Technique for arranging a marking around a prolate object

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12202248-B2
Application number	US-202017765003-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 6, 2020
Priority date	Oct 9, 2019
Publication date	Jan 21, 2025
Grant date	Jan 21, 2025

Abstract

A device for arranging a marking around a prolate object includes: a material interface for receiving a printed product provided by a printer; a printing signal interface for acquiring a control signal indicative of the provision of the printed product; a stop for limiting a longitudinal motion of the prolate object along a longitudinal axis in an end position of the prolate object relative to the device; and at least one actuator for, depending on the control signal indicative of the provision of the printed product, arranging the marking in a circumferentially closed manner on the prolate object using the printed product provided by the printer. The prolate object is arranged in the end position.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A device for arranging a marking around a prolate object, comprising:
a material interface configured to receive a printed product provided by a printer;
a printing signal interface configured to acquire a control signal indicative of the provision of the printed product;
a stop configured to limit a longitudinal motion of the prolate object along a longitudinal axis in an end position of the prolate object relative to the device; and
at least one actuator configured to, depending on the control signal indicative of the provision of the printed product, arrange the marking in a circumferentially closed manner on the prolate object using the printed product provided by the printer,
wherein the prolate object is arrangeable in the end position,
wherein the stop is mounted for pivotal motion about a pivot axis between a first pivot position and a second pivot position, and
wherein the stop is configured to limit a longitudinal motion of the prolate object along the longitudinal axis in the first pivot position and is arranged outside the longitudinal axis in the second pivot position.

2. The device of claim 1 , wherein an end of the prolate object abuts the stop prior to the arranging of the marking and/or during the arranging of the marking.

3. The device of claim 1 , wherein the stop is adjustably positioned along the longitudinal axis and the adjustable position of the stop determines a distance between an end of the object abutting the stop and the marking arranged on the object.

4. The device of claim 3 , wherein the position of the stop is manually adjustable by a threaded rod parallel to the longitudinal axis.

5. The device of claim 3 , wherein the position of the stop is adjustable by a spindle parallel to the longitudinal axis, which is in driving connection with the at least one actuator or a further actuator of the device.

6. The device of claim 1 , wherein the material interface is configured to receive the printed product provided by the printer in a longitudinal direction, and
wherein the longitudinal axis is parallel or perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the printed product.

7. The device of claim 3 , wherein the position of the stop is adjustable by a spindle parallel to the longitudinal axis, which is in driving connection with a further actuator of the device,
wherein the device further comprises a control unit or a regulating unit configured to control or regulate the at least one actuator of the device for the arranging of the marking, and to control or regulate the further actuator for the pivotal motion of the stop, and
wherein the stop is in the first pivot position prior to the arranging of the marking and is in the second pivot position during the arrangement.

8. The device of claim 1 , further comprising:
at least one object holder configured to receive and/or support the object longitudinally movable along the longitudinal axis relative to the device.

9. The device of claim 8 , wherein the at least one object holder defines the end position transverse to the longitudinal axis.

10. The device of claim 8 , wherein the at least one object holder comprises an object holder along the longitudinal axis on either side of a location of the arranging of the marking.

11. The device of claim 8 , wherein one object holder of the at least one object holder is arranged along the longitudinal axis between the stop and the location of the arranging of the marking.

12. The device of claim 8 , wherein the stop comprises an object holder of the at least one object holder, and/or
wherein an object holder of the at least one object holder is rigidly connected to the stop.

13. The device of claim 8 , wherein the at least one object holder or each object holder of the at least one object holder comprises:
a fork having two upwardly diverging fork arms configured to receive the object between the fork arms with the longitudinal axis of the object transverse to a plane spanned by the fork arms.

14. The device of claim 8 , wherein the stop and/or the at least one object holder comprises at least one sensor configured to acquire a control signal indicative of the arranging of the marking.

15. A system for arranging a marking around a prolate object, comprising:
a printer configured to provide a printed product; and
the device of claim 1 ,
wherein the material interface is arranged, relative to the printer, to receive the printed product provided by the printer.

16. The device of claim 1 , wherein the prolate object comprises a conductor.

17. The device of claim 1 , wherein the end position is relative to a location of the arranging of the marking.

18. The device of claim 2 , wherein the end of the prolate object abuts a stop surface of the stop prior to the arranging of the marking and/or during the arranging of the marking.

19. A device for arranging a marking around a prolate object, comprising:
a material interface configured to receive a printed product provided by a printer;
a printing signal interface configured to acquire a control signal indicative of the provision of the printed product;
a stop configured to limit a longitudinal motion of the prolate object along a longitudinal axis in an end position of the prolate object relative to the device; and
at least one actuator configured to, depending on the control signal indicative of the provision of the printed product, arrange the marking in a circumferentially closed manner on the prolate object using the printed product provided by the printer,
wherein the prolate object is arrangeable in the end position,
wherein the stop is adjustably positioned along the longitudinal axis and the adjustable position of the stop determines a distance between an end of the object abutting the stop and the marking arranged on the object,
wherein the position of the stop is adjustable by a spindle parallel to the longitudinal axis, which is in driving connection with the at least one actuator or a further actuator of the device,
wherein the stop is mounted for pivotal motion about a pivot axis between a first pivot position and a second pivot position,
wherein the stop is configured to limit a longitudinal motion of the prolate object along the longitudinal axis in the first pivot position and is arranged outside the longitudinal axis in the second pivot position,
wherein the device further comprises a control unit or a regulating unit configured to control or regulate the at least one actuator of the device for the arranging of the marking, and to control or regulate the further actuator for the pivotal motion of the stop, and
wherein the stop is in the first pivot position prior to the arranging of the marking and is in the second pivot position during the arrangement.

Assignees

• Phoenix Contact Gmbh & Co

Inventors

• Klages Kilian
• Hanselle Bianca
• Pradel Benjamin

Classifications

• B41J3/44

  Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms having dual functions or combined with, or coupled to, apparatus performing other functions · CPC title

• B65C11/02

  having printing equipment · CPC title

• B65C3/02

  Affixing labels to elongated objects, e.g. wires, cables, bars, tubes · CPC title

• H01B13/344

  by applying sleeves, ferrules, tags, clips, labels or short length strips · CPC title

• B41J3/4075

  Tape printers; Label printers · CPC title