US 12,338,083 B2
System for handling individual primary packaging containers
Wim Dekocker, Leuven (BE); Marcelo Petramale, Leuven (BE); Glenn Ferreira, Leuven (BE); and Philippe Jean Marie Duperray, Châteauroux (FR)
Assigned to ANHEUSER-BUSCH INBEV S.A., Brussels (BE)
Appl. No. 18/250,711
Filed by Anheuser-Busch InBev S.A., Brussels (BE)
PCT Filed Oct. 26, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/079728
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 26, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/090259, PCT Pub. Date May 5, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2020/5757 (BE), filed on Oct. 27, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0391563 A1, Dec. 7, 2023
Int. Cl. B65G 54/02 (2006.01); B65G 47/90 (2006.01); H02K 41/03 (2006.01)
CPC B65G 54/02 (2013.01) [B65G 47/90 (2013.01); H02K 41/03 (2013.01); B65G 2201/0247 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A primary container handling system comprising:
a transportation unit transporting at least one container handling unit mounted on at least one independently motion controlled mover or levitating tile,
said container handling unit being configured to provide 3-dimensional translation and/or rotation of an individual primary container;
wherein 3-dimensional translation and/or rotation comprises movement in at least three of the following six degrees of freedom:
translation along a X axis, parallel to a machine direction of the system;
translation along a Y axis, perpendicular to the X axis;
translation along a Z axis, perpendicular to the X and Y axes;
rotation about the X axis;
rotation about the Y axis; and
rotation about the Z axis; and
wherein the container handling unit is configured to provide movement in each of the degrees of freedom in which movement is provided independently of movement in any of the other degrees of freedom.