Method for controlling a movement, a control device, a linear drive, a production machine, a packaging machine and a computer program product

US10897187B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Sven Rothe · Bad Tabarz, DE
• Chris Hofmann · Stuttgart, DE
• Marco Gierden · Weisendorf, DE
• Thomas Hennefelder · Markt Bibart, DE
• Michael Jaentsch · Erlangen, DE
• Carsten-Christian Spindler · Remptendorf, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 14, 2016
• Grant date: Jan 19, 2021
• Expiry date: Jan 18, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P90/02
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A control device, linear drive, production- or packaging machine, computer program product and method for controlling movement of at least one rotor in the linear drive, wherein a user or a machine station specifies the movement pattern to the control device to specify the movement, where the specified movement pattern is associated with virtual axes, particularly via the computer program product, the movement pattern is advantageously automatically associated with virtual axes subsequently associated with real axes, a control unit, i.e., a converter, controls movement of the rotor on the segment of the linear drive and the control unit supplies at least one segment with electrical voltage or current, where the segments as part of the linear drive therefore move the rotors in accordance with the specifications of the movement pattern, where such an association occurs automatically, and the user is relieved of this task during specification of the movement pattern.