US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on Sept. 15 for "Dropping device, system and filling method" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,217, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Dropping device, system and filling method" was invented by Haoteng Lei (Shanghai), Leilei Wang (Jiangsu, China) and Yin Tian (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dropping device, system and filling method. The dropping device includes a feeding port provided on an upper side of a dropping chute and configured to receive an object to be dropped; a first side wall extending from an edge of the feeding port in a direction deviated from a vertical direction by a first angle; and a second side wall disposed opposite to the first side wall and extending ...