Electrical Device Component Updates with Continuous Load Output

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional electrical devices experience interruptions in load output during application program updates, leading to a poor user experience due to abnormal shutdowns.

Innovation Solution

A method where a functional component shares state data of an output channel with a booting component, allowing the booting component to recover the working state of the output channel and update the functional component based on shared data, ensuring continuous load output during the update process.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If the functional component is updated during operation, then the application program can be optimized, but the load output is interrupted causing poor user experience

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser experience continuityVSAvoidupdate execution
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The state data of the output channel is saved before the functional component is switched off for updating. This preliminary action ensures that when the component is restored after updating, the system can recover the working state of the output channel using the saved state data, thereby maintaining continuous load output and avoiding interruption to user experience

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates a copy of the state data from the output channel before updating the functional component. This copied state data is stored and used to restore the working state after updating, allowing the system to maintain continuity of load output while completing the update process

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentEP4597307A1Component updating method, electrical device, electronic device and storage medium
Publication Date: 2025.08.06 SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC IND SAS
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AI summary

Embodiments of the disclosure provide a component updating method, an electrical device, an electronic device and a storage medium. The method includes: in response to an update indication for a functional component of the electrical device, sharing, by the functional component, state data of an output channel to a booting component of the electrical device, the output channel being configured to control a load of the electrical device, and the state data indicating a working state of the output channel; in response to switching from the functional component to the booting component, recovering, by the booting component, the working state of the output channel based on the shared state data; and updating, by the booting component, the functional component based on received update data. Therefore, the working state of the output channel can be maintained in a process of the booting component updating the functional component.