Material Handling
Systems that move, buffer, sort and position goods and bulk material through a facility.
Category CAT-000000001
Subcategories
Publications
- OT-2026-000000713
A sorting method and a sorting device for sorting glass panel cut pieces, as well as a device for producing cut-out glass panels with a cutting system for cutting raw glass panels into individual glass panel cut pieces, and with a sorting device of this type, as well as a method for producing cut-out glass panels.
- OT-2026-000000702
A conveying module and a conveying device for a packing machine are provided. The conveying module for the packing machine is provided on the circulating conveyor mechanism, and includes a modular pedestal on which a telescopic linkage mechanism and at least two holding units arranged in parallel for placing packing ba
- OT-2026-000000693
A method includes: receiving, for items in a staging area, item identifiers and staged locations in facility coordinates, as detected via a sensor; obtaining a load configuration including a load sequence defining an order for loading the items into a container, and a load location within the container for each item, i
- OT-2026-000000685
A material sorting system sorts materials utilizing multiple stages of classification and sorting, including a vision system that implements an artificial intelligence system in order to identify or classify each of the materials, and an x-ray fluorescence (“XRF”) system or Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy to perfo
- OT-2026-000000679
A packaging unit and method for packaging pharmaceuticals into pouches. The packaging unit includes a dispensing area to receive cassettes that contain pharmaceuticals and packaging equipment in communication with the dispensing area. The packaging unit also includes a control system coupled to the packaging equipment
- OT-2026-000000677
A sheet feeder includes a support to support a roll sheet winding a sheet, a sensor that is at a first position on the support and contacts a surface of the roll sheet to detect a level difference at a trailing edge of the roll sheet and output a first signal and a second signal, a roller that is at a second position d
- OT-2026-000000670
A method for monitoring the sealing of a container in a system or device is described. The method includes the following steps: controlling the heating element to heat a heating stamp to a predetermined sealing temperature, monitoring the temperature of the heating stamp, determining a temperature over time curve of th
- OT-2026-000000667
A drawer opening system includes a hitch on a robot arm, and a block assembly disposed within a cavity on an external face of a first drawer, such that the hitch is configured to approach the external face of the drawer, enter the recess, and securely engage the block assembly within the cavity. In illustrative embodim
- OT-2026-000000665
An apparatus, system and method for providing a clamping system for a part associated with a pallet. The apparatus, system and method may include: two opposing jaws on the pallet, each comprising a gripper for gripping the part, and a jaw base. The jaw base may include: gearing that synchronizes actuation of the opposi
- OT-2026-000000657
A roll dispenser is arranged to support a roll of packaging material, and includes a chuck assembly with a first chuck unit that includes a first plug received in a first axial end of a core of the roll, a first shaft fixed to the first plug, a first mount brought into engagement with the first shaft, and a first brake
- OT-2026-000000655
The invention provides a water polo water injection assembly and a water polo water injection device. The water polo water injection assembly omits disassembly with an external water pipe or a water injection cylinder, is convenient to use, and is uniformly filled with water polo. The injection tube bundle is short in
- OT-2026-000000649
The invention relates to a profile system of closed and open extruded aluminum profiles for quick and easy construction of single and multi-store conveyor structures and eliminates the need for expensive fasteners. The system includes open aluminum profile "leg" (1), closed rectangular profile "crossbar"
- OT-2026-000000636
A conveying device is provided, including: a conveying mechanism (1), which includes a mounting frame (11), a driving roller (12), a driven roller (13) and a conveyor belt (14), in which the driving roller (12) and the driven roller (13) are rotatably mounted on the mounting frame, and the conveyor belt (14) is fitted
- OT-2026-000000613
A rope tensioner which includes a take-up reel and a take-up spring. A damping assembly is configured for the take-up reel and includes a follower gear, a damping gear and a damping removal component. The follower gear is configured to rotate synchronously with the take-up reel. The damping gear is movably configured a
- OT-2026-000000605
A grouping system for grouping containers including a track oriented in a horizontal plane, a plurality of lugs coupled moveably to the track, and a plurality of grippers, wherein each gripper is coupled to a lug, wherein the grippers are configured to move a stream of containers about the track.
- OT-2026-000000601
A protection part intended to equip a conveyor includes two lateral profiled members between which a plurality of rollers extend transversely, each roller being mounted to pivot relative to the lateral profiled members via a mounting shaft, at least one of the rollers being motor-driven, and at least one drive belt con
- OT-2026-000000585
Provided herein may be a dechuck control method, a dechuck control system, and a method of transferring a substrate. The dechuck control method may include: providing a substrate and a carrier coupled to each other by an adhesive chuck; pushing the substrate by a dechuck pin including a pressure sensor, and acquiring,
- OT-2026-000000564
Packaging machine for packaging tissue paper products, such as kitchen towels and toilet rolls, by wrapping a paper wrapping sheet around the products, the machine including: a feeding station for feeding, one by one in succession, groups of products including at least one product; a wrapping station for wrapping the p
- OT-2026-000000551
A structural arrangement for conveyor rollers of a harvesting machine is mounted on a chassis of a harvester which is formed by side walls. At least one of the side walls has side openings configured to allow the passage of lower and upper conveyor rollers. At least one of the sides of the conveyor rollers is mounted o
- OT-2026-000000541
Systems and methods for assessing the quality of a plurality of perishable, consumable products include at least one conveyor. At least one image capture device may be positioned proximate the conveyor to continuously capture at least one image of the product moving on the conveyor from at least one perspective. A cont
- OT-2026-000000527
The present technical solution relates to the field of monitoring the technical condition of technological objects, specifically to a system and method for scanning the condition of a wire-reinforced conveyor belt. The technical result is an improvement in the efficiency of monitoring the condition of the conveyor belt
- OT-2026-000000526
Disclosed is a welding device used for a handheld electric strapping machine, provided with a first motor and a second motor; the first motor is connected to the downward pressing and lifting motion assembly, so as to drive the upper welding member to press downwards and to be lifted upwards; the second motor is connec
- OT-2026-000000512
A device for providing a material band, including: an unwinding device for unwinding a material band, having two holders for receiving a respective roll of the material band, both holders being movable from a non-working position, in which a roll is received, and a working position, in which the roll is unwound; a tran
- OT-2026-000000504
An upper tool for a sealing station of a packaging machine, having an indentation with which an upper film web can be formed and having gas through-openings that are provided along the indentation and can be connected to a negative pressure, positive pressure, and/or aeration source, the gas through-openings can be div
- OT-2026-000000495
A plurality of material handling vehicles are provided, each including a horizontal drive for driving the vehicle horizontally, a vertical drive for driving the vehicle vertically, and a mechanism for transferring items onto or off the vehicle. Containers of items are extracted from storage locations of a first plurali
- OT-2026-000000489
Measuring level deviation in an automated storage and retrieval system, the system having a rail system, container handling vehicle, and central control unit. The rail system includes first parallel rails to guide movement of a container handling vehicle in a first direction across the top of a frame structure, and sec
- OT-2026-000000466
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion and a sheet feed unit. The sheet feed unit has a pickup roller, a feed roller, and a retard roller. The pickup roller makes contact with a recording medium stored in a sheet feed cassette and feeds out the recording medium. The feed roller conveys the recordi
- OT-2026-000000463
A system for manufacturing battery cells and methods for utilizing the system are presented. The system includes a feed rotator that contacts an uppermost electrode sheet in a stack of electrode sheets, a fixed stop positioned adjacent to the feed rotator, and a bi-directional drive coupled to the feed rotator and oper
- OT-2026-000000450
A tool for tensioning and severing a cable tie comprising, inter alia, a reel magazine assembly, configured to retainingly receive at least one cable strap reel and provide for a spring-biased rotation of said at least one cable strap reel about a cable strap reel center axis, wherein said spring-biased rotation is dir
- OT-2026-000000446
There is provided a sealing material supply device that continuously supplies a sealing material to an uncoated portion on an edge portion of a current collector on which an electrode is coated, the sealing material supply device including a pair of main body portions disposed so as to sandwich an old sealing material
- OT-2026-000000443
A recording apparatus including a medium support, a conveyer, a head, a guide, a cutting unit, a frictional support member, and a controller, when the cutting unit cuts the medium, the controller configured to cause the conveyer and the cutting unit to perform a first operation of conveying the medium by a predetermine
- OT-2026-000000441
A conveyer system can include a first body portion disposed on the inside of a vehicle body, a first roller being disposed on the first body portion, a second body portion having one side hingedly coupled to the first body portion, a second roller being disposed on the second body portion, and a driving system rotating
- OT-2026-000000427
A material processing system with a pallet changing system includes a first base frame, a first pallet positionable on the first base frame, and a second base frame in alignment with the first base frame. The second base frame has two running rails on which the first pallet is displaceable longitudinally toward or away
- OT-2026-000000412
The invention discloses a distribution unit for the distribution of a liquid flow to one of several selectable outlets. A flexible element is arranged in the distribution unit, which can be rotated and positioned to direct the liquid flow to the chosen outlet.
- OT-2026-000000396
A conveyor-based system and method for assessing perishable consumable product quality include at least one conveyor for moving products and one or more image capture devices. A processor-based control circuit estimates the time a product will be at the center of an image capture device's field of view, considering
- OT-2026-000000394
A system and method providing secure storage and retrieval of storage containers linked to different users. The system comprises an automated storage and retrieval system connected to interaction areas via a container transport assembly and where the interaction areas and the container transport assembly both comprise
- OT-2026-000000380
Disclosed are a shelf device, a robot and a warehousing system. The shelf device comprises: at least two shelves spaced apart, a channel being defined between two adjacent shelves; a track assembly located above the channel and detachably connected to tops of the two adjacent shelves. The track assembly is provided wit
- OT-2026-000000379
A packaging unit for packaging articles into boxes includes a mandrel and a folding device. The mandrel is configured to accommodate at least one of the articles and is adapted to be at least partially wrapped by a blank. The blank has an outer flap and an inner flap intended to be mutually overlapped and fixed so as t
- OT-2026-000000377
The electrode driving apparatus is for driving an electrode that is coated with an active material, and includes a main base, a sub base spaced apart from and parallel to the main base, a shaft extending from the sub base toward the opposite side to the main base, an electrode driving roller that rotates about the shaf
- OT-2026-000000376
A relay transport device is configured to relay a medium fed from the feeding device and transport the medium to the recording device. The relay transport device includes a first restriction section having a first restriction surface configured to position a first edge, which is one edge in a width direction, a first t
- OT-2026-000000371
A canister-yarn tensioning assembly is adapted for controlling tension in a running yarn drawn from a yarn supply package located within an open-top canister. A cylindrical adapter configured to reside at a mouth of the open-top canister. A yarn tensioner is attached by a hinge assembly at a peripheral flange of the ad
- OT-2026-000000367
A conveyance device includes a supply tray, a body, a linear conveyance path, a folded conveyance path, and a straight path discharge portion. The supply tray supplies a sheet. The sheet is supplied to the body from the supply tray. The linear conveyance path is provided in the supply tray and the body. The folded conv
- OT-2026-000000366
A system for modifying an operational condition, i.e., the discharge speed or position, of a material-handling vehicle (MHV). The system includes a computer utilizing a machine learning engine to analyze visual data, a vision system comprising at least one camera mounted to the MHV for generating said visual data, and
- OT-2026-000000360
Conventional automated fulfillment systems require complex technology, such as robots and autonomous guided vehicles. Accordingly, embodiments are disclosed for a conveyor system that can perform automated fulfillment with the simplicity of conveyor technologies. The conveyor system may comprise a plurality of concentr
- OT-2026-000000359
An order fulfillment system includes a storage structure for storing totes, workstations for processing customer orders and a staging and sequencing buffer having staging locations for storing the totes. The staging and sequencing buffer provides a buffer for totes as mobile robots transfer totes from the storage struc
- OT-2026-000000358
A correction mechanism of the belt conveyor device, including a pair of inclined bearings and a pair of main-body guides, corrects meanders of a belt. The pair of inclined bearings include a pair of bearing portions, respectively, and a pair of inclined portions, respectively, that are inclined symmetrically with respe
- OT-2026-000000349
A boxing device has a box-moving section that moves a box with flaps from a supply position to a boxing position; a flap support section; and a pushing section. At the boxing position, articles are boxed in the box's opening. The flap support section supports the flaps. A pushing section pushes a group of side-by-s
- OT-2026-000000330
A box-packing apparatus includes a conveyance unit, an alignment unit, an accumulation unit, a contact unit, a gate, and a control unit. The alignment unit aligns articles being conveyed so that mutually adjacent articles partially overlap and form an article group. The accumulation unit transfers the aligned article g
- OT-2026-000000322
A printing apparatus includes: a first blade that cuts a printing medium; a cutter motor; a drive gear that engages the first blade and is rotated by the cutter motor to drive the first blade; a rotator that rotates in conjunction with the drive gear; a photosensor that includes a light-receiving/emitting section inclu
- OT-2026-000000320
A transport device includes a supply tray that supplies a sheet, a casing including a straight transport route through which the sheet is linearly transported, a reversing transport route through which the sheet is transported so as to be reversed, the reversing transport route being branched from the straight transpor