CASING ELEMENTS AND DEVICES AND METHODS FOR ALLOCATING IDENTIFIERS TO CASING ELEMENTS

• US 20110315778A1
• Filed: 06/27/2011
• Published: 12/29/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fraunhofer Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forsching E.V.
• Original Assignee: Fraunhofer Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forsching E.V.
• Inventors: KRUPP, Michael, STRAUSS, Wolfram, HOEPPNER, Gerritt, MEIER, Fritz, PFLAUM, Alexander, KRAUS, Sebastian, GRABOWSKI, Christoph
• Application Number:
  US13/169,108
• Publication Number:
  US 20110315778A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/492
• CPC Class Codes: B28B 17/009 Changing the forming elements, e.g. exchanging moulds, dies
• CPC Class Codes: B28B 7/00 Moulds; Cores; Mandrels specially adapted for the production of the tubular articles B28B21/00; for casting metals B22C9/00; moulds for plastic materials in general B29C33/00; falsework, forms or shutterings for forming buildings or parts thereof in situ E04G9/00 - E04G15/00
• CPC Class Codes: B28B 7/0005 Mould identification means, e.g. by radio frequency identification device [RFID]

Abstract

A casing element includes a casing frame and a casing shell spanning at least one opening in the casing frame. An RFID tag is arranged at or within a portion of the casing shell spanning the opening of the casing frame.

Claims

1. Casing element comprising:

a casing frame;

a casing shell spanning at least one opening in the casing frame; and

an RFID tag attached to or within a portion of the casing shell spanning the opening of the casing frame.

2. Casing element according to claim 1, wherein the RFID tag is arranged over the opening according to aspects optimized as regards to reception.

3. Casing element according to claim 1, wherein the RFID tag is implemented for the UHF frequency range.

4. Casing element according to claim 1, wherein several RFID tags comprising the same identifier are formed at or within portions of the casing shell spanning one or several openings of the casing frame.

5. Casing element according to claim 1, wherein the casing frame comprises a plurality of openings comprising outer and inner openings, wherein at least one RFID tag is arranged at or within a portion of the casing shell spanning an inner opening.

6. Casing element according to claim 1, wherein the casing shell can be replaced.

7. Device for allocating identifiers to casing elements, comprising:

a memory where a frame identifier and a current casing shell identifier are stored for each of a plurality of casing elements,

wherein the device is implemented to replace the current casing shell identifier by a new current casing shell identifier when the casing shell of a casing shell element is replaced.

8. Device according to claim 7, which is implemented to receive a casing shell identifier from a casing shell to be replaced, to identify the allocated casing element by accessing the memory, to receive a casing shell identifier of a new casing shell, and to replace the current casing shell identifier of the identified casing element by the new casing shell identifier.

9. Device according to claim 7, wherein the memory is further implemented to store data with regard to the usage of the casing elements.

10. Method for allocating identifiers to casing elements, comprising:

storing a frame identifier and a current casing shell identifier for each of a plurality of casing elements in a memory; and

replacing the current casing shell identifier by a new current casing shell identifier when the casing shell of a casing element is replaced.

11. A non-transitory computer readable medium including a computer program product comprising a program code that is effective to perform, when the computer program product runs on a computer, a method for allocating identifiers to casing elements, the method comprising:

storing a frame identifier and a current casing shell identifier for each of a plurality of casing elements in a memory; and

replacing the current casing shell identifier by a new current casing shell identifier when the casing shell of a casing element is replaced.