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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 29, 2012
Pierre Milhau, Bourg de Peage, FR;
Michel Cecchin, Montelier, FR;
Pierre Milhau, Bourg de Peage, FR;
Michel Cecchin, Montelier, FR;
COVAL, Montelier, FR;
Abstract
A vacuum generator module having a substantially rectangular box housing electronic controls for controlling and monitoring the operation of pneumatic vacuum generators and their electrical connections with an electrical power supply and external control members, including an input connector and an output connector installed in one of the faces of the box. The first module is a master module that includes a microcontroller adapted to the communications protocol first of a fieldbus present in a vacuum handling machine incorporating the first module, and secondly of a bus that is dedicated to the other modules. Each of the other modules is a slave module including a microcontroller adapted to the communications protocol of the dedicated bus.