Patent ID: 11874641
Assignee: PARKER-HANNIFIN CORPORATION
Field: Mechanical elements (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  F | IPC F  G

Claim 5:
6. A method of adapting logical addresses of valve drivers to physical addresses of valves of a valve manifold, comprising:
providing a zoning adapter including a card, board, ribbon cable and/or wiring harness configured to port traces from a plurality of valve drivers to traces of an interconnection board for a plurality of valves of the valve manifold;
receiving, by the zoning adapter, logical addresses of the plurality of valve drivers;
arranging, by the zoning adapter, physical addresses of valves in different zones of the valve manifold, wherein the number of physical addresses is less than the number of logical addresses; and
converting, by the zoning adapter, the logical addresses to the physical addresses of the valves in the different zones of the valve manifold with a spacing in one or more portions of the logical addresses.