American Power Conversion Corporation

Colin D Campbell

James Bleck

Douglas Arthur Marsden

Benjamin J Beck

James Wilson

William E Ziegler

John Carl Costello

Michael Manganese

Joseph Dechene

David G Harting

Glen Walter

Ronald R Catanzaro

Joseph J Loberti

Clinton D Veino

Youngmihn Kim

Charles J Pastorello

Olympio G Jeon-Chapman

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Electrical surge protector unit for desk top products

A power director enables a user to apply power through one or more power outlets via one or more switches to a cluster of electrical devices, for example, the components of a desk top computer system. A typical computer system may have a CPU chassis, monitor, printer, CD-ROM and a document scanner each of which may have its own power line cord. The housing of the current power director has internal storage spaces or bays for coiling the excess portions of the power cords of the various computer components to eliminate the tangled mess associated with such systems. The electrical outlets are located in a component bay within the housing separate from but adjacent to the line cord storage bay to be accessible to the plugs of the line cords of the electrical devices sought to be controlled. The component bay contains a first printed circuit board (PCB) which carries the electrical outlets and a second PCB that contains an electrical surge protection circuit, a fault isolation circuit and the switches. The first and second PCBs are initially manufactured as a single PCB having a V-shaped groove which permits the single PCB to be broken into the first and second PCB parts, by hand, prior to installation in the component bay. The power director housing is able to support the weight of a 70 pound electrical device, such as a computer monitor, on its top surface.

Power surge protector

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Groton, MA, United States of America

Colin D Campbell