Assistance device and method of operating an assistance device

US11574555B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Festo SE & Co. KG · DE

Inventors

• Manuel Schmittner · Altbach, DE
• Johannes Volzer · Heroldstatt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 23, 2020
• Grant date: Feb 7, 2023
• Expiry date: Jan 13, 2041

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G09B5/02
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An assistance device (10) for assisting in the adjustment of a damping choke (1) of a fluidic actuator (30), wherein the assistance device (10) includes a display arrangement (3) and is adapted to determine an adjustment recommendation for the adjustment of the damping choke (1) on the basis of a detected movement of an actuator member (4) of the fluidic actuator (30) and to display the adjustment recommendation via the display arrangement (3), and the assistance device (10) is further adapted to determine, based on the movement of the actuator member (4), operational safety information based on kinetic energy related to the movement of the actuator member (4), and to display the operational safety information via the display arrangement (3).