Patents by Inventor Hans-Peter Tröndle

Hans-Peter Tröndle has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8360697
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of reducing vibrations, occurring during a machining operation, of a machine element (7,8) and/or of a workpiece (5) in a machine tool, production machine and/or in a machine (1) designed as a robot, wherein an additional mass (9a, 9b, 9c) is attached to the machine element (7,8) and/or to the workpiece (5) in an automated manner, wherein the mass of the additional mass (9a, 9b, 9c) is adapted to the machining operation. Furthermore, the invention relates to a machine (1) in this respect. The invention enables vibrations, occurring during a machining operation, of a machine element (7,8) of a machine (1) and/or of a workpiece (5) to be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jens Hamann, Elmar Schäfers, Hans-Peter Tröndle, Bernd Wedel
  • Publication number: 20100247261
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of reducing vibrations, occurring during a machining operation, of a machine element (7,8) and/or of a workpiece (5) in a machine tool, production machine and/or in a machine (1) designed as a robot, wherein an additional mass (9a, 9b, 9c) is attached to the machine element (7,8) and/or to the workpiece (5) in an automated manner, wherein the mass of the additional mass (9a, 9b, 9c) is adapted to the machining operation. Furthermore, the invention relates to a machine (1) in this respect. The invention enables vibrations, occurring during a machining operation, of a machine element (7,8) of a machine (1) and/or of a workpiece (5) to be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2006
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jens Hamann, Elmar Schäfers, Hans-Peter Tröndle, Bernd Wedel
  • Patent number: 7766300
    Abstract: The invention relates to a machine, whereby at least one machine bed (2) of the machine is linked to a floor (1), by means of at least one support element (9a), said support element (9a) being pivotally mounted in relation to the machine bed (2) and the floor (1). The invention also relates to a support element (9a), for bearing a machine, whereby said support element (9a) comprises means (10a), by which the support element is pivotally linked to the machine and means (11a), by which said element is pivotally linked to the floor (1). The invention thus avoids horizontal movements of the machine bed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jens Hamann, Hans-Peter Tröndle, Bernd Wedel
  • Publication number: 20090218473
    Abstract: The invention relates to a machine, whereby at least one machine bed (2) of the machine is linked to a floor (1), by means of at least one support element (9a), said support element (9a) being pivotally mounted in relation to the machine bed (2) and the floor (1). The invention also relates to a support element (9a), for bearing a machine, whereby said support element (9a) comprises means (10a), by which the support element is pivotally linked to the machine and means (11a), by which said element is pivotally linked to the floor (1). The invention thus avoids horizontal movements of the machine bed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2005
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jens Hamann, Hans-Peter Tröndle, Bernd Wedel
  • Patent number: 7566193
    Abstract: The invention relates to a tool head for moving a tool (6) having a plurality of mobile shafts (2, 4, 5, 8, 11) which allow to move the tool (6) linearly and rotationally. The invention also relates to a combination drive (10) for driving a shaft by means of which the shaft (11) driven by the combination drive (10) can perform a linear and rotational movement and to the use of a combination drive (10) for driving a shaft (11) of a tool head for moving a tool, the shaft (11) driven by the combination drive (10) being capable of performing a linear and a rotational movement. The invention finally relates to a method for movement control. The invention provides a tool head that allows very high dynamics of movement of the tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2009
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ali Haj-Fraj, Jens Hamann, Uwe Ladra, Hans-Peter Tröndle
  • Patent number: 7424337
    Abstract: In a method for increasing the control dynamics of a load driven by a direct drive via a driveshaft, a first transducer provides a first output signal indicating a first rotation speed, and a second transducer provides a second output signal indicating a second rotation speed. The direct drive is located between the first transducer and second transducer, with the second transducer being located in close proximity of the load. A mixed rotation speed is computed from a linear combination of the two rotation speed values, which is used as an actual control value of a controller of the direct drive. This method provides a very simple approach for increasing the control dynamics of a load driven by direct drive via a driveshaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2008
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Elmar Schäfers, Dietmar Stoiber, Hans-Peter Tröndle, Bernd Wedel
  • Patent number: 7152503
    Abstract: A device for compensating a torque produced on a movable axle in a machine tool or production machine by a gyrostatic effect includes a rotating useful machine system attached to the movable axle and producing a useful angular momentum, and a rotating machine counter-system attached to the axle and producing a counter angular momentum. The magnitude of the counter angular momentum is substantially identical to the magnitude of the useful angular momentum. The useful torque produced by a movement of the rotating useful machine system through a temporal change of the useful angular momentum is at least partially compensated by a counter-torque produced by a temporal change of the counter angular momentum. This arrangement represents a simple device for compensating a torque produced by the gyrostatic effect on a movable axle of machine tolls and production machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Gerhard Forster, Winfried Glück, Jens Hamann, Uwe Ladra, Elmar Schäfers, Dietmar Stoiber, Hans-Peter Tröndle, Bernd Wedel
  • Patent number: 7005826
    Abstract: A method for increasing the control response of a drive train of a machine tool or production machine with backlash and/or elasticity is described. A combined signal comprised of the motor speed measured on the motor and the load speed measured near the load of the drive train is supplied to a controller. The combined signal can generated in one of two ways: (1) by weighting the measured motor speed with a first multiplication factor (?), by weighting the measured load speed with a second multiplication factor (1??), and by subsequently adding the weighted motor speed to the weighted load speed; or (2) by first subtracting the measured load speed from the measured motor speed, then weighting the resulting difference by a multiplication factor ?, and finally adding the load speed to the weighted difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bernhard Dirsch, Hans-Peter Tröndle
  • Patent number: 6940247
    Abstract: The PDT2 filtering element (PDT2) and a Cauer filter (C2) are employed for use in control tasks of automation engineering, in particular for a filter connected downstream of a rotational speed controller. For tasks in control engineering, these have the advantage of a higher level of robustness, since a large frequency range is filtered, and a substantially smaller phase drop than conventional lowpass filters (PDT2). Consequently, by comparison with the known prior art a loss in dynamics is substantially minimized with these phase-saving lowpass filters, and an optimum is achieved in robustness and dynamics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2005
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesselschaft
    Inventors: Elmar Schaefers, Hans-Peter Troendle
  • Publication number: 20020140394
    Abstract: The PDT2 filtering element (PDT2) and a Cauer filter (C2) are employed for use in control tasks of automation engineering, in particular for a filter connected downstream of a rotational speed controller. For tasks in control engineering, these have the advantage of a higher level of robustness, since a large frequency range is filtered, and a substantially smaller phase drop than conventional lowpass filters (PDT2). Consequently, by comparison with the known prior art a loss in dynamics is substantially minimized with these phase-saving lowpass filters, and an optimum is achieved in robustness and dynamics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2001
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Inventors: Elmar Schaefers, Hans-Peter Troendle
  • Patent number: 6349642
    Abstract: In a conventional sheet-fed printing machine having a central drive, the dynamic positional deviation with respect to a setpoint value continually increases from printing unit to printing unit due to the elasticity (a vibratory multi-mass system). Thus, the precision is dependent on the number of printing units. A mechanical interconnection of the individual cylinders of the sheet-fed printing machine is partially removed and replaced by individual drives is, therefore, provided. In the multiple motor open-loop drive control described, the fault does not increase because in each printing unit, the torque is supplied separately, and all drives are closed-loop controlled using the same reference variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2002
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jürgen Olomski, Hans-Peter Tröndle, Ralf Viefhaus
  • Patent number: 6347255
    Abstract: Various filter options in the current setpoint channel are available for optimal adjustment of a drive system to an elastomechanical system. The present method permits optimal adjustment of the speed controller through measurement of the speed control system by automatically determining possible parameters for a filter setting which may optionally be necessary. In a simulation calculation in the frequency range which relies on data from the measured system, a check is performed to determine whether the speed controller must be equipped with filters. In addition, the possible control parameters for the gain and the reset time of the speed controller are determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2002
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Roland Moser, Hans-Peter Tröndle
  • Patent number: 6266570
    Abstract: Standard, existing position measuring systems are used to determine and optimize operating accuracy. For this, in a positional measurement, path information on any desired number of axes is sampled over a predefinable measuring interval and stored. The acquired data are converted and prepared using signal processing measures, enabling conclusions to be drawn about the actual operating accuracy and about causes of inaccuracies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2001
    Assignee: Siemens AG
    Inventors: Günther Höcherl, Roland Moser, Hans-Peter Tröndle, Georg Wiegärtner
  • Patent number: 5647237
    Abstract: In a previous process, the influence of roll eccentricities on the output thickness of the rolled material in a roll stand is suppressed by simulating the output signal of an oscillator and supplying this value to a position or thickness control for the roll stand, where the frequency of the output signal is set according to the roll rotation speed. In the process according to the invention, the amplitude and phase of the output signal are set so that the exit thickness of the rolled material is measured with a measuring delay in relation to the thickness reduction in the roll gap. A difference signal is generated from the delayed roll screw-down signal and a measured thickness signal multiplied by the sum of one and the quotient of the rigidity of the rolled material and the roll stand. The output signal of the oscillator is corrected according to the difference between the output signal and the difference signal. The output signal is phase shifted by the amount of measurement delay for a forward slip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1997
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Clemens Jungkunz, Siegbert Steidl, Dietrich Wohld, Andre Berghs, Hans-Peter Troendle
  • Patent number: 4950090
    Abstract: A method for the detection and regulation of a spring moment and a difference speed in rotationally driven systems in which a drive unit can be viewed as an elastically coupled two-mass system. The spring moment and the difference speed are determined without direct measurement of the actual load speed or the load position. This is done by comparison of the actual motor speed influenced by the spring moment and a simulated actual motor speed. The resulting difference speed and spring moment are directly proportional to the actual difference speed and the actual spring moment and can be supplied to the regulating system of the motor for regulating the intrinsic oscillations of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 21, 1990
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Papiernik, Hans-Peter Troendle
  • Patent number: 4788670
    Abstract: A clock voltage supply for electronic control circuits such as a computer system for generating four clock signals which are synchronous as to frequency and phase. When n=4, the clock signals are generated with the help of four PLL clocks. So that the four clock signals can continue to appear even if one of the four clocks is malfunctioning, the clock signals of the four clocks are supplied to four (3:4) voters from whose outputs the clock signals are then supplied. Since each voter circuit brings about a certain delay time, which significantly limits the frequency of the clock signals, a delay element is connected downstream to each of the voter outputs respectively. The delay time of the respective delay element, plus the delay time of the respective voter connected therewith, is an integral multiple of the period of the intended clock frequency. For PLL control, the output of each delay element gives the nominal phase position and the output of each clock gives the actual phase position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1988
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hermann Hofmann, David Johnson, Werner Schirl, Hans-Peter Troendle