Electrodynamic Product Handling With Open-Front Receiving Units
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing handling devices for product transfer, such as those by Planar Motor Inc., lack flexibility in product removal and often require additional removal devices like grippers, which complicates the transport process.
Innovation Solution
The handling device features a product receiving unit with a partially open front face and a movable sidewall, allowing products to be easily removable by the mover's movement under a ramp-shaped transfer element or through a braking process, eliminating the need for additional removal devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a closed product receiving unit is used, then product arrangement security is improved, but product removal complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The product receiving unit is segmented into a closed rear portion for secure arrangement and an open front face for easy removal. The sidewall is divided into a closed rear section and an open front section, allowing different functional zones to serve different purposes simultaneously.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of designing a fully closed container with complex removal mechanisms, the invention inverts the approach by leaving the front face open. This inversion simplifies the removal process while maintaining security through the closed rear portion and sidewalls.
2Ease of operation
If additional removal devices like grippers are used, then product removal capability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The invention extracts and eliminates the need for additional removal devices like grippers by designing the product receiving unit with an open front face. Products can be removed simply by moving the mover under a ramp-shaped transfer element or through braking, without requiring extra removal mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
The product receiving unit is designed to be self-sufficient for product removal. The open front face and movable sidewall allow the mover itself to perform the removal function through its own movement, eliminating the need for separate removal devices.
3Reliability
If a fully enclosed product receiving unit is used, then product security is improved, but transport flexibility decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The sidewall is designed as a movable component that can be opened and closed dynamically. This dynamic configuration allows the product receiving unit to adapt between secure enclosed mode during transport and open mode during product removal, enhancing both security and flexibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The sidewall is segmented into a closed rear portion for security and an open front face for flexibility. This segmentation allows different portions of the same structure to serve different functions, maintaining product security while enabling transport flexibility.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables secure product arrangement and easy removal without additional devices, enhancing transport flexibility and efficiency through constructionally simple means.
Implementation Method 1
at least one electrodynamic conveying unit (16a) comprising at least one electrodynamically movable mover (18a)
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AI summary
A handling device for a transfer of products, in particular food products, includes at least one transport unit, in particular a conveyor belt unit, with at least one electrodynamic conveying unit comprising at least one electrodynamically movable mover and at least one product receiving unit, which is arranged at the mover and has at least one sidewall extending transversally to a support surface of the product receiving unit and at least partially delimiting a product receiving space of the product receiving unit, and including at least one transfer unit for a product transfer of products between the transport unit and the mover, wherein viewed in a plane extending at least substantially perpendicularly to a main extension plane of the product receiving unit, the product receiving unit has at least one front face that is at least partially open.