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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2017
Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc., Mayfield, OH (US);
Xikai Sun, Shanghai, CN;
Linglai Li, Shanghai, CN;
Peter M. Smit, Mount Sinai, NY (US);
Oliver C. Haya, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Mark R. Cooper, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Nanwei Yao, Edina, MN (US);
Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc., Mayfield Heights, OH (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a mover traveling along a track, the mover system having a mover frame supporting a mover sensor element and a track frame providing a path for which the mover frame travels and supporting track sensor elements for interacting with the mover sensor element of the mover frame. The interaction between the mover sensor element and track sensor elements provides an identification signal of each mover and the identification signal of each mover on the track is arranged according to a cyclic sequence where unique contiguous substrings occur only once within the sequence.