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Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 2025

Filed:

Mar. 07, 2022
Applicant:

Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Musashino, JP;

Inventors:

Yuuzou Hasegawa, Tokyo, JP;

Kazuyuki Ito, Tokyo, JP;

Hideharu Yajima, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 19/418 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 19/41865 (2013.01); G05B 19/4183 (2013.01); G05B 19/4185 (2013.01);
Abstract

A controller is a controller forming, with another controller, a redundant controller. The controller includes a communication function unit that performs communication with an external device capable of executing control calculation needed for process control for a plant, and a redundancy management unit that switches states of the controller between an active state where a result of the control calculation obtained from the external device via the communication function unit is reflected in the process control and a standby state where the result of the control calculation is not reflected in the process control. The redundancy management unit switches the states of the controller to bring one of the controller and the another controller into the active state.


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