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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2003
Applicants:
Norihiro Imai, Sunto-gun, JP;
Kazunori Okada, Hiratsuka, JP;
Inventors:
Norihiro Imai, Sunto-gun, JP;
Kazunori Okada, Hiratsuka, JP;
Assignee:
OMRON Corpration, Kyoto, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/36 (2006.01); G06F 13/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A network system is formed with a parent station and programmable controllers and a programmable display devices serving as child stations connected to a single general-purpose serial communication circuit. Whichever child station received the token from the parent station outputs a command. Data are exchanged between the programmable display device and any of the programmable controllers by command-response communication. Data are exchanged among the programmable controllers by data link operations.