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公开(公告)号：US11419308B2
公开(公告)日：2022-08-23
申请号：US15752804
申请日：2016-07-19
Applicant: LELY PATENT N.V.
Inventor： Karel Van Den Berg , Paulus Jacobus Maria Van Adrichem , Dik-Jan Wisse
Abstract: A system for milking a group of animals, in particular cows, comprising an accommodation space in which the animals roam freely, and a plurality of fixed milking stations. A milk storage tank is placed outside the accommodation space. An automatic milking system for automated milking of the animals comprises at least one autonomous self-propelled trolley with milking cups. The milking system automatically connects the milking cups of the trolley to the teats of the animal. A milk discharge system connects the milking cups to the milk storage tank. The milk discharge system comprises flexible milk lines which are connected to the trolley. The trolley is connected to each milking station through a connection in an animal-free space adjacent to the milking stations. The flexible milk line is configured so the trolley can travel from the animal-free space into each of the milking stations while connected to the trolley.
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公开(公告)号：US20220210997A1
公开(公告)日：2022-07-07
申请号：US17610875
申请日：2020-05-06
Applicant: DELAVAL HOLDING AB
Inventor： Erik OSCARSSON
Abstract: A system and method for providing a decision basis for controlling a robotic arm to perform at least one action relating to a milk-producing animal, wherein a camera registers three-dimensional image data of a milking location that includes a reference object and a rotating platform upon which an animal stands with its hind legs facing the camera, and a control unit checks if an entry window for a robotic arm can be found in the image data by searching for the reference object in the image data, and if the reference object is found the control unit searches for an acceptable obstacle-free volume in the image data, this volume being located within an allowed space relative to the reference object.
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公开(公告)号：US11310992B2
公开(公告)日：2022-04-26
申请号：US15752670
申请日：2016-08-02
Applicant: LELY PATENT N.V.
Inventor： Dirk Kraaij , Gerard Mostert , Michiel Brevet
Abstract: A milking robot for automated milking of milking animals, comprising a cylinder supporting movement of at least one movable component. The cylinder has a wall with a ventilation opening and a cylinder rod which can move in and out of the cylinder. The cylinder wall surrounds at least one variable volume part for movement of the cylinder rod. The opening configures the cylinder to remain in virtual pressure equilibrium with an environment. A gas capture device is connected which has a variable volume and which together with the variable volume part, forms an air-tight gas volume. Thus the variable volume part is kept at almost ambient pressure, so that no unnecessary counter-pressure occurs in the cylinder, during extension and retraction of the cylinder rod. Also less to no exchange of gas and dirt with the environment can take place for longer life and better reliability of the cylinder.
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公开(公告)号：US20220079108A1
公开(公告)日：2022-03-17
申请号：US17533291
申请日：2021-11-23
Applicant: GEA Farm Technologies GmbH
Inventor： Matthew J Stuessel , Wolfgang Schulze-Wilmert , Thomas Orban
Abstract: A safety valve arrangement and method, having an upstream block valve, a downstream block valve, and a pressure monitored galley between the upstream valve and the downstream valve.
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公开(公告)号：US11240988B2
公开(公告)日：2022-02-08
申请号：US16651273
申请日：2018-09-24
Applicant: DELAVAL HOLDING AB
Inventor： Johan Axelson , Bengt Engman , Håkan Etell , Hans Hansson
IPC: A01J5/007 , G05B19/042
Abstract: A control unit that controls an automatic milking machine to operate in accordance with control commands and/or parameter settings received from either of a local user interface fixedly arranged at the milking machine or a remote terminal, where the control unit, in response to receiving a lock command from one of the local user interface or the remote terminal, causes the automatic milking machine to operate in a single-control mode in which it operates exclusively to commands and/or parameter settings received from the one of the local user interface or the remote terminal that generated the lock command, in order to ensure predictable and safer operation of the milking machine particularly in view of personnel located in proximity of the milking machine.
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公开(公告)号：US11229185B2
公开(公告)日：2022-01-25
申请号：US16346206
申请日：2017-10-24
Applicant: LELY PATENT N.V.
Inventor： Pieter Gerlof De Groot , Rik Steenbergen
Abstract: A milking system for milking a dairy animal includes a milking cup to be attached to a teat of the dairy animal and milking the milk, and an electronic component. The electronic component includes a sensor which is arranged in or on the milking cup for measuring a value of a variable related to the milking, a transmitter for transmitting the measured values, and a power supply for supplying the sensor and/or the transmitter with electrical energy. The power supply may include an inductive power supply with a first coil component and a second coil component, where the first coil component and the electronic component are electrically connected to each other, and where the second coil component is electrically directly connectable to an external source of electrical energy. The milking system also includes a fastening means which holds the first coil component and the second coil component together.
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17.发明申请
公开(公告)号：US20210345577A1
公开(公告)日：2021-11-11
申请号：US17273862
申请日：2019-09-03
Applicant: DELAVAL HOLDING AB
Inventor： Carl Oskar PAULRUD
Abstract: An automatic milking machine extracts milk from the teats of an animal by applying a milking vacuum to a respective teat receiving cavity of a teat cup (111, 112, 113, 114) each in which one of the teats is located during a milking session. The milking session includes a boost phase (TBOOST) and is concluded by an exit phase (TEXIT). During the boost phase (TBOOST), the milking vacuum is applied at an elevated pressure level. During the exit phase, the milking vacuum is applied at one or more levels, each of which is lower than the elevated pressure level. The operation of the automatic milking machine transitions from the boost phase (TBOOST) to the exit phase (TEXIT) when (t2) a temporal criterion is fulfilled.
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公开(公告)号：US20210329877A1
公开(公告)日：2021-10-28
申请号：US17273943
申请日：2019-09-19
Applicant: LELY PATENT N.V.
Inventor： Jacobus Petrus Maria DESSING
Abstract: A milking system includes a milking device, a milk line, and a sampling and analysis device for milk from the milk line, that includes a control unit, a carrier with reagent pads to detect a substance in the sample, a dosing device to dose a sample onto a reagent pad, an sensor device to detect radiation from that reagent pad, and to analyse the detected radiation to indicate a presence or concentration of said substance. The dosing device includes a nozzle with a supply line, a pump for pumping liquid to the nozzle, a flat wall part, and a mover to press the flat wall part and the nozzle against each other to close the nozzle. In this way, the nozzle can be filled completely to a known level and without bubbles. Thereafter, the sample pump can provide a sample droplet with known volume, which enables better control over the sample supply process.
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公开(公告)号：US20210195863A1
公开(公告)日：2021-07-01
申请号：US17274129
申请日：2019-09-19
Applicant: LELY PATENT N.V.
Inventor： Peter Michael GAVIN , Darby Anne MCCHESNEY , Abram Christiaan KNIP
Abstract: A milking system includes a milking device with a milking control, a milk line, and a sampling/analysis device. The milking control controls the milking based on said analysis. The sampling/analysis device includes a reagent carrier, including a tape with a first side with a reagent pad that detects the presence of a substance in the milk sample and a second side, a dosing device to provide a droplet of said sample onto the reagent pad, a source for emitting source radiation onto the reagent pad, and a sensor to detect response radiation emitted by the reagent pad, and to analyse the detected response radiation to indicate the presence or concentration of said substance. The first side faces away from the sensor during analysing by the sensor. By viewing “from below”, the observed reaction in the reagent is cleaner, and suffers less from artefacts, and the camera will stay cleaner.
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公开(公告)号：US20210176969A1
公开(公告)日：2021-06-17
申请号：US17183376
申请日：2021-02-24
Applicant: SCR ENGINEERS LTD
Inventor： Eyal BRAYER , Vladimir VORONIN , Uri BEN MENACHEM
Abstract: In a headlock system having a plurality of n headlock cells, each of the n cells being adapted to enclose at least one animal; n is an integer greater than 1; a system for locating the position of at least one animal, the system comprising: at least one identification means adapted to transmit at least one identification signal associated with said at least one animal; at least one locating means adapted to generate at least one location signal associated with said at least one animal; and, a data processing system in communication with said at least one identification means and said at least one locating means, adapted to analyze said signals, said analyzed signals comprising the position within a predetermined region in said headlock system of each of said at least one animals as a function of time.
