JPH03212098A - Simultaneous control method - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Field of Industrial Application The present invention relates to a simultaneous control method used in a home control system that uses a commercial 100V power line as a transmission communication path, which has become popular for general household use in recent years.

Conventional technology: Simultaneous control (hereinafter referred to as pattern control) in which multiple devices are controlled simultaneously by pressing a single button is a method in which a terminal device on the control side (hereinafter referred to as a controller) controls load devices connected to this controller. The control information for the load equipment is set in the controlled terminal equipment (hereinafter referred to as an adapter) for each pattern as many times as necessary, and the pattern control is set in the number of patterns from the controller. This is done by outputting pattern control information that instructs what to execute. For example, assume that three patterns are set for each adapter connected to the system. When the control information of the first set pattern is output from the controller, each adapter turns on/off the load equipment connected to each adapter based on the first set control information. O
Control FF. This control result is displayed, for example, on the controller, and by viewing this display, the user can recognize that the load equipment has been controlled as desired.

Problems to be Solved by the Invention However, in the conventional pattern control method as described above, since the controller does not have control status information on the adapter side, -
If pattern control is executed repeatedly, even if one realizes that the device has been operated by mistake, the condition of the controlled load equipment cannot be easily returned to the state before the control. Ta.

The present invention aims to solve these problems, and provides a simultaneous control method that allows cancellation after pattern control, which was previously impossible, in an extremely simple manner. The primary purpose is to In addition, in relation to the first purpose of Moeki, the second purpose is to provide the kidney W with a second method for achieving this purpose.

Means to Solve the Problem The first means to achieve the first objective is that the controller detects whether the operation button is operated only once or twice within a certain period of time, and The configuration is such that two different types of pattern information are output depending on the number of times. The second means to achieve the second purpose is
Set the adapter so that different control information output depending on the number of times the controller's operation button is operated within a certain period of time controls the control state of the load equipment connected to the adapter to be in the opposite operating state. The structure is as follows.

The first means of operation is a simultaneous control method that changes the control information output depending on the number of times the controller's operation button is operated within a certain period of time, and the user can immediately re-operate the button after realizing that it has been operated by mistake. By doing so, it becomes possible to easily return the load equipment to the state of the control 11r. Further, the second means is to set the adapter so that different control information outputted according to the number of operations of the operation button of the controller within a certain period of time causes the control state of the load equipment connected to the adapter to be in mutually opposite operating states. This means that the operation of the first means can be more concretely performed and can be realized more easily.

Example An embodiment of the present invention will be described below based on the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the controller according to the first means of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the adapter according to the second means of the present invention. The controller shown in FIG. 1 uses the address pattern setting circuit 8 to set the address of its own station, control destination addresses corresponding to each of the plurality of operation buttons 9, and any simultaneous control pattern according to the construction groove during construction. ing. Similarly, the adapter shown in FIG. 2 can be set by the installer at the time of installation to set any own station address in the address pattern setting circuit 16 to pattern A and seven patterns B, which are controlled in opposite relationships.
It is set.

The controller will be explained below. When any one of the plurality of operation buttons 9 of the controller is operated by the user, the position of the operated operation button 9 and the time of operation are transmitted to the arithmetic processing circuit 6 by the control button input detection circuit 7. . Based on the signal from the control button input detection circuit 7, the arithmetic processing circuit 6 determines whether to output pattern A or pattern B depending on the number of times the operation button 9 is operated within a certain period of time ( Here, pattern A and pattern B do not have any special control information themselves, but are used to control the load equipment to the pattern A and pattern B states respectively set by the address pattern setting circuit 16 of the MXI adapter. (It is nothing more than a trigger.) The arithmetic processing circuit 6 receives a synchronization signal according to the frequency of the power supply from the synchronization signal detection circuit 2, and further monitors the state of the power line 18 via the signal superposition/separation circuit 1 and the synchronization signal detection circuit 2. After confirming that there is no signal above, the pattern control signal is outputted through the transmitting circuit 3 and the signal superimposition/separation circuit 1.

The arithmetic processing circuit 15 of the adapter is always the synchronization signal detection circuit 1.
1, monitors the synchronization signal according to the power supply frequency and the signal on the power line from the power line via the signal superimposition and separation circuit 10 and the receiving circuit 13, and if it is a communication for the own station or a pattern control signal, the content of the communication is determined. The load i1J control output is output to the load control monitoring circuit 17 in accordance with the load i1J control output. The load control monitoring circuit 17 monitors whether the load equipment (not shown) is correctly controlled, and sends a signal corresponding to the control state of the load equipment to the arithmetic processing circuit 1.
Return it to 5. Upon receiving this signal, the arithmetic processing circuit 15 controls the display control circuit 14 to turn on or off a pilot lamp (not shown) that indicates the load condition according to the condition of the load equipment. Furthermore, after monitoring the above-mentioned first power line 18, it is confirmed that there is no signal on the power line 18, and the load status information is transmitted via the transmitting circuit 12 and signal superimposition/separation circuit 1.0. is sent back to the controller as a communication signal.

The return signal from the adapter is received by the controller that continues to monitor it, and is sent to the signal superposition/separation circuit 1/reception circuit 4.
The signal is output to the arithmetic processing circuit 6 through. A pilot lamp (
(not shown) is turned on or off.

In this case, if the pattern setting in the address pattern setting circuit 16 of the adapter is set to pattern A only, and pattern B is always set in the opposite relationship to pattern A, then the setting can be omitted. There is no need to set patterns, and there is no need to increase the effort and switches for setting. In other words, simultaneous control in pattern A can be executed by pressing the controller's operation button 901 times, and by pressing the controller's operation button 9 2 times within a certain period of time.
If it is operated twice, a pattern opposite to control pattern A, that is, control pattern A is canceled.

Effects of the Invention As described in Mf, according to the first means, cancellation control after pattern control can be performed by internal processing of the arithmetic processing circuit without adding any special circuit, and an extremely user-friendly home control system is provided. It is something that can be done. Further, according to the second means, the adapter can be configured to output different control information output depending on the number of times the controller's operation button is operated within a certain period of time, so that the control state and view of the load equipment connected to the adapter are mutually different. By setting it to be controlled to the opposite operating state, the - layer is easy to use.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a controller in an embodiment of the first means of the method of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram of an adapter as an embodiment of the first means.

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) A simultaneous control method in which the control information of the control side terminal equipment is changed into the first control information by operating the operation button multiple times within a certain period of time. (2) Different control information output by multiple operations of the control button on the controlling terminal device within a certain period of time can reverse the control status of the load devices connected to the controlled terminal device. A simultaneous control method in which the simultaneous control state of the controlled terminal equipment is set so that the operating state is controlled.