Patent Number: 052672786
Section: claims

1. A console for the control room of a nuclear power plant, wherein the console is constructed from a plurality of panels and each panel comprises: a substantially flat vertically oriented upper portion for mounting plant monitoring and display devices and a transversely extending, substantially flat lower portion for mounting plant control interfaces;  a relatively large, first display interface device located substantially centrally in the upper portion, for displaying integrated images and textual information concerning monitoring and control of the plant;  a plurality of a second type of uniformly sized, relatively smaller display interface devices located on both sides of the first large interface device, at least one of the second type adapted for displaying images of alarm tiles and at least another of the second type adapted for displaying images of process variable indicators;  an alarm processor including means for generating images of alarm tiles on one of the second type of interface devices and programmable alarm logic means for activating an alarm upon the occurrence of a predetermined relationship of alarm input signals;  an indication processor including means for generating images of process indicator instrumentation on the other of the second type of interface device and programmable indicator logic means for computing process parameter values in response to input signals from process sensors.