The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.

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.:

US 10740255 B1

Date of Patent:

Aug. 11, 2020

Filed:

Apr. 13, 2017

Control apparatus, relay apparatus, control method for control apparatus, control method for relay apparatus, control program and storage medium

Applicant:

Omron Corporation, Kyoto, JP;

Inventors:

Yasuhiro Kitamura, Ritto, JP;

Atsushi Kamimura, Ritto, JP;

Masahiro Nishi, Ritto, JP;

Toshikatsu Nakamura, Ritto, JP;

Assignee:

OMRON Corporation, Kyoto, JP;

Attorney:

JCIPRNET

Primary Examiner:

Eric T Oberly

Int. Cl.

CPC ...

G06F 13/16 (2006.01); G06F 13/40 (2006.01); G05B 19/05 (2006.01); G05B 19/418 (2006.01);

U.S. Cl.

CPC ...

G06F 13/16 (2013.01); G05B 19/054 (2013.01); G06F 13/4068 (2013.01); G05B 19/4185 (2013.01);

Abstract

Provided is a control apparatus that can correctly obtain the execution status information of the instruction whose sender is the control apparatus itself. The controller () controls operations of the IO-Link device () via the IO-Link master (), and includes the writing part () transmitting an instruction for the IO-Link device () and an identification of the instruction to the IO-Link master () and the reading part () retrieving an execution status information (status) indicating the execution status of the instruction by using the identification information.

Find Patent Forward Citations