|Publication number||US4665399 A|
|Application number||US 06/783,226|
|Publication date||May 12, 1987|
|Filing date||Mar 14, 1985|
|Priority date||Jul 26, 1984|
|Also published as||DE3427581A1, EP0191019A1, EP0191019B1, WO1986001058A1|
|Publication number||06783226, 783226, PCT/1985/81, PCT/DE/1985/000081, PCT/DE/1985/00081, PCT/DE/85/000081, PCT/DE/85/00081, PCT/DE1985/000081, PCT/DE1985/00081, PCT/DE1985000081, PCT/DE198500081, PCT/DE85/000081, PCT/DE85/00081, PCT/DE85000081, PCT/DE8500081, US 4665399 A, US 4665399A, US-A-4665399, US4665399 A, US4665399A|
|Inventors||Edwin Fauser, Hans List, Gunter Schirmer|
|Original Assignee||Robert Bosch Gmbh|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (2), Referenced by (20), Classifications (13), Legal Events (5)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
The invention relates to a device for transmitting of binary data between a mobile data carrier an a stationary station, in particular between a workpiece support and a finishing or control station on transfer conveyors or assembly conveyors of the type stated in claim 1.
In an already suggested device of this type (DE-OS 33 31 694) the two resonant circuits which are mounted on ferrite cores are guided along very tightly with respect to each other when passing each other for safeguarding the data transmission during a data transmission between the data carrier formed by a workpiece support and a stationary station formed by a finishing or control station. This requires a very accurate positioning of the workpiece support on the assembly conveyors. The operating safety of the data transmission suffers if the workpiece support is not accurately aligned. The fading out process in the inductively coupled coils is time delayed or time accelerated depending on the binary values of the data at the side of the data carrier for a data transmission from the data carrier to the stationary station. The voltage value is scanned during a fading out process at a certain point in time on the stationary station for demodulating the transmitted data and the binary value is determined therefrom.
For the data transmission from the stationary station to the mobile data carrier the frequency of the switch pulse sequence for transmitting the binary value is fixed logically 1 to f and for transmitting the binary value logically 0 to 4/5f. BY a frequency modulation on the data carrier side, the transmitted binary value is recovered.
The device in accordance with the invention with the features of claim 1 has the advantage that the distances which have to be inductively bridged between the data carrier and the stationary station can be enlarged without impairing the operating safety. The maximum permissible distance between the coils is at least doubled with respect to the known unit by means of the resonance transmission. This means a larger permisssible tolerance range when aligning the tool support in the transfer conveyor or on the assembly conveyor. By means of the amplitude modulation during the data transmission from the data carrier to the stationary station the device also becomes less critical against a change in the stray inductance and against structural element tolerances.
Advantageous embodiments of the invention are obvious from the further claims 2-13.
An advantageous embodiment of the invention results from claim 5. A sufficient restoration of the binary signal from the data carrier to the stationary station is assured by this structure of the demodulation circuit to the stationary station side of the amplitude demodulation, without being influenced by slow fluctuations of the pulses of the transmitter being formed by the coils, for example, by changing the distance of the ferrite cores of the two resonance circuits. In particular, it is assured that the pulse width of the binary signals is not unduly changed which is particularly important for a sufficient data transmission.
An advantageous embodiment of the invention results from claim 7. In view of the frequency jump 2:1 during the data transmission from the stationary station to the data carrier it is assured that the device remains securely in resonance.
An advantageous embodiment of the invention also results from claim 4 and 11. In view of the given synchronisation latch it is assured that a change of the data signals to be transmitted becomes only effective at the beginning of the next cycle period.
The invention is explained by means of an exemplified embodiment illustrated in the drawing and is explained in more detail in the following. The drawing shows:
FIG. 1 is a circuit diagram of a device for data transmission from a mobile data carrier to a stationary station and vice versa,
FIG. 2 (including parts a-e) is a diagram of the signal path at selected locations in the circuit diagram of the device in accordance with FIG. 1 when transmitting of data from the mobile data carrier to the stationary station,
FIG. 3 an illustration of the signal path at the input of a demodulation circuit on the stationary station side in the device in accordance with FIG. 1 during the transmission of data from the data carrier to the stationary station,
FIG. 4 (including parts a-h) is a diagram of the signal path at selected locations in the circuit diagram of the device in accordance with FIG. 1 during the transmission of data from the stationary station to the data carrier.
The device illustrated in the circuit diagram of FIG. 1 for transmitting of binary data between a mobile data carrier 10 and a stationary station 11 acts for picking up data from workpiece supports which run through a transfer conveyor on a transport conveyor or assembly conveyor, through a finishing or control station and for registering new data into the workpiece supports relating to new data of finishing or transport information. A transfer conveyor with such devices is discribed in detail in the DE-OS 33 31 694, for example. One each resonance circuit 12 or 13 is mounted on the data carrier 10 and on the stationary station 11, whereby the resonance circuit 12 consists of a coil 14 and a condenser 15 as a parallel resonance circuit and the resonance circuit 13 consists of a coil 16 and a condenser 17 as a series resonance circuit. Coils 14 and 16 are mounted on a ferrite core 18 and 19. The ferrite cores 18,19 are guided past each other with a distance for the data transmission, whereby the coils 14 and 16 are inductively coupled with each other for a short time. A direct current source 20 for the power supply of the stationary station 11 is provided on which the series resonance circuit 13 is coupled, while the power supply of the data carrier 10 is derived from the inductively transmitted energy from the stationary station. For this purpose a condenser 22 is parallel switched by means of a diode 21 for condenser 15 of the parallel resonance circuit 14, whose charge voltage is available as a supply voltage UB after a voltage limitation by means of a Zener diode 23.
An electronic switch in form of a field effect transistor (FET) 25 is switched parallel to the condenser 16 of the series resonance circuit 13 by means of a diode 24. Thereby, the anode of the diode 24 is connected with the condenser 17 and the cathode with the FET 25. The FET 25 is switched by means of a switch pulse sequence which is made available by a pulse generator 26 in form of rectangulr pulses. A modulator 27 is disposed between the pulse generator 26 and the control input of the FET 25 which reduces the 4 MHz-pulse sequence of the pulse generator 26 to 1 MHz or 0.5 MHz, respectively. The transmitting degree, e.g., the ratio between the pulse width with respect to the period duration remains constant. Such a modulator 27 may consist of the series circuit of two frequency dividers, for example, whereby the one frequency divider divides by 4 and the other frequency divides by 2. The frequency divider which divides by 2 may be bridged by means of a switch and can be rendered ineffective.
A modulation circuit 28 is connected on the resonance circuit 12 of the mobile data carrier 10 for transmitting the binary data, which are stored in a storage (not shown) in the mobile data carrier 10, to the stationary station 11, and that through the input 29 of this modulation circuit the read binary data from the storage of the data carrier 10 are fed thereto. The modulation circuit 28 acts as an amplitude modulator and influences the resonance processes in the two resonance circuits 12,13. For this purpose the modulation circuit 28 is provided with a further coil 30 which is also mounted on the ferrite core 18 which is switched in series with a diode 31 and a further field effect transistor (FET) 32, the condenser 15 of the resonance circuit 12 and being switched parallel by an intermediary switching of diode 21. Thereby, diode 31 is poled in such a manner that its cathode is disposed immediately or above coil 30 on the cathode of diode 21. The FET is controlled by an AND-gate 33, whose one input is connected with the output of a monoflop 34 which on its input side is connected to the resonance circuit 12. At the other input of the AND-gate 33 is the output of a synchronization latch 35 which is formed as a D-Flip-Flop, whose D-input is connected with the input 29 by means of an inverter 36 and whose cycle input is connected with the output of the monoflop 34. Depending whether the binary value "0" or "1" is applied on the input 29 of the modulation circuit 28, the FET 25 is switched through or closed and the resonance process is influenced in the resonance circuit 13,14 or not.
A demodulation circuit 37 for the demodulation of the resonance process in the resonance circuit 13 is provided for demodulating the transmitted binary values in the stationary station 11. The demodulation circuit 37 is switched parallel to the condenser 17 of the resonance circuit 13 and is provided with a peak rectifier 38, a transistor 39 which is connected on the direct current source 30 and a NAND-gate 40 with a Schmitt-trigger-input. The peak rectifier which consists of the diode 41, condenser 42 and resistor 43 scans the negative halve wave of the voltage path on the capacitor 17 of the resonance circuit 13 by a corresponding poling of diode 41 and is connected with the collector of transistor 39 by means of a high pass from the capacitor 44 and the resistor 45 for separating the equal part, whereby the transistor is also connected on the direct current source 20 by means of a resistor 46. The base of the npn-transistor 39 is connected by means of a resistor 47 with the output of the NAND-gate 40. The one input of the NAND-gate 40 is connected on the capacitor 44 of the high pass by means of a low pass consisting of a resistor 48 and a condenser 49 for suppressing the residue waviness of the peak rectifier 38, while a synchronisation bit is applied on the other input of the NAND-gate 40. This synchronization bit is picked off in form of a D-Flip-Flop at the output of a synchronisation latch 50. The synchronisation latch 50 which is connected with the modulator 27 causes a reduction of the pulse frequency of the pulse generator 26 to either 1 MHz (binary value 1) or to 0.5 MHz (binary value 0), depending on the binary value which is applied on its D-input. For this purpose the D-input of the synchronisation latch 50 is connected with a data input and the cycle input with the output of the modulator 27.
The mode of operation of the device during the transmission of data from the mobile data carrier 10 to the stationary station 11 is as follows:
The FET 25 is controlled with a switch pulse sequence of 1 MHZ as illustrated in FIG. 2a. The series resonance circuit 13 is so designed that its resonance frequency is about equal to the frequency of the switch pulse sequence. The resonance frequency f0 is calculated in known manner ##EQU1## whereby L is the inductivity of the coil 16 and C the capacitance of the capacitor 17. In view of this design of the resonance circuit 13 the zero gate of the resonance in the resonance circuit is directly at the switch on point of the FET 25. The path of the voltage which is thereby generated on the capacitor 17 is illustrated in FIG. 2b. The resonance which is triggered in the inductively coupled resonance circuit 12 of the data carrier causes a voltage path on the capacitor 15, as illustrated in FIG. 2c. The monoflop 34 is set with the negative flank of the voltage path, which again drops back after its adjustable restoring time. The resulting signal path at the output of the monoflop 34 is illustrated in FIG. 2d. If the binary value "1" is read from the data storage of the mobile data carrier 10 and fed to the input 29 of the modulation circuit 28, logically "0" is always applied on the output of the NAND-gate 33 (FIG. 2e). Thereby the FET 32 remains always closed and there is no intervention in the resonance process of the resonance circuit 12. The signal path on the switching points a-e is illustrated in FIG. 2 in the left lower side beneath the partial FIG. a-e. However, if the binary value "0" is applied on the data input 21, a signal path is generated on the output of the NAND-gate 33, as illustrated in FIG. 2e on the right side of the Fig. The FET-32 is accordingly opened and closed, whereby an intervention occurs in the resonance process in the resonance circuits 12 and 13 in such a manner that in particular the negative half wave of the resonance is reduced in its amplitude. The corresponding signal path on capacitor 15 and on capacitor 17 is illustrated in FIG. 2 on the right side beneath the partial FIG. b and c. A signal path is present at point b of the circuit and thereby at the input of the demodulation circuit 37, as illustrated schematically in FIG. 3. The amplitude modulation can be clearly recognized during the transmission of the binary value "0". It can also be clearly recognized that during the transition from one binary value to the other an obliteration occurs in the signal path, which in particular does not permit the clear recognition of the width of the data. The original binary values are regenerated from this signal path with the demodulation circuit 37, that is, in their original length or duration. These binary values can be picked off on the output 52 of the demodulation circuit 37.
The amplitude demodulation for recovering the binary value is performed in the demodulation circuit 37 as follows: During the data transmission from the data carrier 10 to the stationary station 11 the synchronisation bit at the output of the synchronisation latch 50 is always on logic 1. During the unmodulated resonance, which corresponds to the transmission of the binary value "1", the NAND-gate 40 is always at the output on logic 1, thus the transistor 39 is switched on conductivity. Thereby, the other input of the NAND-gate 40 is quasi on mass by means of the resistors 48 and 45 and thereby on logic "0". During the transmission of the binary value "0" is modulated and the peak rectifier 38 picks up a positive flank in the signal path (FIG. 3), which reaches the input of the NAND-gate 40 by means of the capacitor 44 and the resistor 48. The NAND-gate 40 moves at the output from logic 1 to logic 0, the transistor 39 is closed and the input of the NAND-gate 40 is cleanly drawn to logic 1. When the binary value "1" is again transmitted a negative flank is generated due to the increase of the signal amplitude at the output of the peak rectifier 38, which again moves the input of the NAND-gate 40 again to logic 0 for a short time by means of the condenser 44 and the resistor 48. Thus, the output of the NAND-gate 40 moves again to logic 1, the transistor 39 becomes conductive and maintains the input of the NAND-gate 40 on the logic 0. The binary values can be picked off in their exact original length or time duration at the output 52 of the demodulation circuit 37.
The data transmission from the stationary station 11 to the mobile data carrier 10 is performed by frequency modulation. If the binary value "1" should be transmitted, a switching pulse sequence of the frequency 1 MHz is applied on the input of FET 25, as illustrated in FIG. 4a at the left side. If the binary value "0" should be transmitted, a switching pulse sequence of 0.5 MHz is applied on the input of the FET 25, as illustrated in FIG. 4a on the right side. Thus, the frequency ratio is 2:1 and the ratio of the pulse length 1:2. Thereby, the degree of transmitting of the two switching pulse sequences is equally large. The signal path on the capacitor 17 of the resonance circuit 13 and on the capacitor 15 of the resonance circuit 12 in both switching pulse sequences is illustrated in FIG. 4b and c.
For recovering the transmitted data, a demodulation circuit 53 is provided on the side of the data carrier on the output 54 of which the recovered binary data can be picked off. The demodulation circuit 53 is provided with a monoflop which is connected to the resonance circuit 12 and which is formed by the monoflop 34, a pulse filter 55, a retriggerable monoflop 56 and a D-Flip-Flop 57, whose output is connected with the output 54 of the demodulation circuit 53. Thereby, the pulse filter 55 is switched successively to the monoflop 34 and the monoflop 56 is switched successively to the pulse filter 55. The D-input of the D-Flip-Flop 57 is connected with the output of the monoflop 56 and the cycle input of the D-Flip-Flop is connected with the output of the pulse filter 55. The monoflop 34 is triggered with the negative flank in the voltage path on the capacitor 15 of the resonance circuit 12 (FIG. 4c), whose resetting time is smaller than a resonance period in the signal path. A pulse sequency is applied on the output of the monoflop 34, as illustrated in FIG. 4d. The pulse filter 55 serves for suppressing every second pulse at the output of the monoflop 34 (FIG. 4d right), in the case of transmitting the binary value "0". For example, this pulse filter 55 may be designed as a retriggerable monoflop, whose resetting time at least corresponds to the time distance of the positive flank of the first and the second pulse. The pulse filter 35 which is designed as a retriggerable monoflop is always set with the positive flank of the pulses applied on the input. On the O-output of the pulse filter 55 a pulse sequence is always applied which is illustrated in FIG. 4f. On the one hand, these pulses are applied as Clock-pulses on the D-Flip-Flop 57 and trigger with their positive flank the monoflop, on the other hand. The reset time of the retriggerable monoflop 56 is designed in such a manner that it is at least at large as the reverse value of the frequency of the pulse sequence at the output of the pulse filter 55 in the case of transmitting the binary value "1" (FIG. 4f left). A signal path is then generated on the output of the monoflop 56, as illustrated in FIG. 4g. Since the output of the D-Flip-Flop 57 takes over the condition of the D-input with each positive pulse flank, the binary value "1" (FIG. 4h left) and the binary value "0" (FIG. 4h right) are picked off on the output 54 of the demodulation circuit 53 and corresponding to the binary value "1" or "0" which were fed to the input 51 in the stationary station 11. The synchronisation latch 50 assures that a change of the data signal from "1" to "0" and vice versa become effective only at the start of the next cycle period. The same function is performed by the synchronisation latch 35 during the data transmission during the data transmission from the data carrier 10 to the stationary station 11.
The invention is not limited to the aforedescribed exemplified embodiment for a device to transmit data. The demodulation circuit 37 in the stationary station 11 can also be designed differently. However, in any case the demodulation circuit must perform an amplitude modulation of the signal path which had been picked off from the condenser 17 of the resonance circuit 13. The described demodulation circuit 37 is particularly advantageous, since it sufficiently restores the logical level of the transmitted signal, without influencing it by slow fluctuations of the resonance in the signal. The obliteration which is recognizeable in the amplitude modulated signal is regenerated so that the duration of the logical level cannot be unduly changed.
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|International Classification||H02J17/00, G06K7/00, H04B5/00, G07C9/00|
|Cooperative Classification||H04B5/00, G07C9/00111, G06K7/0008, H04B5/0093, H04B5/0012|
|European Classification||G07C9/00B10, G06K7/00E, H04B5/00|
|Sep 19, 1985||AS||Assignment|
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