US 11,782,862 B2
Method of assigning addresses to bus participants
Johannes Kempf, Klingenberg am Main (DE); François Gorisse, Mougins (FR); and Maxime Sobocinski, Le Golfe Juan (FR)
Assigned to Schneider Electric Industries SAS, Rueil-Malmaison (FR)
Filed by Schneider Electric Industries SAS, Rueil-Malmaison (FR)
Filed on Mar. 18, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/205,003.
Claims priority of application No. 20164142 (EP), filed on Mar. 19, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0294771 A1, Sep. 23, 2021
Int. Cl. G06F 13/40 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 13/4068 (2013.01) [G06F 13/409 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of assigning addresses to bus participants connected to a data bus, in which
the bus participants are electrically coupled to a respective base plate, with the base plates each comprising an electrical test element;
the base plates are electrically connected along a row to their adjacent base plates;
a central unit is connected to a test circuit;
a test current is impressed into the test circuit;
at least one bus participant makes a change to the test circuit;
the change of the test circuit is measured by means of the central unit; and
the method comprising:
determining, by means of the central unit and based on the change of the test circuit, a position of the bus participant making the change or of a bus participant without a bus address and assigning a bus address to the bus participant making the change or to the bus participant without a bus address,
wherein the bus participants are also mechanically coupled to the respective base plate.