Chip handling devices and related methods

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9536367
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14981028

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Chip sorting devices and methods of ejecting chips from chip wells are disclosed. In some embodiments, chip sorting devices may include at least one chip ejection unit including at least one finger member selectively movable between a first position outside of at least one channel of a chip conveying unit and a second position within the at least one channel. In additional embodiments, a chip sorting device may include a separating wheel comprising a plurality of chip wells, each chip well configured to hold a plurality of chips. In yet additional embodiments, methods of ejecting a chip from a chip well may include urging a selected chip out of the chip well with the at least one finger member and at least one wall segment of a trailing segmented wall of the chip well.

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SHUFFLE MASTER GMBH & CO KGVIENNA

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Blaha, Ernst Irenetalstrasse, AT 54 3997
Krenn, Peter Neufeld, AT 68 3812

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