公开(公告)号：US12091265B2

公开(公告)日：2024-09-17

申请号：US18144921

申请日：2023-05-09

申请人： Schneider Electric Industries SAS

发明人： Steffen Hofmann ,  Jürgen Heid

IPC分类号： B65G54/02 ,  B60L13/03 ,  B60L15/00 ,  B61B13/12

CPC分类号： B65G54/02 ,  B60L13/03 ,  B60L15/005 ,  B61B13/12 ,  B60L2240/12 ,  B60L2240/16

摘要： A method of operating a transport system, in particular a multi-carrier system, which comprises a plurality of linear motors, which are arranged in a row and have a guide track, and a plurality of transport elements that are movable along the guide track by means of the linear motors, has the following steps:



generating a travel job for a first one of the transport elements for travelling along at least a part section of the guide track,
generating a first movement profile of the first transport element for the travel job based on predetermined movement characteristic values,
matching the first movement profile with a second movement profile of a second transport element directly in front of the first transport element and determining whether a predetermined minimum distance between the first transport element and the second transport element is fallen below during the execution of the travel job,
updating the first movement profile to maintain the minimum distance if it has been determined that the minimum distance is fallen below, and
controlling the linear motors to move the first transport element in accordance with the first movement profile.

公开(公告)号：US20240217347A1

公开(公告)日：2024-07-04

申请号：US18603772

申请日：2024-03-13

申请人： Beckhoff Automation GmbH

发明人： Andreas Brinker ,  Thomas Vorbohle ,  Jan Achterberg

IPC分类号： B60L13/03 ,  H02P7/02 ,  H02P29/68 ,  H02P101/40

CPC分类号： B60L13/03 ,  H02P7/02 ,  H02P29/68 ,  B60L2200/26 ,  H02P2101/40

摘要： A method is disclosed for transmitting energy from a stationary unit to a movable unit of a linear transport system. The linear transport system includes a guide rail, a plurality of stationary units, and a linear motor for driving the movable unit along the guide rail. The linear motor includes a stator and a rotor, the stator including the stationary units, each having one or more drive coils. The rotor is arranged on the movable unit and incudes one or more magnets. The stationary units each have one or more energy-transmitting coils, each energy-transmitting coil including actuation electronics. The movable unit has at least one energy-receiving coil. The actuation electronics carry out the following steps: reading in an energy quantity signal for the energy-transmitting coil concerned, converting the energy quantity signal into a pulse-pause ratio for actuating the energy-transmitting coil, and actuating the energy-transmitting coil based on the pulse-pause ratio.

公开(公告)号：US11772914B2

公开(公告)日：2023-10-03

申请号：US17553205

申请日：2021-12-16

申请人： Hyperloop Technologies, Inc.

发明人： Brogan Bambrogan ,  Joshua Giegel

IPC分类号： B65G67/60 ,  B61L23/00 ,  B61L15/00 ,  B61L21/10 ,  B61L23/34 ,  B61L25/02 ,  B61L27/04 ,  E01B25/00 ,  B60L13/10 ,  B60L13/00 ,  B60L13/03 ,  B61C11/06 ,  B60L13/04 ,  B63B35/00 ,  B61L27/20 ,  B61B13/10 ,  B63B27/28 ,  B23K31/02 ,  B23P15/20 ,  B65G67/24 ,  B66C25/00 ,  E01B2/00 ,  E02D29/00 ,  E02D29/063 ,  B60L13/06 ,  B61B13/08 ,  B61L19/00 ,  B23P11/02 ,  B61B1/02 ,  E01B25/12 ,  E01B25/30

CPC分类号： B65G67/603 ,  B23K31/027 ,  B23P11/025 ,  B23P15/20 ,  B60L13/003 ,  B60L13/006 ,  B60L13/03 ,  B60L13/04 ,  B60L13/06 ,  B60L13/10 ,  B61B1/02 ,  B61B13/08 ,  B61B13/10 ,  B61C11/06 ,  B61L15/0027 ,  B61L19/00 ,  B61L21/10 ,  B61L23/002 ,  B61L23/34 ,  B61L25/021 ,  B61L25/025 ,  B61L27/04 ,  B61L27/20 ,  B63B27/28 ,  B63B35/00 ,  B65G67/24 ,  B66C25/00 ,  E01B2/003 ,  E01B25/00 ,  E01B25/12 ,  E02D29/04 ,  E02D29/063 ,  B60L2200/26 ,  B61L2210/04 ,  E01B25/30 ,  E02D29/00 ,  Y02T30/00

摘要： A cargo container loading and unloading system for a transportation system, the cargo container loading and unloading system including a loading zone; and at least one opening connecting the loading zone to a transportation tube of the transportation system.

公开(公告)号：US20220388401A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-08

申请号：US17886005

申请日：2022-08-11

申请人： Beckhoff Automation GmbH

发明人： Uwe Prüssmeier ,  Andreas Brinker ,  Irina Stockem ,  Thomas Vorbohle

IPC分类号： B60L5/00 ,  B60L13/03 ,  B60L53/30 ,  B60L53/12

摘要： A method is provided for transferring energy from a stationary unit to a movable unit of a linear transport system. The system includes a guide rail for guiding the movable unit, a plurality of stationary units, a controller, and a linear motor for driving the movable unit along the guide rail. The linear motor includes a stator and a rotor. The stator comprises the stationary units, each having one or more drive coils. The rotor is arranged on the movable unit, and has one or a more magnets. In addition, the stationary units each have one or more energy-transmitting coils, and the movable unit has at least one energy-receiving coil. The controller determines position data for the energy-receiving coil, selects at least one energy-transmitting coil based on the position data, and outputs a control signal to the stationary unit, with identification information for identifying the energy-transmitting coil.

公开(公告)号：US11413968B2

公开(公告)日：2022-08-16

申请号：US16575630

申请日：2019-09-19

申请人： Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.

发明人： Yuhong Huang ,  Brian M. Perreault ,  Tracy M. Clark

IPC分类号： B60L13/03 ,  B60L15/00 ,  H02K41/025 ,  H02K41/03 ,  B65G54/02 ,  B65G35/06 ,  F16C41/00 ,  F16C29/02

摘要： A motion control system for an independent cart system provides for a minimum spacing between movers that is less than the width of a coil used to control motion of the movers. Blocks are statically or dynamically defined along the length of each track segment, where the width of a block is less than the width of a coil along the same track segment. Dividing the width of each coil into smaller block widths provides for an improved resolution of control for each mover. The blocks may also establish collision prevention between movers without requiring knowledge of the position of adjacent movers. Each block is assigned to a single mover at a time, but multiple blocks may be assigned to a single mover. A mover is permitted to only move within those blocks assigned to it and cannot have blocks assigned to it that are already assigned to another mover.

公开(公告)号：US20220032781A1

公开(公告)日：2022-02-03

申请号：US17297068

申请日：2019-11-27

申请人： ENGIE ELECTROPROJECT B.V.

发明人： André VELTMAN

IPC分类号： B60L13/03 ,  B60L13/04 ,  B60L15/20 ,  B60L50/60 ,  B60L9/16

摘要： An electric multi-mode drive system (400), a method for operating the same, a vehicle (110) and a track (401). The system is arranged for operating at one part (402) of the track (401), at a station (410; 411), an electric Linear Doubly Fed Motor, LDFM, (310) for launching the vehicle (110), and for operating at another part (403) of the track (401), between stations (410; 411), a further electric motor (320; 330; 340; 350), not an LDFM, arranged for at least one of accelerating, coasting and restarting movement of the vehicle (110) after launching. Electric power for operating the further electric motor (320; 330; 340; 350), is provided by an on-board rechargeable electrical energy storage device. With the LDFM (310), sufficient power is generated for accelerating the vehicle (110), and recharging the on-board electrical energy storage device during standstill, braking and/or launching.

公开(公告)号：US11161700B2

公开(公告)日：2021-11-02

申请号：US16022038

申请日：2018-06-28

申请人： B&R INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION GMBH

发明人： Andreas Weber

IPC分类号： B65G54/02 ,  B60L13/03 ,  H02K21/02 ,  H02P6/00 ,  H02K41/03 ,  H02P25/06 ,  B65G43/00

摘要： In order to allow for more flexible process control of a transport apparatus in the form of a long stator linear motor, in particular in order to at least intermittently increase the maximum achievable speed of a transport unit without changing the energy-related basic conditions (maximum current or maximum voltage) of the transport apparatus, according to the invention, in order to change a magnetic flux in the magnetic circuit during movement of the transport unit along the transport route, a magnetic reluctance of the magnetic circuit is changed and/or a magnetomotive force of the magnetic circuit is changed on the transport unit.

公开(公告)号：US11117471B2

公开(公告)日：2021-09-14

申请号：US16206473

申请日：2018-11-30

申请人： Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.

发明人： Yuhong Huang ,  Brian M. Perreault

IPC分类号： B60L3/00 ,  B60L15/38 ,  B60L15/00 ,  B60L13/03

摘要： An improved system for preventing collisions between movers while improving throughput in a linear drive system utilizes a continually variable vehicle length for each mover. A vehicle length is assigned to each mover, where the vehicle length is a minimum track length required by the vehicle to avoid physically contacting a neighboring vehicle along the track. The vehicle length for each mover is then determined for each location along the track based on both the track geometry and the mover geometry. The vehicle length is continually variable along the length of the track allowing movers to be positioned as close together as possible for each location along the track based on both the track geometry and the mover geometry. The continually variable vehicle length provides collision prevention between movers while increasing throughput of movers along segments of the track that do not require the largest spacing between movers.

公开(公告)号：US20210253379A1

公开(公告)日：2021-08-19

申请号：US17237584

申请日：2021-04-22

申请人： Hyperloop Technologies, Inc.

发明人： Brogan BAMBROGAN ,  Joshua GIEGEL

IPC分类号： B65G67/60 ,  B61L23/00 ,  B61L15/00 ,  B61L21/10 ,  B61L23/34 ,  B61L25/02 ,  B61L27/00 ,  B61L27/04 ,  E01B25/00 ,  B60L13/10 ,  B60L13/00 ,  B60L13/03 ,  B61C11/06 ,  B60L13/04 ,  B63B35/00 ,  B61B13/10 ,  B63B27/28 ,  B23K31/02 ,  B23P15/20 ,  B65G67/24 ,  B66C25/00 ,  E01B2/00 ,  E02D29/00 ,  E02D29/063 ,  B60L13/06 ,  B61B13/08 ,  B61L19/00 ,  B23P11/02 ,  B61B1/02 ,  E01B25/12

摘要： A high-speed transportation system, the system including at least one transportation path having at least one track, at least one transportation vehicle configured for travel along the at least one transportation path, a propulsion system adapted to propel the at least one transportation vehicle along the at least one transportation path; and a levitation system adapted to levitate the transportation vehicle along the at least one transportation path. The at least one transportation vehicle additionally comprises wheels for at least intermittently supporting the transportation vehicle on the at least one track.

公开(公告)号：US20210146965A1

公开(公告)日：2021-05-20

申请号：US17158246

申请日：2021-01-26

申请人： SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG

发明人： Josef SCHMIDT ,  Ralf BERGER ,  Markus THOME

IPC分类号： B61B13/00 ,  B60M1/30 ,  E01B25/10 ,  E01B25/04 ,  E01B25/24 ,  E01B25/22 ,  B61B3/02 ,  B60L13/03 ,  B61B13/04

摘要： In a method for producing different rail variants from an assembly set, and system having a vehicle which is movable on a rail part, the assembly set includes a rail profile part and two different reactive components, and the rail profile part includes an interface at which one of the different reactive components is optionally able to be connected.