US Patent Issued to FANUC on July 28 for "Master unit and communication system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,646, issued on July 28, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Master unit and communication system" was invented by Masahiro Saeki (Minamitsuru-gun, Japan), Shinichi Kuwahata (Minamitsuru-gun, Japan) and Asunaro Maeda (Minamitsuru-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A master unit for transmitting signals to devices connected to I/O units is divided into: a connector module having a first connector and a main module having a master processing circuit, a second connector, a branch terminal, and a power supply part. The second connector and the master processing circuit are connected by first connection terminals provid...