Patents Assigned to Crydom Corporation
  • Addressable intelligent relay
    Patent number: 6360277
    Abstract: An addressable process control relay comprises a solid-state relay with an embedded network client. Such client is basically hardware compatible with the physical layer interfaces of a general class of serial networks, and has a variety of down-loadable or embedded protocol personalities that can respond to a particular proprietary network. Such protocol personalities are preferred to include: Fieldbus, process field bus (PROFIBUS), Seriplex, smart distributed system (SDS), DeviceNet, controller area network (CAN), etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2002
    Assignee: Crydom Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin Ruckley, Jorge Cooley