Milking box with backplane responsive robotic attacher

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9615537
APP PUB NO 20160235028A1
SERIAL NO

15136460

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A milking box comprises a stall portion having a longitudinal axis. A backplane is positioned in the stall portion and moves toward the rear of the stall portion along the longitudinal axis in response to pressure applied, and toward the front of the stall portion in response to pressure removed. A robotic attacher extends from the rear of the stall portion and between the hind legs of a dairy livestock. A controller determines the position of the backplane relative to the rear of the stall portion and determines a positional offset that increases as the dairy livestock moves toward the front of the stall and decreases as it moves toward the rear of the stall. The controller further communicates a signal to move the robotic attacher along the longitudinal axis. The amount of movement is determined at least in part according to the positional offset.

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  • TECHNOLOGIES HOLDINGS CORP.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
de, Ruijter Cor Staphorst, NL 59 218
Hofman, Henk Lemmer, NL 124 618
Koekoek, Menno Dronten, NL 60 247
van, der Sluis Peter Willem IJsselmuiden, NL 141 637

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