Utilizing increasing width for identification voltages
AssigneeSiemens VDO Automotive Corporation
InventorsLou Vierling, Larry Hiltunen
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Abstract
A method and system is disclosed by which identification codes for a plurality of systems are utilized to provide a control with an indication of a particular characteristic of the particular system. The characteristic is assigned with an identifying variable, in a disclosed embodiment voltage, which increases. As this variable increases, possible errors due to system features will also increase. Thus, the possibility of the control misreading an identification code due to the error increases. To address this increasing possibility, the distance between adjacent variables also increases as the variables themselves increase. In a preferred embodiment the distance is increased proportionally.
Claims14
A system comprising:
- a component having individual characteristics which vary due;
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- said components being provided with an identification code to provide a variable identification to a control, said identification code being any one of a plurality of possible identification codes which increase in a variable, and a distance between adjacent identification codes increasing as said variable increases.
A plurality of components comprising:
- a plurality of components each having individual characteristics, said individual characteristics being assigned to a plurality of distinct types of characteristics;
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- an identification code built into each of said plurality of components, said identification code providing an indication to a control of said characteristics for each of said components, and said identification code being a variable which increases in the distance between an adjacent code as said variable increases.
A method of identifying a characteristic of a component comprising:
- evaluating a system as manufactured and identifying a characteristic of a particular component from among a plurality of possible characteristics for such components and assigning a code to said component;
- building a variable value into said component to provide a control for said component with an identification code associated with said identified characteristic;
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- wherein the distance between said variable values is caused to increase as said variable increases.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.