CONTROLLER AND PROGRAM

• Main Authors: TAKENAGA HIDEKI, SAKAGUCHI TAKASHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 18.07.2019
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS

To provide a technique which prevents user-friendliness from worsening even in the case of connecting a terminal device compliant with a communication standard which represents an operation state as one of two states of an on state and an off state.SOLUTION: A first communication standard capable of representing a controlled operation state as one of a plurality of states and a second communication standard representing the controlled operation state as one of two states of an on state and an off state are defined. A controller 10 can communicate with a terminal device 18 of a second type compliant with the second communication standard via a conversion adapter 16 for message conversion between the first communication standard and the second communication standard by executing communication in accordance with the first communication standard. A search unit 50 searches for a connection of the terminal device 18 of the second type via a terminal device 14 of a first type. When the connection of the terminal device 18 of the second type is detected by the search of the search unit 50, a setting unit 52 sets a class of the terminal device 18 of the second type.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】オン・オフの２状態を表現する通信規格の端末機器を接続する場合であってもユーザの利便性の低下を抑制する技術を提供する。【解決手段】制御される動作状態が複数の状態で表現可能な第１通信規格と、制御される動作状態がオン・オフの２状態で表現される第２通信規格とが規定されており、制御装置１０は、第１通信規格による通信を実行することによって、第１通信規格と第２通信規格との間でメッセージを変換する変換アダプタ１６を介して、第２通信規格に対応した第２種端末機器１８と通信可能である。探索部５０は、第１種端末機器１４を介した第２種端末機器１８の接続を探索する。設定部５２は、探索部５０による探索によって第２種端末機器１８の接続を検出した場合、第２種端末機器１８の種別を設定する。【選択図】図１