Patents Assigned to Sew-Eurodrive GmbH & Co. KG
  • Patent number: 11366905
    Abstract: A security device includes at least one non-volatile memory element and a key memory having at least one non-volatile memory element including at least one data field. The security device provides a physical interface for the data exchange with a key memory, the range of the physical interface being spatially restricted, and the key memory being location-bound. The security device includes at least one calculation unit, which dynamically ascertains in particular the check-sum information from the parameter data record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Ritschel, Benjamin Norenburg, Christian Senft, Sebastian Richter, Inga Meckelnburg
  • Publication number: 20220185014
    Abstract: A mobile part includes at least one attachment module situated on the mobile part. The attachment module has a base plate and a wheel holding unit. A first linear axle is situated on the base plate, and a second linear axle is situated so as to be movable by the first linear axle. The wheel holding unit is situated so as to be movable via a third linear axle, which is situated so as to be movable by the second linear axle, and each one of the linear axles has a non-vanishing angle with respect to each of the other linear axles, in particular a right angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Uwe NERDING
  • Publication number: 20220186824
    Abstract: A transmission includes a housing, having lower and upper housing parts and bearing seats. A web is formed on the lower housing part between two bearing seats, which is pressed against a web provided on the upper housing part and between the bearing seats. When the housing parts are separated or pulled apart, a first web of one of the housing parts projects beyond a planar surface, which restricts the other webs thereof, or the webs of one of the housing parts are restricted by a planar separating surface, and except for a first web, the webs of the other housing part are also restricted by the planar separating surface and the first web projects beyond the separating surface when the housing parts are separated from each other. To form the housing, at least one of the housing parts is elastically deformed and/or preloaded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Ermalt LAMAJ, Mathias MÜLLER, Peter ELLER, Tobias SCHWAN
  • Publication number: 20220186827
    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: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Claus KUNIK, Konstantin VÖLKER, Jan KNITTEL, Anette BUNKA
  • Patent number: 11359700
    Abstract: A transmission includes at least a first and a second planetary transmission stage. The first planetary transmission stage has a first planet-gear carrier including bolts on which first planets which mesh with a first sun gear are rotatably mounted, and the second planetary transmission stage has a second planet-gear carrier including bolts on which second planets which mesh with a second sun gear are rotatably mounted. The first planet-gear carrier is connected to the second sun gear in a torsionally fixed manner, and a disk is accommodated centrally in the first planet-gear carrier in a recess, e.g., in an axially uninterrupted recess, which is situated axially between the first sun gear and the second sun gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Elvia Cristiano De Morais, Antonio Ventriglia Vieira
  • Patent number: 11359713
    Abstract: In a transmission having a transmission housing, e.g., a transmission housing part, the transmission housing has a support structure that includes webs, and the transmission housing has connection surfaces which are connected to webs of the support structure. The support structure together with the connection surfaces is produced in an additive manner, e.g., by 3D printing, the connection surfaces with the webs, for example, forming an oil-tight housing part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Aaron Bronner, Pablo Barreiro, Jörg Hermes, Jürgen Hoffmeister
  • Patent number: 11362596
    Abstract: In a system and method for operating a system having a rectifier which is suppliable from an electric AC-voltage supply network, an inverter which feeds an electric motor, and a DC/DC converter which is connected to an energy accumulator, the DC-voltage side connection of the inverter is connected to the DC-voltage side connection of the rectifier, in particular, the electric motor is supplied from the AC-voltage side connection of the inverter, a first DC-voltage side connection of the DC/DC converter is connected to the DC-voltage side connection of the rectifier, in particular, the DC-voltage side connection of the inverter and the first DC-voltage side connection of the DC/DC converter are connected in parallel, the DC/DC converter has a housing in which a device for current acquisition is situated, which acquires either the current, in particular network phase currents, flowing into the rectifier at the AC-voltage side connection of the rectifier, or the current emerging from the rectifier at the DC-volt
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Josef Schmidt, Matthias Hauck, Jochen Weber
  • Patent number: 11358800
    Abstract: A standardized modular drive assembly includes: a gear unit module, which includes a gear unit mounted on a gear unit base plate, the gear unit having an output shaft which is adapted to be coupled with a conveyor device pulley shaft; and a motor module, which includes an electric motor mounted on a motor base plate, the motor base plate being able to be joined and connected to the gear unit base plate in an exchangeable manner, and the motor module having a torque link which is adapted to be coupled with a conveyor device support structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Lech Banasik
  • Patent number: 11349568
    Abstract: A system includes a first communications unit, e.g., a transmitter, and a second communications unit, e.g., a receiver. The first communications unit has a controllable illumination device, which emits light modulated according to a predefined data flow, and the second communications unit has a camera, including an optical element and an image sensor. A light-sensitive surface of the image sensor has a plurality of lines of light-sensitive elements, and the image sensor is arranged such that the image of the illumination device projected onto the light-sensitive surface of the image sensor by the optical element is unsharply imaged and/or covers more than half of the light-sensitive surface and is scanned line by line, e.g., so that the image has stripes of different brightness and/or that the brightness profile induced transversely to the line direction spatially indicates the time characteristic of the data flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Zhidong Hua, Manuel Hoffmann, Viktoriya Zavalishka, Thomas Schäfer, Michael Lindenfelser, Andreas Wanjek
  • Publication number: 20220164074
    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: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Robert REICHLE, Manfred GAUL, Daniel REINHARDT, Stephan NICKLIS, Desiree NISSEL, Stephan SCHNEIDER, Rima PFETZING, Anne SCHILLING, Christian HORNUNG
  • Publication number: 20220167518
    Abstract: An electrical device, e.g., a converter motor, includes a housing part and a cover part. A frame part is positioned between the housing part and the cover part, and an electronic circuit is situated in the interior space surrounded by the housing that includes the housing part and the cover part, e.g., and the frame part. A seal is situated, e.g., injection-molded, on the frame part. For example, the seal touches both a connection surface, e.g., a planar connection surface arranged on the cover part, and it covers a connection surface, e.g., a planar connection surface arranged on the housing part. A region of the connection surface of the cover part touches the frame part, and a region of the connection surface of the housing part touches the frame part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Ralph MAYER, Franz DAMINGER
  • Publication number: 20220165235
    Abstract: In the use of a display of a converter, method for operating a converter, and converter, the converter having an address code switch, in particular on its housing, and in an actuation of the address code switch and during a subsequent, predefined period of time, a respective value corresponding to the respective switch position of the address code switch is displayed by the display. Operating information of the converter is displayed in all other cases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Joachim NIKOLA
  • Publication number: 20220149758
    Abstract: In a drive system having an inverter and electric motor, and a method for operating a drive system, the electric motor is fed from the AC-voltage-side terminal of the inverter, a first series circuit, which includes a brake resistor and a first controllable semiconductor switch, is connected at the DC-voltage-side terminal of the inverter, and a second series circuit, which includes an impedance and a controllable second semiconductor switch, is connected in parallel with the first series circuit, e.g., in parallel with the DC-voltage-side terminal of the inverter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Norbert HETTEL, Alexander KOLBERT
  • Publication number: 20220145982
    Abstract: A transmission includes a housing and a distributor part to which lubricating oil is able to be applied through a recess in the housing, e.g., in a housing part of the housing or in a cover part of the housing. The distributor part includes a collection region and feeder channels, which are connected to the collection region and are able to convey lubricating oil to bearings of the transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Christian LUFT, Claus KUNIK, Daniel FRANK
  • Publication number: 20220136819
    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: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Mario EPP
  • Patent number: 11320042
    Abstract: A planetary gearbox includes a ring gear accommodated in a housing part, the ring gear particularly has on its radially outer surface, in particular its radially outer side, an annular groove, the annular groove, in particular a circumferential annular groove in the circumferential direction, and a spring element is accommodated in the annular groove, which projects at least partially into an annular groove introduced into the housing part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Stefan Hannet
  • Publication number: 20220131484
    Abstract: In a drive system and method for operating a drive system, in which the drive systems includes an electromagnetically operable brake, an electric motor, e.g., a three-phase motor, and an electronic circuit, the brake has an energizable coil, e.g., a brake coil, the electronic circuit has a rectifier, an upper controllable semiconductor switch, a freewheeling diode, and a varistor, a direct voltage provided by a rectifier is able to be made available by closing or by a pulse-width-modulated actuation of an upper controllable semiconductor switch of the coil, and by opening the upper controllable semiconductor switch, a current driven by the coil in the de-excitation of the coil is freewheeling and/or flowing through the freewheeling diode and the varistor or through a component connected in parallel with the varistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Timo HUFNAGEL, Hans Jürgen KOLLAR, Christopher REICHERT
  • Publication number: 20220121788
    Abstract: A method for providing a volume model for a mechanical object includes: receiving configuration parameters, indicating the components of the object and/or the type of component, for the object; generating a construction model for the object from the component construction models of the components as a function of the configuration parameters, a component construction model for each component being stored in a data collection, and a component construction model defining at least one outer surface of the component; generating the volume model for the object from component volume models of the components, the component volume models being superimposed onto one another and outer surfaces of component volume models that are included in an interior space of another component volume model and/or that abut outer surfaces of another component volume model being removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Horst Christian ANDREE, Andreas REUCK
  • Patent number: 11300132
    Abstract: A fan arrangement includes a fan and toothed ring, and a converter motor includes a fan arrangement. The fan includes a base body on which fan blades are premolded, and the fan includes an annular region, which is premolded on the side of the fan blades facing away from the base body. The toothed ring is situated within the annular region, and thus, in particular, is set apart from the base body, and thus, in particular, is set apart from the base body via the fan blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Josef Schmidt, Firat Altan, Thomas Zöller, Jens Schäfer, Christian Schumann, Matthias Hauck
  • Patent number: 11296521
    Abstract: In a system for contactlessly transmitting electrical energy to a mobile part movable on a floor, a stepped bore is provided in the floor. A frame part is situated on the step of the stepped bore. A charge unit is accommodated by the frame part and has a receiving part situated between upper and lower cover parts. A primary winding is situated on the inner side of the upper cover part and is fed by an electronic circuit supplied with electrical energy with the aid of a cable that is at least partially accommodated in a cable-routing part. The cable-routing part is situated in a groove having a radial extension in relation to, and guided through the step of, the stepped bore, so that the cable is routed underneath the step of the stepped bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Nils-Malte Jahn