US Patent Issued to Gerhard Schubert on Jan. 27 for "Process for changing a unit on a packaging line and packaging lines designed for this purpose packaging line" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,257, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Gerhard Schubert GmbH (Crailsheim, Germany).

"Process for changing a unit on a packaging line and packaging lines designed for this purpose packaging line" was invented by Gerhard Schubert (Crailsheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a packaging line (1) comprising a plurality of robots (7), in order to be able to replace a faulty unit, in particular robot (7), quickly and with minimal, preferably no manpower, in particular during running operation of the packaging line (1), the unit to be changed is automatically decoupled from the power and data feeds and from the purely mechanical ...