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Patents in Robotics
A Clutch, Industrial Robot and the use thereof
A clutch comprising a hub and a cam connected to the hub, said cam comprising a ring-5 shaped part having grooves formed on a bottom surface of the ring-shaped part; a spring plate having recesses formed on a top surface of the spring plate; an output flange and a part of a roller bearing connected to each other, said output flange comprising a ring-shaped part configured to accommodate the spring plate, a plurality of transmission elements arranged in an angular direction between the spring plate and the cam; a 10 plurality of springs arranged in the angular direction between the spring plate and the output flange; and a sliding bearing provided at an interface between the hub and the output flange, wherein the clutch is configured to be changed between first and second states. A high-speed industrial robot capable of moving on a plurality of axes, and use thereof.
Overload clutch with joint torque and disengagement sensing
An overload clutch comprising an input flange and an output flange, said clutch being configured to 5 transmit torque between the input flange and the output flange and to disengage the clutch when the torque exceeds a predetermined threshold, characterised in, that the clutch comprises one or more sensing means at least partially integrated in at least one of the input and output flanges, and that the one or more sensing means are adapted to jointly determine the torque applied to transmitted between the input flange and the output flange of the clutch and to detect the 10 disengagement of the clutch. A device comprising the clutch, a gear unit connected to the input flange, and a motor connected to the gear unit, configured to provide torque to the input flange through the gear unit.
Magnetic System for Picking Ferromagnetic Pieces
A system (100) is provided for picking at least one ferromagnetic piece from a stack or an unstructured collection. The system comprises a magnet arrangement with at least one electromagnet (110), which is configured to generate an adjustable magnetic field that attracts the piece. A mechanical contact-sensing arrangement includes one or more contact sensors (120) placed at or near the attraction surface of the magnet arrangement. These sensors are configured to produce signals that indicate mechanical effects caused by the magnetic attraction of the piece. A controller (130) is operatively connected to the electromagnet and the sensors. The controller applies a magnetic field with both a base component and an oscillatory component. It monitors sensor signals to detect the presence of a piece, generates the base component to attach it, then reduces the base component to release additional pieces. When detachment is detected, it re-increases the field to clamp the remaining piece.
Patents in Planning and Scheduling
Assembly Systems for Configuration and Operational Control
Abstract - A computer-implemented method for operating an assembly configuration system, the method comprising: receiving an input demand; receiving one or more datasets including data points each including data of the performance indicators and data of the therewith associated inputs, outputs, and sets of parameters; determining from the one or more datasets a combined set of values for the sets of parameters based on the input demand and on a desired combination of the performance indicators; configuring the sets of parameters by assigning the combined set of values thereto; and generating an execution plan as the second output based on the input demand and the configured sets of parameters. A computer-implemented method for operating a reconfiguration assembly system.
Patents in Electric Machines
Rotation device, electric motor or electric generator, gear box, turbomachine, and flow control device
There is provided a rotation device comprising a rotor, a stator, a target component, and a sealing device. The rotor is arranged to rotate along a rotation axis relative to the stator. The stator is arranged radial outward of the rotor to form a gap between the rotor and the stator. The sealing device is attached to the rotor to hydrodynamically seal the g against a fluid. The sealing device is adapted to direct the fluid to the target component to exchange heat between the target component and the fluid, and/or to lubricate the target component with the fluid.
An electrical machine comprising a cooling device
A cooling device for cooling an electrical machine, the electrical machine comprising wound stator coils having end portions and axial portions, the cooling device comprising an annular heat collector arranged for engaging with an external heat sink, a plurality of coil receiving spaces each delimited by at least two radial extensions extending radially from the annular heat collector, the plurality of coil receiving spaces being arranged for receiving end portions of the plurality of wound stator coils, wherein the cooling device is made from a thermally conductive and non-ferromagnetic material, such that in use heat generated by the plurality of wound stator coils is conducted in a radial direction along the plurality of radial extensions and along the annular heat collector towards the external heat sink.
An electrical machine comprising an integrated magnetic torsion spring
An electrical machine (1) comprising: a rotatable drive shaft having a rotational axis (15); a rotor assembly (2) connected to the drive shaft, the rotor assembly 2 arranged to generate a static rotor magnetic field; a primary stator assembly (4), comprising a plurality of stator coils (5a, 5b) arranged to generate a rotating stator magnetic field for interacting with the static rotor magnetic field of the rotor assembly (2) such as to rotate the rotor assembly (2) along the rotational axis (15), and a secondary stator assembly (7) arranged to generate a static stator magnetic field; wherein the electrical machine (1) comprises a magnetic torsion spring (9) formed by the interaction of the static stator magnetic field with the static rotor magnetic field.
Productisable results
Vision based sensing in production machines
Analytical CRM technology stack
CVAMO develops a technology stack related to ACRM “Analytical CRM”. Analytical CRM is about turning Customer Data (incl. data from CRM-tools, though other more unstructured sources are used as well) into actionable insights with the goal of optimising the customer life in terms of acquisition, cross and upselling as well as churn reduction/customer retention. Some exemplary functionality includes optimised cross selling base on multi-label, cost aware churn optimisation, AI supported price offering, hot lead identification based on unstructured data, profit-driven acquisition decision support ... We prefer to partner with tech providers adopting and integrating our models, algorithms and tools into their solutions offered to their customers, end-users.
Success Stories
Magnax
Spin-off Leap Technologies
Leap Technologies licensed our 'Hybrid modelling for digital twins in view of system identification, monitoring and control'
We have developed a toolbox for hybrid modelling featuring: building a hybrid model, visualisation extracting analytical models from data. Our toolbox has been validated on a lab setup including a slider-crank with spring mechanism and in an industrial context (confidential).
