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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2018
Applicant:
Technologies Holdings Corp., Houston, TX (US);
Inventors:
Peter Willem van der Sluis, Usselmuiden, NL;
Henk Hofman, Lemmer, 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 5/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A01J 5/017 (2013.01); A01J 5/0175 (2013.01); A01J 5/041 (2013.01); A01K 1/126 (2013.01);
Abstract
A milking robot includes a movable arm having a first end that couples to a frame and a free extremity at a second end that extends telescopically in a longitudinal direction. The milking robot further includes at least one gripper coupled to the free extremity of the movable arm at the second end, wherein the gripper is extendable away from the movable arm in the longitudinal direction based at least in part upon the telescopic extension of the free extremity.