Connection device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016179732-A1
Application number	US-201414581852-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Dec 23, 2014
Priority date	Dec 23, 2014
Publication date	Jun 23, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

A connecting device comprises housing, a board with electrical components, including at least one digital bus connection and an input/output section. It allows outsourcing of analogue and digital I/O from a connected device, e.g. an HVAC actuator control unit by decentralizing inputs and outputs.

First claim

1 . Connecting device comprising
a) a housing, b) a board with electrical components, including at least one digital bus connection, c) and an input/output section.

2 . Connecting device according to claim 1 , wherein the board includes a microcontroller in order to pre-process the signals in the sense of a decentralised intelligent device.

3 . Connecting device according to claim 1 , wherein the digital bus connection is a 3-wire digital bus connection, comprising a signal wire, a power wire and a ground wire.

4 . Connecting device according to claim 1 , wherein the input/output section, comprises at least one of the group consisting of a digital input, an analogue input, a digital output, an analogue output and a digital gateway.

5 . Connecting device according to claim 4 , wherein the digital or analogue output comprises at least one of the group comprising a 10 V output, a 0-10 V output, a temperature input and a digital input.

6 . Connecting device according to claim 4 , wherein the gateway comprises at least one of the group consisting of a wireless gateway such as Bluetooth, EnOcean, ZigBee and NFC, a wire based technology such as BACNET, Modbus and an infrared gateway.

7 . Connecting device according to claim 4 , wherein the input/output section also includes signal conditioning means such as voltage converters or voltage to current converters.

8 . Connecting device according to claim 1 , wherein the device comprises external memory, such as scalable memory allowing data logging.

9 . Connecting device according to claim 4 , wherein the digital bus connection provides a connection to a bus master and wherein at least one of a group consisting of a digital output, an analogue output and a digital gateway is connected to a peripheral device, and wherein a signal can be transmitted from the bus master to a respective input of the peripheral device.

10 . Connecting device according to claim 4 , wherein the digital bus connection provides a connection to a bus master and wherein at least one of a group consisting of a digital input, an analogue input and a digital gateway is connected to a peripheral device, and wherein a signal can be transmitted from a respective output of the peripheral device to the bus master.

Assignees

• Belimo Holding Ag

Inventors

• Schmidlin Peter
• Grogg Silvio

Classifications

• H05K2201/10045

  Mounted network component having plural terminals · CPC title

• H05K1/182

  associated with components mounted in printed circuit boards [PCB], e.g. insert-mounted components [IMC] · CPC title

• H05K1/16

  incorporating printed electric components, e.g. printed resistors, capacitors or inductors · CPC title

• G05B2219/2208

  Each processor controls a different function of the machine · CPC title

• G05B2219/1204

  Multiprocessing, several plc's, distributed logic control · CPC title