Patent ID: 9576470
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: G08C

Claim:
1. A combination of an articulated apparatus and a remote controller for controlling the articulated apparatus, comprising: said articulated apparatus comprising an actuator system which includes a linear electromechanical actuator, a power supply, and a control box with a computer, a memory, a receiver and a transmitter, said control box having a unique electronic address to uniquely identify said control box from other control boxes, and said remote controller comprising a computer, a memory, a transmitter and a receiver, said memory of said remote controller containing a previously registered electronic address, wherein said remote controller is configured, when activated by a user, to initiate an electronic pairing of said remote controller and said control box by transmitting multiple initialization requests from said remote controller to said control box wherein said initialization requests include said previously registered electronic address, said initialization requests initiating said electronic pairing of said remote controller and said control box; wherein said control box is configured, in response to said initialization request, to transmit an initialization response from said control box to said remote controller wherein said initialization response includes said unique electronic address of said control box, said electronic pairing further comprising said initialization response; wherein said remote controller is further configured, in response to said initialization response, to save said unique electronic address in said memory of said remote controller and to repeat transmission of multiple initialization requests to said control box wherein said repeated initialization requests comprise said unique electronic address, said electronic pairing further comprising said saving of said unique electronic address and said repeated initialization requests comprising said unique electronic address, and wherein said control box is further configured to determine when said unique electronic address included with said repeated initialization requests correspond to said unique electronic address of said control box and output a user-perceptible signal indicating that said remote controller and said control box have been electronically paired, and wherein as a result of said electronic pairing, said remote controller is configured to generate commands for controlling said articulated apparatus that include said unique electronic address of said control box, wherein said output signal is independent of any movements of the articulated apparatus due to commands issued by said user to operate the articulated apparatus and wherein after said activation by said user to initiate said electronic pairing, said electronic pairing proceeds without user input or intervention.