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Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2010

Filed:

May. 31, 2006
Applicant:

Thomas Albers, Minden, DE;

Inventor:

Thomas Albers, Minden, DE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method for defining a cycle time for a transmission cycle on a system bus of a monitoring and/or control system having at least one communication module and at least one input/output module, which is connected to the communication module via the system bus for transmitting measurement and/or control signals and is intended to input and/or output measurement and/or control signals to field applications, the at least one communication module having a time control unit for controlling a transmission cycle which is constantly repeatedly carried out and has defined communication times for the communication and input/output modules which are connected to the system bus, comprises measuring the signal propagation times on the system bus and defining the cycle time for a transmission cycle on the system bus on the basis of the longest signal propagation time measured.


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Albers, Thomas. (2010). Method for controlling the access times to a system bus and communication module (U.S. Patent No. 7730240). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/7730240

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