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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 1999
Filed:
Jul. 15, 1996
Atsushi Watanabe, Yokohama, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A PCI connection system which may find particular application for connecting a printer controller board to a PC motherboard is described. The PCI connection system provides a PCI connector on a printer controller board to connect to a PCI connector of a PC motherboard. Further, the PC controller board may include a local bus which can be directly connected to a local bus of a further peripheral element controller board. Further, PCI conversion logic LSI circuitry can be removed from the printer controller board and can be placed on an extender board. This extender board can then also be utilized for connection to further peripheral element controller boards. A bypass can also be provided to directly connect a scanner to a printer through a scanner controller board and printer controller board formed as one unitary multifunctionalized controller board.