Utilizing increasing width for identification voltages
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1. A system comprising:
- a component having individual characteristics which vary due to manufacturing tolerances; and
said component being provided with an identification code to provide a variable identification to a control, said identification code being an electric signal of a strength associated with any one of a plurality of possible identification codes which increase in strength, and a distance between signals associated with adjacent identification codes increasing as said strength increases.
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Abstract
A method and system is disclosed by which identification codes for a plurality of systems are utilized to provide a control with an indication of a particular characteristic of the particular system. The characteristic is assigned with an identifying variable, in a disclosed embodiment voltage, which increases. As this variable increases, possible errors due to system features will also increase. Thus, the possibility of the control misreading an identification code due to the error increases. To address this increasing possibility, the distance between adjacent variables also increases as the variables themselves increase. In a preferred embodiment the distance is increased proportionally.
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1. A system comprising:
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a component having individual characteristics which vary due to manufacturing tolerances; and
said component being provided with an identification code to provide a variable identification to a control, said identification code being an electric signal of a strength associated with any one of a plurality of possible identification codes which increase in strength, and a distance between signals associated with adjacent identification codes increasing as said strength increases. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A system comprising:
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a plurality of components each having individual characteristics, said individual characteristics being assigned to a plurality of distinct types of characteristics; and
an identification code built into each of said plurality of components, said identification code providing an indication to a control of said characteristics for each of said components, and said identification code being a variable which increases in distance between an adjacent code as said variable increases. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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