MACHINE TOOL, PRODUCTION MACHINE AND/OR ROBOT

• US 20090102410A1
• Filed: 10/17/2008
• Published: 04/23/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/19/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: BRETSCHNEIDER, JOCHEN
• Application Number:
  US12/253,593
• Publication Number:
  US 20090102410A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 318/561
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 3/00 Registering or indicating the condition or the working of machines or other apparatus, other than vehicles

Abstract

A machine tool, production machine or robot includes an electric motor with a memory, and a device for open-loop and/or closed-loop control of the electric motor. The device can determine operating data of the motor, transfer the operating data to the memory, and store the operating data in the memory. The operating data of the motor can hereby be reliably determined and stored on or in the motor memory without the need to arrange a recording device, such as an operating time meter, on the motor itself. The stored data can be evaluated for determining causes of a motor malfunction.

Claims

1. A power-operated machine, comprising:

an electric motor having a memory, and

a device for control of the electric motor, said device configured to determine operating data of the motor, transfer the operating data to the memory, and store the operating data in the memory.

2. The machine of claim 1, wherein the operating data comprise data selected from the group consisting of operating hours of the motor, number of revolutions of the motor during the operating hours, motor speed during the operating hours, motor torque during the operating hours, motor acceleration during the operating hours, and stress data derived therefrom.

3. The machine of claim 1, wherein the device transfers the operating data to the memory at regular intervals.

4. The machine of claim 1, constructed as a machine tool.

5. The machine of claim 1, constructed as a production machine.

6. The machine of claim 1, constructed as a robot.

7. The machine of claim 1, wherein the device is constructed for an open-loop control of the electric motor.

8. The machine of claim 1, wherein the device is constructed for a closed-loop control of the electric motor.

9. A method for storing operating data from an electric motor of a machine tool, production machine or robot, said method comprising the steps of:

determining the operating data of the motor with a device providing open-loop control or closed-loop control, or both, of the motor,

transferring the operating data from the device to a memory, and

storing the transferred operating data in the memory.