Patents by Inventor Stefan FLIXEDER
Stefan FLIXEDER 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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Publication number: 20230185312Abstract: To reduce the risk of collisions of transport units or of a transport unit with an obstacle in the movement plane in a planar motor, at least two movement paths in the movement plane are expanded two-dimensionally around the respective movement path, at least in sections, to form a movement route in the movement plane. A conflict zone, in which there is a risk of collision, is determined by checking, whether there is any overlap between the at least two movement routes, in either individual movement route or between a movement route and an obstacle. The determined conflict zone is taken into account when controlling the movement of the transport units along the assigned movement path in order to avoid collisions between transport units moving on movement routes involved in the conflict zone or between a transport unit and the obstacle in the movement path.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2022Publication date: June 15, 2023Applicant: B&R INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION GMBHInventors: Michael HAUER, Stefan FLIXEDER
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Publication number: 20230174312Abstract: In order to at least temporarily increase the throughput of transported objects in a transport device in the form of a planar motor, without negatively influencing the movement of the transport units, at least one engagement portion is provided on each of the at least two transport units, it being possible for the at least two transport units to be moved in succession in the transport plane in a direction of movement into an engagement position in which the engagement portions of the transport units are at least partially engaged. The engagement portions are designed to overlap with one another in the engagement position at least in the direction of movement such that a total extent of the transport units in the direction of movement is smaller than a sum of the individual transport-unit extents of the transport in the direction of movement.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2021Publication date: June 8, 2023Applicant: B&R INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION GMBHInventors: Michael HAUER, Stefan FLIXEDER
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Publication number: 20230097926Abstract: A transport device in the form of a planar motor having at least one transport segment which forms a transport plane and having at least one transport unit, which can be moved at least two-dimensionally in the transport plane, to allow more versatile process management, is provided in the transport device. At least one coupling apparatus for releasably coupling the transport unit to the coupling unit is arranged on the transport unit and, on the coupling unit in each case, the transport unit and the coupling unit can be coupled, at least temporarily, by the coupling apparatuses to form an assembly by way of a relative movement in the transport plane. The coupling apparatuses interact in the coupled assembly in order to limit a relative movement between the transport unit and the coupling unit in at least one degree of freedom of movement.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2021Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: B&R INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION GMBHInventors: Michael HAUER, Stefan FLIXEDER, Martin HAUDUM
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Publication number: 20220306406Abstract: A transport system in the form of a long-stator linear motor and method for operating a transport system in the form of a long-stator linear motor including a stator on which a plurality of magnetic-field-generating units is arranged and a plurality of transport units which are moved along the stator simultaneously. In an event of a system error in a part of the transport system, the method includes defining an error area on the stator that includes only a part of the stator with a defective part of the transport system, and transferring the magnetic-field-generating units within the defined error area to a specified error state.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2022Publication date: September 29, 2022Applicant: B&R INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION GMBHInventors: Stefan FLIXEDER, Benjamin REICHENWALLNER, Michael HAUER, Birgit ZIMMER
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Publication number: 20210336522Abstract: Guide device for shuttles of a planar motor has a first end and a second end and defines a pose course of a shuttle between the first and second end. The first end, which defines an introductory pose of the shuttle, is arrangable on a first stator of the planar motor so that the introductory pose corresponds to an operationally controllable pose in relation to the first stator. The second end, which defines an exit pose of the shuttle, is arrangable on the first stator or a second stator of the planar motor so that the exit pose corresponds to an operationally controllable pose with respect to the first or second stator. The pose course includes at least one pose which is an operationally non-controllable pose with respect to stators of the planar motor. The guide device supports and stabilizes the shuttle in the at least one operationally non-controllable pose.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2021Publication date: October 28, 2021Applicant: B&R INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION GMBHInventors: Stefan FLIXEDER, Michael HAUER, Martin HAUDUM
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Publication number: 20210331878Abstract: Support structure for a transport unit of a planar motor to reduce or prevent transmission of force to an active surface of a stator. The transport unit is movable by at least one stator of the planar motor and a product is positionable on the transport unit. In at least one support position of the transport unit defined in relation to the support structure, the support structure applies at least one supporting force to the transport unit, while at least one process force, which acts on the product, is at least partially transmitted to the transport unit and counteracted. The transport unit is movable into and out of the support position in a floating manner via the at least one stator. The support structure is mounted on a base and at least partially diverts the counterforce caused by the supporting force to the base.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2021Publication date: October 28, 2021Applicant: B&R INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION GMBHInventors: Michael HAUER, Stefan FLIXEDER, Martin HAUDUM
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Publication number: 20210167713Abstract: In order to ensure particularly good protection of individuals in an electromagnetic transport system, a safety area is provided in a transport area. Furthermore, a safety function is provided which, in accordance with a predetermined safety requirement level, ensures that the transport unit reaches the safety area at a speed less than or equal to a safety speed and/or with a transport unit force less than or equal to a safety force and/or a transport unit energy less than or equal to a safety energy, or prevents the transport unit from reaching the safety area.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2020Publication date: June 3, 2021Applicant: B&R INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION GMBHInventors: Franz KAUFLEITNER, Franz SPANLANG, Stefan FLIXEDER
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Publication number: 20200287493Abstract: In order to improve control of a long-stator linear motor, a first measured value is ascertained in a first measurement section and a second measured value is ascertained in a second measurement section, in each case along a transport path in a movement direction. The first measurement section overlaps, in the movement direction, the second measurement section in an overlap region, and the first measured value and the second measured value represent the same actual value of a physical quantity. An operating parameter of the long-stator linear motor determined based on a deviation occurring between the first measured value and the second measured value.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2020Publication date: September 10, 2020Applicant: B&R INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION GMBHInventors: Stefan FLIXEDER, Stefan HUBER, Alexander ALMEDER