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Control node, a network of control nodes and a network configurator

  • US 8,824,283 B2
  • Filed: 02/18/2010
  • Issued: 09/02/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/21/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A control node for a network of control nodes, data transmission between the control nodes in the network taking place in the form of data packets, the control node comprising:

  • a transmitter module configured to manage the data to be sent in an output process image, to convert the output process image into a data packet and to output the data packet onto the network at a predetermined point in time,a receiver module configured to log on to the data packets of one or of a plurality of transmitter modules of further control nodes and to convert a received data packet into an input process image,a device specification stored in a memory area of the control node as a file, the device specification illustrating any of a hardware of the control node, a function of the control node and an interface of the control node to the outside, anda machine model imaging properties, the machine model being divided up into an organizing unit and a functional unit, the organizing unit determining operating states of the control node, the operating states of the control node indicating any of a manual operating mode, a semi-automatic operating mode and an automatic operating mode, and any of an initializing mode and a machine-operation mode, the functional unit comprising application programmes associated with the respective operating states, wherein the device specification is associated with the machine model.

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