Two-wire field-mounted process device
First Claim
1. A two-wire field-mountable process device comprising:
- a power module couplable to a two-wire loop and adapted to wholly power the process device with power received from the two-wire loop;
a loop communicator coupled to the power module, and being couplable to the two-wire loop to communicate on the two-wire loop in accordance with the Fieldbus or Profibus protocol, wherein the communicator is configured to provide an output on the loop;
a controller coupled to the loop communicator and power module;
a first channel operably coupled to the controller, the first channel configured to couple to at least a first sensor and configured to receive a sensor input;
a second channel operably coupled to the controller, the second channel configured to couple to a second sensor and receive a sensor input; and
wherein the first and second channels are substantially electrically isolated from each other and from the two-wire loop.
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Abstract
A two-wire field-mounted process device with multiple isolated channels includes a channel that can be an input channel or an output channel. The given input or output channel can couple to multiple sensors or actuators, respectively. The process device is wholly powered by the two-wire process control loop. The process device includes a controller adapted to measure one or more characteristics of sensors coupled to an input channel and to control actuators coupled to an output channel. The controller can be further adapted to execute a user generated control algorithm relating process input information with process output commands. The process device also includes a loop communicator that is adapted to communicate over the two-wire loop.
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40 Claims
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1. A two-wire field-mountable process device comprising:
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a power module couplable to a two-wire loop and adapted to wholly power the process device with power received from the two-wire loop;
a loop communicator coupled to the power module, and being couplable to the two-wire loop to communicate on the two-wire loop in accordance with the Fieldbus or Profibus protocol, wherein the communicator is configured to provide an output on the loop;
a controller coupled to the loop communicator and power module;
a first channel operably coupled to the controller, the first channel configured to couple to at least a first sensor and configured to receive a sensor input;
a second channel operably coupled to the controller, the second channel configured to couple to a second sensor and receive a sensor input; and
wherein the first and second channels are substantially electrically isolated from each other and from the two-wire loop. - View Dependent Claims (2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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3. The process device 2 wherein the first type is selected from the group of sensors consisting of thermocouples and RTDs.
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20. A two-wire field-mountable process device comprising:
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a power module couplable to a two-wire loop and adapted to wholly power the process device with power received from the two-wire loop;
a loop communicator coupled to the power module, and being couplable to the two-wire loop to communicate on the two-wire loop;
a controller;
first sensor terminals configured to couple to at least a first sensor and configured to receive a sensor characteristic;
second sensor terminals configured to couple to a second sensor and configured to receive a sensor characteristic the second sensor terminals operably coupled to the controller;
third sensor terminals configured to couple to a third sensor and configured to receive a third sensor characteristic;
a multiplexer configured to selectively couple the first sensor terminals to the controller or the third sensor terminals to the controller;
an analog to digital converter coupled to an output of the multiplexer and to an input of the controller, the analog to digital converter configured to provide a digitized signal to the controller;
wherein an output from the loop communicator on the two-wire process control loop is related to at least one of the first, second or third sensor characteristics; and
wherein at least the first and second sensor terminals are substantially electrically isolated from each other and from the two-wire loop and the second and third sensor terminals are substantially electrically isolated from each other and from the two wire loop. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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35. A two-wire field-mountable process device comprising:
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a power module couplable to a two-wire loop and adapted to wholly power the process device with power received from the two-wire loop;
a loop communicator coupled to the power module, and being couplable to the two-wire loop to communicate on the two-wire loop;
a controller coupled to the loop communicator and power module;
a first channel operably coupled to the controller, the first channel configured to couple to at least a first sensor;
a second channel operably coupled to the controller, the second channel configured to couple to a second sensor;
wherein the first and second sensor channels are substantially electrically isolated from each other; and
wherein circuitry of the first channel and circuitry of the second channel are powered by the power module. - View Dependent Claims (36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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