Having Plural Abutments Arranged In A Specific Pattern Patents (Class 198/352)
  • Patent number: 11251721
    Abstract: A power supply device is provided with an output unit, an input unit, a rectifier circuit, a switching circuit, and a controller. The input unit inputs an AC input. The rectifier circuit has a smoothing capacitor and converts the AC input into a rectified output. The switching circuit switches between an ON-state in which input impedance is low and an OFF-state in which input impedance is higher than that in the ON-state. The controller sets a modulation ratio such that, when controlling the switching circuit to switch between the ON-state and the OFF-state, at least a portion of a period, in which the modulation width of the modulation duty ratio becomes maximum, is included in a period from a time when an input current inputted to the smoothing capacitor is generated to a time when the voltage of the smoothing capacitor reaches a maximum value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kotaro Kataoka, Hiroshi Iwata, Takamitsu Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11001455
    Abstract: An apparatus and method, configured for transferring articles of the fish and meat processing industry in a predetermined end position, including a continuous conveying device with a plurality of transport sections for individually receiving the articles and movable in the conveying direction, which transport sections comprise in the conveying position a transport element pair forming two article support surfaces. Each transport element is configured to be controllably pivotable about axles, running in the edge region of the respective transport section, so that the articles (10) are transferred to the predetermined end position, under the effect of gravity, in a plane lying below the conveying plane by controlled pivoting of both transport elements while retaining the article orientation or by controlled pivoting of one of the respective transport elements of one of the respective transport element pairs while changing the article orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: NORDISCHER MASCHINENBAU RUD. BAADER GMBH + CO. KG
    Inventors: Ulf Jacobsen, Ib Verner Dalgaard-Nielsen
  • Patent number: 10633189
    Abstract: Described is a sorting machine comprising: a plurality of carriages (2), each carriage (2) comprising a loading-unloading device (3) which can be selectively activated for loading-unloading an object (O) from the carriage (2) and an electronic unit (4) configured to receive and analyse a loading-unloading signal and actuate the loading-unloading device (3) as a function of an operating mode, selected from a plurality of operating modes and uniquely associated with the loading-unloading signal; a plurality of loading stations (9) and a plurality of unloading stations (10) positioned along a sorting direction (X) comprising respective actuating units (11) configured to generate the loading-unloading signal. Each carriage (2) comprises a permanent magnet (4c) which generates a stationary magnetic field and each actuating unit (11) comprises a Hall effect transducer (12) configured to detect the presence of the stationary magnetic field generated by the permanent magnet (4c).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: FIVES INTRALOGISTICS S.P.A. CON SOCIO UNICO
    Inventors: Matteo Fumagalli, Lorenzo Chierego, Riccardo Macchi
  • Patent number: 9108225
    Abstract: A sorting machine for sorting mailpieces including both letters and flats comprises: a first sorting system (20) adapted for flats and including a first mailpiece conveyor suitable for directing the flats towards sorting outlets of the type having racks (26) into which the flats fall by gravity; and a second sorting system (1) adapted for letters and including a second mailpiece conveyor suitable for directing the letters towards sorting outlets of the type having stackers (7) in which the letters are stacked on edge one behind another. The two sorting systems have the same number of sorting outlets, the two systems being superposed so that the sorting outlets of the first sorting system are superposed on respective ones of the sorting outlets of the second sorting system. Each sorting outlet of the first system may be equipped with at least two racks towards each of which a flat can be directed selectively by the first conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: SOLYSTIC
    Inventors: Bruno Cartal, Pierre Jourdan, Jean Rieu
  • Patent number: 8776987
    Abstract: A ceiling-mounted apparatus for running a cable harness, in more precise terms a ceiling-mounted apparatus for running a cable harness with a chain of guide carriages coupled to one another by means of spring elements, said guide carriages running in at least one guide rail in each instance, with a first guide carriage being connected to a cable harness source by means of at least one spring element and with the guide carriages comprising additional spring elements for attaching the cable harness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Wolfgang Neuber
  • Patent number: 8678170
    Abstract: Products (3) advancing in single file are divided into at least two files by a device comprising a main conveyor (10) from which the products (3) of the single file (7) pass onto a first outfeed conveyor (11) and onto a second outfeed conveyor (12) positioned with infeed ends at different heights, one above the other; the device also comprises a linking conveyor (26) between the main conveyor (10) and the outfeed conveyors (11, 12), consisting in a pair of looped belts (27, 28) presenting outer surfaces faced along a portion of predetermined length with a layer (35) of resilient material, thereby creating a channel (34) by which the main conveyor (10) is linked to the outfeed conveyor (11) positioned uppermost, and along which the products (3) are transferred cyclically to this same conveyor (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Azionaria Costruzioni Macchine Automatiche A.C.M.A. S.p.A.
    Inventors: Marco Carrara, Daniele Civolani
  • Patent number: 8469178
    Abstract: A conveyor system and method of laterally displacing articles includes a conveyor defining a conveying surface and conveying articles in a longitudinal direction with the conveying surface. A diverting assembly is positioned diagonally at least partially across the conveying surface. The diverting assembly travels generally vertically between a non-actuated position below the conveying surface and an actuated position extending above the conveying surface. The diverting assembly has a diverting surface that is adapted to laterally displace articles on the conveying surface when in the actuated position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Dematic Corp.
    Inventors: Floyd W. Butler, Paul L. Wetters, Paul Kreys, Kenneth J. Kooistra, Dennis J. Schuitema
  • Patent number: 5109973
    Abstract: A free flowing production system includes disposing a variety of automatic production machines along a free flowing conveyance apparatus; detachably attaching each card on which the contents on production are written to a pallet on which articles to be conveyed by the free flowing conveyance apparatus are placed; disposing card read/write devices to or adjacent to the automatic production machines; and providing control devices which cause requisite works to be conducted in accordance with the contents read, and causes the contents conducted to be written on the card after conducting, whereby the automatic production machines are caused to conduct the remained portions of the contents written on the card which are to be applied to the articles which are being conveyed and which have been transported from the free flowing conveyance apparatus to the automatic production machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1992
    Assignee: Hitachi Seiki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Hirano, Hiroshi Yamaga
  • Patent number: 5056438
    Abstract: A detection system provided in a conveyor system in which carrier members are conveyed by conveying member between work stations, having an identification code provided on a disk member on each carrier member for indicating the working station to which the carrier member is to be transferred, detector for reading the identification code, a stopper for holding the carrier member at a predetermined position, and transmitting member provided with the carrier member for being relatively moved to the carrier member and transmitting the conveying force of the conveying member to the identifying member only when the carrier member is held at the predetermined position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1991
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Nozaki, Takashi Inden
  • Patent number: 5040660
    Abstract: A cop sorting and transporting system for a transporting step from spinning machines to winders in a spinning mill. A tab code representative of a type of a yarn of a cop is set arbitrarily to a tab device provided for each of cop magnazines which are provided for accommodating cops therein in order to selectively determine a destination of the cop magazine. The tab code of the tab device can be changed or reset to allow repetitive use of the tab device, which allows common use of the cop magazines to cope with production of many types of spun yarn by small quantities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1991
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Murao and Company
    Inventors: Motomi Ohta, Kaoru Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 4552072
    Abstract: A destination adjustment installation for positioning destination identification which is movable on a receptable in a path direction of parallel guidance strips by the use of an actuating element. The actuating element is designed as a stationary limit stop and the shifting movement of the destination identifications is obtained from the passage of the receptacles past the destination adjustment installation whereas the actuating element engages in the shift region from the time of its contact with the destination identification until the output of a control command after further drive of the receptable by a distance corresponding to the distance of the destination position from the initial position. The invention can be employed in particular for shifting identifications of electrically driven conveyor vehicles running on profile rails for the purpose of transporting files.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1985
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans-Joachim Kardinal, Herbert Lehmann, Klaus-Peter Dziggel
  • Patent number: 4372218
    Abstract: A conveyor system for serving a plurality of processing stations having a plurality of trolley carriages, an overhead main conveyor comprising a monorail track for the trolley carriages, and forming a loop having a pair of substantially parallel sides along which the processing stations are distributed, a cable or chain for propelling the trolley carriages along the track, a plurality of side conveyors coordinated with the processing stations. Each of the side conveyors comprises a loop shaped overhead monorail track, and switches for selectively connecting the side conveyors to the main conveyor, including, for each of the side conveyors, a first switch arranged in a first position to lead a trolley carriage along the main conveyor and in a second position to deviate a trolley carriage from the main conveyor to one end of a side conveyor, and a second switch for connecting the other end of the side conveyor to the same side of the main conveyor as the first switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 8, 1983
    Assignee: Jobmatic, Inc.
    Inventor: Roland J. A. Ostlund
  • Patent number: 4068597
    Abstract: A conveyor system wherein a traveling mechanism is moved in a predetermined path and selectively controlled in its movement including an encoder unit mounted on the mechanism and a readout unit mounted along the path and wherein the encoder unit provides a plurality of input signals and the readout unit reads the signals to actuate a control device along the path to determine the path of movement of the traveling mechanism. A control circuit is associated with said encoder and readout units and comprises a readout circuit and a logic circuit. The readout circuit includes an AND circuit having an input for receiving signals from the encoder unit and transmitting an output signal when the code on the encoder unit matches the code on the readout unit. The logic circuit has an input and an output. The output of the readout circuit is coupled to the input of the logic circuit while maintaining the readout circuit electrically isolated from the logic circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1976
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1978
    Assignee: American Chain & Cable Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Ernest P. Moyer
  • Patent number: 4056063
    Abstract: A conveyor system has a plurality of cars displaceable along a track and each having a side provided with a plurality of parallel guides each in turn receiving a respective code marker slidable along the respective guide and arrestable therein at any of a plurality of predetermined index positions. The pattern defined by the markers in the index position determines the path of travel of the respective car on the track. A dispatcher is provided comprising a support adjacent the track and a plurality of rows of encoders on the support. Each row is alignable with a respective guide on one of the cars and each encoder is also alignable with the respective position on the respective guide. The encoders each comprise a remotely operable abutment pin projectable from the support into the respective guide such that displacement of a car past a support having one such abutment pin on each such row projecting from the support displaces the respective markers along the respective guides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 1977
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1977
    Assignee: Buro Patent AG
    Inventor: Bruno Ritter