Patent ID: 9334128
Filing Date: 2016-05-10
CPC Classification: B65G,B66C,F04F,F15B,H04L,Y10T

Claim Text:
1. A set of at least two vacuum generator modules, each module comprising a body housing: pneumatic vacuum generator means and their channels for connection to an admission orifice for admitting a gas under pressure, to a gas exhaust orifice, and to a suction orifice, each orifice opening to the outside via portions of the surface of the body; and electronic means for controlling and monitoring the operation of the pneumatic means and their electrical connections with an electrical power supply and external control members using a defined program, including two connectors, one being an input connector, and the other being an output connector likewise installed at the surface of the body; wherein: a first module is a master module that includes a microcontroller adapted to the communications protocol firstly of a fieldbus present in a vacuum handling machine incorporating the first module, and secondly of a bus that is dedicated to the other modules; and each of the other modules is a slave module including a microcontroller adapted to the communications protocol of the dedicated bus.