Substance preparation method of capsules and system
AssigneeEcole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (Epfl)
InventorsEdy MARIANO, Pascal MIEVILLE, Florian DE NANTEUIL, Marc KUNZE
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Abstract
The present invention concerns an automated substance preparation method comprising:—providing a first substance container containing a first substance;—a step of sampling to extract at least one portion of the first substance;—determination of a mass of the extracted at least one portion of the first substance;—encapsulating, in a first capsule, the extracted at least one portion of the first substance; and—repeating the step of sampling, mass determination and encapsulating to form a plurality of first capsules of the first substance having randomly distributed different masses of the first substance.
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Automated substance preparation method comprising:
- providing a first substance container containing a first substance;
- a step of sampling to extract at least one portion of the first substance;
- determination of a mass of the extracted at least one portion of the first substance;
- encapsulating, in a first capsule, the extracted at least one portion of the first substance;
- and
- repeating the step of sampling, mass determination and encapsulating to form a plurality of first capsules of the first substance having randomly distributed different masses of the first substance.
An automated substance preparation system including:
- at least one sampling system comprising at least one sampling device configured to carry out sampling to extract at least one portion of a substance from at least one substance container;
- at least one mass determination system comprising a first articulated robot and a mass determination machine permitting to determine of a mass of the extracted at least one portion of the substance;
- at least one encapsulating system comprising a second articulated robot and a substance encapsulating device configured to encapsulate, in a capsule, the extracted at least one portion of the substance;
- at least one system articulated robot configured to carry out object manipulation and displacement in the system;
- at least one controller operatively connected to the at least one system articulated robot, the at least one sampling system, the at least one mass determination system and the at least one substance encapsulating system;
- at least one processor, and at least one computer program including program instructions, which when executed by the at least one processor cause the at least one controller:
- to command or instruct the sampling device to carry out sampling to extract at least one portion of a first substance from a first substance container;
- to command or instruct the first articulated robot and the mass determination machine to carry out a mass measurement permitting to determine a mass of the extracted portion of the first substance;
- to command or instruct the second articulated robot and the substance encapsulating device to encapsulate, in a first capsule, the extracted at least one portion of the first substance;
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- to command and/or control the at least one sampling device, the mass determination system and first articulated robot, and the substance encapsulating machine and the second articulated robot to repeat sampling, mass measurement and encapsulation to form a plurality of first capsules of the first substance having randomly distributed different masses of the substance.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.