Intelligent control and adjustment device
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1. An intelligent control and regulating device for use in regulating the flow of materials, and comprising:
- an actuator operatively associated with a means for controlling the flow of said materials, said actuator having a housing;
a parameterable process controller (15) as an intelligent control and regulating device, which receives input signals for regulation from external sensors (17, 18, 19) supplying process-specific data, and which controls said actuator from an auxiliary energy unit in response to said signals from said sensors, wherein said controller is integrated within the housing of the actuator.
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Abstract
An intelligent control and regulating device, especially for use in the process technology for flowable substances and media, which is built into the housing of an adjusting drive mechanism or into the drive mechanism itself and which has an adjustment arrangement controlling an adjusting member via an auxiliary energy device depending on sensor signals. The inventive control and adjusting device, which reacts reliably and rapidly to changing ambient conditions, includes a parameterable process regulator which receives adjustment input signals from the external sensors.
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29 Claims
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1. An intelligent control and regulating device for use in regulating the flow of materials, and comprising:
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an actuator operatively associated with a means for controlling the flow of said materials, said actuator having a housing;
a parameterable process controller (15) as an intelligent control and regulating device, which receives input signals for regulation from external sensors (17, 18, 19) supplying process-specific data, and which controls said actuator from an auxiliary energy unit in response to said signals from said sensors, wherein said controller is integrated within the housing of the actuator. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
wherein the actuator is connected to a valve (8), and wherein, subsequent to connecting the actuator to the valve (8), an automatic initializing run is programmed into the control unit, during which the actuator and the limit positions are automatically adjusted to the valve (8).
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13. An intelligent control and regulating device for use in regulating the flow of materials, and comprising:
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an actuator operatively associated with a means for controlling the flow of said materials, said actuator having a housing;
a parameterable process controller (15) as an intelligent control and regulating device, which receives input signals for regulation from external sensors (17, 8, 19) supplying process-specific data, and which controls said actuator from an auxiliary energy unit in response to said signals from said sensors, wherein said controller is integrated into the housing of the actuator or attached to the actuator, and wherein said process controller (15) is part of a power module (11), and further including an interface module (12) bi-directionally connecting a central control unit (14) with said process controller (15). - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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29. An intelligent control and regulating device for use in a regulator for regulating the flow of materials, which includes a microprocessor for effecting the control of the flow of said materials, determining a position intended value for an actuator of the regulator based on sensor signals, wherein the regulator uses an auxiliary energy unit to control the actuator;
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thereby characterized, that the regulating device is a parameterable process controller (15) which simultaneously carries out the function of a position controller (25) for the positioning element (8) and receives input signals for regulation from external process-specific sensors (17, 18, 19), and from a comparison of (a) a process intended value which had been preset in a central control unit (14) and (b) a process actual value which is determined from the signals transmitted by the external sensors (17, 18, 19), determines the position intended value, wherein drive circuitry (3) including said parameterable process controller (15) is integrated within the housing (9) of the actuator or is attached to the actuator.
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