3172 results about "Manual handling" patented technology

An electronic system for aggregated pricing of linked multi-leg (e.g., equity/option and option/option) asset packages with an additional link to an automated broker system for trading the linked asset packages are disclosed. The invention provides methodology and apparatus to electronically produce aggregated price quotes for packages of instruments designed to represent traditional trading strategies involving cash and their derivatives (e.g., stock and equity options). The system develops packages according to specified strategies, and prices the packages based on the national best bid and offer (NBBO) or direct input from participating market makers and investors. The packages are designed for easy understanding by traditional investors and designed for trading through a single order. These packages are desirable over separately trading the asset and its derivative (e.g., equity and option) instruments because they transfer market volatility risk from the investor to the institution by requiring market makers to agree to the aggregated price of the package prior to executing any trades. Certain linked packages, such as most stocks and options, cannot be traded together on a single floor of an exchange due to restrictions by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding side-by-side trading and integrated market making of most stocks and options. This invention provides an electronic process for synthetic side-by-side trading across separate trading locations (e.g., equity and option exchanges and within the existing rules of the SEC). The electronic process follows traditional rules regarding the manual handling of combination orders involving multiple asset types. The process significantly improves efficiency over manual handling resulting in a system that is scalable to high trade volumes.

An inventive method, system and apparatus are provided for syringe handling, and more particularly, for syringe labeling, filling and capping operations. To facilitate syringe handling, an inventive apparatus includes a plurality of syringe bodies interconnected in a predetermined orientation by a belt. Such belt may be of pliable construction and may define a predetermined spacing in between adjacent ones of the syringe bodies, such predetermined spacing corresponding with a distance between holders provided in a handling apparatus. The syringe handling apparatus may provide for the placement of contents-related information on belt segments between adjacent syringe bodies and for separating the belt segments, wherein a flap is left interconnected to each syringe body. The syringe handling apparatus may alternatively or also provide for automated filling of the syringe bodies wherein cap removal, filling and cap replacement operations are completed free from manual handling.

A method and software interface enables serial data streams to be trapped, parsed, tested for suitability for automated handling by a medication preparation system. Only those portions of the serial data stream that are not suitable for such handling are released for printing and manual handling. A serial data interface includes a listener software module (“LSM”) that receives serial data streams and a parser software module (“PSM”) communicatively connectable to the LSM that processes the serial data streams received from the LSM. A set of configuration rules accessible by the PSM defines the manner of processing by the PSM on the serial data streams. A data structure results that enables data handling by an automated medication preparation system.

Waste disposal device adapted to receive a waste-containing member includes a container defining a waste-receiving compartment having an opening, a lid connected to the container and lid having a first, closed position covering the opening of the container and a second, open position in which the opening is exposed, and a rotation mechanism arranged in the container to rotate the waste-containing member when present in the container. The rotation mechanism is arranged to rotate the waste-containing member upon closure of the lid without manual handling of the lid.

Waste disposal device that receives a waste-containing member includes a container defining a waste-receiving compartment having an opening, a lid having a closed position covering the opening and an open position in which the opening is exposed, and a rotation mechanism arranged in the container to rotate the waste-containing member when present. The rotation mechanism is arranged to rotate the waste-containing member upon closure of the lid without manual handling of the lid. A foot pedal assembly includes a depressible foot pedal and a spring, and is arranged to cause both opening of the lid when the foot pedal is depressed and closure of the lid when the pressing force is removed. The spring is moved against its bias upon depression of the foot pedal and returns to its original state when the pressing force is removed to thereby cause closure of the lid and rotation of the waste-containing member.

An interactive television system includes a partial font generator (38) which generates a character font file of only those fonts used by a given application program for text display. The partial font file contains the language character fonts utilized by the application program, but less than the complete character set of the language. Thus, the partial font file thus requires less time or bandwidth to transmit in the allotted transmit intervals. The partial font file may be generated by a manual process, or by an automated analysis of the fonts used by an application program.

The invention discloses a shared bike scheduling method based on user participation. Shared bikes are provided with intelligent locks, the positioning information is sent after the intelligent locks are locked. The scheduling method comprises steps that the positioning information of each shared bike is acquired, and the position point of each shared bike on an electronic map is confirmed according to the positioning information; the electronic map is divided into multiple scheduling regions, and the bike parking quantity of each scheduling region is calculated according to the position points of all the shared bikes; whether the bike parking quantity of each scheduling region surpasses preset quantity is determined; if yes, charging strategies of the shared bikes in the scheduling regions with the quantities reaching the preset quantity are set to be preset charging strategies; if not, charging strategies of the shared bikes in the scheduling regions with the quantities not reaching the preset quantity are set to be excitation charging strategies different from the preset charging strategies. The method is advantaged in that manual handling input can be reduced, and scheduling cost is reduced.

The invention provides a method and a system for inducting items to a sorter (SRT) from a stream of items (IT1, IT2), e.g. mail or parcels, arriving at a feeding conveyor (FC). A processor (PCR) executes a control algorithm (C_A) with at least information (I_1) regarding the stream of items arriving at the feeding conveyor (FC) as input. In response, the control algorithm (C_A) generates an output (O1) indicating where to place an item picked up by a robot (R1) from the feeding conveyor (FC). The control algorithm (C_A) selects between two or more of: 1) a first induction (I1) arranged for transporting items to the sorter (SRT), 2) an empty space (E_S) on the sorter(SRT), 3) the feeding conveyor (FC), e.g. singulating bulk items on the feeding conveyor (FC), and 4) a weighing unit (W1) arranged for weighing items. By controlling the robot (R1) accordingly, it is possible to provide effective use of existing pick-and-place robots as part of a sorter induction system, where a high capacity can be obtained with a small requirement for space. E.g. it may be possible to save space for inductions, compared to what is required for manual handling with the same sorting capacity, especially this may be advantageous for items with a maximum weight of 2-3 kg.

The invention belongs to the technical field of airplane flight control systems, and particularly relates to a manned/unmanned selectable dual-mode flight control system. The manned/unmanned selectable dual-mode flight control system is composed of a fly-by-wire flight control system and an expended aircraft management system. During whole airspace flight, an unmanned control mode can be selected for conducting automatic flight, and an aviator plays the role of a highly-intelligent information identification system to monitor the flight state, the airspace control, external information and the like. An aircraft management subsystem can be used for processing uncertain factors according to predetermined programs or predetermined processing principles, the uncertain factors can influence task completion, online task/flight path planning and task redistribution or threat avoidance are conducted automatically, and under necessary conditions, the aviator can exit the unmanned control mode to perform manual handling. In the aviator control mode, the aircraft management subsystem plays the role of a senior assistant decision-making system to provide flight and task guide information so as to assist the aviator to complete tasks.

The invention provides a wearable handling assistor and belongs to the technical field of mechanical design. Leg assemblies are arranged on the two sides of a waist bent rod, and thigh inner rods of the leg assemblies are connected to the waist bent rod through revolute pairs; suspension belt and ratchet mechanisms are arranged on the two sides of the top of a back bearing plate, ratchet wheels of the suspension belt and ratchet mechanisms are arranged coaxial with coiled springs and are fixed to shafts through key grooves, suspension belt shafts are fixed and wind around the shafts, one ends of the coiled springs wind around the shafts, the other ends of the coiled springs are fixed to racks, one ends of pawl springs are fixed to the racks, the other ends of the pawl springs are connected to pawls, and the tail ends of the pawls are connected to pull wires controlling the pawls to be retracted or released; a connecting rod with a spherical hinge is provided with a ring groove, a back connecting plate is connected to the connecting rod with the spherical hinge through a revolute pair, springs on the two sides are fixed to the back connecting plate and the waist bent rod, a middle spring is fixed to the back connecting plate and the waist bent rod, and the connecting rod with the spherical hinge is connected to the waist bent rod through a spherical pair. The wearable handling assistor is mainly used for assisting in manual handling.

The invention relates to a flexible automatic production system for combined fireworks, which comprises an automatic tube rolling machine, a conveyer, a mud filling machine, a cake assembling and fuse inserting machine, a wrapping machine and a manipulator. The system is characterized in that firstly tubes are rolled through the automatic tube rolling machine and are stored in a tube storage basket, the tubes are fed to the mud filing machine for mud filling, cake assembling and fuse inserting after the tubes are dried, then the tubes are wrapped and reinforced by the wrapping machine, the tubes are righted and fed to the inlet port of the manipulator, propelling charges, effect part tubes, a first paper layer and a second paper layer are sequentially filled into the tubes after cake assembling, face paper and labels are stuck, products are boxed and sealed by a boxing and sealing machine and then the finished products are conveyed by the conveyer to a finished product warehouse; and materials among equipment of the entire system are conveyed by adopting the conveyer, and the loading position and the unloading position of each equipment are provided with photoelectrical conversion switches which are used for controlling the startup and the shutdown of the conveyer. Since the materials in the system are conveyed by the conveyer and the startup and shutdown of the conveyer are controlled by the photoelectric conversion switches, the materials are accurately conveyed in time, the product quality and the production efficiency are guaranteed, and the defects that manual handling in the past is time-consuming and labor-consuming and safety accidents are apt to occur are avoided.

The invention presents a methodology and device for distribution of playing cards. Automatic operation without manual intervention is its main theme. This eliminates the likely manipulations, monotony, errors associated with manual handling of playing cards. The device has provision of conventional automatic shuffling prior to distributing. Playing cards shuffled in more elaborate manner by other suitable devices also can be used on the invented device. There are many user friendly features of the invented device. These include compact size, portability, ease of operation and maintenance, adaptability to any card games. Optional operation of this device by a remote control enhances its utility Standard playing cards of Bridge or Poker size can be used with this device. The invented device is said to be useful to group of players in homes, club houses, casinos and at out-doors.

The invention relates to a constructional engineering grab bucket capable of grabbing and carrying bagged cement of different specifications. The grab bucket comprises a bottom plate, a regulating device is installed on the bottom plate, the lower end of the regulating device is provided with a hydraulic lift cylinder, the bottom end of the hydraulic lift cylinder is installed on a gripping device by flanges, the regulating device can drive the gripping device mounted on the hydraulic lift cylinder to adjust positions, the gripping device can grab bagged cement, and the regulating device, the hydraulic lift cylinder and the gripping device cooperate with each other to complete the process of gripping bagged cement. According to the grab bucket provided by the invention, the existing problems, such as high labor intensity, low handling efficiency and complicated operation, caused during manual handling of bagged cement are solved, the operation complication being caused by different requirements on workers by different specifications of bagged cement. And the function of automatic gripping of bagged cement can be realized.

Management of move requests from a factory system to an automated handling system (AMHS) is provided. In one embodiment, a method and system is provided which includes receiving a move request from the factory system and selectively passing the move request to the AMHS based on a comparison of the move request with one or more conditions of the AMHS. The move request may be selectively passed to the AMHS by, for example, passing the move request to the AMHS without modification, changing a destination tool identified in the move request and/or delaying the move request, or canceling the move request. By selectively passing the move request based on conditions of the AMHS, move requests can more efficiently be managed and the throughput of the automated material handling system can be increased.

The invention relates to a stacker crane with a tray automatic recycling function. The stacker crane comprises an overhead platform, an elevator, a tray detaching machine, a buttress plate conveyer, a plurality of sensors and an electric control cabinet, wherein the elevator, the tray detaching machine and the buttress plate conveyer are installed below the overhead platform; the tray detaching machine and the buttress plate conveyer are in linear connection or vertical connection; the buttress plate conveyer is installed below the elevator; the tray detaching machine is composed of a tray bin and a chain conveyer installed below the tray bin, and the output end of the chain conveyer is connected to the front end of the buttress plate conveyer in a linear mode; the stacker crane further comprises a tray automatic recycling device installed between the buttress plate conveyer and the tray detaching machine, after stacking is completed, empty trays can be automatically recycled from the tail end of the buttress plate conveyer into the tray bin of the tray detaching machine or into a stacking waiting station between the tray detaching machine and the elevator, and manual handling or forklift handling is not required for recycling.

A hot isostatic pressing apparatus (HIP apparatus) comprises a vertically cylindrical high-pressure vessel comprising a high-pressure cylinder 1 and upper and lower lids 2 and 3; a bottomed cylindrical casing 6 capable of housing workpieces 9 and a resistance-wire heater 11, a heat insulating structure 16 equipped with a gas flow regulating valve 15 and formed in a bottomed cylindrical shape on the outside of the casing 6 so as to cover the casing 6, and a heat sink 17 having a water cooling mechanism provided in the space defined by the heat insulating structure 16 and the inner surface of the high-pressure cylinder 1, which are provided within the high-pressure vessel; and a pressure medium gas stirring fan 12 for promoting the temperature uniformity of the space of the treatment chamber 7 for housing the workpieces 9, the stirring fan being arranged on the lower lid 3 side within the casing 6, whereby the cooling to a temperature range of 100° C. or lower which allows a quenching treatment and the safe manual handling of workpieces can be efficiently performed.

The invention discloses a tire hand grab. The tire hand grab comprises a tire bracket, a main shaft, a coupling, a lead screw and nut mechanism, a driving device of the lead screw nut mechanism, a connecting rod, a gear and rack mechanism, a rack driving device and a tray. The tire hand grab can be applied to grabbing tires of various specifications as well as tires of the same specifications. Having an automatic tire taking function, the tire hand grab can completely take the place of manual operation, achieves full-automatic tire disassembling only through automatic tire grabbing mechanical arms, greatly reduces labor intensity of workers and makes full-automatic tire billet conveying possible.

The invention discloses a management method based on a two-dimensional power distribution network device. The method comprises the following steps: establishing a power distribution network device management platform; deploying a database on a server; transplanting the database to an intelligent terminal; inquiring, displaying, adding, altering or deleting the information of the electric power device by the intelligent terminal. According to the invention, the manual handling mode for the data at present is replaced; a mainstream intelligent terminal, namely, a mobile phone, is adopted for reading the two-dimensional code, so as to realize the inquiry and maintenance for the data of the electric power device; according to the invention, the transplanting of the background database and the mobile phone preposition database is realized; the intelligent terminal, namely, the mobile phone, is adopted for reading the two-dimensional code, so that the related information of the device is displayed in real time; the information of the field device is updated through the intelligent terminal, namely, the mobile phone; the database is synchronously updated; the field look-up, maintenance and updating are convenient; the efficiency is increased; the labor intensity is reduced.

The invention relates to a full-automatic recycling environmental protection robot of bicycle waste wires. The environmental protection robot comprises a baseplate, a top plate, support columns, a locating device, a cleaning device, a moving device, a gripping device, a cutting device and a collecting box, and the right and left ends of the baseplate are provided with one support column separately; the top ends of the support columns are connected to the top plate, and the baseplate is provided with the locating device, the moving device and the cutting device from left to right in sequence; and the collecting box is installed below the cutting device, and the top plate is provided with the cleaning device and the gripping device from left to right in sequence. According to the environmental protection robot provided by the invention, the problems of required manual handling and cutting, high labor intensity, low working efficiency, potential safety hazards, low adjustability and so forth of the existing bicycle tire recycling technology can be solved, and the integrated functions of moving, cleaning, gripping and cutting the bicycle wires can be achieved.

A system and method are provided that allow meat logs to be manually loaded into a slicing station and thereafter be continuously automatically processed at the slicing station, a harping station, and an insertion station for automated packaging thereof without the need for handling of the meat stacks by workers. To this end, the slicing station is effective to form smaller sections or chubs from the meat logs and to do so such that the chubs are provided with substantially parallel flat end-faces to ensure that high quality meat slices are generated therefrom. The chubs are then transported to the harping station where each of the chubs undergoes a single cutting operation, thus simultaneously forming the meat slices therefrom and substantially maintaining the slices in the configuration of the chubs for generating well-formed stacks of the slices. Thereafter, the stacks are received at the insertion station where they are transferred to their packages, on an automated basis without the need for manual handling thereof. This is enabled due to the well-formed stacks generated by the harping station which allows the stacks to be dropped into the packages aligned therebelow.

A cigarette-making machine comprises a casing, a tobacco slot in the casing, and a nipple for retaining a cigarette tube outside the casing. A handle/handle drive is accessible from an exterior of the casing to be manually handled. An internal mechanism has a compactor to compact tobacco inserted into the machine through the tobacco slot, and a spoon to eject the compacted tobacco into the cigarette tube through the nipple. The internal mechanism is operatively connected to the handle/handle drive so as to be actuated by manual handling of the handle/handle drive to compact and eject tobacco into the cigarette tube. A cigarette receiver supports a filled cigarette released from the nipple. A method to operate the machine is also provided

A swivel inlet hose-drag irrigation machine is disclosed which utilizes an inlet elbow mounted in a swivel bearing on the cart to attach a water supply hose to the machine. The inlet elbow is mounted to the side of the four-wheel linear cart rather than behind the cart between the tires. The inlet elbow is free to rotate in a 180° arc so that the hose can be attached from either end of the cart at the side thereof. The machine also includes a pair of vertically disposed and rotatable rollers which are mounted at the opposite ends of the cart to push the drag hose out of the way of the tires of the cart so that the tires of the cart do not roll over the drag hose thereby eliminating any manual handling of the drag hose.

The invention provides a quantitative turnover box loop conveying process for a cigarette packaging production line. The cigarette at the outlet of a packaging machine is filled in a hollow turnover box; a coded RFID information identification card is embedded in the hollow turnover box; the loaded turnover box is conveyed to the vicinity of a target case packer by a loop elevated conveyor line; a control system reads work information through RFID identification; the elevated conveyor line automatically executes a descending and unloading program; meanwhile, the control system eliminates the code of the RFID information identification card of the loaded turnover box, the turnover box is descended and the finished cigarette is unloaded from the box and transferred into the inlet of the case packer; meanwhile, the turnover box required to be returned due to failure is conveyed to a manual handling stack for processing by the loop elevated conveyor line, and when the case packer is suspended or busy, the conveying control system makes the loaded turnover box idle around the loop elevated conveyor line for cache. The scheme has the advantages of simple structure, high conveying speed and stable operation.

The invention discloses an air conditioner fault alarming and repairing system and an air conditioner fault alarming and repairing method, and relates to the field of air conditioning equipment. The method comprises the following steps that: when unit fault is detected by the air conditioner fault alarming and repairing system, a cloud server receives unit data containing fault parameter code and unit parameter from a monitoring end; the cloud server scans an own database, searches the own database for the unit fault parameter code, and judges whether the unit fault parameter code exists in the own database; and the cloud server transmits a strategy of repairing the fault to a manual handling branch. The air conditioner fault alarming and repairing system and the air conditioner fault alarming and repairing method, provided by the invention, can timely and accurately notify administrators and nearby repairing branches with fault information of the unit through powerful information storage and data processing functions of a cloud service system, thereby greatly improving unit fault solving efficiency.

The present invention relates generally to the field of biochemical laboratory. More particularly the invention relates to the improved and more accurate instrumental features of equipment used as e.g. fluorometers, photometers and luminometers. The object of the invention is achieved by providing an optical measurement instrument where there is an interface (218, 223, 233a, 233b, 238) for a changeable optical module (240), and excitation and/or emission beam is guided through an aperture of the optical module. This allows performing various types of measurements by changing an optical module without a problem lenses becoming unclean due to manual handling of the optical modules. The invention also makes possible to achieve an accurate measurement location and area within a sample.

The invention relates to cutting and polishing equipment, and in particular relates to the cutting and polishing equipment for a plastic-wood plate. The invention provides the cutting and polishing equipment capable of preventing the plastic-wood plate from shaking and making the cutting surface of the plastic-wood plate more smooth for the plastic-wood plate. The cutting and polishing equipment for the plastic-wood plate includes a base plate, first supports, a placing plate, first sliding rods and the like; and the first supports are fixedly connected to two sides of the top of the base plate, the placing plate and the first sliding rods are fixedly connected between the first supports on two sides, and the placing plate is placed below the first sliding rods. According to the equipment,the plastic-wood plate can be fixed by a clamping component to prevent the plastic-wood plate from shaking, the plastic-wood plate can be polished by the polishing component, so that the cutting surface of the plastic-wood plate is smoother, a clutch component can replace manual operation, so that the equipment can be more automated; and a sliding plate can be pulled back by a small motor, so that the sliding plate can be pulled back quickly, and the time can be saved.

The invention relates to the technical field of classification treatment of plastic bottle materials, in particular to an automatic bottle cap separation machine for plastic bottles. The automatic bottle cap separation machine comprises a rack, a machine box, a direct-current drive motor, a driving intermittent gear, a driven intermittent gear, a center transmission shaft, a rotary disc, rotary arms, locating front concave plates, locating rear concave plates, springs, locking devices, a cam, a variable-speed motor, a spiral cutter, a claw-shaped bent hook, an arc-shaped sliding groove, an arc-shaped baffle, an arc-shaped pressing plate and the like. The combination manner of manual feeding and mechanical automatic machining is adopted for production, so that locating clamping, cutting, bottle cap and bottle mark separation, automatic recycling and a series of actions on the plastic bottles can be completed through the mechanical device. The automatic bottle cap separation machine is mainly used for regions with large population density and mobility such as shopping malls, supermarkets and schools; consumed empty bottles are directly put into the machine, the machine is started and conducts automatic machining, the machined bottle marks, bottle caps and bottle bodies automatically fall into corresponding collection boxes on the lower portion, no specially-assigned person is needed for operation, and manual handling is conducted after the collection boxes are full.

The invention discloses a complaint handling method and system. The method includes the step of inputting complaint text, the step of analyzing the correlation of the complaint text and complaint solution data to determine sample data, the step of training identification with the complaint text, of a neural network, and the step of identifying system results and actual results, carrying out error analysis and modifying corresponding weights. According to the technical scheme, because text space vector representation is adopted, the complaint text can be accurately classified, the problem of text language expression is solved, staff can classify and analyze complaints more conveniently, and follow-up processing of the system can be performed more conveniently. A training sample is not large, and the BP neural network having autonomous learning capacity has the advantages of being high in complaint positioning speed, quick in problem correction and fully automatic compared with a traditional manual processing mode.

The invention relates to the technical field of financial machines, in particular to an automatic bill storage box. The automatic bill storage box comprises a controller, a box body, an input driving channel unit, a bill detecting unit, an elastic supporting unit, a bill conveying unit and a conveying driving unit. Under the control of the controller, the input driving channel unit works and bills are input into the box body; in the box body, the bills firstly enter the bill detecting unit; according to the detected specific movement position of the bills, the bill detecting unit orders the input driving channel unit to return the bills back or continuously input the bills and can also order the conveying driving unit to input the bills to a target position; after the bills enter the box body in sequence, the bills can be stacked between the elastic supporting unit and the bill conveying unit in order. The automatic bill storage box can achieve self-service automatic input of the bills and the problems that the labor intensity is high and the work efficiency is low due to manual handling of a bill counter are solved.

The invention provides a full-automatic mask production line. The full-automatic mask production line comprises a machine table and a plurality of material conveying rolls, wherein three material conveying rolls are arranged at the front end of the machine table, a laminating conveying roll used for laminating g three layers of non-woven fabrics is arranged on the machine table behind the materialconveying rolls, and a crimping device and a rib conveying device are arranged behind the laminating conveying roll; welding wheels used for realizing continuous welding on side boundary areas of thethree layers of non-woven fabrics are arranged on two sides of a non-woven fabric conveying line behind the rib conveying device; and ear belt edge covering devices are arranged behind an ear belt welding device, an edge covering cutting device is arranged behind the ear belt edge covering devices, and a finished product conveying frame is arranged behind the edge covering cutting device. For thefull-automatic mask production line, the manual treatment is not needed, the production of disposable masks can be continuously and rapidly carried out, manpower is saved, and the work efficiency isimproved.