D-link Corporation

Jun-Hao Huang

Ming-Han Liu

Wei-Chung Hsu

Chih-Jung Jeng

Tsan-Sen Chen

Jia-Jun Chen

The present invention is to provide a power line communication adapter capable of being freely assembled by accessories thereof, which includes an anti-noise device having a first male plug for receiving a power line communication signal from a power outlet, a first female socket for connecting the first male plug with an electrical equipment through a filter module, and a first adapting port connected to the first male plug, such that noise generated by the electrical equipment device can be filtered by the filter module without interfering the power line communication signal; and a power line communication device having a power line communication module along with a second adapting port connected thereto such that, when the first and second adapting ports are connected with each other, the power line communication device and the anti-noise device are combined into an anti-noise adapter for receiving and transmitting the power line communication signal.

Power line communication adapter capable of being freely assembled by accessories thereof

The present invention is to provide a method for selecting the optimal central controller in a power line network, which is applicable to the power line network including at least one terminal device, at least one network device and a plurality of controllers. The controllers are respectively installed with a central controller evaluation and selection software and connected to the terminal device and/or network device, and can communicate with one other through power line. The method is performed by a central controller, that is determined by negotiation between the controllers, via the software and includes the steps of detecting and calculating the connected states of the controllers in the power line network; selecting the optimal controller according to the connected states, assigning the optimal controller as new central controller, and notifying the new central controller to the other controllers, so as to optimize the performance of the power line network.

Method for selecting optimal central controller in power line network

The present invention is to provide a smart socket, which includes a timing unit for obtaining current time; a power receiving/output unit for receiving electricity from an external power supply or outputting electricity to a power storage device; an electricity quantity monitoring unit for detecting power value of electricity received from the power receiving/output unit; a home appliance power supply unit and an electricity selling power supply unit for transmitting electricity to an electronic device and an electricity purchaser circuit, respectively; a switching unit connected to the electricity quantity monitoring unit, home appliance power supply unit and electricity selling power supply unit, and being set with a home appliance mode, a power storage mode and an electricity selling mode; and a processing unit connected to the timing unit, electricity quantity monitoring unit and switching unit for switching mode of the switching unit according to the current time and power value.

Smart socket for automatically switching between electricity utilization modes

The present invention is to provide a PLC device, which includes a power receiving port connected to a power supply for receiving a power signal and a network signal carried by the power signal; a filtering unit having a first end connected to the power receiving port; a power output port connected to a second end of the filtering unit and a load, respectively, for supplying the power signal to the load while the filtering unit filters out noise generated in the power signal by the load; a switching unit having two connecting ends connecting to the first and second ends, respectively, and a control end switchable between the two connecting ends; and a processing unit connected to the control end and including a bridge module for receiving and then transmitting the network signal to a network apparatus, and a detection module for detecting the level of the noise.

Power line communication device switchable between noise detecting and filtering functions

The present invention is to provide a PLC device having noise detecting and filtering functions, which includes a power receiving port having one end connected to a power supply unit for receiving a power signal and a network signal; a noise filtering circuit having one end connected to the other end of the power receiving port for filtering noise of the power signal passing therethrough; a power output port connected between the other end of the noise filtering circuit and a load; a noise detecting circuit having two ends connected to a line between the first filtering unit and power receiving port and a line between the first filtering unit and power output port, respectively; and a processing unit connected to a line between the first filtering unit and power receiving port for receiving the network signal from the noise detecting circuit and transmitting the same to a network apparatus.

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Taipei, Taiwan

Jun-Hao Huang