Patents by Inventor Engelbert Grünbacher

Engelbert Grünbacher has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240030797
    Abstract: To control movement of a transport unit of a linear motor, a quality functional J(SG) with quality terms JTk(SG) is used as a function of manipulated variables (SG) of active drive coils. The quality functional J(SG) controlling movement of the transport unit along the stator is optimized with regard to the manipulated variable (SG) to determine optimal manipulated variables (SGopt) for the relevant time step of the control of movement, active drive coils are energized according to the determined optimal manipulated variables (SGopt), and at least two movement phases are provided during the movement of the transport unit along the stator. In the at least two movement phases, different quality functionals J(SG) are used for determining the optimal manipulated variables (SGopt), the different quality functionals J(SG) differing by the number k of the quality terms JTk(SG) used and/or by the quality terms JTk(SG) and/or by the weighting Factors kk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: B&R INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION GMBH
    Inventors: Christian KRÄMER, Wolfgang KEMMETMÜLLER, Andreas KUGI, Andreas WEBER, Manuel PLAINER, Michael REINTHALER, Engelbert GRÜNBACHER
  • Patent number: 10837466
    Abstract: To utilize and protect a mechanical load torque range of a servo drive in combination with a pump, a control unit is given a target system pressure as a reference variable and an actual system pressure as a control variable. An electric motor torque acting on a pump of the servo drive is specified by the control unit to an electric motor of the servo drive, a volume flow at the hydraulic load is generated by the pump, by which a mechanical load torque sets it at the electric motor and the actual system pressure is produced in the hydraulic load via the volume flow. A dynamic system variable of the hydraulic system is transmitted to the limiting unit. The limiting unit limits the motor torque transmitted by the control unit to the electric motor as a function of the value of the system variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: B&R INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION GMBH
    Inventors: Elmar Bohatsch, Engelbert Gruenbacher
  • Publication number: 20190162207
    Abstract: To utilize and protect a mechanical load torque range of a servo drive in combination with a pump, a control unit is given a target system pressure as a reference variable and an actual system pressure as a control variable. An electric motor torque acting on a pump of the servo drive is specified by the control unit to an electric motor of the servo drive, a volume flow at the hydraulic load is generated by the pump, by which a mechanical load torque sets it at the electric motor and the actual system pressure is produced in the hydraulic load via the volume flow. A dynamic system variable of the hydraulic system is transmitted to the limiting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: B&R INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION GMBH
    Inventors: Elmar Bohatsch, Engelbert Gruenbacher
  • Patent number: 8770019
    Abstract: A test rig for dynamic test assignments on internal combustion engines is equipped with a preferably electrical drive and/or loading device which is coupled to a control device for adapting and controlling setpoint values for a speed and a torque characteristic. For a test rig of this kind, in order to enable the setpoint values determined by a speed and a torque characteristic to be optimally adapted and controlled for the respective test assignment and so that they can be reproduced on the test rig in the best possible manner, the control device can be adapted in terms of adjusting the weighting of speed control to torque control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: AVL List GmbH
    Inventors: Engelbert Grünbacher, Helmut Kokal, Martin Schmidt, Luigi Del Re, Michael Paulweber
  • Publication number: 20120285228
    Abstract: A test rig for dynamic test assignments on internal combustion engines is equipped with a preferably electrical drive and/or loading device which is coupled to a control device for adapting and controlling setpoint values for a speed and a torque characteristic. For a test rig of this kind, in order to enable the setpoint values determined by a speed and a torque characteristic to be optimally adapted and controlled for the respective test assignment and so that they can be reproduced on the test rig in the best possible manner, the control device can be adapted in terms of adjusting the weighting of speed control to torque control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2012
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Inventors: Engelbert Grünbacher, Helmut Kokal, Martin Schmidt, Luigi Del Re, Michael Paulweber
  • Patent number: 7770440
    Abstract: The course of torque transmitted though a driving shaft (3) between torque generating device (1) to be tested and a driving or loading mechanism (2) is determined during an identification phase in the completely constructed test bench with the use of a rotating driving or loading mechanism (2) at pseudo-stochastic rotational speeds. Determined are thereby parameters describing in a real and current manner the dynamic behavior of the driving shaft (3) whereby the parameters are used as an influence in further testing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: AVL List GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Langthaler, Engelbert Grünbacher, Gerald Steinmaurer, Luigi del Re, Helmut Kokal, Michael Paulweber
  • Patent number: 7039541
    Abstract: In a test bench design consisting at least of an internal combustion engine (1) having its own sensor technology, actuator technology and control devices, a dynamometric brake (2), and a test bench computer (5) controlling the internal combustion engine (1) and the dynamometric brake (2), whereby the computer (5) calculates the control variables for the internal combustion engine (1) and the dynamometric brake (2) based on set point defaults, the object to operate the internal combustion engine (1) with the assistance of the dynamometric brake (2) in the same way as the engine would be operated by the user in a selected vehicle and with the driving profile to be set by the user is achieved by conducting a predefined measurement prior to the actual measurement, which cannot be performed precisely by the user himself, and based on the measurement, parameters of a calculation specification (9) of set point defaults of the control variables are to be determined under consideration of the characteristics of the te
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2006
    Assignee: AVL List GmbH
    Inventors: Engelbert Grünbacher, Gerald Steinmaurer, Peter Langthaler, Luigi Del Re, Helmut Kokal