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US 2009/0156042 A1Published application
Electrical Connecting Device Having Mating State Indication Means
AssigneeFci
InventorsJean-Pierre Radenne, Frédéric Regnier, Claude Casses, Erwan Guillanton
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Abstract
This connecting device has a connector and a counterpart connector suitable to mate therewith, and at least one RFID tag attached to one of said connectors and suitable to communicate with reader, said RFID tag including an antenna. The device further includes a switch adapted to put the RFID tag either in a first communication state or in a second communication state, depending on the full or incomplete mating state of the connectors.
Claims9
Electrical connecting device having
- a connector and a counterpart connector suitable to mate therewith, and
- at least one RFID tag attached to one of said connectors and suitable to communicate with a reader, said RFID tag comprising an antenna,
- characterized in that it further comprises switching means, adapted to put the RFID tag either in a first communication state or in a second communication state, depending on the full or incomplete mating state of the connectors.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.