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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:
Sep. 05, 2006
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2004
Applicants:
Walter Borst, Fachingen, DE;
Alain Chomik, Pulversheim, FR;
Marco Colucci, Lorrach, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Endress + Hauser Flowtec AG, Reinach, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for operating an automation technology field device connected via a bus system with a superordinated unit and having an identifier identifying the type of the field device, at least one alternative identifier AKF, which identifies a similar type of field device, is stored, in addition to an identifier KF, in the field device F. This alternative identifier AKFis transmitted, on query, to the superordinated unit PLC, when the superordinated unit fails to accept as valid the identifier KFtransmitted in prior queries. In this way, a replacement of a field device is possible simply and quickly.