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.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2018
Applicant:
Omron Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Inventors:
Maki Nishimura, Ritto, JP;
Megumu Asano, Moriyama, JP;
Assignee:
OMRON CORPORATION, Kyoto, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/36 (2006.01); G06F 13/362 (2006.01); G06F 11/07 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/362 (2013.01); G06F 11/0721 (2013.01); G06F 11/0793 (2013.01);
Abstract
A main control section () of a slave device () include a slave controller (), a processor (), and a watchdog circuit () which are configured as a one-chip integrated circuit. In a case where the watchdog circuit () has detected that a malfunction has occurred in an operation of the main control section (), the watchdog circuit () resets the processor () while not stopping an operation of the slave controller ().