Textile machine, especially spinning machine or winding machine, with a control and communication system
AssigneeRieter Ingolstadt GmbH
InventorsMario Maleck, Harald Widner
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Abstract
A textile machine, especially a spinning machine or winding machine, has numerous identical workstations arranged beside one another along a longitudinal side, with numerous maintenance devices movable along the workstations for servicing the workstations, and with a control and communication system. The maintenance devices are connected to a bus topology component through a maintenance device bus line, in which case at least some of the bus topology components are connected to the control and communication system with a common bus line. The bus topology components are arranged in a middle area of the textile machine, in the longitudinal direction (LR) of the textile machine.
Claims16
A textile machine having a plurality of spinning or winding workstations arranged side-by-side along a longitudinal side of the textile machine between opposite terminal end frames of the textile machine, the textile machine comprising:
- a plurality of maintenance devices configured to move in the longitudinal direction alongside the workstations for servicing the workstations;
- a control and communication system having a common data bus line, the maintenance devices in communication with the control and communication system;
- each of the maintenance devices connected to a bus topology component through a maintenance device bus line, wherein the maintenance device bus lines are a trailing cable or self-spooling line;
- at least certain ones of the bus topology components connected to the common bus line and arranged in a stationary connection device located at a middle area of the textile machine in the longitudinal direction between the terminal frames of the textile machine;
- the bus topology components physically connecting the maintenance device bus lines to the common bus line.
A textile machine, having a plurality of spinning or winding workstations arranged side-by-side along a longitudinal side of the textile machine between opposite terminal end frames of the textile machine, the textile machine comprising:
- a plurality of maintenance devices configured to move in the longitudinal direction alongside the workstations for servicing the workstations;
- a control and communication system having a common bus line, the maintenance devices in communication with the control and communication system;
- each of the maintenance devices connected to a bus topology component through a maintenance device bus line;
- at least certain ones of the bus topology components connected to the common bus line and arranged in a middle area of the textile machine in the longitudinal direction between the terminal frames of the textile machine;
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- wherein the bus topology components are arranged in a connection device on an upper side of the textile machine in a vacuum duct, wherein the vacuum duct is configured to supply the maintenance devices with vacuum.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.