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US 10,175,673 B2Granted
Programmable controller system
AssigneeMitsubishi Electric Corporation
InventorsKentaro Togano, Masaya Takahashi
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Abstract
A programmable controller system includes a control device; a functional device including a buffer memory and a general-purpose logic unit; and a peripheral device that creates a user program. The peripheral device includes a circuit setting unit, which sets operation data indicating the operation of a logic of the general-purpose logic unit; and a circuit-control-parameter setting unit, which sets a circuit control parameter representing the relation between a buffer memory address indicating an address in the buffer memory and a logic address indicating an address in the logic. The functional device includes a circuit control unit that transfers the operation data to the logic address on the basis of the specified buffer memory address and the circuit control parameter.
Claims15
A programmable controller system comprising:
- a programmable controller comprising:
- a control device;
- and
- a functional device that is connected to the control device via a bus, wherein the functional device comprises a buffer memory and a general-purpose logic unit;
- a peripheral device that is connected to the programmable controller via a communication cable and that creates a user program, wherein the user program is transferred to the programmable controller via the communication cable, and wherein the peripheral device comprises:
- a circuit setting unit that sets operation data indicating at least one operation of the general-purpose logic unit, and
- a circuit-control-parameter setting unit that sets a circuit control parameter that represents a relationship between a buffer memory address indicating an address in the buffer memory and a logic address indicating an address in the general-purpose logic unit, wherein the functional device comprises a circuit control unit that transfers the operation data to the logic address based on the buffer memory address and the circuit control parameter, and wherein the control device performs a computation process based on the circuit control parameter in accordance with the user program;
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- an actuator, wherein the actuator is controlled based on the computation process.
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A programmable controller comprising:
- a control device:
- and
- a functional device that is connected to the control device via a bus and that comprises a buffer memory and a general-purpose logic unit, wherein the functional device further comprises:
- an address memory that stores a circuit control parameter that represents a relationship between a buffer memory address indicating an address in the buffer memory and a logic address indicating an address the general-purpose logic unit, and
- a circuit control unit that transfers the operation data to the logic address based on the buffer memory address and the circuit control parameter stored in the address memory, wherein the control device performs a computation process based on the circuit control parameter in accordance with a user program received by the control device, and wherein an actuator is controlled based on the computation process.
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A programmable controller comprising:
- a control device that comprises a peripheral device interface connected to a peripheral device comprising a graphical user interface (GUI) having a display device and an input device;
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- a functional device that is connected to the control device via a bus and that comprises a buffer memory and a general-purpose logic unit, wherein:
- the GUI outputs a parameter setting field, wherein the parameter setting field receives a circuit control parameter that represents a relationship between a buffer memory address indicating an address in the buffer memory and a logic address indicating an address in the general-purpose logic unit, and
- the control device comprises an address memory, wherein a data value of operation data indicating a desired changed operation or a function and the buffer memory address associated with a logic address for which the desired changed operation are transferred into the address memory, wherein the data value and the buffer memory address are specified via the GUI, wherein the control device performs a computation process base on the circuit control parameter in accordance with a user program received by the control device, and wherein an actuator is controlled based on the computation process.
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A display device for a programmable controller comprising:
- a control device;
- and
- a functional device that is connected to the control device via a bus and that comprises a buffer memory and a general-purpose logic unit, wherein the display device displays a circuit-control-parameter setting field which receives a circuit control parameter that represents a relationship between a buffer memory address indicating an address in the buffer memory and a logic address indicating an address of the general-purpose logic unit, wherein data indicating an operation of the general-purpose logic unit is transferred from the display device to the general-purpose logic unit based on the circuit control parameter, wherein the control device performs a computation process based on the circuit control parameter in accordance with a user program received by the control device, and wherein an actuator is controlled based on the computation process.
A display device for a programmable controller comprising:
- a control device;
- and
- a functional device that is connected to the control device via a bus and that comprises a buffer memory and a general-purpose logic unit, wherein the display device displays a circuit-state-acquisition-parameter setting field which receives a circuit-state acquisition parameter that represents a relationship between a buffer memory address indicating an address in the buffer memory and a logic address indicating an address in the general-purpose logic unit, wherein the display device acquires state data of the general-purpose logic unit based on the circuit-state acquisition parameter, wherein the control device performs a computation process based on the circuit-state acquisition parameter in accordance with a user program received by the control device, and wherein an actuator is controlled based on the computation process.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.