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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2019
Trumpf Werkzeugmaschinen Gmbh + Co. KG, Ditzingen, DE;
Manuel Kiefer, Sinsheim, DE;
Jens Ottnad, Karlsruhe, DE;
Eberhard Wahl, Weilheim an der Teck, DE;
Korbinian Weiss, Stuttgart, DE;
Benjamin Schwarz, Muenchingen, DE;
Philipp Springer, Stuttgart, DE;
Matthias Denecke, Bautzen, DE;
David Schoene, Schoenteichen, DE;
Stefan Krause, Wilthen, DE;
Falko Keimel, Bischofswerda, DE;
TRUMPF Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH + Co. KG, Ditzingen, DE;
Abstract
A method for supporting a sorting process of workpieces arranged on a sorting table that have been produced on a machine tool by a processing plan, comprising providing of a processing image data set of the processing plan based on the arrangement of at least one workpiece. The method further relates to an imaging-based capturing of the sorting table having a plurality of adjacent workpieces to each other and generating a first sorting image data set, and repeated image-based capturing of the sorting table and generating of a second sorting image data set once at least one workpiece has been removed from the sorting table. The method comprises comparing of the sorting image data sets, incorporating the processing image data set, wherein a sorting signal is generated which contains information that comprises the type, the position and/or the shape of the at least one removed workpiece.