Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.

Takata Corporation

Tatsuya Maruyama

Tsutomu Yamada

Noritaka Matsumoto

Hiromichi Endoh

Hideaki Suzuki

Takashi Iwaki

Mitsuyasu Kido

Norihisa Yanagihara

Shinji Yonemoto

Yutaka Matsumoto

Yusaku Otsuka

Toshiki Shimizu

Hironori Ohashi

Iori Kobayashi

Shoji Yoshida

Hisanori Nonaka

Kazuhisa Takami

Hidenori Omiya

Shouji Yoshida

Kazutaka Onishi

Atsushi Ito

Hiroshi Fujii

Hiromichi Yamada

Shoji Suzuki

Yasuo Sato

Makiko Naemura

Ichiro Takahashi

Makoto Aikawa

Junsuke Fujiwara

Yasushi Tomita

Yoshihito Sato

Satoru Funaki

Hiroshi Iwasawa

Fumiyuki Tamura

Yoshihiro Mizuno

Junya Fujita

Yoshiyuki Kubo

Chikashi Komatsu

Yoshinori Ookura

Masafumi Ueda

Hidenori Oomiya

Yuusaku Ootsuka

Masaya Suehiro

Tsutomu Teramura

Tomoyuki Aoyama

A communication test device may comprise a reception portion that receives a non-priority frame that may be divided into a plurality of fragments and a priority frame that is not divided as communication frames, a test portion that tests the communication frames in accordance with a predefined test rule and determines whether the communication frame is an invalid frame, a hold portion that holds status information indicating a status of the test by the test portion, a transmission portion that transmits the communication frame tested in the test portion, and/or an interception control portion that controls interception of the communication frame based on a determination result of the test portion.

Communication test device and communication test method

Conventional security measures are generally intended for an IT system, and it has been difficult to satisfy a real-time property and availability requested to a control system. Furthermore, since a time-division type time slot communication method is not taken into consideration, such time slot communication has problems in efficient utilization of computer resources and decrease in availability. In order to solve the above-described problems, the present invention specifies a time slot from characteristics of a communication packet received by a reception unitby using a time slot characteristic storage unit, and selects, in accordance with the specified time slot, an inspection pattern stored in an inspection pattern storage unitby using an inspection pattern selection unit

Communication control apparatus and system

In the conventional distributed control system, since each control device updates the data area at a timing when a control packet is received, in a case where there is a difference in communication delay between the control devices or in a case where the communication delay includes jitter, it is difficult to match the contents of data in all the control devices in a case of focusing on a certain moment during system operation. Therefore, depending on the start timing of a control application, the control application operates on the basis of different data between the control devices, thus limiting control performance improvement. Accordingly, time slots on the network are allocated according to the result of a calculation unit, and a cyclic memory synchronization update unit synchronizes the timing of reflecting data in the input/output and the cyclic memory and the timing of using data of a cyclic memory.

Control device and distributed control system

In a control system including one or more control nodes and one or more I/O nodes connected to one or more devices and communicable with the control nodes, the control nodes execute at least one control program on a first OS, and the I/O nodes execute at least one I/O program on a second OS with higher punctuality. The control program generates a control command based on state control set in advance for the device and transmits the control command to the I/O node. The I/O program stores the control command received from the control node in a storage unit, and executes processing related to the device according to the control command stored in the storage unit.

Control system

A partial discharge detection apparatus for detecting partial discharge in a power cable and recognizing an insulation deterioration state of the power cable. A low-speed AD converter converts an analog signal of an AC waveform flowing through a power cable into a digital signal. A high-speed AD converter converts an analog signal of a partial discharge current into a digital signal. The partial discharge is detected based on the maximum value or the sum of a current value obtained from the digital signal of the partial discharge current obtained by the conversion of the high-speed AD converter, for each phase of the AC waveform, which is obtained from the digital signal of the AC waveform flowing in the power cable. The digital signal is obtained by the conversion of the low-speed AD converter.

Partial discharge detection apparatus and partial discharge detection method

Example implementations described herein generate plans for the deployment of functions involving the distribution function and the allocation of network resources based on the requirements of the distributed functions on the control system and the network information constituting the control system. Example implementations involve gathering requirements of the distributed functions constituting the distributed control system, information of the network, and information of the plurality of communication devices, and generating a plan for deployment of the distributed functions to corresponding ones of the plurality of communications devices and allocation of network resources to the corresponding ones of the plurality of communication devices based on the gathered requirements and the information of the network.

Control network planning

A communication control device of a communication system collects information of a first control device in a second control device via a relay device on a network. Allocation of network resources of the network is controlled based on a procedure of processing the collected information.

Communication control device, communication control method, and communication system

The present invention is applied to a distributed control system in which a plurality of control devices (a central control device, an individual control device, and the like) are connected via a network. For example, the central control device executes a start-up deadline determination processing for setting a start-up deadline in consideration of the performance of a device to be controlled, and communication processing for transmitting a packet including identification information of a command and information of the start-up deadline to the individual control device. For example, when receiving the packet transmitted from the central control device, the individual control device controls execution of the command on the device to be controlled on the basis of the start-up deadline included in the packet.

Communication method, central control device and individual control device

There is provided a communication control device including: a real-time communication status extraction unit that acquires a communication timing of real-time data; a dynamic fragment size determination unit that acquires a fragment size of sending data which can be sent until the communication timing acquired by the real-time communication status extraction unit; a fragment processing unit that fragments non-real-time data to have at least a fragment size which is equal to or less than the fragment size acquired by the dynamic fragment size determination unit; and a communication unit that sends the non-real-time data, which is fragmented by the fragment processing unit, before the communication timing of the real-time data.

Communication control device with dynamic fragmenting of non-real-time data

An object of the present invention is to provide a network system or the like in which the construction cost of a network for a plurality of control systems is suppressed which is excellent in resistance to a network failure. In order to solve the problems, according to the present invention, there is provided a network system including a plurality of communication devices that are disposed in a plurality of bases, and are grouped into predetermined control systems for each of the devices which transmit and receive packets to and from each other so as to monitor or control target equipment, and a plurality of relay devices each of which includes a plurality of communication ports and transmits a packet transmitted by the communication device to another communication device, in which a plurality of communication devices disposed in each base are connected in parallel between the two relay devices, the relay devices disposed in different bases are connected to each other in a ring shape via a network, and a plurality of communication devices disposed in at least one base include communication devices belonging to different control systems.

Network system and relay device

Provided are a communication processing device and a communication system, capable of securely updating a communication protocol process with a simple configuration and technique, while continuing communication. A communication processing device, which is connected to a communication network, includes a programmable logic device in which partial rewriting of a logic circuit is possible, during an operation of a host device in the communication network, in which the programmable logic device includes at least two communication processing circuits of which each performs a communication protocol process, and in which one communication processing circuit is operable due to switching, a first communication processing circuit performs communication, and a second communication processing circuit is on standby, updating means for downloading logic circuit data of an updated communication protocol process, from the communication network, and performing a circuit configuration for the second communication processing circuit, a flag that indicates whether or not the circuit configuration for the second communication processing circuit is finished, and by which a circuit configuration state is able to be read to the host device side through communication, and a register that is intended for switching to any one communication processing circuit to be used, and is writable from the host device side through communication.

Communication processing device, communication method, and communication system

A control computer as a master apparatus in a control network system includes a packet generation unit. The packet generation unit: selects a control command for writing a data from among packet generation information; references the packet generation information for each of the selected control command; and includes a data for write which is read from an address in a storage section corresponding to the each control command, in a control packet to generate the control packet. A communication unit transmits the generated control packet to a controlled object as a slave device.

Control network system, master apparatus, control data processing method, and control data processing program

Communication control equipment is connected to a plurality of communication control equipment via a network and is configured to be time-synchronized with the plurality of communication control equipment by using a time synchronization procedure using a communication including at least request packets and acknowledgement packets. The communication control equipment includes a receiving-interval measurement section configured to measure a receiving interval of request packets from the plurality of communication control equipment; and a queuing-occurrence determination section configured to detect conflict of the request packets from any of the plurality of communication control equipment on a basis of the receiving interval of the request packets measured by the receiving-interval measurement section. The communication control equipment is configured to determine whether to transmit an acknowledgement packet to the communication control equipment that has transmitted the request packets based on a detection result of the queuing-occurrence determination section.

Communication control equipment

An information processor capable of ensuring time synchronization accuracy, ensuring EtherCAT command consistency, and easily developing the software based on a 2-port configuration even when a communication path error occurs includes: an arithmetic section; at least two communication sections each including a transmission section and a reception section; and a redundant communication control section that controls a communication path between the arithmetic section and the communication section. The redundant communication control section includes: a communication path state determination section that determines a network path state; and a redundant path switching section that switches connection between the arithmetic section and at least two communication sections.

Information processor and control network system

A communication control unit and a communication control system are provided in which control devices can synchronously operate. In a communication control system in which a communication control unit and multiple control devices having an actuator to operate a control target are connected via a network, the communication control unit provides a control command to the control devices, synchronizes times of the communication control unit and the control devices, obtains communication delays relative to the control devices, collects control start times of the control devices, obtains a time by subtracting the control start time from a predetermined time as a start time of the control device, calculates a time obtained by subtracting the communication delay from the start time for each control device, and transmits the control command to the control devices before the earliest time of the calculated times.

Communication control unit and communication control system

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