Pipe joint applicator and method for producing a joint
AssigneeSwiss Tech Innovation AG
InventorTheodor Wüst
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Abstract
The disclosure relates to a pipe joint applicator with a control device and a method for producing a joint between a first pipe element and a second pipe element. The pipe joint applicator with a control device thereby detects actual process parameters via means for actual value detecting. The pipe joint applicator with a control device and the method determines therefrom the target process parameters for process control means for controlling the process parameters to be delivered to a pipe joint to be made. The pipe joint applicator with a control device optionally compares at least one actual value of the process parameters to at least one target process parameter and, in the event of deviation from at least one tolerance value range, issues an alarm to the user and/or generates an error protocol.
Claims6
A system for producing a joint between a first pipe element (4) and a second pipe element (5), comprising:
- a sleeve (3), wherein the sleeve (3) comprises a plug-in sleeve with a clamping element, wherein the clamping element can be coupled in thrust in a longitudinal direction of the plug-in sleeve, the clamping element being shaped and formed such that, when an axial force is applied by means of a fluid pressure medium, the clamping element exerts a clamping action in the form of a snap-on function on the first pipe element (4) and the second pipe element (5);
- a process control means (200) in the form of a compressed air valve controllable by means of a target process parameter (110), by means of which a process parameter (210) in the form of a controlled course of compressed air can be applied to controllable means for producing a permanent and/or detachable pipe joint (6, 6′, 7, 7′) of the plug-in sleeve wherein the clamping action in the form of the snap-on function can be exerted on the first pipe element (4) and the second pipe element (5);
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- means for actual value detecting (300) an actual process parameter (10) in form of a compressed air flow at the controllable means for producing the permanent and/or detachable pipe joint (6, 6′, 7, 7′), which delivers the actual process parameter (10) as an electrical actual value process parameter (310) to a control unit (105) of a pipe joint applicator with a control device (100) which determines the target process parameter (110) for controlling the process control means (200) from the electrical actual value process parameters (310).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.