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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2015
Applicant:
Technologies Holdings, Corp., Houston, TX (US);
Inventors:
Henk Hofman, Lemmer, NL;
Cor de Ruijter, Staphorst, NL;
Menno Koekoek, Dronten, NO;
Peter Willem van der Sluis, IJsselmuiden, NL;
Assignee:
Technologies Holdings Corp., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01J 5/017 (2006.01); A01K 1/12 (2006.01); A01J 5/007 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A01J 5/0175 (2013.01); A01J 5/007 (2013.01); A01K 1/12 (2013.01);
Abstract
A robotic attacher comprises a main arm, a supplemental arm coupled to the main arm, and a gripping portion coupled to the supplemental arm. The supplemental arm moves in an x-direction and a y-direction. The gripping portion moves in a first z-direction in relation to the supplemental arm. The gripping portion also moves in a second z-direction opposite the first z-direction in relation to the supplemental arm.