Patents by Inventor Tobias Ende

Tobias Ende 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).

  • Patent number: 11845185
    Abstract: A device and method for electrical testing of a component, the component including a contact point, wherein the device includes: an interface to provide the component; a robot manipulator having an effector configured to pick up, handle, and release the component; a receiving interface into which the component is insertable; a contacting device having a counter contact, the contacting device positioned in a first state so that the robot manipulator is able to insert/remove the component into/from the receiving interface, and positioned in a second state so that the counter contact is connected to the contact point of the component inserted into the receiving interface; an analysis unit connected to the counter contact and configured to perform electrical testing of the component using connection of the counter contact and the contact point in the second state; and a control unit to control the robot manipulator and the contacting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Franka Emika GmbH
    Inventors: Tobias Ende, Michael Haas, Saskia Golz, Sven Parusel, Simon Haddadin
  • Patent number: 11524405
    Abstract: A screwing device including: a container for screws; a manipulator having an effector to pick up a screw; an isolating unit connected to the container to provide the screw from the container at an interface such that a head of the screw is accessible to the effector; and a control unit to control the manipulator in executing a control program to perform operations including: guiding the effector along a trajectory having an orientation to the screw head at the interface, wherein the orientation is defined for locations along the trajectory; and executing force-regulated, impedance-regulated, and/or admittance-regulated periodic and closed tilting movements of the effector in relation to its orientation until a condition for a torque, a force, or a time for carrying out the tilting movements is reached or exceeded, and/or a force/torque and/or a position/speed signature at the effector is reached or exceeded, indicating successful pick-up of the screw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Franka Emika GmbH
    Inventors: Tobias Ende, Michael Haas, Saskia Golz, Sven Parusel, Simon Haddadin
  • Patent number: 11247339
    Abstract: Device for plugging a plug-in region of an expansion board into a plug-in coupling including: a first interface providing the coupling; a second interface providing the board; a robot manipulator having an effector; and a controller controlling the robot manipulator to plug the region into the coupling, the controller configured to execute a program for the robot manipulator to perform operations including: picking up the board at the second interface using the effector; guiding the board along a trajectory and target orientation of the region to the coupling; carrying out tilting motions of the region until reaching or exceeding a limit value condition G1 for a torque acting on the effector and/or a limit value condition G2 of a force acting on the effector, and/or reaching or exceeding a force/torque signature and/or a position/velocity/acceleration signature at the effector, indicating completion of plugging the region into the coupling within predefined tolerances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Franka Emika GmbH
    Inventors: Tobias Ende, Michael Haas, Saskia Golz, Sven Parusel, Simon Haddadin
  • Publication number: 20220024027
    Abstract: A robot fixture to secure a robot manipulator to a tabletop, including a base unit having an interface to secure the robot manipulator on the base unit, wherein the base unit introduces, over a surface, a weight force of the robot manipulator to an upper face of the tabletop, wherein a first end of a clamping arm is arranged on an end face of the base unit and the clamping arm has a first portion leading away from the base unit and a second portion extending parallel to the base unit, such that, when mounting the base unit on the tabletop, the second portion extends under the tabletop, and a clamping slide, which is movable relative to the clamping arm in the direction of the base unit, is arranged on a second end of the clamping arm, and, on an end of the clamping slide facing the base unit, a cushion is arranged on the clamping slide, wherein the cushion is mounted about at least one axis in a torque-free manner relative to the clamping slide and wherein the cushion presses the robot fixture against a lower
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Tobias Ende, Martin Kulzer
  • Publication number: 20210101284
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for plugging a plug-in region of an expansion board into a plug-in coupling, the plug-in coupling having a slot, which has a depth T along a depth axis TA and a length L along a longitudinal axis LA, and wherein the depth axis TA and the longitudinal axis LA define a plug-in plane, the device including: a first interface for providing the plug-in coupling; a second interface for providing the expansion board; a first robot manipulator having an effector; and a control unit for the open-loop/closed-loop control of the first robot manipulator, wherein the control unit is configured and designed to execute a control program having the following steps: the first robot manipulator picks up the expansion board at/from the second interface using the effector and guides the expansion board along the specified trajectory T with a specified target orientation Otarget(RT) of the plug-in region to the plug-in coupling provided at the first interface, wherein Otarget(RT) defines the targe
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: Tobias Ende, Michael Haas, Saskia Golz, Sven Parusel, Simon Haddadin
  • Publication number: 20200391387
    Abstract: The invention relates to a screwing device, including a storage container for screws having a screw head, a screw head drive, and a threaded pin, a robot manipulator having an effector, which is adapted to the screw head and the screw head drive, and is embodied and configured to pick up and handle such a screw, an isolating unit connected to the storage container, which provides screws from the storage container isolated at an interface at a known position in such a way that a respective screw head is accessible to the effector, a control unit for controlling/regulating the robot manipulator, wherein the control unit is embodied and configured to execute the following first control program: the effector is guided by the robot manipulator along a predetermined trajectory T1 having a target orientation Otarget,T1(RT1) to the screw head of a screw provided at the interface, wherein along the trajectory T1 for locations RT1 of the trajectory T1, the target orientation Otarget,T1(RT1) of the effector is defined,
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: Tobias Ende, Michael Haas, Saskia Golz, Sven Parusel, Simon Haddadin
  • Publication number: 20200122324
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for the electrical testing of an electrical component (BT), which has a first electromechanical interface (S1), wherein the electrical component (BT) is provided with the first electromechanical interface (S1) thereof at a target position (POSS1) and a target orientation (OS1), the device including: a force-regulated and/or impedance-regulated and/or admittance-regulated first robot manipulator having a first effector, a control unit for controlling/regulating the first robot manipulator, the control unit being designed and constructed to execute the following first control program: controlling the first robot manipulator in such a manner that the first robot manipulator guides the second electromechanical interface (S2) along a predefined trajectory m with a predefined target orientation (Otarget,S2(RT)) to the first electromechanical interface (S1) of the electrical component (BT) provided at the position (POSS1), wherein, upon the mechanical connection of the first electro
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Tobias Ende, Michael Haas, Saskia Golz, Sven Parusel, Simon Haddadin
  • Publication number: 20200039069
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device and method for electrical testing of an electrical component, the component including at least one electrical contact point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Tobias Ende, Michael Haas, Saskia Golz, Sven Parusel, Simon Haddadin
  • Patent number: D874530
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: FRANKA EMIKA GMBH
    Inventors: Sami Haddadin, Tobias Ende
  • Patent number: D880548
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: FRANKA EMIKA GMBH
    Inventors: Sami Haddadin, Tobias Ende
  • Patent number: D900182
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: FRANKA EMIKA GMBH
    Inventors: Sami Haddadin, Tobias Ende