US 12,291,411 B2
System and method for moving element transport in a conveyor system
Roger Hogan, Cambridge (CA); Albert Kleinikkink, Cambridge (CA); and Blake Robert Lambert, Cambridge (CA)
Filed by ATS CORPORATION, Cambridge (CA)
Filed on Sep. 8, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/940,706.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/242,172, filed on Sep. 9, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0073969 A1, Mar. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. B65G 54/02 (2006.01); B65G 47/76 (2006.01); H02K 41/02 (2006.01); H02K 41/035 (2006.01)
CPC B65G 54/02 (2013.01) [B65G 47/766 (2013.01); H02K 41/02 (2013.01); H02K 41/0358 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A transporting system for a linear motor conveyor system, wherein the conveyor system comprises at least one moving element, a first track, and a second track on which the moving element moves, wherein the second track is on a different plane that the first track, the transporting system comprising:
a rotatable element;
a motor for rotating the rotatable element;
a coupler connected to the rotatable element, wherein the coupler is configured to engage with the moving element when the coupler is positioned in a predetermined relationship with the moving element; and
a controller configured to:
operatively connect with the linear motor conveyor system;
control at least one of the moving element and the rotatable element so that the coupler is positioned in the predetermined relationship with the moving element on the track such that the coupler strips the moving element off the track; and
move the coupler such that the moving element is placed on the second track and the system is configured to disengage the coupler to release the moving element onto the second track.