Patent ID: 8055812

Claim:
A data transmission/reception system in which a plurality of units are linked from an upstream side to a downstream side via a daisy chain type serial bus, and data signals are transmitted/received among said plurality of units, wherein said data signal comprises a transmission start code, and one or more data delimited at a bit position, which is at a predetermined basic number of bits from said transmission start code, a unit at most upstream side is a first unit, a next unit at the downstream side thereof is a second unit, and a next unit at the downstream side thereof, if one exists, is a third unit, and each unit receives data from all the units existing downstream thereof, each unit other than said first unit sends local data to the unit at the upstream side at a first delimit after sending the transmission start code to the unit at the upstream side, and if a received data signal from another unit further downstream exists, continuously sends, at a next bit position, data delimited at the next bit position from said received data signal, excluding the transmission start code, and said first unit identifies data of each unit from the received data, using the delimit based on the bit position, and wherein each unit other than said first unit comprises delimiting position change means for changing a bit position of the delimit to send the local data according to propagation delay time due to a line length of a cable connecting itself and another unit from which data is received and adding an idle time, and said first unit comprises bit position setting storage means for setting and storing a bit position of each delimit, and identifies data of each unit using the bit position of the delimit which is set by said bit position setting storage means.