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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 16, 1998
Robert Griessbach, Weyarn, DE;
Peter Bachmaier, Fahrenzhausen, DE;
Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
In a data bus for vehicles with a plurality of subscribers, said subscribers operating through peripheral S/E modules and an optical transmission line on a central bus, said bus having associated S/E bus modules connected to one another, said modules receiving a light signal emitted by a peripheral S/E module and passing it as a control signal to the other S/E bus modules and through these modules as a light signal to the corresponding peripheral S/E modules, the S/E bus modules switch off the corresponding peripheral S/E module when they receive a light signal over the transmission line that is longer than the maximum admissible signal length.