Telephone line testing device
AssigneeWestek Electronics, Inc.
InventorKevin B. Larkin
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Abstract
A telephone line tester includes a pin socket connector, a modular jack connector and a plurality of lines out. The telephone line tester can be connected to a telephone line at a modular jack interface, and alternatively, at a pin socket interface. Testing can be performed by accessing signals of the telephone line through the plurality of lines out. Testing can also be performed by accessing signals of the telephone line through the modular jack connector.
Claims11
A telephone line tester comprising:
- a pin socket connector comprising a plurality of contacts which are configured to provide for pin socket interfacing with a plurality of wires of a telephone line;
- a plurality of lines out, such that each line out is respectively connected to a contact of the pin socket connector;
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- a modular jack interface, comprising a plurality of contacts which are configured to provide for modular jack interfacing with a telephone line, with each contact of the modular jack connector respectively connected to a contact of the pin socket connector.
A telephone line tester comprising:
- a five pin connector comprising a tip in pin, tip out pin, ring in pin, ring out pin and ground pin which are configured to provide for pin socket interfacing with a five socket connector of a connector block;
- a plurality of lines out, such that each line out is respectively connected to a contact of the pin socket connector;
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- a modular jack interface, comprising a plurality of contacts which are configured to provide for modular jack interfacing with a telephone line, with each contact of the modular jack connector respectively connected to a contact of the pin socket connector;
- an elongated housing so that the pin socket connector is disposed at one end of the housing, the modular jack interface is disposed at the other end of the housing, and the lines out are formed as clip compatible ears which are disposed along the elongated portion of the housing;
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- a cap which is formed with a cap modular jack connector and a cap five socket connector, with the five sockets of the call socket connector being configured as the as the sockets of a socket connector of a connector block, and with the cap five socket connector being detachably mateable with the pin socket connector disposed on the housing.
A method of testing a telephone line in the vicinity of a connector block having a socket connector for the telephone line with a fuse plugged into it, the method comprising the steps of:
- providing a telephone line tester which includes:
- a pin connector comprising a plurality of pins which are configured to be connected with the socket connector of the connector block;
- a plurality of lines out, such that each line out is respectively connected to a pin of the pin connector;
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- a modular jack interface, comprising a plurality of contacts
- which are configured to provide for modular jack interfacing with a telephone line, with each contact of the modular jack connector respectively connected to a pin of the pin connector;
- removing the fuse from the socket connector of the connector block;
- plugging the pin connector of the telephone line tester into the socket connector of the connector block;
- and
- testing the telephone line using the lines out of the telephone line tester .
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.