Device containing a functional unit that stores function data representative of its properties and a data processing program for operating with required function data

US6829706B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG · DE

Inventors

• Rainer Ihle · Bammental, DE
• Gerhard Schlindwein · Graben-Neudorf, DE
• Detlef Strunk · Heidelberg, DE
• Jan Tusch · Heidelberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 19, 2001
• Grant date: Dec 7, 2004
• Expiry date: Jan 6, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G05B19/042
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A device for recognizing functional units in an electrical system, which is one of being optional and provided in different construction stages, respectively, comprising a data processing unit and at least one functional unit, the functional unit having a function register with a nonvolatile memory for holding function data, the memory having at least one function entry with function data associated with the physical properties of the functional unit, a change in the properties of the functional unit being recordable by changing the corresponding function data of the function entry in the function register; and a method of operating the device.