Control of a peripheral apparatus via a canopen interface
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsSven Helmecke, Bernd Kalnischkies
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Abstract
In a method for controlling peripheral apparatuses, as well as a correspondingly fashioned peripheral apparatus and an apparatus that is fashioned for use with peripheral apparatuses, as well as in a system, an object registry of a known CANopen interface is augmented by at least one license object through which the peripheral apparatus is controlled and in which control data for controlling the peripheral apparatus are stored and/or administered. A mechanism for access to a license object is provided.
Claims12
A method for controlling at least one peripheral apparatus that is operated together with at least one medical technology apparatus, comprising the steps of:
- operating at least one peripheral apparatus together with at least one medical technology apparatus and, at least while said at least one peripheral apparatus is operated together with said at least one medical technology apparatus, communicating between said at least one peripheral apparatus and said at least one medical technology apparatus via a CANopen interface having an object registry;
- augmenting said object registry of said CANopen interface by at least one license object that controls the peripheral apparatus and, in said at least one license object, storing at least one of data for controlling the peripheral apparatus and data for administering the peripheral apparatus;
- and
- providing a mechanism allowing access of said license object.
A peripheral apparatus that is operated together with at least one medical technology apparatus, comprising:
- a control unit that operates said peripheral apparatus together with at least one medical technology apparatus that, at least while said at least one peripheral apparatus is operated together with said at least one medical technology apparatus, communicates between said peripheral apparatus and said at least one medical technology apparatus via a CANopen interface having an object registry;
- said object registry of said CANopen interface being augmented by at least one license object that controls the peripheral apparatus and said control unit storing at least one of data for controlling the peripheral apparatus and data for administering the peripheral apparatus in said at least one license object;
- and
- a mechanism allowing access of said license object.
A medical technology apparatus that is operated together with at least one peripheral apparatus, comprising:
- a control unit that operates said medical technology apparatus together with at least one peripheral apparatus that, at least while said at least one peripheral apparatus is operated together with said medical technology apparatus, communicates between said at least one peripheral apparatus and said medical technology apparatus via a CANopen interface having an object registry;
- said object registry of said CANopen interface being augmented by at least one license object that controls the peripheral apparatus and said control unit storing at least one of data for controlling the peripheral apparatus and data for administering the peripheral apparatus in said at least one license object;
- and
- a mechanism allowing access of said license object.
A medical system comprising:
- at least one peripheral apparatus that is operated together with at least one medical technology apparatus,
- a control unit that operates said at least one peripheral apparatus together with said at least one medical technology apparatus that, at least while said at least one peripheral apparatus is operated together with said at least one medical technology apparatus, communicates between said at least one peripheral apparatus and said at least one medical technology apparatus via a CANopen interface having an object registry;
- said object registry of said CANopen interface being augmented by at least one license object that controls the peripheral apparatus and said control unit storing at least one of data for controlling the peripheral apparatus and data for administering the peripheral apparatus in said at least one license object;
- and
- a mechanism allowing access of said license object.
A computer-readable medium encoded with programming instructions, said programming instruction, when said medium is loaded into a control unit that controls at least one peripheral apparatus that is operated together with at least one medical technology apparatus, causing the control unit to:
- operate said at least one peripheral apparatus together with said at least one medical technology apparatus and, at least while said at least one peripheral apparatus is operated together with said at least one medical technology apparatus, communicate between said at least one peripheral apparatus and said at least one medical technology apparatus via a CANopen interface having an object registry, said object registry of said CANopen interface being augmented by at least one license object that controls the peripheral apparatus and, in said at, least one license object;
- store at least one of data for controlling the peripheral apparatus and data for administering the peripheral apparatus;
- and
- allow access of said license object.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.