FIELD DEVICE

• US 20120249231A1
• Filed: 03/14/2012
• Published: 10/04/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Azbil Corporation (Azbil BioVigilant Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Yamatake Corporation
• Inventors: Okuda, Kouji, Nagoya, Hiroaki, Murata, Kouichirou
• Granted Patent: US 8,878,685 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 327/594
• CPC Class Codes: F15B 21/08 Servomotor systems incorporating electrically operated control means F15B21/02, F15B21/065 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 31/12 actuated by fluid fluid-actuated lift valves F16K1/126 ; fluid-actuated check valves F16K15/00; fluid-actuated safety valves F16K17/00
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 37/0041 for measuring valve parameters F16K37/0033 takes precedence

Abstract

To provide reliable notification of a fault state when a power supply to a calculation processing portion is in the OFF state when a power supply to a communication processing portion is in the ON state. An isolating circuit, an inverting circuit inverting a signal branch-outputted through an output tine of the isolating circuit, and a selecting circuit that uses the signal outputted from the output line of the isolating circuit as a first input and the inverted signal from the inverting circuit as a second input, to select either the first input or the second input, depending on a selection setting status thereof, to output the selected signal to the communication processing portion are provided. A +5 V voltage is applied through a resistor to the output line of the isolating circuit. This +5 V voltage is produced through the power supply supplied from the second double-wire transmission path.

Claims

1. A field device comprising a calculation processing portion that operates by receiving a power supply that is sent through a first transmission path, a communication processing portion that operates by receiving a power supply that is sent through a second transmission path, and an isolating circuit that is provided between the calculation processing portion and the communication processing portion, wherein a burnout signal that is produced by the calculation processing portion is outputted to the second transmission path by the communication processing portion through the isolating circuit, comprising:

an inverting circuit inverting a signal that is branch-inputted through an output line from the isolating circuit; and

a selecting circuit receiving a signal from the output line of the isolating circuit as a first input and the inverted signal from the inverting circuit as a second input, and that selects either the first input or the second input in accordance with a selection setting status, to output, to the communication processing portion, the selected signal wherein;

the isolating circuit maintains the voltage level of the output line at a voltage level that indicates a burnout signal in a direction that is set in advance when the power supply to the calculation processing portion is in the OFF state when the power supply to the communication processing portion is in the ON state.

2. The field device as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

the isolating circuit uses an “

H”

level as a voltage level indicating a burnout signal in a first direction and an “

L”

level as a voltage level indicating a burnout signal in the second direction, and maintains the voltage level of the output line at a voltage level that indicates a burnout signal in a direction that is set in advance when the power supply to the calculation processing portion is in the OFF state when the power supply to the communication processing portion is in the ON state.

3. The field device as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

A selection setting status transmitter transmitting, to the calculation processing portion, the selection setting status in the selecting circuit, wherein;

the calculation processing portion comprises a rectifier rectifying the direction of the burnout signal generated by itself to the same direction as the burnout signal outputted by the selecting circuit when the direction of the burnout signal generated by itself is different from the direction of the burnout signal outputted by the selecting circuit to the communication processing portion when the power supply to the calculation processing portion is in the OFF state when the power supply to the communication processing portion is in the ON state.