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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2018
Filed:
May. 27, 2014
Applicant:
Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki, Kitakyushu-shi, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI, Kitakyushu-Shi, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/242 (2013.01); H04L 12/4015 (2013.01); H04L 12/40156 (2013.01);
Abstract
An industrial network apparatus includes: a control data communicator configured to transmit control data in a priority transmission period that occurs periodically; and a message data communicator configured to determine whether or not to start transmission of message data in a non-priority transmission period depending on a required transmission time of message data and remaining time of the non-priority transmission period that is different from the priority transmission period, and to transmit the message data when determining to start transmission of the message data.