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US 11,144,016 B2Granted
Output control unit, output control system, and control method of output control unit
AssigneeOMRON Corporation
InventorsYoshitaka Kikunaga, Kenji Sato
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Abstract
A temperature control unit has an acquisition unit that acquires first information regarding driving and stopping of a heater and second information indicating whether or not to subject a time proportional output to an SSR to autonomous control and an SSR control unit that performs time proportional output of an instruction to drive or stop the heater, to the SSR.
Claims14
An output control unit connected to a switching apparatus that switches between driving and stopping of an output apparatus, the output control unit comprising a processor configured with a program to perform operations comprising:
- operation as an acquisition unit configured acquire, from a control apparatus, an operation amount comprising a ratio of time during which the output apparatus is driven to time during which the output apparatus is stopped, an immediate output instruction indicating whether the output control unit autonomously controls a time proportional output of an instruction to drive or stop the output apparatus that is output to the switching apparatus or does not autonomously control the time proportional output of the instruction;
- and
- operation as an instruction output unit configured to output the time proportional output of the instruction to drive or stop the output apparatus to the switching apparatus in accordance with the operation amount and the immediate output instruction, wherein
- the processor is configured with the program to perform operations such that operation as the instruction output unit comprises:
- in response to the immediate output instruction indicating that the output control unit autonomously controls the time proportional output and the operation amount changing, updating, at a beginning of a next control cycle, start and end times of the time proportional output based on the operation amount;
- and
- in response to the immediate output instruction indicating that the output control unit does not autonomously control the time proportional output and the operation amount changing, updating the start and end times of the time proportional output of the instruction immediately in accordance with the operation amount.
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A control method of an output control unit connected to a switching apparatus that switches between driving and stopping of an output apparatus, the method comprising:
- acquiring, from a control apparatus, an operation amount comprising a ratio of time during which the output apparatus is driven to time during which the output apparatus is stopped, and an immediate output instruction indicating whether to autonomously control a time proportional output of an instruction to drive or stop the output apparatus to the switching apparatus or to not autonomously control the time proportional output of the instruction;
- outputting the time proportional output of the instruction to drive or stop the output apparatus to the switching apparatus in accordance with the operation amount and the immediate output instruction;
- updating, at the beginning of a next control cycle, in response to the immediate output instruction indicating that the output control unit autonomously controls the time proportional output and the operation amount changing, start and end times of the time proportional output based on the operation amount;
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- updating, in response to the immediate output instruction indicating that the output control unit does not autonomously control the time proportional output and the operation amount changing, the start and end times of the of the time proportional output of the instruction immediately in accordance with the operation amount.
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A non-transitory computer:
- readable storage medium storing a program for causing a processor of an output control unit connected to a switching apparatus that switches between driving and stopping of an output apparatus, to perform operations comprising:
- acquiring, from a control apparatus, an operation amount comprising a ratio of time during which the output apparatus is driven to time during which the output apparatus is stopped, and an immediate output instruction indicating whether to autonomously control a time proportional output of an instruction to drive or stop the output apparatus to the switching apparatus or to not autonomously control the time proportional output of the instruction;
- outputting the time proportional output of the instruction to drive or stop the output apparatus to the switching apparatus in accordance with the operation amount and the immediate output instruction;
- updating, at the beginning of a next control cycle, in response to the immediate output instruction indicating that the output control unit autonomously controls the time proportional output and the operation amount changing start and end times of the time proportional output based on the operation amount;
- and
- updating, in response to the immediate output instruction indicating that the output control unit does not autonomously control the time proportional output and the operation amount changing, the start and end times of the of the time proportional output of the instruction immediately in accordance with the operation amount.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.