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US 12,570,000 B2Granted
Palletizing system and external appearance inspection apparatus
AssigneeG-Tekt Corporation
InventorsWataru Kikuchi, Toru Murayama
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Abstract
A first robot (104) is arranged in association with a belt conveyor (101), and performs a first transfer operation of picking up a product such as a blank material conveyed by the belt conveyor (101) and stacking it on a relay table (102). A second robot (108) performs a second transfer operation of transferring a loaded body of a plurality of blank materials stacked on the relay table (102) to a pallet table (103).
Claims15
A palletizing system comprising:
- a conveyance apparatus configured to convey a product from a first area to a second area;
- a relay table arranged beside the conveyance apparatus in the second area;
- a container arranged in the second area in a state in which the relay table is located between the container and an arrangement area of the conveyance apparatus;
- a first robot arranged in association with the conveyance apparatus and configured to perform a first transfer operation of picking up the product being conveyed by the conveyance apparatus and stacking the product on the relay table;
- a camera configured to capture the product being conveyed by the conveyance apparatus;
- an image processing apparatus configured to perform image measurement for an image captured by the camera;
- a first controller configured to instruct the first robot to perform the first transfer operation based on an image measurement result by the image processing apparatus;
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- a second robot configured to perform a second transfer operation of transferring a loaded body of a plurality of products stacked on the relay table to the container.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.