Symbotic Canada, Ulc

Axium Inc.

Kinova Inc.

Symbolic Canada, Ulc

Symbiotic Canada Ulc.

Jean-François Forget

Robert Jodoin

Marc Ducharme

Sylvain-Paul Morency

Christian Simon

Philippe Hakier

Régis Métivier

Francis Levesque

Tristan Pashley

Cédric Kessler

Regis Metivier

Maxime Lamy-Poirier

Eric Lajoie

Sylvain Morency

Nicolas Durand

Nicolas Frigon

The problem of potentially damaging a pallet layer that is gripped by clamps of a depalletizing tool is solved i) by detecting the real position of the layer using a pad on the tool that is movable with the clamps towards the pallet layer and whose detected stopping position determines the real position of the layer, and ii) while the layer is gripped by the clamp, by inserting under the layer curtains; the pressure on the layer by the clamps being adapted to the ease to go underneath the layer.

Tool and method for layer depalletizing

A robotic arm having at least pair of structural members rotatably coupled to one another, with a first one of the structural members defining a central passage. A communications link is at least partially within the robotic arm for signal transmission between within the robotic arm. The communications link includes a signal transmission device having a coiled portion, with ends of the coiled portion adapted to be connected to parts of the communications link, whereby the coiled portion is a segment of the communications link. The coiled portion has one of its ends connected to the second one of the structural members to rotate with the second one of the structural members, the other of the ends of the coiled portion connected to a component associated with the first one of the structural members through the central passage to rotate with the first one of the structural members, at least a portion of the coiled portion expanding or contracting radially during relative rotation between the pair of structural members.

Signal transmission device for articulated mechanism

A vision-assisted robotized depalletizer receives at a pallet station a pallet loaded with products and outputs on a conveyor unitized products aligned in a desired orientation. Such depalletizers include a vision system having one or more image acquisition sensors that are positioned relative to the pallet station so as to have a field of view covering a top portion of the pallet. The sensors send to a controller one or more image of the top portion of the pallet that the controller uses along to determine the position of each product in the top portion of the pallet. The depalletizer further includes a robot equipped with a depalletizing tool that is coupled to the vision system controller for receiving information indicative of the position of each product from the top portion and uses that information to pick and position on the output conveyor each product from the top portion.

Vision-assisted robotized depalletizer

A palletizing elevator is provided that lowers gradually a pallet thereon from an upper level as it is filled with products, and by providing an empty pallet infeed system that moves empty pallets towards the palletizing elevator simultaneously to the palletizing of products thereon. The empty pallet infeed system includes an empty pallet elevator for raising empty pallets to the upper level and a conveying system between the empty pallet elevator and the palletizing elevator for moving the empty pallets of from the empty pallet elevator at the upper level to the palletizing elevator while a pallet is moved by the palletizing elevator during its filling.

System and method for palletizing

The problem of the lag time in picking and dropping mixed load products during a palletization process is solved by using a tool having i) a gripping member that can be partially closed in a first fast movement while it is moved by a robot towards a product and then closed onto the product in a second shorter movement and ii) a product abutting plate that is movable in unison with the tool in opposite direction thereof as the tool is moved by a robot towards and away the mixed load pallet.

Method and tool for palletizing mixed load products

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Jean-François Forget