Conduit identification system
AssigneeIndiana University Research and Technology Corporation
InventorsJoseph Campbell, Wayman Brown, Kyung-Hoon Bang, Rory Bonte, Mohammed Aldawsari, John Finnell
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Abstract
An identifier for a conduit includes a substrate having a pair of apertures. The substrate further contains a frangible portion encompassing one of the apertures and having a shape that corresponds to an opening left in the substrate after removal of the frangible portion. The identifier enables the shape of the frangible portion to be correlated with the shape of the opening left in the substrate after the frangible portion is separated from the substrate.
Claims20
An identifier for a conduit comprising:
- a substrate having a pair of apertures, each aperture being configured to receive a conduit having a predetermined perimeter;
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- a frangible portion of the substrate encompassing one of the apertures in the substrate, the frangible portion having a shape that corresponds to an opening left in the substrate by separation of the frangible portion from the substrate.
A set of identifiers comprising:
- a substrate having a first tag and a second tag;
- the first tag having:
- a first pair of apertures, each aperture of the first pair of apertures being configured to receive a conduit having a predetermined perimeter, and
- a first frangible portion of the substrate encompassing a first aperture of the first pair of apertures, the first frangible portion having a first shape that corresponds to a first opening left in the first tag by separation of the first frangible portion from the first tag;
- the second tag having:
- a second pair of apertures, each aperture of the second pair of apertures being configured to receive the conduit having the predetermined perimeter, and
- a second frangible portion of the substrate encompassing a first aperture of the second pair of apertures, the second frangible portion having a second shape that corresponds to a second opening left in the second tag by separation of the second frangible portion from the second tag;
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- the first shape being different from the second shape.
A set of identifiers comprising:
- a plurality of tags formed within a substrate, each tag being configured for separation from other tags in the plurality of tags, each tag in the plurality of tags comprising:
- a pair of apertures formed in the substrate, each aperture of the pair of apertures being configured to receive a conduit having a predetermined perimeter;
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- a frangible portion encompassing a first aperture of the pair of apertures in the substrate, the frangible portion having a shape that corresponds to an opening left in the substrate of the tag by separation of the frangible portion from the substrate of the tag.
A method of identifying a conduit comprising:
- separating a frangible portion of an identifier tag having a pair of apertures from a remaining portion of the identifier tag, the frangible portion including a first aperture of the pair of apertures and the remaining portion including the remaining aperture in the pair of apertures;
- receiving a conduit having a predetermined perimeter in the first aperture of the frangible portion at a first location of the conduit;
- receiving the conduit in the remaining aperture of the remaining portion at a second location of the conduit;
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- identifying the tube at the first location and the second location by correlating a shape of the frangible portion of the identifier tag with an opening left in the remaining portion left by separation of the frangible portion of the identifier tag.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.