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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:
Oct. 18, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2006
Krister Sjöblom, Ösmo, SE;
Krister Sjöblom, Ösmo, SE;
Delaval Holding AB, Tumba, SE;
Abstract
A detecting arrangement for a magnetic gripper device () mountable on a robot arm () of a milking robot () provided for automatically attaching teat cups () to the teats of a milking animal, wherein the magnetic gripper device is adapted for gripping teat cups made of or comprising a magnetic material and comprises a primary coil () feedable with a current and a core () of a magnetic material arranged at least partly within the primary coil. The detecting arrangement comprises means () for repetitively sensing a magnetic field, an inductance, or a change thereof, as caused by a teat cup () when being present at, or gripped by, the magnetic gripper device (); and means () for repetitively detecting whether the magnetic gripper device is holding a teat cup or not based on said repetitive sensing of the magnetic field, the inductance, or the change thereof.
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