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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2022
Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc., Mayfield Heights, OH (US);
Yuhong Huang, Acton, MA (US);
Brian M. Perreault, Stow, MA (US);
Peter Eric Malkowski, Lancaster, MA (US);
Jatin P. Bhatt, Highland Heights, OH (US);
Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc., Mayfield Heights, OH (US);
Abstract
A system for controlling movers in a linear drive system includes a plurality of movers and a track providing segments along which the movers may travel and holding driver coils and a segment controller controlling the driver coils. Some of the segments having switches forming branches between segments. A central controller communicates operates with the segment controllers to route the movers along the track by distributing routing decisions for a given mover to a segment controller for a track on which a given mover is currently traveling.