US Patent Issued to J.SCHMALZ on Sept. 8 for "Handling system comprising tube lifter and manipulator with gearbox" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,544, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to J.SCHMALZ GMBH (Glatten, Germany).

"Handling system comprising tube lifter and manipulator with gearbox" was invented by Matthias Frey (Sulz-Durrenmettstetten, Germany) and Nico Blase (Horb, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A handling system includes a tube lifter with a lifting tube having a tube interior, and an end effector mounted on the lifting tube and rotatable about an end effector axis of rotation, a manipulator for displacing the end effector, and a coupling device for coupling the tube lifter to the manipulator. The coupling device has a first tube lifter coupling portion and a...