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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2021
Applicant:
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Inventors:
Yosuke Majima, Osaka, JP;
Hayata Sakai, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2013.01); H04L 12/422 (2013.01);
Abstract
Communication device is a communication device to which a plurality of slaves are daisy-chained and which communicates with the plurality of slaves. Communication device includes processor. Processor executes setting processing. In the setting processing, an update cycle of a specific slave that is a slave having a shortest data update cycle among the plurality of slaves is set to a reference cycle, and an update cycle of another slave different from specific slave among the plurality of slaves is set to an integral multiple of the reference cycle.