IP Library Granted Patent US 7,004,523
Granted Patent B2
US 7,004,523 · App. 10/771,344 · Granted Feb 28, 2006

Gripping device capable to grip a vial or other containers without using mechanical fingers or other mechanical gripping devices

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Patent No.
US 7,004,523
App. No.
10/771,344
Granted
Feb 28, 2006
Kind
B2
Abstract

It is described a gripping device for vials or similar containers, comprising a tubular body attached to one end of a movable supporting vertical shaft and gripping means associated to said tubular body. Said gripping means comprise non-mechanical gripping members, able to be connected with one end of a vial or container by face-to-face soft contact.

Claims (8)

1. Gripping device for containers, said gripping device comprising

a tubular body attached to one end of a movable supporting vertical shaft and gripping means associated with said tubular body, said gripping means comprise non-mechanical gripping members able to be connected with one end of a container by face-to-face soft contact, said gripping members comprise a permanent magnet axially movable inside the tubular body by a piston housed in a cylinder, the tubular body being made of a diamagnetic material, the permanent magnet being movable between a rest position in a housing receptacle and a work position inside a ferromagnetic iron device engageable by face-to-face soft contact with a ferromagnetic iron insert attached to said one end of the container.

2. Gripping device according to claim 1 , wherein said ferromagnetic iron device is an iron receptacle.

3. Gripping device according to claim 1 , further comprising an optical fiber optic sensor arranged inside the tubular body for electromagnetic data transmission.

4. Gripping device for a container, said gripping device comprising

a gripping member provided with an external tubular body of diamagnetic material and a permanent magnet movable within the tubular body between a rest position inside a ferromagnetic iron receptacle and a work position inside a ferromagnetic iron body, and

a container provided with a ferromagnetic iron insert attached to one end of the container,

the permanent magnet being engageable in face-to-face contact with the ferromagnetic iron insert of the container.

Assignments (5)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 9, 2023
From: INPECO HOLDING LTD
To: INPECO SA
Reel/Frame 063575/0726 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Mar 1, 2013
From: INPECO IP LTD
To: INPECO HOLDING LTD
Reel/Frame 029906/0686 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 22, 2010
From: DACHI S.R.L.
To: INPECO IP LTD.
Reel/Frame 023963/0456 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 13, 2007
From: E. VIRIDIS S.A.
To: DACHI S.R.L.
Reel/Frame 018898/0116 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 5, 2004
From: PEDRAZZINI, GIANANDREA
To: E. VIRIDIS S.A.
Reel/Frame 014966/0799 →