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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2016
Applicant:
Omron Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
OMRON Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 19/00 (2006.01); G05B 19/418 (2006.01); G05B 19/042 (2006.01); G05B 19/05 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 19/4185 (2013.01); G05B 19/042 (2013.01); G05B 19/052 (2013.01); G05B 19/054 (2013.01); G05B 2219/23067 (2013.01); G05B 2219/23193 (2013.01); G05B 2219/25242 (2013.01); G05B 2219/31333 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention addresses the problem whereby the number of commands to be transmitted increases in accordance with an increase in the number of devices to be backed up and restored, and processing becomes complex. An IO-Link master is provided with: an upper-level communication control unit which receives an instruction to execute backup in which setting information is acquired from IO-Link devices, and stored in a storage unit; and a backup control unit which executes backup of the plurality of IO-Link devices in accordance with the one received instruction.