Apparatus and method for interconnecting electronic products

Communications: electrical – Continuously variable indicating – With meter reading

Patent

Rate now

  [ 0.00 ] – not rated yet Voters 0   Comments 0

Details

34082522, 455 63, 370112, H04Q 100

Patent

active

054226317

ABSTRACT:
A switching network including a plurality of nodes, one node connected to a product of different electronic product groups on display. Each node includes a satellite node microprocessor and a cooperating product selector switch for selectively actuating said cooperating connected electronic product. An indicator lamp is also provided at each node. Illumination of the lamp indicates an operating condition of the electronic product connected to the node. Further, each node includes an address memory to identify the node and the connected electronic product. The satellite node microprocessors of each node are operatively connected by a bus to a central control unit. The central control unit includes a host microprocessor for supervising all network functions and product selectors for actuating selected electronic products connected to the nodes. In accordance with the present method of interconnecting selected electronic products to establish a product system, is the assigning of an unique address number to each node and, hence, each connected electronic product. The method also includes the polling of the nodes to solicit service request messages from the nodes and the sending of product control commands to the nodes from the central control unit. Then comes the step of interconnecting those electronic products selected by service request messages and product control commands.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4100533 (1978-07-01), Napolitano
patent: 4142216 (1979-02-01), Goss
patent: 4156866 (1979-05-01), Miller
patent: 4176251 (1979-11-01), Odlen et al.
patent: 4232231 (1980-11-01), Reed
patent: 4281314 (1981-07-01), Hunt
patent: 4691361 (1987-09-01), Yoshino
patent: 4845756 (1989-07-01), Seen
patent: 4879751 (1989-11-01), Franks
The OnSite System 4000 Generation, product brochure, date of publication unknown.
Matrix Systems, product brochure, date of publication unknown.
The OnSite System, A Handbook for Installlation, Operation and Service, date of publication, Oct. 1991.
Matrix Systems, A Handbook for Installation, Operation and Service, second printing Oct. 1991.

LandOfFree

Say what you really think

Search LandOfFree.com for the USA inventors and patents. Rate them and share your experience with other people.

Rating

Apparatus and method for interconnecting electronic products does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.

If you have personal experience with Apparatus and method for interconnecting electronic products, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Apparatus and method for interconnecting electronic products will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

     

Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-990610

  Search
All data on this website is collected from public sources. Our data reflects the most accurate information available at the time of publication.