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Device for controlling and monitoring sequential subsections of an installation

US8026810B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Markus Engel · Koblenzer Straße, DE
Reinhard Hoffmann · Plockhorst, DE

Key dates

Filing date	May 8, 2007
Grant date	Sep 27, 2011
Priority date	—
Expiry date	May 28, 2028

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY02T90/16
WIPO fieldTransport
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A device for controlling and monitoring an installation that is composed of sequentially disposed sub-sections in a chain so that each sub-section lies between a forward sub-section and a rearward sub-section, with the exception of the terminal sub-sections of the installation. Each sub-section is connected to a first control unit and a second control unit and the control units of the sub-sections communicate at least partially with one another, with the sub-sections, and/or with a higher-level control center. Increased safety requirements are satisfied with the novel device, while at the same time being cost-effective, in that the first control unit is also connected to the forward sub-section and the second control unit is also connected to the rearward sub-section.

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