Programmable device for distributing electrical control signals to technical equipment

US6681138B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Harald Möhler · Nuremberg, DE
• Christian Lenz · Hamburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 14, 1999
• Grant date: Jan 20, 2004
• Expiry date: Sep 14, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S715/965
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The programmable device (V) has terminal connections (610, 620) for electrically connecting the technical equipment (B1 . . . Bm), process signal channels (K1 . . . Km), which can be programmed depending on the application, for the electrical control signals, a display device (A) for showing the programmable process signal channels (K1 . . . Km) and the terminal connections (610, 620), graphics control equipment (M, T) for the virtual association of the process signal channels (K1 . . . Km) with the terminal connections (610, 620), and at least one processing unit (X1, X2) which, on the basis of the graphical association, produces a corresponding control link.