JP2615336B2 - Program card and program timer - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a program card and a program timer using the program card.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, an annual program timer for setting an operation program stored in advance to operate on a specific day uses a weekly program card for setting a weekly program and an annual program card for setting an annual program. A technique for setting an annual program by using the method is disclosed in JP-A-4-262293. In this case, the setting method of the annual program is to specify the program to be executed from the programs set by the weekly program card by the annual program card, and to set the execution date of the program in the annual program card from January to December. There is used a method of selecting from dates provided in year order in date units. That is, a program to be executed on a daily basis is set.

Here, the above-mentioned special program will be described in comparison with a day-of-week program. The day of the week program is a program set for each day of the week, and is a so-called weekly program. On the other hand, the special program is a program that is not set for each day of the week, that is, a program that is executed only when an operation day is designated by an annual program card.

[0004] When operating an electric device or the like in accordance with the above-mentioned program, a method of setting the operation start time and the operation end time of the electric device as a pair is common, and is not set as a pair. In this case, it is set to perform error processing such as a sound. This is to prevent execution of a program in which only the operation start time is erroneously set and the operation does not end.

[0005]

When setting to operate a desired electric device over a plurality of days is performed by the above-mentioned method, the setting by the weekly program is to set the day of the operation start time and the day of the operation end time. Can be done by

However, when setting a special program to be operated over a plurality of days by the annual program in the above-described method, the annual program is specified in units of one day, so the program is set every day over a plurality of days. It had to be troublesome. That is, since the operation start time and the operation end time must be set as a pair, the operation start time and the operation end time are set to 24:00 on the operation start date, and the operation between the two days is performed. The start time was set to 0:00, the operation end time was set to 24:00, and the operation end date had to be set to 0:00 as the operation start time, and then the operation end time had to be set.

Further, the above setting has a problem that the operation becomes unstable because the operation is once started when the date is updated and then started at the same time. .

[0008] An object of the present invention is to eliminate the trouble of setting when an operation over a plurality of consecutive days is set by a special program.

[0009]

According to the present invention, there is provided an operation time setting field for setting the operation time of a load as a pair of an on time and an off time, and an input time of the pair of operation time setting sections. Alternatively, the above object is achieved by providing a non-designation setting column for setting any one of the cutoff times.

Then, a first card for designating a load operation program on a specific day and a second card for designating the specific day for executing the operation program designated by the first card are used. In the program timer for controlling the operation of the load, the first card has a time setting field for setting the operation time of the load as a pair of an on-time and an off-time, and the pair of on-time or off-time. There is provided an unspecified setting column for setting any one of the cutoff times,
A storage circuit for setting a load operation program by inserting the first card and the second card; and a control circuit for controlling the load operation based on the operation program set in the storage circuit. Achieves the above object.

Further, the above object is achieved by providing the first card with a day designation field for designating a day on which the load operation program is to be executed.

[0012]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be specifically described below with reference to one embodiment shown in the drawings.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a card reader for reading a mark provided on a program card 2. As a specific configuration of the card reader 1, a number of photointerrupters are arranged in parallel so as to correspond to marks written on the card 2, and a card feeder (not shown).
It has. In this example, as the program card 2, a weekly program card 2a constituting a first card as shown in FIG. 2 and an annual program card 2b constituting a second card as shown in FIG. 3 are used. The weekly program card 2a is for setting the operation time of the weekly program and the special program, and the annual program card 2b is for setting the annual pattern. 3
Is a program storage circuit, which is composed of a RAM or the like, and stores the week and special programs read by the card reader 1 from the weekly program card 2a. Reference numeral 4 denotes an annual program storage circuit, which is composed of a RAM or the like, has a storage area corresponding to a date corresponding to two years, and stores an annual pattern read by the card reader 1 from the annual program card 2b. Reference numeral 5 denotes a timing circuit which has calendar information and measures the current time. Reference numeral 6 denotes a display unit, which is composed of a liquid crystal display or the like, and displays program information stored in the program storage circuit 3 and the annual program storage circuit 4, current time, and the like. Reference numeral 7 denotes a melody storage circuit which comprises a ROM or the like and stores a plurality of melody data. Reference numeral 8 denotes a sound generating circuit which constitutes a load.
It comprises an A conversion circuit 9, an amplifier 10, a speaker 11, and the like. The melody data read from the melody storage circuit 7 is D / A converted, amplified, and output. Reference numeral 12 denotes an output unit that constitutes a load, and outputs an operation signal to an electric device (not shown) to be connected. Reference numeral 13 denotes a control circuit, which includes a CPU, an RO,
M, RAM, etc., for controlling various operations.

Next, the program card 2 will be specifically described with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 2 shows a part of the weekly program card 2a. The weekly program card 2a includes a day designation box 201 for designating a day to be operated and a special program number designation box for designating a special program number. 20
2, a channel designation column 203 for designating a channel to be operated, an output designation column 2 for designating a time output or a keep output
04, a report time designation field 205 for designating a report time, when the report output is designated, the "on" time of the report is designated, and when the keep output is designated, the keep output is designated. Time designation field 20 for designating "on" and "off" times
6, a day designation field 207 for designating the day of the week at the time designated in the time designation field 206, a music title designation field 208 for designating the tune at the time of reporting, and a pair when the output is kept when setting a special program. When only one of “ON” and “OFF” is not specified, the setting includes a non-specification setting field 209 for setting no specification, a timing mark 210, a weekly program card identification mark 211, and the like.

FIG. 3 shows an annual program card 2b. The annual program card 2b has a program designation column 212 for designating a program to be operated, and a date designation column for 12 months for designating a date in units of one month. 21
3. Month designation field 21 for designating the month of each date designation field 213
4, a year designation field 215 for designating a year (this year or next year) of each date designation field 213, a timing mark 216, an annual program card discrimination mark 217, and the like are provided. A program number designation column 212b is provided. In this example, the date specified by the month specification field 214 and the year specification field 215 is set as the start date of the date specification field 213, and the date information between this month and 12 months is indicated by an arrow A in FIG. It is shown every month in the direction shown. In other words, the date specification field 213 at the left end in FIG. 3 becomes the date specification field for the start date specified above, and thereafter program specification for 12 months becomes possible.

Here, the non-designated setting column 209 provided on the weekly program card 2a will be described. It should be noted that the program timer of this example is used only when the keep output is specified and the operation start time (ON time) and the operation end time (OFF time) are set as a pair as described above. , And read that information.

Therefore, when a special program is set over a plurality of consecutive days, the operation start date may be set only at the operation start time and the operation end date may be set at only the operation end time. In the special program, the operation start time and the operation end time must be set as a pair.

The designation of one pair that does not need to be designated, such as the operation end time on the operation start date and the operation start time on the operation end date, is designated,
An unspecified setting column 209 is provided to form a pair of the ON time and the OFF time.

Next, the operation of setting a program using the weekly program card 2a and the annual program card 2b will be described in detail.

For example, if a company that starts today on January 5 and starts a new year from April of this year sets an annual program for the new year, the following settings are made.

More specifically, the first timer switch circuit (not shown) connected to the channel 1, that is, the keep output is set to the all-day off state from Monday to Friday, and the on-time is set to 13:00 on Saturday to turn off the time. At 19:00, on Sunday at 9 o'clock and off at 20:00, and as a specific day pattern for the year, the setting program on Saturday operates on April 25, September 4, and October 13 of this year This will be described in the case of programming the contents to be performed.

First, the setting of the weekly program will be described.

In this case, as shown in FIG. 4, the weekly program card 2a marks [1] in the channel designation field 203 corresponding to channel 1 and marks [Out] of the keep in the output designation field 204.

Then, the first ON day designation field 207
(Saturation) in (time information 1 column in FIG. 4) is marked with a tens place [1] of [hour] in the first ON time specification field 206 (time information 1 column in FIG. 4). Mark [3] in the first place and [0] in the first place of [minute].

Furthermore, the first off-day designation field 207
Mark [Sat] in (Time 2 column in FIG. 4) and the tens place [1] of [Hour] in the first off-time designation field 206 (Time 2 column in FIG. 4). Mark [9] in the first place and [0] in the first place of [minute].

By marking in this way, the first timer switch circuit (not shown) connected to channel 1 is turned on at 13:00 on Saturday and off at 1 time on Saturday.
It can be set as 9 o'clock.

Subsequently, when a program for Sunday is set, [day] in the second ON day designation field 207 (column 3 in FIG. 4) of the weekly program card 2a marked as described above is set. In the second on-time designation field 206 (report time 3 field in FIG. 4), [9] in the first place of [hour] and [0] in the first place of [minute]. I do.

Furthermore, a second off-day designation field 207
Mark [Day] in (time information 4 column in FIG. 4) and tens place [2] of [hour] in the first off-time designation field 205 (time information 4 field in FIG. 4). Mark the first digit [0] and the first digit [0] of [minute].

By setting in this manner, the operation of keeping the keep output of channel 1 all day off from Monday to Friday, setting the on time to 13:00 and the off time to 19:00 on Saturday, and setting the on time on Sunday Is set to 9 o'clock and the cutoff time is set to 20:00.

Next, the setting of the annual program will be described.

Here, since the program for Saturday is set, the annual program card 2b is used as shown in FIG.
Day designation field 2 provided as program designation field 212
Mark [Soil] in 12a.

In this example, since a program in year units starting from April of this year is designated, [now] corresponding to the current year in the year designation field 215 and [4] in the month designation field 214 are marked. With this designation, the start date of the date designation column 213 is April of this year. That is, in FIG. 5, the date designation field 213 at the left end corresponds to April of this year,
May, June, July, August, September, October, 11 by month
Month, December, January, February, March of next year and each date specification column 2
Thirteen years are set.

As described above, since the start year and month of the date specification column can be set to the first month of the year, the date specification column can be set according to the year and the setting of the annual program can be prevented. it can.

The date designation field 213 set as described above
On April 25, September 4 and October 13 of this year, marks are made as shown in FIG.

By setting the annual program card in this way, April 25, September 4, and October 1 of this year
On Saturday the 3rd program will be run.

Next, a description will be given of an example of setting a program which is not programmed on the day of the week by changing the schedule of the week set in advance on the weekly program card 2a.

For example, a third timer switch circuit (not shown) connected to channel 3 is operated from 23:00 on January 14 of this year to 11:30 on February 12. When setting a program, make settings as follows.

First, the setting of the weekly program card 2a will be described.

In this case, as shown in FIG. 6, on the weekly program card 2a, the first place [1] of the special program number designation field 202 is marked, and [3] of the channel designation field 203 corresponding to the channel 3 is entered. Mark and specify output 2
Mark [Out] of Keep 04.

Then, the first ON time designation field 206
(The column designated as time 1 in FIG. 6) The tens place [2] and the place place [3] of the [hour] and the place place [0] of the minute place
Mark.

Further, a first off time designation field 206
A mark (x) in the non-designated setting column 209 corresponding to (the column designated as time 2 in FIG. 6).

By marking in this way, the third timer switch circuit (not shown) connected to channel 3 as special program number 1
3:00 can be set.

Next, as shown in FIG. 7, on the weekly program card 2a, [2] in the first place of the special program number designation field 202 is marked, and [ 3], and the mark [Out] of the keep in the output designation field 204.

Then, the first ON time designation field 206
(× in the non-designated setting column 209 corresponding to (the column designated as time 1 in FIG. 7)).

Further, a first off-time designation column 206
(The column designated as time 2 in FIG. 6) [hour] tens place [1], ones place [1], and [minutes] tens place [3]
And [0] in the first place.

By marking in this manner, the cutoff time of the third timer switch circuit (not shown) connected to channel 3 is set to 1 as special program number 2.
A setting of 1:30 can be made.

Next, an example will be described in which the date on which the special program set above is executed is set on the annual program card 2b.

First, as shown in FIG. 8, [1] in the special program number designation column 212b is marked on the annual program card 2b.

In this example, since the day on which the special program number 1 is set is January of this year, the [now] corresponding to the current year in the year designation field 215 and the [1] in the month designation field 214 are marked to facilitate marking. I do. By this designation, the date designation column 21
The start date of 3 will be January of this year. That is, in FIG. 8, the date designation column 213 at the left end corresponds to January of this year, and thereafter, February, March, April, May,
Months, July, August, September, October, November, and December are set in the date designation fields 213.

As described above, since the start year and month in the date designation column can be set to the first month for setting the program, it is possible to prevent the setting error of the yearly program.

Then, a mark is made as shown in FIG. 8 on January 14 of this year in the date designation field 213 set as described above.

By marking the annual program card 2b in this way, it is possible to set so that the special program of the special program number 1 is executed on January 14 of this year.

Further, as shown in FIG. 9, [2] in the special program number designation column 212b is marked on the annual program card 2b different from the above. Since the day on which the special program number 2 is set is February of this year, "now" corresponding to the current year in the year designation field 215 and "2" in the month designation field 214 are marked for easy marking. With this designation, the start date of the date designation column 213 is February of this year,
On the 12th day of the date designation field 213 of February of this year, a mark is made as shown in FIG.

By marking the annual program card 2b in this way, it is possible to set the special program of the special program number 2 to be executed on February 12 of this year.

That is, by marking as described above, the third channel connected to the channel 3 from 23:00 on January 14 of this year to 11:30 on February 12 of this year.
A program for operating the timer switch circuit (not shown) can be set. Therefore, a special program to be operated over a plurality of days can be set only by designating the operation start date, the operation start time, the operation end date, and the operation end time. , The settings are simple.

Next, the operation will be described.

The operation when the weekly program card 2a is inserted into the card reader 1 will be described with reference to FIG.

The weekly program card 2a is indicated by an arrow X in FIG.
When the card reader 1 is inserted from the direction, the card reader 1 drives a motor in a card feeder (not shown) to feed the inserted card 2 (step 10a), and the photo interrupter sets the weekly program card. Discrimination mark 2
09, it is determined that the weekly program card 2a has been inserted, and the set mark data is read according to a preset reading program.
The read data is stored in a buffer in the control circuit 13 (step 10b).

If the stored data specifies the keep output (step 10c), the control circuit 13 sets the operation start time and the operation end time as one pair (ie, on / off pair). (Step 10
d) If not set, error processing such as generation of an alarm sound is performed (step 10e).

In step 10d, if the ON / OFF pair has been set, the control circuit 13 determines whether or not the non-designation is set in the non-designation setting column 209 in the ON time designation column 206 (step 10f). If the designation is not set, that is, if the operation start time is set, the set operation start time data is stored in the program storage circuit 3 (step 10g), and the non-designation setting column is set in the off time designation column 206. In step 209, it is determined whether or not the designation is set (step 10h). If the designation is not set and the operation end time is set, the set operation end time data is stored in the program storage circuit 3 (step 209). Step 10i).

In step 10f, the non-designated setting column 2
If no designation is set in 09, the operation starting from step 10h is performed without storing the operation start time in the program storage circuit 3. Then, in step 10i, if no designation is set in the no designation setting column 209, the operation end time is not stored in the program storage circuit 3 and step 10h
The following operation is performed.

That is, the time information of the time setting section for which no designation is set in the no designation setting column 209 is not set. Therefore, in the off time designation field 206, the non-designation setting field 20
When the non-designation is set in 9, the program stored in the program storage circuit 3 only designates the on-time, and the non-designation is set in the non-designation setting column 209 in the on-time designation column 206. In this case, the program stored in the program storage circuit 3 simply specifies the off time. Therefore, when setting a program for a plurality of days that is not limited to the day-of-the-week program, it is only necessary to set the above two programs, and the setting becomes simpler than that of the conventional program.

When step 10i is completed, the control circuit 1
3 judges whether the data is completed (step 10j). If the data is not completed, the process returns to step 10d, and the same operation as described above is performed.

If the keep output has not been designated in step 10c, the control circuit 13 determines that the time has been designated, stores the time data in the program storage circuit 3, and performs the operation after step 10j. Perform

Next, the operation when the annual program card 2b is inserted into the card reader 1 will be described with reference to FIG.

When the annual program card 2b is inserted into the card reader 1 from the direction of arrow Y in FIG. 3, the card reader 1 drives a motor in a card feeder (not shown) to insert the inserted card 2. (Step 11a), and the photo interrupter sets the annual program card identification mark
17 is detected, it is determined that the annual program card 2a has been inserted.
(Step 11b).

The control circuit 13 reads the start date specified in the month specification column 214 and the year specification column 215 from the data stored in the buffer, and reads the annual program storage circuit 4 corresponding to the read specified start date. An address for designating the storage area is obtained (step 11c).

The control circuit 13 sequentially stores, on the basis of the obtained address, the programs of the specific day for one month which are first read out from the date designation field 213 in the annual program storage circuit 4 (step 11d). Specifically, only the day data of the day program or the number data of the special program operated on the specific day is stored in the storage area of the specific day.

When the storage for one month is completed, the control circuit 1
3 updates the address for one month, and sets the next date specification field 21
3 is sequentially stored in the yearly program storage circuit 4 for one month's worth of the program read from Step 3 (Step 11).
e).

Hereinafter, until the processing for 12 months is completed,
Steps 11d and 11e are repeated, and when the processing for 12 months is completed, the reading operation is completed (step 11).
f).

Next, the setting operation of the program to be actually executed will be specifically described with reference to FIG. The operation described below is performed every minute.

When the time of the clock circuit 5 is updated by one minute (step 12a), if the current time is 0:00 (step 12b), the control circuit 13 changes the date and day of the week of the clock circuit 5 (step 12c). Then, an address designating a storage area of the annual program storage circuit 4 corresponding to the changed date is obtained (step 12d).

The control circuit 13 determines whether an annual program is designated in the storage area corresponding to the obtained address (step 12e), that is, whether the day data of the day program to be operated or the number data of the special program is stored. to decide.

In step 7e, when the day data of the day program to be operated or the number data of the special program are stored, the day stored in the execution program setting section set in the RAM in the control circuit 13 is stored. Set data or number data (Step 1
2f).

In step 7e, if the day data of the day program to be operated or the number data of the special program is not stored, the day data of the current day is stored in the execution program setting section set in the RAM in the control circuit 13. It is set (step 12g).

When the setting of the execution program setting section is completed, the execution address for reading the program corresponding to the data set in the execution program setting section from the program storage circuit 3 is reset, and the operation ends (step 12h).

The execution address reads a program corresponding to the data set in the execution program setting section from the program storage circuit 3 in chronological order, and is reset in step 7h to correspond to the set data. The reading is started from the beginning of the program to be executed.

As described above, when an annual program is set on a yearly basis, a mark can be entered by setting the beginning of the year to the first month of the year on the program card. By setting the date order with respect to, the mark can be entered by referring to a plan table or the like on a yearly basis, so that mark errors when setting the annual program can be eliminated.

The start date in the date designation column 213 is not limited to the above, and can be changed as appropriate.

The same effect as described above can be obtained even if the date designation column for each month of the annual program card 2b is arranged in two rows.

The setting on the card is not limited to the mark, but may be a punch hole or the like.

Further, in this embodiment, a liquid crystal display device is used as the display section. However, the display section is not limited to this, and can be appropriately changed.

[0084]

According to the present invention, in the time setting field of the time setting field for setting the operation time of the load as a pair of the on time and the off time, the no specification is designated in the no specification setting field. In this case, the operation program set in the storage circuit can specify only the input time, and the non-specification is specified in the non-specification setting column in the input time specification column of the time setting column to be set as a pair. In this case, the program set in the storage circuit can specify the cutoff time. Therefore, when setting an operation program over a plurality of days, a conventional operation program is set by setting an operation program in which only the on-time is set on the operation start date and an operation program in which only the off-time is set on the operation end date. In contrast to the above, it is possible to eliminate the trouble of setting when an operation over a plurality of consecutive days is set by a special program.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block circuit diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a partially omitted front view of a first card according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a partially omitted front view of a second card according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a partially-omitted front view showing a mark entry state of a first card according to one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a partially omitted front view showing a mark entry state of a second card according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a partially-omitted front view showing a mark entry state of a first card according to one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a partially-omitted front view showing a mark entry state of a first card according to one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a partially-omitted front view showing a mark entry state of a second card according to one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a partially-omitted front view showing a mark entry state of a second card according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of FIG. 1;

FIG. 11 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of FIG. 1;

FIG. 12 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of FIG. 1;

[Explanation of symbols]

 2a first card 2b second card 201, 207 day designation field 206 time setting field 209 non-designation setting field 3, 4 storage circuit 8, 12, load 13 control circuit

Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] 1. An operation time of a load is set to an on time and an off time by one.
A program comprising: a time setting column set as a paired set; and a non-designated setting column for setting either one of an on-time and an off-time of the paired operating time setting column. card. 2. A first card for designating a load operation program on a specific day, and a second card for designating the specific day on which the operation program specified by the first card is executed. In the program timer for controlling the operation of the load, the first card has a time setting field for setting the operation time of the load as a pair of an on-time and an off-time; A non-designation setting column for setting any one of the cutoff times; a storage circuit for setting an operation program of a load by inserting the first card and the second card; A control circuit for controlling the operation of the load based on an operation program set in the circuit. 3. The program timer according to claim 2, wherein the first card has a day designation field for designating a day on which the load operation program is executed.