Patents by Inventor Roy Daniel GAROUTTE

Roy Daniel GAROUTTE 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).

  • TRAY EXCHANGE AND DISPOSITIONING SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES
    Publication number: 20250340378
    Abstract: A tray handler for transporting a tray into or out from a selectable position within a tray stack stowed in the tray handler has an upload station to stow a tray during a sort procedure, a tray elevator configured to vertically transport the tray stack to the selectable position such that the tray is positioned to be horizontally received from or by the unload stations, and a separator above the tray elevator and coupled to the unload station, the separator configured to vertically split the tray stack for opening the selectable position and horizontally transporting the tray into or out from the unload station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2025
    Publication date: November 6, 2025
    Inventors: Adam Quinn MILLER, Thomas Wayne TIPTON, Robert D. BATTEN, Mark Laurin BAKER, Roy Daniel GAROUTTE
  • Tray exchange and dispositioning systems, methods, and apparatuses
    Patent number: 12378074
    Abstract: A tray handler for transporting a tray into or out from a selectable position within a tray stack stowed in the tray handler has an unload station to stow a tray during a sort procedure, a tray elevator configured to vertically transport the tray stack to the selectable position such that the tray is positioned to be horizontally received from or by the unload station, and a separator above the tray elevator and coupled to the unload station, the separator configured to vertically split the tray stack for opening the selectable position and horizontally transporting the tray into or out from the unload station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: DWFritz Automation, LLC
    Inventors: Adam Quinn Miller, Thomas Wayne Tipton, Robert D. Batten, Mark Laurin Baker, Roy Daniel Garoutte
  • Z-FOLD PRISMATIC BATTERY INTERLEAVE STACKER MACHINE
    Publication number: 20240421339
    Abstract: Disclosed is a z-fold prismatic battery interleave stacker machine. In some embodiments, the machine includes a first vertical elevator stack for providing anode electrodes, a second vertical elevator stack for providing cathode electrodes, a centrally located elevator stack configured to lower a partly assembled z-fold stack during assembly, a first set of tandem end effectors for sequentially handling anode electrodes, and a second set of tandem end effectors for sequentially handling cathode electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventors: Derek Graham AQUI, Roy Daniel GAROUTTE, Shawn A. BOLING
  • TRAY EXCHANGE AND DISPOSITIONING SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES
    Publication number: 20220315334
    Abstract: A tray handler for transporting a tray into or out from a selectable position within a tray stack stowed in the tray handler has an unload station to stow a tray during a sort procedure, a tray elevator configured to vertically transport the tray stack to the selectable position such that the tray is positioned to be horizontally received from or by the unload station, and a separator above the tray elevator and coupled to the unload station, the separator configured to vertically split the tray stack for opening the selectable position and horizontally transporting the tray into or out from the unload station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Adam Quinn MILLER, Thomas Wayne TIPTON, Robert D. BATTEN, Mark Laurin BAKER, Roy Daniel GAROUTTE