Abstract:
PURPOSE: To reduce the constitution of hardware and to place the whole system in a loop-back state by exactly the same method as a normal data transfer method without stopping the system by connecting a transmission side to both transmission lines of a stand-by system and an operation system when a loop- back command is received. CONSTITUTION: A transmitter 4 is used as a data transmitter which monitors a loop or controls the system, and it is assumed that a new data transmitter is installed additionally between the data trasnmitter 1 and a data transmitter 2. A data transmitter 4 performs transmission firstly; to the frame data transmitter 1 which has a loop-back command (LOPBACKA) for connecting an operation system transmission line to a recetion side and a stand-by transmission line to a transmission side, and a frame receiving circuit 91 performs reception. The frame receiving circuit 91 confirms that this frame is addressed to this station (data transmitter 1) and receives the frame of the command LOOPBACK A. This frame is never supplied to the low-order station. COPYRIGHT: (C)1984,JPO&Japio
Abstract:
PURPOSE:To eliminate almost completely the system failure of a looped data transmission network by reconstruct one long loop by a loop-back line even in case of an erroneous transmission originating from a fault of a signal line. CONSTITUTION:When a signal received from a high-order station through the signal line is disconnected the loop-back control part 5 of said station operates a disconnection detecting circuit 11 to output a signal with a logical level ''1''. This signal with the logical level ''1'' serves as the control signal of an OR circuit 13 and the 1st switching circuit 14 regards the digital receive signal of a signal converter 4 which converts a transmission line signal received through a low-order station through the loop-back line as the receive data of the station. The signal with the logical level ''1'' outputted by the OR circuit 13 is inverted by an inverter circuit 18 to a logical level ''0'' to obtain a control signal, which permits an AND circuit 19 to stops the transmission of a signal to the high- order station through a signal converter 2 and the loop back line. Thus, one large data highway from the high-order station to this station is constituted by the loop-back line and the transmit data sent out of the high-order station through the loop-back line is received by this station.
Abstract:
PURPOSE:To attain such as linking and loop back processing of a node with high reliability in a short time by applying a signal to a main and a sub-transmission lines in opposite direction with each other and switching the transmission line based on the information about signal interruption of the main and sub- transmission lines at each node and the state of a communication control circuit of the node. CONSTITUTION:A communication station (control node) 1 performing system synchronism and the management of connecting state of communication stations (nodes) or the like and the nodes 2-4 are connected in a loop by the main transmission line 102 and the sub-transmission line 102. Signals are applied in opposite direction to the main and the sub-transmission lines 102, 102 respectively. The nodes 2-4 are provided with a signal detecting circuit supervising the state of transmission lines. Each node performs logical processing based on the information obtained from the signal detecting circuit and the information representing the state of the communication control circuit of the nodes. The changeover of the transmission lines is attained by the result.
Abstract:
PURPOSE:To simplify devices and to check a fault in an in-use station and a backup station at the time of switching by receiving a data signal from a slave station by the backup station during the communication with the in-use station and making an operation controlling part control the switching. CONSTITUTION:If a receiving signal is not detected by one of an in-use station 22 and a backup station 22', the operation controlling part 33 sets up the by-pass mode in the station 22', a circuit is passed through a by-pass line 40' and the station 22 sends a check code to the circuit. When the code is received by the station 22 through the slave station 21 and the by-pass line 40', the fault of a transmitting/receiving part of the station 22' is diagnosed and communication between the station 22 and the slave station 21 is restarted. When the check code is not received by the station 22 within a fixed period, the station 22 is decided to be defective and the control part 33 sets the station 22 to the connection mode, switches the station 22' to the connection and transmission modes and sends the check code to the circuit. When the code is received by the station 22', it is confirmed that the station 22 is defective and the station 22' starts to communicate with the slave station 21. The station 22' can check the faults of both the stations at the time of switching without the collection of past data.
Abstract:
PURPOSE:To communicate quickly a failure of a slave station to a master station, by monitoring the state of a terminal with a switching control circuit taking interface between a loop transmitter and the slave station, in the data transmission from the master station to the slave station provided in a loop transmission line. CONSTITUTION:Data from a loop is inputted from an input terminal RD and outputted to the loop via an output terminal L-SD. When the signal is a signal addressed to the own station, the address is checked 2 and the signal is transmitted to the slave station via the terminal SD and an AND gate a2. If the slave station is failed, a signal is given to signal lines l5, l6 of a status checker 4. When the address of the slave station is transmitted from the master station, a failure pattern is transmitted to the master station from a pattern generator in succession to the address signal.
Abstract:
PURPOSE:To prevent a system-down of a transmission system by forming the systems of transmission line loops to terminal stations from a central station in two pairs while utilizing transmission lines among the terminal stations in a unit. CONSTITUTION:When a disconnection is generated in a transmission line 16b in the system 16, the loop constituted by transmission lines 16a, 16b, 16c is cut and the function of the loop stops, but the loop constituted by transmission lines 15a, 15b, 15c of the system 15 is normal. Accordingly, the terminal station 3 and the terminal station 5 are each given control commands received from the central station 1 through the terminal stations 2 and 4. With monitor informations which must be transmitted over the central station 1 from the terminal station 3 and the terminal station 5, informations being transmitted to the terminal stations 2 and 4 are connected to reception messages at the terminal stations 2 and 4, and transmitted to the central station 1 through the transmission lines 15b, 15c.
Abstract:
PURPOSE:To detect quickly whether generation of a fault exists or not, by constituting so that a terminal station which is in a faulty state when a fault detecting channel sent out from a central station is passing can write the faulty state in a prescribed bit of this channel. CONSTITUTION:When checking a fault, a fault detecting fixed channel ALM CH is sent out in a clear state from a central device 100, and passes through each terminal station 101-10n. In this case, a terminal station in which a fault is generated writes a 1 level signal in at least one of a fault collecting bit NO CHG ALM and an important fault collecting bit CHG ALM in accordance with a degree of importance of its fault. In case when a fault is generated in plural terminal stations, write of the fault is executed under an OR condition, and it passes through all the terminal stations and returns to the central station. Since this time is extremely short, the fault detecting time can be shortened comparing with a successive polling system to all the terminal stations.
Abstract:
PURPOSE:To facilitate a detection of a faulty area, by switching the using system to a stand-by system when the using system has a fault and at the same time reporting the system switcing to a monitor device above that time through a receiving station or a transmitting system. CONSTITUTION:For instance, a data transmitting device 2 receives a data frame and performs an FCS check when data is transmitted to the device 2 from a data transmitting device 4. Then no answer frame is sent back to the device 4 if an error of the data frame is detected. The device 4 detects the time-out if no answer frame is sent back and then transmits again the same data frame. When the error detecting frequency through the FCS checking exceeds a prescribed level, the device 2 regards that the using system is not serviceable and then switches the using system to a stand-by system as well as to inform this switching to a monitor device 1. On the other hand, the device 4 decides the failure of retransmission and then informs this fact to the device 1 by means of an information field I.