US Patent Issued to Delta Electronics on Dec. 23 for "Method of cable redundacy and distributed clock synchronization based on ethercat and master device thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,683, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Delta Electronics Inc. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Method of cable redundacy and distributed clock synchronization based on ethercat and master device thereof" was invented by Yu Hsin Chang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Yu Min Chou (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Po Yuan Yang (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Yu Liang Chen (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the initial phase, the master device is configured to disable the connection between the junction device and the last slave device before performing the EtherCAT distributed clock synchronization procedure. After completion, the connection between the junction device a...