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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2016
Mahle International Gmbh, Stuttgart, DE;
Maschinenbau-service-automatisierungstechnik Chemnitz Gmbh, Chemnitz, DE;
Antonio Menonna, Ditzingen, DE;
Stefan Morgenstern, Niederwiesa, DE;
Roland Schacherer, Geisingen, DE;
Abstract
A device for heating a plurality of functional or receiving elements, such as a cam, balancing mass, gearwheel and/or a bearing, may include a plurality of holding balconies disposed above one another along an axis each associated with a respective receiving element, a plurality of workstations includes a loading station, a heating station and an unloading station, and an induction heating device including a plurality of accommodation elements. The plurality of holding balconies may be individually movable in an axial direction of an axis, and/or having a greater spacing in the axial direction with respect to one another in the loading station and/or the unloading station than in the heating station. The plurality of accommodation elements may be jointly adjustable in the axial direction.