JPH06202830A - Operating state display device for plural units - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide the operating state display device for plural units which improves extendability and versatility by simultaneously monitoring the operating states of respective units and flexibly dealing with the change of addition of the operating contents of units. CONSTITUTION:This operating state display device for plural units to display the operating states of plural units 10A-10E while connecting these units 10 is provided with an inter-unit read circuit 2 for reading the respective operating states of the connected units 10A-10E, LED display part 3 for displaying the operating state common for the respective units among the contents read by the inter-unit read circuit 2, and display 5 for displaying the operating states peculiar for the respective units among the contents read by the inter-unit read circuit 2.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an operating state display device, and more particularly to an operating state display device for a plurality of units capable of centrally monitoring the operating states of a plurality of units.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art An operating state display device is connected to a plurality of units and monitors the operating states of these units. Conventionally, such an operating state display device has a plurality of light emitting elements such as LEDs arranged on a front panel, and sequentially displays the operating state of each unit by turning on, off, or blinking the LEDs. It was

That is, LEDs corresponding to each unit connected to the operating state display device are arranged on the panel by the maximum number of mountable units. Then, one operation content is assigned to each LED for each unit, and the operation state is displayed by sequentially changing the LEDs according to the operation state of the unit.

[0004]

However, in such a prior art multi-unit operating status display device,
There are the following problems. 1) Since the number of LEDs is arranged according to the maximum number of connected units and their operation contents, when the operation contents are changed or added, it is necessary to change or add LEDs, which is difficult or It is impossible. 2) There is only one LED that indicates the operating state of the unit, which is inefficient. 3) When applied to a device capable of simultaneous operation by a plurality of units, a large number of LEDs are required, the device becomes large and the economy is poor. 4) Even in the same operation state, since the LEDs that light up for each unit are different, it is not possible to instantly grasp the operation of the entire unit. As described above, the conventional plural-unit operating status display device lacks expandability and versatility, and lacks functionality such that the operating status of each unit cannot be determined at a glance.

The present invention solves the above-mentioned drawbacks of the prior art, can monitor the operating states of each unit at the same time, and can flexibly respond to changes or additions of the operation contents of the units. It is an object of the present invention to provide a plurality of units of operating state display device having excellent properties.

[0006]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention is configured such that a plurality of units are connected, and a plurality of unit operating state display devices for displaying the operating states of these unit groups 10 are connected. Units 10A-10
The inter-unit read circuit 2 for reading out the respective operation states of E, the first display means 4 and 5 for displaying the operation state common to each unit among the contents read by the inter-unit read circuit 2, and the inter-unit read circuit It has second display means 5, 6, 7 for displaying an operation state peculiar to each unit among the contents read by the reading circuit 2.

[0007]

According to the present invention, a plurality of units 10A-1
Each operating state of 0E is the inter-unit read circuit 2
Read by. Among the contents read by the inter-unit reading circuit 2, those in the operating state common to each unit are displayed by the first display means 3 and 4, and the contents of the operating state unique to each unit are in the second. Display means 5, 6,
Displayed at 7.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT An embodiment of a plurality of units operating status display device according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing an embodiment of a plurality of unit operating status display devices according to the present invention. Figure 1
The operating state display device 8 of 5 is of a 5-unit type and is a device capable of simultaneously measuring the units 10A to 10E.

As shown in FIG. 1, the operating status display device 8 in this embodiment comprises a CPU 1, an inter-unit reading circuit 2, an LED indicator 3, an LED control circuit 4, a display 5, a display control circuit 6 and a memory 7. Has been done.

The inter-unit reading circuit 2 is a circuit which is electrically connected to the plurality of units 10A to 10E via a connector and reads the operating state of the unit group 10.
The inter-unit reading circuit 2 is connected to the CPU 1.

The CPU 1 is a control circuit for reading the operating state of the unit group 10 by accessing the inter-unit reading circuit 2 at every 100 ms sampling cycle. C
The PU 1 is connected to the LED control circuit 4 and the display control circuit 6, and sends the contents read by the inter-unit read circuit 2 to the LED control circuit 4 and the display control circuit 6.

The LED control circuit 4 is a control circuit for controlling the LED display 3 for displaying the operating state of the unit group 10. LED display 3 is 5 L corresponding to each unit.
The LED control circuit 4 is a display provided with a light emitting element such as an ED, and controls the turning on / off of the LED of the LED display 3.

The display control circuit 6 includes a unit group 1
It is a control circuit that controls the display 5 that displays the operating state of 0. The display control circuit 6 is connected to a memory 7 such as a VRAM that stores the characters displayed on the display 5, stores the character information sent from the CPU 1 in the memory 7, and controls the display on the display 5. The display 5 is a display device of a predetermined size capable of simultaneously displaying a plurality of characters such as CRT or liquid crystal.

FIG. 2 shows a specific example of the LED display 3 and the display 5. As shown in FIG. 2, in this embodiment, an LED indicator 3 composed of _five light emitting diodes L _{1 to} L ₅ is located above the display ₅ .
Further, five display parts H _{1 to} H ₅ are displayed on the upper part of the display screen 56 of the display 5. Each LED (L ₁ to L ₅ ) of the LED display 3 is arranged at a position corresponding to the display portion 54 (H ₁ to H ₅ ) on the upper portion of the display 5. Further, the display unit 54 is a fixed display common to all screens.

Next, the display contents displayed on these display units will be described. In this embodiment, the operating state of each unit is divided into an important and invariable state (common state) common to each unit and a unit-specific and variable state (unique state).
The operating state of the unit group 10 is sequentially displayed on the LED display 3 or the display 5 according to these classifications. As a display method, the common state is displayed by turning on / off the LED indicator 3.

The unique state is displayed as a character or graphic on the display unit on the display 5. The character or graphic is updated sequentially as the state of each unit changes. Furthermore, priorities are assigned to the unique states for each unit, and when a plurality of unique states occur, the unique state with the highest priority is displayed.

That is, the mounting state of the unit group 10, the gate measurement state, the status measurement state (error measurement state,
An important and invariable gate measurement state common to each unit, such as AIS measurement state and FSL measurement state, is set as a common state.
Others are classified as proper states. In addition, the peculiar states are prioritized in the order of mounting state, FSL measurement state, AIS measurement state, and error measurement state.

As a display method, the gate measurement state is LE
It is displayed by turning on / off the D display device 3, and the other states are displayed on the display unit on the display 5 by a display character or a graphic symbolically representing each state.

Next, the operation of the operating status display device 8 in the embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the flow chart of FIG.

In step 11, the CPU 1 uses the unit state reading circuit 2 to extract the state of the unit group 10 at every 100 ms sampling cycle. In step 12, the CPU 1 determines from the extracted contents whether or not the state of the unit group 10 has changed. If the state has changed, the CPU 1 performs processing for each unit according to the operating state, and proceeds to step 13. In step 13, the common state and the eigenstate are distinguished. If the state is the common state, the process proceeds to step 14 and it is determined in step 15 whether the gate is being measured or not being measured. When the gate measurement is being performed in step 15, the process proceeds to step 16 and the LED display 3 is turned on by the LED control circuit 4. If the state changes from being measured to not being measured in step 15, the LED display 3 is turned off.

On the other hand, if it is determined in step 14 that the eigenstate is present, the process proceeds to step 17 to determine which of the eigenstates it is. In step 18, the display character that symbolically represents the state is stored in the memory 7.
Read more. In step 19, it is displayed on the display unit on the display 5. The display is sequentially updated according to the state of the unit, and when a plurality of states occur, the display character having the highest priority is displayed. If the state does not change, the display process is not performed.

In this embodiment, the number of units connected to the operating status display device is 5, but the number of units connected is not limited to this. Further, the contents described in this embodiment show one embodiment of the present invention, and the present invention is not particularly limited to this, and can be carried out by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit of the present invention. Variations and modifications are within the scope of this invention.

[0024]

As described above, according to the present invention, the operating states of all the units are simultaneously displayed by the display and the LED display, so that the operating states of the respective units can be clearly and relatively monitored. . In addition, since the unique state of each unit can be displayed on the display by characters or the like, it is possible to flexibly respond to changes or additions of operation contents, and it is excellent in expandability, versatility, and functionality.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing an embodiment of an operating state display device of a plurality of units according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing a specific example of the display unit shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the processing contents of the embodiment shown in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 CPU 2 Unit-to-unit readout circuit 3 LED indicator 4 LED control circuit 5 Display 6 Display control circuit 7 Memory 8 Operating status display device 10A to 10E unit

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An operating state display device for connecting a plurality of units and displaying an operating state of the units, comprising: an inter-unit reading circuit for reading out an operating state of each of the units; and an inter-unit reading circuit. First display means for displaying an operation state common to each of the units read out, and second display means for displaying an operation state unique to each unit out of the contents read out by the inter-unit readout circuit. A plurality of units of operation status display device.