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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2005
Gunter Gebauer, Esslingen, DE;
Jens Garner, Stuttgart, DE;
Klaus Kleinrad, Kongen, DE;
Festo AG & Co., Esslingen, DE;
Abstract
A control module arrangement for a compressed air maintenance unit constructed like a battery and a compressed air maintenance unit, which has several maintenance modules in a row one after the other, wherein the control module arrangement has a bus interface for communicating with the maintenance modules via an internal bus of the maintenance unit. The control module arrangement has a diagnostic device for communicating with an input/output device of the maintenance unit, wherein the input/output device has a connector for connecting at least one diagnostic sensor separate from the maintenance unit and/or at least one pneumatic compressed air influencing actuator separate from the maintenance unit, wherein the control module arrangement can control the one or more compressed air influencing actuators via the input/output device and/or can receive diagnostic messages from the one or more separate diagnostic sensors.