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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6915184 | Collator A document collator comprising a conveyor system, a prime document feeder station and a plurality of enclosure document feeder stations arranged at spaced locations along the conveyor system, a collation station located downstream of the feeder stations at one end o... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6909940 | Method and apparatus for the exchange of batteries in a robot located in an automated library An apparatus and a method for the exchange of power-supplied batteries which are arranged in a media-conveying untethered robot which is located in an automated data-storage library. ... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6907711 | Sheet package producing system, sheet handling device, and fillet folding device A sheet package producing system includes at least a cutter module and a packaging module. The cutter module has a cutter blade, for producing X-ray films by cutting a continuous sheet material. The packaging module has packaging robots, for producing a sheet packag... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6905046 | Vial gripping mechanism for automatic medicament dispensing machine A vial gripping mechanism (10) includes a pivotally mounted swing arm (26). A sensor receiving array (44) is mounted to a sensor end (34) on an inward edge (46) of the arm (26). A channel (38) protecting a cable (6... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6907317 | Hub for a modular intelligent assist system An intelligent assist system having a modular architecture, coordinated by electronic communication links between the modules is provided. A multi-function hub for use in the assist system includes a physical interface for providing mechanical support within the ass... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6898480 | Use of cartridge memory for storing logical library association information An automated data storage library is partitioned into multiple logical libraries. A cartridge memory attached to each data storage cartridge in the library is used to hold library identification information. The library identification information is used to associat... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6898481 | Apparatus for mounting semiconductor chips An apparatus for mounting semiconductor chips comprises a loading station for the presentation of substrates, a first transport system and a second transport system. The first transport system removes one substrate after the other from the loading station and passes... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6898482 | Process and an application for item processing The present invention relates to integrated processing and information handling method for poultry items. As the poultry items are conveyed they are assigned to a processing station where they are processed and thereafter assigned to a predetermined collecting bins,... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6898473 | Wire harness design support system The object of the invention is to provide a wire harness design support system that suitably corresponds to the frequent modification of design and enhances the design efficiency of a jig plate layout and a path layout draft in accordance with it. To achieve the obj... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6895300 | Use of cartridge memory for storing logical library association information A cartridge memory attached to each data storage cartridge in an automated data storage library is used to hold library identification information. The library identification information may be used to associate each data storage cartridge to an automated data stora... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6895306 | Method and apparatus for controlling a tray changer incorporated in a robot control system A control circuit of a tray changer is interfaced with a control circuit of a robot. A tray changer control program, used for operating the tray changer, is loaded into the robot control system. The robot control system itself, or an operator manipulating an operati... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6878896 | Synchronous semi-automatic parallel sorting The present invention reveals a sorting system for use in manual sorting, which presents a detached ephemeral display moving in a manner corresponding to the movement of the article, by which an article to be sorted can be quickly and easily identified. To accomplis... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6879880 | Grip strength with tactile feedback for robotic surgery Surgical robots and other telepresence systems have enhanced grip actuation for manipulating tissues and objects with small sizes. A master/slave system is used in which an error signal or gain is artificially altered when grip members are near a closed configuratio... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6879875 | Low cost multisensor high precision positioning and data integrated method and system thereof The design of the low cost GPS/IMU positioning and data integrating method, which employs integrated global positioning system/inertial measurement unit enhanced with dual antenna GPS carrier phase measurements to initialize and stabilize the azimuth of the low cost... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6876888 | Modular system and method for controlling a material handling system A control system (60) controls a material handling system and has a first control module (120), a second control module (140), and a third control module (160). The first module (120) includes a first control cabinet (12) fo... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6868306 | Plate parts carrying system A plate parts carrying system that is capable of sucking the plate parts to be processed automatically without having trouble with the supply of the carrying program, which makes a specified value of the sucking position easily. A carrying program 8 is... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6857182 | Mounting system for mounting an electronic component on a substrate A mounting system for mounting an electronic component on a substrate includes a component identifying apparatus that identifies an electronic component to be mounted on the substrate. The component identifying apparatus includes a holding mechanism that holds the e... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6859684 | Method of controlling table angle of transport robot A table angle controlling method capable of effectively preventing an article placed on a table (20), from falling off by tilting the table so that the synthetic vector of horizontal acceleration and gravitational acceleration which act on the table acts on t... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6856857 | Method and system for planning disassembly and production of recyclable products and for planning procurement of parts for production A system and method for generating disassembly, procurement and production plans dealing with recyclable parts and products are provided. Production demand information on products to be manufactured, collection schedule information on individual used products and re... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6854583 | Conveyorized storage and transportation system A configurable storage system particularly suited for use with clean environment conveyors is disclosed. The storage system includes modular conveyor track elements which may be provided as one way paths which, when provided with plural transfer elements with respec... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6853875 | System for the combined handling, delivery and/or protection of multiple standardized containers and their controllable payloads An unmanned system is provided for the handling and delivery of a plurality of operational payloads. Each of a plurality of standardized shipping containers houses an operational payload, a controller that controls functions of the operational payload, and communica... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6853879 | Medical manipulator and method of controlling the same A medical master/slave manipulator is excellent in operability and capable of reducing burden on the operator. The medical master/slave manipulator includes a master unit provided with an operation control portion, a slave unit provided with a working device, an int... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6853874 | Variable-width substrate conveyor, method of changing width of the same, and method of matching widths of two adjacent substrate conveyors A method of changing a width of a variable-width substrate conveyor including a feeding device for feeding a circuit substrate along the guide rails, a pair of guide rails having guide surfaces for guiding the circuit substrate being fed by the feeding device, in a ... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6845294 | Method for providing distributed material management and flow control in an integrated circuit factory A method for providing distributed material management and flow control in an integrated circuit (IC) factory. The IC factory comprises a factory stocker, a plurality of process bays and a factory transport agent for moving wafer cassettes between the bay and the st... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6832129 | Method for packing rectangular strips A method packs input rectangles into a target rectangle. The rectangles are permuted into one or more an ordered list according to dimensions of the rectangles, e.g., width, height, perimeter, and area. The rectangles are then marked as unaccepted. A next unaccepted... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6831549 | Interactive communication and data processing system for restaurant services An interactive local and wide area network system is for communications between the restaurant service elements providing service to a customer and for recording of selected related service data for real time information and for review and analysis and for managemen... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6826448 | Cement distribution system A cement packing vehicle includes a cement accommodating unit and an automatic packing machine for packing a predetermined quantity of powdery cement. A powdery cement service center supplies powdery cement to the cement packing vehicle. According to an order from p... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6826444 | Method and apparatus for filling containers with piece goods In a method of filling containers with piece goods, the piece goods are fed on a feed conveyer to at least two robots arranged in the conveying direction, in order by means of these robots to be put into empty spaces in the containers conveyed on a container conveye... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6823236 | Material handling apparatus A material handling apparatus comprising a material delivery configuration configured with a first end and a second end, a transfer configuration connected to the first end of the garment delivery rail, a movable material handling arrangement configured to transfer ... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6817216 | Electronic component placement A method is disclosed of associating a component source with a destination circuit board in a component placement machine equipped with a component carrier tape having a first portion positioned to deliver components for subsequent placement onto the destination cir... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6813538 | Welding system A welding system is capable of shortening length of connection lines and of effectively utilizing devices as a whole. The system includes a welding controller provided with an I/O interface, a controller unit provided with a programmable logic controller and connect... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6813539 | Parts supplying system of assembling production line and supplying method of the same The invention makes it possible to efficiently and accurately supply parts to a work in an assembling production line structured as a mixed assembly line, and to improve a flexibility of changing the line. A parts supplying system of the assembling production line i... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6813542 | Modules for use in an integrated intelligent assist system An intelligent assist system having a modular architecture, coordinated by electronic communication links between the modules. Modules for motion, computation, interface, and programming are disclosed in exemplary embodiments. ... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6807458 | Baggage transportation security system In a communications network, such as the Internet system and method for arranging the transportation of baggage for airline passengers. Flight information and baggage information from a user is received via the communications network. Typically this is accomplished ... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6801834 | Data library system having movable robotic librarian operable for accessing statically mounted drives An automated data library system includes a data library housing drive clusters. The drive clusters include drive arrays of disk drives. The drive clusters are statically mounted within the data library and are not powered when not in use. The system includes a robo... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6792332 | Method for dynamic acceleration in an article transporting system A method for controlling the serial transport of articles to achieve a predetermined gap between transported articles. First and second articles are transported serially on a transport system. The velocities and positions of the first and second articles are measure... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6788995 | System and method of flexibly sorting and unloading finished parts during part manufacturing process The present invention relates to a system and method therefor of sorting and unloading various pieces cut from sheet blanks which have different dimensions in a sheet metal fabricating environment. To achieve this end, prior to the production run, the various progra... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6788993 | Sorting a group of integrated circuit devices for those devices requiring special testing A method for sorting integrated circuit (IC) devices of the type having a fuse identification (ID) into those devices requiring enhanced reliability testing and those requiring standard testing includes storing fabrication deviation data, probe data, and test data i... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6788996 | Fabrication method of semiconductor integrated circuit device To reduce the manufacturing time in a production line for a semiconductor integrated circuit device, plural wafers in a lot are divided into a number of groups according to a selected number of manufacturing devices to be used for further processing of the wafers. E... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6779726 | Method and apparatus for controlling a production operation using printed information on a component tape A production operation is controlled by electronically scanning and reading printed information at intervals along a component tape. The printed information is continuously scanned and read from the carrier tape portion or the cover tape portion of the component tap... | 08/24/2004 |
