Abstract: A braking and/or clamping device includes an annular housing which has a pneumatic or hydraulic connection and surrounds an axially oriented rod receptacle. The housing has a base part and a cover part. An annular pressure chamber is disposed within the housing. The pressure chamber is axially delimited by a piston which is movable in the axial direction. The pressure chamber is radially delimited by the outer walls of the housing and by an inner ring which surrounds an inner wall of the housing. The inner wall has an inner wall portion. In the housing, a disc element is disposed on the piston top face, which faces away from the pressure chamber and is axially oriented. The piston top face is seated against or fastened to the disc element. The inner wall portion is protrudingly located in a cover part or in a base part of the housing.

Abstract: A gripping device includes a drive motor with a motor-current-monitoring or pressure-monitoring system, and a gear unit which can be driven by the drive motor. The gear unit has a worm gear stage driven by a rotatable gear shaft, which worm gear stage is coupled to at least one of at least two gripping element carriers which are movable relative to one another. A holding brake for blocking the gear shafts is arranged in a housing of the gripping device. The worm gear stage has a screw that is axially slidable towards at least one spring energy accumulator, so that, upon an increase in the flank pressure on the respective gripping pressure flank of the screw, the loading on one of these spring energy accumulators increases. The drive motor is so relieved of load in a gripping device in spite of a high gripping force.

Abstract: A method creates gripping-task-specific gripper sequence programs of an item gripper which is controlled by a gripper control module and has a gripper main body and a gripping tool. The item gripper transmits a gripper-main-body-specific identification signal to the gripper control module. The gripper control module assigns a gripper dataset from a database to this identification signal. The dataset has an allowable value range for each settable parameter of the item gripper. A gripping-task-specific configuration dataset for the item gripper is created by a peripheral device. The gripper control module determines gripping-task-specific target values and test criteria. A processing unit of the item gripper establishes the time profile of the actuation of the gripper drive from the target values and determines gripper-specific test values from the test criteria. The present method creates both a sequence program for closing the item gripper and a sequence program for opening the item gripper.

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 production cell includes a workpiece conveyor device which has at least one workpiece carriage. It further includes at least one workpiece processing device and a workpiece transfer station. A provided workpiece can be conveyed to the workpiece processing station and from the processing station to the workpiece transfer station by the workpiece carriage. The production cell has a workpiece tilting device which is arranged at the workpiece transfer station and a workpiece return device with a workpiece temporary storage device. A workpiece can be transferred to the workpiece return device by the workpiece tilting device at the workpiece transfer station, and the workpiece can be conveyed into the workpiece temporary storage device. The workpiece can be removed from the workpiece temporary storage device and can be provided to the workpiece conveyor device.

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 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: An industrial robot has at least one translational or rotational axis, having an output element that has a toothing and at least one axis drive assembly that is associated with the translational or rotational axis and that meshes with the output element. The axis drive assembly has a drive motor and at least one transmission arranged downstream of the drive motor. In the case of a translational axis, the output element is a toothed rod. In the case of a rotational axis, the output element is a spur gear with an outer toothing. In addition, the transmission has at least one branching stage that distributes the rotational movement of the motor shaft of the drive motor to at least two gear trains, such that at least two pinions driven by means of the drive motor mesh with the output element.

Abstract: A track fitting assembly includes at least two mutually parallel tracks for a sliding door system. It further includes at least one Z-shaped carrier part, which has a fastening leg, a vertical leg and a support leg. The track fitting assembly also includes at least one insert part, at least some regions of which may be encompassed by the carrier part. Both the carrier part and the insert part each have a constant cross-section along their entire length oriented in the longitudinal direction. A track system includes at least one such track fitting assembly and at least one additional carrier part and/or at least one additional insert part. A piece of furniture includes such a track system.

Abstract: A production cell includes a workpiece conveyor device which has at least one workpiece carriage. It further includes at least one workpiece processing device and a workpiece transfer station. A provided workpiece can be conveyed to the workpiece processing station and from the processing station to the workpiece transfer station by the workpiece carriage. The production cell has a workpiece tilting device which is arranged at the workpiece transfer station and a workpiece return device with a workpiece temporary storage device. A workpiece can be transferred to the workpiece return device by the workpiece tilting device at the workpiece transfer station, and the workpiece can be conveyed into the workpiece temporary storage device. The workpiece can be removed from the workpiece temporary storage device and can be provided to the workpiece conveyor device.

Abstract: A workpiece-clamping element has a cylinder and a lifting rod assembly guided in the cylinder with an annular piston and with an inner tube. The lifting rod assembly carries a suction plate having a workpiece support surface. A workpiece table has a plurality of workpiece-clamping elements of this type. A cylinder bottom of the cylinder penetrated by the lifting rod assembly, the lifting rod assembly and a cylinder jacket tube of the cylinder delimit a pressure chamber. In addition, the lifting rod assembly is mounted both in the cylinder bottom and in the cylinder head so that it can be displaced at least axially. The present disclosure allows a short changeover time and a shortened throughput time of workpieces.

Abstract: A workpiece table includes a frame and at least one workpiece-clamping fixture having a plurality of individually height-adjustable pneumatic workpiece-clamping elements. The workpiece table has at least one second workpiece-clamping fixture having a plurality of pneumatic workpiece-clamping elements. All the workpiece-clamping fixtures can be moved relative to the frame. The workpiece table increases the throughput time of a batch of workpieces at a processing station.

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 and establish 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 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.