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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2007
Viktor Oster, Blomberg, DE;
Joachim Schmidt, Bad Pyrmont, DE;
Steffen Horn, Schieder-Schwalenberg, DE;
Viktor Oster, Blomberg, DE;
Joachim Schmidt, Bad Pyrmont, DE;
Steffen Horn, Schieder-Schwalenberg, DE;
Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG, Blomberg, DE;
Abstract
A method and also a control and data-transmission system is presented, with which the installation location of at least one safety bus component connected to the control and data-transmission system () can be checked. For this purpose, in two separate communications cycles, a respective position identifier, which had been allocated to the safety bus components () in a prior configuration process, is transmitted to each safety bus component via a non-safety communications control device (). The safety bus components compare the position identifiers received in the two communications cycles to the contents of a memory, in which a reference position identifier has already been stored or which is still empty. Based on a comparison of the transmitted position identifier to the reference position identifier and the configuration dataset stored in a safety control device (), it can be tested whether each safety bus component is connected to the predetermined installation location within the control and data-transmission system ().