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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.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2022

Filed:

Jul. 31, 2020
Applicant:

Ats Automation Tooling Systems Inc., Cambridge, CA;

Inventors:

Roger Hogan, Cambridge, CA;

Clayton Ditzend, Cambridge, CA;

Steve Aikens, Cambridge, CA;

Albert Kleinikkink, Cambridge, CA;

Assignee:

Other;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 54/02 (2006.01); B65G 35/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 54/02 (2013.01); B65G 35/00 (2013.01); B65G 2207/30 (2013.01);
Abstract

A joint connector for track sections of a conveyor wherein the track sections comprise a feature that requires alignment, the joint connector including: a first segment for attachment to an attachment feature of a first track section of the conveyor; and a second segment for attachment to an attachment feature of a second track section of the conveyor, wherein the second segment is configured to be adaptive to non-alignment of the attachment features of the first and second track sections in order to maintain alignment of the feature after installation of the joint connector.


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