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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 1996
Filed:
Apr. 19, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370 161 ; 370 8512 ; 39518208 ;
Abstract
A looped bus system includes several nodes connected by unidirectional buses having opposite directions of signal transmission. The head of bus function for each bus is located at a node different from the head of bus function for the other bus. The head of bus function for each bus is located at the same node as the termination of bus function for the other bus; As a result, the buses can be reconfigured and nodes can be added freely by the use of a bus portion that is unused in the looped bus under normal condition.