Tool identification system
AssigneeRobert Bosch GmbH
InventorAndreas Mader
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Abstract
A tool identification system for fitting to a tool includes a data memory configured to store data specific to the tool, and a standardized data interface configured to provide the data for a superordinate device having a corresponding data interface. The data memory is included in a microprocessor system configured to keep the standardized data interface ready, with the result that the data in the data memory can be read or written by a device using the microprocessor system and using the standardized data interface.
Claims12
A tool identification system for fitting to a tool, comprising:
- a data memory configured to store data specific to the tool;
- a standardized data interface configured to provide the data specific to the tool to a superordinate device having a corresponding data interface;
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- a microprocessor operatively connected to the data memory and the standardized data interface, the microprocessor configured to:
- retrieve the data specific to the tool from the tool via the standardized data interface with standardized data protocols;
- transmit the data specific to the tool from the data memory of the tool identification system to the superordinate device with standardized data protocols via the standardized data interface in response to a request received from the superordinate device via the standardized data interface;
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- write parameterized data received from the superordinate device to the data memory to control operation of the tool based on the data specific to the tool.
A method for starting up or maintaining a welding gun including a tool identification system comprising:
- connecting the tool identification system to a superordinate device having a corresponding data interface with a standardized data interface of the tool identification system;
- transmitting data specific to the welding gun from the superordinate device to the tool identification system according to standardized data protocols;
- storing the data specific to the welding gun in a data memory of the tool identification system;
- connecting the tool identification system to a welding controller having a corresponding standardized data interface with the standardized data interface of the tool identification system;
- reading the data specific to the welding gun from the data memory of the tool identification system using the connected welding controller;
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- automatically parameterizing the welding controller using the data specific to the welding gun,
- wherein the data memory of the tool identification system is included in a microprocessor system configured to keep the standardized data interface of the tool identification system ready, with the result that data in the data memory can be read or written by the superordinate device using the microprocessor system and using the standardized data interface according to the standardized data protocols.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.