Patent ID: 11966238
Assignee: GRUNDFOS HOLDING A/S
Field: Engines, pumps, turbines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  F | IPC F  G

Claim 0:
1. A pump unit comprising:
an electric drive motor;
a pump driven by the electrical drive motor; and
a control device for controlling the drive motor, the control device including a speed control of the motor, wherein said control device comprises at least one microprocessor and at least one storage means having stored therein at least one control program executable by said microprocessor and containing parts that cannot be changed by a user,
wherein the storage means comprises a user application storage for user applications for execution by the microprocessor, the user applications being capable of interacting with or addressing the at least one control program to choose operating conditions of the electric drive motor to control the electric drive motor driving the pump,
wherein the storage means further comprises an interpreter storage storing an interpreter program configured to carry out interpretation of user applications stored in the user application storage, and
wherein the control device comprises or communicates with a programming module by which at least one user application in the user application storage can be modified or generated by the user and stored in said user application storage.