17833results about "Control devices for conveyors" patented technology

An article transport device comprises an endless revolving body that is configured to move along a cyclic path in a substantially horizontal direction; a plurality of article supports each of which supports an article, wherein the article supports move together with the endless revolving body with the supports spaced apart from each other in a traveling direction; a support mechanism for supporting the article supports to the endless revolving body such that the article supports can move between a transport position adjacent the endless revolving body and an away position spaced apart from the transport position; and a guide mechanism for causing at least some of the article supports to move from the transport position to the away position and to move from the away position to the transport position, at an article delivering location or an article receiving location along the cyclic path of the endless revolving body.

An integrated parking meter system automates the issuance of parking citations. Each parking meter will be equipped with a sonar range finder, mercury type switch and a two way radio that communicates via N-PCS to a host computer back at the control center. When a meter runs out of money it checks to see if a vehicle is present in the parking space. If it is, the meter notifies the host computer that there is a car illegally parked in the space. The host computer correlates the information to identify the exact location of the violator. The host computer then sends this information via wireless network to the parking meter attendants' personal communicator. The parking attendant proceeds to the violator and issues the citation. Included within this technology is the capability to remotely change the rate structure of any or all electronic parking meters. A meter diagnostic feature alerts repair personnel to specific malfunctioning meters. The meter may also set the time remaining on the meter to zero whenever a car leaves the adjacent space.

The invention provides an automatic pharmacy, including a slope type medicine storing cabinet, a medicine distributing device, a sorting device, a medication applying device and a control management system. A U-shaped groove of a slope medicine storing holder is fixed to a supporting beam and forms a dip of 20 degrees with the horizontal plane. The medicine distributing device includes an elevator and a medicine output mechanism. A low end medicine outlet port of the U-shaped groove of the slope medicine storing holder is butted with a medicine inlet port of a U-shaped medicine storing groove of the medicine output mechanism. The medicine outlet is connected with a conveyer belt in a way of transiting through a retaining door to form a medicine distributing channel. The medicine outlet end of the medicine distributing device is equipped with the sorting device. A sorting channel is connected with the medicine distributing channel. The medicine outlet port of a medication applying transporting mechanism is butted with a medicine inlet port of a U-shaped groove of a medication applying manipulator which is installed on a Cartesian-coordinate robot. The medicine outlet port of the U-shaped groove of the medication applying manipulator is butted with a high end medicine inlet port of the U-shaped groove of the slope medicine storing holder to form the medication applying channel. Therefore, the functions of semi-automatic batch recharging of boxed medicine, medicine box dense storage and management, automatic medicine distribution according to a prescription and medicine sorting to the determined windows, etc. can be realized.

A method and system for remotely monitoring deliveries, the method and system include detecting an arrival of a delivery at an access point and notifying a monitoring center of the arrival of the delivery at the access point. The method and system include verifying at least one verification detail, which correlates to the delivery, and sending a configuration signal from the monitoring center to the access point, which has instructions for controlling an entrance at the access point. The method and system can further include sending a second configuration signal from the monitoring center to the access point, which has instructions for controlling an entrance at the access point upon completion of the delivery. The method and system can further include sending an indication signal from the monitoring center to the access point, which has instructions for controlling an indicator at the access point.

A package delivery notification system reports impending package deliveries and precisely notifies recipients of when to expect the deliveries. The package delivery notification system utilizes memory, a communications device, and a system manager. Package data identifying a package that is to be delivered to a recipient is stored in the memory. The package data indicates that the recipient is to receive the package and indicates the expected time that the package is to be delivered. When the package is assigned to a vehicle that will deliver the package to a premises of the recipient, the system manager transmits, via the communications device, a notification message to the recipient. The notification message preferably indicates the approximate time that the package is expected to arrive.

A material handling system comprising: a platform for receiving a plurality of articles; a plurality of sorting bins, each bin in corresponding to an article type; an object recognition system for identifying an article on the platform and categorizing said article by specific article type; said 3D object recognition system including a 3D detector for detecting said article and a database containing data on characteristics of article types; an article engagement assembly for engaging and delivering said article to said corresponding sorting bin; wherein the object recognition system is arranged to identify the article based upon the data within said database and instructs the article engagement assembly to engage and place the article in said sorting bin.

Semiconductor wafer fabrication equipment comprising a selecting device for selecting semiconductor wafers destined to a processor on the basis of a remaining process time applicable to that processor in the equipment, a transporting device for transporting the selected semiconductor wafers to the processor, another selecting device for selecting a processor or a storage device constituting a transport destination to which to transport processed semiconductor wafers, and another transporting device for transporting the semiconductor wafers to the destination processor or storage device in accordance with a transport control changeover code read from the processors and storage devices of the equipment.

A modular conveyor system is disclosed in which components of each conveyor module is designed for wireless mesh communication. The communications may be within a module or between modules. Certain of the components may be powered by battery, such that the components may be completely wireless. The network may be entirely self-configuring such that the modules may be assembled and the network established in a straightforward manner.

A molded body cutting apparatus according to the present invention comprising a first conveyer member that conveys an extrusion-molded pillar-shaped ceramic molded body a cutting member that moves in a direction parallel to a movement direction of the above mentioned first conveyer member while moving also in a vertical direction, and cuts the above mentioned ceramic molded body to a predetermined length by passing through the interior of the above mentioned ceramic molded body and a second conveyer member that conveys a cut ceramic molded body cut to a predetermined length by the above mentioned cutting member, wherein a conveyance speed of the above mentioned first conveyer member and a movement speed of the above mentioned cutting member in the above mentioned parallel direction are almost the same, before the above mentioned ceramic molded body is cut, and each of the conveyance speed of the above mentioned first conveyer member, the movement speed of the above mentioned cutting member in the above mentioned parallel direction, and a conveyance speed of the above mentioned second conveyer member becomes faster toward the latter, after the above mentioned ceramic molded body is cut.

The invention discloses an equipment for sorting and packaging goods and a method thereof, wherein, the equipment comprises turning box baskets, a box basket transporting device, a goods-providing device, a radio frequency reader, a wireless radio frequency card, an electronic control system and a system of computer information management, wherein, each box basket box has the wireless radio frequency card; a side on a stopping position of a plurality of box baskets on the box basket transporting device is provided with the goods-providing device; the radio frequency reader is arranged near the stopping positions for the box backsets on the box basket transporting device. The method comprises the following steps: A. configuring devices for the whole line and determining the brands and specifications of goods to be delivered; B. setting the information of device configuration as well as the brands and specifications of the goods; C. setting the allocation proposal; D. preparing and implementing the allocation proposal; E. starting the whole line and pre-allocation; F. inputting empty box baskets; G. applying the box baskets for delivery and allocation; H. unloading the baskets. The equipment for sorting and packaging goods has the advantages of high speed, reliable work, low operation cost, compact structure, and small land occupancy, so the invention is applicable for various goods delivery centers with different delivery requirements and scopes.

A portioning apparatus (10) includes a powered conveyor (12) for carrying workpieces (WP) past a scanning station (14) and past a cutting station (20). Information from the scanning station pertaining to physical parameters of the workpiece is transmitted to a control system (16) which then determines an optimal cutting strategy for the workpiece, which strategy is implemented at the cutting station (20). The length of time required to portion the workpiece is also determined, and this information is used to ascertain whether the speed of the conveyor (12) is optimal or should be changed.

In order to achieve improved work efficiency and reduced work errors, this information processing device is provided with an acquisition unit, a detection unit, and a report control unit. The acquisition unit acquires information used in work to be executed on a work object from a document attached to the work object. The detection unit detects the whereabouts of the work object. On the basis of a rule that is data in which the information used in the work and work contents utilizing the information are associated with each other, the report control unit detects the work contents for the work object. Further, the report control unit reports the work contents by controlling a report device for reporting the work contents.

A system for the automatic loading and/or unloading of products comprises a store (13, 19) with shelves inclined and provided with a mobile transversal blocking means (9, 12), and at least one traveling lift (3) provided with mobile bearing tops (4), also inclined and provided with at least one mobile transversal blocking means (9, 12). Said inclined shelves and bearing tops (4) are provided with transversal, parallel, idle and inclined rollers (5) whereon a product or a product container (1) can slide by gravity when the blocking means is lowered.

Method of controlling the amount of material delivered by conveyor belt includes measuring the speed of the conveyor belt or a drive pulley that drives the conveyor belt. A weighing device weighs material dispensed onto the conveyor belt from at least one material dispenser. Based at least in part upon such speed and weight measurements, an electronic controller maintains or changes the speed of the conveyor belt by dictating the output of at least one motor that drives the drive pulley.

A configurable storage system particularly suited for use with clean environment conveyors is disclosed. The storage system includes modular conveyor track elements which may be provided as one way paths which, when provided with plural transfer elements with respect to a conveyor highway, enable the rotation of a workpiece from a storage matrix to a transfer path and back to the storage matrix.

A modular split-axis stage is used to inspect and/or repair large flat glass media suitable for LCD/TFT applications. Low-precision air table sections are detachably mounted to a centrally located, high-precision granite inspection/repair section. Glass media held by a vacuum contact is transported on air cushions from the up-web air table to the central inspection/repair section. Vacuum nozzles integrated with porous medium pads precisely control the height of the flexible media above the central section during inspection or repair. Embodiments includes structures in which the media is either stationary or moving during inspection/repair. A first media can be loaded/unloaded while a second media is undergoing inspection or repair in a pipelined operational mode.

A belt monitoring system which can accurately monitor the condition of a conveyor belt by correcting it for the effect of belt deviation. Wear detecting magnets (11), which are rubber magnets spanning the entire belt width, are embedded at intervals along the circumferential direction of the conveyor belt (2). Also, position determining magnets (12, 12z) are embedded in positions a predetermined distance apart from the wear detecting magnets (11). In addition, a plurality of magnetic field detecting means (13: 13A-13G) for detecting the magnetic fields from the magnets (11, 12, 12z), which are arranged at predetermined intervals in the width direction of the conveyor belt (2), are disposed in a position spaced apart from the surface of the conveyor belt (2). The state of deviation of the conveyor belt (2) is detected based on the output signals from the position determining magnets (12, 12z) detected by the magnetic field detection means (13), and then the belt thickness distribution of the conveyor belt (2) in the width direction is corrected based on the detected state of belt deviation.

Force and location sensing systems and methods are disclosed. A method comprises bending a L-beam at an initially unknown location on a force-supporting portion of the L-beam, the L-beam substantially having a tension side and a compression side, measuring a first local stress at a first location on the tension side, measuring a second local stress at a second location on the tension side, measuring a third local stress at a third location on the compression side, and measuring a fourth local stress at a fourth location on the compression side. A weight-sensing storage system capable of tracking removed items is disclosed with a product image captured via a camera, a plurality of sensors on an L-beam, a first signal from the plurality of sensors indicating a first state prior to change of the product image, and a second signal indicating lower strain on the L-beam than the first signal.

The invention relates to an automatic lifting feeding and discharging mechanism for a round metal rod, in particular to an automatic lifting mechanism for a round metal rod. According to the technical scheme provided for the mechanism in the invention, a discharge opening of a feed box is connected with a feed end of a lifting feeding machine and a discharge end of the lifting feeding machine is connected with a feed opening of a feeding and discharging machine; in the feed box, an inclined bottom plate of the feed box is arranged on the lower part of the feed box body, the lower end of the inclined bottom plate of the feed box is positioned at the discharge opening of the feed box, and a group of side plate fixing rods are respectively arranged on both the upper part and the lower part of the feed box; the inner ends of the side plate fixing rods are connected with a side regulating plate and the outer ends extend out of a side face of the feed box; and the side regulating plate is positioned on both sides of the inclined bottom plate of the feed box. The mechanism adopts an integrated mechanical, electric and hydraulic automatic lifting mechanism for the round metal rod and has the advantages of high production efficiency, high degree of automation, steady production process and safe reliability.