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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2016
Applicant:
Omron Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
OMRON Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 19/414 (2006.01); G05B 19/042 (2006.01); H04L 12/10 (2006.01); G05B 19/418 (2006.01); H04L 12/12 (2006.01); G05B 9/02 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 19/4145 (2013.01); G05B 9/02 (2013.01); G05B 19/0423 (2013.01); G05B 19/4184 (2013.01); H04L 12/10 (2013.01); H04L 12/12 (2013.01); H04N 1/00204 (2013.01); H04N 1/00281 (2013.01); H04N 1/00408 (2013.01); H04N 1/00901 (2013.01); G05B 2219/33196 (2013.01); G05B 2219/34315 (2013.01); Y02P 90/02 (2015.11);
Abstract
The purpose of the present invention is to stop the power supply to a specified device among a plurality of devices to be supplied with power, and maintain the power supply to the other device. An IO-Link master is provided with: an upper-level communication control unit which receives a specification of a device to which the power supply is to be stopped; and a power supply control unit which controls a device power supply switching unit corresponding to the device to which the power supply is to be stopped, to stop the power supply to said device while maintaining the power supply to the other device.