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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2024
Beckhoff Automation Gmbh, Verl, DE;
Patrick Jebramcik, Gütersloh, DE;
Sebastian Sicken, Lichtenau-Holtheim, DE;
Armin Pehlivan, Nüziders, AT;
Thomas Morscher, Vienna, AT;
Christoph Zech, Mödling, AT;
Peter Fischer, Hartberg, AT;
Peter Kastler, Vienna, AT;
Milos Winter, Vienna, AT;
Christoph Egger, Vienna, AT;
Beckhoff Automation GmbH, Verl, DE;
Abstract
A modular machine-automation system includes a server module and a plurality of client modules. Each client module includes a housing having a first client module connection face with a first client signal transfer unit and a second client module connection face with a second client signal transfer, and a client bus switch-on unit. In an initialization mode, a client signal coupling unit in the client bus switch-on unit is configured to determine which client module connection face is connected to a server module connection face, either directly or via one or a plurality of further client modules, in order to switch to a first operating mode when the first client module connection face is coupled to the server module connection face, and to a second operating mode when the second client module connection face is coupled to the server module connection face.