# US 10,767,335 B2 · Attachment for drilling and/or foundation work > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,767,335 B2 - Document ID: US10767335B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/283,079 - Filed: 2019-02-22 - Published: 2019-08-29 - Granted: 2020-09-08 - Earliest claimed: 2018-02-26 - Assignees: Liebherr-Werk Nenzing GmbH - Applicants: Liebherr-Werk Nenzing GmbH - Inventors: Maximillan Mendler; Sebastian Wedl; Andreas Schwarzhans; Armin Englstler; Bernhard Schneider; Tobias Griesemer - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10767335B2 ## CPC - E02D 7/26: Placing by using several means simultaneously - E02D 7/18: Placing by vibrating {(vibrators for soil compacting E02D3/046)} - E02D 7/22: Placing by screwing down {(screw piles per se E02D5/56)} - E02D 7/28: Placing of hollow pipes or mould pipes by means arranged inside the piles or pipes {(E02D13/08 takes precedence)} - E02D 13/04: Guide devices; Guide frames {(as parts of the driver scaffold E02D7/16)} - E02D 13/06: for observation while placing - E21B 3/025: with a to-and-fro rotation of the tool - E21B 7/02: Drilling rigs characterised by means for land transport {with their own drive}, e.g. skid mounting or wheel mounting - E21B 7/20: Driving or forcing casings or pipes into boreholes, e.g. sinking; Simultaneously drilling and casing boreholes - E21B 44/00: Automatic control systems specially adapted for drilling operations, i.e. self-operating systems which function to carry out or modify a drilling operation without intervention of a human operator, e.g. computer-controlled drilling systems; Systems specially adapted for monitoring a plurality of drilling variables or conditions - G05B 19/042: using digital processors (G05B19/05 takes precedence) - H04L 12/40032: {Details regarding a bus interface enhancer} - E02D 2600/10: comprising sensor means - G05B 2219/45129: Boring, drilling - H04L 2012/40215: {Controller Area Network CAN} - H04L 2012/4026: {Bus for use in automation systems} - E02D: FOUNDATIONS; EXCAVATIONS; EMBANKMENTS (specially adapted for hydraulic engineering E02B); UNDERGROUND OR UNDERWATER STRUCTURES {(tunnels, tunnelling, mining E21)} - E21B: EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS - G05B: CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS (systems for controlling or regulating non-electric variables G05D; systems for regulating electric or magnetic variables G05F; control devices or systems insofar as characterised by mechanical features only G05G) - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) ## Abstract The present invention relates to an attachment for drilling and/or foundation work, in particular a casing oscillator or casing rotator, comprising a receiving apparatus for clamping at least one pipe and a drive for generating a rotational movement of the clamped pipe, wherein the attachment comprises at least one integral control unit for an independent carrying out of control functions of the attachment. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An attachment for drilling and/or foundation work, comprising a reception apparatus for clamping at least one pipe and a drive for generating a rotational movement of the clamped pipe, wherein the attachment comprises at least one integral control unit having a control logic for an independent carrying out of at least one control function of the attachment and at least one communication interface for communication with a base machine, with the control unit invoking machine-relevant parameters of the base machine via the communication interface and/or providing machine-relevant parameters of the attachment via the communication interface, at least one transmission and reception unit is provided to enable a wireless and/or wired communication with at least one external unit, and at least one control function is the control of automatic movement routines for an automatic oscillating system and/or an automatic pipe drawing device. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) An attachment in accordance with claim 1, wherein the attachment comprises one or more sensors whose sensor data can be read by the control unit and can be evaluated and can be taken into account for the carrying out of the control functions. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) An attachment in accordance with claim 1, wherein control commands for controlling the attachment can be received via the communication interface and can be interpreted by the control unit to control one or more actuators of the attachment and/or to carry out control functions of the control unit. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) An attachment in accordance with claim 1, wherein the attachment comprises at least one display element for reproducing the machine-relevant or control-relevant data and/or data invoked via the communication interface. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) An attachment in accordance with claim 1, wherein an electric and/or hydraulic and/or pneumatic supply of the attachment can be provided via an interface by a base machine. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) An attachment in accordance with claim 1, wherein at least one control function is the provision of at least one assistance system for operation and/or putting into operation the attachment. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) An attachment in accordance with claim 6, wherein the control unit is configured to carry out an assisted setting of the pile inclination during which the control unit controls one or more actuators to set the desired pipe inclination while taking account of the sensor values. ### Claim 8 (depends on 6) An attachment in accordance with claim 6, wherein the control unit is configured to carry out an automated depth measurement of the casing/of the drilling pipe as an assistance system and optionally to prepare and output a prediction with respect to the completion of the pile. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) An attachment in accordance with claim 1, wherein the control unit is configured to generate an automatic request to increase and/or to decrease the hydraulic power provided by a base machine in dependence on the process-dependent power requirement of the attachment and to transmit it via the communication interface. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) An attachment in accordance with claim 1, wherein the control unit comprises or is connectable to at least one memory to carry out a continuous data recording during the work operation of the attachment. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) An attachment in accordance with claim 1, wherein the communication interface is a CAN bus. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) An attachment in accordance with claim 1, wherein the wireless and/or wired communication with the at least one external unit takes place via a cellular radio network. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) An attachment in accordance with claim 1, wherein the machine-relevant and/or control-relevant parameters of the attachment are able to be transmitted to an external server via the transmission unit. ### Claim 14 A system comprising a base machine, including an excavating assembly for excavating a borehole, and at least one attachment installed at the base machine independently from the excavating assembly and for introduction of a casing into a around simultaneously with excavating, wherein the attachment comprises at least one integral control unit having a control logic for an independent carrying out at least one control function of the attachment, the excavating assembly comprises a grab for excavating the borehole, and the attachment is configured to rotate or oscillate the casing clamped thereto to introduce the casing into the ground by rotational movements synchronously to the excavation.