ELECTRIC APPARATUS CONTROL SYSTEM

• Main Author: ISHITA HIROYUKI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 09.05.2013
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHTING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ELECTRICITY; SELECTING

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electric apparatus control system used for a plurality of electric apparatuses each having an identification code for identifying itself, which is capable of automatically detecting overlapping identification codes without manual operation, and also capable of automatically eliminating such overlapping codes.SOLUTION: Each of a plurality of lighting devices 30 sends, as a first lighting device, an ID overlapping check request to other lighting devices 30. If one of the lighting devices 30 has an ID that matches the ID sent from the first lighting devices, then it sends, as a lighting device of a master unit, a setting request signal to other lighting devices 30 of a slave unit to request the generation of new IDs. The lighting devices 30 of the slave unit each generate an ID and sends it to the lighting device of the master unit. The lighting device 30 of the master unit receives the IDs and sends, if no overlapping ones are found in the received IDs, a setting signal for setting the use of the IDs to the lighting devices 30 of the slave unit.