Patents Assigned to Kuka Roboter GmbH
  • Control Of A Robot
    Publication number: 20130218334
    Abstract: In addition to an automatic operating mode (“AUTOMATIC”), in which protective monitoring (1) is carried out, and a set-up operating mode (“SET-UP”), in which manual control input (3, 6) is provided, a method according to the invention for controlling a robot comprises a remote access operating mode (“REMOTE ACCESS”) in which the protective monitoring (1) is carried out and manual control input (3, 5, 7) is provided
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2011
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: KUKA Roboter GmbH
    Inventor: Stefan Hollmann
  • Method For Determining A Torque And An Industrial Robot
    Publication number: 20130211739
    Abstract: The invention concerns an industrial robot (1) and a method to determine a torque having an effect on a limb of the robotic arm (2). The robotic arm (2) has several sequentially arranged limbs (3-7), of which a first limb (4) is stored relative to a second limb (5) of the limbs on an axis of rotation (A2), and using a stationary motor (11) relative to the second limb (4) and a gearbox (12) connected to the motor (11), is rotatable around the axis of rotation (A2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2013
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: KUKA ROBOTER GMBH
    Inventor: KUKA Roboter GmbH
  • Flight Simulator Device
    Publication number: 20130203020
    Abstract: The invention concerns a flight simulator device (1, 51) for simulating the flight behavior of an aircraft. The flight simulator device (1, 51) comprises a passenger compartment (6) with an input means to accommodate at least one person (P), an omnidirectionally movable carrier vehicle (2) with several wheels (4) and with drive units for driving the wheels (4), and a control device (5) connected to the input means and the drive units of the carrier vehicle (2), which is designed to actuate the drive units of the carrier device (2) on the basis of signals coming from the input means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: KUKA ROBOTER GMBH
    Inventor: KUKA Roboter GmbH
  • Omnidirectional wheel and method for the assembly thereof
    Patent number: 8496299
    Abstract: An omnidirectional wheel has a hub that is rotatable around a rotational axis, and two wheel discs connected to the hub and spaced coaxially on the hub. A number of roller bodies are located between the wheel discs, evenly distributed around a circumferential edge of the wheel. The respective roller axes of the roller bodies are aligned at a diagonal angle relative to the rotational axis, and are each supported in a freely rotating manner between the wheel discs at opposite ends thereof. Each roller body is mounted in a freely rotating manner in respective modules respectively attached to the wheel discs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Kuka Roboter GmbH
    Inventor: Sven Brudniok
  • Method and device for automated loading of packages on a load carrier
    Patent number: 8489229
    Abstract: A method and system for loading a loading carrier, in particular pallets, with packages by means of an automated manipulator, a model of a package stack on the loading carrier is automatically determined, an initial desired position for a package in the mode is determined, the package stack is detected on the loading carrier, a deviation between the detected package stack and the model is determined, the package is placed by the manipulator, and the steps are repeated until a termination criterion is reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Kuka Roboter GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Kuehnemann, Lars Baldes, Gerda Ruge, Botond Goeroeg
  • Method and device for automated palletizing of packages to form stable stacks
    Patent number: 8468106
    Abstract: A method for the automatic palletizing of stable package stacks includes the steps of virtual generation of multiple follow-up configurations by adding packages to at least one initial configuration, assessment of these follow-up configurations, and pursuit of follow-up configurations that are assessed as good as initial configurations. These steps are repeated until a termination criterion is satisfied. The follow-up configurations are assessed on the basis of different partial stack heights, towers and/or overbuildings. Another version of the method includes the steps of virtual generation of a package stack, and determination of a characteristic stability value of a package of a layer of a virtual package stack on the basis of the characteristic stability value of packages on which the package rests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Kuka Roboter GmbH
    Inventors: Lars Baldes, Julian Haselmayr, Jesper Boedker Christensen, Gerda Ruge
  • Welding Robot
    Publication number: 20130146574
    Abstract: The invention relates to a welding robot for resistance welding, which exhibits a welding tongs (21), a welding current generator (1) connected to the welding electrodes (24, 25) of the welding tongs (21), for supplying the welding electrodes (24, 25) with electric energy during the resistance welding, and an industrial robot. The industrial robot comprises a robot arm (2) and a robot control device (9) for moving the robot arm (2). The welding tongs (21) is connected to the robot arm (2) and the robot control device (9) is connected to the welding current generator (1) and a tongs drive (26, 27) of the welding tongs (21).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: KUKA ROBOTER GMBH
    Inventor: KUKA ROBOTER GMBH
  • Manipulator Arrangement And Method For Operating The Manipulator Arrangement
    Publication number: 20130144436
    Abstract: A manipulator configuration according to the invention comprises at least one manipulator and at least one control device and features a mechanical energy storage device, which is configured for storing mechanical energy of at least one manipulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: KUKA ROBOTER GMBH
    Inventor: KUKA ROBOTER GMBH
  • Device and method for transferring product stacks
    Patent number: 8419342
    Abstract: A transfer device for transferring product stacks has a connecting element for connecting the transfer device to a transport device, and the transfer device has a number of receiver regions therein, that each receive a product stack. Each receiver region has guide elements with spring-loaded closure elements, and a plate that is movable in a spring-loaded manner toward the closing elements along the direction of the guide elements. When the transfer device with the product stacks therein reaches its transfer destination, the product stacks are pushed from the transfer device by the plates by spring force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Kuka Roboter GmbH
    Inventors: Norbert Cottone, Martin Peghini
  • Method and device for automated commissioning of bundles
    Patent number: 8423178
    Abstract: A method for automated commissioning of bundles includes providing different source palettes and palettizing at least one target palette, with bundle layers of different source palettes being individualized and/or magazined in alternation and/or with variable predetermination, and/or bundles or bundle groups being magazined and/or demagazined in stacks before palettizing of the target palette, and/or the target palette is selectively palettized with at least one non-individualized bundle layer of a source palette.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Kuka Roboter GmbH
    Inventor: Michael Baumann
  • Method and device for controlling a manipulator
    Patent number: 8406921
    Abstract: A method according to the invention for operating a manipulator, in particular a robot (1), includes the following steps: determining (S10) parameters (c?, c?) of an exactly positioned manipulator model (M) with various nominal loads (m?, m?); specifying parameters (c) of the manipulator model on the basis of which the manipulator is operated, depending on a payload (m) of the manipulator (S20); and operating the manipulator on the basis of the manipulator model (S30, S40).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: KUKA Roboter GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Michel, Thomas Purrucker, Rene Rossig, Dietmar Tscharnuter
  • Method and manipulator gripper for spacing bundles of a bundle layer
    Patent number: 8401693
    Abstract: In a method for spacing bundles of a bundle layer by means of a manipulator gripper with at least one support base that engages bundles and a stop for the placement of bundles, separation between an edge of the support base and the stop is reduced, by a placement motion of the support base in a placement direction that is superimposed on the relative motion of the support base and the stop and is synchronized with this relative motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Kuka Roboter GmbH
    Inventor: Michael Baumann
  • Method and monitoring device for welding by means of a positioning device
    Patent number: 8395081
    Abstract: In a method and device for automated welding using a positioning device, in particular a welding robot, a welding pose is occupied by the positioning device in a regulated manner, and the welding pose is flexibly held during the closing of an electrode holder, during the welding process and/or during the opening of the electrode holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Kuka Roboter GmbH
    Inventors: Burkhard Stimmel, Dirk Jacob
  • Method and apparatus for moving a free-swinging load from a starting point to a target point
    Patent number: 8364289
    Abstract: In a method and apparatus for moving a free-swinging load that is suspended relative to a suspension point, a first path along which the load should be moved from a starting point to a destination, with a first location-dependent velocity, is provided to a processor. In the processor, a second path is automatically determined along which the suspension point should be moved with a second location-dependent velocity to cause the load to move along the first path from the starting point to the destination with the first location-dependent velocity. A movement-imparted mechanism, connected to the suspension point, is automatically controlled from the processor to move the freely-suspended load from the starting point to the destination by moving the suspension point along the second path with the second location-dependent velocity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Kuka Roboter GmbH
    Inventor: Uwe Zimmermann
  • Control System Of A Robot
    Publication number: 20130018507
    Abstract: An invention-based control system for at least one robot comprises a, especially symmetric, multi-core architecture with a first virtual machine (V1) with at least one computing engine (C3), which has been provided for controlling at least one process application (P) of this robot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: KUKA ROBOTER GMBH
    Inventors: Michael Haag, Heinrich Munz, Dirk Jacob, Hans-Peter Klüger
  • Method And Handling System For Automatically Moving A Gravity-Compensated Load Body
    Publication number: 20130013109
    Abstract: A handling system and method for automatically moving a gravity-based load body using a robot. The load body is supported by a load body holding means connected to an end effector flange of the robot. A gravity compensation device includes a connector element acting on an element or the end effector flange of the robot to compensate for the gravity of the load body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: KUKA ROBOTER GMBH
    Inventors: Sven Brudniok, Günter Schreiber, Johann Maischberger
  • Device and method for processing a robot control program
    Patent number: 8332067
    Abstract: In a computerized device for processing a robot control program, at least one local area of a robot path of a robot is displayed at a display screen, the robot path containing a support point that is to be modified. The display screen also shows the support point, as well as a path course therethrough and at least one direction also proceeding through the support point perpendicularly to the path course. An input device allows a user to modify the path course by modifying the position of the support at the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Kuka Roboter GmbH
    Inventors: Christof Ditscher, Ulrich Huggenberger, Thomas Stumpfegger
  • Manipulator with an external rotor motor
    Patent number: 8319467
    Abstract: A manipulator, in particular a small robot, has at least two motor mutually movable limbs with a motion axis of both limbs being acted on by an axle drive that has an external rotor motor, a position transmitter and a transmission. The transmission has at least one planetary gear set with a center gear and at least one planet meshing with it that also meshes with a ring gear and is mounted on a planet carrier. One of both limbs of the manipulators is torque proof connected with the ring gear and is mounted by this radial and/or axially, and the other is torque proof connected by both limbs of the manipulator with the planet carrier and is mounted by this radial and/or axially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Kuka Roboter GmbH
    Inventors: Daniel Kos, Andreas Weingaertner, Gernot Nitz
  • Method And Apparatus For Driving A Robot Arrangement
    Publication number: 20120265338
    Abstract: An invention-based method for controlling a robot arrangement having at least one robot (R) and comprising the following steps: Establishing at least one general fault model (1) for a group of different treatment processes with predetermined processing errors (S1); Configuring the fault model for at least one specific processing error of a process of the group (S2); and Transmitting the configured fault model (1?) to a control system of the robot arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: KUKA ROBOTER GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Keibel, Thomas Kohler
  • Robot
    Patent number: D678378
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: KUKA Roboter GmbH
    Inventor: Mario Selic