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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2001
Dieter Graiger, Steyregg, AT;
Siegfried Richter, Lauf, DE;
Keba AG, Linz, AT;
Abstract
The invention relates to a method of connecting a mobile, electronic control and/or monitoring unit ( ) to at least one machine or at least one machine component in a group or a plurality of machines ( ) or machine components to be controlled and/or monitored. During a connection or log-on procedure between the control and/or monitoring unit ( ) and a co-operating distant point on the respective machine ( ), a clear link or log-on connection is set up either by means of interfaces ( ) to the selected, wireless direction-finder of the co-operating distant point or alternatively by means of transmitters and/or receivers ( ) tuned to a restricted, localized functional or operating range ( ). Once the connection has been acknowledged and established, the programmed control and/or monitoring of the machine ( ) or the machine component is managed via another, standard data transmission means ( ), for example a hard-wired network and/or via a wireless link between the control and/or monitoring unit ( ) and the selected machine ( ). Also proposed is a control and/or monitoring unit ( ) for implementing this method.