Monitoring and control of a transport device for containers

US9221619B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• KRONES AG · DE

Inventors

• Bernd Fleischmann · Regensburg, DE
• Martin Seger · Straußmühle, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 23, 2014
• Grant date: Dec 29, 2015
• Expiry date: May 20, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC —): General

Abstract

Method for monitoring and controlling a loading rate of a transport section with one or several individually speed-controlled consecutive partial sections (T1, T2, T3) in a filling line, including detecting a container loading over a certain region at an incoming region (E1) of the transport section; simulating a container flow in real time using the detected container loading in the incoming region of the transport section and a transport speed, the simulation including: entering the detected value for the container loading into a shift register (SR1); and synchronizing a shift register clock with the transport speed, so that the shift register content (DW0, DW1, . . . ) represents the container loading on the transport section.