211 patents
Utility
Vision system for an automated test system
9 Jan 24
An example test system includes test sites that include sockets for testing devices under test (DUTs), pickers for picking DUTs from the sockets or placing the DUTs in the sockets, and a gantry on which the pickers are mounted.
Jianfa Pei, Adnan Khalid, Philip Luke Campbell, Christopher James Bruno, Christopher Croft Jones
Filed: 22 Oct 20
Utility
Interposer
2 Jan 24
An interposer for a test system includes coaxial cables, each of which is configured to transport a first portion of current originating from a current source, and printed circuit boards (PCBs), each of which is connected to a set of the coaxial cables in order to receive the first portion of the current from each coaxial cable in the set and to transport a second portion of the current.
Frank Parrish, Diwakar Saxena, Michael Herzog, Edward Dague, Michael F. Halblander
Filed: 15 Dec 20
Utility
Multifunctional Input Device for a Robot Arm
28 Dec 23
The invention relates to a robot arm comprising a plurality of robot joints mechanically connecting a robot base to a robot tool flange wherein a robot controller is configured for controlling movement of said plurality of robot joints and thereby movement of said robot tool flange.
Jos MIRTH
Filed: 17 Sep 21
Utility
a Robot Controller with Integrated Logic Functionality
21 Dec 23
The invention relates to a robot system comprising: a robot arm, a robot controller configured to execute a robot control In process based on a robot control software program and an auxiliary control process based on an auxiliary control software program; and a peripheral device communicatively connected to the 5 robot controller.
Ievgen KRAVCHENKO, Kasper TOFTE
Filed: 5 Nov 21
Utility
a Robot System and a Method for Monitoring a Robot System
21 Dec 23
The invention relates to a method for monitoring a robot system comprising a robot arm and a peripheral device, the method comprising the steps of: providing a communicative peripheral connection between the peripheral device and a robot controller; establishing an operation signal history in a digital storage wherein the operation signal history is based on operation representations; executing a robot operation process on the robot controller; establishing a peripheral signal associated with the peripheral connection; recording the peripheral signal to obtain a peripheral signal representation; updating the operation signal history by providing the peripheral signal representation as an operation representation of the operation representations; and tracking operation of the robot system based on the operation signal history.
Ievgen KRAVCHENKO, Kasper TOFTE
Filed: 5 Nov 21
Utility
Method for Reduction of Sic Mosfet Gate Voltage Glitches
21 Dec 23
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a circuit and methods of operating the same to provide an off-state circuit path with a programmable impedance in combination with a negative gate-to-source voltage Vgs for power transistors in an inverter configuration to prevent gate voltage glitches.
Martin Hollander
Filed: 16 Jun 22
Utility
AGV having dynamic safety zone
19 Dec 23
There is provided an automatically guided vehicle (AGV), which is configured to detect if a payload mass differs significantly from a preset payload mass towed and/or carried by the vehicle, and if a payload mass different from the preset payload is detected, the control system of the vehicle is automatically updated to adjust either: i) the speed of the vehicle based on preset safety brake distance information associated with the detected different payload mass; or ii) increase the safety zone or switch to a safer safety zone in order to avoid collision with any obstacles.
Niels Jul Jacobsen, Soeren Nielsen
Filed: 6 Sep 19
Utility
Identifying Transport Structures
14 Dec 23
An example method is performed by one or more processing devices and includes the following: identifying one or more features based on data obtained from a two-dimensional scan of a space, where the data includes predefined characteristics; identifying physical attributes of the one or more features; performing calculations based on the physical attributes for the one or more features, where the calculations produce one or more possible configurations for one or more candidate transport structures in the space; comparing the one or more possible configurations to one or more predefined configurations for one or more known transport structures; identifying which, if any, of the one or more candidate transport structures is most likely to be a known transport structure based on the comparing; and controlling an autonomous vehicle based on the identifying.
Peter C. GASTON, Syed Mohammed Jerrar BUKHARI
Filed: 10 Jun 22
Utility
Dual mode free-drive of robot arm
12 Dec 23
Method and robot arm, where the motor torques of the joint motors of a robot arm are controlled based on a static motor torque indicating the motor torque needed to maintain the robot arm in a static posture, where the static motor torque is adjusted in response to a change in posture of the robot arm caused by an external force different from gravity applied to the robot arm.
Oluf Skov Rosenlund, Andreas Rune Fugl, Anders Skovgaard Knudsen
Filed: 17 Jun 19
Utility
Autonomous device safety system
5 Dec 23
An example system includes a positioning surveillance system (PSS) to identify locations of objects that are movable throughout a space.
Søren E. Nielsen
Filed: 24 Nov 20
Utility
Flattening a Circuit Board Assembly Using Vacuum Pressure
23 Nov 23
An example method of flattening a circuit board assembly includes attaching the circuit board assembly to a structure having dimensions that partly enclose a space, where attachment of the circuit board assembly to the structure creates an air-tight seal over the space, and where the structure has at least one port in fluid communication with the space.
Eric Boiselle
Filed: 18 May 22
Utility
Autonomous Mobile Robot System for Transporting Payloads
23 Nov 23
The present invention provides a transport system comprising an Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMRs) (1) and the equipment to be moved (2), which can be operated safely and efficiently within an industrial/commercial environment, while the AMRs (1), as well as the equipment to be moved (2), can be produced in a cost-efficient way.
Michael EJSTRUP HANSEN
Filed: 21 Oct 20
Utility
Strain wave gear with encoder integration
24 Oct 23
A strain wave gear includes gear elements including a circular element having an internally-toothed gear and a flex element having a flexible externally-toothed gear arranged in the circular element.
Steffen Henrik Johansen
Filed: 16 Dec 21
Utility
Autonomous vehicle delivery system
26 Sep 23
An example system includes a computing system having computer memory storing instructions that are executable and one or more processing devices for executing the instructions to perform operations that include receiving data from a user device that identifies goods, and generating information representing the goods based on the data.
Jeremy Rockman, Robert Sullivan, Justin Holwell
Filed: 18 Jun 20
Utility
Test site configuration in an automated test system
12 Sep 23
An example test system includes a test socket for testing a DUT, a lid for the test socket, and an actuator configured to force the lid onto the test socket and to remove the lid from the test socket.
Michael O. McKenna, Christopher James Bruno, Philip Luke Campbell, John Patrick Toscano
Filed: 22 Oct 20
Utility
Thermal control system for an automated test system
12 Sep 23
An example test system includes test sites for testing devices under test (DUTs), where the test sites include a test site configured to hold a DUT for testing.
Larry Wayne Akers, Michael O. Mckenna
Filed: 22 Oct 20
Utility
Communicating Using Contactless Coupling
7 Sep 23
An example system includes a first circuit board having first conductive traces, where a first conductive trace is for conducting an alternating current (AC) digital signal having an edge; a second circuit board having second conductive traces, where a second conductive trace is within a predefined distance of the first conductive trace to produce a contactless coupling with the first conductive trace, and where the contactless coupling enables electrical energy on the first conductive trace to manifest on the second conductive trace as a transient response that is based on the edge; and circuitry to reconstruct the edge based on the transient response from the second conductive trace.
Tushar K. Gohel, Thomas D. Jacobs, David H. Vandervalk, Jason L. Welch
Filed: 4 Mar 22
Utility
Identifying elements in an environment
15 Aug 23
An example method of detecting an element using an autonomous vehicle includes the following operations: using a sensor on the autonomous vehicle to capture image data in a region of interest containing the element, where the image data represents components of the element; filtering the image data to produce filtered data having less of an amount of data than the image data; identifying the components of the element by analyzing the filtered data using a deterministic process; and detecting the element based on the components.
Syed Mohammed Jerrar Bukhari, Tyler Barron, Justin Holwell
Filed: 11 May 20
Utility
Probe for a Test System
20 Jul 23
An example probe for a test system includes a conductor to carry direct current (DC) signals between a DC testing resource and a signal trace on the test system, where the signal trace is for carrying the DC signals and alternating current (AC) signals to and from a device under test; and an inductor connected in series with the conductor.
Timothy D. Lyons
Filed: 18 Jan 22
Utility
Gripping System for an Autonomous Guided Vehicle
29 Jun 23
A gripping system for an autonomous guided vehicle (AGV) and such AGV are disclosed herein.
Lars Hjorth HANSEN, Mikkel Steen PEDERSEN
Filed: 1 Jun 21