Patents by Inventor Robert A. Guenther
Robert A. Guenther 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).
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Patent number: 11964138Abstract: In one aspect the present disclosure refers to a supplementary device for a manually operable injection device, the supplementary device comprising: a body attachable to an elongated housing of the injection device, at least one connector connected to the body and connectable to the housing, wherein the body is attachable to the housing via the at least one connector, a sensor arrangement coupled to at least one of the body and the at least one connector and configured to measure a longitudinal force component acting between the at least one connector and the body in a direction parallel to the elongation of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2017Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBHInventors: René Richter, Robert Witt, Richard Guenther
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Patent number: 11086281Abstract: A system and method for online simulation of a controlled machine or process utilizes a simplified model of the system dynamics and may be used with hardware in the loop to evaluate performance of the controlled system or with software in the loop to perform commissioning of the control program prior to completion of the mechanical installation. The simplified model includes dominant order dynamics of the controlled system such as the inertia of the system and a damping factor. Further, the online simulation is scheduled to execute at an update rate slower than the update rate of the control loops within the motor drive. The simplified model and reduced update rate reduce the computational burden on the processor such that the simulation may be performed either on the industrial controller or on the motor drive.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2017Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Brian Fast, Robert Guenther, Joachim Thomsen, Robert J. Miklosovic, Mark A. Chaffee
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Patent number: 10691103Abstract: The disclosed subject matter comprises a design management component that facilitates managing and storing information, including respective customized information of respective entities and/or relating to objects, projects, controllers, or industrial automation systems within a project file or controller. The design management component facilitates enabling custom data, including custom metadata, to be injected by object into a project file or in a controller associated with the project file. The design management component operates with a data management component that can allow respective entities to view, edit, or delete their respective data on objects associated with a project file or controller in accordance with their respective rules.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2019Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Lorenzo Majewski, Norman Weatherhead, Stephen P. Proctor, Phillip F. Pemberton, Douglas M. Reid, Michael Kalan, Christopher E. Stanek, Daniel DeYoung, Andrew R. Stump, Robert Guenther, Joachim Thomsen, Danie Beckett
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Publication number: 20190302735Abstract: The disclosed subject matter comprises a design management component that facilitates managing and storing information, including respective customized information of respective entities and/or relating to objects, projects, controllers, or industrial automation systems within a project file or controller. The design management component facilitates enabling custom data, including custom metadata, to be injected by object into a project file or in a controller associated with the project file. The design management component operates with a data management component that can allow respective entities to view, edit, or delete their respective data on objects associated with a project file or controller in accordance with their respective rules.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2019Publication date: October 3, 2019Inventors: Lorenzo Majewski, Norman Weatherhead, Stephen P. Proctor, Phillip F. Pemberton, Douglas M. Reid, Michael Kalan, Christopher E. Stanek, Daniel DeYoung, Andrew R. Stump, Robert Guenther, Joachim Thomsen, Danie Beckett
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Patent number: 10372107Abstract: The disclosed subject matter comprises a design management component that facilitates managing and storing information, including respective customized information of respective entities and/or relating to objects, projects, controllers, or industrial automation systems within a project file or controller. The design management component facilitates enabling custom data, including custom metadata, to be injected by object into a project file or in a controller associated with the project file. The design management component operates with a data management component that can allow respective entities to view, edit, or delete their respective data on objects associated with a project file or controller in accordance with their respective rules.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2014Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Lorenzo Majewski, Norman Weatherhead, Stephen P. Proctor, Phillip F. Pemberton, Douglas W. Reid, Michael Kalan, Christopher E. Stanek, Daniel DeYoung, Andrew R. Stump, Robert Guenther, Joachim Thomsen, Danie Beckett
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Publication number: 20190146434Abstract: A system and method for online simulation of a controlled machine or process utilizes a simplified model of the system dynamics and may be used with hardware in the loop to evaluate performance of the controlled system or with software in the loop to perform commissioning of the control program prior to completion of the mechanical installation. The simplified model includes dominant order dynamics of the controlled system such as the inertia of the system and a damping factor. Further, the online simulation is scheduled to execute at an update rate slower than the update rate of the control loops within the motor drive. The simplified model and reduced update rate reduce the computational burden on the processor such that the simulation may be performed either on the industrial controller or on the motor drive.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2017Publication date: May 16, 2019Inventors: Brian Fast, Robert Guenther, Joachim Thomsen, Robert J. Miklosovic, Mark A. Chaffee
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Patent number: 9548627Abstract: A system for detecting latent defects within a redundant power architecture includes a plurality of redundant power supplies, each having one or more output power rails, connected in a redundant fashion to a system load; each power supply output having fault-isolating OR'ing circuitry that prevents reverse current flow when free of defects; each power supply having means for adjusting its output voltage; each power supply having means for monitoring an internal voltage therein, and, based on characteristics of the monitored internal voltage, determining the presence of latent defect/s in the fault-isolating “OR'ing” circuitry. Further, the system operates to shift the load demanded from power supplies in redundant power architectures to allow the power supplies to run at their optimum electrical efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2012Date of Patent: January 17, 2017Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLCInventors: Joseph P. King, Jr., Phillip J. Roux, Michael A. Faulkner, Robert M. Beauchamp, Robert A. Guenther
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Patent number: 9483038Abstract: A system for generating electronic cam profiles mimicking the action of mechanical cams operates on a variety of different cam profile inputs and converts them into a common form, for example, expressed as a polynomial spline and modifies that common form by predetermined adjustment relationships, for example by scaling coefficients of the common form cam profile according to desired changes in cam function and/or limitations in dynamic cam values input by a user. The common form of the cam profile may be obtained from a table of cam values by spline interpolation of those data values.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2014Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert Guenther, Joachim Thomsen, Robert Miklosovic, Brian Fast
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Publication number: 20160109875Abstract: The disclosed subject matter comprises a design management component that facilitates managing and storing information, including respective customized information of respective entities and/or relating to objects, projects, controllers, or industrial automation systems within a project file or controller. The design management component facilitates enabling custom data, including custom metadata, to be injected by object into a project file or in a controller associated with the project file. The design management component operates with a data management component that can allow respective entities to view, edit, or delete their respective data on objects associated with a project file or controller in accordance with their respective rules.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2014Publication date: April 21, 2016Applicant: ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Lorenzo Majewski, Norman Weatherhead, Stephen P. Proctor, Phillip F. Pemberton, Douglas W. Reid, Michael Kalan, Christopher E. Stanek, Daniel DeYoung, Andrew R. Stump, Robert Guenther, Joachim Thomsen, Danie Beckett
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Publication number: 20150286193Abstract: A system for generating electronic cam profiles mimicking the action of mechanical cams operates on a variety of different cam profile inputs and converts them into a common form, for example, expressed as a polynomial spline and modifies that common form by predetermined adjustment relationships, for example by scaling coefficients of the common form cam profile according to desired changes in cam function and/or limitations in dynamic cam values input by a user. The common form of the cam profile may be obtained from a table of cam values by spline interpolation of those data values.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2014Publication date: October 8, 2015Applicant: ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Robert Guenther, Joachim Thomsen, Robert Miklosovic, Brian Fast
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Patent number: 8959399Abstract: An industrial controller module (13a) is provided with a routine of program instructions (29a) for storing a log of I/O table state changes (31) in a defined portion of memory (23). Upon the occurrence of a trigger event, a file of the state changes (37) is saved in the memory (23). Each entry (32) in the log of I/O table state changes (31) includes a timestamp (33) and values of each word of I/O state data (36) that changed at a time of the timestamp. Logs of state change data (16a), including timestamp data can also be saved for intelligent sensors and actuators (16) and uploaded with the log of controller processor state data (31) to a computer (20) with a diagnostic program (21a) for playing back the state changes and synchronizing changes of the intelligent sensors and actuators (16) with changes of the controller processor module (13a).Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2013Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert Guenther, Steven A. Zuponcic, Kenwood H. Hall
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Patent number: 8726091Abstract: A system for troubleshooting control programs employs an event log that captures the values of inputs to outputs from the control program only at event times determined by changes in input or output data. The program allows the event log to be reviewed in jumps to only events which cause a change in output value of an instruction or particular change in output value of a particular instruction, greatly simplifying the troubleshooting process. The event log records a particular instruction instance associated with the event permitting the operation of the program to be studied in reverse order. The event log may also record a timestamp of the event allowing time stamped data from different devices to be synchronized with the review of the events.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2011Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert Guenther, Steven A. Zuponcic, Kenwood H. Hall
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Publication number: 20140129017Abstract: Described herein are mechanisms for providing event objects that can be configured under a certain timing or sequence context in parallel to similar event objects that are configured under another timing or sequence context. These mechanisms can be employed, for example, within an industrial controller. The mechanisms include queuing a first event object on a queue according to a first timing or sequence context and queuing a second event object on the queue according to a second timing or sequence context in parallel to the queuing of the first event object. The mechanisms can further facilitate consumption of the first event object from the queue by a first code element and consumption of the second event object from the queue by a second code element. In other words, the first and second code elements are activated through the consumption of the first and second event object.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2012Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Joachim Thomsen, Robert Guenther
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Publication number: 20140074275Abstract: An industrial controller module (13a) is provided with a routine of program instructions (29a) for storing a log of I/O table state changes (31) in a defined portion of memory (23). Upon the occurrence of a trigger event, a file of the state changes (37) is saved in the memory (23). Each entry (32) in the log of I/O table state changes (31) includes a timestamp (33) and values of each word of I/O state data (36) that changed at a time of the timestamp. Logs of state change data (16a), including timestamp data can also be saved for intelligent sensors and actuators (16) and uploaded with the log of controller processor state data (31) to a computer (20) with a diagnostic program (21a) for playing back the state changes and synchronizing changes of the intelligent sensors and actuators (16) with changes of the controller processor module (13a).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2013Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert Guenther, Steven A. Zuponcic, Kenwood H. Hall
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Patent number: 8615683Abstract: An industrial controller module (13a) is provided with a routine of program instructions (29a) for storing a log of I/O table state changes (31) in a defined portion of memory (23). Upon the occurrence of a trigger event, a file of the state changes (37) is saved in the memory (23). Each entry (32) in the log of I/O table state changes (31) includes a timestamp (33) and values of each word of I/O state data (36) that changed at a time of the timestamp. Logs of state change data (16a), including timestamp data, can also be saved for intelligent sensors and actuators (16) and uploaded with the log of controller processor state data (31) to a computer (20) with a diagnostic program (21a) for playing back the state changes and synchronizing changes of the intelligent sensors and actuators (16) with changes of the controller processor module (13a).Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2011Date of Patent: December 24, 2013Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert Guenther, Steven A. Zuponcic, Kenwood H. Hall
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Publication number: 20120331352Abstract: A system for troubleshooting control programs employs an event log that captures the values of inputs to outputs from the control program only at event times determined by changes in input or output data. The program allows the event log to be reviewed in jumps to only events which cause a change in output value of an instruction or particular change in output value of a particular instruction, greatly simplifying the troubleshooting process. The event log records a particular instruction instance associated with the event permitting the operation of the program to be studied in reverse order. The event log may also record a timestamp of the event allowing time stamped data from different devices to be synchronized with the review of the events.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2011Publication date: December 27, 2012Inventors: Robert Guenther, Steven A. Zuponcic, Kenwood H. Hall
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Publication number: 20120330452Abstract: An industrial controller module (13a) is provided with a routine of program instructions (29a) for storing a log of I/O table state changes (31) in a defined portion of memory (23). Upon the occurrence of a trigger event, a file of the state changes (37) is saved in the memory (23). Each entry (32) in the log of I/O table state changes (31) includes a timestamp (33) and values of each word of I/O state data (36) that changed at a time of the timestamp. Logs of state change data (16a), including timestamp data, can also be saved for intelligent sensors and actuators (16) and uploaded with the log of controller processor state data (31) to a computer (20) with a diagnostic program (21a) for playing back the state changes and synchronizing changes of the intelligent sensors and actuators (16) with changes of the controller processor module (13a).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2011Publication date: December 27, 2012Inventors: Robert Guenther, Steven A. Zuponcic, Kenwood H. Hall
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Patent number: 8340933Abstract: A system for detecting latent defects within a redundant power architecture includes a plurality of redundant power supplies, each having one or more output power rails, connected in a redundant fashion to a system load; each power supply output having fault-isolating OR'ing circuitry that prevents reverse current flow when free of defects; each power supply having means for adjusting its output voltage; each power supply having means for monitoring an internal voltage therein, and, based on characteristics of the monitored internal voltage, determining the presence of latent defect/s in the fault-isolating “OR'ing” circuitry. Further, the system operates to shift the load demanded from power supplies in redundant power architectures to allow the power supplies to run at their optimum electrical efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2009Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: EMC CorporationInventors: Joseph P. King, Jr., Phillip J. Roux, Michael A. Faulkner, Robert M. Beauchamp, Robert A. Guenther
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Patent number: 8166315Abstract: A method for calculating power for a data storage system. The method includes: measuring power requirement for each one of a plurality of components for use in one of a plurality of possible system configurations; storing the measured power requirement in a table; entering into the table a specified one of the possible system configurations to obtain the power requirement for such one of the specified system configurations; calculating from the table the total power expected for the specified system configuration; presenting the calculated power to a user; determining whether the calculated power is acceptable or unacceptable to the user; and if determined to be unacceptable, entering into the table a new system configuration.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2007Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: EMC CorporationInventors: Robert F. Wambach, F. William French, Robert MacArthur, Robert Guenther
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Patent number: 7602625Abstract: Systems and methods of converting alternating current (AC) power into direct current (DC) power at an intermediate DC voltage are disclosed. Briefly described, one system embodiment comprises a separated front end rectifier system that provides intermediate voltage, direct current (DC) power to a plurality of loads, comprising a modular alternating current to direct current (AC/DC) rectifier coupled to an AC power system that converts received AC power to DC power at a rectified DC voltage, a rectified DC voltage bus coupled to the AC/DC rectifier and at least one modular direct current to direct current (DC/DC) conversion unit coupled to the rectified DC voltage bus and to an intermediate DC voltage bus.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2007Date of Patent: October 13, 2009Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Steve Belson, Eric Peterson, Robert Guenther