AUTOMATED APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONSOLIDATING PRODUCTS FOR PACKAGING

Japanese Patent JP3830988

B2

PURPOSE: To transfer a flow of products to a packaging station with a random change in the flow due to removal of out-of-specification contact lenses by placing a consolidation buffer between an automatic lens inspection system and the packaging station.
CONSTITUTION: Defective or out-of-specification products 20b, 20c, 20d are selectively discharged by a handling robot 200 from an inspection carrier 10b transferred from an automatic inspection system in a direction of an arrow A and removed by a conveyer belt 14. Then remaining products are mounted on a consolidation buffer 230 by the robotic device 200, and a pair of pneumatic followers are advanced to bring the products close together for consolidating. Then a robotic device 300 including an array 302 having ten suction-holding means is used to mount a product group 20f onto a support pallet 410 mounted on a packaging index turn table 400, and the product group is packaged after inspected as a product unit 20g.

Russell James Edwards
Mary Louise Dolan
Sven Christensen
Borje Peter Gundersen
John Mark Lepper
Daniel Tu-Hwang Wong
Richard Wayne Abrams
Thomas Christian Raven

JP16812595A

October 11, 2006

June 10, 1995

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Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.

B65B57/10; B29D11/00; G02C7/04; B65B25/00; B65B35/04; B65G25/04; B65G47/48; B65G47/52; G02C13/00; G05B19/418; (IPC1-7): B65B57/10; G02C7/04; G02C13/00

JP62068910U
JP59078329U
JP3033047U

US5035105
US4263769

Hiroaki Tazawa
Konobu Kato

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