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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2018
Datalogic Ip Tech S.r.l., Lippo di Calderara di Reno, IT;
Fabio Bagalá, Bologna, IT;
Marco Mestieri, Cento, IT;
DATALOGIC IP TECH S.R.L., Lippo di Calderara, IT;
Abstract
An IO-link device () configured as slave for transmitting/receiving signal data with a master module (), the IO-link device comprising: a sensor or actuator () configured to produce output measurement signals; a first microcontroller () operatively coupled to the sensor or actuator and configured to receive the measurement signals and generate data based on the measurement signals, and a transceiving module () which comprises a physical layer transceiver () configured to receive/transmit signal data from/to the master module (), and a second microcontroller () operatively coupled and in bi-directional communication with the transceiver, wherein the transceiver () is configured to receive signal data associated with a request from the master module () and transmit signal data associated with the request to the second microcontroller () and the second microcontroller () is configured to receive the signal data from the transceiver and to execute a device IO-Link protocol stack, the second microcontroller being operatively coupled and in bi-directional communication with the first microcontroller () for the transmission of signal data associated with the request to the first microcontroller and to receive data based on measurement signals from the first controller.