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Automation device

US8782311B2 · 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	Sep 13, 2006
Grant date	Jul 15, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jun 19, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L2012/4026
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

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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