EP0061596A1 - Machine d'impression avec moteurs de positionnement - Google Patents

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EP0061596A1
EP0061596A1 EP82101616A EP82101616A EP0061596A1 EP 0061596 A1 EP0061596 A1 EP 0061596A1 EP 82101616 A EP82101616 A EP 82101616A EP 82101616 A EP82101616 A EP 82101616A EP 0061596 A1 EP0061596 A1 EP 0061596A1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F33/00—Indicating, counting, warning, control or safety devices
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
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    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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  • the invention relates to a printing press, in particular an offset printing press, in which a plurality of individually switchable servomotors, in particular for setting the ink layer thickness profile, is provided, each servomotor being connected to a transmitter which has electrical signals characteristic of the respective actual position of the servomotor (Actual values) generated.
  • an undivided color knife can be used for this purpose, which is formed by a flexible metal strip which is deformed by color adjustment screws in accordance with the desired color layer thickness profile.
  • Newer machines use a split color knife, e.g. is formed by a series of eccentrically rotatably mounted adjusting cylinders aligned with one another, which, depending on their position, allow the printing ink to reach the ductor through a more or less wide gap.
  • the transmitter signals are converted into an optical light-emitting diode display, which allows the printer to read the thickness of the respective gap on a display panel.
  • Two pushbuttons are provided for each servomotor, by means of which the printer can run the servomotor forwards or backwards until he sees on the display that the servomotor has reached the desired position; then the printer releases the pressed button and stops the servomotor.
  • the servomotors are DC motors whose direction of rotation is determined by the direction of the voltage supplied.
  • 32 actuating cylinders are in a row next to one another arranged that supply a single inking unit.
  • 192 servomotors are therefore required, the setting of which at the beginning of the printing process requires a considerable amount of attention from the printer for a new original.
  • the invention has for its object to design a machine of the type described above with relatively simple means so that the servomotors automatically reach the target positions specified for them, it should not be excluded that the printer can observe this setting process and based on his experience in Can intervene in individual cases, if this should seem necessary for some reason.
  • the invention is intended to be used not only in the machine with the actuating cylinders described above, but in all printing presses in which a multiplicity of actuators are provided for actuating adjusting elements.
  • an electronic comparison device to which the actual values and, in addition, target values for the position of the individual servomotors are supplied and which cyclically polls the actual values one after the other, each actual Compares the value with the assigned target value and, if a predetermined positive or negative minimum deviation is exceeded, uses this to produce an actuating signal for the forward or reverse movement of the assigned servomotor and otherwise an actuating signal for generates the standstill of this servomotor that the actuating signals are fed to a switching device which is designed such that the respective servomotor is driven or comes to a standstill in the direction of rotation determined by the last actuating signal until the next associated actuating signal arrives.
  • the time interval between two successive scans of the same encoder by the comparison device is so short that the angle of rotation of the servomotor, including its stopping distance, which it still travels after switching off, is at most equal to half the tolerance angle, i.e. the angle by which the actual position of the motor may deviate from the theoretical target position in both directions of rotation, so that this deviation is still regarded as permissible for the application in question. If this scanning speed is correctly dimensioned taking into account the speed of the motor, the motor always comes to a standstill within the tolerance range when the actual value is scanned. The motor can therefore not exceed the tolerance range and therefore there is the advantage that it is not necessary to change the direction of rotation of the motor several times until it has reached its desired position.
  • the comparison device can be constructed very simply because it does not have to determine the size of the deviation of the actual position of the motor from its nominal position that is present with each scanning process, but only whether the motor is within or outside the tolerance range described above, and for this reason it is not necessary to determine and transmit data that represent the magnitude of this deviation, but only the above-mentioned data, namely the control signals for forward run, reverse run and standstill.
  • the invention can also be used to adjust the wet layer thickness, e.g. B. be used by means of actuating cylinders, as well as for setting the ink lifter.
  • a manual control as described at the beginning can also be provided. During the setting process, actuators that are assigned to different printing units can run simultaneously.
  • the actuating motor can be switched off with as little delay as possible, the actuating signals determined by the comparison device are expediently fed to the switching device immediately.
  • an electronic memory for storing the actuating signal is assigned to each servomotor in the switching device. Since the control signal can assume three different values, a single flip-flop is not sufficient for this, and therefore two flip-flops are provided for each memory in the later exemplary embodiment.
  • the comparison device can be connected directly to each switching device assigned to a servomotor, but in one embodiment of the invention is provided seen that the comparison device generates with each actuating signal an address signal which is assigned to the servo motor just scanned, that the address signal is fed to an address decoding circuit which supplies the actuating signal to the addressed memory which is assigned to the corresponding servomotor for storage.
  • This embodiment allows a relatively low outlay in terms of circuit technology, in particular in the case of the large number of servomotors as are present in the printing machines described above.
  • the address decoding circuit can be switched over depending on an operating mode signal which is supplied to it and which represents two possible operating modes (half-bridge circuit, full-bridge circuit). such that in one mode (half-bridge circuit) one Only one memory is assigned to the address, and two memories are assigned to one address in the other operating mode (full bridge circuit), which then store signals such that the relevant servomotor is supplied with different potentials at its armature terminals for forward and reverse operation.
  • this operating mode signal is set once by the manufacturer and can therefore be formed by a fixed potential.
  • this operating mode signal specifies the address decoding circuit only in relation to a small number of outputs of the switching device to a specific type of decoding, for example for only two outputs (here two half-bridge circuits or a full-bridge circuit can be implemented, or for Four outputs (four half-bridge circuits or two full-bridge circuits are possible here). It is possible to operate servomotors in a printing machine, partly in full-bridge circuit and partly in half-bridge circuit.
  • the comparison device contains an analog comparator for comparing the target values and actual values.
  • the comparison device contains a digital comparator for this purpose; this can essentially be formed by a subtractor.
  • a brake logic circuit which, when the control signal is present for standstill, a control signal is generated for a connected power stage with switches in full bridge circuit, which controls two switches connected to the same pole of the motor supply voltage source.
  • This braking device can be switched depending on the above-mentioned operating mode signal, so that, as in the later exemplary embodiment, the braking device is only effective with a full bridge circuit.
  • the servomotors for a printing machine described above require a current which can be approximately up to 0.5 A per servomotor. If you wanted the above mentioned e.g. Allowing 192 servomotors to start up at the same time would require such a large total current for the parallel connection in question that the power supply unit required for this would be uneconomically large and expensive, especially considering the running time of the servomotors of only a few hours per year. In the known printing press described above, generally only a few of the servomotors run simultaneously.
  • a control device is provided behind the memory, which controls the electrical energy for driving the Servomotors successively only one of a plurality of predetermined groups of the servomotors for a predetermined period of time.
  • the comparison device is designed to determine the exceeding of several differently large minimum deviations by the actual values, and that a switchover device is provided which includes predetermined servomotors at the beginning of a setting process at a first predetermined speed, these servomotors being stopped when the temperature falls below a first minimum deviation, and that the switching device then allows these servomotors to run at a speed that is lower than the first speed and the comparison device switches over to a minimum deviation that is smaller than the first minimum deviation.
  • the minimum deviation can then be chosen smaller due to the reduced speed of the motors and with this fine adjustment the Servomotors are positioned in the desired position.
  • the advantage here is that especially when setting all the servomotors of the machine for the first time, the setting process can be accelerated compared to those embodiments in which the servomotors can run at only a single speed.
  • the arrangement can be made in the simplest case so that the switching of the servomotors to the reduced speed only takes place when all the servomotors that can run at the increased speed described have been stopped when the temperature falls below the first minimum deviation.
  • the arrangement can expediently be such that not all servomotors run at the same speed at the same time, but, for example, only at most 16 servomotors each, so that the current consumption from a power supply device remains limited to relatively low values, as has already been explained above.
  • the reduced speed can be brought about by the timing described above.
  • the switching device contains at least one integrated circuit which has: Depending on the Control signals controllable power levels for connecting at least two servomotors, at least one address input for addressing the power levels, at least one data input for the control signals and at least one memory device for each power level for storing the control signals.
  • the integrated circuit preferably has power stages for connecting a total of four servomotors in a half-bridge circuit or two servomotors in a full-bridge circuit; This embodiment can still be implemented without difficulty taking into account the external connections present in conventional housings for integrated circuits and the power loss. Protection is also claimed for the integrated circuit alone.
  • the integrated circuit is advantageous in bipolar technology, e.g. B. I 2 L, or MOS technology. These techniques allow logic circuits and power stages to be implemented on the same die.
  • FIG. 1 shows a side view, partially broken off, of an offset printing press 1 with eight printing units, with five of the printing units not being visible.
  • a printing press 8 In one of the machine parts visible in FIG. 1, some parts of a printing press 8 are shown.
  • the printing unit has a plate cylinder 2, which carries the printing plate and cooperates with the blanket cylinder 3, which transfers the printing ink to the paper to be printed, which runs between the blanket cylinder 3 and an impression cylinder 4. From the associated inking unit, only the ink metering box 5 with duct 6 is visible.
  • a divided ink knife 7, which consists of a series of actuating cylinders 15 (FIG. 2), each of which is connected to a servomotor 9.
  • the printing unit 8 is also assigned a dampening unit 11 which has a water tank 12. Numerous other devices, in particular rollers for transporting the printing ink and water, and transport rollers are not shown for the sake of simplicity.
  • the servomotor 9 designed as a direct current motor drives a shaft 16 to which a potentiometer 17 is coupled.
  • the shaft 16 carries at its end a threaded section 18 on which an adjusting piece 19 is screwed, which is connected via a link 20 to a lever 21 rigidly connected to the actuating cylinder 15.
  • the lower base of the ink metering box 5 is formed by a plastic film 22, and depending on the position of the adjusting cylinder 15 having an eccentric twist 14, this plastic film 22 is pressed more or less close to the outer surface of the duct 6 and thereby a more or less thick gap 23 is formed, through which the ink can reach the lower region of the duct roller.
  • the ink is then removed from other rollers of the inking unit in a manner not shown.
  • the adjustment cylinder 15 is thus adjusted by a displacement of the adjustment piece 19 as a result of a rotary movement of the servomotor 9.
  • Two of the electrical connections of the potentiometer 17 are connected to a voltage source; the wiper of the potentiometer 17 is led out via a third line.
  • the potentiometer 17 thus allows the respective position of the actuating cylinder 15 to be measured electrically precisely.
  • 32 actuating cylinders 15 are assigned to each of the printing units of the printing press 1, the press 1 therefore has a total of 256 actuating cylinders and the same number of actuating motors 9.
  • potentiometers 17 3 only two of the 256 potentiometers 17 are shown. In the upper one, the mechanical actuation by the servomotor 9 is indicated by a dashed connection.
  • any other adjustable memory for voltage values can also be used, in particular also a digital memory for digital values of the voltage, which is followed by a digital-to-analog converter, at whose output a DC voltage corresponding to the stored digital value is generated.
  • An eight-digit binary counter 35 is provided, the counting input of which 36 pulses are supplied at regular intervals by a clock generator. The respective counter reading appears at outputs 37 as a binary number. 256 different meter readings are possible. The binary number appearing at the outputs 37 forms an address for the individual potentiometers 17.
  • a first decoding circuit 38 is provided, the inputs of which are connected to the outputs 37. The first decoding circuit 38 has 256 outputs.
  • a switch 40 which is connected to exactly one output line of the first decoding circuit 38, is assigned to each of the mutually associated pairs of a potentiometer 17 and a potentiometer 30. Of the first decoder circuit 38 in 'Fig.
  • a comparator circuit 44 which contains two individual comparators 45 and 46, each of which emits a positive output signal representing the logic value 1 when the signal fed to its lower input on the left side is higher than the signal fed to its upper input on the left.
  • the voltage supplied by the wiper of the potentiometer 30 to the line 43, which represents the exact target value of the rotational position of the associated servomotor 9, is raised somewhat via an adjustable resistor 47, the other end of which is connected to positive voltage, this voltage increase increasing the permissible deviation of the Rotary position of the servomotor 9 corresponds from the setpoint upwards. This raised voltage value is fed to the upper input of the comparator 45.
  • a voltage value is supplied to the lower input of the comparator 46, which is reduced by an amount that is twice the deviation compared to the voltage value supplied to the upper input of the comparator 45 by means of an adjustable resistor 48, which forms a voltage divider with a resistor 49 connected to ground corresponds to the rotary position of the servomotor 9 from the setpoint.
  • Line 42 is connected to the lower input of comparator 45 and the upper input of comparator 46.
  • a positive signal therefore appears at the output of the comparator 45 if the voltage on the line 42 is greater than a voltage which corresponds to the nominal value of this voltage plus the tolerance set by the resistor 47, and a positive signal then appears at the output of the comparator 46 if the voltage on line 42 is lower than the target voltage minus the allowable deviation from the target value.
  • the output voltages of the comparators are 45 and 46 0 V.
  • the six most significant outputs of the counter 35 are fed to a second decoding circuit 50 with 64 outputs, where assumes a low potential as a function of the counter reading of the counter 35 for only one of these outputs, which serves as a chip selection signal for selecting one of 64 integrated circuits 52.
  • the two least significant outputs of the counter 35 are fed to two address inputs of each of the integrated circuits 52.
  • the outputs of the comparators 45 and 46 are also fed via lines 51 and 53 to two data inputs of each integrated circuit 52.
  • Each integrated circuit 52 has four outputs, which allow the connection of four servomotors 9 in a half-bridge circuit or two servomotors 9 in a full-bridge circuit.
  • the logical circuit diagram of the integrated circuit 52 is shown. It contains inverters, AND gates, NAND gates, NOR gates and flip-flops, which are represented by the known symbols, and also four power stages 56 to 59, which are each of the same design. All connections for the operation of the logic circuits are shown on the left edge of FIG. 4.
  • a reset input R is used to reset all flip-flops when the power supply for the illustrated electronic circuits is switched on, in order to ensure defined output states.
  • the inputs AO and A1 are supplied with the address signals supplied by the two least significant outputs of the counter 35.
  • Two negated chip selection inputs CS1 and CS2 are provided; one of these inputs is connected to exactly one of the outputs of the second decoding circuit 50, the other of these two inputs is set to 0 V.
  • Two further connections U, GND) are provided for the voltage supply of the logic circuit.
  • An input FZ / RE is used to switch between half-bridge and full-bridge circuits. If this input is connected to ground, i.e.
  • four servomotors can be connected in half-bridge circuit to the output stages 56 to 59. If the input FZ / RE is connected to a positive voltage of 5 volts in the example, the output stage pairs 56 and 57 can on the one hand and 58 and 59, on the other hand, each have a servomotor connected in full-bridge circuit.
  • control signals appearing on lines 51 and 53 which can also assume the logical values 0 and 1, are fed to the data inputs D + and D-.
  • Two equal inputs P and SP make it possible to block the output stages 56 to 59 without influencing the memory, e.g. B. for pulse operation.
  • connections for a positive and negative supply voltage for the servomotors to be connected are drawn in on the right-hand edge of FIG. 4; in the exemplary embodiment these are the voltages of +15 V and -15 V.
  • the power stages 56 to 59 each have two outputs, each of which the upper one can switch through the positive supply voltage of +15 V and the lower one the negative supply voltage of -15 V to a connected servomotor.
  • the integrated circuit 52 contains several functional units.
  • An operating mode-dependent address decoding 60 is provided which, depending on whether the integrated circuit 52 is switched to half-bridge circuit or full-bridge circuit, either assigns exactly one of the power stages 56 to 59 to one specific address supplied to the connections A0 and A1, or one of the pairs 56, 57 or 58, 59 of the power levels.
  • a data interlock 61 ensures that only one of its two outputs can assume the value logic 1, or that both outputs have the value logic 0.
  • the data latch 61 provides security against interference in the event that the logic 1 signal occurs simultaneously on the lines 51 and 53 for some reason.
  • An operating mode-dependent data decoding 62 carries the data, namely the control signals, depending on whether the integrated circuit 52 is switched to half-bridge formwork or full-bridge circuit, in each case only to the memory assigned to a single power level or to a pair of power levels 56, 57 or 58, 59 assigned memories.
  • the eight flip-flops 54, 55 provided are combined to form a storage unit 63 by a dashed frame. Two of the flip-flops are assigned to a power amplifier, this is also indicated by dashed lines.
  • Each of the flip-flops 54, 55 has a clock input T, a reset input R, a data input D and a non-inverting and inverting output Q and Q, respectively.
  • the flip-flops 54, 55 are clock-controlled (latch) and store the information contained in them at the end of the clock pulse. During the application of the clock pulse, the memory content follows the input signal.
  • a functional unit pulse signal processing 64 evaluates the input signal fed to the inputs 7 and SP in order to block the power stages 56 to 59 in accordance with these signals.
  • This pulse signal processing 64 is connected downstream of the memory unit 63 and effects a mutual locking of the output signals of the two flip-flops 54 and 55 assigned to an output stage are fed for forward or reverse running of the respectively connected servomotor, the connections of the armature of the servomotor are at the same potential, -15 V in the example.
  • the armature of the servomotor is short-circuited and is therefore braked very quickly. If the armature is already at a standstill, undesired twisting of the armature, for example as a result of vibrations, is prevented.
  • the logic elements connected downstream of each pair of flip-flops 54 and 55, each of which together form a memory assigned to exactly one power level, and which are part of the pulse signal processing 64 and the operating mode-dependent braking logic 65, are connected in the same way in all cases.
  • These are three NAND gates 91, 92, 93, a NOT gate 94 and an AND gate 95.
  • the output of the NOT gate 94 is in each case connected to the upper input of the assigned power stage 56 to 59, that is to say the input E1 +, E2 + etc. connected.
  • the output of element 95 is connected to the other input of the power stage.
  • the entrance of limb 94 is connected to the output of link 91.
  • One input of the link 95 is connected to the output of the link 93, the other input to the output of the link ⁇ 92.
  • the inputs of the link 93 are to the outputs of the links 91 and 92 and to the input FZ / RE of the integrated circuit 52 connected.
  • the inputs of the gate 91 are connected on the one hand to the output of a NOR gate 96, the inputs of which are connected to the control inputs P and SP of the integrated circuit 52, the further inputs of the gate 91 are connected to the non-inverting output of the flip-flop 54 and the inverting one Output of the flip-flop 55 connected.
  • One input of the link 92 is again connected to the output of the link 96, the other two inputs are connected to the inverting output of the flip-flop 54 and the non-inverting output of the flip-flop 55.
  • the braking logic 65 which is formed by the elements 93, 94 and 95, ensures that when the flip-flops 54 and 55 have a memory content with the logical values 0, 0 and half-bridge switching, the signals 0; 1 are present and thus the two outputs M + and M- of this power level are switched off, whereas with full bridge circuit with the same memory content 0; 0 at the inputs of the two power levels assigned to one another, for example 56 and 57, the logic level 0 is everywhere, so that at both power levels, the output M- is at the negative motor supply voltage, which means that electrical braking of the motor is possible.
  • FIG. 5 shows in a simplified manner how four servomotors 9 can be connected to an integrated circuit 52 in a half-bridge circuit.
  • the two outputs of each power stage 56, 57, 58, 59, which are designated M1 +, M1- for example at power stage 56, are connected to one another, and a servomotor 9 is switched on between the connection point and ground.
  • the two outputs belonging to each of the power stages 56 to 59 could also be connected to one another within the integrated circuit 52. However, they are brought out so that a servomotor that is only operated in one direction of rotation or another consumer can be connected to each of the outputs if required. However, it is then advisable to ensure that the two outputs can be controlled independently of one another.
  • the logic input FZ / RE is connected to ground, that is to say to logic 0.
  • the logic input FZ / RE is at +5 V, this voltage value represents the logic level 1.
  • the two outputs belonging to one of the output stages 56 to 59 are in turn connected to one another and an actuator 9 is between the common ones Outputs of power level 56 and 57 switched on, another servomotor 9 between the interconnected outputs of power level 58 and power level 59.
  • FIG. 7 shows the circuit diagram of an exemplary embodiment of power stages which form a full bridge circuit. These power levels can form the power levels of the integrated circuit 52, with changes required in individual cases due to the integrated circuit technology could be.
  • the two power stages 56 and 57 of the integrated circuit according to FIG. 4 are shown in FIG. 7, and therefore the same designations for the signal inputs E1 +, E1-, E2 +, E2- are also shown in FIG. and the outputs Ml +, M1-, M2 +, M2- used. 7 are the connections for the positive and negative supply voltage for the motor, as well as the positive supply voltage for the logic (+5 V) and the ground connection for the logic (GND).
  • a pnp power transistor 70 has its emitter connected to the positive motor supply voltage and its collector to the M1 + output.
  • An npn power transistor 71 is connected with its collector to the output M1- and with its emitter to the negative pole of the motor supply voltage.
  • Both callector-emitter sections are bridged by a diode 72, which is connected in the opposite direction to the polarity of the respective base-emitter diode. These diodes 72 serve to protect the transistors 70 and 71.
  • In each transistor 70, 71 there is a connection between the base connection and emitter connection via a resistor 75 and 76, which are of the same size.
  • the collector of an npn transistor 78 is connected to the base of transistor 70, the emitter of which is connected via a resistor 79 to the connection for the ground potential of the logic (GND).
  • This connection is connected via a voltage source 80 to the base of the transistor 78, which is also connected via a resistor 81 to the connection E1 +.
  • the voltage source 80 is formed by a series connection of four diodes.
  • the base of transistor 71 is connected to the collector of a pnp transistor 84, the emitter of which is connected via a resistor 85 to the connection for the positive supply voltage for logic, which is connected to the base of transistor 84 via a voltage source 86 which is also formed by a series connection of four diodes.
  • the diodes of voltage sources 80 and 86 are each coupled in the same direction as the base-emitter diode of the associated transistor. These diodes 80 and 86, in conjunction with the resistors 81 and 82, hold the base voltage of the transistors 78 and 84 even when the values of E1 +, E1- are different, if they are e.g. B.
  • This current can flow through the collector-emitter path of the transistor 71, since this is controlled to be conductive at its base. With a customary dimensioning of the base voltage of the transistors 71 of the two power stages, however, the current could not flow through the transistor 71 of the power stage 57 because this is an npn transistor. In this case, the current flows through the diode 72 connected in parallel with this transistor. Since a voltage of about 0.7 V to 1'V drops across this diode, an armature current flows in the motor 9 only until its terminal voltage has just reached it mentioned voltage value drops, then the motor is no longer braked electrically, but only by the frictional forces to be overcome by it.
  • the resistor 85 in both output stages 56 and 57 is so small that the transistor 84 supplies the base of the transistor 71 with a base current which is at least about 30 times as large as is required for the normal switching operation of the transistor.
  • the servomotor 9 is therefore electrically braked to a significantly lower terminal voltage and therefore comes to a standstill much faster than if the armature current during the Braking process could only flow through the diode 72 within the power stage 57. In the direction of the armature current shown in FIG.
  • the transistor 71 of the power stage 56 it would not be necessary for the transistor 71 of the power stage 56 to be supplied with the aforementioned high base current, but the dimensioning of the resistors 85 described makes it superfluous, to each of the transistors 71 if necessary switching on a higher base voltage and thereby simplifying the circuit. It goes without saying that the arrangement could also be such that the two transistors 71 are blocked for braking the motor 9 and the two transistors 70 are controlled to be conductive; these latter transistors would then have to be supplied in the manner described with the base current which is higher than in normal operation. In the exemplary embodiment described, however, the resistors 79 are larger than the resistors 85, so that the transistors 70 can only conduct a current flowing from the emitter to the collector.
  • the following values apply to the individual components: It is assumed that the described rapid braking of the servomotors 9 is not necessary in a printing machine for the ink zone control. These servomotors, which are used to set the ink layer thickness, can therefore be connected in a half-bridge circuit.
  • a printing machine for multicolor printing also has setting devices by means of which a precise match of the individual prints applied by the different printing units, each with a different color, is ensured. These adjustment devices are called registers. Since a very high setting accuracy is required here, it will generally be necessary to operate the servomotors that drive the registers in full bridge circuit in the manner described above in order to be able to brake these servomotors quickly.
  • the terminal designation FZ / RE was chosen with regard to the terms color zone and register.
  • the registers are generally adjusted by the printer during the printing process, but can also be done automatically.
  • the cycle time that is to say the time period which is available for the detection of the actual values by the comparison device and the forwarding of the control signals up to the power levels, is approximately 50 is.
  • the servomotors 9 are each operated in pulsed fashion via the pulse input P, the current flow time in the motor in the exemplary embodiment being 30 ms and the pause between two pulses being 270 ms. Different groups of servomotors are supplied with the current pulses at different times from each other.
  • the time required for a servomotor to run through the entire adjustment range is 8 seconds.
  • the entire adjustment range is divided into 256 intervals, which should be accessible individually. Each of these intervals or increments has a length of approximately 30 ms.
  • the electronic device 600 described above can query the actual values, together with the corresponding determination of the actuating signals. Since the printing press with eight printing units described above as an example requires around 24 additional servomotors for the registers, i.e. a total of 280 servomotors, in addition to the actuators for the ink zone setting, two inquiries are made for each servomotor within each of its individually approachable 256 increments. There is thus a high level of security against accidents which could occur because one of the queries is disturbed for some reason.
  • FIG. 8 shows an overall circuit which can be provided instead of the circuit arrangement shown in FIG. 3 and which has a digital comparison device.
  • the actual values are also recorded here by the potentiometer 17, of which only two are shown, one for the actual value 1 and one for the actual value 256.
  • 64 integrated circuits 52 are provided, which additionally with the designations IS 1 (integrated circuit 1) to IS 64. Only four of these integrated circuits are shown in FIG.
  • the analog signals generated by the potentiometers 17 for the actual values are fed to an analog multiplexer 120.
  • the signals appearing at the eight most significant outputs 142 to 149 are used as address signals, these are supplied among other things to address inputs of the analog multiplexer 120.
  • the actual value selected by the address present in each case is fed from the analog multiplexer 120 to an input of an analog-digital converter 150, which converts this analog signal into 8-bit binary information, which is parallel to a group of inputs 152 of a binary comparator 151 are supplied.
  • the analog-digital converter 150 also receives its start command for conversion from the least significant output 141 of the binary counter 135. Since the pulse repetition frequency appearing at this output 141 is twice as high as the switching frequency of the addresses appearing at the outputs 142 to 149, it is ensured that that between the generation of two successive addresses, the analog-to-digital converter 150 receives a start signal.
  • a second group 153 of inputs of the binary comparator 151 are supplied with digital setpoints from a digital setpoint memory, to which the address signals from the binary counter 135 are also fed and which in each case connects through the setpoint to the binary comparator that has just been switched through by the analog multiplexer 120 Value is assigned.
  • the inputs 156 of the setpoint memory 155 supplied digital target values can be generated with the aid of an analog-digital converter from analog signals, which are supplied, for example, by potentiometers. However, these target values can also be entered into the target value memory 155 by means of a keyboard or from a computer or from a data medium on which they are stored in binary form.
  • the binary comparator 151 is a subtracting circuit. It performs the subtraction of the signals fed to the inputs 152 from the signals fed to the inputs 153 whenever an output Data Ready of the analog-digital converter 150 outputs a signal to the binary comparator 151. Depending on the result of the subtraction, the binary comparator 151 then outputs an output 160 (if the signal at the inputs 152 was greater than at the inputs 153) or 161 (in the opposite case), assuming that the two values are mutually exclusive have to distinguish the minimum deviation described at the outset, or the binary comparator 151 does not output an output signal.
  • the outputs 160 and 161 are connected to the data inputs D + and D- of the integrated circuit 52.
  • the two least significant bits of the address present at the analog multiplexer are applied to the address inputs AO and A1 of the integrated circuits 52 and thus cause a preselection of the output stages of the individual integrated circuits.
  • the chip selection itself is carried out with the aid of a decoder 165 with 5 inputs and 32 outputs and with the aid of the most significant address bit.
  • the 64 integrated circuits 52 are divided into two groups IS1 to IS32 and IS33 to IS64. An integrated circuit of each group receives the CS 2 signal from decoder 165.
  • One of the groups 1 to 32 or 33 to 64 is then selected by the most significant address bit, which is applied directly to the CS 1 inputs in the first group and inverted to the CS 1 inputs by a NOT element 170 in the second group .
  • the integrated circuits 52 in FIG. 8 are the same as described with reference to FIG. 4.

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  • Inking, Control Or Cleaning Of Printing Machines (AREA)
  • Control Of Multiple Motors (AREA)
  • Rotary Presses (AREA)
  • Electrical Discharge Machining, Electrochemical Machining, And Combined Machining (AREA)
  • Epoxy Resins (AREA)
  • Control Of Positive-Displacement Air Blowers (AREA)
  • Fluid-Pressure Circuits (AREA)
  • Blow-Moulding Or Thermoforming Of Plastics Or The Like (AREA)
  • Control Of Direct Current Motors (AREA)
  • Dot-Matrix Printers And Others (AREA)
  • Printers Or Recording Devices Using Electromagnetic And Radiation Means (AREA)
  • Particle Formation And Scattering Control In Inkjet Printers (AREA)
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