US 11,754,391 B2
Method and system for determining an angular position of a component of a goods processing apparatus
Karsten Von Der Waydbrink, Potsdam (DE); Tilmann Schilling, Berlin (DE); Wolf-Alexander Krumholz, Hennigsdorf (DE); Axel Ortmann, Berlin (DE); Wolfgang Muhl, Hohen Neuendorf (DE); and Matthias Lorenzen, Berlin (DE)
Assigned to Francotyp-Postalia GmbH, Berlin (DE)
Filed by Francotyp-Postalia GmbH, Berlin (DE)
Filed on Sep. 10, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/566,411.
Application 16/566,411 is a continuation in part of application No. 16/402,680, filed on May 3, 2019, granted, now 10,579,095.
Claims priority of application No. 20 2018 102 463.9 (DE), filed on May 3, 2018; and application No. 10 2019 003 221.7 (DE), filed on Apr. 30, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0025564 A1, Jan. 23, 2020
Int. Cl. G01C 9/06 (2006.01); G01C 9/08 (2006.01); G06F 3/14 (2006.01)
CPC G01C 9/08 (2013.01) [G01C 9/06 (2013.01); G06F 3/14 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for determining an inclination of an adjustable component of a goods processing apparatus further including a controller and an inclination sensor, the method comprising:
providing the inclination sensor on the adjustable component, the adjustable component being rotatable about a x-axis of a Cartesian coordinate system, wherein the inclination sensor includes respective transducers at least in a direction of a y-axis and a z-axis;
generating, using the inclination sensor, respective digital measured values for each of the y-axis and the z-axis, and providing the generated digital measured values to the controller;
processing, by the controller, the two digital measured values, the processing including:
determining which of the two digital measured values more accurately represents the inclination of the component, and
selecting the determined one of the two digital measured values that more accurately represents the inclination to derive a valid measured value for the inclination of the component; and
storing, in a memory of the goods processing apparatus, the derived measured value for the inclination of the component.