Abstract: A surgical instrument. The surgical instrument includes an end effector that comprises a staple channel and an anvil that is movably translatable relative to the staple channel. A tool mounting portion is configured to interface with a robotic system and operably communicate with the end effector. The instrument further includes a first sensor that has an output that represents a first condition of a portion of the robotic system. A second sensor has an output that represents a position of the anvil. A third sensor has an output that represents a position of a reciprocating knife within the end effector. An externally accessible memory device communicates with the first, second and third sensors.

Abstract: A cannabis bud sorting, picking and filling system includes a computer vision system operable to view and estimate the weight of a plurality of buds on a bud picking tray and to direct a bud picker robot to pick a plurality of buds from the bud picking tray and deposit the picked buds in an amount to load a container to its predetermined loaded target weight. A computer vision system acquires a digital image of product items having a product type, identifying each product item in the image, determining a pixel-based area for each identified product item, predicting a weight of each identified product item based on a size thereof, the determined pixel-based area and a predetermined density based on the product type, grouping, based on the predicted weights, the identified product items into groups satisfying the target weight, and automatedly picking and placing each group into a container.

Abstract: A pouch machine vertical sealer capable of fusing a pouch film web to form a plurality of spaced vertical seals along a length of the film web to form pouches. The pouch machine vertical sealer includes a sealer wheel rotatable about a vertical axis of rotation and defines a film web path about a periphery of the sealer wheel. The vertical sealer further includes a plurality of vertical sealer land assemblies spaced apart about the periphery of the sealer wheel. Each vertical sealer land assembly includes an impulse heater such that contact between the film web and each impulse heater of the plurality of vertical sealer land assemblies forms the spaced apart vertical seals along the length of the film web.

Abstract: A foreign object debris (FOD) collection drill attachment for attaching to a drill includes with a drill guide bushing holder, a chip breaker bushing, an air supply line, a chip evacuation line, a chip collection hopper, and an air manifold. The drill guide bushing holder includes an inlet channel receiving air from the air supply line, an outlet channel, and a holder center channel. The inlet channel and the outlet channel each open into the holder center channel through which an end protrusion of the chip breaker bushing extends to break up FOD on a drill bit of the drill. The cross-sectional area of the inlet channel is smaller than the cross-sectional area of the outlet channel, creating a Venturi effect between the inlet channel and the outlet channel to pull FOD away from the drill bit and through the chip evacuation line to the chip collection hopper.

Abstract: A method is provided for an electrically-driven tool to detect battery decline. The electrically-driven tool includes a battery, a controller and a kinetic device. The controller pre-stores a dataset of energy provision time including a data piece of energy provision time that signifies a predetermined time length presumed to be required by the battery to provide a predetermined amount of electric energy. The controller induces provision of the predetermined amount of electric energy to the kinetic device to have the kinetic device perform a predetermined stroke with a predetermined load, times a stroke time period taken by the predetermined stroke, and determines whether the stroke time period is greater than the predetermined time length. The controller outputs a battery abnormality signal when the stroke time period is greater than the predetermined time length.

Abstract: A system for alignment of big bags prior to product filling. The system includes a first alignment arrangement configured to rotate an inflated big bag. The first alignment arrangement including a first drive configured to operate a first rotation part, a counter hold, and a displacement arrangement for displacing the first alignment arrangement and/or the counter hold relative to a big bag. The system may include a sensor arrangement configured to detect a rotational orientation of the inflated big bag and adapted to provide a sensor output based thereon, and a controller configured to receive the sensor output and control the first drive to rotate the inflated big bag based on the sensor output. A method of alignment of big bags prior to product filling, a computer program configured for executing acts of the method and a computer readable medium for storing the computer program.

Abstract: A mason jar sealing device comprises a mason jar main machine and a sealing converter; the mason jar main machine comprises an isolation plate and a first sleeve, an other side of the isolation plate is arranged with a receiving cavity, and a vacuum pump is arranged in the receiving cavity, the first sleeve is used to install the first mason jar body; both ends of the seal converter are respectively arranged with a connecting part detachably connected with the first and second sleeve, and a circle lid is arranged in the second sleeve; when the mason jar body extends into the sleeve, the vacuum pump draws out the air in the mason jar body and the sleeve to seal the mason jar body and the circular lid. The disclosure can seal the mason jar by the self-contained vacuum pump, and seal the mason jars of different diameters.

Abstract: A tool for working a substrate, the tool having a stator and a working piston, which is intended to move relative to the stator along a working axis, also having a drive, which is intended to drive the working piston from a starting position along the working axis to the substrate, the drive comprising a piston coil arranged on the working piston and a first stator coil arranged on the stator, the piston coil having a piston coil axis, which is oriented transversely, to the working axis.

Abstract: A filling and covering machine for centrifuge tubes with tethered caps includes a conveying device, a cap-flapping device, a filling device, and a cap-pressing device. The cap-flapping device has an upper planar surface and a cap-guiding member having a starting end portion, an ending end portion that is opposite to the starting end portion, and a guiding surface extending from the starting end portion to the ending end portion, and cooperates with the upper planar surface to define an included angle therebetween decreasing gradually from the starting end portion to the ending end portion to guide a cap of each of the centrifuge tubes with tethered caps toward a tube body thereof.

Abstract: An airbag and a method for inflating the airbag using an inflation system. The airbag includes a packaging body.

Abstract: A web of bags configured to be guided through a filling station is provided. The web of bags may include a continuous guide of a guide material configured to be guided through the filling station. The guide may be connected with one or more bags of a bag material and with a bag opening. Also provided are methods of filling such bags on a web of bags and use of such web of bags.

Abstract: An apparatus for capping containers includes, at least one capping head which is moveable between a position for picking up a cap and a position for applying the cap at a neck of a container, the grip element defining a receptacle for the cap and component for the removable retention of the cap within the receptacle; A second motor component is provided to actuate the movement of the grip element in an axial direction. The apparatus also includes a control and actuation unit functionally connected to the first and second motor components and is configured to receive in input a number of data items; The control and actuation unit is configured to actuate the first and second motor components as a function of the variation of the value over time of the number of data items.

Abstract: An exemplary system includes a memory storing instructions and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to execute the instructions to receive, from a sensor of a surgical instrument, environmental condition information associated with the surgical instrument and detected by the sensor while the surgical instrument is disconnected from an external power source, the surgical instrument including circuitry configured to be powered and operate only while the surgical instrument is connected to the external power source, determine, based on the environmental condition information, an operational condition of the surgical instrument, and provide a notification indicating the determined operational condition of the surgical instrument.

Abstract: An apparatus for filling disposable capsules for preparation of beverages is disclosed. The apparatus includes a belt production line in continuous advancement comprising a plurality of seats arranged at a constant pitch for housing a plurality of capsules to be filled, a filling unit above the belt production line including a plurality of dosers for dosing food substance, wherein the plurality of dosers is configured in at least one rectilinear row of dosers and the plurality of seats is configured for transit below the filling unit in at least one rectilinear row of seats, in that the plurality of dosers is arranged at a constant pitch greater than the constant pitch of the plurality of housing seats. In addition, a coordinated movement element is envisaged, configured to impose on the rectilinear row of dosers and on said rectilinear row of seats a null relative speed.

Abstract: An improved mailer folding apparatus that forms mailers from mailer blanks. The mailer folding apparatus comprises a transport assembly and one or more folding assemblies. The transport assembly moves mailer blanks and/or mailers through the mailer folding apparatus. The one or more folding assemblies may each comprise a folding system and a carriage system. The folding system may selectively allow for the folding of a mailer blank into a mailer. A carriage of the carriage system may move the folding system longitudinally between different positions relative to the transport assembly. An engagement system separate from the carriage system or integrated into the carriage system may engage and disengage the folding system with the transport system for selectively feeding a mailer blank through the folding system, or disengage the folding system for allowing a mailer blank or folded mailer to bypass the folding system.

Abstract: A kit consisting of a septum and bodkin is provided for resealing liquid such as wine within a bottle having a neck and body. The septum, a resiliently deformable diaphragm, has an undeformed dimension substantially equal to an inner diameter of the body and is deformable to a dimension less than an inner diameter of the neck. The bodkin, an elongated rod, has a ramming end to deform and push the septum through the neck, and opposite the ramming end has a retrieving end to grasp and extrude the septum from the neck. Using the bodkin, the septum is placed against the surface of liquid and inner wall of the bottle to form an air-tight seal that can be broken using the bodkin or by rotating the bottle to a breakage angle. The septum can be extruded from the bottle using the retrieving end of the bodkin.

Abstract: A curl correcting device (1) includes a pressing unit (12) disposed on a +Z direction side of a blister film, and pressing, by a pressing member (121), an area including a pocket in the blister film and including both end portions of the blister film in an X-axis direction; and a support member (131) supporting the blister film in a state of abutting on a ?Z direction side on both sides of an area pressed by the pressing member (121) in a Y-axis direction of the blister film. A recess (121a) having a width in the X-axis direction greater than a width in the X-axis direction of the pocket and penetrating the pressing member (121) in the Y-axis direction is formed at a location corresponding to the pocket of the blister film on the ?Z direction side of the pressing member (121).

Abstract: A device for manufacturing a double-walled paper cup by combining an inner cup and an outer cup using hot-melt comprising: an outer cup forming part which includes: a turret provided with outer cup mandrels; and an enclosing means forming an outer cup; an outer cup transporting part which includes: a rotational transporting means which has circular slits; an outer cup inserting means which inserts the outer cup into the circular slit; a shaft that moves up and down; a first pusher that firmly restrains the outer cup into the circular slit; and a second pusher for separating the outer cup from the circular slit; and an outer cup combining part which includes: a rotating table provided with rotatable inner cup mandrels; a rotating pocket which rotates the inner cup mandrel; and a first hot-melt spraying nozzle that applies the hot-melt to an outer surface of the inner cup.

Abstract: A staple cartridge assembly is disclosed comprising one or more wire staples and one or more staples formed from a sheet of material.

Abstract: An automated bag closure machine includes a mechanical bag closure advancement assembly and a mechanical bag closure breakoff assembly, wherein operation and timing of the mechanical bag closure breakoff assembly is governed by a cam and/or a manual pull-knob. The machine may include optical sensors configured to monitor the passage of bags through the machine and a fiber optic system to monitor the passage of bag closures through the machine. The machine may be mounted to other systems in a manner that allows fully fluid movement or adjustment of its position and orientation. The machine may have remote communications functionality.