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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2010
Kenn Itou, Shizuoka, JP;
Akiyoshi Kanazawa, Shizuoka, JP;
Kenn Itou, Shizuoka, JP;
Akiyoshi Kanazawa, Shizuoka, JP;
Yazaki Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
There is provided a communication address detection apparatus, a connector with a built-in control circuit, and a communication address detection method capable of preventing abnormal operations even in cases when a voltage level to be input to any one of a plurality of communication address setting terminals has inverted due to some faults. In a communication address detection apparatus for detecting a communication address in accordance with a combination of voltage levels of high or low levels input to a plurality of communication address setting terminals, the combination of the voltage levels with the assigned communication address is set which is stored in a communication address information storing unit () is set so as to become a combination of the voltage levels that has no assigned communication address when any one of the voltage levels in the combination of the voltage levels has inverted.