Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Herbert Pommer

Carsten Spindler

Guido Stöppler

Georg Schlatterer

Christian Müssenberger

Andreas Dieges

A sorting installation, in particular for transporting and/or sorting items to be conveyed, includes a transport path, a stator arranged adjacent to the transport path and a transport unit configured to move on the transport path in a movement direction. The transport unit includes a conveyor element for loading and/or unloading an item, and a conveyor rotor for driving the conveyor element. The conveyor rotor includes a permanent magnet and interacts electromagnetically with the stator for rotation about an axis of rotation. A latching apparatus applies a detent torque on the conveyor rotor, when the conveyor rotor interacts electromagnetically with the latching apparatus.

Sorting installation, latching apparatus and transport unit

A motor apparatus includes a motor having a first active part and a second active part, the first active part having a plurality of separately controllable windings, a control unit comprising a processing unit and for each of one or more of the windings a motor module, wherein the motor module has a power converter. The motor apparatus further has and a sensor device constructed to supply a position signal indicative of a position of the first active part relative to the second active part, wherein one of the motor modules is a master module, which receives the position signal directly from the sensor device as the only one of the motor modules, and transmits an item of position information corresponding to the position signal to the processing unit, and wherein another one of the motor modules is a slave module, which receives directly from the processing unit a single item of information regarding the position of the first active part relative to the second active part and controls the one or more windings as a function of the single item of information.

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Munich, Germany

Herbert Pommer