Classifications

• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
  • H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
  • H01H43/00—Time or time-programme switches providing a choice of time-intervals for executing one or more switching actions and automatically terminating their operations after the programme is completed
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G05—CONTROLLING; REGULATING
  • G05B—CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS
  • G05B19/00—Programme-control systems
  • G05B19/02—Programme-control systems electric
  • G05B19/04—Programme control other than numerical control, i.e. in sequence controllers or logic controllers
  • G05B19/042—Programme control other than numerical control, i.e. in sequence controllers or logic controllers using digital processors
  • G05B19/0426—Programming the control sequence
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G05—CONTROLLING; REGULATING
  • G05D—SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES
  • G05D23/00—Control of temperature
  • G05D23/19—Control of temperature characterised by the use of electric means
  • G05D23/1902—Control of temperature characterised by the use of electric means characterised by the use of a variable reference value
  • G05D23/1904—Control of temperature characterised by the use of electric means characterised by the use of a variable reference value variable in time
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G05—CONTROLLING; REGULATING
  • G05B—CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS
  • G05B2219/00—Program-control systems
  • G05B2219/20—Pc systems
  • G05B2219/23—Pc programming
  • G05B2219/23406—Programmer device, portable, handheld detachable programmer
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G05—CONTROLLING; REGULATING
  • G05B—CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS
  • G05B2219/00—Program-control systems
  • G05B2219/20—Pc systems
  • G05B2219/25—Pc structure of the system
  • G05B2219/25187—Transmission of signals, medium, ultrasonic, radio
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G05—CONTROLLING; REGULATING
  • G05B—CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS
  • G05B2219/00—Program-control systems
  • G05B2219/20—Pc systems
  • G05B2219/25—Pc structure of the system
  • G05B2219/25192—Infrared
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G05—CONTROLLING; REGULATING
  • G05B—CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS
  • G05B2219/00—Program-control systems
  • G05B2219/20—Pc systems
  • G05B2219/26—Pc applications
  • G05B2219/2642—Domotique, domestic, home control, automation, smart house

Definitions

• Programmable electronic device with a graphical program display system, in particular for controlling, regulating and / or monitoring building installations
• the invention relates to a programmable device with a graphic program display system, in particular for controlling, regulating and / or monitoring building installations, with the features according to the preamble of claim 1.
• a graphical program display system for program display on an optoelectronic display of the time switch and / or control device is required for precise, clear, in particular graphical, program display and information, in which the respective specific program display is not only depicted in a relatively large area , but also that relatively small program sections, in particular for a non-professional user, are presented in a manageable and interpretable or programmable manner. It should be ensured that, if necessary, both time and control programs or status programs can be presented together clearly on a display and can be interpreted in a specifically expedient manner.
• the programmed time switch program is chronologically arranged in the 24-hour time range shown.
• This 24-hour display time range has the disadvantage that a programmed time switch program is not only shown to a considerably limited extent on the display, but also that the individual switch-on and switch-off times of the time switch program are often illegible in such a display .
• a 24-hour display time range does not allow fine-grained and clearly interpretable programming.
• a program display system of the control unit of an air conditioning system is known from US Pat. No. 4,819,714. There, time and / or intensity-dependent program sections are shown on a relatively large display.
• a so-called single-room heating control system is known with a central, programmable operating device, which controls so-called floor regulators wirelessly or hard-wired, for the central time-dependent control of up to fifteen floor or radiator heating systems.
• a central, programmable operating device which controls so-called floor regulators wirelessly or hard-wired, for the central time-dependent control of up to fifteen floor or radiator heating systems.
• floor regulators wirelessly or hard-wired
• This practical single room control system is specifically designed for economical heating control. Other control and / or regulation tasks cannot be implemented with this system.
• the program display on the display of the base station is relatively confusing and difficult to understand for a non-specialist.
• the invention has for its object to provide a programmable device with a time switch and / or control device with an optoelectronic graphic program display system, which eliminates the disadvantages of known devices and program representations of this type, and which is not only a relatively fine-grained, clear and handy programming of such Devices enables, but can be used universally in a building installation, and in which a switching and / or control or status or monitoring program shown cannot be easily read or interpreted by experts.
• the advantage of the new programmable electronic device for controlling, regulating and / or monitoring building installations is not only that the programmable time switch and / or regulating device is detachably connected to a base station, and that the base station is wired or wireless with at least one active control device. , Control and / or signaling station is connected, but also that the base station is equipped with an electronic processor with electronic memory in which the program information from the programmable timer and / or control device and the control, regulation and / or reporting information a control, regulating and / or reporting station can be edited and saved.
• the new graphical program display system used in the new time switch and / or control device in which the time switch and / or control or status programs shown are not only based on the respective actual time switch and / or control or status program Time period are limited, with current time periods of an overall program period not being shown, but also that a relatively high program resolution can be manageably represented by the exclusive display of the actual time switching and / or control or state program time periods.
• Another advantage of the new graphical program representation is the graphical representation of a control or State program.
• the respective Rol loading position or awning position can also be expediently displayed on the relatively large-area LCD display of the new timer and / or control device.
• the handling of the time switch and / or control device during programming is relatively simple and clear, especially since the optoelectronically operated program entry and the clear and uncomplicated program display or information display on the display relate exclusively to the respective time and / or intensity-dependent program sections and / or application symbols limited.
• Another advantage of the new time switch and / or control device with the new graphic program display system is the expedient use of a single new programmable time switch and / or control device for several intended base stations, as well as the possibility of safe storage of the detachable or mobile programming device, so that manipulation and / or information requests by unauthorized persons can be prevented easily and reliably.
• FIG. 1 shows a diagrammatic view of a time switch and / or control device with an optoelectronic program display and a heating program graphically represented there,
• FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the time switch and / or control device
• FIG. 5 shows a diagrammatic view of the time switch and / or control device, which intervenes functionally with a base station
• FIG. 6 is a perspective view of a control, regulating and / or reporting station
• FIG. 7 is a block diagram of the control, regulating and / or signaling station according to FIG. 6,
• FIG. 8 is a block diagram of an installation arrangement of a time switch and / or control device, with a base station and several control, control and / or signaling stations in a building,
• FIG. 10 shows a display of an interior and / or exterior lighting system or an alarm system
• 11 is a display representation of an electrical power consumption or gas or oil level indicator and 12 shows a display of the automatic mode of the control, regulation and / or monitoring system of a corresponding building installation.
• 1 shows a time switch and / or control device 1 in a housing 1.1.
• 2 there designates an optoelectronic display 2 and 3 shows an ergonomically arranged program input keyboard on the front 4 of the housing 1.1.
• Numbers 5.1 to 5.7 show the individual so-called current time switch and / or control or status program usage periods for a weekly heating program that are shown on the display 2 for information purposes.
• the program display is not limited to the display of the individual daily time switch and / or control or status programs within a so-called current usage period of a 24-hour day, for example from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. in the evening, whereby the respective inaccurate daily time periods from 22 in the evening to 7 in the morning are not shown, but also that a user from the new program display, relatively simple, clearly informative and easy to understand, temperature orders of magnitude from the respective height of the program bar 6 within certain time ranges can read and / or program.
• the new graphic program display system enables a relatively fine-scale reading and / or programming of a time switch and / or control program.
• FIG. 7 shows so-called time reference marks and FIG. 8 identifies literally reproduced references to certain time segments 9 of the day, which are approached with a cursor 10 in a time-controlled manner.
• Another provided cursor 11 shows the current day on the display 2 in a time-controlled manner.
• the respective preprogrammed temperature and / or the actual temperature is also displayed numerically under the respective time of day section 9.
• buttons of the Program input keyboard 3 are expediently arranged informative symbols 12 which also convey operating information for program input to a non-professional user.
• FIG. 5 The block diagram of the time switching and / or control device 1 according to FIG. 1, shown in FIG. 2, shows in detail a microcontroller 20 with an electronic memory 25, in particular a RAM.
• 2 denotes an optoelectronic display and 3 denotes a program input keyboard.
• 21 identifies the central power supply and
• the 10 22 means interfaces, on the one hand for an electrical power supply and on the other hand for data input and output.
• the interfaces 22 are expediently arranged so that they are accessible outside the housing. In this connection, it is also provided in a further development of the whole that, in particular, for feeding in and / or out
• a contactless interface 22 which enables data to be fed in or out, in particular via a wireless infrared or wirelessly high-frequency transmission link.
• FIG. 23 denotes a high-frequency transmitting and receiving device for data transmission, both to the base station 13, according to FIGS. 3 and 4, and to the individual control, regulating and / or signaling stations 14 provided in FIGS. 7 and 8 can be seen and described in more detail.
• FIG. 3 shows the previously mentioned, in particular U-shaped, base station 13, which is essentially formed from a front operating surface 15 with a keypad 16 integrated there, with the two +/- keys 12, and a memory key 17 . 18 loading
• VETO key for direct, manual or absence-related influencing of the control, regulation and / or intensity in each area of application of the present new device provided here.
• duration of an influence can be preselected via the VETO key 18.
• the base station 13 is provided with a U-shaped recess 19, which is in particular open on one side.
• the timer and / or control device 1 in the housing 1.1 can be inserted or inserted into the recess 19 of the base station 13 both from above and from one side.
• the base station 13 is expediently installed in a fixed, non-detachable, preferred location in a building, as can be seen from FIG. 5.
• the base station 13 is supplied with a battery or a rechargeable battery and / or directly from the electrical supply network of the building for the electrical energy supply.
• FIG. 4 shows the block diagram of the base station 13. Specifically, 20 identifies the electronic microcontroller provided there with an integrated electronic memory 25, a RAM. 16 shows the keyboard provided and 21 denotes the electrical energy supply of the whole. This energy supply is expediently fed from the electrical supply network via the provided interface 22 and the contacts 41. 23 shows the intended transmitting and receiving station for wireless data transmission and 24 means the antenna of the station 23.
• the base station 13 is used only to supply power to the time switch and / or control device 1 shown in FIG. 1, and that the keyboard 3 of the base station 13 is only effective when the time switch and / or control device 1 is inserted by over the keyboard 3 the appropriate keys 12 of the time switch and / or Re ⁇ are immediately acted upon geleries. 1
• the microcontroller described above is also omitted in the base station 13.
• a ready or functional state for example an intended building security or alarm system, can advantageously be read off or checked centrally.
• FIG. 6 and 7 show one of the control, regulating and / or signaling stations 14 provided as part of the new device.
• These stations 14 in a housing 42 with a front-side, in particular optoelectronic, display 43 transmit on the one hand those from the base station 13 received control and / or control signals to corresponding electromechanical and / or electronic control and / or regulating devices, for example to a thermostat controller 44 of a room thermostat 45, as shown in FIG. 8.
• control and / or intensity-dependent signals are transmitted to the mild station 14, which transmits the received signals to the base station 13 and which transmits the signals to the desired or required central station Display and / or storage to the timer and / or control device 1, according to FIG. 1, transmits.
• the transmission of the individual signals between the base station 13 and the respective control, regulating and / or signaling station 14 can take place in a wired or wireless manner. It is provided that any number of control, regulation and / or reporting stations 14, corresponding to the respective control, regulation and / or reporting requirements in a building, can be provided for the corresponding control, regulation and / or monitoring of a building , each communicating with an identification code with the base station 13 or the time switch and / or control device 1 according to FIG. 1. For this purpose, as can be seen from the block diagram in FIG.
• the individual control, regulating and / or signaling stations 14 are expediently equipped with an electronic microcontroller 20 with a memory unit 25, a RAM, for storing and correspondingly appropriate further processing of the signals received both from the time switching and / or control device and from the base station 13.
• 21 denotes the electrical energy supply of the station 14, which is expediently fed from the electrical building network.
• 3 means a keyboard.
• 23 indicates an intended high-frequency transmitting and receiving station. 24 shows the associated antenna. In this context, however, it is also contemplated that the individual control, regulating and / or signaling stations 14 are wired to the base station 13.
• the corresponding signals can be sent between the base station 13 and the individual control, regulating and / or signaling stations 14 via a so-called installation bus EIB.
• FIG. 8 shows some expedient possible uses of the new device with a timer and / or control device 1 in a housing 1.1, a base station 13 and some control, regulating and / or signaling devices 14.
• 26 denotes a building with the individual rooms 27.1, 27.2, 27.3, 27.4, 27.5 and 27.6.
• 28 identifies the building entrance to room 27.1.
• the timer and / or control device is expediently stationed in the immediate vicinity of the building access 28 and is detachably inserted in the base station 13 installed there. 14 show control, regulating and / or reporting stations in the individual rooms 27.1 to 27.6.
• 29 denotes lighting fixtures in the individual rooms 27.1 to 27.6 and 30 shows two fire protection detectors in the attic room 27.6.
• 31 means an external lighting fixture and 32 shows an IR proximity detector of the alarm system provided there, which is transmitted via a correspondingly assigned control, regulating and / or signaling station 14, from the base station 13 or from the time switching and / or regulating device 1 according to FIG. 1 monitored, controlled.
• thermostatic controllers 44 are installed on the room radiators 46, which receive the corresponding signals for the temperature to be controlled from the neighboring control, regulating and / or signaling stations 14, or the corresponding temperature values for control, regulation - Send and / or signaling stations 14 for processing in the base station 13 or the timer and / or control device 1 in the housing 1.1.
• the fire protection in room 27.6 is also installed in a monitored manner via the time switch and / or control device 1 or the base station 13. 14 denotes a correspondingly installed control, regulating and / or reporting station.
• both the heating system 33 and the water meter 34 and the electricity meter 35 are each a control, regulation and /or
• 36 denotes an underfloor heating system, which is regulated by a corresponding thermostat 37 and controlled by a correspondingly assigned control, regulating and / or signaling station 14.
• both the time switching and / or control device 1 according to FIG. 1 and the central base station 13 can be made tamper-proof by means of a programmable code.
• FIG. 9 shows a relatively clear and informative graphical program representation of a time switch weekly program for the time-controlled actuation and regulation of a roller shutter or blind system.
• a roller shutter or blind position can be clearly seen from the height of the respective program bar 6. That the height of an individual bar 6 can correspond to a roller shutter position extended to one third of the total roller shutter length. With three bars 6 lying one above the other, the roller shutter would therefore be completely closed.
• the present new program representation system can also be represented in a combination of daily, weekly, monthly and yearly program, for example a weekly program.
• gram can be put together individually, in particular user-specific, from existing daily programs.
• this program display indicates to a user that at a certain time of day 39 a certain device, for example a kitchen appliance or a television or the alarm and / or
• Lighting system marked by the bar 38, is switched on.
• a device can also be used, for example, to connect an electrical outlet to which an electrical device can be connected within a certain time of day.
• This program circuit is advantageous
• Fig. 11 shows an expedient display from which the current consumption or the meter reading for electricity, water and / or gas can be directly read indirectly, without a consumer or user the respective technical consumption meters, for example in a basement, immediately must look at.
• an owner of an alarm system is informed indirectly about the technical condition of the system as a whole, but also about the individual rooms to be monitored.

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