Patent ID: 6970096

Claim:
A transmitter used for a remote-control system, the system being capable of separately controlling a plurality of drives, the transmitter comprising: an input unit for accepting identification information of one of a plurality of possibilities for transmission to and storage in a drive of the plurality of drives, command information for effecting rewriting of the identification information in the, and drive control information for operating the drive; a data generation device for alternatively generating operating data including the identification information and the drive control information for controlling operations of the drive or rewriting data including the identification information for changing the identification information for the drive in accordance with operations of the input unit performed by a user and the command information; a transmission device including a first transmission section and a second transmission section whose transmission-destination areas are different from each other and capable of transmitting the data generated through the data generation device from the first and second transmission sections; and a transmission-section change device for setting which of the first and second transmission sections from which the data is transmitted in accordance with whether the operating data or the rewriting data is generated by the data generation device so that the operating data for controlling operations of the drive will be transmitted from the first transmission section and the rewriting data for changing the identification information for the drive will be transmitted from the second transmission section.