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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7367528 | Airport system for operations, safety, and security A new and improved airport concept is disclosed herein. Redesigned aircraft would be allowed to dock in the terminal instead of pulling up to loading bridge. The nose section of the aircraft would tilt upwards or to the side, either before or after the aircraft ente... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7337726 | Wind farm An offshore wind farm comprises a plurality of wind turbines. In order to provide such a wind farm with transport between separate wind turbines that can be effected more safely and with less dependence on weather, cable connection is provided between the wind turbi... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7221572 | Housing assembly for stacking multiple computer modules The invention is directed towards assemblies of electrical or electronic circuit boards. More specifically, the present invention relates to an assembly for housing multiple computer circuit boards. The assembly include a housing that has several railing coupled to ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7152337 | Robotic carriage for data collection A robotic carriage for measuring the camber of a large-span structural beam is provided. The carriage includes a frame having a platform supported by a plurality of legs having wheels rotatably mounted at the ends of the legs. The legs elevate the platform above ver... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7137769 | Workpiece feeding apparatus A plurality of working blocks (A, B) are connected by rails (18). A branched transporting mechanism (100) is disposed at the intersections of the rails (18). A transportation vehicle (300) of non-self-propelled type moves on the rails ( | 11/21/2006 |
| 6947815 | Model vehicle control input selection A method and apparatus for determining a model vehicle layout by moving a vehicle around the track and noting when the vehicle passes track position detection elements. The vehicle can either detect the position detection elements, or the position detection elements... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6820561 | Sorting system for transferring items from a trolley to an unloading station in response to the detection of a magnetic field generated at the unloading station A sorting system includes trolleys traveling along a path between respective stations for loading and unloading items in a direction transversely of the direction of travel of the trolleys. Each station includes an inductor for generating a variable magnetic inducti... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6745102 | Automatic transporting system and method for operating the same An automatic transporting system and a method for operating the same. The automatic transporting system includes a main track, a plurality of transport vehicles, a loading and unloading track, a stocker, a rapid track and an emergency track. The plurality of transpo... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6721627 | Track conveyance system A conveyance system which performs conveying action operating carrier vehicles, including a loop track, carrier vehicles which run on the track, a station where each carrier vehicle performs loading and unloading of a cargo, and a standby station for storing the car... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6679459 | Electric overhead conveyer The invention relates to an electric overhead conveyer comprising a large number of carriages (8), which circulate on a running rail system (1). Each carriage (8) has an autonomous carriage control (11), whose memory stores (13) all the data for the rail ... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6659014 | Point--to--point transportation system There is provided a transportation system for transporting content from a first specified address to a second specified address. The transportation system comprises a transport channel, a plurality of containers, an operator, a propeller operatively conne... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6615740 | Machine for transport of passengers and cargo An electrically powered vehicle transportation system utilizes a guideway with parallel enclosed rails. Each enclosed rail has an electrical bus bar for supplying power to vehicles on the guideway. The guideway will accommodate dual-mode vehicles that are... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6446560 | Single carriage robotic monorail material transfer system A system to automate distribution of materials and tooling to production machines, where a very simple cross-section track, such as a circle or an X, is anchored to the equipment and to load/unload stations for materials and tooling, and where simple one ... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6225919 | Method of identifying and locating trainline power supplies A method of identifying and locating the trainline power supplies wherein the power supplies each are a node on a network. The locations of the power supply is determined by causing the power supply node to transmit its identity on the network. The power ... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6172619 | Automatic train serialization with car orientation A method of serialization including establishing a parameter along a length of the train between a node on one of the cars and one end of the train. The presence or absence of the parameter at each node is determined and the parameter is removed. The sequ... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6114974 | Method and apparatus for determining railcar order in a train A method and apparatus for determining railcar order in an ECP equipped train involving the inherent propagation delay of a pneumatic signal propagation in a brake air line as measured by each car and used to determine the car order in the train.... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6109568 | Control system and method for moving multiple automated vehicles along a monorail The monorail system of the present invention contains a monorail and a system controller that has a first radio frequency ethernet communications device. Location markers are attached to the monorail. A vehicle is positioned to move on the monorail. The v... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6089512 | Track-guided transport system with power and data transmission A track-guided transport system with power and data transmission and used for conveying goods. The transport system is provided with a transport element having drive and track-guide elements; storage, input and output units for goods; and a data processin... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6082268 | System for automated transport of automobile platforms passenger cabins and other loads A system is provided that uses small carrier vehicles that operate along electrified guideways and use standardized connections to automatically carry passenger cabins, freight loads and automobile platforms to desired destinations. Front and rear bogies ... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6049296 | Automatic train serialization with car orientation A method of serialization including establishing a parameter along a length of the train between a node on one of the cars and one end of the train. The presence of the parameter at each node is determined and the parameter is removed. The sequence is rep... | 04/11/2000 |
| 6005475 | Communication method and apparatus for conveyor carriages A communication system for a plurality of carriages that travel along a rail. A power cable extends along the rail. The cable is used to convey electric current that drives the movable bodies and is also used to carry information between the carriages. Th... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5986579 | Method and apparatus for determining railcar order in a train A method and apparatus for determining railcar order in an ECP equipped train involving the inherent propagation delay of a pneumatic signal propagation in a brake air line as measured by each car and used to determine the car order in the train.... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5986577 | Method of determining car position A system and method for determining the position of each railroad vehicle within a train consist. The train consist includes a locomotive, at least one trainline and at least one railroad vehicle. The locomotive has a computer. The at least one trainline ... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5979334 | System for automated transport of automobile platforms, passenger cabins and other loads A system is provided that uses small carrier vehicles that operate along electrified guide ways and use standardized connections to automatically carry passenger cabins, freight loads and automobile platforms to desired destinations. The connections are m... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5966084 | Automatic train serialization with car orientation A method of serialization including establishing a parameter along a length of the train between a node on one of the cars and one end of the train. The presence of the parameter at each node is determined and the parameter is removed. The sequence is rep... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5953995 | System for transport by passive vehicles A transport system for passive vehicles which move by way of wheels on treadways of a track includes guide surfaces for guiding the vehicles along the track. Each vehicle includes at least one drive roller propelling the vehicle through contact with rotar... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5927657 | Antenna mounting structure for movable member conveying system A carriage conveying system having a conveyance control device, which outputs communication signals for supplying a carriage with electric power by a feeder cable arranged along a guide rail to move the carriage along the guide rail and for controlling op... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5857413 | Method and apparatus for automated powered pallet A powered pallet assembly (10) for use on two intersecting trackways (11 and 13). The pallet assembly (10) includes: a pallet frame (23) having an upwardly facing surface (12) formed for support of a load thereon; a first plurality of load-supporting whee... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5813349 | Transport system comprising a dual-mode vehicle and platform layout for said system A transport system comprises a number of dual-mode vehicles (11) and a number of station systems (31). Each of the dual-mode vehicles (11) accommodates a number of passengers, such as, for example ten passengers. Each station system (31) comprises a numbe... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5806434 | Installation for the sorting of individually conveyed objects A suspension conveyor and sorting installation for the sequential sorting of individually conveyed objects. The installation includes two parallel conveyor paths arranged side by side and driven in opposite directions. Independent roller devices carry obj... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5743962 | Product conveying system for coating and treating surfaces A work is applied with a solvent-containing thermosetting coating composition to a thickness larger than a limit thickness over which the coating composition on a surface of the work extending in a vertical direction will normally run or sag in a coating ... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5592883 | Monorail transportation system and vehicle for traveling thereon A monorail transportation system has an elongated, overhead monorail (12) with a vehicle (14) having a coupler (16) that movably travels along the upper surface of monorail (12) and a drive wheel (20) that engages the lower surface or underside of monorai... | 01/14/1997 |
| 5551350 | Transporting system driven by linear motor having inductive power supply An automated warehouse system a plurality of car passages, and a plurality of transport units, each disposed in a car passage containing parallel rails with vertical webbings, each of the transport units have a car, wheels for running on the rails, a driv... | 09/03/1996 |
| 5402355 | Process and device to convey bobbins or bobbin-like goods of the textile industry The instant invention relates to a process and to devices to convey textile goods from a receiving point to a point of deposit as well as for reception and deposit of the goods by means of a traveling vehicle. The goods to be conveyed are readied at the r... | 03/28/1995 |
| 5288040 | Device for exchanging data between movable units and a central unit A device for exchanging data between a plurality of rail-supported movable automatic manipulating units for operating a plurality of textile machines with multiple workstations and a common central unit comprises a rail system and a lead system connected ... | 02/22/1994 |
| 5267173 | Carriage running control system A carriage running control system includes a plurality of readable and writable memory media installed along a running track of carriages. Each carriage is capable of communicating information with the memory media. The running track includes special zone... | 11/30/1993 |
| 5236156 | Monitoring of track-type conveyor system A conveyor system has a track network including a main track, a plurality of branch tracks, and respective intersections at which the main track joins the branch tracks. Respective stations at the branch tracks are each associated with a respective target... | 08/17/1993 |
| 5111750 | Conveyor system In a conveyor system for conveying a carrier member supporting a workpiece among working stations, provided are course changing units for changing the course through which the carrier member is conveyed, each of the course changing units being formed with... | 05/12/1992 |
| 5103737 | Garment transfer apparatus The present invention is an apparatus for transferring items such as garments. Each item has associated with it an information code describing the location to which the item is to be sent, as well as other information. The invention uses a main track to t... | 04/14/1992 |
| 5080019 | Transferring system for transferring delivery members to their destinations through computed transfer route Transferring system for transferring delivery members to their destinations through a computed transfer route when any trouble exists in a usual transfer route. The delivery members carrying a workpiece to be stitched, and is to be transferred to a desire... | 01/14/1992 |
