Patents by Inventor Thomas Pitz
Thomas Pitz 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: 11507061Abstract: A numerically controlled machine tool has at least one movement axis and is connected to a numerical controller which includes a parts program. Movements of each movement axis are limited by maximum permissible axis dynamics. The parts program has a sequence of instructions for machining a workpiece which specify different maximum desired speeds for the machining of the workpiece which change abruptly over time. The numerical controller approximates the different maximum desired speeds which change abruptly over time with a desired speed profile that is continuous over time and has a profile of the maximum desired speeds which is also continuous over time. The numerical controller uses the continuous desired speed profile to calculate the desired values of an actual movement profile of the movements for each movement axis.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2018Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Thomas Pitz, Ralf Spielmann
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Publication number: 20220137587Abstract: A method for operating a numerically controlled production machine includes defining a permissible value range determined by the design and construction of the production machine in which, in a normal operation during production of a workpiece, values representing a mechanical or electrical load described by acceleration and/or jolting of at least one component of the numerically controlled production machine are variable, and activating, for producing the workpiece, with a control signal a conservation operation for reducing the mechanical or electrical loads, wherein in the conservation operation the values of acceleration and/or jolting of the at least one component are variable within a part value range that is limited in comparison to the permissible value range.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2020Publication date: May 5, 2022Applicant: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Thomas Pitz, RALF SPIELMANN
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Patent number: 11086291Abstract: A numerically controlled production system is connected to a numerical controller, which includes a control program with successive program sets, and a look-ahead module which determines therefrom for successive clock-cycle points a movement profile with guidance variables for a movement axis prior to a movement. Subject to a condition, the control program includes program branching with multiple alternative control program sections, and determines which of the alternative control program sections is to be additionally executed subject to the condition. The look-ahead module calculates and stores an alternative movement profile for each alternative control program section prior to an additional movement, and holds the alternative movement profile available for the conditional program branching in order to carry out the additional movement.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2018Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Thomas Pitz, Ralf Spielmann
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Patent number: 10884390Abstract: Milling errors are to be prevented by repairing in particular NC parts programs by evaluating spatial information for smoothing a cutting or milling path section instead of evaluating only information along an individual cutting or milling path section. Relationships between adjacent cutting or milling path sections are thus taken into consideration in a smoothing process.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2015Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Jochen Bretschneider, Thomas Pitz
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Patent number: 10877457Abstract: A control device, a machine (tool) having the control device, a method for providing a travel profile and a computer program for providing the travel profile, wherein a reference line is generated, e.g., from a CAD drawing, to provide a travel profile for a tool, where approximation curves are created from the reference line using wavelet base functions, transformation curves are formed from the approximation curves via difference generation, and these are each adapted to a desired accuracy of the processing mode via modification, where modification curves are created via the modification of the transformation curves, where the travel profile is the sum of the modification curves, and where drive elements of the machine tool are controlled based on the travel profile such that the travel profile can be optimized via the selection of wavelet base functions, based on a processing mode, e.g. rough milling, fine milling, laser cutting.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2016Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Thomas Pitz, Ralf Spielmann
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Publication number: 20200363788Abstract: A numerically controlled machine tool has at least one movement axis and is connected to a numerical controller which includes a parts program. Movements of each movement axis are limited by maximum permissible axis dynamics. The parts program has a sequence of instructions for machining a workpiece which specify different maximum desired speeds for the machining of the workpiece which change abruptly over time. The numerical controller approximates the different maximum desired speeds which change abruptly over time with a desired speed profile that is continuous over time and has a profile of the maximum desired speeds which is also continuous over time. The numerical controller uses the continuous desired speed profile to calculate the desired values of an actual movement profile of the movements for each movement axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2018Publication date: November 19, 2020Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Thomas Pitz, RALF SPIELMANN
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Publication number: 20200341448Abstract: A numerically controlled production system is connected to a numerical controller, which includes a control program with successive program sets, and a look-ahead module which determines therefrom for successive clock-cycle points a movement profile with guidance variables for a movement axis prior to a movement. Subject to a condition, the control program includes program branching with multiple alternative control program sections, and determines which of the alternative control program sections is to be additionally executed subject to the condition. The look-ahead module calculates and stores an alternative movement profile for each alternative control program section prior to an additional movement, and holds the alternative movement profile available for the conditional program branching in order to carry out the additional movement.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2018Publication date: October 29, 2020Applicant: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: THOMAS PITZ, RALF SPIELMANN
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Patent number: 10558193Abstract: To optimize an automatically optimized machining time for machining a workpiece in a machine tool, an original parts program is loaded into a machine tool controller. The machining of the workpiece using the original parts program is simulated, where a motion path generated by the original parts program in the machine tool is determined. The motion path is classified into at least one area of potential optimization in which there is no workpiece contact. The at least one area of potential optimization is assigned a tolerance space. An optimized motion path is determined within the tolerance space. The machining of the workpiece using the modified parts program is simulated. The optimized motion path is displayed and marked. Once a user has approved the modification in the parts program, machining of the workpiece takes place using the modified parts program.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2017Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Thomas Pitz, Ralf Spielmann
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Patent number: 10466680Abstract: The invention relates to a method (100) for orientation of a workpiece (20) to be processed, comprising the steps of: a) providing a processing path (27) fixed on the workpiece for processing the workpiece (20); b) selecting a rigid transformation (30) of the positioning of the workpiece (20); c) simulating the processing path (27) taking account of the rigid transformation (30) of the positioning of the workpiece (20); d) determining at least one process variable (40) of the machining of the workpiece (20); wherein the steps b) to d) are repeated by modifying the at least one rigid transformation (30) of the positioning of the workpiece (20) until the at least one process variable (40) reaches a target value (43).Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2016Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Thomas Pitz, Ralf Spielmann
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Publication number: 20180246490Abstract: A control device, a machine (tool) having the control device, a method for providing a travel profile and a computer program for providing the travel profile, wherein a reference line is generated, e.g., from a CAD drawing, to provide a travel profile for a tool, where approximation curves are created from the reference line using wavelet base functions, transformation curves are formed from the approximation curves via difference generation, and these are each adapted to a desired accuracy of the processing mode via modification, where modification curves are created via the modification of the transformation curves, where the travel profile is the sum of the modification curves, and where drive elements of the machine tool are controlled based on the travel profile such that the travel profile can be optimized via the selection of wavelet base functions, based on a processing mode, e.g. rough milling, fine milling, laser cutting.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2016Publication date: August 30, 2018Applicant: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Thomas PITZ, Ralf SPIELMANN
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Publication number: 20180224828Abstract: The invention relates to a method (100) for orientation of a workpiece (20) to be processed, comprising the steps of: a) providing a processing path (27) fixed on the workpiece for processing the workpiece (20); b) selecting a rigid transformation (30) of the positioning of the workpiece (20); c) simulating the processing path (27) taking account of the rigid transformation (30) of the positioning of the workpiece (20); d) determining at least one process variable (40) of the machining of the workpiece (20); wherein the steps b) to d) are repeated by modifying the at least one rigid transformation (30) of the positioning of the workpiece (20) until the at least one process variable (40) reaches a target value (43).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2016Publication date: August 9, 2018Applicant: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Thomas Pitz, RALF SPIELMANN
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Publication number: 20170269571Abstract: To optimize an automatically optimized machining time for machining a workpiece in a machine tool, an original parts program is loaded into a machine tool controller. The machining of the workpiece using the original parts program is simulated, where a motion path generated by the original parts program in the machine tool is determined. The motion path is classified into at least one area of potential optimization in which there is no workpiece contact. The at least one area of potential optimization is assigned a tolerance space. An optimized motion path is determined within the tolerance space. The machining of the workpiece using the modified parts program is simulated. The optimized motion path is displayed and marked. Once a user has approved the modification in the parts program, machining of the workpiece takes place using the modified parts program.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2017Publication date: September 21, 2017Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Thomas Pitz, RALF SPIELMANN
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Publication number: 20150355622Abstract: Milling errors are to be prevented by repairing in particular NC parts programs by evaluating spatial information for smoothing a cutting or milling path section instead of evaluating only information along an individual cutting or milling path section. Relationships between adjacent cutting or milling path sections are thus taken into consideration in a smoothing process.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2015Publication date: December 10, 2015Applicant: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Jochen Bretschneider, Thomas Pitz