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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 23, 2017
Continental Automotive France, Toulouse, FR;
Continental Automotive Gmbh, Hannover, DE;
Abstract
An interface device for a processing unit, allowing a plurality of circuits to be connected to a single input port of the processing unit, capable of acquiring a state value of a circuit of the plurality of circuits, when the circuit is biased, including a plurality, of the same cardinal number, of power sources, each power source being associated with a circuit of the plurality of circuits and capable of biasing same, a switch capable of selectively connecting a single circuit of the plurality of circuits to the associated power source, in such a way as to bias the circuit, and of connecting all of the other circuits to ground, the selection of the biased circuit being controlled by a set of at least one output port of the processing unit.