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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2014
Frito-lay North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Darin James Baylor, Georgetown, TX (US);
Cory Burns, Dallas, TX (US);
Kevin L Cote, Allen, TX (US);
John Robert Eberle, Plano, TX (US);
Gregory William Hoell, Richardson, TX (US);
Nathan R Huntoon, Frisco, TX (US);
Timothy Jackson, McKinney, TX (US);
Mark T Maldonado, Allen, TX (US);
FRITO-LAY NORTH AMERICA, INC., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for measuring a dimension of a non-rigid object and using the dimension to pick and place the object. A first input device conveys the object into contact with a feed forward unit, which contact conditions the object. A distance sensor is positioned over a gap in the feed forward unit to measure a distance to a surface of the conditioned object. The distance measures a dimension of the conditioned object. The measured dimension is transmitted via at least one line of communication.