Patents by Inventor Laura Peltier

Laura Peltier 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).

  • Patent number: RE39747
    Abstract: The modular conveyor system comprises N interconnected track sections, forming a continuous track, wherein each track section features a plurality of individually controlled coils stretching along the length thereof. Plural pallets, each having thrust producing magnets, travel independently alone the track. The track also comprises multiple linear encoder readers spaced at fixed positions therealong, and each pallet includes a linear encoder strip having a length R greater than the spacing E between the readers. Track section controllers associate the encoder strips with only one reader at any time in order to resolve the position of the pallets based on the fixed position of the readers and the relative positions of the strips in relation thereto. The section controllers also regulate and commutate the coils of the corresponding track sections in order to independently control each pallet. Communication links interface adjacent section controllers situated in adjacent track sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Laura Peltier, Robert Gordon Lankin, Wayne Michael Robinson, David Kyle MacKay, Jeffrey John Fortuna, Sajeev Madusuthanan, Scott Charles Lindsay, Michael A. Cybulski, Michael J. Hancock, Robert A. Holl, Donald J. Mowat, Kenneth Peltier