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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2019
Omron Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Nobuo Kataoka, Ritto, JP;
Seiji Mizutani, Moriyama, JP;
OMRON Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
Provided is an electric apparatus, which has excellent convenience and operates by switching an operation mode according to the type of a communication device of a connection destination. The electric apparatus includes: a superimposition signal transmission portion which transmits, to a communication device, a superimposition signal obtained by superimposing a data signal on an operation signal; an operation mode switching portion which switches between a normal operation mode in which transmission of the superimposition signal is performed and a low current consumption mode in which transmission of the superimposition signal is not performed; and a current detection portion which detects a current value supplied from the communication device, wherein the operation mode switching portion switches the low current consumption mode to the normal operation mode when the current detection portion detects a current equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value in the low current consumption mode.