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US 11,287,787 B2Granted
Input / output system
AssigneePhoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsThorsten Matthies, Rainer Esch, Frank Mueller
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Abstract
An input/output system including: an input/output base unit which has a plurality of slots into which input/output modules are pluggable; an evaluation device; and at least one cover element which is arrangeable on one of the plurality of slots of the input/output base unit. The evaluation device detects a presence of the at least one cover element at a slot of the plurality of slots.
Claims15
An input/output system, comprising:
- an input/output base unit which has a plurality of slots into which input/output modules are pluggable;
- an evaluation device;
- and
- at least one cover element which is arrangeable on one of the plurality of slots of the input/output base unit,
- wherein the at least one cover element has an electrical device,
- wherein the evaluation device is configured to detect, in cooperation with the electrical device of the at least one cover element, a presence of the at least one cover element at a slot of the plurality of slots in which an input/output module is not plugged,
- wherein the electrical device comprises an electronic circuit, wherein the electronic circuit has a non-volatile memory, wherein identification information identifying the at least one cover element is stored in the non-volatile memory.
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An input/output system comprising:
- an input/output base unit which has a plurality of slots into which input/output modules are pluggable;
- an evaluation device;
- and
- at least one cover element which is arrangeable on one of the plurality of slots of the input/output base unit,
- wherein the evaluation device is configured to check an occupancy of the plurality of the slots by input/output modules and a presence of the at least one cover element at a slot of the plurality of slots on a basis of configuration information.
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An input/output system comprising:
- an input/output base unit which has a plurality of slots into which input/output modules are pluggable;
- an evaluation device;
- and
- at least one cover element which is arrangeable on one of the plurality of slots of the input/output base unit,
- wherein the at least one cover element comprises a locking device,
- wherein the at least one cover element is arrangeable in a plug-in direction at an associated slot of the input/output base unit and, in an attached position, is locked to the input/output base unit by the locking device, and
- wherein the evaluation device is configured to detect a presence of the at least one cover element at a slot of the plurality of slots.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.