Patent ID: 7659832
Filing Date: 2010-02-09
Classification: F15B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An electrically controlled actuating apparatus, comprising: an actuating element having a mounting flange; a machine flange configured to overlie and be interconnected with said mounting flange; a control subsystem for controlling said actuating element; a plurality of electric switches mounted on said mounting flange in a predetermined geometric pattern, and wherein each switch is arranged in an electric circuit that connects to said control subsystem; and at least one carrier attached to said machine flange that mounts closing elements in a geometric arrangement that is characteristic of said actuating element and assigned thereto, wherein when said machine flange and said mounting flange are interconnected, the switches can be actuated by said closing elements arranged in said at least one carrier, wherein said plurality of electric switches are reed contacts and said closing elements are magnets, wherein all predetermined selections of positions for the predetermined geometric pattern are stored in a central control system and associated with a respective one of the actuating elements, wherein the central control system is serially connected to the control subsystems, wherein the respective geometric arrangement of said at least one carrier of said plurality of actuating elements derived therefrom is signaled to said central control system and stored; wherein said actuation commands are transmitted in series from said central control system to said plurality of control subsystems; wherein a memory of a control subsystem stores respective code words associated with the possible positions; and wherein each of said plurality of control subsystems has the respective arrangement of said at least one carrier of the addressed actuating element derived therefrom, and wherein only the control subsystem that has the transmitted arrangement of positions of said at least one carrier converts the commands for actuating said actuating element associated with the transmitted arrangement of positions by comparing in a comparison operation the transmitted arrangement of positions to the stored positions and calling up the associated code word.