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US 2019/0129391 A1Published application
Slave device, master device, and industrial network system
AssigneeOMRON Corporation
InventorsZiqiang XU, Junji SHIMAMURA, Hirohito MIZUMOTO
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Abstract
To reduce the working hours of a user in an operation and improve an operation rate in an industrial network system. A communication setting change part is provided which automatically changes, in a timing of an end effector replacement, the communication setting in a communication part according to the communication information that corresponds to an end effector.
Claims13
A slave device, which is related to an end effector replacement in which an end effector before replacement is removed from the slave device and an end effector after replacement is mounted on the slave device, comprising:
- a communication part, which communicates with the end effector after replacement mounted on the slave device after the end effector replacement;
- a storage part, which stores, with regard to each of a plurality of attachable end effectors that are attachable to the slave device, communication information related to a communication form between the slave device and the attachable end effector;
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- a communication setting change part, which automatically changes the communication setting in the communication part according to the communication information which corresponds to the end effector after replacement in a timing of the end effector replacement when the end effector after replacement is one of the plurality of attachable end effectors.
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