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US 6,320,927 B1Granted
Electronic counter
AssigneeKoyo Electronics Industries Co., Ltd.
InventorsYoshihiro Endo, Yuichi Hoshino
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Abstract
It is an object of the present invention to make it possible to optionally configure various types of electronic counters. Therefore, the present invention is provided with a one-chip microcomputer 12 having a built-in ROM 13 and RAM 14 to write data corresponding to a variable on a program input through a communication port 10 and an interface 11 in the RAM 14.
Claims5
An electronic counter, comprising:
- an input circuit to which a pulse is input;
- an output circuit for outputting a signal;
- a communication port and an interface;
- a RAM;
- a ROM;
- and a CPU, wherein:
- a program for realizing a counter or timer function is written in the ROM;
- and
- the CPU writes the data corresponding to a variable on the program input through the communication port and interface in the RAM to realize a counter or timer function corresponding to the data by executing the program in accordance with the data.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.