Modularized (block) channel technology with expansion of different to output interfaces

• US 20080307143A1
• Filed: 06/11/2007
• Published: 12/11/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sunix Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Sunix Company Limited
• Inventors: Lin, Ming-Cheng
• Application Number:
  US11/808,478
• Publication Number:
  US 20080307143A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 710/302
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/385 for adaptation of a particular data processing system to different peripheral devices

Abstract

A kind of modularized channel technology with expansion of different IO output interfaces, hereafter called MIB (modular industrial bus) system, which consists of an interface card carrying control chip, a BUS transmission interface, an expansion board, and a hot-plug capacity IO output module; the said interface card carrying control chip can be used to convert output data into communication transmission standard suitable for transmission interface and transmit the data to expansion board through wired or wireless communication interface and then output the IO data through the several sets of output modules (blocks) installed on the expansion board; the present invention allows users to instantly expand or replace different output interfaces and output ports according to different requirements and hot plug-in methods in order to resolve the problem of many specifications and complexities that conventional technology faces due to different types of interface cards, output interfaces, and output ports.

Claims

1. The modularized (block) channel technology with expandable IO output interface. The steps are as shown below:

An interface card carrying control chips whereas the output data of the interface card can be converted to the format suitable for USB transmission interface;

a universal USB transmission interface for communicating the data after conversion to several expansion boards;

an expansion board providing several insertion slots for the insertion by several output modules (block) and the input data can be converted to output module (block) through connection of universal USB transmission interface;

An output module which is the combination of different output interfaces and output ports and can be inserted into expansion board and further formed into an output

2. The modularized (block) channel technology with expansion of different IO output interfaces as claimed in claim 1, wherein the said expansion board can be extended through the universal BUS transmission interface for insertion by more output modules (blocks).

3. The modularized (block) channel technology with expansion of different IO output interfaces as claimed in claim 1, wherein the said expansion board is installed with several connection slots;

the two sides of the said expansion board are installed with connection slots for insertion by transmission interfaces;

through universal BUS transmission interface the expansion board can be connected to expansion board or the interface carrying control chip.

4. The modularized (block) channel technology with expansion of different IO output interfaces as claimed in claim 1, wherein the bottom of the said expansion board can be connected to a fixed element in order for the expansion board to be fixed to the Din-Rail or Wall-Mount.

5. The modularized (block) channel technology with expansion of different IO output interfaces as claimed in claim 1, wherein the said module (block) is inserted on the connection slot on the top of the expansion board, whereon its top is the output port that can be any kind of output interface.

6. The modularized (block) channel technology with expansion of different IO output interfaces as claimed in claim 1, wherein the output interface and output number of output ports of the said output module (block) can be defined and arranged according to the need.

7. The modularized (block) channel technology with expansion of different IO output interfaces as claimed in claim 1, wherein the said output module under the condition without having to shutdown the system can be changed using hot plug-in (replacement) method.

8. The modularized (block) channel technology with expansion of different IO output interfaces as claimed in claim 1, wherein the said expansion board in addition to data transmission mechanism also has power transmission mechanism, therefore the said insertion slot can also provide insertion by power module (block).

9. The modularized (block) channel technology with expansion of different IO output interfaces as claimed in claim 1, wherein any interface expansion card, as long as carrying channel control chip, can connect to the same base board and the output module (block) on the base board for transmission in order to achieve the common purpose.

10. The modularized (block) channel technology with expansion of different IO output interfaces as claimed in claim 1, wherein the transmission channel used together can be realized through the connection of wired cable or wireless method.