公开(公告)号：EP2117979B1

公开(公告)日：2010-11-10

申请号：EP07726935.5

申请日：2007-03-15

Applicant: ABB Technology AB

Inventor： KNOBEL, Henrik ,  WARVELIN, Mats E.

IPC: B65G61/00 ,  B25J9/16

CPC classification number: B65G61/00 ,  B25J9/1687

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a system for controlling an automatic flow of products. The system comprises a plurality of transport stations (1a-c) which supply or consume the products , at least one aggregation station (5a-b) on which an aggregation (6a-b) of products is built up or dismounted, a programmable mechanical device (8) adapted to move the products be- t w e e n the transport stations and the aggregation station, a queue for the aggregation station, and at least one computing device (9) having therein program code configured to: receive at least one sequence of operations defining at least a part of a desired flow of products to or from the aggregation station in order to build up or dismount said aggregation of products according to the pattern, load the received sequence of operations to t h e queue of the aggregation station, and repeat the following steps until all operations in the queue have been executed: retrieve next operation from the queue of the aggregation station, select one of the transport stations and control it based on the retrieved operation, and instruct the mechanical unit to perform movement s for transporting a product between the selected transport station and the aggregation station based on the retrieved operation.

公开(公告)号：EP2198228A1

公开(公告)日：2010-06-23

申请号：EP08807219.4

申请日：2008-10-09

Applicant: ABB Technology AB

Inventor： RYDHOLM, Bengt ,  SVENSSON, Erik ,  LUNDSTROM, Alf ,  HACKL, Helmut ,  SJODEN, Olof ,  ERIKSSON, Jan-Erik ,  KROON, Tord ,  LINDBLAD, Tord

IPC: F27B3/04 ,  F27D23/04 ,  F27D3/00 ,  C22B21/00 ,  C22B7/00

CPC classification number: F27B3/045 ,  C22B7/003 ,  C22B9/003 ,  C22B21/0092 ,  F27D3/0033 ,  F27D27/00 ,  Y02P10/218 ,  Y02P10/253

Abstract: A furnace plant including at least one furnace vessel comprising side walls, a bottom and a roof. At least one heater is configured to heat metal in the furnace vessel. A compartment includes sidewalls lined with refractory material. The compartment forms an extension of the furnace vessel. At least one electromagnetic stirrer is arranged outside and adjacent to the compartment. A refractory plate is arranged inside the compartment. The refractory plate includes an upper edge configured to be positioned below a meniscus of molten metal and includes a lower edge positioned spaced apart from a bottom of the compartment. The plate is arranged such that a gap between the plate and a wall of the compartment increases toward the bottom of the compartment.

公开(公告)号：EP2129498A1

公开(公告)日：2009-12-09

申请号：EP07727551.9

申请日：2007-03-30

Applicant: ABB Technology AB

Inventor： ADNER, Andreas ,  WANG, Jackson-Haipeng ,  QI, Levi-Liwei ,  YIN, Xingguo

IPC: B25J9/16 ,  G05B19/042

CPC classification number: B25J9/1661 ,  G05B19/0426 ,  G05B2219/23258 ,  G05B2219/23261 ,  G05B2219/39105 ,  G05B2219/40308 ,  G05B2219/40392 ,  G05B2219/40395 ,  Y02P90/083 ,  Y02P90/087

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus (1) for programming an industrial robot working in a work cell including one or more workstations and the robot is visiting and performing work on the workstations. The apparatus comprises: a memory location (2) for storing preprogrammed robot code comprising program instructions where accommodations for optional parameters are made, and for storing at least one predefined workstation having a plurality of different scenarios, each scenario including a set of parameters defining how the robot will perform work on the workstation, a graphical display and input device (3) adapted to present a graphical user interface displaying a graphical object representing the workstation, displaying information about the scenarios together with the graphical object representing the workstation and allowing the user to select one of the scenarios associated with the workstation, and a robot program generator (4) adapted to generate a robot program based on user selected scenarios and the preprogrammed robot code.