Transport system

• US 7,511,250 B2
• Filed: 12/08/2005
• Issued: 03/31/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/13/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Durr Systems GmbH
• Original Assignee: Durr Systems GmbH
• Inventors: Lindig, Erik
• Primary Examiner(s): Van; Quang T
• Application Number:
  US11/298,638
• Publication Number:
  US 20060131294A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,209 Days
• Field of Search: 219/647, 219/653, 219/633, 219/635, 219/649, 219/673, 219/617, 219/660, 219/672, 104/130.01, 104/130.02, 104/130.03, 104/130.06, 104/130.07, 104/139, 104/293, 104/290, 104/282, 307/33, 307/104, 191/6, 191/33.R, 363/37
• US Class Current: 219/647
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2200/26 Rail vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 5/005 without mechanical contact between the collector and the power supply line

Abstract

In order to provide a transport system with a conductor system, which includes at least one supply conductor, which is connected to an energy source, at least one transport carriage movable along a travel path relative to the conductor system and at least one device for the non-contact transmission of energy from the conductor system to the transport carriage, in which transport system the stationary conductor loop has an inductance that is as low as possible and in which ohmic losses are kept as low as possible, it is proposed that the transport system includes at least one induction conductor, which at least in sections is arranged so closely adjacent to the supply conductor that an electric current flowing in the supply conductor generates an induction current in the induction conductor, wherein the induction conductor has at least two end regions, which are short-circuited to one another, and/or wherein the induction conductor is closed in a ring shape.

Claims

1. Transport system comprising a conductor system, which comprises at least one supply conductor, which is connected to an energy source, at least one transport carriage movable along a travel path relative to the conductor system and at least one device for the non-contact transmission of energy from the conductor system to the transport carriage,

wherein the transport system comprises at least one induction conductor, which at least in sections is arranged so closely adjacent to the supply conductor that an electric current flowing in the supply conductor generates an induction current in the induction conductor,

wherein the induction conductor has at least two end regions, which are short-circuited to one another, and/or

wherein the induction conductor is closed in a ring shape, and

wherein the supply conductor comprises a supply conductor travel path section, which runs essentially along the travel path, and

wherein the induction conductor runs along the supply conductor travel path section at least in sections.

2. Transport system according to claim 1, wherein two end regions of the induction conductor are short-circuited to one another by means of a short-circuit conductor.

3. Transport system according to claim 2, wherein the short-circuit conductor comprises a first short-circuit conductor section and a second short-circuit conductor section, which are connected to one another at a contact point remote from the energy source.

4. Transport system according to claim 3, wherein the supply conductor comprises a first supply conductor feed section with a lower section, which runs from the region of the contact point to a first output of the energy source.

5. Transport system according to claim 4, wherein the lower section of the first supply conductor feed section and the lower section of the second supply conductor feed section are run together in a multicore supply cable at least in sections.

6. Transport system according to claim 3, wherein the supply conductor comprises a second supply conductor feed section with a lower section, which runs from the region of the contact point to a second output of the energy source.

7. Transport system according to claim 1, wherein the supply conductor comprises a first supply conductor feed section, which connects the supply conductor travel path section to a first output of the energy source.

8. Transport system according to claim 7, wherein the short-circuit conductor comprises a first short-circuit conductor section, which runs along the first supply conductor feed section at least in sections.

9. Transport system according to claim 8, wherein the first supply conductor feed section and the first short-circuit conductor section are run together in a multicore supply cable at least in sections.

10. Transport system according to claim 9, wherein the first supply conductor feed section is run in at least two wires of the multicore supply cable, and that the first short-circuit conductor section is run in at least one wire of the multicore supply cable, which—

viewed in the peripheral direction of the supply cable—

is arranged between the two wires, in which the first supply conductor feed section is run.

11. Transport system according to claim 9, wherein the first short-circuit conductor section is run in at least two wires of the multicore supply cable, and that the first supply conductor feed section is run in at least one wire of the multicore supply cable, which—

viewed in the peripheral direction of the supply cable—

is arranged between the two wires, in which the first short-circuit conductor section is run.

12. Transport system according to claim 7, wherein the supply conductor comprises a second supply conductor feed section, which connects the supply conductor travel path section to a second output of the energy source.

13. Transport system according to claim 12, wherein the short-circuit conductor comprises a second short-circuit conductor section, which runs along the second supply conductor feed section at least in sections.

14. Transport system according to claim 13, wherein the second supply conductor feed section and the second short-circuit conductor section are run together in a multicore supply cable at least in sections.

15. Transport system according to claim 14, wherein the second supply conductor feed section is run in at least two wires of the multicore supply cable, and that the second short-circuit conductor section is run in at least one wire of the multicore supply cable, which—

viewed in the peripheral direction of the supply cable—

is arranged between the two wires, in which the second supply conductor feed section is run.

16. Transport system according to claim 12, wherein the second short-circuit conductor section is run in at least two wires of the multicore supply cable, and that the second supply conductor feed section is run in at least one wire of the multicore supply cable, which—

viewed in the peripheral direction of the supply cable—

is arranged between the two wires, in which the second supply conductor section is run.

17. Transport system according to claim 13, wherein the first short-circuit conductor section and the second short-circuit conductor section are connected to one another in the vicinity of the energy source.

18. Transport system according to claim 1, wherein the induction conductor comprises a plurality of induction conductor sections, which respectively have at least two end regions, wherein at least one end region of a first induction conductor section is electrically conductively connected to at least one end region of a second induction conductor section.

19. Transport system according to claim 18, wherein the at least one end region of the first induction conductor section is electrically conductively connected to the at least one end region of the second induction conductor section via a separate connection line.

20. Transport system according to claim 18, wherein the at least one end region of the first induction conductor section is electrically conductively connected to the at least one end region of the second induction conductor section via an electrically conductive mounting.

21. Transport system according to claim 18, wherein each end region of each induction conductor section is electrically conductively connected to at least one end region of the same induction conductor section or another induction conductor section.

22. Transport system according to claim 1, wherein the induction conductor and the supply conductor are electrically separated from one another.

23. Transport system according to claim 1, wherein the induction conductor comprises an element, which is configured at least in sections as a profile element.

24. Transport system according to claim 23, wherein at least in sections the profile element has a substantially U-shaped cross-section or an essentially double-T-shaped cross-section.

25. Transport system according to claim 1, wherein the induction conductor comprises an element, which is configured at least in sections as a travel rail, on which the transport carriage of the transport system is arranged.

26. Transport system according to claim 1, wherein the induction conductor comprises an element, which at least in sections is formed from aluminium or an aluminium alloy.

27. Transport system according to claim 1, wherein the conductor system of the transport system has no return conductor.

28. Transport system according to claim 1, wherein the energy source comprises a medium frequency generator.

29. Transport system comprising a conductor system, which comprises at least one supply conductor, which is connected to an energy source, at least one transport carriage movable along a travel path relative to the conductor system and at least one device for the non-contact transmission of energy from the conductor system to the transport carriage,

wherein the transport system comprises at least one induction conductor, which at least in sections is arranged so closely adjacent to the supply conductor that an electric current flowing in the supply conductor generates an induction current in the induction conductor, wherein the induction conductor has at least two end regions, which are short-circuited to one another by means of a short-circuit connector,

wherein the supply conductor comprises a first supply conductor feed section, which connects the supply conductor travel path section to a first output of the energy source, and

wherein the short-circuit conductor comprises a first short-circuit conductor section, which runs along the first supply conductor feed section at least in sections.

30. Transport system comprising a conductor system, which comprises at least one supply conductor, which is connected to an energy source, at least one transport carriage movable along a travel path relative to the conductor system and at least one device for the non-contact transmission of energy from the conductor system to the transport carriage,

wherein the transport system comprises at least one induction conductor, which at least in sections is arranged so closely adjacent to the supply conductor that an electric current flowing in the supply conductor generates an induction current in the induction conductor,

wherein the induction conductor has at least two end regions, which are short-circuited to one another, and/or wherein the induction conductor is closed in a ring shaped, and

wherein the induction conductor comprises an element, which is configured at least in sections as a travel rail on which the transport carriage of the transport system is arranged.

31. Transport system comprising a conductor system, which comprises at least one supply conductor, which is connected to an energy source, at least one transport carriage movable along a travel path relative to the conductor system and at least one device for the non-contact transmission of energy from the conductor system to the transport carriage,

wherein the transport system comprises at least one induction conductor, which at least in sections is arranged so closely adjacent to the supply conductor that an electric current flowing in the supply conductor generates an induction current in the induction conductor,

wherein the induction conductor has at least two end regions, which are short-circuited to one another, and/or wherein the induction conductor is closed in a ring shaped, and

wherein the induction conductor comprises an element, which at least in sections is formed from aluminium or an aluminium alloy.