CA2006022A1 - Asynchronous multiple module control and communication protocol - Google Patents

Asynchronous multiple module control and communication protocol

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CA2006022A1
CA2006022A1 CA2006022A CA2006022A CA2006022A1 CA 2006022 A1 CA2006022 A1 CA 2006022A1 CA 2006022 A CA2006022 A CA 2006022A CA 2006022 A CA2006022 A CA 2006022A CA 2006022 A1 CA2006022 A1 CA 2006022A1
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material processing
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Robert Francisco
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Pitney Bowes Inc
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G05—CONTROLLING; REGULATING
    • G05B—CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS
    • G05B19/00—Programme-control systems
    • G05B19/02—Programme-control systems electric
    • G05B19/04—Programme control other than numerical control, i.e. in sequence controllers or logic controllers
    • G05B19/042—Programme control other than numerical control, i.e. in sequence controllers or logic controllers using digital processors
    • G05B19/0421—Multiprocessor system
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G05—CONTROLLING; REGULATING
    • G05B—CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS
    • G05B2219/00—Program-control systems
    • G05B2219/20—Pc systems
    • G05B2219/22—Pc multi processor system
    • G05B2219/2214—Multicontrollers, multimicrocomputers, multiprocessing
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G05—CONTROLLING; REGULATING
    • G05B—CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS
    • G05B2219/00—Program-control systems
    • G05B2219/20—Pc systems
    • G05B2219/25—Pc structure of the system
    • G05B2219/25178—Serial communication, data, also repeater
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G05—CONTROLLING; REGULATING
    • G05B—CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS
    • G05B2219/00—Program-control systems
    • G05B2219/20—Pc systems
    • G05B2219/25—Pc structure of the system
    • G05B2219/25315—Module, sequence from module to module, structure
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G05—CONTROLLING; REGULATING
    • G05B—CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS
    • G05B2219/00—Program-control systems
    • G05B2219/20—Pc systems
    • G05B2219/26—Pc applications
    • G05B2219/2624—Injection molding

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  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Automation & Control Theory (AREA)
  • Collation Of Sheets And Webs (AREA)
  • Small-Scale Networks (AREA)
  • Control Of Conveyors (AREA)
  • Control By Computers (AREA)
  • Mobile Radio Communication Systems (AREA)
  • Sorting Of Articles (AREA)
  • General Factory Administration (AREA)

Abstract

A material processing system comprising a plurality of material processing stations, a base material processing station, and means directing material to be processed serially through the plurality of stations in a given order to the base station; the improvement wherein each of the plurality of stations and the base station comprises a separate data and control processor, and further comprising a communication loop interconnecting the processors of the plurality of stations in the given order to the processor of the base station and interconnecting the processor of the base station to the processor of the first of the plurality of stations; the processors of the plurality of stations comprising means responsive to a determined signal from the processor of the base station to the processor of the next succeeding station of the identification data that the respective station has assigned to itself, whereby the processor of the base station receives data from the last of the plurality of stations corresponding to the number of the plurality of stations connected to the communication loop.
CA002006022A 1988-12-30 1989-12-19 Asynchronous multiple module control and communication protocol Expired - Fee Related CA2006022C (en)

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US292,613 1988-12-30
US07/292,613 US5003485A (en) 1988-12-30 1988-12-30 Asynchronous, peer to peer, multiple module control and communication protocol

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EP (1) EP0376743B2 (en)
JP (1) JP3197265B2 (en)
AU (1) AU631831B2 (en)
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DE (1) DE68926781T3 (en)

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DE68926781D1 (en) 1996-08-08
EP0376743A2 (en) 1990-07-04
EP0376743B1 (en) 1996-07-03
DE68926781T3 (en) 2004-02-12
JP3197265B2 (en) 2001-08-13
DE68926781T2 (en) 1997-02-27
EP0376743A3 (en) 1993-07-28
US5003485A (en) 1991-03-26
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