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Controller for automatic assembling apparatus

US5032975A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 3, 1988
Grant dateJul 16, 1991
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Expiry dateAug 3, 2008

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY02P90/02
  • WIPO fieldControl
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A controller for an automatic assembling apparatus consisting of a plurality of operation units each of which has a variety of devices to be driven and which perform independent, different operations under the program control is disclosed. This controller includes a host control unit expressing a sequence control portion of program control for the plurality of operation units by multitask program control, a plurality of lower-order control units having control programs for controlling an independent operation of each of the plurality of devices to be driven, and a shared memory which is connected to the host control unit and the plurality of lower-order control units, and is shared and accessed by the host control unit and the lower-order control units.

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