Electronic component and the method of using it
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1. An electronic device equipped with a plurality of substrates, comprising:
- a base substrate which has a connection part and shared wiring connected to the connection part;
an attaching substrate which has a special circuit in accordance with a function thereof and which is attached to the connection part so as to connect the special circuit with the shared wiring; and
a control circuit which is mounted on either the base substrate or the attaching substrate, and which is connected to the shared wiring, wherein the control circuit discriminates the attaching substrate attached to the connection part of the base substrate, thereby making the electronic device operate as a required model out of a plurality of models.
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Abstract
Module substrates each having the functions of input, power supply, and output/communication corresponding to the required model are attached to a base substrate having shared bus wiring. Thus, a main CPU of an input module can discriminate the respective module substrates to perform the control operation corresponding to the model, thereby sharing the module substrates among different models.
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1. An electronic device equipped with a plurality of substrates, comprising:
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a base substrate which has a connection part and shared wiring connected to the connection part;
an attaching substrate which has a special circuit in accordance with a function thereof and which is attached to the connection part so as to connect the special circuit with the shared wiring; and
a control circuit which is mounted on either the base substrate or the attaching substrate, and which is connected to the shared wiring, wherein the control circuit discriminates the attaching substrate attached to the connection part of the base substrate, thereby making the electronic device operate as a required model out of a plurality of models. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. An electronic device equipped with a plurality of substrates, comprising:
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a base substrate which has a plurality of connectors and shared wiring connected to the connectors;
a plurality of attaching substrates which have respective special circuits in accordance with functions thereof and which are detachably attached to the connectors so as to connect the special circuits with the shared wiring; and
a control circuit which is mounted on either the base substrate or the attaching substrates, and which is connected to the shared wiring, wherein the control circuit discriminates the attaching substrates attached to the connectors of the base substrate, thereby making the electronic device perform temperature regulating operation as a required model out of a plurality of models. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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9. An electronic device equipped with a plurality of substrates, comprising:
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a base substrate which has a plurality of connectors and shared wiring connected to the connectors;
a plurality of attaching substrates which have respective special circuits in accordance with functions thereof and which are detachably attached to the connectors so as to connect the special circuits with the shared wiring; and
a control circuit which is mounted on either the base substrate or the attaching substrates, and which is connected to the shared wiring, wherein the control circuit discriminates the attaching substrates attached to the connectors of the base substrate, thereby making the electronic device perform measurement processing operation as a required model out of a plurality of models.
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16. A method for using an electronic device comprising:
- a base substrate which has a connection part and shared wiring connected to the connection part;
an attaching substrate which has a special circuit in accordance with a function thereof and which is attached to the connection part so as to connect the special circuit with the shared wiring; and
a control circuit which is mounted on either the base substrate or the attaching substrate, and which is connected to the shared wiring, the control circuit discriminating the attaching substrate attached to the connection part of the base substrate, thereby making the electronic device operate as a required model out of a plurality of models, the method comprising the steps of;
selecting the attaching substrate from a plurality of attaching substrates having different functions from each other; and
attaching the selected attaching substrate to the connection part of the base substrate so as to use the electronic device as the required model.
- a base substrate which has a connection part and shared wiring connected to the connection part;
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