Execution windows for an input module of an industrial controller

US10474115B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Eric D. Decker · Macedonia, US
• DuWayne D. Mulhall · Geneva, US
• Kenwood H. Hall · Hudson, US
• Richard O. Ruggeri · Novelty, US
• Harsh Shah · Mayfield Heights, US
• Andreas P. Frischknecht · Kawasaki, JP
• Scott A. Pierce · Henderson, US
• Terence S. Tenorio · Solon, US
• Gregory J. Svetina · Streetsboro, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 23, 2018
• Grant date: Nov 12, 2019
• Expiry date: Jul 23, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G05B2219/34401
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An input module for an industrial controller includes configurable execution windows. The execution windows are defined by a first parameter and a second parameter stored within the input module. A third parameter defines a status bit which is compared against the execution window to set a window output signal within the input module. The execution window may define a range between the first and second parameters against which the status bit is compared. Alternately, the first and second parameters may define setpoints against which the status bit is compared. At one of the setpoints, the window output signal is set and at the other of the setpoints, the window output signal is reset.