Device and method to configure same
AssigneeABB AB
InventorsSoren Kling, Gunnar Johansson
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Abstract
A motor controller for controlling an electric motor including a soft starter and a human-machine interface for control and configuration of the soft starter. The soft starter includes a visual display and a selector associated with the visual display. A method to configure a motor controller for controlling an electric motor, including a soft starter and a human-machine interface for control and configuration of the soft starter. A computer program and graphic user interface for carrying out the method.
Claims37
A motor controller for controlling an electric motor including a soft starter and a human-machine interface for control and configuration of the soft starter, said soft starter comprising a visual display and selection means associated with the visual display, characterised in that said human-machine interface comprising:
- means for presenting visually one or more functions of the soft starter, and
- selection means comprising means for selecting the one or more functions so displayed and/or navigating to another function or menu option according to the relative position on the visual display of the functions and/or menu options so displayed.
A method to configure a motor controller for controlling an electric motor, including a soft starter and a human-machine interface for control and configuration of the soft starter, the method comprising:
- presenting one or more functions of said soft starter and one or more menu options on a visual display of said soft starter,
- selecting one of the one or more functions of said soft starter by activating a selection means of a plurality of selection means associated with the visual display, which selection means being the only one of the plurality that corresponds to the position of the function on the visual display.
A computer data signal for configuration of a motor controller, arranged to provide control and soft starting, running and soft stopping to one or more electric motors, embodied in a carrier wave, in that the signal comprises one or more configured functions and/or values for configuration data for said motor controller.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.