US 10,313,141 B1 · Method and a tester for testing and verifying the conductivity of optical cable segments linked within a cascaded infrastructure of smart residences

Abstract

A method and apparatus for testing and verifying the status of cascaded optical cable segments linked to at least one of plurality of AC cascaded devices or low voltage cascaded devices each including at least one optical access and self lock keys to attach the end of at least one cut segment of the optical cable including operate keys, a touch screen, a display and indicators to provide electrician and installers a simple range of hand held testers and to identify the status and particular of defects during installations or maintenance of units of smart residence or commercial grid and beyond.

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Dependent claims

A method for verifying bidirectional optical conductivity via dual bare ends of at least one segment of optical cable terminated by a guillotine cut and drawn at least in part through at least one of alternating current (AC) and low voltage conduit by one of a pair of optical testers each includes at least one optical access with mechanical self lock key for attaching said at least one cut segment end and a single tester in combination with one end of said at least one cut segment linked to an optical access of a powered cascaded device under testing;

wherein each optical tester of said pair of optical testers and said cascaded device is self operated by a central processing unit (CPU) programmed to one of process said bidirectional optical conductivity verification by said pair of optical testers and by said optical tester and said cascaded device, said cascaded device further includes at least one start key and at least one display indicator, said method comprising the steps of:
a. Attaching dual testers to two ends of said at least one cut segment, or attaching single tester to a single end of said at least one cut segment with the other end of at least one cut segment is attached to said powered cascading device;
b. Initiating the bidirectional optical conductivity verification process by actuating the start key;
and
c. Reviewing the display indicator for one of confirmation and failure of the bidirectional optical conductivity test.

2 more elements

A tester for measuring and verifying bidirectional optical conductivity of at least one bare segment of an optical cable terminated by a guillotine cut at both said bare segment ends and drawn at least in part through one of alternating current (AC) and low voltage conduit for linking a pair of optical accesses including in a chain of optical accesses of cascading devices, said tester comprising a central processing unit (CPU), a memory, at least one bidirectional optical access and a self lock mechanical key, one of replaceable and built-in rechargeable battery and further including circuits and elements selected from a group comprising radio frequency (RF) transceiver, RF antenna, two way buffer circuit, touch screen display, control keys, setting selector, display screen and combinations thereof, and

wherein said measuring and verifying is processed and communicated between dual testers, a tester and a responder, a tester and an optical access of a cascading device within an optical grid of said optical cable and between said measuring and verifying the conductivity through one of said single cut segment and via a cascaded optical line of said cascaded optical grid with a controller of said optical grid.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Method and a tester for testing and verifying the conductivity of optical cable segments linked within a cascaded infrastructure of smart residences

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Method and a tester for testing and verifying the conductivity of optical cable segments linked within a cascaded infrastructure of smart residences

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Abstract

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