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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:
Jun. 06, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 08, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ernst Dummermuth, Chesterland, OH (US);
Assignee:
Rockwell Technologies, LLC, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
700-2 ; 710 58 ;
Abstract
A reflex I/O card for an industrial controller receives enabling inputs from the executed control program and triggering inputs from an industrial process to provide outputs at a fixed delay in time or portion of a machine cycle after the inputs through dedicated hardware thus avoiding transmission delays and processing delays associated with the communication of information to a central processor and the execution of the control program.