{
  "abstract": "A zoned vacuum gripping tool comprising one tool-change interface, three bellows cups, one plant vacuum connection, three isolation valves, three zone branches, one contact detector and one blow-off valve. When the bellows cups reach the workpiece, the bellows cups are evacuated by the plant vacuum connection. Before the workpiece reaches the set-down position, the workpiece is blown off by the blow-off valve while the workpiece is above the receiving surface. The arrangement is a proposed configuration composed from a typed library of mechanism blocks derived from published patents; it has not been constructed.",
  "canonical_url": "https://opentechnical.org/p/OT-2026-000028447",
  "categories": [
    "robotics-automation/end-effectors/vacuum-grippers",
    "sensors-controls-machine-vision/position-and-presence-sensing",
    "industrial-motion-power-transmission/fluid-power/valves-and-manifolds",
    "robotics-automation/end-effectors/tool-changers"
  ],
  "extent": {
    "figures": 0,
    "paragraphs": 32,
    "words": 1253
  },
  "figures": [],
  "files": [
    {
      "bytes": 19323,
      "media_type": "text/html; charset=utf-8",
      "name": "index.html",
      "sha256": "90ad82c69c0ea0c301f91123ac56754c7d265431bcdd2a9c678bef01504eac20"
    },
    {
      "bytes": 8907,
      "media_type": "text/markdown; charset=utf-8",
      "name": "publication.md",
      "sha256": "68c5980dcf7003865a9aa8270572423788ce31645932695e927e816cf59364d4"
    },
    {
      "bytes": 8592,
      "media_type": "text/plain; charset=utf-8",
      "name": "publication.txt",
      "sha256": "12268101601c8bab959f953d2d743f43bbced20052b58168e346283225f47d21"
    }
  ],
  "integrity": {
    "hash_algorithm": "sha256",
    "keys_url": "https://opentechnical.org/integrity/keys",
    "record_url": "https://opentechnical.org/p/OT-2026-000028447/integrity",
    "signature_algorithm": "Ed25519",
    "signature_file": "manifest.sig",
    "verify_url": "https://opentechnical.org/integrity/verify"
  },
  "keywords": [
    "zoned vacuum tool",
    "tool-change interface",
    "bellows cup",
    "plant vacuum connection",
    "isolation valve",
    "zone branch",
    "contact detector",
    "blow-off valve",
    "blow off release",
    "compressed air supply"
  ],
  "language": "en",
  "license": {
    "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
  },
  "publication_id": "OT-2026-000028447",
  "published_at": "2026-09-17T08:19:19.949572Z",
  "publisher": "Nebula Innovations Limited",
  "record_type": "disclosure",
  "schema": "opentechnical-publication-manifest/1.0",
  "supersedes": null,
  "title": "Three bellows cup vacuum gripper, three zone face, per zone isolation, plant vacuum fed, pulsed blow-off before set-down, on a tool changer",
  "uuid": "01a0ae72-e2f6-723f-a466-6a22b0fa7cc3"
}
