Patents Assigned to FESTO SE & CO. KG
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Patent number: 11697115Abstract: A dispensing device which has a dispensing channel extending between a supply opening and an output opening into the course of which a pump, a selection valve and a dispensing valve are connected. The selection valve is also connected to a pressurised air source. The dispensing device allows a dispensed output of a fluid, wherein a buffer channel portion is filled by the pump in a pump dispensing phase, to which buffer channel portion pressure is applied from the pressurised air source during a pressurised air dispensing phase such that a precise fluid output is subsequently possible by clocked actuation of the dispensing valve until the target fluid amount has been reached.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2018Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: FESTO SE & CO. KGInventors: Bengt Erich Wunderlich, Bernhard Vogt, Duc-Thang Vu
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Patent number: 11660593Abstract: Fluid assembly for use in a fluid system, having a control module including a processing unit for processing control commands into individual electrical control signals with individually adjustable control signal levels and a control signal level electrically connected to the processing unit, with a power unit, which has a power module for converting the control signals into individual electrical control currents as a function of the control signal levels and an output interface electrically connected to the power module, wherein the processing unit is designed to provide a first group of control signals in a first time interval which can be individually predetermined for each control signal and to provide a second group of control signals in a second time interval which can be individually predetermined for each control signal and follows the respective first time interval, wherein the first control signal and the second control signal are selected in such a way that the control currents in the first time inType: GrantFiled: November 17, 2020Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: Festo SE & Co. KGInventors: Tobias Schuster, Jens Engelhardt, Maik Flach, Duc-Thang Vu, Gabor Duroska, Stefan Bammesberger
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Patent number: 11649814Abstract: A fluid device including a fluid chamber which is designed for receiving a fluid and which is commonly delimited by a device housing and a bending-elastic membrane element. The membrane element with a peripheral edge section is fixed to the device housing in a fluid-tight manner and has a membrane working section which is framed by the peripheral edge section and which for the change of the volume of the fluid chamber can be elastically deflected by a piezoactuator. The membrane element consists of a rubber-elastic material, wherein the piezoactuator comprises a drive section which extends along the membrane working section, is embedded into the membrane element and is enveloped by the rubber-elastic material of the membrane element.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: Festo SE & Co. KGInventors: Metin Giousouf, Gebhard Munz
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Publication number: 20230115878Abstract: Continuous condition monitoring of an electrical system, and in particular for early fault detection, is provided. The condition monitoring unit is formed with an interface to a memory in which a trained normal state model is stored as a one-class model that has been trained in a training phase with normal state data and represents a normal state of the electrical system. Further, the condition monitoring unit comprises a data interface for continuously acquiring sensor data of the electrical system by means of a set of sensors, an extractor for extracting features from the acquired sensor data, a differentiator for determining deviations of the extracted features from learned features of the normal state model by means of a distance metric (e.g., Euclidean norm, sum norm, maximum norm), a scoring for calculating an anomaly score from the determined deviations, and an output unit for outputting the calculated anomaly score.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2022Publication date: April 13, 2023Applicant: Festo SE & Co. KGInventors: Thilo Streichert, Silvia Starz
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Publication number: 20230088241Abstract: Continuous condition monitoring of a pneumatic system, and in particular for early fault detection, is provided. The condition monitoring unit is formed with an interface to a memory in which a trained normal condition model is stored as a one-class model, which has been trained in a training phase with normal condition data and represents a normal condition of the pneumatic system. Furthermore, the condition monitoring unit comprises a data interface for continuously acquiring sensor data of the pneumatic system by means of a set of sensors, an extractor for extracting features from the acquired sensor data, a differentiator for determining deviations of the extracted features from learned features of the normal state model by means of a distance metric, a scoring unit for calculating an anomaly score from the determined deviations, and an output unit for outputting the calculated anomaly score.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: Festo SE & Co. KGInventors: Thilo Streichert, Silvia Starz, Steffen Schmid
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Patent number: 11608906Abstract: A control device for providing a position controller mode for closed-loop position control of an actuator member of a fluidic actuator which can be driven by a pressurized fluid, wherein the control device is configured to activate a pressure controller mode in response to the actuator member being located in a position target range given by a target position value of the closed-loop position control, and, in the pressure controller mode, to carry out a closed-loop pressure control of the pressurized fluid on the basis of a target pressure value.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2020Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Festo SE & Co. KGInventor: Matthias Joachimsthaler
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Patent number: 11597076Abstract: A Hardware Module for a robotic system includes at least one sensor for measuring an internal property of the Hardware Module, a communication unit for communicating with other Hardware Modules, a data storage unit and an embedded controller. The embedded controller is configured to collect collected data, the collected data including: status data representing the current status of the Hardware Module; and operating data representing usage of the Hardware Module wherein at least part of the collected data is determined from sensor data from the at least one sensor, and the embedded controller is configured to perform at least one of: storing the collected data on the data storage unit; and transmitting the collected data via the communication unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2018Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: Festo SE & Co. KGInventors: Alfons Riek, Kurt Stoll, Hans Klingel, Marcel Aeschlimann, Samuel Malzach, Martin Sigrist, Christian Schmid, Christoph Berger, Leif Pudewills, Kilian Iannucci
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Patent number: 11590488Abstract: A dosing device is proposed which is designed for dosed output of a fluid. The dosing device has a block-shaped channel body, through which a dosing channel system passes. The dosing channel system has a fluid infeed opening and a plurality of fluid output openings. The fluid output openings are formed by the channel apertures of narrowed output sections of a plurality of output channels of the dosing channel system. The entire dosing channel system, including the output channels, is formed in the block-shaped channel body. The dosing channel system is preferably structured such that the flow velocity of the fluid channelled through during operation is at least substantially the same throughout with the exception of in the output sections of the output channels.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2019Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Festo SE & Co. KGInventor: Daniel Rocha Poli
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Patent number: 11578736Abstract: A system including a pneumatic actuator having an actuator element, the system further including a compressed-air provision device which is configured to carry out a closed-loop position control of the actuator element by applying compressed air to the pneumatic actuator. The compressed-air provision device is further configured to carry out an assistance procedure in which the actuator element is set in an oscillation movement, pressure values and position values are detected, and, on the basis of the detected pressure values and the detected position values, friction information and/or mass information is determined and/or verified.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2021Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Festo SE & Co. KGInventors: Daniel Klassen, Gerhard Gommel
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Patent number: 11577832Abstract: A wing for use in a flapping wing aircraft, having a strut assembly including a main strut and a plurality of support struts each oriented at an angular interval between 30 degrees and 90 degrees with respect to the support strut, at least a section of the support struts having a front section, a connecting section adjacent thereto, and a rear section adjacent thereto, and wherein each of said support struts is secured to said main strut by said connecting section, and further having a group of planking members made of a resilient and dimensionally stable sheet material and connected to said strut assembly.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2021Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Festo SE & Co. KGInventor: Rainer Mugrauer
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Patent number: 11574555Abstract: An assistance device (10) for assisting in the adjustment of a damping choke (1) of a fluidic actuator (30), wherein the assistance device (10) includes a display arrangement (3) and is adapted to determine an adjustment recommendation for the adjustment of the damping choke (1) on the basis of a detected movement of an actuator member (4) of the fluidic actuator (30) and to display the adjustment recommendation via the display arrangement (3), and the assistance device (10) is further adapted to determine, based on the movement of the actuator member (4), operational safety information based on kinetic energy related to the movement of the actuator member (4), and to display the operational safety information via the display arrangement (3).Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2020Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: Festo SE & Co. KGInventors: Manuel Schmittner, Johannes Volzer
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Patent number: 11573554Abstract: A drive system (10), in particular for process automation, includes: a trajectory planning unit (3), which is adapted to provide a trajectory signal (xd) on the basis of a setpoint signal (xs), and an actuator unit (2) having an actuator member (1), in particular a valve member, which actuator unit (2) is adapted to control and/or regulate a position of the actuator member (1) on the basis of the trajectory signal (xd). The trajectory planning unit (3) is adapted to provide the trajectory signal (xd) with a first signal section (s1) and a second signal section (s2), the first signal section (s1) having a straight signal form and the second signal section (s2) having a signal form asymptotic to the setpoint signal (xs).Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2020Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: Festo SE & Co. KGInventors: Rainer Nitsche, Matthias Joachimsthaler, Fabian Wiek
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Patent number: 11560954Abstract: A valve for controlling a fluid flow, including a valve housing, which is provided with a first fluid connection, a fluid channel and a second fluid connection, further including a valve member which is pivotally mounted in the fluid channel, and a drive for introducing a movement onto the valve member, the valve member having a rigid carrier and a flexible membrane with a sealing region which is provided for a sealing abutment against a valve seat and which is fixed to the carrier and to the valve housing by a circumferentially formed fastening region, wherein a deformation region of the flexible membrane is located between the sealing region and the fastening region and is arranged between a first deformation plane and a second deformation plane, the first deformation plane and the second deformation plane each being aligned parallel to a pivot axis determined by the pivot pin and delimiting a deformation space, and wherein the pivot pin is accommodated at least partially in the deformation space.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2021Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: Festo SE & Co. KGInventors: Bernhard Vogt, Stefan Schietinger, Bengt Erich Wunderlich, Sascho Zadravec, Lukas Grad
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Patent number: 11561560Abstract: A flow controller includes a valve unit for influencing the flow of a fluid through a fluid channel, a flow sensor for detecting the flow of the fluid through the fluid channel, a pressure sensor arrangement for detecting a fluid pressure of the fluid, and a control unit which is adapted to, in response to the flow being within a measurement range of the flow sensor, assume a first operating mode, and, in the first operating mode, to perform a first closed-loop flow control on the basis of the flow detected by the flow sensor, and, in response to the flow being outside the measurement range of the flow sensor, assume a second operating mode, and, in the second operating mode, to perform an open-loop flow control on the basis of the detected fluid pressure and/or to perform a second closed-loop flow control on the basis of the detected fluid pressure.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2021Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: Festo SE & Co. KGInventors: Valentin Falkenhahn, Gerhard Gommel, Daniel Klassen
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Patent number: 11556141Abstract: Valve arrangement for influencing a fluid flow for a fluid consumer, having a first valve group with which a first actuator is associated, having a second valve group with which a second actuator is associated, the first valve group and second valve group being associated in a first functional position as a parallel circuit with a first fluid line in a first functional position and are associated with a second fluid line in a second functional position as a series circuit, the first valve group or second valve group being designed for actuating the respective other actuator in the first functional position and being designed for switching off the respective other actuator in the second functional position.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2021Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: Festo SE & Co. KGInventors: Tilmann Bork, Bastian Behnke, Dominik Schubert, Hartmut Bulling
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Patent number: 11549527Abstract: A fluid actuated linear drive includes a drive housing and a drive member which is movable between two stroke end positions. The drive member has a drive unit with a drive piston which divides off two drive chambers from one another, the drive chambers via two housing channels being connected to axial housing coupling openings which are arranged on a housing rear side. A multi-function module is built onto the housing rear side in a position of use and includes components of an external end position setting device for the drive member and is furthermore provided with module block channel systems which communicate with the housing channels and can be used for the feed and discharge of a drive fluid when the multifunction module is built onto the drive housing in the position of use.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Festo SE & Co. KGInventors: Jürgen Gückel, Simone Kopp, Ulrich Diener
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Patent number: 11530709Abstract: A method for operating a fluid system including the steps: receiving or determining a set value for a stroke of the working valve, determining an actual value for the stroke of the working valve using a sensor signal of a position sensor, determining a deviation value of a working valve in dependence on sensor signals of a supply pressure sensor and a working pressure sensor and a position sensor and a sensor system, and performing a processing of the set value for the stroke of the working valve, the actual value for the stroke of the working valve and the deviation value to a control signal for driving the working valve.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2020Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: Festo SE & Co. KGInventors: Daniel Klassen, Gerhard Gommel, David Rager
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Patent number: 11525466Abstract: A valve, having a valve housing, in which a housing interior is formed, in which a movable valve slide is located. The valve slide is impinged upon by a compression spring that is supported via a supporting element on the valve housing. The supporting element has a supporting wall, from which a plurality of supporting arms protrudes, which axially overlap the valve slide in each axial position. On the supporting arms guide surfaces are formed for linear guidance of the valve slide. The supporting arms are springily deflectable and in each case have a radial support surface, with which they are supported on the valve housing.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Festo SE & Co. KGInventor: Metin Kayabas
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Patent number: D970690Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Festo SE & Co. KGInventors: Philipp Eberl, Matthias Wunderling, Sebastian Müller
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Patent number: D971379Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Festo SE & Co. KGInventors: Philipp Eberl, Matthias Wunderling, Sebastian Müller