Abstract: A sliding door system includes a door frame and a sliding door leaf that can move relative thereto. A catch is arranged either on the door frame or on the sliding door leaf, which can be coupled to a drive element of a feed device arranged on the respective other component. The feed device has a spring energy store and a cylinder-piston unit. The cylinder-piston unit has a piston that separates a displacement chamber from a compensation chamber. A passage cross-section between the displacement chamber and the compensation chamber can be changed in a load-dependent manner by a piston disk that can be applied at a piston end side. The tension force of the tension spring of a minimal effective length is between 1.5 and 3.5 times the total static friction force of the sliding door leaf and the resistance of the cylinder-piston unit at the maximum passage cross-section.

Abstract: A layer module for integration into a handling robot system has an interface bank on the robot side, an interface bank on the handling side, and a third interface bank. The interface bank on the robot side has a geometric connection contour for position-centered fastening to an industrial robot of the robotic handling system or to a robot adapter part, along with a cable feed for receiving a fixed wiring of an electrical functional assembly arranged in the layer module to the industrial robot. The interface bank on the handling side has a geometric connection contour for position-centered releasable joining by a snap connection to a handling tool or to a layer module element connected upstream of the handling tool, along with a group of electrical contacts. The layer module enables the use of an industrial robot in combination with different handling tools and for changing handling tasks.

Abstract: A machining robot for machining workpieces by chip removal has two rotating main axes parallel with one another and at least two rotating subsidiary axes. A foot lever mounted in a first main axis and an elbow lever mounted at the free end of the foot lever in a second main axis form a kinematic chain. A first subsidiary axis is oriented in the longitudinal direction of the elbow lever. A second subsidiary axis mounts a machining unit in the elbow lever. The first main axis is mounted in the base frame. The machining unit is a multi-function unit through which the second subsidiary axis passes, and which has at least two working sides. One working side is a multifunction side, and the other working side is a main spindle side. The multifunction unit has at least two chip removal tools that can be driven for rotation.

Abstract: A layer module for use on a robot has an inlet side having an inlet-side mechanical adapter geometry and an outlet side having an outlet-side mechanical adapter geometry. The inlet-side and the outlet-side mechanical adapter geometries are complementary to one another. The layer module has at least one functional assembly. The functional assembly can be contacted electrically, hydraulically and/or pneumatically on the inlet side and/or on the outlet side. An adapter system comprises at least two such layer modules. A layer module system comprises an adapter system and a fixed part, the fixed part being connected to the free inlet side or to the free outlet side of the adapter system. The layer module has at least two locking parts that are mounted in a spring-loaded, displaceable or pivotable manner, and at least two guide elements oriented in the longitudinal direction of the layer module that have geometrically different designs.

Abstract: A power supply system for at least one system for transporting and/or machining workpieces having a plurality of electric drive units is disclosed. The supply grid of the drive units is supplied via at least one recuperating energy storage device, which is electrically connected to a charging device that is fed from an alternating- or three-phase low-voltage grid. The power supply system for a transport and/or machining system draws maximally 50 percent more power from the power supply grid compared to the regular nominal supply current regardless of the occurrence of current peaks.

Abstract: A disconnectable adapter for the adaptation of a tool to an industrial robot has a first part and a second part connected detachably to the first part. The adapter is designed with at least two locking parts which engage behind the first part or the second part in a spring-loaded manner and are mounted displaceably or pivotably in the second part or first part behind which the locking parts do not engage. To disconnect the first part and the second part of the adapter from each other, all the locking parts are loaded simultaneously relative to the first part and to the second part or relative to one another by means of an external force applied as a compressive force. With the present disclosure, a disconnectable adapter which can be operated both manually and automatically is developed.

Abstract: A sliding door system includes a door frame and a sliding door leaf that can move relative thereto. A catch is arranged either on the door frame or on the sliding door leaf, which can be coupled to a drive element of a feed device arranged on the respective other component. The feed device has a spring energy store and a cylinder-piston unit. The cylinder-piston unit has a piston that separates a displacement chamber from a compensation chamber. A passage cross-section between the displacement chamber and the compensation chamber can be changed in a load-dependent manner by a piston disk that can be applied at a piston end side. The tension force of the tension spring of a minimal effective length is between 1.5 and 3.5 times the total static friction force of the sliding door leaf and the resistance of the cylinder-piston unit at the maximum passage cross-section.

Abstract: A retraction device includes a housing and a driving element guided in the housing between a parked position and an end position. A first end of a spring energy accumulator is connected to the housing. The spring energy accumulator is loaded to a maximum operating value when the driving element is in the parked position and is unloaded to a residual energy value when the driving element is in the end position. A second end of the spring energy accumulator can either be fixed to the housing or coupled to the driving element by means of a bistable coupling. The coupling has a blocking element that can be moved between the housing and the driving element.

Abstract: A manufacturing cell comprises a machine tool that has a tool carrier carrying a tool unit and has two adjacent workpiece paths oriented in a longitudinal direction. The tool unit can be displaced relative to a machine bed of the machine tool in a transverse direction and in a vertical direction. At least one workpiece carriage per workpiece path can be displaced in the longitudinal direction along the machine tool. The tool unit can be displaced in the longitudinal direction relative to the machine bed and/or relative to the workpiece carriages. The tool carrier overhangs or projects beyond the workpiece paths. The individual workpiece carriage can also be displaced in the longitudinal direction along the workpiece supply. Furthermore, the workpiece supply has at least one lowerable or tiltable stop device per workpiece path.

Abstract: A workpiece carriage for workpiece transport includes a guide unit oriented in a longitudinal direction, a drive unit having an electrical supply and a drive motor, and a workpiece gripping unit having two clamping jaws movable relative to one another. A machine tool includes at least one workpiece table, with at least one tool unit movable relative to the workpiece table and with at least two workpiece carriages that are displaceable individually in the longitudinal direction along a machine bed of the machine tool. A manufacturing cell includes such a machine tool and a workpiece supply. The two clamping jaws of the workpiece gripping unit can be displaced relative to one another in a height direction oriented normal to the longitudinal direction and normal to a transverse direction oriented normal to the longitudinal direction. This expands the possible applications of the workpiece carriage.

Abstract: A manufacturing cell comprises at least one workpiece path having a workpiece supply region of a workpiece supply and a workpiece table of a machine tool. The machine tool has at least two machining robots. The workpiece table comprises at least one suction block assembly. The manufacturing cell has a second workpiece path running in a longitudinal direction of the manufacturing cell and parallel to the first workpiece path, with a second workpiece table comprising at least one suction block assembly. In addition, each suction block assembly can be displaced in the longitudinal direction of the manufacturing cell. This increases the output rate of a manufacturing cell and expands its machining capabilities.

Abstract: An adapter system for connecting the last element of a kinematic chain of a handling device to same, wherein the last element has a computer-storage module, as well as at least one actuator and/or at least one sensor. At least three sequentially positioned system modules are arranged between the penultimate and the last element. A first system module is a mechanical module, via which electrical and/or pneumatic connection lines are guided. In a second system module, the connection lines are connected with transition points of a negative adapter geometry of a mechatronic combi-interface. At least one further system module is arranged in a couplable manner between the second system module and the last element. A third system module has an electronics assembly which adapts the predefined system architecture to the device interface of the last element.

Abstract: A hinge has two arms that can be pivoted relative to one another between a closed initial position and a second position. A first arm has a first guide slide. A second guide slide can be shifted along the pivot axis and can contact the first guide slide. When the two arms are moved towards the initial position, at least one cylinder-piston unit can be loaded by means of the second guide slide. The second guide slide can be rotationally fixedly coupled to the second arm in a first pivoting angle sub-range bordering the initial position and to the first arm in a second pivoting angle sub-range bordering the second position. The hinge has a first control slide rigidly connected to the second arm and a second control slide that makes contact with the first control slide and that is coupled against rotation to the first guide slide.

Abstract: A retraction device for two end positions has two driving elements which are connected to one another by a spring energy accumulator. Each driving element is displaceably mounted in a respective guide housing. A sliding door has such a retraction device, and a sliding door arrangement has such a sliding door. Each driving element is coupled or can be coupled to a cylinder-piston unit mounted in the respective guide housing. Both guide housings are adjustable relative to one another in the longitudinal direction of the retraction device by means of at least one sliding joint. This provides a retraction device for two end positions, which can be used for a range of door widths without design modifications.

Abstract: A transfer device for self-propelling workpiece trolleys of a transport system allows ends of one or more route sections to be continuously or intermittently connected. The ends of the route sections are either connected via transfer sections that are rigid and bent at least in sections, or a transfer section—which can be moved along a straight or curved track curve and supporting one or more workpiece trolleys—can be temporarily arranged before the ends of the route sections, which transfer section can be moved back and forth between the ends via a driveable gear unit. At least one transfer device for a transport and/or processing system is developed, with which the workpiece trolleys are transferred from one route section to another.

Abstract: A power supply system for at least one system for transporting and/or machining workpieces having a plurality of electric drive units is disclosed. The supply grid of the drive units is supplied via at least one recuperating energy storage device, which is electrically connected to a charging device that is fed from an alternating- or three-phase low-voltage grid. The power supply system for a transport and/or machining system draws maximally 50 percent more power from the power supply grid compared to the regular nominal supply current regardless of the occurrence of current peaks.

Abstract: A cylinder-piston unit with load-dependent damping includes a piston longitudinally displaceable in a cylinder. The piston has a first piston channel and a second piston channel, which each connect a compensation space on one side of the piston to a displacement space side on an opposite side of the piston. On the displacement space side a throttle channel connects one first piston channel to the piston lateral surface. On its displacement space side the piston has a piston journal, which carries a resiliently deformable piston disc. The piston disc is displaceable and covers the throttle channel at least partially. The displacement space side has at least one relief portion deviating from a piston end face plane. The relief portion is delimited on a number of sides by a plurality of boundary lines running concentrically with respect to the central axis. Each of these boundary lines can be differentiated continuously.

Abstract: A braking and/or clamping device for a shaft guided in relation to a basic body, includes an actuating assembly (10) and a shaft-coupling assembly (80). The actuating assembly comprises a split housing (11) which has two bending plates (15, 16) which can bulge elastically in certain regions. The bending plates each have gripper jaws (23, 24) with frictional surfaces (31, 32). A sealed pressure chamber (37), which can be filled with a pressure medium, is situated between the bending plates. Parts of a shaft-coupling assembly project between the clamping zones, said parts establishing the linking to the braked or clamped shaft. When the pressure in the pressure chamber is relieved, the frictional surfaces of the actuating assembly can be applied to the frictional surfaces of the shaft-coupling assembly, thereby providing the braking and/or clamping force.

Abstract: A system connects an assembly with at least one actuator and at least one sensor to a controller. The assembly is guided by a handling apparatus. The controller includes a radio master spatially separate from the handling apparatus and has a sending and receiving unit. The assembly is supplied with supply voltage by the handling apparatus. In or on the assembly, the supply voltage is transformed into a direct current target voltage with the aid of a DC/DC or AC/DC transformer. The direct current target voltage supplies the sending and receiving unit of the assembly.

Abstract: A hinge has two arms that can be pivoted relative to one another between a closed initial position and a second position. A first arm has a first guide slide. A second guide slide can be shifted along the pivot axis and can contact the first guide slide. When the two arms are moved towards the initial position, at least one cylinder-piston unit can be loaded by means of the second guide slide. The second guide slide can be rotationally fixedly coupled to the second arm in a first pivoting angle sub-range bordering the initial position and to the first arm in a second pivoting angle sub-range bordering the second position. The hinge has a first control slide rigidly connected to the second arm and a second control slide that makes contact with the first control slide and that is coupled against rotation to the first guide slide.