METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SAFETY-RELATED COMMUNICATION IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK OF AN AUTOMATION SYSTEM

Patent №

US 8,923,286

Granted

2014-12-30

Filed 2010

Owner

PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KG

Lab

AI components

2

planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12878496

The invention relates to communication between safety-related modules in a communication network of an automation system. The object of the invention is to simplify installation and development of safety-related modules in an automation network. To this end, the safety functions of a system are divided into small, manageable, locally delimitable and simply verifiable groups of modules.

PlanningAI hardwareH04L 12/403H04L 12/462H04L 45/00

AI classification

Planning0.83
AI hardware0.67
Knowledge representation0.02
Evolutionary computation0.00
Natural language0.00
Vision0.00
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KG

assignment · 252250035

Assignors

SCHMIDT, JOACHIM, HORN, STEFFEN

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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