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US 7,117,040 B2Granted
Tool attachable to controller
AssigneeOMRON Corporation
InventorsMasayuki Masuda, Yoshiyuki Nagao, Masanori Kadowaki, Toshimi Kudo
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Abstract
A system is formed with a controller that is connected to and is adapted to control devices. A tool is attachable to the controller and functions to create control program for specifying the device by an object name, to create correlation data for correlating the control program with device data on the device, and to download the correlation data to the controller.
Claims9
A system comprising a controller for controlling a device connected thereto and a tool which is attachable to said controller;
- wherein said controller includes:
- memory means for storing a control program and correlation data, said control program specifying said device by an object name, said correlation data correlating said control program with device data on said device, said device data including said object name and address information of said device;
- and
- communication processing means for accessing said device to thereby control said device by said control program by referencing said correlation data to identify said device data from said object name;
- and
- wherein said tool includes:
- control program creating means for creating said control program;
- correlation data creating means for creating said correlation data;
- and
- downloading means for downloading said correlation data created by said correlation data creating means to said controller.
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