SINGLE CARRIAGE ROBOTIC MONORAIL MATERIAL TRANSFER SYSTEM

Patent №

US 6,446,560

Granted

2002-09-10

Filed 2000

Owner

TERADYNE, INC.

Lab

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

09605941

A system to automate distribution of materials and tooling to production machines, where a very simple cross-section track, such as a circle or an X, is anchored to the equipment and to load/unload stations for materials and tooling, and where simple one or two wheeled robotic cars, where the wheels need not be mounted with yaw pivots to the cars, transport the materials or tooling. A control system keeps controls the motor or motors that drive one or two wheels to minimize pitch of the cars as they move along the track.

AI classification

Planning0.81
Vision0.01
Natural language0.00
Machine learning0.00
AI hardware0.00
Speech0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Knowledge representation0.00

Ownership

TERADYNE, INC.

assignment · 116880220

Assignors

SLOCUM, ALEXANDER H.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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