Plug protector
AssigneeDonald E. Hodge
InventorsDonald E. Hodge, Raymond A. Loturco
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Abstract
A terminal connector or plug protector is selectively configurable for coupling or coupling and protecting an electronic communication circuit to a communication line. The plug protector has a housing and a circuit board which is received in the housing. The circuit board has thereon a circuit which includes a plurality of circuit elements removably received in the circuit board. The circuit is coupled to the communication circuit and to the communication line with the circuit elements coupled therebetween. The circuit elements are selected from among a plurality of circuit element types, i.e., jumper wires, solid state voltage suppressors, and fuses, to configure the plug protector for the selected coupling or coupling and protecting.
Claims26
A selectively configurable terminal connector for coupling or coupling and protecting, as selected, tip and ring circuits of an electronic communication circuit to tip and ring wires of a communication line, comprising a housing, a circuit board received in the housing, the circuit board having thereon a circuit including a plurality of circuit elements removably received in the circuit board, means for coupling the circuit to the tip and ring circuits of the electronic communication circuit and to the tip and ring wires of the communication line wherein the circuit couples or couples and protects, as selected, the communication line to the communication circuit, the circuit elements received in the circuit board selectable from among a plurality of circuit element types to configure the terminal connector for the selected coupling or protecting and coupling, and the circuit has at least one of the removable circuit elements couples in series between the tip circuit and tip wire and at least one of the removable circuit elements coupled in series between the ring circuit and ring wire.
A selectably configurable terminal connector for a telecommunication system which has a frame and a switch, the frame having terminals at which tip and ring wires of communication lines are terminated and terminals at which tip and ring circuits of communication circuits in the switch are terminated, the terminal connector comprising:
- a housing having a base removably mounted thereto which has a plurality of terminals extending therefrom which mate with the tip and ring wire frame terminals of a communication line and the tip and ring circuit frame terminals of a communication circuit corresponding to the communication line;
- the housing including a cover which snaps open and closed and secures the base to the housing when closed;
- a circuit board received in the housing having a circuit, means for coupling the circuit board circuit to the base's terminals, the circuit including a plurality of circuit elements removably received in the circuit board wherein the base's terminal which mates with the frame's tip wire terminal is coupled to the base's terminal which mates with the frame's tip circuit terminal by at least one of the circuit elements and the base's terminal which mates with the frame's ring wire terminal is coupled to the base's terminal which mates with the frame's ring circuit terminal by at least one of the circuit elements;
- the circuit elements selectable from a plurality of circuit element types to configure the type of electrical protection provided by the terminal connector;
- the base selectable from among a plurality of bases having different configurations of terminals extending therefrom.
A selectably configurable terminal connector for a telecommunication system which has a frame, communication lines, and a switch, the frame having terminals at which communication lines are terminated and terminals at which communication circuits of the switch are terminated, the terminal connector comprising, a housing having a base removably mounted thereto which has a plurality of terminals extending therefrom which mate with corresponding terminals of the frame, an electrical circuit received within the housing having inputs coupled to the terminals of the base and outputs corresponding to the inputs, and means for coupling the inputs of the circuit to their corresponding outputs, the base selectable from among a plurality of bases having different configurations of terminals extending therefrom.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.