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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2013
Hitachi High-tech Instruments Co., Ltd., Kumagaya-shi, Saitama, JP;
Takashi Saegusa, Hitachinaka, JP;
Terunobu Funatsu, Tsuchiura, JP;
Manabu Okamoto, Isesaki, JP;
Ikuo Takemura, Oizumi, JP;
Masaharu Yoshida, Oizumi, JP;
Hideyuki Kamasuka, Ota, JP;
HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A network I/O system includes a central communication unit having a communication port and a plurality of terminal communication units each having an upstream communication port and a plurality of downstream ports wherein the central communication unit transmits, to the terminal communication units, routing data of the central communication unit to the terminal communication units for setting identification numbers in the terminal communication units and data of the identification number of the terminal communication units, the terminal communication units refer to the data to transmit to the downstream communication port and set the identification number in a targeted terminal communication unit, and a communication port number of the downstream communication port is appended to routing recognition data to be transmitted from the terminal communication units to the central communication unit at a time of passing through the terminal communication units, thereby recognizing a network configuration.