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Automation device

US7359812B2 · kind B2 · utility

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2References

9Claims

0Family size

Assignee

ABB PATENT GMBH · DE

Inventors

Heiko Kresse · Bad Eilsen, DE
Andreas Stelter · Minden, DE
Ralf Schaeffer · Hille, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 12, 2006
Grant date	Apr 15, 2008
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Sep 12, 2026

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L69/323
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The invention relates to an automation device (100, 100′), in which a multiplicity of physically distributed functional units communicate with each other by means of a common transmission protocol. The device has a microcontroller (110), which is assigned at least one clock generator (120) and one memory unit (150), and which is connected at least to one data source (140), which is designed to output a data bit-stream to be transmitted.

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