Smart motor systems and methods using local intelligence
AssigneeLeggett & Platt Canada Co.
InventorsThomas Braun, Caitlin Nicole Vicary, Milosz Niec
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Abstract
Systems and methods for controlling smart motors. One smart motor system includes a control bus, an input device, and a smart motor communicatively coupled to the input device via the control bus. The smart motor includes an electronic processor configured to receive, from the input device, a command frame indicating an action, perform the action, receive, from the input device, a data request frame requesting a status of the smart motor, and transmit, to the input device and in response to receiving the data request frame, a data frame indicating the status of the smart motor.
Claims17
A smart motor system comprising:
- a control bus;
- an input device;
- and
- a smart motor communicatively coupled to the input device via the control bus, wherein the smart motor is a first smart motor included in a plurality of smart motors connected to the control bus, and wherein the smart motor includes an electronic processor, the electronic processor configured to:
- receive, from the input device, a command frame indicating an action, wherein each smart motor included in the plurality of smart motors receives the command frame,
- perform the action,
- receive, from the input device, a data request frame requesting a status of the smart motor, and
- transmit, to the input device and in response to receiving the data request frame, a data frame indicating the status of the smart motor.
A smart motor system comprising:
- a control bus;
- an input device;
- and
- a plurality of smart motors communicatively coupled to the input device via the control bus, wherein each respective smart motor includes an electronic processor, the electronic processor configured to:
- receive, from the input device, a command frame indicating an action,
- determine whether to perform the action,
- receive, from the input device, a data request frame requesting a status of the respective smart motor of the plurality of smart motors
- transmit, to the input device and in response to receiving the data request frame, a data frame indicating the status of the respective smart motor, and
- receive, from the input device, a second data request frame requesting a second status of the respective smart motor, and
- transmit, to the input device, a second data frame indicating the second status of the respective smart motor.
A method for communicating on a control bus, the method comprising:
- receiving, from an input device, a command frame indicating an action,
- performing the action,
- receiving, from the input device, a data request frame requesting a status of a smart motor
- transmitting, to the input device and in response to receiving the data request frame, a data frame indicating the status of the smart motor;
- and
- transmitting, with the input device, the data request frame at a set frequency.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.