Patent ID: 7752967

Claim:
An arrangement for synchronizing printing presses and additional components, in which arrangement a printing press and/or an additional component form/forms a master unit and is connected to further units via a connecting line, and drives of the connected master and further units are synchronized to each other, the master unit having a DC drive with a drive regulator and the further units having either AC drives and/or DC drives with drive regulators, wherein the master unit is synchronized internally via at least one drive shaft and the further units are synchronized internally via synchronism regulators in a case of an AC drive and via at least one drive shaft in a case of a DC drive, wherein, for the synchronization of the connected master and further units to each other, at least one additional synchronism regulator is arranged into the connecting line on at least one unit and all synchronism regulators of all units are connected to one another, wherein the connecting line is an unbranched connecting line from the additional synchronism regulator to a connecting point thereof with the further units, wherein the master unit comprises a sensor for sensing an actual positional value of the drive shaft, wherein an output of said sensor is directly connected to an input of the additional synchronism regulator for electronically generating on the basis of output signals of said sensor setpoint values for regulating the drive of the master unit and the drives of the further units thereby providing a virtual line shaft, wherein said virtual line shaft is formed in the synchronism regulator of the master unit providing a guidance function, said synchronism regulator of the master unit being integrated in the drive regulator of said master unit, and wherein the virtual line shaft is transmitted to the synchronism regulators of the further units by a sensor emulation thereby simulating electronically the output of said sensor which corresponds to the setpoint values being available without mechanical coupling.