Patents by Inventor Stephan Schultze

Stephan Schultze 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).

  • Publication number: 20120211581
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for web tension setting in a processing machine for processing a material web, in particular a shaftless printing press. In order to set the web tension in a first web tension section with a length L which is delimited upstream by a first clamping point and downstream by a second clamping point, the first clamping point is loaded with a first manipulated variable which is produced using a first element with a first transfer function G1(s) (G3), and the second clamping point is loaded with a second manipulated variable which is produced using a second element with a second transfer function G2(s) (G4), wherein c1G1(s)=?c2G2(s). Thus, it is possible to keep the speed constant even during the regulation at a fixed or variable point x within the web tension section, wherein x=|c1/(c1+c2)|L lies behind the first clamping point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Holger Schnabel, Stephan Schultze, Mario Goeb
  • Patent number: 8170066
    Abstract: With a method for synchronization in a communication system that includes a central participant and at least one further participant, at least one of the further participants being synchronized with the central participant, and, to this end, a telegram with synchronization information being transmitted by the central participant to the at least one further participant, particularly efficient synchronization of the at least one participant with the central participant results due to the fact that the telegram is a data telegram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Bosch Rexroth AG
    Inventors: Rigobert Kynast, Ludwig Leurs, Thomas Schmid, Stephan Schultze
  • Patent number: 8144700
    Abstract: In a method for operating a network having a primary station and at least two secondary stations, the primary station communicates with the secondary stations. The secondary stations communicate with one another via cross communication in the form of telegrams which are generated in the context of communications cycles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Schultze, Alexander Tchekler, Roland Ackermann, Gerald Noack
  • Publication number: 20120060660
    Abstract: A method for operating a processing roller of a processing machine having a circumferential length and comprising a tool having a tool length extending in the circumferential direction is disclosed. A processing length extending in the circumferential direction is defined, along which the tool is engaged with the material to be processed during processing. A compensation length in the circumferential direction is further prescribed, along which a compensation motion of the processing roller is performed, wherein the tangential velocity of the processing roller is negative at least at times. The compensation length is determined using the circumferential length, the processing length, and the tool length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2010
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Sven Erler, Thomas Illig, Stephan Schultze
  • Publication number: 20120048984
    Abstract: A method of setting web tensioning in a processing machine for processing a material web, in particular in a shaftless printing machine, wherein, for the purpose of setting the web tensioning in a first web-tensioning portion, which is bounded upstream by a first clamping location and downstream by a second clamping location, the first clamping location is given a control command, and at least one clamping location which is located upstream of the first clamping location, as seen over the course of the web tensioning, and at least one clamping location which is located downstream of the second clamping location, as seen over the course of the web tensioning, are precontrolled in dependence on the first control command, where the second clamping location is not adjusted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2009
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Holger Schnabel, Stephan Schultze, Mario Goeb
  • Patent number: 8126019
    Abstract: In a method for time synchronization of subscribers connected via a cyclically operating communication system, an item of time information is transmitted to the subscribers to be synchronized. It is provided to transmit an item of absolute time information simultaneously to all subscribers to be synchronized, for initialization, and to implement a synchronization by recalculating the local times of the subscribes at least following one or a plurality of cycles having a known cycle time. The item of absolute time information and the known cycle times are used for the recalculation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Bosch Rexroth AG
    Inventor: Stephan Schultze
  • Publication number: 20110313574
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for controlling at least one machining device which is coupled to a machine tool by means of an encoder signal, the machine tool having at least one motion control device. In order to improve the accuracy of the encoder connection, at least one additional variable which characterizes the transport is digitally transmitted from the motion control device to the at least one machining device and is used to correct the encoder signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Holger Schnabel, Stephan Schultze
  • Publication number: 20110307082
    Abstract: A method for axis correction in a processing machine, in particular a shaftless printing machine, has at least one axis for processing and/or transporting a material, at least one detection device for detecting a processing parameter and at least one controller device for calculating a controller output variable for axis correction of the at least one axis using the detected processing parameter. The method is implemented iteratively, with the result that feedforward control output values for the feedforward control of the axis correction are determined during an (n+1)-th change in rotation speed of the at least one axis using observation of the controller output variable and/or the processing parameter during an n-th change in rotation speed of the at least one axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Schultze, Holger Schnabel, Joachim Thurner
  • Publication number: 20110295429
    Abstract: A method for controlling a processing machine with driven axes, in particular a printing press, wherein a radius of at least one axis is used to automatically determine a control limiting value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2009
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Schultze, Christian Zentgraf, Michael Seubert
  • Publication number: 20110246127
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for automatically determining at least one controller parameter of a dancer position control element in a processing machine comprising a dancer, the dancer position of which is registered, wherein, on the basis of the registered dancer position, the rotational speed of a roll is predefined, wherein the at least one controller parameter is determined automatically as a function of a diameter of the roll.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2011
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Holger Schnabel, Stephan Schultze, Mario Goeb
  • Patent number: 8027747
    Abstract: A method for the register correction of a processing machine for processing a continuous material, in particular a shaftless printing press, with which the continuous material is processed by at least two processing units with at least one compensator for adjusting the length of the continuous material in the continuous material section being provided upstream of each of the at least two processing units. In order to adjust the register of a first processing unit, the length of the continuous material of the continuous material section upstream of the first processing unit is adjusted by the compensator provided in this first continuous material section. To adjust the register of the first processing unit, the length of the continuous material of the continuous material section upstream of a second processing unit is also adjusted by the compensator provided in this second continuous material section. A related processing machine carries out the inventive method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Holger Schnabel, Stephan Schultze
  • Patent number: 7980505
    Abstract: In a method for calculating the diameter of a continuous-material reel on a roller, with which the roller is mounted on a swivel arm that is swivelable about a swiveling axis; the roller rotates at a changeable winding speed, and the continuous material is unwound from the roller and directed to a continuous-material machine, or it is removed from a continuous-material machine and wound onto the roller, the winding speed is set as a function of the web-conveyance speed, and the diameter of the continuous-material reel is calculated in a reel-control system; the winding speed is changed when the swivel arm on which the roller is mounted is swiveled about its swiveling axis during the winding motion; a correction value for correcting the change in winding speed is incorporated in the calculation of the diameter of the continuous-material reel, the correction value being determined within the reel-control system, and a related reel-control system is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen Doeres, Stephan Schultze
  • Publication number: 20110164629
    Abstract: A method for data transmission via data networks, in particular via ethernet-based data networks, having at least two participants; the data networks have at least one topological real-time field and one topological non-real-time field, and data telegrams sent via the data networks have at least one real-time part and at least one non-real-time part. By a coupling unit, data telegrams from the non-real-time field which arrive inside the real-time part are delayed and transmitted to the non-real-time part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2011
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Inventor: Stephan Schultze
  • Publication number: 20110137451
    Abstract: The invention relates to modeling a control circuit (300) for a processing machine for processing a material web, particularly shaft-less printing machine, wherein at least one dead time (Tt,SENSOR, Tt,NET, Tt,SPS, T(v)R, T(v)D) is taken into consideration during modeling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2009
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Stephan Schultze, Holger Schnabel
  • Patent number: 7949009
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for transmitting multiturn modulo control axis data which includes at least one control axis position value (600°-604°; 245°-248°) and an associated control axis modulo value (720°; 360°) in one communication system which includes at least two participants, at least one real-time data transmission channel (CH1) being provided for the cyclic transmission of data between the participants; the at least one control axis position value (600°-604°; 245°-248°) is transmitted together with the associated control axis modulo value (720°; 360°) in one data telegram (22; 33).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Stephan Schultze
  • Patent number: 7940803
    Abstract: A method for data transmission via data networks, in particular via ethernet-based data networks, having at least two participants; the data networks have at least one topological real-time field and one topological non-real-time field, and data telegrams sent via the data networks have at least one real-time part and at least one non-real-time part. By a coupling unit, data telegrams from the non-real-time field which arrive inside the real-time part are delayed and transmitted to the non-real-time part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Stephan Schultze
  • Patent number: 7924888
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for exchanging data between stations or nodes (111, 121, 122, 123, 131, 132, 133, 141, 142, 143) from different realtime capable networks (120, 130, 140) and from non-realtime capable networks (110). To this end, data is generated in a realtime capable network (120, 130, 140), a time stamp is added, and at least two of the realtime capable networks (120, 130, 140) are synchronized with one another. The invention also relates to a method for exchanging data between stations or nodes (111, 121, 122, 123, 131, 132, 133, 141, 142, 143) from realtime capable networks (120, 130, 140) and from non-realtime capable networks (110), during which trigger signals of different stations (111, 121, 122, 123, 131, 132, 133, 141, 142, 143), particularly from different networks (110, 120, 130, 140) are combined or linked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Bosch Rexroth AG
    Inventors: Stephan Schultze, Jens Reckwell, Klaus Goldbach, Clemens Atzmueller, Thilo Reick
  • Publication number: 20110062205
    Abstract: A method for operating a web-processing machine having at least one first driven transport roller (2) that transports a material web (10), at least one second transport roller (4) that transports the material web (10), and at least one treatment unit (8) that treats the web, at least one transport roller (2, 4) comprising a drive device (12, 14), and at least one drive device (12) being controlled by a control device (20), and control of said drive device (12) being accomplished as a function of elongation properties of the material web (10), such that when taking into account the elongation properties of the material web (10), a damping of said elongation properties is also taken into account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2009
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Holger Schnabel, Stephan Schultze
  • Patent number: 7891530
    Abstract: In a method for axial correction in a processing machine (100), which has at least two driven transport axles (110, 115) for transporting and processing a product web (101), at least one non-driven or driven processing axle (111, 112, 113, 114), and at least one additional non-driven axle (102, 121, 122, 123, 124), wherein the product web (101) is divisible into at least one web-tensioning segment, a web-tensioning segment is delimited by two clamping points (110-115). The clamping points are embodied in the form of driven transport or processing axles. During a rotation speed change of a clamping point (110-115) a web-tensioning segment is delimited, a pilot control of this clamping point (110-115) delimiting the web-tensioning segment and/or of a processing axle (111-114) situated in this web-tensioning segment is carried out, taking into account a moment of inertia of a non-driven axle (102, 121-124) situated in this web-tensioning section, and a corresponding processing machine (100).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Schultze, Holger Schnabel
  • Publication number: 20110022785
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for programming and/or diagnosis of a memory-programmable controller, having at least one memory-programmable function component. For programming, a predetermined programming system is used. In the context of this programming system variables are predetermined, and information exchange sequences are used for the programming. Results of the programming are output during at least one programming mode via an output device, and input information is at least in part stored permanently in memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2010
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Inventors: Stefan RIEDMANN, Wolfgang Paul, Stephan Schultze