Connection circuit of interconnect device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10447029-B2
Application number	US-201815896161-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 14, 2018
Priority date	Feb 27, 2017
Publication date	Oct 15, 2019
Grant date	Oct 15, 2019

Abstract

Disclosed is a connection circuit capable of detecting erroneous wiring of an interconnect device in order to prevent a safety fuse from being melted and quickly perform an overcurrent protection in the event of erroneous wiring or the like. In this connection circuit of the interconnect device, a preliminary wiring check operation is performed when a power control unit receives a power-on signal. It is detected whether or not a power line and a ground line are short-circuited in the preliminary wiring check operation. When the power line and the ground line are not short-circuited, an operation instruction is output from the power control unit to a power unit. As a result, power is turned on after it is checked whether or not the power line and the ground line are short-circuited in advance. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the safety fuse from being melted.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A connection circuit of an interconnect device, comprising:
at least one interface for connecting to the interconnect device of an electrical load;
at least one power unit for supplying power to the interface through a power line;
at least one safety fuse provided between the power unit and the interface;
at least one ground line for grounding the interface; and
a power control unit configured to perform an output control to the power unit,
wherein when the power control unit receives a power-on signal, a preliminary wiring check operation is performed by:
preventing the power unit from supplying power to the interface through the power line, and
determining whether or not the power line and the ground line are short-circuited,

wherein when it is determined during the preliminary wiring check operation that the power line and the ground line are not short-circuited, a power output control signal is output from the power control unit to the power unit which instructs the power unit to supply power to the interface through the power line.

2. The connection circuit of the interconnect device according to claim 1 , further comprising a short-circuit checker configured to detect a short circuit between the power line and the ground line,
wherein, in the preliminary wiring check operation, the power control unit transmits, to the short-circuit checker, a wiring check request signal for checking whether or not the power line and the ground line are short-circuited, and
the short-circuit checker transmits a wiring normality signal to the power control unit when the power line and the ground line are not short-circuited.

3. The connection circuit of the interconnect device according to claim 1 , further comprising an amperemeter provided between the safety fuse and the interface,
wherein, in the preliminary wiring check operation, the power control unit instructs that the power unit is supplied with power of a current smaller than that of a normal operation,
the power unit supplies power of a current smaller than that of a normal operation to the interface on the basis of the instruction from the power control unit, and
it is determined that the power line and the ground line are not short-circuited when the amperemeter detects a current value smaller than a threshold value.

4. The connection circuit of the interconnect device according to claim 1 , wherein a plurality of sets of the power unit, the safety fuse, and the interface connected through the power line are provided,
it is detected whether or not the power line and the ground line are short-circuited and where the short circuit occurs in the event of a short circuit by detecting a short circuit between the power line and the ground line sequentially in the plurality of sets in the preliminary wiring check operation.

Assignees

• Fanuc Corp

Inventors

• Fujimoto Taisei

Classifications

• G01R31/67

  Testing the correctness of wire connections in electric apparatus or circuits · CPC title

• H02H11/005

  in case of too low isolation resistance, too high load, short-circuit; earth fault · CPC title

• H02H3/02

  Details · CPC title

• H01H85/0241

  Structural association of a fuse and another component or apparatus (switches with built-in fuses H01H9/10, spark-gap arresters H01H85/44, transformers and inductances H01F27/402, capacitors H01G2/14, lamps H01K1/66, semiconductors H10W20/493 or H10W42/80) · CPC title

• H01H83/02

  operated by earth fault currents (H01H83/14 takes precedence) · CPC title