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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2011
Hiroaki Mori, Nagoya, JP;
Yukihiro Suzuki, Nagoya, JP;
Hiroaki Mori, Nagoya, JP;
Yukihiro Suzuki, Nagoya, JP;
Rinnai Corporation, Nagoya-shi, JP;
Abstract
Each of the water heatersperforms a master and slave setting process that transmits prescribed response data to the other water heatersvia a communication lineat a timing according to its own identification number and different from those of the other water heaters in a prescribed master and slave setting time period, that sets the water heater itself to slave in a case of receiving the response data from another water heaterassigned with an identification number having a priority higher than its own identification number in the master and slave setting time period, and that sets the water heater itself to master in a case of not receiving the response data from another water heater assigned with an identification number having a priority higher than its own identification number in the master and slave setting time period.