公开(公告)号：US20180196410A1

公开(公告)日：2018-07-12

申请号：US15751478

申请日：2016-12-06

Applicant: OMRON Corporation

Inventor： Yasuhiro KITAMURA ,  Toshiyuki OZAKI ,  Shintaro UENO

IPC: G05B19/418 ,  G05B19/05

CPC classification number: G05B19/4185 ,  G05B19/042 ,  G05B19/052 ,  G05B19/054 ,  G05B2219/23067 ,  G05B2219/23193 ,  G05B2219/25242 ,  G05B2219/31333

Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem whereby the number of commands to be transmitted increases in accordance with an increase in the number of devices to be backed up and restored, and processing becomes complex. An IO-Link master is provided with: an upper-level communication control unit which receives an instruction to execute backup in which setting information is acquired from IO-Link devices, and stored in a storage unit; and a backup control unit which executes backup of the plurality of IO-Link devices in accordance with the one received instruction.