Field bus system

• US 10,089,271 B2
• Filed: 05/23/2013
• Issued: 10/02/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Balluff Verwaltungsges mbH
• Original Assignee: Balluff Verwaltungsges mbH
• Inventors: Feinaeugle, Albert, Langer, Stephan, Franz, Stephan
• Primary Examiner(s): Tsai, Henry
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hassan, Aurangzeb
• Application Number:
  US14/404,066
• Publication Number:
  US 20150143008A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,958 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/0423 Input/output
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/25428 Field device
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/364 using independent requests or grants, e.g. using separated request and grant lines
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/385 for adaptation of a particular data processing system to different peripheral devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/4291 using a clocked protocol
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/40032 Details regarding a bus interface enhancer
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/403 with centralised control, e.g. polling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/4026 Bus for use in automation systems

Abstract

A field bus system includes at least one bus module designed as a master module with at least one connecting device for connection to a network and with at least one port for connecting a parameterizable IO link device. The field bus system uses a data storage device which is designed as an IO link device and which can be connected to the at least one port for connecting an IO link device and in which all parameters of the IO link devices connected to the master module are stored and can be read by the master module.

Claims

1. Field bus system,

comprising at least one bus module that is embodied as a master assembly with at least one port device for connecting to a network and with at least one port for connecting at least one particularly parameterizable IO link device, the IO link device being according to the international open standard in the norm IEC 61131-9, and

comprising a data storage device that is embodied as an IO link device plug and that can be connected to the at least one port for connecting the at least one IO link device and in which all parameters of the at least one IO link device that is connected to the master assembly are stored and can be read out by the master assembly such that the data storage device facilitates replacement of the master assembly by connecting to a new master assembly after the replacement and by providing the parameters of the at least one IO link device to the new master assembly such that the new master assembly is configured to parameterize the at least one IO link device.

2. Field bus system according to claim 1, wherein the data storage device has a communication device for the purpose of bidirectional communication with the master assembly.

3. Field bus system according to claim 1, wherein the data storage device can be supplied with energy via the IC link device port in the plugged-in state.

4. Field bus system according to claim 1, wherein the data storage device comprises at least one control element and an optical and/or an acoustic display device.

5. Field bus system according to claim 4, wherein the optical and/or acoustic display device indicate the successful transmission of the parameters from and to the master assembly.

6. Field bus system according to claim 1, wherein the data storage device can be secured to the master assembly via a flexible fixing device.

7. Field bus system according to claim 1, wherein the data storage device is configured for being directly connected to the at least one IO link device, so that it can read out and restore parameter sets directly and without interposition of the master assembly.

8. Field bus system according to claim 1, wherein the network is Ethernet-based.

9. Data storage device for use in a field bus system according to claim 1, the data storage device being embodied as an IO link device plug and comprising a memory,

wherein the data storage device is configured to read out, store in the memory, and read back into the IO-link device all parameters of the at least one IO-link device directly or indirectly via the master assembly such that the data storage device facilitates replacement of the master assembly by connecting to a newly replaced master assembly and by providing the parameters of the at least one IO link device to the newly replaced master assembly such that the newly replaced master assembly is configured to parameterize the at least one IO link device.

10. Data storage device according to claim 9, wherein it comprises at least one control element and at least one optical and/or acoustic display device.

11. Data storage device according to claim 10, wherein the at least one optical and/or acoustic display device indicates the successful transmission of the parameters from and to a master assembly of the field bus system and/or from and to the at least one IO link device.

12. Data storage device according to claim 9, wherein it comprises a flexible fixing device.