Patent ID: 11882619
Assignee: MURATA MACHINERY, LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A wireless communication system comprising:
a transmitter to wirelessly transmit an instruction; and
a receiver to control an industrial machine according to the instruction received from the transmitter; wherein
a wireless connection between the transmitter and the receiver is able to be established by being in a partner fixed state in which the receiver is fixed as a connection partner of the transmitter;
after the wireless connection is established, the partner fixed state is continued in a state in which the wireless connection is not able to be maintained before an operation to disconnect the wireless connection is performed;
after the wireless connection is not able to be maintained, the wireless connection between the transmitter and the receiver is re-established on a condition that a predetermined operation is performed on both the transmitter and the receiver which are in the partner fixed state;
when the wireless connection between the transmitter and the receiver is not able to be maintained and the partner fixed state is continued, the partner fixed state is released by performing a forced release operation to forcibly release the partner fixed state to at least one of the transmitter and the receiver; and
the forced release operation includes:
an operation to enable at least one of the transmitter and the receiver in which the partner fixed state is continued to be in a maintenance mode in which a setting about the partner fixed state is able to be performed; and
an authentication operation to input authentication information to at least one of the transmitter and the receiver.