| Moxa Inc. Patent applications |
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| 20120102240 | FIELDBUS GATEWAY USING VIRTUAL SERIAL FILEDBUS PORT AND DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD THEREOF - A fieldbus gateway using a virtual serial fieldbus port and a data transmission method thereof are provided. By receiving a fieldbus frame containing target data through a virtual serial fieldbus port connected to a source device or a target device via a fieldbus gateway and sending another fieldbus frame containing the target data via other fieldbus port to target devices or source devices, the system and the method can provide two or more remote devices to control one controlled device at the same time. The invention also achieves the effect of using one virtual serial fieldbus port to transmit data between multiple source devices and target devices concurrently. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20110266356 | Temperature gain control device and method thereof - This specification discloses a device of controlling temperature gain and the method thereof. The invention detects the temperature of work environment and uses it to generate a control signal and a PWM signal for dynamically controlling the heaters around electronic elements to heat up. When the temperature of work environment is too low, the invention can increase the stability of the electronic elements. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110153886 | DEVICE THAT USES PARAMETERS TO PROVIDE MULTI-CHANNEL SERIAL DATA TRANSMISSIONS AND METHOD THEREOF - A device that uses parameters to provide multi-channel serial data transmissions and the method thereof are provided. A first serial device configures with the channel parameters corresponding to a procedure executed on a second serial device. The invention determines whether the data channel corresponding to the procedure requires sending/receiving data occupies a physical line. If so, the first serial device transmits data to the second serial device. Otherwise, the first serial device transmits a channel switch request to the second serial device. After the first serial device and the second serial device are both switched the data channel corresponding to the procedure to occupy the physical line, the first serial device and the procedure could exchange data. Therefore, the first serial device could establish new connection without closing original connection. It achieves the goal of using a single serial port to have data channels of different operation modes or connections. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110124209 | Converter - This specification discloses a converter whose first electrical connector of a first standard is fixed on a first circuit board and whose second electrical connector of a second standard is connected to a second circuit board. The second circuit board is thus electrically connected to the first circuit board. Therefore, the converter expands the second connector to the first circuit board. This achieves the goal of connecting circuit boards of different connecting designs. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110122828 | Wireless transmission device that records channel activities and method thereof - This specification disclosed a wireless transmission device that records channel activities and the method thereof. After wireless signals are detected to occupy all of the channels used by the wireless transmission device, the detection information thus obtained is stored in a record file. Clients are allowed to connect to the wireless network device and download the record file for analyses. When the wireless signals are interfered, the invention can determine whether the interference source is nearby or not. This achieves the goal of monitoring the band usage around the wireless network device at a lower cost. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110122757 | Hard disk drive frame - A hard disk drive frame is provided. The distances from its hard disk drive fixing parts to the substrate center are not the same. During the process of vibrational energy transfer, three-dimensional reactions are induced correspondingly to cancel the kinetic energy transfer. The reactions generated at the static balance point in the three dimensions interfere one another to destroy vibrational frequencies in specific directions. Therefore, the disclosed hard disk drive is resistant to vibrations and suffers less from the resonance effect. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110078282 | Network device that downloads files using its ID code and method thereof - A network device that downloads files using its ID code and the corresponding method are disclosed. After the network device obtains its IP address, it generates a download command for downloading a target file corresponding to the device ID code. After transmitting the download command to a server, the network device receives the target file returned from the server. Therefore, the invention achieves the goal of automatically downloading a target file for the network device without manual operations. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110040991 | Method for power overload control in a network - The present invention relates to a method for power overload control in a network, comprising an Ethernet switching device and a plurality of network powered devices, wherein the Ethernet switching device includes a central processing unit (CPU), a Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) control unit and an Ethernet port. The PoE control unit can regularly check if any of the plurality of network powered devices is overloaded, and in case of any overload, will transmit signals to the CPU, which will further decide on the network powered devices to be selected for disconnection according to the preset conditions for supplying power to avoid interferences over major network powered devices and reduce losses to enterprises effectively. Besides, when the network powered device is disconnected, the CPU will again send warning signals to the computer device, so that managers can be informed of the status of the remote terminals and then reschedule the power supply immediately and eliminate failures quickly. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110022735 | NETWORK DEVICE WITH A TRIGGERING ELEMENT - A network device with a triggering element. In a first embodiment where a triggering element is embedded in a network socket, a user is allowed to trigger it to control a processor on the network device to set network parameters. In a second embodiment, the invention can trigger the triggering element to control the processor on the network device. In a third embodiment, the invention sends a triggering signal to the triggering element for controlling electronic elements other than the network device. Therefore, the invention can achieve the effects of network settings of the network device, processor controls, and convenience in controlling other electronic elements. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20100296391 | Method for Conducting Redundancy Checks in a Chain Network - The present invention relates to a method for conducting redundancy checks in a chain network, wherein the two ends of the chain network are equipped with a first switch and a second switch respectively, and a port of the first or second switch used for communicating with an external network is set to be blocked, so that when an link failure happens to any switch of the chain network, the two switches close to the link failure port sends control packets to the first and second switches respectively to forward the port that is originally blocking, thus making the network to return to normal state quickly. Besides, as the first and second switches are used to connect other chain networks, external network devices or external redundant network architectures, it allows more network nodes to be included in single network architecture and provides flexibility and compatibility in use by including different redundancy mechanisms. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100251536 | Heat-dissipating structure on case of industrial computer and manufacturing method thereof - A heat-dissipating structure on the case of an industrial computer and the method of manufacturing the same are provided. Heat-conducting elements are connected to the computer case by low-temperature soldering to reduce the use of heat-dissipating elements. This method also effectively reduces thermal resistance and production cost. Therefore, the structure achieves the goals of reducing heat dissipation resistance and production cost. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20100229041 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR EXPEDITING FEEDBACK ON CHANGES OF CONNECTION STATUS OF MONITIORING EQUIPMENTS - The present invention relates to a device and method for expediting feedback on changes of connection status of monitoring equipments, comprising a CPU, a switch module and at least an optical fiber connector, wherein the CPU contains multiple reserved pins and is connected with the switch module, while the switch module is connected with at least one optical fiber connector, which includes signal detect pins that are used to connect with the switch module. The CPU is connected through one of the reserved pins with the SD pin of the optical fiber connector, and controlled by a system software to read the bit value of the signal address of the SD pin. This allows the system software to analyze and determine if the address value of the signals received by the reserved pin is changed or not, and to take action to respond when the connection status is changed. Because signals are transported without using the switch module, it will save the time required for bus communication and synchronous processing of signals, thus expediting feedback on change of connection status. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100205340 | METHOD OF DETERMINING REQUEST TRANSMISSION PRIORITY SUBJECT TO REQUEST CONTENT AND TRANSMITTING REQUEST SUBJECT TO SUCH REQUEST TRANSMISSION PRIORITY IN APPLICATION OF FIELDBUS COMMUNICATION FRAMEWORK - A method of determining request transmission priority subject to request content and transmitting request subject to such request transmission priority in application of Fieldbus communication framework in which the communication device determines whether the received requests have the priority subject to the respective content, and also determines whether there is any logical operation condition established, and then the communication device transmits the received external requests to the connected slave device as an ordinary request or priority request, preventing the slave device from receiving an important external request sent by the main control end or manager at a late time. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100201198 | LOW- VOLTAGE DUAL POWER LOOP DEVICE AND METHOD - The present invention relates to a low-voltage dual power loop device and method, comprising a first power supply, a second power supply and a dual power control loop, wherein the first and second power supplies provide power input to the dual power control loop, which contains the first and second control chips connected with a power detection loop, a power comparison loop and a power switch loop respectively. The first and second control chips can detect the priority of the first and second power supplies by using the power detection loop. When a power outage happens to the power supply of the first priority, it will compare the voltages by using the power comparison loop and switch over from the power supply of the first priority into the standby power supply of the second priority by using the power switch loop, so that the standby power supply continues electricity supply to external electronic equipments, avoiding losses of important data in these equipments, which may result in heavy economic losses. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100195508 | Method for checking ring network redundancy - A method for checking a ring network redundancy includes a first exchanger and a second exchanger. When the first exchanger is set as a master, the plurality of second exchangers serve as the ring members; the first exchanger has a connection port, which is set as blocking, and the rest of connection ports are set as forwarding. The plurality of second exchangers regularly detects the plurality of connection ports for any outstanding status occurred in the connection status. When an outstanding status occurred, the CF5 is transmitted to the first exchanger and the first exchanger converts the connection port into the forwarding status, and the CF4 is transmitted to the plurality of second exchangers in order to renew the Mac address table. The method of sending out CF through a plurality of ring members can reduce the risk of losing the CF due to overloading network or having too much single network equipments, and thereby increase the reliability of the ring network during the redundancy checking. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100185734 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING RESPONSE MESSAGES - This present invention relates to a method for processing response messages, comprising a transmitter, first communication gateway, second communication gateway and a receiver, wherein the transmitter is connected with the first communication gateway, while the receiver is linked with the second communication gateway. When a message is transmitted by the transmitter via a mobile communication network to a remote receiver, the second communication gateway will transmit a response message to the transmitter after the transmitter receives the message. The first communication gateway will determine that the receiver does not receive the message successfully if it does not receive the response message within a given time period, and then transmit the message again or inform the administrator. In this way, it can help reduce the loss of property and life to enterprises and their employees caused by loss of messages. In addition, the second communication gateway will decide if the message is valid or not upon receipt. If the message is invalid, transmission to the receiver will be terminated. This can prevent sending a packet repeatedly due to failure of the transmitter, or prevent hogging of receivers' bandwidth by messages from unknown sources as a result of hackers' intrusion. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100169956 | FAR-END CONTROL METHOD WITH SECURITY MECHANISM - The present invention relates to a far-end control method with a security mechanism including a host transmitting an identification code through the PSTN (Public switched telephone network) to the I/O control device of the far-end. The I/O control device has a CPU to receive the identification code and judge whether the identification code matches with the predetermined value stored therein; if the identification code matches with the predetermined value, the mobile internet connection between the host and the I/O control device is activated to enable the host to mutually transmit information or signals with a far-end control device from the I/O control device through the mobile internet, and the connection will be disabled after the information or signal transmission is completed. Thus not only the damage caused by line occupied from the hacker invasion or error signal transmission is reduced, but also the cost and power consumption without connecting the mobile internet between these two ends all the time is reduced. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100169689 | METHOD FOR AUTO POWER RESTORATION - The present invention relates to an auto-restore method for a power device by using a computer device to build a detecting/responding packet in an Ethernet exchanger, and the Ethernet exchange can mutually transmit the packet with the power device. If the Ethernet exchanger fails to receive a responding packet from the power device in the predetermined time and the predetermined value, the Ethernet exchanger will terminate power supply by the Ethernet and reset the power device, and the power device will be restored automatically accordingly. If the power device still cannot function normally after few times of reset, the Ethernet exchanger will shutdown the power supplied by the Ethernet and transmits an alarm signal to the computer device. Thus not only the consumption of the system and safety risk are reduced, but also promptly maintained, to increase the reliability, and save the supervision time of the operator and the cost of onsite maintenance. Besides, the prompt maintenance can also reduce the possible damage occurred during the breakdown of the power device. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100165992 | Transmission system, device and method that prevent data loss - This specification discloses a transmission system, device and method that prevent data loss. The invention uses a first channel and a second channel to send same packet encapsulating same target data to a receiving end. After confirming the reception of the packet, the receiving end drops the duplicated packet. The receiving end only processes yet processed packet. This technique can reduce the chances of losing data. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100161703 | Active monitoring system and method thereof - An active monitoring system and method thereof are provided to solve the problems of no real-time monitoring and bandwidth usage in the prior art. A triggering end detects a monitoring device to generate a device tag. The device tag is packed and actively sent to the server end via a network. The server end automatically generates an OPC tag for an integrating server to use. The mechanism can increase monitoring efficiency and bandwidth usage. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100159727 | Positioning and grounding structure for ring connectors - A positioning and grounding structure for ring connectors. A cutting part is formed by cutting one side of the ring connector. The connecting base has a grounding part. Using the relative position between the grounding part and the electrical connecting part as well as the cutting part for double positioning, the ring connector can be quickly fixed on a circuit board. The grounding part can quickly connect noises or electrostatics to the ground. The structure solves the problem of connectors in the prior art that lacks positioning and grounding designs. The provided ring connector can quickly position and ground. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100156693 | Programmable remote control system and method thereof - A programmable remote control system and the method thereof are provided to solve the problem of learning a controlling language at a huge time cost in the prior art. A control command group is remotely set and stored in the triggering end for positive and negative logic determination and control. The mechanism facilitates the provision of the control command group for actively transmitting messages. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100155205 | Connector structure of waterproof and explosion-proof button - A connector structure of waterproof and explosion-proof button is provided. A waterproof element completely covers the connecting part of the connecting element. By pressing a first button bar of the waterproof element, a second button bar is driven to depress the button therein. A companion part inside the connecting element is connected and fixed with an explosion-proof element. The connector structure thus achieves the waterproof and explosion-proof effects and has the button function at the same time. The structure solves the problem of having too many elements and too complicated assembly process for achieving the waterproof effect in the prior art. According to the structure, the assembly of the connector structure is simple and both waterproof and explosion-proof effects are simultaneously achieved. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100115004 | Backup system that stores boot data file of embedded system in different strorage sections and method thereof - This specification provides a backup system that stores a boot data file of an embedded system in a different storage section and a method thereof By generating several file systems and after defining one of them as the backup file system, the backup boot data file is stored in the backup file system. When normally used boot data file cannot be used for booting, the backup boot data file is used. This solves the problem that the backup boot data file is stored in a file system that the user can freely access and thus may be damaged by the user. This achieves the technical feature that a specific embedded system can have several different file systems to store multiple boot data files. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100099304 | Hook structure of compact flash card - A hook structure of the compact flash card has a supporting part and an extension part. The hook part extended from the extension part holds the compact flash card. The supporting part supports the compact flash card. It enables one to quickly and conveniently insert or withdraw the compact flash card on an industry computer. This solves the problems in the prior art that the compact flash card cannot be conveniently inserted into or removed from an industry computer and that the compact flash card easily gets loose, resulting in the industry computer system crash. The hook structure enables convenient replacement of compact flash cards and ensures the stable operation of the industry computer. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100097769 | Heat-dissipating structure for expansion board architecture - A heat-dissipating structure for the expansion board architecture is provided. A fixing element disposed on the heat-absorbing substrate fixes the motherboard and the first expansion board. The heat-generating elements on the motherboard or the first expansion board are directly in touch with the heat-absorbing surface of the heat-absorbing substrate to absorb their heat. The heat-dissipating board extended from the side of the heat-absorbing substrate then dissipates the heat absorbed by the heat-absorbing substrate. The structure thus solves the problems that existing heat-dissipating structures occupy larger space and therefore cannot be effectively used in an expansion board architecture to dissipate heat produced by the heat-generating elements between the motherboard and the expansion board and that it is likely to have assembly tolerance. Using the structure can reduce the space and the assembly tolerance, but effectively enhance heat dissipation in the expansion board architecture. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20090287852 | METHOD FOR DISCONNECTING A TRANSCEIVER FROM A BUS IN MULTIPOINT/MULTIDROP ARCHITECTURE - The present invention relates to a method for disconnecting a transceiver from a bus in multipoint/multidrop architecture. A central processing unit (CPU) and a universal asynchronous receiver transmitter (UART) in a system are connected to a controller used for storing and transmitting data, and the controller is further connected with a bus through a transceiver that monitors/records data and a relay that connects or disconnects the transceiver from the bus. The controller comprises a signal comparator used to compare similarities and differences of data and a failure detection controller used to achieve connection or disconnection of the bus with the transceiver. In case of the transceiver's failure, the controller disconnects the transceiver from the bus to ensure that the bus does not fail to work due to breakdown of the transceiver. On the other hand, a signal feedback mechanism is also utilized for a maintenance person to shorten the time in failure detection and thus reduce enterprises' operating losses caused by breakdown of their communication equipments. | 11-19-2009 |
