Patents Assigned to Sew-Eurodrive GmbH & Co.
  • 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: 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: 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: 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: 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
  • 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: 11486485
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Thorsten Moritz, Dorothee Wieczorek
  • Patent number: 11487686
    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: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Manuel Fuchs
  • Patent number: 11489406
    Abstract: A drive device includes an electric motor and a gear unit that is driven by the electric motor. The electric motor has a laminated stator core which includes stator windings and is accommodated in a stator housing. The stator housing has recesses that are axially uninterrupted, i.e. in particular in the direction of the rotor shaft axis, and the stator housing is surrounded, especially radially surrounded, by a housing of the drive device, in particular a tubular housing and/or a cup-shaped housing, and the housing is set apart from the stator housing, in particular such that an especially circulating airflow is able to be provided within the housing, the recesses in particular guiding the airflow through in the axial direction, and the airflow being returned in the opposite direction in the set-apart region between the stator housing part and the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Waldemar Becker, Domenik Hettel, Thomas Rung, Jens Schillinger
  • Patent number: 11489405
    Abstract: A gear system includes a gear unit and an electromagnetically actuable brake, the brake having a coil core that is connected to a brake surface part in a torsion-resistant manner. The brake surface part is connected to a bearing flange, its bearing mount in particular delimiting a free space. The bearing flange is connected to a cover part which is connected to a housing part of the gear unit, and a shaft is supported in the housing part via at least one bearing. A driver is connected to the shaft in a torsion-resistant manner, the driver having an external tooth system that is in engagement with an internal tooth system of a brake pad carrier such that the brake pad carrier is connected to the shaft in a torsion-resistant yet axially displaceable manner. An armature disk, which is disposed in a torsion-resistant yet axially displaceable manner with respect to the coil core, is situated between the coil core and the brake pad carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Triebswetter, Marc Frey
  • Publication number: 20220345329
    Abstract: In a system and method of operating a system that includes a controller and a first bus participant and a successor, the bus participant and successor each has a circuit arrangement arranged between an output and an input, a first resistor is arranged between the output and the supply voltage terminal, a second resistor is arranged between the input and a ground terminal, a third resistor can be arranged between the input and the supply voltage terminal by a first controllable semiconductor switch, and a fourth resistor can be arranged between the output and the supply voltage terminal by a second controllable semiconductor switch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Hans Jürgen KOLLAR
  • Publication number: 20220336888
    Abstract: An energy store includes a storage module having a fan. The fan is arranged as a radial fan, and channels extend through the storage module, e.g., axially, open into a spatial region which is delimited by a cover part of the energy store connected to the storage module and the storage module. The cover part has a recess extending through the cover part, e.g., axially, which is covered by the fan, e.g., by the suction region of the fan, e.g., on the side of the cover part facing away from the storage module, and the energy store has a deflection hood, e.g., for deflecting the conveyed air flow in the axial direction, on the side of the cover part facing away from the storage module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Josef SCHMIDT, Firat ALTAN, Matthias HAUCK, Thomas ZÖLLER
  • Publication number: 20220327305
    Abstract: A system, e.g., an installation, includes a mobile part that is movable along a coding region. A camera is arranged on the mobile part and is connected to an evaluation unit of the mobile part. The coding region has coded regions arranged successively. A one-part or multi-part cover covers coded regions, and has an opening through which an image of the first coded region can be taken by the camera. The evaluation unit is adapted to temporally recurrently determined the deviation of the first coded region with respect to the viewing direction of the camera and/or to the straight line, which is aligned in parallel with the viewing direction of the camera and passes through the central point of the image sensor of the camera, and/or to a reference point in the coding region and immobile relative to the mobile part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Frank ERB
  • Patent number: D968332
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GmbH & Co KG
    Inventors: Oliver Bühn, Miki Tegeltija