Conveyor arrangement with sensors with bus data encoding

US11718483B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Interroll Holding AG

Inventors

• Daniel Heinen · Hückelhoven, DE
• Herbert Henze · Rheydt, DE
• Claus Blödorn · Hückelhoven, DE
• Wolfgang Puntigam · Hückelhoven, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 19, 2019
• Grant date: Aug 8, 2023
• Expiry date: Aug 22, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L2012/4026
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The invention relates to a conveyor arrangement, comprising a motor-operated conveyor roller, comprising a roller body which is mounted so as to be rotatable about a roller axis, a drive unit which is arranged within the roller body and is mechanically coupled between the roller body and an axle element and is designed to generate a torque between the axle element and the roller body, and a control data interface which is connected in a signal-transmitting fashion to the drive unit. The invention is characterized by an electronic addressing model which can be coupled in a signal-transmitting fashion to the sensor and to the bus line and is designed to encode a sensor signal, which is generated by the sensor and received in the addressing module, to form a bus-encoded sensor data block which comprises a digital sensor signal data block which characterises the sensor signal and a sensor address data block, and to transmit the bus-encoded sensor data block into the bus line.