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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2015
Honeywell International Inc., Morris Plains, NJ (US);
Ronald Sorenson, Columbus, OH (US);
Paul Patton, Golden Valley, MN (US);
Rick Solosky, Plymouth, MN (US);
Rolf L. Strand, Crystal, MN (US);
John Evers, Albany, MN (US);
Patrick Springman, Andover, MN (US);
Yury Millman, Golden Valley, MN (US);
Honeywell International Inc., Morris Plains, NJ (US);
Abstract
A system and approach for addressing modules on a platform bus that may incorporate a master module and one or more slave modules. The platform bus may run through sub-base connectors that interlock modules together on a rail. Addressing of the modules may occur automatically and dynamically in that the master module may have a first address by default, and a first slave module adjoining the master module may be assigned a second address. A second slave module adjoining the first slave module, if there is one, may be assigned a third address. Each of the other slave modules, adjoining a preceding slave module assigned an address, may be assigned a next address after an address assigned to a preceding slave module. Addresses may be assigned in a numerical order to each module based on a physical position of the respective module on a rail.