Data processing: generic control systems or specific application – Specific application – apparatus or process – Product assembly or manufacturing
Patent
1997-06-17
2000-10-24
Grant, William
Data processing: generic control systems or specific application
Specific application, apparatus or process
Product assembly or manufacturing
700112, 53475, G06F 1900
Patent
active
061380539
ABSTRACT:
Methods and systems for packaging surgical needles. In this system, a plurality of packages are indexed, by means of a package carrier, through a plurality of work stations, at which various operations are performed on the packages. In particular, at each work station, an operating device is moved from a home position to an operating position to perform an operation on the package: and after finishing the operation, the operating device is returned to the home positions. With all of the operating devices in their respective home positions, the package carrier can then be moved to index the packages forward. Each of the work stations generates a respective return home signal when the operating device of the work station returns to its home position. A determination is made as to whether return home signals have been generated indicating that all of the operating devices have returned to their respective home position; and, if such return home signals have all been generated, the package carrier is moved to move each package thereon to another one of the work stations.
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patent: 5240746 (1993-08-01), O'Connell Litteral
patent: 5487216 (1996-01-01), Demarest et al.
Blanch John F.
Demarest David
Hodulik Michael G.
Lenihan Timothy P.
Ethicon Inc.
Garland Steven R.
Grant William
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