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US 2024/0208787 A1Published application
Cap automatic fastening apparatus and cap automatic fastening method
AssigneeSemes Co., Ltd.
InventorsYoon Whoi KIM, Ji Keun SONG
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Abstract
Disclosed is a method of fastening a cap of a container, the method including: specifying a screw thread engagement point of a cap and a neck ring of a container; and aligning the engagement point with a fastening start position of the cap and fastening the cap to the neck ring, in which the specifying of the engagement point includes detecting the engagement point by rotating the cap in a reverse direction in a state where the cap is seated on the neck ring.
Claims9
-9. (canceled)
An apparatus for automatically fastening a cap of a container, the apparatus comprising:
- a container gripper for fixing a container;
- an articulated robot for gripping the cap and seating the cap on a neck ring of the container;
- a cap gripper for fixing the cap seated on the neck ring;
- a nut runner for fastening the cap to the neck ring;
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- a control unit for detecting a screw thread engagement point of the cap and the neck ring to control the nut runner so that the cap is ideally fastened to the neck ring.
3 more elements
-20. (canceled)
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.