Methods and systems for management and control of an automation control module

US7590712B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• GE Fanuc Automation North America, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Robert Chambers · Barboursville, US
• David Collier · Charlottesville, US
• Ferrell Mercer · Earlysville, US
• Jason Kadingo · Palmyra, US
• Robert Francis Newman · Orange, US
• David Charles Elliott · Hagerstown, US
• David Hietanen · Charlottesville, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 10, 2002
• Grant date: Sep 15, 2009
• Expiry date: May 25, 2024

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G05B2219/34038
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An automation control module (ACM) includes an ACM central processing unit (CPU), a backplane electrically coupled to the ACM CPU, and a web system embedded within the ACM and electrically coupled to the ACM CPU and backplane. The web system includes a secure web server and is configured to process hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) requests from a network to program and configure the ACM through the network. The HTTP requests are received by the secure web server and transmitted by the secure web server directly the ACM CPU without using the backplane.