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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 1998
Filed:
Oct. 11, 1996
Steven D Bosse, Canton, CT (US);
Sorvall Products, L.P., Newtown, CT (US);
Abstract
A centrifuge network communication system for transmitting instructions to, and receiving data from, a plurality of centrifuge instruments using a central data controller. The central data controller transmits instructions to the centrifuge instruments in the form of discrete data packets, including (a) a centrifuge arbitration packet containing at least one command for a centrifuge instrument, (b) a command execution packet, commanding a centrifuge instrument that has previously received a centrifuge arbitration packet to execute the at least one command contained in the centrifuge arbitration packet, and (c) a transmit acknowledge packet commanding a centrifuge instrument that has previously received a command execution packet to transmit data generated in response to the centrifuge arbitration packet to the central data controller. Due to the interleaving of the data packets, a command execution packet transmitted to a first centrifuge instrument (n) further acts as a command arbitration packet for a second centrifuge instrument (n+1), and a transmit acknowledge packet transmitted to the first centrifuge instrument (n) further functions as a command execution packet for the second centrifuge instrument (n+1) and a centrifuge arbitration packet for a third centrifuge instrument (n+2).