METHOD FOR ADDRESSING/SEQUENCING LINEARLY INTERLINKED CONTROL COMPONENTS OF A CONVEYING SYSTEM
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Abstract
Disclosed is a method for addressing/sequencing at least one control component (170 . . . 177) of a group comprising multiple control components (170 . . . 177) of a conveying system (1), said components being linearly interlinked via a daisy-chain selection line (23). The addressing process starts at any point in the chain and continues to the end of the respective branch of said chain. Subsequently, in one of the two branches the numbering of the control components (170 . . . 177) is reversed. Also disclosed is a conveying system (1) on which said method can be carried out.
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19. A method for addressing control components (170 . . . 177) of a group of multiple linearly interlinked control components (170 . . . 177) of a conveying system (1), comprising the steps
a) step-by-step addressing of control components (171 . . . 174), which are arranged from any control component (171), but not one lying at the end of the said chain, to a first end of the said chain, by means of a daisy-chain selection line (23), wherein ascending/descending addresses are allocated and/or the sequence of addresses allocated without any order is saved, b) step-by-step addressing of the control components (175 . . . 177) from the control component (175), which is arranged adjacent to the control component (171) mentioned in step a) in the direction of the second end of the said chain up to the said second end, by means of the daisy-chain selection line (23), wherein ascending/descending addresses are allocated and/or the sequence of addresses allocated without any order is saved, c1) ascending/descending addressing of the control components (171 . . . 174) addressed in step a) in a reverse sequence or c2) reversing the sequence saved in step a) and assigning the addresses (171 . . .177) allocated in step a) to the said reverse sequence and assigning the addresses (171 . . . 177) allocated in step b) to the sequence mentioned in step b).
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31. A conveying system (1) for transporting conveyed objects, for example containers, comprising
a group of multiple control components (170 . . . 177) interlinked linearly by means of a daisy-chain selection line (23) comprising means for the step-by-step addressing of control components (170 . . . 177), which are arranged from any control component (170 . . . 177), but not one lying at the end of the said chain, to a first and a second end of the said chain, by means of the daisy-chain selection line (23), means for allocating ascending/descending addresses to the step-by-step addressed control components (170 . . . 177) and/or for saving a sequence of addresses allocated without any order to the control components (170 . . . 177), means for the ascending/descending addressing of all control components (170 . . . 177) in a first branch in reverse sequence of the addresses assigned in a step-by-step addressing process or for allocating all of the assigned addresses of the first branch to a reversal of the sequence determined in a step-by-step addressing process and a second branch to the sequence determined in a step-by-step addressing process.
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