| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 700081000 | Self-test | 29 |
| 20080221713 | Apparatus Control System, Apparatus, and Computer-Readable Recording Medium Where Apparatus Control Program is Recorded - An apparatus control system for enabling different operators to perform apparatus setting and network setting independently and efficiently and to easily confirm a setting status, an apparatus, and a computer-readable recording medium where an apparatus control program is recorded are disclosed. An apparatus setter ( | 09-11-2008 |
| 20090030533 | Products, Device, and System for Controlling - A product for controlling physical properties comprising data processing means with inputs and outputs is disclosed. The product has approved bounds of behaviour. At least one of said outputs comprises at least one control signal disposed to be output by said product, and said data processing means comprises a processing control means; and a software comprising at least one application, and having a certificate uniquely associated to said at least one application. The processing control means further comprises means for confirming said at least one application by means for verifying said certificate, and means for checking functions of the application and the data processing means in co-operation such that said at least one control signal does not violate the approved bounds of behaviour of the product. A device and system comprising the product are also disclosed. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090069906 | Method For Comparing, An Automation System And A Controller - The invention relates to a method for comparing variable values obtained from different versions of an application program in an automated system. An input signal obtained from an automated process is inputted to at least two different versions of the application program residing within a same controller. The same tasks are executed based on the input signal for the different versions, and process related variable values obtained from the execution of the versions are stored in memory locations known by the controller. Variable values from the different versions and derived from corresponding execution steps of the versions are retrieved from the memory locations, and compared during an idle time. An improved way of revising an automation system is thereby achieved. The invention also relates to such controller and an automation system. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090132066 | Low maintenance spa control system - A spa control system designed to reduce maintenance cost by providing modular construction for major control functions, with built-in diagnostic capabilities for isolating defective spa components. Multi-colored LEDs on the spaside panel constantly report the status of each component of the spa as well as the status of the functional modules themselves. Each time a component is activated, measurements of operational parameters, such as load currents, are instantly made and evaluated so that the proper LED color can be presented at the spaside. Since major functions such as audio, LED control, wireless, and spa logic are separated into removable modules, repair of the control system requires less time and less skilled personnel. Other design improvements, such as direct monitoring of heater element temperature and the purging of pumps on an as required-basis, enhance the spa's overall reliability and thus reduce the need for maintenance. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090171481 | AUTOMATED ABNORMAL MACHINE TRACKING AND NOTIFYING SYSTEM AND METHOD - An automated abnormal machine tracking and notifying method includes automatically collecting and analyzing a plurality of test results to obtain a plurality of abnormal information, storing the abnormal information in a machine status database, respectively counting an integral value of each abnormal information of at least a related potentially abnormal machine, judging whether a sum of the integral values of each potentially abnormal machine is greater than n, and automatically notifying at least a user of the potentially abnormal machine and the abnormal information by an automatic notification subsystem when the sum of the integral values is greater than n. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090210077 | Method for Operating a Field Device in Automation Engineering With Special Functionalities - In a method for operating a field device of automation technology capable of special-functionalities, an enabling code set having a plurality of enabling code is managed in a superordinated, key-management unit. With the assistance of the enabling codes, special-functionalities can be enabled in field devices. Associated with individual enabling codes of the enabling code set is, in each case, an attribute, “free” or “blocked”. If a special-functionality is needed, then an enabling code is transmitted to the field device, in case an enabling code with attribute “free” is present. Following transmission, the attribute of the transmitted enabling code is changed from free to blocked. The method permits enabling code to be used very flexably. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090248180 | Automatic Backlash Estimation - A method is disclosed for automatic estimation of backlash in a control system which includes a controller and a process to be controlled, wherein said controller is capable of performing integrating control of said process using one or more controller parameters to control a process output signal of said process with respect to a setpoint value thereof. The method involves monitoring said process output signal to determine a value reflecting momentary differences between setpoint value and actual value of said process output signal during a time interval; and estimating the backlash from said determined value and said one or more controller parameters. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090287322 | INSTRUMENTATION CONTROL SYSTEM - Disclosed is an instrumentation control system, including: a first field device; and a second field device coupled to the first field device via a fieldbus. The first field device includes: a transmitting buffer to store data to be transmitted; a transmitter; and an inquiry processing section to cause the transmitter to retransmit the data stored in the transmitting buffer to the second field device in response to a request from the second field device. The second field device includes: a receiving buffer to store the data transmitted from the first field device; a checking section to determine whether the data stored in the receiving buffer is normal or not, and to make a data retransmission request to the first field device if the data stored in the receiving buffer is not normal; and a processing unit to perform predetermined processing based on the data which is determined to be normal. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090292375 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO FACILITATE CONFIGURATION OF A CONTROLLING DEVICE - A system and method wherein geographic data is used to configure a controlling device to control operations of a target device and/or to configure the controlling device to control tuning operations of a target device. The system additionally provides for the harmonization of controlling device configurations made on the controlling device and/or a remote computer. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20090299503 | Method and control and data-transmission system for checking the installation location of a safety communications component - A method and also a control and data-transmission system is presented, with which the installation location of at least one safety bus component connected to the control and data-transmission system ( | 12-03-2009 |
| 20100016998 | MACHINING PROGRAM PROCESSING APPARATUS - To provide a machining program processing apparatus capable of preventing an increase in the program correction time or does not let the program correction time go to waste. A machining program processing apparatus includes: a grammar checking unit | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100016999 | MACHINING PROGRAM CHECKING APPARATUS - To provide a grammar checking apparatus for a machining program capable of surely detecting a program error without excessively increasing a computation load and shortening the necessary program correction time. A machining program checking apparatus includes: a grammar checking unit | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100063605 | METHOD FOR CARRYING OUT ONLINE PROGRAM CHANGES ON AN AUTOMATION SYSTEM - A method for performing online program changes on an automation system is provided. New program parts are loaded into a CPU of the automation system, while a user program is currently running, in order to provide a new user program. In order to avoid overloading of the CPU, switching is made to the new user program only after it is determined, by monitoring of the first processing of all the program cycles, that the CPU has not been overloaded. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100076575 | AUTOMATICALLY ADJUSTABLE INDUSTRIAL CONTROL CONFIGURATION - An industrial control configuration can be a dynamic entity where different controllers are added, are subtracted, fail, etc. When dynamic functions occur, bindings of the configuration can benefit from a modification. Therefore, automatic adjustment of bindings can occur to facilitate improved operation. Automatic adjustment can be practiced when the industrial control configuration is a distributed control configuration without reliance upon a central database. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100280633 | Method and Controller for Controlling a Safety-Oriented Industrial Automation Component - A method for a safety-oriented industrial automation component, wherein the controller is connected to the automation component by a data link includes providing, by a user, an input to the controller at a first user interface. The controller transmits a result of the input to the automation component. The result of the input is used in the automation component to calculate a first test value. The input is converted into a status display in the controller and is output at a second user interface. Here, the user or another user acknowledges the status display by inputting a confirmation, after which a second test value is formed from the status display and the confirmation in the controller, and the second test value is transmitted to the automation component. Finally, the first and second test values are compared in the automation component and the result of the input is used if the comparison is positive. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20110093096 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A SAFETY CONTROL AND AUTOMATION NETWORK HAVING SUCH A SAFETY CONTROL - In order to operate a safety control in an automation network having a master subscriber which implements the safety control, the safety control is assigned an identifier. When loading the safety control, the master subscriber checks whether the stored identifier in the safety master subscriber matches the identifier calculated form the safety control, and the automation network changes to a safe state if it is determined that the identifier differs. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110178612 | SAFETY INPUT DEVICE - A safety input device includes an input controller to control transmission of an input signal to an arithmetic device synchronously with a control cycle set by the arithmetic device, an output controller to instruct output of preset first self-diagnosis pattern data, a test pattern generating unit to encode the first self-diagnosis pattern data into a pulse train signal having a pulse width equal to or below a predetermined value and output the pulse train signal in accordance with a baseband transmission system, a combination input unit to combine the pulse train signal with the input signal, an input interface unit, a pattern reconfiguration unit to decode an output signal from the combination input unit into second self-diagnosis pattern data, and a comparator to compare the first and second self-diagnosis pattern data to judge the presence or absence of a difference between the first and second self-diagnosis pattern data. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110313549 | FIELD COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A field communication system receives data from a field device through a communication network and maps the data onto a register to update the data. The field communication system includes a detection module configured to detect a state of communication with the field device through the communication network, and a writing module configured to write the communication state detected by the detection module in the register as information added to the data. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20120197417 | Method for providing safety functions - The present invention relates to a method for safely providing safety functions for safety devices of an automation system. For this purpose, modular safety components are introduced, comprising a logic module (A, B, . . . , X), an address-dependent parameter module ( | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120221126 | EXTRACTION OF A FOUNDATION FIELDBUS DEVICE INFORMATION FOR ENHANCED DEVICE SELECTION AND DATA VALIDATION - A method for extracting and reporting a foundation fieldbus device description (DD) file for device selection and data validation can include obtaining the DD file for an intelligent field device (H | 08-30-2012 |
| 20130218307 | METHOD FOR DEBUGGING OF PROCESS OR MANUFACTURING PLANT SOLUTIONS COMPRISING MULTIPLE SUB-SYSTEMS - An exemplary method and a system for debugging a control system of an industrial plant where the system includes at least two different control sub-systems, of the same or different control equipment type, on plant or sub-system level, and has specific programmable controller units in devices like PLCs, DCSs, robots, drives, instruments and/or other process specific components whereas all specified parameters and signals of the control system across its sub-systems, devices, and technologies are extracted and visualized on a single sight and are utilized for the definition of system wide breakpoints, utilizing a subset of those signals or parameters, and related conditions, e.g. logical combinations of the signals or parameters. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130274899 | METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER FOR DETERMINING SYSTEM SITUATION - A method applied to a computer that determines a situation of a system includes the steps of: receiving measurement data from each of a plurality of measurement targets in the system; computing a plurality of sets of anomaly values based on the measurement data and a predetermined computation algorithm according to a plurality of classifications corresponding to a plurality of properties of each measurement target; and determining the situation of the system based on the sets of anomaly values and a predetermined determination algorithm. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20140039649 | METHOD FOR THE EFFICIENT PROTECTION OF SAFETY-CRITICAL FUNCTIONS OF A CONTROLLER AND A CONTROLLER - In a method for operating a controller, at least one input data are processed into at least one output data by using an algorithm. For checking the output data, a second determination of the output data is performed only for output data in a group that does not contain all possible output data. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140336793 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WIRELESS CONTROL USING A DEADMAN SWITCH - The present invention provides a system and method for wirelessly controlling an operating device by way of a wireless connection between the operating device and a computing device. The computing device provides an interface for controlling the operating device. The interface includes a switch for use as a deadman switch, whereby releasing the switch will cease the operation of the operating device. The user may remotely control the operating device via the computing device while the switch is actuated. Upon releasing the switch, the computer device wirelessly halts the operating device for safety. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20140336794 | DUPLEXED CONTROL SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A duplexed control system comprises: two control devices, whereof one is set to operate as a reserve system and the other is set to operate as a regular system; a tracking bus that connects the two control devices to enable these to exchange tracking signals; and a control transmission channel that transmits computational information of these two control devices; wherein: the control devices respectively have: an own-system state evaluation section that transmits the result of state evaluation of its own system as a tracking signal through the tracking bus to the other system; an other-system signal confirmation section that receives the tracking signal through the tracking bus from the control device of the other system and thus performs state confirmation; and a transmission channel changeover section that, if the tracking signal cannot be received through the tracking bus, effects transmission of the tracking signal to the other-system signal confirmation section of the other system, through the control transmission channel. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20150316898 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PROTECTION OF TECHNOLOGICAL EQUIPMENT - Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer program products for automatic monitoring of the performance of a technological process at industrial facilities. An example method for protecting technological equipment comprises: receiving control parameters of an operation for adoption by actuating elements of an equipment; establishing a range of values for at least one performance factor of the operation; determining a value of the at least one performance factor based on the control parameters; comparing the value of the at least one performance factor with the range of values; determining based on the comparison whether the value of the at least one performance factor is outside the range of values; and preventing the adoption of the control parameters by the actuating elements if it is determined that the value of the at least one performance factor is outside the range of values. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20160026166 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING A PHYSICAL UNIT IN AN AUTOMATION SYSTEM - A method for controlling a physical unit, involving: cyclically generating a plurality of controlling outputs, wherein the plurality of controlling outputs is provided in a redundant manner; applying a selected one of the controlling outputs to the physical unit; checking if at least the selected controlling output is correct; and selecting one of the control units whose controlling output was checked as correct to apply its controlling output to the physical unit ( | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160033941 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAINTAINING THE HEALTH OF A CONTROL SYSTEM - Disclosed is a system and method to maintain the health of a control system. A recording of running status of process control system software is performed. Then a health assessment of a process control system is carried out using the recorded running status. Using this information, at least one health maintenance recommendation is generated. The recommendations are then implemented to maintain the health of a process control system. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20170235292 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING AND ANALYZING INDUSTRIAL OPERATIONS | 08-17-2017 |
