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US 2022/0151345 A1Published application
Automated identification and assembly of shoe parts
AssigneeNIKE, Inc.
InventorsPatrick Conall Regan, Kuo-Hung Lee, Chih-Chi Chang, Ming-Feng Jean, Chang-Chu Liao
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Abstract
Manufacturing and assembly of a shoe or a portion of a shoe is enhanced by automated placement and assembly of shoe parts. For example, a part-recognition system analyzes an image of a shoe part to identify the part and determine a location of the part. Once the part is identified and located, the part can be manipulated by an automated manufacturing tool.
Claims20
A method for automatically assembling shoe parts during a shoe-manufacturing process, the method comprising:
- capturing an image of a first shoe part;
- determining a first orientation of the first shoe part from the image;
- and
- transferring, using a part-transfer tool, the first shoe part from the first orientation to a second orientation that aligns the first shoe part with a second shoe part for assembly.
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A system for automatically assembling shoe parts during a shoe-manufacturing process, the system comprising:
- a camera;
- a part-transfer tool;
- and
- a computing device connected to the camera and to the part-transfer tool, the computing device configured to:
- determine a first orientation of a first shoe part from an image of the first shoe part that is captured by the camera, and
- direct the part-transfer tool to transfer the first shoe part from the first orientation to a second orientation that aligns the first shoe part with a second shoe part for assembly.
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