (2). The detection step comprises the phases of measuring the lateral position, an angle of pivoting, and a longitudinal position of the element (6), and the correction step includes phases of lateral movement (T), pivoting (P), and longitudinal movement (L) of the element (6), apparatus elements perform the steps.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2010Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: Asitrade AGInventors: Thomas Mayer, Alex Mann, Michel Siegenthaler, Philippe Guglielmetti
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Publication number: 20150083301Abstract: A tyre layer application assembly and a method for applying a tyre layer around a substantially circular circumferential surface of an object. The assembly is provided with a drive which, during application, is coupled to the object for driving the object in a driven rotation about a concentric axis of rotation with respect to the circumferential surface, wherein the assembly includes a tracking device which, during application, is arranged to be fixed to a part of the tyre layer that is applied to the circumferential surface, wherein the tracking device is rotatable in a tracking rotation about the axis of rotation of the object, independent of the driven rotation of the object about the same axis of rotation.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2013Publication date: March 26, 2015Applicant: VMI HOLLAND B.V.Inventors: Florian Fischer, Cornelis Wouteres Janszen
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Patent number: 8986476Abstract: Apparatus and methods for fulfillment of patient prescription orders by adapting a standard or stock container pre-filled with medication or the like for use as a patient-specific container through precise application of patient-specific information to the pre-filled container. Precise placement of the patient-specific information to the pre-filled container enables pharmacy management to fully utilize valuable information provided with the pre-filled container, thereby improving the quality of service to the patient while making the process of prescription order fulfillment more efficient. In general, preferred embodiments comprise control apparatus and information-application apparatus. In embodiments, the information-application apparatus is adapted to place a patient-specific label on the container. Preferred forms of the information-application apparatus include a label printer and a positioner. The preferred printer applies patient-specific information on a label.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2012Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: AutoMed Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Jacob A. Dent, Brian Gorman, Mark Bidus
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Patent number: 8967215Abstract: A labelling device includes a linearly displaceable piston operably connectable to a moving mechanism for moving the piston from a resting position to a labelling position. A label carrying mechanism is arranged at the distal end of the piston for carrying an adhesive label and affixing the adhesive label to an object via physical contact at the labelling position of the piston. A force-switching-state system is provided to maintain the piston in relation to the moving mechanism in an attracting force state and the piston moves with the moving mechanism. The physical contact creates an opposite repelling force from the object onto the label carrying mechanism causing separation of the displaceable piston from the moving mechanism. This separation causes a change of the force state of the displaceable piston from an attracting to a repelling force state, causing the linearly displaceable piston to move back to the resting position.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2013Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Marel LimitedInventor: Steven Bates
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Patent number: 8968500Abstract: A method for joining, by adhesive bonding, at least two large joining partners in vehicle construction, in particular in aircraft construction, comprises the following steps: detecting the geometric data of the joining partners in an automated manner, detecting the joint gap dimensions of the joining partners from the geometric data, applying adhesive to one or both joint faces of the two joining partners to be joined as a function of the joint gap dimensions, joining the joining partners in the joining position, and sequentially applying joining pressure to the joint faces along the joint gap to bring the joining partners into the final joining position.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2011Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Dirk Niermann, Holger Frauen
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Patent number: 8915279Abstract: A rotary lamination apparatus includes a die, a punch, a rotation drive source, a mounting table, at least one proximity sensor, and a determining device. The punch punches core pieces from a thin plate material. The rotation drive source drives and rotates the die about the central axis of the die. The mounting table is arranged in the inner space formed by the die. The core pieces are rotated and laminated on the mounting table. The proximity sensor detects whether the die is in the proximity of a predetermined position in a non-contact manner after the die has stopped rotating. The determining device determines whether the die is stopped at the predetermined position based on a detection result from the proximity sensor.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2012Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kazuyuki Hirata
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Patent number: 8840742Abstract: A system for detecting a missing tow in a tow band may include a fiber placement head for applying a tow band to a substrate forming a composite layup. The system may further include a heating device for preheating the substrate prior to application of the tow band. The system may additionally include an infrared camera mounted to the fiber placement head and configured to generate a real-time thermal image of the composite layup during the application of the tow band to the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2012Date of Patent: September 23, 2014Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Truong D. Pham, Samuel Stewart
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Patent number: 8821659Abstract: Real-time alignment of substrates is conducted by way of placing a first substrate together with a second substrate located over the first substrate in a fixed relative position onto a first substrate holder. The first substrate holder is operative to support the first substrate. A second substrate holder is operative to contact and control the position of the second substrate relative to the first substrate. A pattern recognition system is operative to view reference marks on the first and second substrates for determining their relative alignment, and a positioning mechanism coupled to the first substrate holder and/or the second substrate holder will align the first substrate relative to the second substrate based on their relative alignment as determined by the pattern recognition system. Thereafter, the substrates are fully laminated to secure them to each other.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2012Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: ASM Technology Singapore Pte LtdInventors: Man Chung Ng, Man Lai Chau
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Patent number: 8800628Abstract: An airship hull repair system. The system includes a drive subsystem configured to move the system across an airship hull, a damage detecting subsystem configured to detect damage to the airship hull, a hull repair subsystem configured to repair the detected damage to the airship hull, and a magnetic coupling. The drive subsystem, the damage detecting subsystem, and the hull repair subsystem are included in an interior piece of the system configured to move on an interior of the airship hull and an exterior piece of the system configured to move on an exterior of the airship hull. The magnetic coupling couples the interior piece and the exterior piece to move together.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2012Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Lockheed Martin CorporationInventors: John Morehead, Nicholas Piini, Kyle Hofstatter, Eric Younge
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Patent number: 8795452Abstract: An inspectable joint in a medical device is disclosed that includes at least one medical-grade tube having an end, a medical-grade fitting having at least one joining surface configured to accept the end of the tube, and a joining material disposed between the tube and the joining surface. The joining material includes a first component configured to couple the tube to the fitting and a second component configured to provide observable evidence of the presence of the joining material between the tube and the joining surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2011Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Carefusion 303, Inc.Inventors: Robert Steven Alpert, Lisa Davis
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Patent number: 8789568Abstract: Machines for manufacturing photovoltaic modules and methods for manufacturing photovoltaic modules can include tape handling components.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2011Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: First Solar, Inc.Inventor: Richard S. Malik, Jr.
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Publication number: 20140166207Abstract: A device for conveying a spring string (31) has a first spring conveyor (3) and a second spring conveyor (4). By means of a sensor device, in operation, lengths of a plurality of segments of the spring string differing from one another are detected, while the spring string (31) is guided past a sensor (5) of the sensor device arranged in the conveying direction upstream of the second spring conveyor (4). A control device (9) is provided which sets, in an operating state of the device (1) in which both the first spring conveyor (3) and the second spring conveyor (4) convey the spring string (31), time-sequentially a plurality of relative conveying speeds between a conveying speed of the second spring conveyor (4) and a conveying speed of the first spring conveyor (3), depending on the detected lengths.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2012Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: Spuhl AGInventors: Christopher Hug, Andreas Meier
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Patent number: 8752603Abstract: Apparatus for connecting at least two plates (1, 2) of which a supporting plate (1) comprises a higher strength than a supported plate (2) posed thereon. By means of a connecting element (5) rotated by a rotational feeder unit (11), the connecting element with a collar (6) presses the supported plate (2) onto the supporting plate (1). With a shaft (10) a friction welding connection to the supporting plate (1) is made. The rotational feeder unit (11) is provided with a measurement device with measures an axial force exerted by the rotational feeder unit as well as a respective feeding motion and which indicates, upon abutment of the shaft of the connecting element onto the supporting plate, the pressure increase encountered therein, which, thereby, advances the rotational feeder unit, the feeding motion of which is adjustable to at least three sequential connecting stages.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2010Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: EJOT GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Eberhard Christ, Jörg Thiem, Marco Werkmeister
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Patent number: 8720516Abstract: An ultrasonic welding system includes a controller, an electrically powered linear actuator driving a movable element to which an ultrasonic welding stack is mounted to move linearly and apply a controlled force and/or speed to a workpiece. A sensor measures a control variable and outputs to the controller a signal corresponding thereto. Based on this signal, the controller causes the linear actuator movable element to apply through the ultrasonic welding stack a predetermined positive initial force at an initiation of a welding operation and to limit a linear displacement of the ultrasonic welding stack to a predetermined initial displacement until the dynamic signal output from the sensor indicates that a sensed variable satisfies a predetermined condition. Based on the signal relating to the satisfied predetermined condition, the controller moves the ultrasonic welding stack in accord with a default weld profile or a weld profile selected from available weld profiles.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2011Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: Dukane CorporationInventors: Leo Klinstein, Paul Golko, William E. Jurkowski
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Patent number: 8715434Abstract: A method of removing an out-of-tolerance area in a composite structure may comprise determining a location of the out-of-tolerance area within the composite structure, and selecting a volume of the composite structure to be removed based on the location of the out-of-tolerance area. The method may further include programming a machine tool to remove the volume and to pause after removal of each one of a quantity of layers of the volume. The method may additionally include removing one of the layers using the machine tool.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2013Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Lawrence S Lindgren, Scott W. Lea, Gary E. Georgeson
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Patent number: 8701730Abstract: Problems of a conventional cover glass sticking device, in which a slide glass having one end side, where a describing portion is formed, is stored in a storage container and the one end side is always projected from level of a protection liquid therein, are solved by the device of the present invention.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2009Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignees: Sakura Seiki Co., Ltd., Sakura Finetek Japan Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kohji Naritake, Kiyokazu Iijima, Seiichi Takizawa, Tetsu Nagabayashi
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Patent number: 8695670Abstract: A label and label attaching device for attaching a label onto a backing sheet. The label has a protruding apex portion, side surfaces defined when the label is folded at the apex and end portions at the outer base ends of the side surfaces. A label sheet is formed by temporarily attaching labels to a backing sheet. Prior to attachment, an intermediate portion of the label protrudes from its back surface to its front surface in a folded chevron shape. Outer end portions of the side surfaces project out from the side surfaces and the outer end portions are temporarily attached to the backing sheet with the folded portion protruding. The attaching device has two divided bodies to which the outer end portions are temporarily attracted. The divided bodies are movable together and apart to define the folded label. Then the label holding unit moves the folded label to an attaching position on the backing sheet which is moving past.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2008Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Sato Holdings Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Victor S. Barczyk, Klaus Horn, Martin Wellsandt
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Publication number: 20140096900Abstract: The present application relates to a method and system for labeling one or more products such as packages transported along a conveyer, and more specifically to applying a label on a respective package by way of a vertically adjustable assembly positioned above the conveyor. The adjustable assembly includes at least a label printer and an applicator for printing and applying the label on a surface of the package on the conveyor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2013Publication date: April 10, 2014Applicant: BELL AND HOWELL, LLC.Inventors: Richard WOJDYLA, Tim PALMER, Brian BOWERS, Tomasz K. BEDNAREK
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Patent number: 8678057Abstract: A labeling applicator having a suction plate (21) including a pair of divided bodies (21b, 21c) movable relatively to two positions, i.e., a contact position (S) where the opposing end faces facing each other move toward contact while sucking a first surface side of a label (L) to which an RFID tag is attached and a separated position (V) where the opposing end faces are separated from each other, wherein a portion (2) of the label (L) is folded in a peak by the end faces of the divided bodies (21b, 21c) facing each other as a divided body (21c) moves, thus forming a folded portion (M) having a bend or curved position (7) on the proximal end, before labeling an article (W). A non-abutting portion (20) is provided by cutting the edge of each split body (21b, 21c) corresponding to the bend (7) on the proximal end of the folded portion (M) such that the end faces of the divided bodies (21b, 21c) do not abut when the end faces move toward contact.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2009Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: Sato Holdings Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Son Seonggon
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Patent number: 8663410Abstract: A label finishing station receives a web carrying printed images for labels arranged so there are a plurality of images formed in rows or ranks across the width of the web. The images are also arranged in longitudinal columns along the length of the web. A cutting station carries a plurality of cutter heads to cut out the plurality of labels forming each row or rank simultaneously. The web, with the label peripheries cut out, may be slit longitudinally and formed into finished rolls of labels.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2010Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Primera Technology, Inc.Inventors: Robert P. Cummins, Todd A. Britz, Darren W. Haas, Michael R. Tolrud
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Publication number: 20140022568Abstract: A label creation system includes: a tape printing unit which prints a reference mark as an indicator of unit length onto a tape and thus creates a reference label; an image pickup unit which picks up an image of the reference label arranged along a pasting surface forming a planned pasting area, together with the planned pasting area; an image processing unit having a dimension detection unit which compares the reference mark and the planned pasting area in a picked-up image and detects a length of the planned pasting area that is in a direction of length of the fixed-length label; and a label length setting unit which sets a label length of the fixed-length label based on the length of the planned pasting area that is detected; wherein the tape printing unit prints on the tape and creates the fixed-length label based on the label length that is set.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2013Publication date: January 23, 2014Inventor: Eiji Nakaya
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Patent number: 8622111Abstract: A laminating device for laminating a window on a display panel for displaying an image includes: a first plate on which the display panel is provided; a second plate on which the window is provided and which is adjacent to the first plate; an applier provided on the second plate and applying a resin on the window; a folder for connecting the first plate and the second plate, for folding to allow the second plate to face the first plate, and for disposing the window on the display panel with the resin therebetween; and a pressurizer for pressurizing the second plate in a direction of the first plate.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2012Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Youn-Bum Lee
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Publication number: 20130327463Abstract: Provided is a method of bonding substrates having a same planar shape, which includes: bonding a first substrate adsorbed to a lower surface of a first holding member and a second substrate adsorbed to an upper surface of a second holding member that is disposed below the first holding member; and determining whether a bonding position of the first substrate and the second substrate is acceptable by measuring an outer diameter of an overlapped substrate obtained by bonding the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the determining decides that, when the measurement result is less than a predetermined threshold value, the bonding position of the first substrate and the second substrate is normal, and when the measurement result is equal to or greater than the predetermined threshold value, the bonding position of the first substrate and the second substrate is abnormal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2012Publication date: December 12, 2013Applicant: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Shigenori Kitahara, Keizo Hirose
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Publication number: 20130306216Abstract: A vibration welding system includes an anvil, a welding horn, a thin film sensor, and a process controller. The anvil and horn include working surfaces that contact a work piece during the welding process. The sensor measures a control value at the working surface. The measured control value is transmitted to the controller, which controls the system in part using the measured control value. The thin film sensor may include a plurality of thermopiles and thermocouples which collectively measure temperature and heat flux at the working surface. A method includes providing a welder device with a slot adjacent to a working surface of the welder device, inserting the thin film sensor into the slot, and using the sensor to measure a control value at the working surface. A process controller then controls the vibration welding system in part using the measured control value.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2012Publication date: November 21, 2013Applicants: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Wayne W. Cai, Jeffrey A. Abell, Xiaochun Li, Hang Li, Hongseok Choi, Jingzhou Zhao
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Patent number: 8568545Abstract: A composite structure containing an out-of-tolerance area is restored using an automated material removal method. The location of an out-of-tolerance area within the structure is determined by non-destructive inspection and a volume of the structure to be removed is selected based on the location of the out-of-tolerance area. An automatic material removal tool is programmed and used to remove the selected volume of material. The volume of removed material may be is replaced by an integrated patch.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2009Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Lawrence S. Lindgren, Scott W. Lea, Gary E. Georgeson
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Publication number: 20130228285Abstract: In a method and a manufacturing unit for producing fiber composite material components, a first web of the fiber composite material is firstly applied to a component mould by means of an application tool arranged on a positioning device. A height profile of the applied first web is measured by means of a height profile measuring sensor. During the subsequent application of a second web of the fiber composite material to the component mould, a control device activates at least one drive motor of the positioning device depending on the measured height profile, so application errors, such as, for example, an overlapping of the webs, are avoided. The webs are applied in opposite application directions, wherein the application tool is rotated through 180° relative to the positioning device upon a change in the application direction. For measuring the height profile of the applied webs the manufacturing unit comprises two height profile measuring sensors arranged next to one another on the application tool.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2011Publication date: September 5, 2013Applicant: MAG IAS, GmbHInventors: Bernhard Pause, Christian Boge
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Patent number: 8524020Abstract: A method of removing an out-of-tolerance area in a composite structure comprises determining the location of the out-of-tolerance area and selecting a volume of the composite structure to be removed based on the location of the out-of-tolerance area. The method may further include programming a machine tool to remove the volume and to pause after removal of each one of a quantity of layers of the volume. The method may additionally include removing one of the layers using the programmed machine tool. The method may further include restoring the volume removed using the programmed area removal digital definition.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2010Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Lawrence S. Lindgren, Scott W. Lea, Gary E. Georgeson
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Patent number: 8512491Abstract: A method of bonding a first substrate and a second substrate includes the steps of rotating first substrate with an adhesive mass thereon, and second substrate contacting the mass and overlying the first substrate, controlling a vertical height of a heated control platen spaced apart from and not contacting the second substrate so as to control a temperature of the adhesive mass, so as to at least one of bond the first and second substrates in alignment with one another, or achieve a sufficiently planar adhesive interface between the first and second substrates.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2010Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Assignee: Tessera, Inc.Inventors: Vage Oganesian, Belgacem Haba, Ilyas Mohammed, Piyush Savalia, Craig Mitchell
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Patent number: 8454771Abstract: A substrate bonding apparatus is equipped with a first table that holds one wafer of two wafers, a stage device that holds the other wafer in an orientation capable of opposing to the one wafer and that is movable at least within an XY plane, an interferometer system that measures positional information of the stage device within the XY plane, a first mark detection system that can detect subject marks including alignment marks on the other wafer held by the stage device, and a second mark detection system fixed to a part (the second table) of the stage device that can detect subject marks including alignment marks on the one wafer held by the first table.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2010Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventor: Takahiro Horikoshi
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Patent number: RE48331Abstract: A film tension control system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a delamination unit installed on a transfer path of a polarizing plate to delaminate a release film from a polarizing film, the polarizing plate including the polarizing film and the release film attached to one surface of the polarizing film, an inspection unit installed on a transfer path of the polarizing film to inspect if impurities are present in an adhesive layer formed on one surface of the polarizing film, a tension indication unit installed on a movement path of the release film to indicate a degree of tension applied to the release film, a re-lamination unit to re-laminate the release film having passed through the tension indication unit on the adhesive layer of the polarizing film having passed through the inspection unit, and a tension adjustment unit installed on the transfer path of the re-laminated polarizing plate to adjust the tension of the optical film and the release film.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2019Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.Inventors: Eun-Je Kim, Eung-Jin Jang, Jae-Ok Shin, Youn-Su Kim, Tae-Sick Kim, Jung-Kyu Park, Young-Sun Bang, Eui-Bong Ha, Dong-Ki Hwang, Jung-Sik Yoon