Patents Assigned to Balluff GmbH
  • Patent number: 11360453
    Abstract: In a method for operating a system, which has a plurality of sensors (21, 22, 23), the sensors (21, 22, 23) provide first sensor data (11) to a primary process (31). Furthermore, the sensors (21, 22, 23) provide second sensor data (12). At least a part of the first sensor data (11) and the second sensor data (12) is subjected to an analysis (13). A result (16) of the analysis (13) is used in at least one secondary process (33) of the primary process (31).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: BALLUFF GMBH
    Inventors: Jorg Maier, Jochen Streib, Martin Osterfeld, Stephan Langer, Roland Schafer, Albert Dorneich, Andrea Hiller-Brod
  • Patent number: 11355965
    Abstract: A device for inductively transferring electrical energy and/or data from a primary-sided carrier to at least one secondary-sided recipient which can be positioned on the carrier has a meander-shaped winding on the primary side and at least one meander-shaped winding on the secondary side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Balluff GmbH
    Inventors: Joerg Heinrich, David Maier, Nejila Parspour
  • Publication number: 20220156916
    Abstract: A device for generating an image of an object by electromagnetic waves has a transmission device which is set up to radiate electromagnetic waves in the direction of the object, a receiving device which is set up to receive electromagnetic waves from the object, and a digital processing and control unit which is set up to generate image data of the object from the measured data. Here, the transmission device and the receiving device are arranged in at least one modular unit. The digital processing and control unit has an interface via which different modular units can be exchangeably coupled to the digital processing and control unit. Here, the interface is set up to transmit data to the modular unit and to receive from this, to transmit control signals to the transmission device and to the receiving device, and to supply the modular unit with energy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: Balluff GmbH
    Inventor: Mark EBERSPAECHER
  • Patent number: 11231300
    Abstract: A magnetostrictive sensor apparatus is provided, comprising at least one magnetic position marker, at least one sensing member with a waveguide to which the at least one magnetic position marker is contactlessly coupled, a detector coil device which is associated with the at least one sensing member, a data processing device which determines a time profile with a shape over time of signals of the detector coil device, wherein a recording of the time profile is provided, and an analysis device which analyzes the time profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: BALLUFF GmbH
    Inventors: Zoltán Kántor, Zoltán Pólik, Attila Szabó, Zoltán Wimmer
  • Patent number: 11209293
    Abstract: The invention relates to a sensor housing, which has a base body (10) and a media contacting cap (20). The media contacting cap (20) is arranged partially in a recess (11) of the base body (10) in a detachable manner. It has an annularly running recess (21) for partially receiving a sealing element (60) for a metal clamp connection. Furthermore, the invention relates to a sensor. This has a measuring element (30), which is arranged in the media contacting cap (20) of the sensor housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: BALLUFF GMBH
    Inventor: Laszlo Hoffmann
  • Patent number: 11201504
    Abstract: A circuit for inductively transferring electrical energy from a primary side to a secondary side has a primary-sided autoresonant power oscillator compensated in parallel having a primary inductivity and serially compensated secondary sides each having a secondary inductivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Balluff GmbH
    Inventors: Joerg Heinrich, David Maier, Nejila Parspour
  • Patent number: 11190393
    Abstract: A wireless IO-link communication network has a main master and at least one device which have a bidirectional wireless communication between the main master and the at least one device, as well as a backup master which is connected to the main master and the at least one device and is configured to control the at least one device. In a method for operating the IOLW communication network with such a backup master, the backup master controls the at least one device instead of the main master.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Balluff GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Rentschler, Matthias Beyer, Pascal Gaggero, Simon Mahler
  • Patent number: 11162827
    Abstract: The at least one value is respectively determined from at least one measured value of the sensors (20-29) in a method for determining at least one physical value in a space (10) in which several sensors (20-29) are arranged which are set up to measurer the at least one value, for several positions (30) in the space (10) where there is no sensor (20-29). A system which is set up in order to determine the at least one physical value in the space (10) has several sensors (20-29) which are arranged in the space (10). Furthermore, it has a database, in which information about the space (10) is stored, and a computer which is set up in order to determine the at least one value by means of the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Balluff GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Osterfeld, Stephan Langer, Roland Schafer, Albert Dorneich, Andrea Hiller-Brod, Jorg Maier, Jochen Streib
  • Publication number: 20210293522
    Abstract: A sensor arrangement for an absolute measuring position detection system based on a magnetic code object has a substantially linear arrangement of magnetic field sensors, wherein a bit pattern encoded on a single-track magnetic code object having a uniform bit length is readable by the magnetic field sensors. In the case of a position detection system having the sensor arrangement, the values of magnetic bits are detected in the range of a detected bit sequence and the position of each 0?1 and 1?0 bit transition along a longitudinal axis of a code object is determined from the detected bit values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: Balluff GmbH
    Inventors: Zoltan KANTOR, Attila SZABÓ, Kolos KÁROLY
  • Patent number: 10992180
    Abstract: A device for inductively transferring electrical energy and/or data from a primary-sided carrier to at least one positionable secondary-sided recipient includes at least one primary-sided coil arrangement, which inductively interacts with at least one secondary-sided coil arrangement. Meander-shaped windings of a predeterminable winding number of the primary-sided and/or secondary-sided coil arrangement are arranged on at least one flexible carrier by embroidering a high frequency strand, and the meander-shaped windings have straight courses in the region of crossovers of the embroidered high frequency strands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Balluff GmbH
    Inventors: Joerg Heinrich, David Maier, Nejila Parspour
  • Patent number: 10892537
    Abstract: A waveguide-coupling device (14) for a hydraulic cylinder (10) has an outer conductor element (22) to which a microwave signal can be supplied, an inner conductor element (24) for coupling a waveguide mode into a liquid-filled inner chamber (16) of the hydraulic cylinder (10) and a dielectric insulating element (22) arranged between the inner conductor element (24) and the outer conductor element (20), wherein the inner conductor element (24) and the dielectric insulating element (22) as well as the dielectric insulating element (22) and the outer conducting element (20) are each connected to each other in a liquid-tight manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: BALLUFF GMBH
    Inventors: Matthias Hofherr, Stephan Bleil
  • Patent number: 10863413
    Abstract: Equipment for the wireless operation of IO-link devices in an IO-link communication network, including an IO-link master connected to a fieldbus a wire-bonded communication network and at least one wirelessly communicating IO-link device, has a wire-bonded IO-link device serving as a wireless IO-link device interface for the wireless communication with the at least one wirelessly communicating IO-link device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Balluff GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Franz, Matthias Beyer, Markus Rentschler
  • Patent number: 10839667
    Abstract: A fixing element for electrical devices, wherein at least one electrical device can be fixed to the fixing element, has at least one coupler, which forms at least one coupling to the at least one electrical device fixed to the fixing element, via which coupling electrical energy and/or data can be transmitted to the at least one electrical device, wherein the coupling is a capacitive and/or inductive coupling. In addition, equipment includes such a fixing element and a least one electrical device, which is fixed to the electrical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Balluff GmbH
    Inventors: Pascal Gaggero, Ellen Wohlfart, Manuela Schmidt
  • Patent number: 10796222
    Abstract: A contactless position and/or distance sensor for determining the distance, the spatial orientation, the material properties, or the like of a target object, and a method for operating the same, uses at least two sensor elements, which form a sensor module, Signals provided by the at least two sensor elements are jointly evaluated using at least one artificial neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Balluff GmbH
    Inventors: Zoltán Kántor, Zoltán Pólik, Attila Szabó
  • Patent number: 10788878
    Abstract: A method is provided for operating an electrical device (14) which has an operating mode and a sleep mode, in which method an oscillator apparatus (20) provides a first analog signal (f(t)) with a first frequency and second analog signal (f?(t)) with a second frequency, wherein the second analog signal (f?(t)) is different from the first analog signal (f(t)), a comparator apparatus (28) compares the first analog signal (f(t)) and/or second analog signal (f?(t)) with at least one reference value (Uref) or a reference value range, and an interrupt signal for transferring from the sleep mode into the operating mode is produced if a certain comparison result is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: BALLUFF GmbH
    Inventor: Simon Mahler
  • Publication number: 20200292668
    Abstract: An optical sensor device has a transmission unit for emitting light, a receiving unit for light emitted by the transmission unit, and an evaluation unit for evaluating a receive signal, which is based on the received light, wherein the emitted light is designed as a light pulse which is based on a transmission signal, which has a signal shape with a rising and/or falling flank, wherein the receive signal has substantially the same signal shape as the transmission signal, wherein the evaluation unit is suitable for scanning the receive signal at at least one scanning point in its rising and/or falling flank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: Balluff GmbH
    Inventors: Tobias REISSING, Manuel BRONNER
  • Publication number: 20200295599
    Abstract: A device for inductively transferring electrical energy and/or data from a primary-sided carrier to at least one positionable secondary-sided recipient includes at least one primary-sided coil arrangement, which inductively interacts with at least one secondary-sided coil arrangement. Meander-shaped windings of a predeterminable winding number of the primary-sided and/or secondary-sided coil arrangement are arranged on at least one flexible carrier by embroidering a high frequency strand, and the meander-shaped windings have straight courses in the region of crossovers of the embroidered high frequency strands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicants: Balluff GmbH, Universitaet Stuttgart
    Inventors: Joerg HEINRICH, David MAIER, Nejila PARSPOUR
  • Publication number: 20200295604
    Abstract: A circuit for inductively transferring electrical energy from a primary side to a secondary side has a primary-sided autoresonant power oscillator compensated in parallel having a primary inductivity and serially compensated secondary sides each having a secondary inductivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicants: Balluff GmbH, Universitaet Stuttgart
    Inventors: Joerg HEINRICH, David MAIER, Nejila PARSPOUR
  • Publication number: 20200295600
    Abstract: A device for inductively transferring electrical energy and/or data from a primary-sided carrier to at least one secondary-sided recipient which can be positioned on the carrier has a meander-shaped winding on the primary side and at least one meander-shaped winding on the secondary side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicants: Balluff GmbH, Universitaet Stuttgart
    Inventors: Joerg HEINRICH, David MAIER, Nejila PARSPOUR
  • Patent number: 10756732
    Abstract: An inductive sensor is proposed which comprises at least one resonant circuit, an evaluation device which in a measuring phase evaluates oscillations of the at least one resonant circuit for generating sensor signals, an energy storage device, and a transfer device which in a relaxation phase of the at least one resonant circuit stores oscillation energy of the at least one resonant circuit in the energy storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: BALLUFF GmbH
    Inventor: Simon Mahler