Patents Assigned to Sew-Eurodrive GmbH & Co.
  • Patent number: 11652387
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotor having a rotor shaft part and a first shaft part and a second shaft part. The rotor shaft is situated axially between the first and the second shaft parts. The first shaft part includes a first bearing seat and is connected to the rotor shaft part in a torsionally fixed manner, and the second shaft part includes a second bearing seat and is connected to the rotor shaft part in a torsionally fixed manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Michael Stark, Klaus Müller, Bernhard Winter
  • Publication number: 20230143663
    Abstract: A bearing assembly includes a shaft, a first bearing, and a nut. The nut has a thread, which is screwed onto a threaded region formed on the shaft, and a bearing seat formed on the shaft adjoins the threaded region. The inner ring of the first bearing contacts the bearing seat, and the nut contacts the inner ring of the first bearing. The inner ring of the first bearing is arranged spaced apart from the threaded region of the shaft. A runout region of a thread cut into the threaded region of the shaft is arranged in a subsection of the bearing seat adjoining the threaded region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Ermalt LAMAJ, Jens BLÖMEKE, Norbert SCHNEIDER, Thomas HUBER, Markus LUTZ, Sven WURZER
  • Publication number: 20230127352
    Abstract: In a method for producing a product in a technical plant, after receipt of an order for producing the product, components necessary for producing the product are identified, and work steps necessary for producing the product are identified. Identified components and work steps are entered in a product file stored on a transport system. The components entered in the product file are acquired by the transport system, which is documented in the product file, and the work steps entered in the product file are executed, which is documented in the product file. The product file remains on the transport system until the acquisition of each component and the execution of each work step are documented in the product file. A technical plant for producing a product, is adapted to execute the method and includes a transport system having a digital data memory for storing the product file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Josef SCHMIDT, Gero BOCKELMANN, Frank SCHÖNUNG, Alexander FUCHS, Tanja WALZ
  • Publication number: 20230120461
    Abstract: A mobile transport system for transporting objects in a technical system, includes a vehicle frame, a first wheel pair, a second wheel pair, and a third wheel pair, each having two wheels rotatable relative to the vehicle frame, and a swing frame pivotable about a swing axis extending in a transverse direction relative to the vehicle frame. The first wheels of the first wheel pair are attached to the vehicle frame, and the second wheels of the second wheel pair are attached to the swing frame. The third wheels of the third wheel pair are attached to a tilt frame pivotable relative to the swing frame about a tilt axis extending approximately in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Friedrich MANZ, Jan-Patrick KÖDDERITZSCH, Theodor DAHL, Joshua Gordon David FRISCH
  • Patent number: 11619735
    Abstract: In a method and system for position capture of a vehicle along a driving route, situated on a concrete floor having a reinforcement: the vehicle carries out a reference drive along the driving route, the vehicle records measuring points along the driving route, and each measuring point allocates a signal from the reinforcement to a position on the driving route; a reference profile of the driving route is determined based on the measuring points ascertained during the reference drive; the vehicle drives along the driving route and records further measuring points; a profile segment is determined from the further measuring points; the profile segment is uniquely allocated to a segment of the reference profile, e.g., using a correlation method; a position on the driving route is uniquely allocated to the vehicle with the aid of the profile segment allocated to the reference profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Josef Schmidt, Jürgen Böckle, Zhidong Hua, Thomas Schäfer, Andreas Wanjek
  • Patent number: 11619294
    Abstract: A gear unit having a shaft, particularly an input shaft, a fan impeller being joined in rotatably fixed manner to the shaft, a fan cowl, which at least partially surrounds the fan impeller, being mounted on the gear housing, a separating plate for separating the pressure chamber of the fan from the suction chamber of the fan being joined to the fan cowl, the separating plate having an air inlet for the fan impeller and being disposed on the side of the fan impeller facing away axially from the gear unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Konstantin Völker, Peter Barton, Stefan Dietrich, Anette Bunka
  • Publication number: 20230102652
    Abstract: A transmission includes a fan assembly, including a fan wheel, a hood, and a guard. The fan wheel is connected to the driving shaft of the transmission for conjoint rotation, and the hood is attached to a, e.g., multi-piece retaining frame fastened to the housing of the transmission. The guard is formed of two guard parts, and the first parting line thereof is a straight segment or formed of two straight segments in alignment with each other. The hood is formed from two hood parts, and the second parting line thereof is a flat curve including straight line segments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Konstantin VÖLKER, Jan KNITTEL, Claus KUNIK
  • Patent number: 11614125
    Abstract: In an assembly for connecting an adapter shaft to a shaft in a force-fitting manner using a clamping ring, the clamping ring is mounted on the adapter shaft, the shaft is inserted into the adapter shaft, the clamping ring has a first radially uninterrupted threaded bore into which a first screw part is screwed, in particular a first threaded pin, which exerts pressure on the adapter shaft, the clamping ring has a second radially uninterrupted threaded bore into which a second screw part is screwed, in particular a second threaded pin, and the second screw part projects at least partially into a recess of the adapter shaft and in particular exerts pressure on the adapter shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Jens Schillinger, Sascha Haller, Markus Wöppermann
  • Patent number: 11614124
    Abstract: In an assembly for connecting an adapter shaft to a shaft in a force-fitting manner using a clamping ring, the clamping ring is mounted on the adapter shaft, the shaft is inserted into the adapter shaft, the clamping ring has a radially uninterrupted threaded bore, into which a screw part is screwed, in particular a threaded pin, which exerts pressure on the adapter shaft. A cylinder bolt is accommodated in a first, in particular radially directed, recess of the clamping ring, which projects radially inward into a second, in particular radially directed, recess introduced into the adapter shaft, in particular projects into it, especially in order to form a protection against loss and an anti-rotation protection acting in the axial direction and in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Jens Schillinger, Sascha Haller, Markus Wöppermann
  • Publication number: 20230073603
    Abstract: A drive system includes a frequency converter, a drive unit, and a power supply. The drive unit includes an electric motor and a further component, including a sensor element, actuator element, and/or data storage element. The frequency converter supplies the further component of the drive unit with energy via at least the power supply. The frequency converter is adapted to obtain a first piece of information about the maximum available electrical energy of the power supply and to obtain a second piece of information about the electrical energy requirement of the further component of the drive unit. The frequency converter is adapted to check the plausibility of the first piece of information with respect to the second piece of information. The decision-making criterion for the plausibility check is formed by a logical comparison of the first piece of information with the second piece of information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Benjamin NORENBURG, Christian SENFT, Sebastian RICHTER
  • Patent number: 11600246
    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: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Joachim Nikola
  • Publication number: 20230060858
    Abstract: In a method for operating an industrial facility which has at least one mobile system, a base map of the industrial facility is generated, which has information about at least one vehicle-accessible region and at least one closed region; a correction map of the industrial facility is generated, which has information about at least one vehicle-accessible region and at last one closed region; the base map is overlaid with the correction map; at least one metric feature of the base map is replaced by a metric feature of the correction map when a difference between a metric feature of the base map and a metric feature of the correction map is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Johanna FUNK, Maja SLISKOVIC
  • Patent number: 11592101
    Abstract: A gear unit includes a housing, a trough for guiding oil and reducing losses due to splashing surrounding a circumferential section of a toothing part, the trough including at least three parts, e.g., at least one bottom plate and two side walls, the bottom plate being screw-connected to the two side walls, the trough being fastened to the housing, the trough having an opening, the bottom plate and the side walls being stamped bent parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Zili Wu
  • Patent number: 11594914
    Abstract: In a method for producing a system for inductively transmitting energy to a mobile part, and a device for performing the method: a stepped bore is introduced into a floor; a sealing element is introduced into the stepped bore; a ring frame is held in place in the stepped bore with the aid of an alignment unit supported on the surface of the floor, the upper edge of the ring frame in particular being aligned with the height of the floor or with the surface of a floor covering applied to the floor, i.e. the upper edge in particular being brought to the same height position as the surface of the floor or the floor covering; the ring frame is set apart from the floor so that a gap region exists between the ring frame and the floor; casting compound is filled into the gap region; the alignment unit is removed; and a primary part is accommodated in the ring frame, in particular connected with the aid of screws.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Johann Soder, Nils-Malte Jahn
  • Patent number: 11585048
    Abstract: In a method for producing different rail variants from an assembly set, and system having a vehicle which is movable on a rail part, the assembly set includes a rail profile part and two different reactive components, and the rail profile part includes an interface at which one of the different reactive components is optionally able to be connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Josef Schmidt, Ralf Berger, Markus Thome
  • Publication number: 20230047369
    Abstract: A geared motor, e.g., a gear unit or a bevel gear unit, which is able to be driven by an electric motor, includes a housing part, which is produced by a die casting method, during or after which sliders are moved, in particular pulled out, in respective drawing directions for the demolding, and an input shaft. The housing part includes a channel, demolded in a first drawing direction, in particular, using a first slider, the channel being adapted to extend through the wall of the housing and ending in the interior space region of the gear unit. The drawing direction has a non-vanishing angle in relation to the axis of rotation of the input shaft, its angle in particular amounting to between 5° and 45°, e.g., between 5° and 20°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Thorsten MORITZ, Dorothee WIECZOREK
  • Publication number: 20230047607
    Abstract: A method for integrating a further bus subscriber into a bus system, and a bus system, having a master module and subscribers disposed in series, includes the temporally consecutive method steps: in a first method step, the further bus subscriber transmits a data packet to the master module in order to log in to the master module, in a second method step, a bus subscriber disposed between the further bus subscriber and the master module stops the data packet and checks whether the bus system has already received a release, in a third method step, the first bus subscriber forwards the data packet to the master module if the bus system has not yet received a release, or in a third, in particular an alternative, method step, if the bus system has already received a release, the bus subscriber stores the data packet and waits until the release of the bus system is revoked and after the release has been revoked, forwards the stored data packet to the master module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Manuel FUCHS
  • Patent number: 11582880
    Abstract: An electrical device includes a housing part and a cover part, the cover part being connected to the housing part, in particular with the aid of screws, the cover part in particular covering an opening of the housing part. A first circuit board is connected to the cover part, and an elastically preloaded sheet-metal part, in particular an elastically preloaded tab section of a sheet-metal part, presses at least one heat-generating component, in particular a controllable semiconductor switch, in the direction of the cover part, in particular for the purpose of dissipating heat from the heat-generating component into the environment via the cover part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Hannich, Jürgen Hans Kollar, Klaus Kneller
  • Publication number: 20230041061
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a fan guard and rotor shaft mounted rotatably relative to the fan guard and angle sensor. A housing of the angle sensor is connected to a torque support, which is connected to the fan guard, the torque support having members having a meandering shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Andreas ZIMMERMANN, Thomas KNAUS
  • Publication number: 20230031711
    Abstract: In an installation including a stored energy source and an electric motor which can be fed by an inverter, and a method for operating an installation, the stored energy source forms an electrical series circuit with a first fuse and further fuse(s). A controllable contact, e.g., a switch, a contactor, etc., is connected in parallel to the further fuse, or a respective controllable contact, e.g., a switch, a contactor, etc., is connected in parallel to each of the further fuses. The series circuit feeds the DC-voltage-side connection of the inverter, and a device for detecting the voltage applied to the series circuit is connected to control electronics which generate a control signal for the contact or control signals for the controllable contacts. For example, the respective contact is opened when the voltage falls below a respective voltage threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Dominik HECHT, Hubert HEINE