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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2017
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Festo Ag & Co. KG, Esslingen, DE;
Reinhold Hamik, Waiblingen, DE;
Fabian Albert, Kernen im Remstal, DE;
Ralf Hartramph, Albershausen, DE;
Andreas Veit, Filderstadt, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
FESTO AG & CO., Kgesslingen, DE;
Abstract
A sensor with a signal strip, a segment with such a signal strip and a sensor, a linear drive and an installation, wherein the signal strip is assigned in each case to at least one segment, where the signal strip indicates a state of the segment and/or the state of a runner, where the at least one runner is moved by a respective segment, the state is assigned by a sensor assigned to the respective segment and is presented to a user who services the installation, in particular the linear drive of the installation, such the time interval for servicing the installation or the linear drive can be reduced because the operator of the linear drive immediately identifies the state of the respective runner or the respective segment.