Abstract: A hand-held power tool (1) having a drive device (5) by which a tool that is able to be operatively connected to the power tool (1) is able to be actuated via a transmission device (7) having a transmission housing (9). A housing device (3) is provided, within which the drive device (5), having a rotor (31) and a stator (29), and the transmission device (7) are arranged. An electrically conductive connecting device (40) is provided within the power tool (1). The connecting device (40) electrically conductively connects the stator (29) of the drive device (5) to the transmission housing (9).

Abstract: A panel tray includes: a main body part including outer walls extending in a first direction and a second direction intersecting the first direction and defining a space on a lower surface thereof, a plurality of slots disposed respectively at corners where one sidewall of the outer walls extending in the first direction and another sidewall of the outer walls extending in the second direction meet each other, where the slots include a plurality of guide parts. Each of the guide parts includes a first guide part extending in the first direction, and a second guide part intersecting the first guide part and extending in the second direction, and each of the slots includes an alignment mark defined on an upper surface of one of the first guide part and the second guide part.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a filling machine and a method handling hot air supplied at a station within the filling machine. The filling machine provides a working chamber with a clean zone for filling containers while the containers are conveyed through the working chamber. The clean zone is provided by introducing HEPA-filtered air into the working chamber through fluid inlets.

Abstract: A conversion apparatus is provided herein. The conversion apparatus includes a cutting member having an edge configured for cutting the dunnage material. The conversion apparatus also includes a biasing member that is located adjacent to the cutting member such that the dunnage material passes between the biasing member and the cutting member. The biasing member operably contacts the dunnage material thereby biasing the dunnage material against the cutting member. The position of the biasing member relative to the cutting member is such that in response to the dunnage material being retracted back into the conversion apparatus the cutting member begins to sever the dunnage material, but in response to the dunnage material traveling in the dispensing direction the cutting member does not begin to sever the dunnage material due to the relative position.

Abstract: A dispensing assembly includes a dispenser having a dispensing opening, a shelf, and a retainer. The dispenser includes a front panel, a rear panel, a top panel, a bottom panel, a first side panel, and a second side panel, and an attachment panel, altogether defining an internal chamber configured to receive a stack of articles. The retainer is configured to maintain the stack of articles in a predetermined arrangement within the internal chamber. The retainer is integrally formed from a contiguous piece of material with the front panel, rear panel, first side panel, and second side panel. The retainer is configured to retain the stack of articles in the stacked arrangement within the chamber.

Abstract: Embodiments related to a produce harvesting system including a robotic limb, a vacuum source, an end effector for picking produce are disclosed. Additionally, embodiments related to methods and systems for planning movement paths for the end effector and controlling operation of a produce packing cart are disclosed.

Abstract: A simple interchange mechanism is provided for a robot arm to reliably, quickly and consistently change over from one end effector to another for the purpose of executing multiple tasks without the need to install different robots. The interchange mechanism incorporates mechanical and electromagnetic elements at three different areas that work synchronously, resulting in a flexible and scalable architecture that is simple yet stable, and adaptable to different configurations of the robot.

Abstract: A boom truck having a grapple bucket with first and second jaws which controllably pivot on an axle from an open to partly closed jaw positions. The bucket picks up a debris-carrying bag via lifting straps. The bucket has an elongated hanger, one end mounted on the first jaw and an opposing strap carrying, terminal end which transverses the axle in open jaw position. Bucket a wiper mounted on bucket's second jaw with a wiper surface adjacent hanger's strap carrying region in open position. Hanger's terminal end region is foreshortened such that the end arcuately bypasses wiper's surface during pivotal movement of both jaws during transition from open to partly closed jaw positions. method of lifting, carrying and depositing a debris-carrying bag having at least one lifting strap. Method includes placing lifting strap on strap carrying region and lifting the bag in the open jaw position.

Abstract: A device for trimming and welding strip ends, in particular for use on laser welding devices or resistance welding machines, in which the strip ends to be joined are positioned at a distance from one another and are trimmed parallel to one another before welding by a mechanical cutting device, includes at least one heating device provided on the laser welding device for heating the actual welding region that can be positioned relative to at least one of the cutting regions of the strip ends to be joined before cutting and can be actuated in such a way that the cutting region is heated and at least one strip end can subsequently be cut in the heated state. A corresponding method is also described.

Abstract: Systems and methods for placing dunnage on top of packaged products such as corrugated units, where the method may include receiving a corrugated unit to a preset position; analyzing, using a first vision system, the corrugated unit to determine a size, shape, and position of the corrugated unit; determining, from the size, shape, and position of the corrugated unit, a dunnage material size and placement on the corrugated unit; and picking with a robotic manipulator a piece of dunnage material that matches the dunnage material size from a plurality of dunnage material stacks. The robotic manipulator then presents the piece of dunnage material to a second vision system to determine alignment information; and aligns the piece of dunnage material based on feedback from the second vision system. Other embodiments are discussed herein.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a strapping machine with an automatic-strap-change system configured to detect that an active strap coil is empty and, in response, automatically start supplying strap from a reserve strap coil.

Abstract: In one aspect, a method for installing tamper-indicating assemblies relative to drum enclosure assemblies includes supporting, with an installation tool, a tamper-indicating assembly relative to a drum enclosure assembly such that at least a portion of a closure bolt of the drum enclosure assembly and first and second flanged ends of a lid ring of the drum enclosure assembly are received within a cavity of a tamper-indicating device (TID) of the tamper-indicating assembly. The method also includes inserting, with the installation tool, a pin of the tamper-indicating assembly through a bore of the TID and across a cavity of the TID and deforming, with the installation tool, a portion of the pin relative to the TID to secure the pin within the bore of the TID.

Abstract: To provide a drug discharge device capable of reducing complexity when distributing a drug into a manual distribution device. A drug discharge device includes a manual distribution member 15 that includes a plurality of recessed portions 20 in which a solid drug is distributed, discharge means that discharges the drug distributed in the recessed portions 20 to a downstream side directly or via another member, and a control device that controls the discharge means, in which the discharge means is capable of individually discharging a drug corresponding to a predetermined recessed portion 20, the control device assigns the same drug to the recessed portions 20 in adjacent regions based on prescription information including information on a drug to be provided to a plurality of patients or one patient, and the discharge means discharges the drugs in a predetermined order.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a tool for producing strapped packages, where least two articles having deformable or flexible lateral surfaces are grouped and brought into a rectangular arrangement and kept together by at least one strapping band. In the method, firstly deformation forces are applied to at least one short side of the group of articles, which deformation forces act approximately uniformly on all articles of the group. Subsequently, the strapping band (26) is placed on the group of articles, wherein an overall length of the strapping band corresponds to or is minimally greater than an overall circumference of the group. The deformation forces acting on the group are then removed, wherein the lateral surfaces of the articles elastically return to their original shape and bring about a band tensioning of the strapping band. The invention also relates to a tool for carrying out the method.

Abstract: A portable vacuum pump with protection against suction of liquids includes at least two sensors for sensing liquid at the entry of an air suction channel of the pump. The sensors are connected to a controller of the pump that is arranged to terminate pumping (vacuuming) upon sensing liquid with the sensor. The two sensors are arranged at a suitable distance in order to receive at least a droplet of liquid. As the liquid is electrically conductive, a circuit between the sensors and electronics is closed, thus signalling the electronics of the controller to stop operation of the pump and consequently air suction is terminated. Alternatively, one liquid sensor is used, shaped as a metal element installed in a groove of a housing under a plastic plate via which conductivity of a possible liquid is detected. Once detected the metal element communicates with a PCBA configured to terminate air suction.

Abstract: An automated pouch package-making apparatus includes a dunnage conversion apparatus and an enveloping apparatus. The dunnage conversion apparatus includes a layering device to layer an upper cover sheet material upon a lower cover sheet material with an expanded slit-sheet material therebetween, and a cross pressure applicator to apply a pressure to the layered product to bond via an adhesive a lower surface of the upper cover sheet material to an upper surface of the lower cover sheet material, thereby forming a strip of expanded dunnage. The enveloping apparatus includes a folding device to fold the strip upon itself, at a cross-wise extending crease, such that an upper surface of a first strip portion overlays an upper surface of a second strip portion, and to compress the opposite longitudinal sides of the strip along respective locations of longitudinally extending adhesive to bond the opposite longitudinal sides of the strip.

Abstract: An apparatus for placing elongated products with a widened head in containers, particularly suitable for placing swabs inside containers during the production process. The apparatus has at least one preloading unit which is supplied with the number of products to be placed in the container at one time and which executes a duty cycle that causes the controlled ejection of the number of products supplied, the preloading unit being equipped with a plunger which can move between a loading position and an expelling position and which, when actuated from its loading position to its expelling position, is configured to push and follow the number of products supplied to the preloading unit through an outlet spout of the preloading unit, in a single stroke.

Abstract: A method for creating a modified atmosphere in a sealed enclosure includes placing a bottom sheet on a bottom surface of a package, to be enclosed inside the sealed enclosure, on a pallet, placing a top sheet on a top surface of the package, placing a manifold on the top sheet, below the bottom sheet, or both on the top sheet and below the bottom sheet, and applying a side sheet such that the bottom sheet, the top sheet, and the side sheet form the sealed enclosure. The method further includes injecting at least one treatment, gas, or substance into the sealed enclosure through the manifold, and removing the manifold.

Abstract: A method for inspecting medicaments loaded into wells of a blister card includes the steps of: inserting a blister card loaded with medicaments in a plurality of wells into an inspection holder in a housing; inverting the blister card so that the medicaments descend through chutes of a funnel of the inspection holder, each of the chutes corresponding to a well of the blister card, wherein descension of the medicaments is stopped by a cover that overlies the chutes; capturing images of the medicaments through the cover; and determining, based on the captured images, whether the medicaments in the blister card were correctly loaded.

Abstract: A staple head includes a first jaw and a second jaw, a connecting member, a stop member and a firing mechanism. The connecting member is connected to proximal ends of the first jaw and the second jaw. The stop member is rotatably mounted on the connecting member and includes a first blocking portion. The firing mechanism is movable along an axial direction of the stapler and includes a second blocking portion. In a first state, the first blocking portion is located on a path where the second blocking portion moves in a direction toward a distal end side. When an external force is applied to the stop member, the stop member rotates relative to the connecting member in a first direction such that the first blocking portion moves in a direction away from an axial center of the stapler, the stop member enters a second state.