Robert Boschgmbh

Syntegon Technology Gmbh

Joachim Frangen

Stefan Pfeiffer

Peter Schlaich

Werner Runft

Markus Hanisch

Ulrich Krauss

Werner Arleth

Jochen Ziegler

Sebastian Gran

Heike Raatz

Stefan Junker

Albert Eberhardt

Joshua Windsheimer

Jochen Peters

Andreas Rappold

Dieter Bandtel

Oliver Ullmann

Anton Paweletz

Klaus Marx

Stefano Delfini

Thilo Koeder

Joachim Platzer

Wolfgang Niehsen

Gunter Flinspach

Hans Kaiser

Andreas Rueb

Boris Buesing

Dayo Oshinubi

Paul Skljarow

Wolfram Baier

Karl Hinderer

Marian Marcel Vorderer

Karl-Heinz Jaeger

Frank Westphal

Thomas Betzitza

Volker Hartmann

Frank Benkert

Ka-Jin Teoh

Dietrich Schupp

Bas Verhelst

Volker Eisenhardt

David Kampert

Norbert Wenzel

Sebastian Schroeck

Urs Leberle

Chee Hung Koo

Daniel Seiz

Frank Gaesslein

Karl-Heinz JÄGER

Boris BÜSING

A two-dimensional code arrangement with at least one defined area. The defined area including basic symbols, and the basic symbols of the defined area being arranged on a surface. The basic symbols arranged in the defined area encode first code data and second code data, and the first code data comprise and/or describe position information.

Two-dimensional code arrangement, position determination device, and method for position determination

A conveying device includes a transport body configured to carry or hold a wafer, and a stator relative to which the conveying device is designed to move the transport body at least two-dimensionally on a conveying surface. The stator includes several movably arranged actuating magnets, each of which is connected to the stator via an actuating element, and the actuating element is configured to change a position and/or an orientation of the connected actuating magnets relative to the stator. The transport body includes at least two stationary magnets which are connected to the transport body such that the stationary magnets are immovable relative to the transport body, and the stator and the transport body are magnetically coupled by the stationary magnets and the actuating magnets. The device conveys the transport body relative to the stator by controlled positioning and/or orientation of the actuating magnets via the actuating elements.

Conveying device for conveying at least one wafer

A transport device has a stator and at least one transport element. The transport device is designed to transport the transport element in a controlled manner relative to the stator, and the stator or the transport element has multiple movable actuating magnets, each of which is connected to the stator or transport element via an actuating element. The actuating element is designed to change the position and/or orientation of the connected actuating magnet relative to the stator or transport element in a controlled manner. The respective other part has at least two stationary magnets fixedly connected to the respective other part. The stator and the transport element are magnetically coupled by means of the stationary magnets and actuating magnets, and the transport device is designed to transport the transport element relative to the stator by the control positioning and/or orientation of the actuating magnets by means of the actuating magnets.

Transporting device with a stator for the controlled transport of a transport element relative to the stator

A method for operating a sensor system having at least three sensor elements that can be attached on the surface of machines or components, the sensor elements having electrodes for forming electrical fields between electrodes having different electrical potential, the electrical fields changing upon the approach and/or contact of a body or an object, the electrodes acting as transmit electrode and/or as receive electrode, and the sensor elements being controlled in succession by a control device in a particular temporal or positional sequence.

Method for operating a sensor system, sensor element and sensor system

A movement device comprising a first and a second assembly, the first assembly being composed of a plurality of subassemblies. Two directly adjacent subassemblies are conterminous with each other at a boundary line. The two subassemblies form at least one first pair of directly adjacent first permanent-magnet arrangements that are separated from each other by the boundary line. The two first permanent-magnet arrangements of the first pair are each arranged with a boundary distance from the boundary line that is reduced with respect to a spacing distance, such that they mutually have the spacing distance. There are present in each case within the said two subassemblies at least one second pair of directly adjacent first permanent-magnet arrangements that mutually have the spacing distance.

Movement device composed of subassemblies

The disclosure relates to a method for operating a movement apparatus having a first assembly and a second assembly. The first assembly includes a base and several permanent-magnet arrangements that are connected to the base via actuators such that they move as a whole relative to the base in at least one degree of freedom by the assigned actuator, the second assembly including a base and a permanent-magnet arrangement arranged firmly relative to the base. Position controllers are provided, each with a controlled variable and with a correcting variable. The controlled variable is one of six possible degrees of freedom with regard to a relative position between the first and second assembly. The correcting variable represents a force or a torque that has been assigned to the degree of freedom. Desired positions of the actuators are computed from the correcting variables and the actuators are set accordingly.

Movement apparatus with decoupled position controllers

Disclosed is a device for filling a receptacle, comprising at least one filling station () for filling at least one receptacle (), and at least one receptacle holder () for conveying the receptacle () relative to the filling station (), characterized in that at least one driving surface () and at least one mover () which can be coupled to the driving surface () especially in a magnetic manner are provided, the mover () being arranged so as to be movable and/or rotatable on the driving surface () in at least two degrees of freedom, and in that the receptacle holder () is disposed on the mover ().

Device for filling a receptacle

A capacitive sensor for detecting at a surface that an object is approaching which is designed to be flexurally rigid and/or torsionally rigid. The capacitive sensor includes a circuit carrier and/or a spacer element and/or a carrier. In this case, the circuit carrier is designed to be flexurally rigid and/or torsionally rigid and/or the spacer element is designed to be flexurally rigid and/or torsionally rigid and/or the carrier is designed to be flexurally rigid and/or torsionally rigid. The circuit carrier is in the form of a circuit board and is used for making electrical contact with the electrically conductive surfaces of the capacitive sensor. The spacer element is situated between the electrically conductive surfaces and the circuit carrier. The carrier is designed for connecting the capacitive sensor to a machine part, in particular to a machine part of an industrial robot.

Capacitive sensor

An electromagnet-operated conveying device includes a movable conveying element, at least one permanent magnet, and a cleaning device. The at least one permanent magnet is arranged on the conveying element for the onward movement of the conveying element. The cleaning device is configured to remove particles from a surface of the at least one permanent magnet.

Solenoid-powered conveying device

The invention proposes an apparatus for transporting a container relative to a filling station, comprising at least one filling station () for filling at least one container (), and also comprising at least one container mount () for transporting the container () relative to the filling station (), characterized in that at least one drive surface () and at least one mover (), which can be coupled in particular magnetically to the drive surface (), are provided, wherein the mover () is arranged on the drive surface () such that it can be displaced and/or rotated in at least two degrees of freedom, and in that the container mount () is connected to the mover ().

Apparatus for transporting a container relative to a filling station

A method for operating a sensor system, having at least one capacitive sensor element, which is attachable to the surface of machines or machine parts, electrical field lines on the sensor element changing in the event of an approach and/or a contact of a body or object, and the at least one sensor element being connected to a control unit, which, based on the detected change of the field lines of the at least one sensor element, triggers a safety function on the machine or the machine part. The at least one sensor element has, in addition to fulfilling the safety function, an operating function, which is concluded from the location of the at least one sensor element and the time curve of the change of the field lines, and the safety function has priority over the operating function in a base state of the sensor system.

Method for switching a sensor system between modes and switchable sensor system

A sensor system for monitoring surroundings on a mechanical component, includes at least one capacitive sensor element that is attachable to the surface of machines or machine parts, the at least one sensor element being constructed from a layered structure of flexible electrically conductive and electrically insulating plies, electrically conductive potential surfaces of one ply being disposed, laterally spaced apart via insulating plies located therebetween, in such a way that electric field lines form between the conductive potential surfaces and change measurably upon proximity and/or contact of a body or an object. The layered structure of a sensor element has at least two measuring elements operating separately from one another.

Sensor system for monitoring surroundings on a mechanical component, and method for actuating and evaluating the sensor system

A safety device is described for a handling apparatus, particularly an industrial robot, having at least one movable gripping arm and a gripping device situated on the gripping arm, as well as having a first sensor device, connected to a control device, that is associated with the gripping arm, for collision detection. The first sensor device includes a first recording range. The safety device includes a second sensor device connected to the control device and including a second recording range. The second recording range records a range which has a greater distance from the handling apparatus than the first recording range. Both recording ranges extend outside the handling apparatus.

Safety device for a handling apparatus, in particular an industrial robot, and method for operating the safety device

A protective device is provided for a gripping device on a handling apparatus, e.g., a handling robot. The gripping device has gripping parts in the form of gripping fingers, which gripping parts are movable using a transmission mechanism. The gripping device has at least one overload safety device as the protective device which, in response to the exceeding of a certain force on the gripping device, has the effect of an evasion of the gripping device. The protective device responds exclusively in response to forces which occur from a direction and which act upon the gripping parts outside a direction of forces required for gripping objects.

Protective device for a gripping device on a handling apparatus, especially a handling robot

A hand-held jigsaw includes a saw blade and control element for automating a tracking the saw blade, the hand-held jigsaw, or both along layout lines. A sensor, preferably a camera unit, detects a layout line provided on a work piece.

Hand-held jigsaw

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Joachim Frangen