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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co.), , DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B 1/30 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B 1/30 ;
Abstract
The invention relates to a method and a device for diagnosing machines ( ) for manufacturing products such as cigarettes ( ) or cigarette packets ( ), the products being examined for faults, and a signal indicating a faulty product being generated. The invention is based on the problem of improving the diagnosis. In order to solve this problem, the method according to the invention is characterized in that the fault-indicating signal ( ) is evaluated for possible periodicity of faulty products ( ), and a possible periodicity is determined. For this purpose, the device according to the invention has an appropriately constructed control device ( ).