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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2018
Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki, Kitakyushu-shi, JP;
Mamoru Fukuda, Kitakyushu, JP;
Tatsuhiko Sato, Kitakyushu, JP;
Naoya Taki, Kitakyushu, JP;
Hiroyuki Ishibashi, Kitakyushu, JP;
KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI, Fukuoka, JP;
Abstract
An industrial device communication system comprising: industrial devices that function as communication masters; industrial devices that function as communication slaves that receive control data from the industrial devices that function as communication masters; communication lines that communicably connect the industrial devices to one another; one or more switches for causing a communication group including the industrial devices that function as communication masters and the industrial devices that function as communication slaves to communicate independently from one or more other communication groups; and one or more switch controllers that control the one or more switches, causing the switches to switch between a state in which an inter-group communication line present between the communication group and the one or more other communication groups is disconnected, and a state in which the disconnected inter-group communication line is connected, according to the communication group that independently communicates in each of periods.