Patents by Inventor Robert Train

Robert Train has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Interface module for use with a fieldbus device network and with internet and non-internet based process control networks
    Patent number: 7246194
    Abstract: An interface module is operatively connected to a Fieldbus process control network and to at least one non-Fieldbus process control network to facilitate the exchange of process control information between the networks. The interface module stores a database in which the process control parameters of the function blocks in the field devices of the Fieldbus process control network are mapped to corresponding process control parameters of the non-Fieldbus process control network. Once the Fieldbus process control parameters are mapped to the non-Fieldbus process control parameters, the interface module is adapted to transmit request messages on the Fieldbus process control network to the Fieldbus field devices for the current values of the process control parameters, receive response messages from the Fieldbus field devices, and store the current values of the process control parameters in the database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Rosemount, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Train, Marcos A. V. Peluso, Robert J. Karschnia, Eric D. Rotvold
  • Interface module for use with a fieldbus device network and with internet and non-internet based process control networks
    Publication number: 20050066104
    Abstract: An interface module is operatively connected to a Fieldbus process control network and to at least one non-Fieldbus process control network to facilitate the exchange of process control information between the networks. The interface module stores a database in which the process control parameters of the function blocks in the field devices of the Fieldbus process control network are mapped to corresponding process control parameters of the non-Fieldbus process control network. Once the Fieldbus process control parameters are mapped to the non-Fieldbus process control parameters, the interface module is adapted to transmit request messages on the Fieldbus process control network to the Fieldbus field devices for the current values of the process control parameters, receive response messages from the Fieldbus field devices, and store the current values of the process control parameters in the database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2004
    Publication date: March 24, 2005
    Applicant: ROSEMOUNT, INC.
    Inventors: Robert Train, Marcos Peluso, Robert Karschnia, Eric Rotvold