Registers – Transfer mechanism – Traveling pawl
Patent
1973-11-06
1977-06-21
Wise, Edward J.
Registers
Transfer mechanism
Traveling pawl
290 40R, 415 15, 60645, 364300, F01D 1702, G05B 1500, G06F 1506
Patent
active
040313727
ABSTRACT:
An electric power plant including a steam generator and a steam turbine is operated by a control system including two redundant digital computers. Switching circuitry is provided for coupling one of the computers through interface equipment to the steam generator and the turbine and a generator according to programmed computer control. A data link is established between the computers to transfer manual/automatic status and other needed data from the control computer to the standby computer. A system is provided for detecting when certain hardware and software malfunctions have occurred and for responsively transferring control to the standby computer. The standby computer is tracked to the control computer so that control computer transfer can be made reliably without disturbing the electric power generation process. Tracking is produced by a system which includes the data link as well as tracking controls in the noncontrolling computer. Such tracking controls function in the tracking mode of the noncontrolling computer to conform the control outputs of the two computers with little or no offset. On the execution of a computer transfer, the tracking controls are bumplessly switched out of operation as the computer coming into control switches from the tracking mode to the control mode.
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Possessky E. F.
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Wise Edward J.
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