Patents Assigned to Sew-Eurodrive GmbH & Co. KG
  • Patent number: 11537113
    Abstract: A system, in particular a manufacturing system, the system including machines, especially stationary and mobile machines, and at least one vehicle and a control, the vehicle having at least one sensor for ascertaining the relative position of a person, in particular a sensor for ascertaining the distance between the vehicle and the person, and for ascertaining the angle between the driving direction of the vehicle and the connecting line between the person and the vehicle, the vehicle having a position acquisition means for sensing the position of the vehicle, in particular a GPS system or a triangulation system for ascertaining the position of the vehicle, the control including a means for ascertaining the safety zone around the person and the machines situated therein, a data transmission channel being provided between the control and the machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Josef Schmidt, Maja Sliskovic
  • Patent number: 11536362
    Abstract: A transmission includes a fan assembly having a fan wheel, a cover, and a grating. The fan wheel is connected in a torsionally fixed manner to the input shaft of the transmission, and the fan cover is fixed in place on a holding frame, which, for example, includes multiple parts and is fastened to the housing of the transmission. The grating is formed by two grating parts, whose first separating line is a straight segment or is formed by two mutually aligned straight segments, and the cover includes two cover parts, whose second separating line is a plane curve, made up of straight segment sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Claus Kunik, Konstantin Völker, Jan Knittel, Anette Bunka
  • Patent number: 11536333
    Abstract: An electromagnetically operable brake arrangement for decelerating a rotationally mounted shaft, includes a magnet, a coil, a spring element, an armature disk, a brake pad support, a damping plate and a friction disk, the damping plate being situated between the armature disk and the magnet; the damping plate having projections; each of the projections extending further in a radial direction than in a circumferential direction; in particular, the projections each jutting out axially; in particular, at least a subset of the projections being evenly spaced apart from each other in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Gerolf Fichtner-Pflaum
  • Patent number: 11535226
    Abstract: In a method for monitoring an electromagnetically actuable brake, which has an energizable coil that interacts with a tractive electromagnet situated so as to be linearly movable, and a vehicle having an electromagnetically actuable brake, the current flowing through the coil is acquired, the acquired current value in particular being conveyed to an evaluation unit, the voltage applied at the coil is intermittently increased, and a relative position of the tractive electromagnet with respect to the coil is determined from the thereby induced current characteristic, in particular the characteristic of the current rise, it is particularly determined from the ascertained position whether the brake is in the applied state or in the released state, the tractive electromagnet in particular is arranged as a permanent magnet or has a permanent magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Maximilian Ihle, Patrick Weis, Christian Billet, Friedrich Manz
  • Patent number: 11535287
    Abstract: In a rail system and method for operating a rail system having a rail-guided mobile part and having a central control system, the mobile part includes a device for acquiring the position of the mobile part, the mobile part has a first drive, in particular a traction drive, the mobile part has a current acquisition device, the mobile part has a processor for evaluating the current-value profile acquired between a first position and a second position, the processor as a device for evaluating the current-value profile is configured such that the processor determines as an evaluation value tuples which include at least an item of position information and a value determined from the current-value profile, the processor is connected with the aid of a data transmission channel to the central control system for the transmission of the value tuples, the central control system is adapted to monitor the value tuples and monitors the respective value determined from the individual current profile for an exceeding of a pe
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Manuel Escuriola Ettingshausen, Björn Grothe, Daniel Schmidt, Stephan Meyer
  • Publication number: 20220402343
    Abstract: A drive includes a rotatably mounted planet carrier, planet gears, a ring gear having internal teeth and external teeth, a rotatably mounted sun gear, and a first gear wheel meshing with the external teeth of the ring gear. The first gear wheel is connected in a rotationally fixed manner to the rotor shaft of a first electric motor, the drive has a second gear wheel meshing with a toothed part, the second gear wheel is connected in a rotationally fixed manner to the rotor shaft of a second electric motor, and the toothed part is connected in a rotationally fixed manner to the sun gear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Klaus SCHWESINGER, Matthias SCHNEIDER
  • Publication number: 20220407739
    Abstract: An EtherCAT bus system includes an EtherCAT master, EtherCAT nodes, and an EtherCAT star hub arranged and/or assembled on the same printed circuit board with the EtherCAT master.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Michael SCHÄFER, Daniel BRUNNER
  • Publication number: 20220407382
    Abstract: A system includes an electric motor having a terminal box into which a three-phase power cable is guided and in which the stator winding, e.g., the wire ends of the winding wire of the stator winding, of the electric motor is electrically connected to electrical lines of the three-phase power cable. A data collector is arranged in the terminal box of the electric motor, which has a data store and which is electrically connected to at least one sensor arranged in and/or on the electric motor, and the data collector has an electronic circuit for the modulation and demodulation of voltage portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Klaus STANEK
  • Publication number: 20220400039
    Abstract: A device for transmitting data includes a transmitter for generating a frequency-modulated output signal. The transmitter includes a phase-locked loop for adjusting an output frequency of the output signal to a carrier frequency, and a coupling circuit for coupling a data stream into the phase-locked loop. The output signal modulated in frequency by the coupled-in data stream has an output frequency variable over time, and the coupling circuit includes a compensation unit, which couples a compensation signal into the phase-locked loop. The compensation signal compensates at least approximately for an adjustment of the output frequency to the carrier frequency carried out by the phase-locked loop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Andreas WANJEK, Mauricio BUCERIUS
  • Publication number: 20220399847
    Abstract: In a method for operating a drive system, and drive system, having a rectifier and at least one inverter including an electric motor, the electric motor is connected at the AC-voltage-side connection of the inverter, the DC-voltage-side connection of the inverter is connected via inductance(s) in addition to the line inductance, to the DC-voltage-side connection of the rectifier, a capacitance is connected at the DC-voltage-side connection of the inverter and/or at the DC-voltage-side connection of the rectifier, a series circuit, including a resistor and a controllable semiconductor switch is connected at the DC-voltage-side connection of the inverter and/or at the DC-voltage-side connection of the rectifier, the braking chopper being operated using a single frequency during the particular time span in which the braking chopper is in operation, the frequency, e.g., being set apart from the resonant frequency of the resonant circuit including the inductance or the capacitances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Maik WACKER, Marcel STARK
  • Patent number: 11526257
    Abstract: A display device displays device information in a navigation tree, whose nodes are each assigned to apparatus parts, apparatuses and/or apparatus groups, such that the apparatus information with a node that is superordinate both to the node which is assigned to a source of the apparatus information, and to a currently selected node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Robert Reichle, Manfred Gaul, Daniel Reinhardt, Stephan Nicklis, Desiree Nissel, Stephan Schneider, Rima Pfetzing, Anne Schilling, Christian Hornung
  • Patent number: 11519716
    Abstract: In an apparatus and method for operating an apparatus having a mobile part which is movable on a movement plane and has a measuring unit, and a measuring body which is set apart from the movement plane and from the plane parallel to the movement plane that includes the measuring unit, for example, and is situated as far as possible from the movement plane, the measuring unit is adapted to determine the distance between the measuring body and the measuring unit in a normal direction to the movement plane, and the measuring body is shaped such that in the projection of the measuring body perpendicular onto the plane, e.g., the projection surface, an individual distance value is bijectively allocated to the, or to the plurality of, partial surface regions of the projection surface, which particularly do not overlap one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Mario Epp
  • Patent number: 11515085
    Abstract: In a system for an inductive energy transmission from a primary-conductor system, in particular a stationary primary conductor system, to a vehicle having a secondary winding, the secondary winding is inductively coupled with the primary-conductor system. The primary conductor is installed as a primary-conductor loop installed in elongated form, which has a feed conductor and a return conductor in a line section, in particular a return conductor that is installed parallel thereto, and the return conductor is electrically grounded in that at least one inductance is disposed between the return conductor and the electrical ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Leobald Podbielski, Jochen Mahlein, Thomas Uhl, Andreas Böser
  • Patent number: 11515820
    Abstract: In a method and device for the cyclic digital transmission of a position value of a moving object with inertial mass, the value range of the transmitted position value is restricted such that no complete rotation or, in the case of a linear motion, other complete period caused by mechanical conditions may be mapped, and the actual position is formed by detecting value-range exceedances in an evaluation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Olaf Simon
  • Publication number: 20220377215
    Abstract: A receiver for a light transmission system includes a camera having an image sensor, and a light-sensitive area of the image sensor includes a plurality of rows of light-sensitive elements. The image sensor is configured such that the light-sensitive area of the image sensor is scanned row by row or column by column. An attachment element is arranged such that light incident on the light-sensitive area of the image sensor passes through the attachment element beforehand. The attachment element has at least one lenticular region and at least one planar region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Zhidong HUA, Patrick RECH, Thomas SCHÄFER, Josef SCHMIDT
  • Publication number: 20220373361
    Abstract: A method for detecting the position of a movable part, in particular for detecting the angular position of a rotatably mounted part or for detecting the linear position of a part arranged to be linearly movable, by means of a sensor which, as sensor signals coding the position, has a first signal, in particular a sine signal, and a second signal, in particular a cosine signal, in particular wherein the position detected by the sensor is coded by means of the first and second signal, wherein an actual variable is determined from the sensor signals in a chronologically recurring manner, wherein the determination of a control value, in particular a respective updated control value, is triggered by a trigger signal, in particular a respective trigger signal, in particular by a trigger pulse, wherein the determination of the control value is executed in such a way that the actual variable is regulated toward a target variable, in particular wherein the control value first changes with the respective next determina
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Michael MÜLLER, Manuel HEIL, Matthias RÜMMELE
  • Publication number: 20220377892
    Abstract: An electrical device, e.g., an inverter or converter, includes a first and a second printed circuit board. The first printed circuit board includes protruding tab regions, and a respective tab region protrudes into a respective recess of the second printed circuit board. Contact pins, e.g., of one or more plug connector parts, protrude into holes of the second printed circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Werner GROß, Martin SCHÖRNER, Thomas WETZEL, Rolf JANZER
  • Publication number: 20220368194
    Abstract: A geared motor includes a gear unit, a first, a second, or a third electric motor, and an adapter part situated between the gear unit and the electric motor. On its side facing the electric motor, the adapter part has a first, a second, and a third centering device, and on the side facing away from the electric motor, it is connected to the gear unit. The centering devices are radially set apart from one another, and the second centering device is situated radially between the first and third centering devices. The electric motor has an axially protruding centering ring, which is centered by only a single one of the centering devices of the adapter part, and the other centering devices are radially set apart from the centering ring and/or have no centering function, e.g., for the centering ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Miki TEGELTIJA, Oliver BÜHN
  • Patent number: 11491889
    Abstract: A vehicle, in particular a logistics vehicle, includes a frame and a housing component secured in place thereon. An insert part on the housing component is insertable into a space region of the vehicle, and a first or a second energy store module is situated on the insert part and a DC/DC converter which is electrically connected to the energy store module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Christopher Blickle
  • Patent number: 11496021
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotor shaft, a first bearing, and a second bearing. The rotor shaft includes a first rotor shaft part and a second rotor shaft part, the first rotor shaft part being rotatably mounted via the first bearing, and the second rotor shaft part being rotatably mounted via the second bearing. A bellows is connected at its first axial end region to the first rotor shaft part, e.g., by welding, and the bellows is connected at its second axial end region to the second rotor shaft part, e.g., by welding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Markus Wöppermann, Jens Schillinger