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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2018
Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki, Kitakyushu, JP;
Hidetsugu Koga, Kitakyushu, JP;
Isamu Matsumura, Kitakyushu, JP;
Tomofumi Nishiyama, Kitakyushu, JP;
KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASHAWA DENKI, Kitakyushu, JP;
Abstract
An industrial communication system includes multiple industrial instruments connected in series and including a first industrial instrument and a second industrial instrument connected to the first industrial instrument. The first industrial instrument includes a first storage that stores a first communication setting that is applicable to communication established between the industrial instruments, first reception circuitry that receives, based on the first communication setting stored in the first storage, a first signal from the second industrial instrument of the industrial instruments, a second storage that stores a second communication setting that is applicable to the communication established between the industrial instruments and that is a predetermined communication setting common to each of the industrial instruments, and second reception circuitry that receives, based on the second communication setting stored in the second storage, a second signal including at least a part of the first signal received by the first reception circuitry.