US 11,718,483 B2
Conveyor arrangement with sensors with bus data encoding
Daniel Heinen, Hückelhoven (DE); Herbert Henze, Hückelhoven (DE); Claus Blödorn, Hückelhoven (DE); and Wolfgang Puntigam, Hückelhoven (DE)
Assigned to Interroll Holding AG, Sant' Antonino (CH)
Appl. No. 17/312,015
Filed by Interroll Holding AG, Sant' Antonino (CH)
PCT Filed Dec. 19, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/086247
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 9, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/127691, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 25, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 102018133482.6 (DE), filed on Dec. 21, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0371207 A1, Dec. 2, 2021
Int. Cl. B65G 43/08 (2006.01); B65G 13/06 (2006.01); G05B 19/4155 (2006.01); H04L 12/40 (2006.01); H04L 67/12 (2022.01)
CPC B65G 43/08 (2013.01) [B65G 13/06 (2013.01); G05B 19/4155 (2013.01); H04L 12/40032 (2013.01); B65G 2203/0233 (2013.01); B65G 2203/0266 (2013.01); G05B 2219/45054 (2013.01); H04L 67/12 (2013.01); H04L 2012/4026 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. Conveyor arrangement, comprising
a) a motor-operated conveyor roller, comprising:
a roller body rotatably mounted about a roller axle,
a drive unit, arranged inside the roller body, that is mechanically coupled between the roller body and an axle element and is designed to generate a torque between the axle element and the roller body,
a control data interface connected to the drive unit for signal transmission purposes,
b) a control unit, comprising a control data bus interface, which is designed to be connected to a data bus line, wherein the control unit is signal-connected to the drive unit and is designed to receive bus-encoded data signals via the control data bus interface, to generate a control signal on the basis of the received data signals and to actuate the drive unit with a characteristic predetermined by the control signal by virtue of the control signal being transmitted to the drive unit,
c) a sensor for detecting a conveying state, wherein the sensor is arranged outside the roller body,
characterized by
d) an electronic addressing module that is couplable to the sensor and to the bus line for signal transmission purposes and is designed
to encode a sensor signal generated by the sensor and received in the addressing module to form a bus-encoded sensor data block that comprises a digital digital-sensor-signal data block, characterizing the sensor signal, and a sensor address data block, and
to transmit the bus-encoded sensor data block to the bus line
wherein the sensor is designed to detect an identity coding assigned to the conveyed material or a conveyor destination assigned to the conveyed material and in that the control unit is designed to take the sensor signal containing the identity coding assigned to the conveyed material or the conveyor destination assigned to the conveyed material as a basis for generating a control signal and to transmit said control signal to an actuator on a divert, crossing or merge conveyor element that controls the actuator and thus brings about conveyance in a direction that can be derived from the identity coding or the conveyor destination and is necessary therefor or preferred.