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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2013
Regal Beloit America, Inc., Beloit, WI (US);
Marc McKinzie, West Milton, OH (US);
Vinod Bhansali, Germantown, WI (US);
Regal Beloit America, Inc., Beloit, WI (US);
Abstract
A motor controller including a communication port and a computing device coupled to the communication port is described. The computing device is capable of communicating using a plurality of communication protocols and is configured to detect that an external device has connected to the communication port. The computing device is further configured to identify a first communication protocol used by the external device, wherein the first communication protocol is one of the plurality of communication protocols, and communicate with the external device using the first communication protocol.