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US 10,031,041 B2Granted
Rope leak sensor holder
AssigneeHewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
InventorsJohn Franz, Phi A Nguyen
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Abstract
Example implementations relate to a rope leak sensor holder segment. For example, in an implementation, a rope leak sensor holder segment includes an elongated track and a channel to accept a rope leak sensor. The rope leak sensor holder segment includes a retainer to secure the rope leak sensor within the channel.
Claims15
A rope leak sensor holder segment comprising:
- an elongated track having a first end region and a second end region;
- a channel in the track extending from the first end region to the second end region, the channel to accept a rope leak sensor;
- a retainer to secure the rope leak sensor within the channel;
- a first connector at the first end region;
- and
- a second connector at the second end region, complementary to the first connector.
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A leak sensor system comprising:
- a plurality of rope leak sensor holder segments, each rope leak sensor holder segment of the plurality including:
- an elongated track,
- a channel running lengthwise in the track, and
- retaining tabs along the track that extend at least partially across an open region of the channel,
- a rope leak sensor assembled into the channel of each rope leak sensor holder segment and retained by the retaining tabs.
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A method comprising:
- acquiring a leak sensor system that includes a rope leak sensor assembled to a plurality of rope leak sensor holder segments, each rope leak sensor holder segment of the plurality including:
- a channel extending lengthwise in an elongated track to house the rope leak sensor, and
- retaining tabs along the track extending at least partially across an open region of the channel to secure the rope leak sensor within the channel;
- orienting the leak sensor system to face the open region downward;
- feeding a lead portion of the leak sensor system into a first opening at a front side of a drain pan;
- pulling the lead portion out of a second opening at a rear side of the drain pan;
- and
- bending, after the pulling, a flexible portion of the leak sensor system around a corner of the drain pan, the flexible portion being a region of the rope leak sensor between adjacent and unconnected rope leak sensor holder segments.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.