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US 8,552,876 B2Granted
Intelligent wire connectors
AssigneeThe Patent Store LLC
InventorLloyd Herbert King, Jr.
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Abstract
An intelligent wire connector carrying a microprocessor for transmitting information and/or sensing conditions proximate the wire connector wherein information from the microprocessor may be transmitted to a remote location in either a wireless mode or indirectly through an electrical wire, which is secured in the wire connector.
Claims8
An twist-on wire connector for joining electrical wires into an electrical connection therein comprising:
- an electrically insulated housing having a closed end and an open end;
- a spiral coil for maintaining an electrical wire in electrical contact within the insulated housing;
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- an information device comprising a microprocessor carried by said twist-on wire connector, said microprocessor having a transmitter operable to transmit dynamic information generated by a sensor to a location remote from the twist-on wire connector either periodically, continually or in response to a signal external to the twist-on wire connector, said sensor is integral to the microprocessor and the transmitter is a wireless transmitter;
- a looped coil for inductively powering the microprocessor from an internal ac current carried by the electrical wire secured in the twist-on wire connector wherein the microprocessor is shielded from the internal ac current by the electrically insulated housing of said twist-on wire connector.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.