Operation unit, supervisory unit, display unit, operation display unit and supervisory control system provided with the same

• US 20020030578A1
• Filed: 09/13/2001
• Published: 03/14/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Electric Works Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Asahi Matsushita Electric Works Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Morita, Kazushige
• Granted Patent: US 6,895,284 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/3.52
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/21042 Address a group, a zone
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/21046 Address a single module out of a group
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/2642 Domotique, domestic, home control, automation, smart house

Abstract

A supervisory control system including a control unit to which an object load is connected and an operation unit, both being connected each other via a communication line, in which object load can be controlled according to desired various patterning control by sending out a control request signal to the communication line by the operation of the operation unit, an operation unit, a supervisory unit and an operation display unit, those have been developed for use in the supervisory control system. The operation unit, the supervisory unit and the operation display unit are so constructed as to constitute multi stage connection, thus in an application of these units in a manner of multi stage connection, they are easily available for a large scale supervisory control system with large many object loads. Further an operation display unit with function of reaction display mode, an operation unit, and a supervisory unit with temporal inhibit function for interlocking movement between the control operation of the operation unit and supervisory action of supervisory unit, those has been developed for users'"'"' convenience and purpose of various use, are also disclosed.

Claims

1. An operation unit connected via a communication line to a plurality of control units to which object loads are connected, in which said control units are divided into groups in advance, with group addresses allocated to respective groups comprising:

an operation section for controlling said object load connected to each of said plurality of control units,

a memory section on which group addresses for an on-controlled object load and an off-controlled object load with respect to said control units to be controlled are stored in advance, and

a communication/control processing section for sending out via communication line a control request signal given an addition of said group address for an on-controlled object load or an addition of said group address for an off-controlled object, both stored in said memory section when said operation section is operated.

2. A supervisor unit connected via a communication line to a plurality of control units to which an object load is connected, in which said control units are divided into groups in advance, with group addresses allocated to respective groups, comprising:

a supervisory inputting section for judging the status of an object apparatus by input signal from said object apparatus,

a memory section on which group addresses for an on-controlled object and an off-controlled object with respect to each of said control units to be controlled are stored related to each other in advance, and

a communication/control processing section for sending out via said communication line a control request signal given an addition of said group address for on-controlled object or an addition of said group address for off-controlled object, when judging the change of said status of said object apparatus into on or off status by the input signal received at said supervisory inputting section.

3. An operation unit connected via a communication line to a plurality of control units to which an object load is connected, comprising:

an operation section for controlling said object load connected to each of said plurality of control units

a memory section on which the communication address and the corresponding control data with respect to each of said control units to be controlled are stored in advance, and

a communication/control processing section for sending out via said communication line a control request signal given an addition of said address and said control data, when said operation section is operated or when receiving other control request signal via said communication line.

6. A supervisory control system comprising:

control units to which object loads are connected and the operation display unit of claim3 and/or

the supervisory unit of claim 4 connected each other via a communication line,

wherein said operation unit and/or said supervisory unit send out said control request signal to other operation unit or other supervisory unit via said communication line, when it/they receives/receive a control request signal via said communication line.

4. A supervisory unit connected via a communication line to a plurality of control units to which object loads are connected, comprising:

a supervisory inputting section for judging the status of an object apparatus by input signal from said object apparatus,

a memory section on which the communication address and the corresponding control data with respect to each of said control units to be controlled are stored in advance, and

a communication/control processing section for sending out via said communication line a control request signal given an addition of said address and said control data, when judging the change of the status of the object apparatus into on or off status by the input signal received at said supervisory inputting section or when receiving other control request signal via said communication line.

5. A display unit allocated a communication address, connected via a communication line to a plurality of control units to which object loads are connected, comprising:

a display section for displaying the status of object loads connected to said control units,

a memory section on which the communication address and the corresponding status data with respect to each of said control units, and a destination address of other display, or other supervisory unit are stored, and

a communication/control processing section for comparing said status data received from each of said control units with said status data stored in said memory section, when receiving said status data from each of said control units having been controlled via said communication line to display the comparison result as the comparison result data on said display section, and for sending out a control request signal given an addition of said destination address of said other display unit or other supervisory unit to said communication line.

7. A supervisory control system comprising:

control units to which object loads are connected and the operation display unit of claim5, connected each other via a communication line,

wherein said display unit sends out said comparison result data to other display unit connected to said communication line, when it receives the status data of said object load from said control unit via said communication line.

8. An operation display unit allocated a communication address, connected via a communication line to a plurality of control units to which object loads are connected, comprising:

an operation section for controlling said object load connected to each of said plurality of control units,

a display section for displaying the status of object load connected to said control units,

a memory section on which the communication address and the corresponding control data with respect to each of said control units are stored in advance, and

a communication/control processing section for sending out a control request signal given an addition of said communication address and the corresponding control data stored in said memory section to said communication line and for comparing said status data of said object loads received from each of said control units with said corresponding control data stored in said memory section, when receiving said status data from each of said control units having been controlled by said operation display unit via said communication line and for thereafter displaying the comparison result as the comparison result data on said display section,

said display section being changed into reaction display mode during the predetermined period of time after said communication/control processing section sends out said control signal and thereafter displaying said comparison result data immediately.

9. An operation display unit allocated a communication address, connected via a communication line to a plurality of control units to which an object load is connected, comprising:

an operation section for controlling said object loads connected to each of said plurality of control units,

a display section for displaying the status of object loads connected to said control units,

a memory section on which the communication address and the corresponding control data with respect to each of said control units are stored in advance, and

a communication/control processing section for sending out control request signal given an addition of said communication address and the corresponding control data stored in said memory section to said communication line and for comparing said status data received from each of said control units with said corresponding control data stored in said memory section, when receiving said status data from each of said control units having been controlled by said operation display unit via said communication line and for thereafter displaying the comparison result data as the comparison result on said display section,

said display section being changed into operation reaction mode when said communication/control processing section sends out said control signal and thereafter displaying said comparison result data after when the status data of said object loads are received from said all control units.

10. An operation display unit allocated a communication address, connected via a communication line to a plurality of control units to which object loads are connected, comprising:

an operation section for controlling said object loads connected to each of said plurality of control units,

a display section for displaying the status of object loads connected to said control units,

a memory section on which said communication address and the corresponding control data with respect to each of said control units are stored in advance, and

a communication/control processing section for sending out a control request signal given an addition of said communication address and the corresponding control data stored in said memory section to said communication line and for comparing said status data of said object load received from each of said control units with said corresponding control data stored in said memory section, when receiving said status data from each of said control units having been controlled by said operation display unit via said communication line and for thereafter displaying the comparison result data as the comparison result on said display section,

said display section being changed into operation reaction display mode when said communication/control processing section sends out said control signal and thereafter displaying said comparison result data after when the status data of said object load is received from said all control units or when predetermined period of time passes before the status data of said object loads are received from said all control units.

11. A supervisory control system comprising control units to which object loads are connected and,

the operation display unit of any one of claim8 to 10, connected each other via a communication line,

wherein said control unit comprises:

a control section for controlling said object loads,

a memory section on which a communication address of said control unit are stored in advance,

a supervisory section for supervising the status of the object loads,

a communication/control processing section for controlling said object loads when receiving a control signal via said communication line and for detecting the status of object loads having been controlled to send out the status data of said loads given an addition of said communication address stored in said memory section,

said operation display unit being changed into a reaction display mode when it sends out a control request single given an addition of the communication address and the corresponding data with respect to said control unit to be controlled by operation of said operation section and thereafter displaying comparison result data obtained from comparison of said status data of said object loads with said corresponding control data.

12. An operation unit connected via a communication line to a plurality of control units to which object loads are connected, comprising:

an operation section for controlling said object loads connected to each of said plurality of control units,

a memory section on which the destination address for control request signal is stored in advance, and

a communication section for sending out control request signal given an addition of said destination address stored in said memory section to said communication line when said operation section is operated, and for invalidating the operation of said operation section when receiving operation inhibit signal via said communication line and for removing said invalidation to permit to send out said control request signal when receiving an operation permission signal.

13. A supervisory unit connected via a communication line to a plurality of control units to which object loads are connected, comprising:

a supervisory inputting section for judging the status of an object apparatus by input signal from said object apparatus,

a memory section on which the destination address for control request signal is stored in advance, and

a communication/processing section for sending out via said communication line a control request signal given an addition of said destination address, when judging the change of said object apparatus into on or off status by the input signal received at said supervisory inputting section and for invalidating the operation of said operation section when receiving operation inhibit signal via said communication line and for removing said invalidation to permit to send out said control request signal when receiving an operation permission signal.