Animal husbandry – Confining or housing – Animal display or open work enclosure
Reexamination Certificate
2006-10-03
2006-10-03
Nguyen, T. (Department: 3644)
Animal husbandry
Confining or housing
Animal display or open work enclosure
Reexamination Certificate
active
07114462
ABSTRACT:
The automated cage cleaning system is comprised of a pair of robotic arms, a soil side robot and a clean side robot. The soil side robot is utilized for removing the dirty cage bottoms from a cart, rack, pallet, or fixture, emptying soiled bedding from the cage bottoms, and placing the cage bottoms on a conveyer leading to the tunnel washing equipment. The clean side robot is used to grip the clean cage bottoms, and place the cage bottoms on a cart, rack, pallet, or fixture. Additionally, the present invention comprises an optical arranger robot with vision processing for detecting, and moving skewed cage bottoms to a re-grip station. From the re-grip station, the clean side robot places the cage bottoms on a rack, pallet, fixture, or any other device suitable for holding a plurality of cage bottoms.
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Two page advertisement for visTRAC system by Fanuc Robotics America, Rochester Hills, MI 48309-3253, copyright 2003.
Selected Slides of a Presentation to the Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on Sept. 22, 2002.
Austin Daryl
Dinel Darryl
Horeth Edward J.
Potter Ronald
Jaeckle Fleischmann & Mugel LLP
Matrix Scientific, LLC
Nguyen T.
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