Patent ID: 7504600

Claim:
A control assembly comprising: a plurality of switching modules, each of said plurality of switching modules having its own identifier; a microcontroller accommodated on a motherboard, said microcontroller capable of being connected to one or more of each of said plurality of switching modules, with said microcontroller used to interpret a switching state as a function of the identifier of the module; wherein the motherboard comprises several edge connectors with each of said edge connectors having an identical number of predefined connecting channels and each of said edge connectors capable of receiving at least a corresponding one of the plurality of switching modules; and wherein each of said plurality of switching modules is provided having an identical number of predefined channels for connecting to associated ones of the predefined channels on the motherboard; and wherein the equivalent output channels of each of said plurality of switching modules are interconnected on the same input of the microcontroller; and wherein each edge connector includes corresponding activation means for activating the reading of a switching state of a switching module coupled thereto; and wherein said activation means are driven by said microcontroller.