# US 10,118,775 B2 · Modular system of a plurality of transport line components of a long stator linear motor > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,118,775 B2 - Document ID: US10118775B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 15/587,971 - Filed: 2017-05-05 - Published: 2017-11-09 - Granted: 2018-11-06 - Earliest claimed: 2016-05-09 - Assignees: B&R Industrial Automation GmbH - Applicants: B&R Industrial Automation GmbH - Inventors: Dominic Walter; Christoph Obermair; Stefan Huber - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10118775B2 ## CPC - B65G 54/02: electrostatic, electric, or magnetic - B60L 13/03: Electric propulsion by linear motors - H02K 41/02: Linear motors; Sectional motors - B65G 2207/30: Modular constructions - B65G: TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS (packaging B65B; handling thin or filamentary materials, e.g. paper sheets or thread, B65H; cranes B66C; portable mobile or lifting or hauling appliances, e.g. hoists, B66D; devices for lifting or lowering goods for loading or unloading purposes, e.g. fork-lift trucks, B66F9/00; emptying bottles, jars, casks, barrels or similar containers, not otherwise provided for, B67C9/00; delivering or transferring liquids B67D; filling or discharging vessels for liquefied, solidified or compressed gases F17C; pipe-line systems for fluids F17D) - B60L: PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (arrangements or mounting of electrical propulsion units or of plural diverse prime-movers for mutual or common propulsion in vehicles B60K1/00, B60K6/20; arrangements or mounting of electrical gearing in vehicles B60K17/12, B60K17/14; preventing wheel slip by reducing power in rail vehicles B61C15/08; dynamo-electric machines H02K; control or regulation of electric motors H02P); SUPPLYING ELECTRIC POWER FOR AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (electric coupling devices combined with mechanical couplings of vehicles B60D1/64; electric heating for vehicles B60H1/00); ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL (control or regulation of electric motors H02P); MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; MONITORING OPERATING VARIABLES OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRIC SAFETY DEVICES FOR ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES - H02K: DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINES (dynamo-electric relays H01H53/00; conversion of DC or AC input power into surge output power {H03K3/53}) ## Abstract Modular transport line system for configuring a transport line of a long stator linear motor. The system includes plural modular transport line components, each having a starting point (An) and an end point (En), wherein the starting point (An) and the end point (En) of each modular transport line component lie on a raster corner point (p·a)×(q·a) of an (a×a) raster with a prespecified raster length a, wherein p, q are whole numbers. At least one of the plural modular transport line components is a curved transport line component formed by at least three modules. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A modular transport line system for configuring a transport line of a long stator linear motor, said system comprising: plural modular transport line components, each having a starting point (An) and an end point (En), wherein the starting point (An) and the end point (En) of each modular transport line component lie on a raster corner point (p·a)×(q·a) of an (a×a) raster with a prespecified raster length a, wherein p, q are whole numbers; at least one of the plural modular transport line components being a curved transport line component formed by at least three modules; and said at least three modules comprise: a first module that is a curve entry module having the starting point (An) and a first curved portion of the curved transport line component; a second module that is a curve entry module having the end point (En) and a second curved portion of the curved transport line component; a third module that is a connection module, connecting the first and second modules of the curved transport line component and having a third curved portion of the curved transport line component; said first module having a straight end section extending to the starting point (An) and a curved end section that abuts a first curved end section of the third module; and said second module having a straight end section extending to the end point (En) and an curved end section that abuts a second curved end section of the third module, wherein, where the first module and the third module abut, the curved end section of the first module and the first curved end section of the third module have a same curvature, and wherein, where the second module and the third module abut, the curved end section of the second module and the second curved end section of the third module have a same curvature. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The modular transport line system of claim 1, further comprising a straight transport line component being formed by at least one straight module, said straight transport line component having a first straight end section having a starting point (An) and a second straight end section having an end point (En). ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The modular transport line system of claim 1, wherein the third module of the curved transport line component comprises an acute angle section of the curved transport line component. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The modular transport line system of claim 1, wherein the curved transport line component is a 90° curved transport line component. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The modular transport line system of claim 1, wherein the curved transport line component is a 180° curved transport line component. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The modular transport line system of claim 1, wherein the curved transport line component is a partially circular transport line component defined by a radius (R), wherein the first curved portion of the first module, the second curved portion of the second module and the third curved portion of the third module have a same radius. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The modular transport line system of claim 6, wherein the third module is formed by more than one abutting circular-arc-segment-modules. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The modular transport line system of claim 1, wherein the curved transport line component is configured to form an S-shaped transport line component, wherein the first curved end section and the second curved end section of the third module have curvatures in opposite directions. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The modular transport line system of claim 1, further comprising an S-shaped transport line component which is formed by the first module and the second module as curve entry modules, wherein the curved end section of said first module abuts the curved end section of said second module, wherein the straight end section of the first module having a starting point (An) and the straight end section of the second module having an end point (En) and face in opposite directions. ### Claim 10 A transport line for a long stator linear motor comprising: at least one curved modular transport line component having a starting point (An) and an end point (En), wherein the starting point (An) and the end point (En) of said curved modular transport line component lie on a raster corner point (p·a)×(q·a) of an (a×a) raster with a prespecified raster length a, wherein p, q are whole numbers; said at least one curved transport line component being formed by at least three modules arranged in series; said at least three modules comprising: a first module that is a curve entry module having the starting point (An) and a first curved portion of the curved transport line component; a second module that is a curve entry module having the end point (En) and a second curved portion of the curved transport line component; a third module that is a connection module connecting the first and second modules of the curved transport line component and having a third curved portion of the curved transport line component; said first module having a straight end section extending to the starting point (An) and a curved end section that abuts a first curved end section of the third module; said second module having a straight end section extending to the end point (En) and a curved end section that abuts a second curved end section of the third module, wherein, where the first module and the third module abut, the curved end section of the first module and the first curved end section of the third module have a same curvature, and wherein, where the second module and the third module abut, the curved end section of the second module and the second curved end section of the third module have a same curvature. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The transport line of claim 10, further comprising at least one modular transport line component being a straight transport line component being formed by at least one module, said straight transport line component having a first straight end section having a starting point (An) and a second straight end section having an end point (En). ### Claim 12 (depends on 10) The transport line of claim 10, further comprising at least one modular transport line component being an S-shaped transport line component which is formed by the first module and the second module as curve entry modules, wherein the curved end section of said first module abuts the curved end section of said second module, wherein the straight section of the first module having a starting point (An) and the straight section of the second module having an end point (En) and face in opposite directions. ### Claim 13 (depends on 10) The transport line of claim 10, wherein the curved transport line component is a partially circular transport line component defined by a radius (R), wherein the first curved portion of the first module, the second curved portion of the second module and the third curved portion of the third module have the same radius. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The transport line of claim 13, wherein the third module is formed by more than one abutting circular-arc-segment-modules. ### Claim 15 (depends on 13) The transport line of claim 13, wherein the partially circular transport line components include one of: a 90 degree curved transport line component; or a 180 degree curved transport line component. ### Claim 16 (depends on 13) The transport line of claim 13, wherein the third module of the partially circular transport line component comprises an acute angle section of the curved transport line component. ### Claim 17 (depends on 10) The transport line of claim 10, wherein the curved transport line component is configured to form an S-shaped transport line component, wherein the first curved end section and the second curved end section of the third module have curvatures in opposite directions, wherein the straight section of the first module having the starting point (An) and the straight section of the second module having the end point (En) and face opposite directions. ### Claim 18 (depends on 10) The transport line of claim 10, wherein the plural modular transport line components form a closed transport line. ### Claim 19 A long stator linear motor comprising a transport line formed by a plurality of modular transport line components arranged in series, each modular transport line component having a starting point (An) and an end point (En), wherein the starting point (An) and the end point (En) of each modular transport line component lie on a raster corner point (p·a)×(q·a) of an (a×a) raster with a prespecified raster length a, wherein p, q are whole numbers; at least one of the plurality of modular transport line components being a curved transport line component being formed by at least three modules arranged in series; and said at least three modules of the curved transport line component comprises: a first module that is a curve entry module having the starting point (An) and a first curved portion of the curved transport line component; a second module that is a curve entry module having the end point (En) and a second curved portion of the curved transport line component; and a third module that is a connection module connecting the first and second modules of the curved transport line component and having a third curved portion of the curved transport line component; said first module having a straight end section extending to the starting point (An) and a curved end section that abuts a first curved end section of the third module; and said second module having a straight end section extending to the end point (En) and an curved end section that abuts a second curved end section of the third module, wherein, where the first module and the third module abut, the curved end section of the first module and the first curved end section of the third module have a same curvature, and wherein, where the second module and the third module abut, the curved end section of the second module and the second curved end section of the third module have a same curvature. ### Claim 20 A modular transport line component for building a transport line of a long stator linear motor, said modular transport line component being a curved transport line component that is formed by at least three modules arranged in series; and said at least three modules of the curved transport line component comprises: a first module that is a curve entry module having the starting point (An) and a first curved portion of the curved transport line component; a second module that is a curve entry module having the end point (En) and a second curved portion of the curved transport line component; and a third module that is a connection module connecting the first and second modules of the curved transport line component and having a third curved portion of the curved transport line component; said first module having a straight end section extending to the starting point (An) and a curved end section that abuts a first curved end section of the third module; and said second module having a straight end section extending to the end point (En) and an curved end section that abuts a second curved end section of the third module, wherein, where the first module and the third module abut, the curved end section of the first module and the first curved end section of the third module have a same curvature, and wherein, where the second module and the third module abut, the curved end section of the second module and the second curved end section of the third module have a same curvature.