# US 11,440,236 B2 · System and method for processing containers with monitoring of drive motors > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,440,236 B2 - Document ID: US11440236B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 15/781,584 - Filed: 2016-12-06 - Published: 2020-08-20 - Granted: 2022-09-13 - Earliest claimed: 2015-12-16 - Assignees: Krones AG - Applicants: Krones AG - Inventors: Dieter Finger; Thomas Kitzinger - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11440236B2 ## CPC - B29C 49/42093: {Transporting apparatus, e.g. slides, wheels or conveyors} - B29C 49/6409: {Thermal conditioning of preforms (B29C49/68 takes precedence)} - B29C 49/6436: {characterised by temperature differential} - B29C 49/78: Measuring, controlling or regulating - B29C 49/06: Injection blow-moulding - B29C 49/42085: {holding inside the neck} - B29C 49/42362: {Electric drive means, e.g. servomotors} - B29C 49/685: {Rotating the preform in relation to heating means} - B29C 2949/0715: the preform having one end closed - B29L 2031/7158: {Bottles} - B29C: SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING (making preforms B29B11/00; making laminated products by combining previously unconnected layers which become one product whose layers will remain together B32B37/00 - B32B41/00) - B29L: INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASS B29C, RELATING TO PARTICULAR ARTICLES ## Abstract A system for processing containers with a transport device which transports the containers along a predetermined transport path, wherein a plurality of holding devices for holding the containers is arranged on the transport device, wherein the system has at least one rotating device which rotates the plastic parisons with regard to a rotational position with respect to the longitudinal directions thereof. According to the invention the rotating device has an electrically operated driving device for producing the rotary movement of the plastic parisons with respect to the longitudinal directions thereof as well as at least one measuring device, which at least at times determines at least an electrical characteristic quantity of this driving device. ## Claims ### Claim 1 System for processing containers with a transport device which transports the containers along a predetermined transport path, wherein a plurality of holding devices for holding the containers is arranged on the transport device, wherein the system has at least one rotating device which rotates the plastic parisons with regard to a rotational position with respect to the longitudinal directions thereof, characterised in that the rotating device has an electrically operated driving device for producing the rotary movement of the plastic parisons with respect to the longitudinal directions thereof as well as at least one measuring device, which at least at times determines at least an electrical characteristic quantity of this driving device, wherein the electronic characteristic quantity is determined while the driving device is operating at a high rotational speed. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) System according to claim 1, wherein the device has a first heating device which is arranged along the transport path and which heats the plastic parisons during its transport along the transport path. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) System according to claim 1, wherein the system has a processor device which, on the basis of the characteristic quantity measured by the measuring device, outputs a signal which enables a conclusion to be drawn to a rotary movement of the plastic parisons effected by the driving device. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) System according to claim 1, wherein the driving device is designed without an encoder. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) System according to claim 1, wherein the electrical characteristic quantity is selected from a group of characteristic quantities which includes an electrical voltage, an electrical current, an induced voltage, an electromotive force, a counter-electromotive force, an electrical resistance or the like. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) System according to claim 1, wherein the system has a rotational position detection device which detects a rotational position of the plastic parisons with respect to their longitudinal axis. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) System according to claim 1, wherein the aligning device has a plurality of motor-powered drives for rotating the plastic parisons with respect to their longitudinal direction. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) System according to claim 1, wherein the system has a plurality of holding devices for holding the plastic parisons. ### Claim 9 Method for processing containers, wherein the containers are held by a plurality of holding devices and are transported along a predetermined transport path, wherein the containers are rotated by means of a rotating device with a regard to a rotational position with respect to the longitudinal direction thereof, characterised in that the rotating device has an electrically operated driving device for producing the rotary movement of the holding devices with the containers arranged thereon with respect to the longitudinal directions of the containers, and by means of a measuring device at least one electrical characteristic quantity of this driving device is detected at least at times, wherein the electronic characteristic quantity is determined while the driving device is operating at a high rotational speed. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) Method according to claim 9, wherein, on the basis of the electrical characteristic quantity it is determined whether the driving device has generated a desired rotary movement. ### Claim 11 (depends on 9) Method according to claim 9, wherein the electrical characteristic quantity of the driving device is detected at least at times in a time period in which no container is located on the holding device associated with the driving device.