Patents by Inventor James R. VanOeffelen

James R. VanOeffelen has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Sorter performance monitoring method and system
    Patent number: 11389835
    Abstract: A method of sorting articles with a sorter apparatus and a sorter apparatus having a conveying surface that is adapted to transport articles in a direction of conveyance and a mechanism adapted to displace articles on the conveying surface, the sorter apparatus having an endless web of bodies travelling in an endless loop defining the conveying surface includes a distributed drive system having at least one drive that is adapted to produce to provide force with at least one of the bodies to propel the endless web. A diagnostic device traveling with the web and positioned at one of the bodies of the endless web. The diagnostic device is adapted to monitor operation of the sorter apparatus and includes at least one sensor that is adapted to detect at least one parameter of a proximate drive that is proximate to the at least one sensor, and a controller adapted to receive the at least one parameter from the at least one sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Dematic Corp.
    Inventors: Daniel J. Nowicki, Randall J. Carlson, James R. VanOeffelen, Martin J. Stanish
  • SORTER PERFORMANCE MONITORING METHOD AND SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20200384507
    Abstract: A method of sorting articles with a sorter apparatus and a sorter apparatus having a conveying surface that is adapted to transport articles in a direction of conveyance and a mechanism adapted to displace articles on the conveying surface, the sorter apparatus having an endless web of bodies travelling in an endless loop defining the conveying surface includes a distributed drive system having at least one drive that is adapted to produce to provide force with at least one of the bodies to propel the endless web. A diagnostic device traveling with the web and positioned at one of the bodies of the endless web. The diagnostic device is adapted to monitor operation of the sorter apparatus and includes at least one sensor that is adapted to detect at least one parameter of a proximate drive that is proximate to the at least one sensor, and a controller adapted to receive the at least one parameter from the at least one sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Daniel J. Nowicki, Randall J. Carlson, James R. VanOeffelen, Martin J. Stanish
  • Sorter performance monitoring method and system
    Patent number: 10786832
    Abstract: A method of sorting articles with a sorter apparatus and a sorter apparatus having a conveying surface that is adapted to transport articles in a direction of conveyance and a mechanism adapted to displace articles on the conveying surface, the sorter apparatus having an endless web of bodies travelling in an endless loop defining the conveying surface includes a distributed drive system having at least one drive that is adapted to produce to provide force with at least one of the bodies to propel the endless web. A diagnostic device traveling with the web and positioned at one of the bodies of the endless web. The diagnostic device is adapted to monitor operation of the sorter apparatus and includes at least one sensor that is adapted to detect at least one parameter of a proximate drive that is proximate to the at least one sensor, and a controller adapted to receive the at least one parameter from the at least one sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Dematic Corp.
    Inventors: Daniel J. Nowicki, Randall J. Carlson, James R. VanOeffelen, Martin J. Stanish
  • SORTER PERFORMANCE MONITORING METHOD AND SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20190134673
    Abstract: A method of sorting articles with a sorter apparatus and a sorter apparatus having a conveying surface that is adapted to transport articles in a direction of conveyance and a mechanism adapted to displace articles on the conveying surface, the sorter apparatus having an endless web of bodies travelling in an endless loop defining the conveying surface includes a distributed drive system having at least one drive that is adapted to produce to provide force with at least one of the bodies to propel the endless web. A diagnostic device traveling with the web and positioned at one of the bodies of the endless web. The diagnostic device is adapted to monitor operation of the sorter apparatus and includes at least one sensor that is adapted to detect at least one parameter of a proximate drive that is proximate to the at least one sensor, and a controller adapted to receive the at least one parameter from the at least one sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Daniel Nowicki, Randall J. Carlson, James R. VanOeffelen, Martin J. Stanish