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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 24, 1998
Koji Iwamoto, Nara, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An initialization-allowing communication system is constituted with devices and a controller for controlling the devices and through communication, and so on. Each device and the controller are provided with communication means a house code showing a setting place, a subsystem ID showing the ID of a subsystem in a set system, a device ID showing the type of device, and self-address setting-holding means for holding a self-address constituted with a device number showing a device number and the controller is further provided with system structure holding means for holding the information concerned with the system structure to be controlled and a communication-counterpart-address setting-holding means for setting and holding the address of a counterpart to be communication-controlled obtained from the information concerned with the system structure.