System for recording valve actuation information

• US 20090009297A1
• Filed: 05/27/2008
• Published: 01/08/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Fujikin
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Fujikin
• Inventors: Ozaki, Shinichi, Doh, Toshio, Yamaji, Michio, Shinohara, Tsutomu, Matsumoto, Toshihiro, Ikeda, Nobukazu, Nishino, Kouji
• Application Number:
  US12/154,695
• Publication Number:
  US 20090009297A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/10.400
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 37/0083 by measuring valve parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2209/47 using RFID associated with sensors
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 9/00 Arrangements in telecontrol or telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station, in which substation desired apparatus is selected for applying a control signal thereto or for obtaining measured values therefrom

Abstract

The present invention provides a system for recording valve actuation information that enables to figure out the actual operation condition of each individual valve without checking plural valves individually, and the valves do not have to be wired, and the structure of the system is simple.

The present invention is a system for recording valve actuation information comprising a valve, detecting means for detecting actuation of said valve, a RFID tag affixed to said valve and recording the valve actuation information detected by said detecting means, and a terminal for reading out the valve actuation information detected by said detecting means, wherein said RFID tag searches said terminal by intermittently transmitting a radio wave, wherein said RFID tag transfers the valve actuation information recorded in said RFID tag to said terminal when said RFID tag detects said terminal.

Claims

1. A system for recording valve actuation information comprising:

a valve,

detecting means for detecting actuation of said valve,

a RFID tag affixed to said valve and recording the valve actuation information detected by said detecting means, and

a terminal for reading out the valve actuation information detected by said detecting means,

wherein said RFID tag searches said terminal by intermittently transmitting a radio wave,

wherein said RFID tag transfers the valve actuation information recorded in said RFID tag to said terminal when said RFID tag detects said terminal.

2. The system for recording valve actuation information according to claim 1, wherein said detecting means is a limit switch.

3. The system for recording valve actuation information according to claim 1, wherein said terminal sends information to said RFID tag.

4. The system for recording valve actuation information according to claim 1, wherein said intermittent transmission includes repetition between radio wave transmission for 2 seconds and intermission for 5 seconds.