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US 2026/0116670 A1Published application
Linear motor conveyor system having multiple safety zones
AssigneeAts Corporation
InventorsAnton DOLGOVYKH, Florian AUGUSTIN, Albert KLEINIKKINK
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Abstract
A linear motor conveyor system may include a plurality of virtual safety zones which can be disabled/enabled independently. One or more of the virtual safety zones may include a synchronous zone allowing synchronous portions of a conveyor to be independently disabled/enabled.
Claims20
A linear motor conveyor system comprising:
- a plurality of track sections arranged to provide a conveyor path along which a plurality of shuttles move, each track section of the plurality of track sections comprising a plurality of coils of a linear motor;
- a plurality of physical safety zones, each physical safety zone of the plurality of physical safety zones comprising a subset of coils of the linear motor and capable of independently de-energizing the subset of coils;
- and
- a controller configured to:
- define a plurality of virtual safety zones, each virtual safety zone of the plurality of virtual safety zones comprising at least one or more physical safety zones of the plurality of physical safety zones;
- receive a halt signal associated with a virtual safety zone of the plurality of virtual safety zones;
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- disable the one or more physical safety zones of the virtual safety zone associated with the received halt signal to stop motion of shuttles within the virtual safety zone and de-energize the subset of coils of each of the one or more physical safety zones.
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A method for operating a linear motor conveyor system, the method comprising:
- defining a plurality of virtual safety zones, each virtual safety zone of the plurality of virtual safety zones comprising at least a portion of one or more physical safety zones, each physical safety zone of the one or more physical safety zones comprising a subset of coils of a plurality of coils of a linear motor of a track section of a plurality of track sections, and each of the one or more physical safety zones capable of independently de-energizing the subset of coils of the respective physical safety zone;
- receiving a halt signal associated with a virtual safety zone of the plurality of virtual safety zones;
- and
- disabling the one or more physical safety zones of the virtual safety zone associated with the received halt signal to stop motion of shuttles within the virtual safety zone and de-energize the subset of coils of each of the one or more physical safety zones.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.