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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2007
Peter Krippner, Karlsruhe, DE;
Thomas Kleegrewe, Minden, DE;
Armin Gasch, Speyer, DE;
Detlef Pape, Nussbaumen, DE;
Wolfgang Lasarzik, Bad Nenndorf, DE;
Wolfgang Scholz, Minden, DE;
Urs E. Meier, Würenlingen, CH;
Peter Krippner, Karlsruhe, DE;
Thomas Kleegrewe, Minden, DE;
Armin Gasch, Speyer, DE;
Detlef Pape, Nussbaumen, DE;
Wolfgang Lasarzik, Bad Nenndorf, DE;
Wolfgang Scholz, Minden, DE;
Urs E. Meier, Würenlingen, CH;
ABB AG, Mannheim, DE;
Abstract
The disclosure relates to a control device for a pneumatically operated actuator in the field of process automation, in particular for continuous control of material flows in the industrial environment. The control device has a communications interface for receiving an electrical setpoint value, and an output for the output of a pneumatic fluid, whose pressure is varied as a function of a control deviation. The received electrical setpoint value is suitable as a process parameter. The control device is connected via a communications channel to an actual-value encoder, which is designed to output an electrical signal corresponding to the actual value of the same process parameter.