Use of a display of a converter, method for operating a converter, and converter

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11244656-B2
Application number	US-202117190065-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 2, 2021
Priority date	Jul 29, 2014
Publication date	Feb 8, 2022
Grant date	Feb 8, 2022

Abstract

In the use of a display of a converter, method for operating a converter, and converter, the converter having an address code switch, in particular on its housing, and in an actuation of the address code switch and during a subsequent, predefined period of time, a respective value corresponding to the respective switch position of the address code switch is displayed by the display. Operating information of the converter is displayed in all other cases.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of using a display of a converter, the converter including an address code switch adapted to set a device address of the converter, comprising:
displaying, on the display, during a predefined time period
after setting and/or changing the device address of the converter based on a switch position of the address code switch, a value corresponding to the switch position of the address code switch and to the device address of the converter; and
displaying on the display in all other cases operating information of the converter.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the device address of the converter is set based on the switch position of the address code switch during a start-up operation of the converter.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the address code switch includes a plurality of address code switches and the display includes a plurality of displays, each display corresponding to a respective one of the address code switches.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the display includes a 7-segment display adapted to display a hexadecimal number corresponding to the device address.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the address code switch and/or the display is provided on a housing of the converter.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the period is between 1 second and 100 seconds.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the operating information includes a status, an operating status, a type of control method of the converter, enable information, and/or a fault status.

8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the address code switch includes a rotary switch, includes a rotary switch having discrete rotary positions and/or address code rotary switches, includes a DIP switch, and/or has a finite number of switch positions.

9. The method according to claim 1 , wherein each switch position of the address code switch is assigned a hexadecimal number, and the switch is labeled accordingly on the address code switch.

10. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the address code switch includes labeled surface sections, and each switch position of the address code switch is assigned a respective labeled surface section.

11. The method according to claim 1 , wherein information displayed on the display in an actuation of the address code switch and during a subsequent, predefined period of time corresponds to labeling assigned to a respective switch position and/or an allocated labeled surface section.

12. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the setting and/or changing of the device address including actuating the address code switch.

13. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the setting and/or changing of the device address includes modification of the switch position of the address code switch.

14. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising detecting an actuation of the address code switch, the displaying of the value corresponding to the switch position of the address code switch and to the device address of the converter being performed in respond to the detection of the actuation of the address code switch.

15. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the value corresponding to the switch position of the address code switch and to the device address of the converter is displayed temporarily in response to detection of actuation of the address code switch.

16. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the operating information of the converter includes values and/or information not related to the switch position.

17. The method according to claim 12 , further comprising detecting the actuation of the address code switch.

18. The method according to claim 17 , wherein the actuation of the address code switch is detected by a sensor.

19. The method according to claim 17 , wherein the actuation of the address code switch is detected by detecting an electric variable that depends on the switch position.

20. The method according to claim 19 , wherein the electric variable includes current and/or voltage.

Assignees

• Sew Eurodrive Gmbh & Co

Inventors

• Nikola Joachim

Classifications

• G05B19/108 Primary

  characterised by physical layout of switches; switches co-operating with display; use of switches in a special way · CPC title

• G06F3/0362

  with detection of one-dimensional [1D] translations or rotations of an operating part of the device, e.g. scroll wheels, sliders, knobs, rollers or belts · CPC title

• G05B2219/21071

  Configuration, each module has a settable address, code wheel, encoder · CPC title

• G05B2219/23132

  Multifunction display · CPC title

• G06F3/02

  Input arrangements using manually operated switches, e.g. using keyboards or dials · CPC title