Abstract
Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors:“Functional safety is a part of the overall safety of a system or piece of equipment that depends onautomatic protection operating correctly in response to its inputs or failure in a predictable manner (failsafe).The au tomatic protection system should be designed to properly handle likely human err ors,hardware failures and operational and/or environmental stress. The objectiv e of functional safety isfreedom from unacceptable risk of physical injury or o f damage to the health of people either directlyor indirectly by the proper imp lementation of one or more automatic protection functions, namely safetyfunctio ns. A safety system typically consists of one or more safety functions.
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