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

Claim 0:
1. A zoning adapter for adapting logical addresses of valve drivers to physical addresses of valves of a valve manifold, the zoning adapter comprising:
a first end configured to receive logical addresses of a plurality of valve drivers;
a second end for connection to 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
a conversion portion that converts 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;
wherein the zoning adapter includes a card, board, ribbon cable and/or wiring harness configured to port traces from the plurality of valve drivers to traces of an interconnection board for the plurality of valves of the valve manifold.