Waveform observing apparatus and system thereof

• US 8,675,005 B2
• Filed: 06/04/2009
• Issued: 03/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Keyence Corporation (Keyence)
• Original Assignee: Keyence Corporation (Keyence)
• Inventors: Atoro, Takashi, Goto, Naoki
• Primary Examiner(s): Sajous, Wesner
• Assistant Examiner(s): Shin, Andrew
• Application Number:
  US12/478,234
• Publication Number:
  US 20090313289A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,748 Days
• Field of Search: 345/440, 345/440.1, 345/440.2, 345/530, 345/531, 345/533, 345/534, 345536-538, 702 66- 78, 702/57, 702/80, 324/76.12, 324/76.11, 707/640, 707/644, 707647-648, 707/781, 707821-825, 707/828, 710/8, 710/13, 710/33, 710/34, 710/36, 710/48, 710/52, 710/53, 711/100, 711/154, 711/161, 711/162, 711/165, 711/167
• US Class Current: 345/537
• CPC Class Codes: G01K 1/026 arrangements for monitoring a plurality of temperatures, e.g. by multiplexing
• 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

There are provided a waveform observing apparatus and the system thereof in which, when a removable storage medium is inserted into the waveform observing apparatus to capture a copy of measured data, a difference copy is made while including the latest measured data collected by the waveform observing apparatus at the time, sixteenth and seventeenth measured data temporarily stored in a buffer memory are filed and stored in the state of being housed in a fourth measured data file, into a body memory. Copies of a third measured data file including part of the difference copy and a new fourth measured data file are written into the USB memory. When the USB memory is inserted into a personal computer, a hard disk of the personal computer comes into a state where its third measured data file is overwritten and stored and the fourth measured data file is newly stored.

Claims

1. A waveform observing apparatus, which temporarily stores sampled measured data, creates a measured data file in a body memory in each predetermined filing creation cycle, houses a plurality of the temporarily stored measured data into the measured data file corresponding to the each predetermined filing creation cycle, and also supplies a removable storage medium with a copy of the measured data file stored in the body memory,

wherein, in supplying the removable storage medium with a copy of the measured data file between a first predetermined filing creation cycle and a subsequent predetermined filing creation cycle, a first measured data file is created in the body memory for housing the temporarily stored measured data that exists after the first predetermined filing creation cycle, and

wherein, when said subsequent predetermined filing creation cycle occurs, a second measured data file is created in the body memory for housing the temporarily stored measured data that exists after the first predetermined filing creation cycle, including said temporarily stored measured data in said first measured data file so as to enable a user to re-write the first measured data file on the removable storage medium with said second measured data file, and wherein said first measured data is partial to the second measured data file.

2. The waveform observing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the waveform observing apparatus or the removable storage medium has a copy history file, and

the presence or absence of measured data to be supplied to the removable storage medium is determined based upon the copy history file.

3. A waveform observing system, further comprising an external computer that receives a difference copy from the removable storage medium, in addition to the waveform observing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein, out of the measured data files stored in the external computer, a measured data file in common with the measured data file received from the removable storage medium is overwritten and stored when the external computer receives the measured data file from the removable storage medium having completed storage of the difference copy.

4. The waveform observing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein based upon a copy history stored in the removable storage medium and/or the wave observing apparatus, the waveform observing apparatus supplies the removable storage medium with the first measured data file along with the measured data file including different measured data from measured data previously supplied to the removable storage medium.

5. The waveform observing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined filing creation cycle is based upon an amount of the temporarily stored measured data in the body memory.

6. The waveform observing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the waveform observing apparatus creates the first measured data file in the body memory for housing the temporarily stored measured data when the waveform observing apparatus receives a copy command from the removable storage medium.

7. The waveform observing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the waveform observing apparatus is configured to make a difference copy to supply a removable storage medium with a copy of the measured data file stored in the body memory.

8. The waveform observing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the measured data is temporarily stored in a buffer memory and then stored in the state of being filed into the body memory.

9. The waveform observing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first measured data file is automatically created when an amount of measured data reaches a predetermined amount.

10. A waveform observing apparatus, which houses sampled measured data into a measured data file formed in a body memory in each predetermined filing creation cycle, and also supplies a removable storage medium with a copy of the measured data file stored in the body memory, the apparatus comprising:

a buffer memory for temporarily storing sampled measured data;

a file creating device, which creates in the body memory a first measured data file for housing measured data temporarily stored in the buffer memory at each predetermined filing creation cycle, and also creates in the body memory a second measured data file for housing any measured data temporarily stored in the buffer memory that is not yet stored from a predetermined filing creation cycle, when the removable storage medium is inserted into the waveform observing apparatus independent of the predetermined filing creation cycle and a difference copy command is received from the removable storage medium, and storing the second measured data file in the buffer memory; and

a file transferring device for supplying the removable storage medium with a copy of the first measured data file and any said second measured data file when present, according to the difference copy command.

11. The waveform observing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the waveform observing apparatus or the removable storage medium has a copy history file, and

the presence or absence of measured data to be supplied to the removable storage medium is determined based upon the copy history file.

12. A waveform observing system, further comprising an external computer that receives a difference copy from the removable storage medium, in addition to the waveform observing apparatus according to claim 10,

wherein, out of the measured data files stored in the external computer, a measured data file in common with the measured data file received from the removable storage medium is overwritten and stored when the external computer receives the measured data file from the removable storage medium having completed storage of the difference copy.

13. The waveform observing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein based upon a copy history stored in the removable storage medium and/or the wave observing apparatus, the waveform observing apparatus supplies the removable storage medium with the second measured data file along with the first measured data file including different measured data from measured data previously supplied to the removable storage medium.

14. The waveform observing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the predetermined filing creation cycle is based upon an amount of the temporarily stored measured data in the body memory.

15. The waveform observing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the waveform observing apparatus creates the second measured data file in the body memory for housing the temporarily stored measured data when the waveform observing apparatus receives a copy command from the removable storage medium.

16. The waveform observing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the waveform observing apparatus is configured to make a difference copy to supply a removable storage medium with a copy of the measured data file stored in the body memory.

17. The waveform observing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the measured data is temporarily stored in the buffer memory and then stored in the state of being filed into the body memory.

18. The waveform observing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the first measured data file is automatically created when an amount of measured data reaches a predetermined amount.