Data transmission method, serial bus system, and switch-on unit for a passive station

US7984217B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Beckhoff Automation GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Hans Beckhoff · Verl, DE
• Holger Büttner · Verl, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 12, 2010
• Grant date: Jul 19, 2011
• Expiry date: Feb 12, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G05B19/042
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In a serial bus system data in the form of telegrams, representing process images of control tasks of the active station, are transmitted to the connected passive stations, and the process data are allocated to the process images in the passive station.