Patents Assigned to Sew-Eurodrive GmbH & Co.
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20230021796
    Abstract: In a method for operating an electric vehicle and an electric vehicle, including an electric traction drive device for driving vehicle, a control device for controlling the driving, a first energy storage device, for supplying the control device using a first DC voltage, a second energy storage device, for supplying the traction drive device using a second DC voltage, and an energy supply unit for providing an output DC voltage, the first energy storage device is connected to the second energy storage device via a converter device, the first energy storage device is connected to the energy supply unit, the converter device converts the first DC voltage into the second DC voltage, and a power flow from the second energy storage device to the first energy storage device is prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Patrick WEIS, Gero BOCKELMANN, Matthias HAUCK
  • Patent number: 11549580
    Abstract: A gear unit is described as having a first and a second housing part, an intermediate shaft of the gear unit being mounted via two bearings in a bushing accommodating the bearings, the bushing centering the first housing part against the second housing part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Miki Tegeltija, Oliver Bühn
  • Patent number: 11549562
    Abstract: An electromagnetically actuable brake device includes: a coil shell, in particular of the solenoid, an armature disk, which is connected to the coil shell in a torque-proof yet displaceable manner, a sensor having a sensor housing, a spring part, and a screwed cable gland. The coil shell has a stepped through bore, the sensor housing of the sensor has a stepped configuration, the screwed cable gland is situated at an end of the bore, in particular is screwed into a threaded section of the bore, the spring part is situated in the bore between the screwed cable gland and the sensor housing, the spring part is braced on a step of the sensor housing on one side and on the screwed cable gland on the other, and the sensor housing is pressed against a step of the bore, in particular by the spring part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Timo Hufnagel, Gerolf Fichtner-Pflaum
  • Publication number: 20220410719
    Abstract: In a method for operating an electric vehicle, including an electrical drive device for driving the vehicle, a control device for controlling the driving of the vehicle, a first energy storage device for supplying the control device with a first DC voltage, a second energy storage device for supplying the drive device with a second DC voltage, and an energy supply unit providing an output DC voltage, the first energy storage device is connected to the energy supply unit via a converter device, the second energy storage device is connected to the energy supply unit, the converter device converts the output DC voltage into the first DC voltage, a first power flow from the first energy storage device to the second energy storage device is prevented and a second power flow from the second energy storage device to the first energy storage device is prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Jens SCHÄFER, Jan BECKER, Gero BOCKELMANN, Matthias HAUCK, Christian SCHUMANN, Josef SCHMIDT
  • Publication number: 20220412448
    Abstract: A geared motor includes a gear unit having a first intermediate shaft, an input shaft and an output shaft. The gear unit has two connection surfaces set apart from each other to which a device to be driven by the gear unit is connectable to the gear unit, each connection surface having a drilling pattern. The housing part is asymmetrical such that the plane whose normal direction is aligned in parallel with the axis of rotation of the first intermediate shaft and includes the axis of rotation of the input shaft, is no plane of symmetry in relation to the entire outer surface of the housing part and also no plane of symmetry in relation to the housing wall of the housing part. The plane is a plane of symmetry with regard to the two connection surfaces together with their drilling patterns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Thorsten MORITZ, Dorothee WIECZOREK
  • Publication number: 20220410725
    Abstract: In a method for operating an electric vehicle, including a first energy storage device (e.g., a rechargeable battery storage device), a second energy storage device (e.g., a double-layer capacitor device), an energy supply unit which provides energy, for charging the first and/or second energy storage device, and a first electrical consumer connected to the second energy storage device via an intermediate circuit, the first energy storage device is connected to the energy supply unit via a bidirectional converter unit, the second energy storage device is connected to the energy supply unit, a first power flows from the first energy storage device to the second energy storage device if an intermediate circuit voltage falls below a definable voltage, and a second power flow from the second to the first energy storage device is prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Matthias HAUCK, Patrick WEIS, Gero BOCKELMANN
  • 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: 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: 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: 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
  • 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
  • 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: 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: 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: D975744
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GmbH & Co KG
    Inventors: Jürgen Goos, Julian Kratz, Philipp Merkel, Bettina Baacke