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US 12,427,790 B2Granted
Equipment and methods for treating objects
AssigneeVelox-Puredigital Ltd.
InventorsAlexander Litvinov, Marian Cofler, Avi Feinschmidt, Adrian Cofler, Yaakov Levi, Itay Raz
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Abstract
Machinery and techniques are disclosed for applying treatment processes to surfaces of objects arranged in a form of an array of objects, and for inspecting surface areas of the objects in such object arrays before and/or after applying the surface treatment processes thereto.
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An object alignment system, comprising:
- two rows of rotatable grippers, each one of said rotatable grippers is configured to receive an object and to controllably change between an engaged state in which gripper components thereof contacts said object, and a released state in which its gripper components not contacting said object;
- an immobilizing unit configured to engage and immobilize one row of said objects while their rotatable grippers are in the released state;
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- a control unit configured to set one row of said rotatable grippers into a released state and immobilize the objects thereby carried by engaging their objects by said immobilizing unit, set the other row of said rotate grippers into an engaged state, affect rotation of the rotatable grippers while the objects of said one row of rotatable grippers are engaged and immobilized by said immobilizing unit while their rotatable grippers are in the released state until angular position of at least one of the objects being rotated is aligned with angular position of at least one of the immobilized objects.
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A method of aligning objects, comprising:
- holding objects by first and second adjacently located rows of rotatable grippers;
- setting said first row of rotatable grippers into a released state in which griping components of said first row of rotatable grippers are not contacting the objects thereby held, and setting the second row of rotatable grippers into an engaged state in which griping components of said second row of rotatable grippers are contacting the objects thereby held;
- immobilizing the objects carried by said first row of rotatable grippers;
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- rotating the objects carried by said second row of rotatable grippers while the objects carried by said first row of rotatable grippers are immobilized, until angular position of at least one of the rotated objects is aligned with angular position of at least one of the immobilized objects.
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