Conveyor System for Conveying Individual Piece Goods
AssigneesSew-Eurodrive GmbH & Co. KG, Interroll Holding AG
InventorsGeorg H. Malina, Werner F. Spaeth
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Abstract
The invention relates to a conveyor system for conveying individual piece goods, comprising: a number of conveyor motors and at least one control unit for sending data connected to each conveyor motor for regulating and/or controlling the conveyor motors. According to the invention, the control unit is connected with a bus line, a conveyor motor, and preferably each conveyor motor by means of the bus line, preferably without electrical contact. According to the invention, it is also provided that the modem(s) is/are designed in order to take energy for driving the conveyor motor and at least one data signal for control/regulation of the conveyor motor from the bus line and send them to the conveyor motor.
Claims21
Conveyor system for conveying individual piece goods, comprising:
- a number of conveyor motors (30a-d),
- at least one control unit (10) that is connected to each conveyor motor for sending data for regulating and/or controlling the conveyor motors,
- characterized in that the control unit is connected to a bus line (40), a conveyor motor, preferably each conveyor motor, is connected to a bus line, preferably by way of a modem (20a-d), preferably connected without electrical contact and that the modem(s) is/are designed in order to take energy for driving the conveyor motors and at least one data signal for control/regulation of the conveyor motor from the bus line and supply it to the conveyor motor.
Method for the conveyance of piece goods, with the steps
- Application of an electrical alternating voltage to a primary conductor,
- Modulation of a data signal to the electrical alternating voltage,
- Inductive transfer of the electrical alternating voltage to a secondary winding in a modem and conduction of the current generated in the secondary winding to a conveyor motor for driving the conveyor motor,
- Reading the data signal out of the primary conductor in the modem and conduction of the data signal read out to the conveyor motor for control-ling and/or regulating the conveyor motor,
- Conveyance of the items with the conveyor motor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.