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Automation device

US7930581B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

ABB PATENT GMBH · DE

Inventors

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

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 29, 2006
Grant date	Apr 19, 2011
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 19, 2029

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG05B2219/25428
WIPO fieldControl
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

The invention relates to an automation device, with 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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