Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Yoshiyuki Nitta

Yukio Okamoto

Yuuichi Sato

Yukitaka Yoshida

Toshio Tagawa

Susumu Yoshizawa

Yuma Eto

Kazuo Ootani

Kenji Shigihara

Kenichi Wakamatsu

Takashi Omagari

Tomokazu Imahori

A duplexed control system comprises: two control devices, whereof one is set to operate as a reserve system and the other is set to operate as a regular system; a tracking bus that connects the two control devices to enable these to exchange tracking signals; and a control transmission channel that transmits computational information of these two control devices; wherein: the control devices respectively have: an own-system state evaluation section that transmits the result of state evaluation of its own system as a tracking signal through the tracking bus to the other system; an other-system signal confirmation section that receives the tracking signal through the tracking bus from the control device of the other system and thus performs state confirmation; and a transmission channel changeover section that, if the tracking signal cannot be received through the tracking bus, effects transmission of the tracking signal to the other-system signal confirmation section of the other system, through the control transmission channel.

Duplexed control system and control method thereof

A control device includes: memory diagnosis means for setting a power-on status when an electric power is turned on and diagnosing an ECC memory; restarting means for restarting the control device when the memory diagnosis means detects a correctable error of the ECC memory during the power-on status of the ECC memory; and operation processing means for resetting the power-on status and performing a normal operation when the memory diagnosis means does not detect a correctable error of the ECC memory, while performing the normal operation when a correctable error of the ECC memory is detected because of the restart of the control device by soft reset after the reset of the power-on status but when the control device is not in the power-on status.

Control device

In a field apparatus control system, one of duplicated main control units and one of communication control units constitute a normal system, and the other of the duplicated main control units and other of the communication control units constitute a standby system. Each of the normal system of communication control unit and the standby system of communication control unit has a same address on a network via the field bus, which is allocated to each of the normal and standby systems of communication control systems. The information that is outputted to the address from the field apparatus via the field bus is transmitted to the normal and standby systems of communication control units, respectively.

Normal and standby modes for duplicated field apparatus control system

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Tokyo, Japan

Yoshiyuki Nitta