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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2017
Applicant:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Inventor:
Daniel Milton Alley, Salem, VA (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 15/02 (2006.01); H04B 7/26 (2006.01); G05B 9/03 (2006.01); G05B 19/418 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 15/02 (2013.01); G05B 9/03 (2013.01); G05B 19/4184 (2013.01); H04B 7/2643 (2013.01); G05B 2219/14016 (2013.01); Y02P 90/14 (2015.11); Y02P 90/18 (2015.11);
Abstract
The exemplified methods and systems support shared output drivers or shared control setting drivers across separate control devices for a redundant system of 1, 2, 3, or more control devices in simplex, dual, triple redundancy, and etc. Digital communication links between the control devices are implemented to facilitate sensing, from other control devices, of operation states (e.g., amount of contribution by the control devices to the shared output) and on-line/health status of other control devices in the redundant network.