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US 8,264,852 B2Granted
Pluggable bases with different levels of redundancy and method for same
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsMatthew Allen Nelson, Erik Dylan Evans, Brandon James Rank, Michael Alan Tart
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Abstract
Apparatus includes a plurality of terminal base assemblies each having at least one module, at least some of the plurality of terminal base assemblies having varying levels of redundancy in the at least one module, the plurality of terminal base assemblies being connected together by circuitry within each of the plurality of terminal base assemblies.
Claims16
An apparatus, comprising:
- a plurality of terminal base assemblies each having at least one module, at least some of the plurality of terminal base assemblies having varying levels of redundancy in the at least one module, the plurality of terminal base assemblies being connected together by circuitry within each of the plurality of terminal base assemblies,
- communications signals are configured to rotate among the plurality of terminal base assemblies in response to the at least one module being disposed in one of the plurality of terminal base assemblies as a controller;
- the plurality of terminal base assemblies being connected together by communication signals within each of the plurality of terminal base assemblies;
- wherein some of the communication signals are driven by only one of the at least one module, thereby providing unique ones of the communication signals to each of the at least one module.
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A method, comprising:
- providing a plurality of terminal base assemblies each having at least one module, at least some of the plurality of terminal base assemblies having varying levels of redundancy in the at least one module;
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- connecting together the plurality of terminal base assemblies together by circuitry within each of the plurality of terminal base assemblies, and communications signals are configured to rotate among the plurality of terminal base assemblies in response to the at least one module being disposed in one of the plurality of terminal base assemblies as a controller;
- connecting together the plurality of terminal base assemblies comprises connecting together communication signals within the plurality of terminal base assemblies, and
- further comprising driving some of the communication signals by only one of the at least one module, thereby providing unique ones of the communication signals to each of the at least one module.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.