17423 results about "Assembly line" patented technology

A system for storing, accessing and displaying HTML-encoded documents relating to an object being worked upon in a work environment by a human operator. The human operator wears a body-wearable http-enabled client system equipped with a code symbol reader programmed to read a URL-encoded symbol on the object pointing to a HTML-encoded document stored on one or more http-enabled information servers. The http-enabled client system is connected to the information network by a two-way wireless telecommunication link. The code symbol reader is programmed for reading the URL-encoded symbol affixed to the object and automatically produces symbol character data representative of the read code symbol and the URL encoded therewithin. The http-enabled client system also includes a network accessing mechanism and a display device. The network accessing mechanism is programmed for automatically accessing one or more of the HTML-encoded documents from one or more of the http-enabled information servers in response to symbol character data being produced by the code symbol reader. The display device is operably connected to the network accessing mechanism, for visually displaying HTML-encoded documents accessed from the http-enabled information servers in response to symbol character data being produced by the code symbol reader. As a result of the present invention, the human operator is enabled to freely review the HTML-encoded documents displayed on the display device while working with the object in diverse work environments involving, for example, inventory management, assembly-line and / or plant inspection, and craft or vehicle inspection and / or repair.

Agricultural operations by applying flexible manufacturing software, robotics and sensing techniques to agriculture. In manufacturing operations utilizing flexible machining and flexible assembly robots, work pieces flow through a fixed set of workstations on an assembly line. At different stations are located machine vision systems, laser based raster devices, radar, touch, photocell, and other methods of sensing; flexible robot armatures and the like are used to operate on them. This flexible agricultural automation turns that concept inside out, moving software programmable workstations through farm fields on mobile robots that can sense their environment and respond to it flexibly. The agricultural automation will make it possible for large scale farming to take up labor intensive farming practices which are currently only practical for small scale farming, improving land utilization efficiency, while lowering manpower costs dramatically.

A battery transfer and charging system for electric vehicles is described. A station removes one or more spent batteries of electric vehicles having multiple batteries. The receiving system includes an engagement device for engaging with engagement structures of the batteries, in order to assist the removal of spent batteries. Spent batteries removed from vehicles may be tested and charged as they progress through the system in an assembly-line fashion. Following recharge, batteries may be transferred to the displacement station for installation within later vehicles. Batteries which cannot adequately be recharged can be automatically removed from the system.

A battery transfer and charging system for electric vehicles is described. A station removes one or more spent batteries of electric vehicles having multiple batteries. The receiving system includes an engagement device for engaging with engagement structures of the batteries, in order to assist the removal of spent batteries. Spent batteries removed from vehicles may be tested and charged as they progress through the system in an assembly-line fashion. Following recharge, batteries may be transferred to the displacement station for installation within later vehicles. Batteries which cannot adequately be recharged can be automatically removed from the system.

The present invention determines the dimensions and volume of an object by using a novel 3-D camera that measures the distance to every reflective point in its field of view with a single pulse of light. The distance is computed by the time of flight of the pulse to each camera pixel. The accuracy of the measurement is augmented by capture of the laser pulse shape in each camera pixel. The camera can be used on an assembly line to develop quality control data for manufactured objects or on a moving or stationary system that weighs as well as dimensions the objects. The device can also ascertain the minimum size of a box required to enclose an object.

The invention provides an apparatus and method for realizing an accelerator of a sparse convolutional neural network. According to the invention, the apparatus herein includes a convolutional and pooling unit, a full connection unit and a control unit. The method includes the following steps: on the basis of control information, reading convolutional parameter information, and input data and intermediate computing data, and reading full connected layer weight matrix position information, in accordance with the convolutional parameter information, conducting convolution and pooling on the input data with first iteration times, then on the basis of the full connected layer weight matrix position information, conducting full connection computing with second iteration times. Each input data is divided into a plurality of sub-blocks, and the convolutional and pooling unit and the full connection unit separately operate on the plurality of sub-blocks in parallel. According to the invention, the apparatus herein uses a specific circuit, supports a full connected layer sparse convolutional neural network, uses parallel ping-pang buffer design and assembly line design, effectively balances I / O broadband and computing efficiency, and acquires better performance power consumption ratio.

The present invention relates to a process for producing an transparent or translucent transaction device having multiple features, such as a holographic foil, integrated circuit chip, RFID circuitry, silver magnetic stripe with text on the magnetic stripe, opacity gradient, an invisible optically recognizable compound, a translucent signature field such that the RFID circuitry and signature on back of the device is visible through the device body. The invisible optically recognizable compound is an infrared ink and / or film, which can be detected by a sensor found in an ATM or device manufacturing assembly line.

The present invention relates to a process for producing an opaque, transparent or translucent transaction card having multiple features, such as a holographic foil, integrated circuit chip, silver magnetic stripe with text on the magnetic stripe, opacity gradient, an invisible optically recognizable compound, a translucent signature field such that the signature on back of the card is visible from the front of the card and an active thru date on the front of the card. The invisible optically recognizable compound is an infrared ink and / or film, which can be detected by a sensor found in an ATM or card assembly line.

A method and system for custom building a toy vehicle inside a store. A child makes design choices at a computer terminal inside the store that employs design software relating to a design of a toy car, the design software permitting design choices that trigger an ordering of components and an assembly of the toy car that simulates a real car assembly, the assembly commencing while the child interacts with the software and being completed within approximately a half hour of a first design choice. The assembly line located inside the store allows the child to dramatically see assembly of components and permits participating in the assembly by moving assembly objects to make design choices at component installation points. Design choices include style, model, color, front and rear ends, lights, doors, hood, height, wheels, engine, muffler, interior, spoiler, name and logo, and attachments.

An on-demand robotic food assembly line can include one or more conveyors and one or more robots, operable to assemble food items in response to received orders for food items, and one or more ovens operable to, for example, partially cook assembled food items. The on-demand robotic food assembly line can optionally package the assembled and partially cooked food items in packaging, and optionally load the packaged partially cooked food items into portable cooking units (e.g., ovens) that are optionally loaded into racks that are, in turn, optionally loaded into delivery vehicles, where the food items are individually cooked under controlled conditions while en route to consumer destinations, such the cooking of each food item is completed just prior to arrival at the consumer destination location. A dynamic fulfillment queue for control of assembly is maintained based at least in part on estimated transit time for orders.

A message transmission system accepts a telephone call from a user who wishes to send an e-mail message, send an SMS message, perform an Internet query or retrieve his or her electronic mail. The voice call is transcribed and the message is sent, or the question in the voice call is transcribed and answered by an agent. Any number of agents connect to a central site over an Internet connection and transcribe messages or answer queries in an assembly line like fashion. In addition, a Web query delivery system accepts a query or statement from a user; the query is transcribed, classified, and then broadcast over any medium to any number of experts or web sites that desire to answer the particular type of query received. The entire query is delivered to an expert or web site who provides a full answer to the user.

A robot is made to recognize and manipulate different types of cable harnesses in an assembly line. This is achieved by using a stereo camera system to define a 3D cloud of a given cable harness. Pose information of specific parts of the cable harness are determined from the 3D point cloud, and the cable harness is then re-presented as a collection of primitive geometric shapes of known dimensions, whose positions and orientations follow the spatial position of the represented cable harness. The robot can then manipulate the cable harness by using the simplified representation as a reference.

A method and apparatus for moving a structure. The structure is supported on a carrier. The carrier comprises a platform having a first side and a second side, a movement system associated with the first side and configured to move the platform on a surface, a support system associated with the second side of the platform and configured to support the structure on the platform, and a leveling system configured to substantially maintain the structure in a desired orientation during movement of the platform on the surface. The carrier is moved with the structure over the surface. At least one of the movement system and the support system is adjusted to substantially maintain the structure in the desired orientation.

A system for the representation, editing, evaluation, and inference of graphical models is disclosed which can be used to construct and evaluate a graphical model or graphical network and to calculate inference values. An efficient method of updating graphical models is demonstrated, and provides the basis for an improved system for manipulation and evaluation of probabilistic models. The graphical network editor is useful in the construction of graphical modes such as Bayesian Networks. The graphical network and network graphical user interface (GUI) are used in conjunction with each other to model a system wherein failure probabilities and the current state of components are taken into account to monitor the health and progress of a system for an engineer or engineering software to evaluate and monitor. The evaluation is useful in the monitoring of assets and other real systems having multiple, dependent, and independently operating components such as a pump, a manufacturing plant, a production line, an assembly line, where asset health and quality control is a concern. The asset components each influencing some overall outcome of a system or situation. Success or failure or probability of success, probability of failure and health of the system can be monitored and manipulated by altering the values of prior probability and posterior probability values. Failure correlation between components can be evaluated wherein failure rates of asset is unknown. Production and quality can be monitored and altered.

This invention encompasses an apparatus and methods which enable the testing of fingerprint readers in an automated fashion. A test object representative of a fingerprint can be created from an electrically conducive silicone material. Due to the properties of this material, the same test object can be read by fingerprint sensors of various types. Once the test object is generated, it can be affixed to an automated apparatus thus allowing tests to be conducted in closed chambers, on an assembly line, or under other conditions that would be impossible or impractical were human fingers to be used.

The invention relates to a method, system and computer program useful for producing a product, such as a microelectronic device, for example in an assembly line, where the production facility includes parallel production of assembly lines of products on identically configured chambers, tools and / or modules. Control is provided between such chambers. Behaviors of a batch of wafers (or of each wafer) are collected as the first batch (or each wafer) is processed by one of the identically configured chambers in one assembly line to produce the microelectronic device. The information relating to the behavior is shared with a controller of another one (or more) of the identically configured chambers, process tools and / or modules, to provide an adjustment of the process tool and thereby to produce a second batch (or next wafer) which is substantially identical, within tolerance, to the first batch (or wafer).

A method of designing a manufacturing process line. A process is identified as a set of discrete steps. A subset of steps is assigned to one of a plurality of standardized work cells. The work cells include a standardized workpiece presenter and a standardized processing tool. Additional subsets of discrete steps are assigned to a standardized work cell until the design for the manufacturing process is completed.

The invention discloses a large cross-section and multiple cross-section tunnel lining construction method. Combined type lining trolleys are chosen to carry through the trolley assembly lining to the cross-section, and adding a gantry mounting on the basis of a normal trolley single gantry mounting can form an assembled and detachable lining trolley. Steel molding plates, road wheels, main gantry mountings, etc. are listed in unchanged components in the process of the assembly trolleys with different cross-sections, and lateral adjusting driving screws, upper platform chord members, upper platform upright posts, lining steel arches, etc. are listed in adjustable components. In the process of the construction from one cross-section to another cross-section, the unchanged components do not change, and only the changeable components are carried through the refitting and assembly. The construction method has the characteristics of fast construction progress, low cost, easy control of site construction management, etc., can save a great deal of manpower, physical resources and financial resources and obtain good technical economic effect, and has the remarkable economic, social and environmental benefits; the invention is especially adapted to the large cross-section and multiple cross-section type lining construction of tunnels and underground constructions.

The invention provides an OpenFlow network system and method for enhancing programmable capability. Two assembling devices of the system are expanded respectively, for a network controller, a protocol analysis and configuration module, a data packet processing and programming module, a queue resource allocating module and a link-layer protocol allocating module are added, and an interchanger is additionally provided with four modules which are a protocol analysis module, a data packet processing assembly line module, an output queue module and a link-layer protocol analysis module and respectively correspond to the four modules additionally arranged for the network controller. Through cooperation of the four sets of corresponding modules, the OpenFlow network system can deploy a plurality of heterogeneous networks to achieve data forwarding independent to protocols, and network programmability is enhanced. According to the OpenFlow network system and method, different heterogeneous networks which are of different systematic structures, have an independent addressing function, routes, and related network protocol execution functions are deployed in the OpenFlow network system, software defining capacity and software defining category in an existing SDN are substantially improved, and programmability of the whole SDN is obviously improved.

The invention relates to a monocular multi-perspective machine vision-based online automatic sorting device for steel balls. The online automatic sorting device comprises an assembly line, a monocular multi-perspective machine vision device and a microprocessor, wherein the assembly line is used for automatically detecting and sorting the steel balls, the monocular multi-perspective machine vision device is used for shooting images of the detected steel balls, the microprocessor is used for performing image processing, detection, identification and classification on the images of the detected steel balls and coordinately controlling each actuating mechanism on the assembly line to coordinately move, and the assembly line comprises a feeding actuating mechanism, a transmission mechanism and a sorting actuating mechanism. The invention provides the monocular multi-perspective machine vision-based online automatic sorting device for the steel balls based, which has the advantages of simple mechanism, low manufacturing cost, high sorting efficiency and convenience in operation and maintenance.

An industrial robot is used to assemble a part to a predetermined location on a randomly moving workpiece. The workpiece may be an automobile on an assembly line and the part may be a wheel (a tire mounted on a rim) to be assembled on one of the wheel hubs of the automobile. The robot has mounted on it a camera, a force sensor and a gripper to grip the part. After the robot grips the part, signals from both the force sensor and vision are used by a computing device to move the robot to a position where the robot can assemble the part to the predetermined location on the workpiece. The computing device can be the robot controller or a separate device such as a PC that is connected to the controller.

A single piece pulsed flow wing assembly method providing for horizontal wing manufacture is accomplished using synchronized automated vehicles guided in a predetermined manner to move and, locate wing structure in a plurality of assembly positions. Multi-axis assembly positioning systems (MAPS) are used at each assembly position to support and index components in the wing structure and determinant assembly techniques are used for indexing of the components. Modular automated manufacturing processes employing magnetic assembly clamping, drilling, fastener insertion, and sealant application are employed.

A bar code (10) has primary information (46, 48, 50, 51) encoded in one direction (e.g., horizontally) and secondary information (13, 21, 36) encoded in another direction (e.g., vertically) in single (11) or multiple tracks (35) in selected ones of the vertical bars (11) of a bar code (10). Using a non-linear, variable amplitude scanner, all of the bars are scanned in the one direction to obtain all of the primary information and all of those vertical bars having secondary information are scanned in the other direction to obtain all of the secondary information. The one direction which is perpendicular to the vertical bars (11), is determined by first rotating the scan path axis (86, 87) until both start (46) and end (48) code bars are read thereby placing the scan path entirely within the total bar code, and, then, further rotating the scan path (88, 89) to determine the direction of the minimum crossing width (Lsc 80) of the total bar code (10). Secondary information is scanned in planes orthogonal to the one direction after those vertical bars (11) having such information are first identified and selected. In a preferred embodiment, the decoded secondary information may be used to control selected station process operations for selected products in a continuous manufacturing assembly line.

A single piece pulsed flow wing assembly method providing for horizontal wing manufacture is accomplished using synchronized automated vehicles guided in a predetermined manner to move and, locate wing structure in a plurality of assembly positions. Multi-axis assembly positioning systems (MAPS) are used at each assembly position to support and index components in the wing structure and determinant assembly techniques are used for indexing of the components. Modular automated manufacturing processes employing magnetic assembly clamping, drilling, fastener insertion, and sealant application are employed.

The invention discloses an automatic device, in particular to a specific production line method which is used for assembling parts of an LED (Light-Emitting Diode) bulb lamp, also implements online inspection and testing of the LED bulb lamp, obtains the LED bulb lamp qualified by inspection and improves production efficiency. The automatic device comprises a rivet assembly line, a light source plate assembly line, a lampshade assembly line, an LED lamp aging testing line and an LED lamp high voltage testing and light color electricity detecting line; and the parts of the LED bulb lamp are assembled and tested by the five workshop sections. The automatic device has the advantages that production efficiency can be effectively improved; quality of a produced product is stable; and labor intensity of workers is reduced. The automatic device can be widely applied to LED lamp production enterprises.

The invention relates to a double-layer assembly line with the interval adjustable. An upper layer adjustable assembly line of the double-layer assembly line with the interval adjustable is installed on a lower layer adjustable assembly line. When an adjusting screw rod is rotated, two upper belt mounting plates can move outwards or inwards simultaneously under the action of synchronizing wheels, meanwhile, under the action of four connecting frames, lower belt mounting plates can be driven to move outwards or inwards simultaneously under the action of lower sliders, thus, the distance between upper transmission belt wheels and lower transmission belt wheels can be adjusted simultaneously to adapt to carriers with various widths, three carrier lifting mechanisms and three carrier stopping mechanisms are installed on an upper plate of the upper layer adjustable assembly line, the carriers are jacked and positioned by the carrier lifting mechanisms after being stopped, and then each carrier can act in a corresponding station and flow to the next station after the action is completed; lifting air cylinders are installed on a lower plate of the lower layer adjustable assembly line, and stop dogs are connected to the lifting air cylinders. The double-layer assembly line with the interval adjustable is used for transporting product carriers, the carriers can stop in any position of the assembly line for machining, and thus the double-layer assembly line with the interval adjustable can adapt to different products.

The invention discloses a stroke switch assembly machine, which comprises an eight-working position turntable mechanism, a bottom charging manipulator, a waterproof rubber ring charging mechanism, a clasp charging mechanism, a rubber ring protective cover charging mechanism, a contact charging mechanism, a rivet charging mechanism, a labeling assembly line and a main electric control cabinet, wherein the bottom charging manipulator, the waterproof rubber ring charging mechanism, the clasp charging mechanism, the rubber ring protective cover charging mechanism, the contact charging mechanism and the rivet charging mechanism are annularly located around the eight-working position turntable mechanism; the labeling assembly line is arranged at the left rear side of the eight-working position turntable mechanism; and the rear side of the eight-working position turntable mechanism is provided with the main electric control cabinet. Through the above mode, the manual labor can be replaced, assembly of the stroke switches can be completed automatically, high efficiently and tidily, the labor is saved and the production cost is reduced.