US 12,168,293 B2
Apparatus for transferring a vial from a first station to a second station
Tiziano Bosaglia, Rodano (IT); Massimo Gherlinzoni, Rodano (IT); Riccardo Facchetti, Milan (IT); and Flavio Antoniucci, Rodano (IT)
Assigned to Thermo Fisher Scientific S.p.A., Rodano (IT)
Appl. No. 17/311,248
Filed by Thermo Fisher Scientific S.p.A., Rodano (IT)
PCT Filed Dec. 3, 2019, PCT No. PCT/IB2019/060396
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 4, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/115654, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 11, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 102018000010801 (IT), filed on Dec. 4, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0024054 A1, Jan. 27, 2022
Int. Cl. B25J 15/02 (2006.01); B25J 15/06 (2006.01); B25J 15/08 (2006.01); B25J 15/10 (2006.01)
CPC B25J 15/028 (2013.01) [B25J 15/0608 (2013.01); B25J 15/086 (2013.01); B25J 15/10 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. Apparatus for transferring a vial from a first station to a second station, comprising a stock of vials in said first station, a mobile arm provided with at least three gripping elements movable between one another in a controlled way at least between a first and a second position, wherein the free ends of at least part of said gripping elements have a magnet, and wherein an area of a first polygon having as vertexes said free ends in said first position is smaller than an area of a second polygon having as vertexes said free ends in said second position wherein said gripping elements are constrained to a cam adapted to move said gripping elements, wherein said cam is preferably rotatable and is provided with a slot (6a-6d) for each gripping element, so that the rotation of the cam causes a movement of the gripping elements along said slots.