Front-accessible communications port for enclosed electrical equipment
AssigneeSquare D Company
InventorsRobert A. Kennedy, Gary B. Pollard, James F. Clark
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Abstract
An improved electrical equipment enclosure includes an electrical enclosure, electrical equipment in said electrical enclosure, said electrical equipment including one or more devices requiring a network connection to devices outside of said enclosure, and a network port mounted to said enclosure and accessible from externally of said enclosure and operatively coupled with said equipment requiring a network connection inside of said enclosure, for connecting said equipment with equipment outside of said enclosure.
Claims19
An electrical equipment enclosure comprising:
- an electrical enclosure having an accessible front exterior surface;
- electrical power monitoring or metering equipment mounted in said electrical enclosure;
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- a pair of Ethernet communication ports mounted to said enclosure and operatively coupled with said electrical power monitoring or metering equipment for connecting said electrical power monitoring or metering equipment with equipment outside of said enclosure, one of said ports being inaccessible from outside said enclosure when said enclosure is installed, the other of said ports being accessible from outside said enclosure when said enclosure is installed to enable coupling of said power monitoring or metering equipment inside said enclosure to an Ethernet outside said enclosure.
A method of providing a local communications connection for electrical power monitoring or metering equipment mounted inside of an electrical enclosure comprising:
- coupling said electrical power monitoring or metering equipment inside said enclosure to at least one external Ethernet outside of said enclosure through a pair of Ethernet communications ports mounted to said enclosure and operatively coupled with said electrical power monitoring or metering equipment, one of said ports being inaccessible from outside said enclosure when said enclosure is installed, the other of said ports being accessible from outside said enclosure when said enclosure is installed to enable coupling of said power monitoring or metering equipment inside said enclosure to an Ethernet outside said enclosure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.