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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 02, 1999
Omron Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
A control unit ( ) provided on each of a plurality of operating units for integrating the whole of such an operating unit group that operating units performing a certain operation plurally aggregate and making the same perform regularly operation control includes a signal transmission part ( and ) and a signal receiving part ( and ) for communicating with the adjacent operating unit, and a connection determination part ( ) determining whether or not it is located on a predetermined start position forming a start point of integrated control in the operating unit group on the basis of relative positional relation obtained as a result of performing a communicating operation for deciding the operating unit as a master operating unit when determined as located on the start position while deciding it as a dependently operating slave operating unit when determined as not located on the start position. Thus, an operation integrated control method in which the operating unit can determine whether it is the master operating unit or the slave operating unit itself and a control unit therefor are provided.