Patent ID: 8593263
Filing Date: 2013-11-26
Classification: G05B,H04L,Y02P

Abstract:
1. A control/monitor signal transmission system, comprising: a plurality of actuating apparatuses each of which includes an actuator unit and a sensor unit which monitors the actuator unit; a plurality of slave stations which are installed corresponding to the plurality of actuating apparatuses, the plurality of slave stations being connected through a consolidated data signal line; and a mediation station which is connected to the consolidated data signal line, wherein the consolidated data signal line includes a plurality of independent groups of data signal lines, which are consolidated to the mediation station, the plurality of actuating apparatuses belong to one or plural sets including at least two, and the actuating apparatuses which belong to a same set of actuating apparatuses and which are connected to different independent groups of the plurality of independent groups of data signal lines have a correspondence relationship, the mediation station extracts monitor data from a monitor signal transmitted from the sensor unit through the slave station, and transmits the monitor data as control data to a different actuating apparatus which is in a correspondence relationship with an actuating apparatus including the sensor unit which transmits the monitor data, and the signal of the control/monitor data has an output period and an input period within a single clock cycle, during which output period the control data is output from the mediation station to the different actuating apparatus and during which input period the monitoring data is input from the slave station, which is in a correspondence relationship with the different actuating apparatus to the mediation station.