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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:
Sep. 12, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 24, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3401462 ;
Abstract
An electric control device generates control signals that control electrical devices. The control device has a multiplicity of control modules. At least some of the control modules have a comparator for comparing two values and they function in dependence on the various outcomes of comparison. One of more global comparators are provided for certain comparisons in the control device. Each of the global comparators operates on several or all of the control modules. The control modules operate not only in dependence on the comparisons in their respective comparators, but additionally in dependence on the comparison results in the global comparator.