Cisco Technology, Inc.

Abb Power Td & Company

Robert Arthur Loose

Phong Hoang Ho

Helen Shtargot

Dattatri N Mattur

John T Chapman

Torence Lu

Shawn Emory Bender

David Phillip Tarkington

Stephen A Scearce

Ming Chi Chen

William Jeffrey Lewis

Lwin O Tint

James Everett Grishaw

Scott A Eastman

Rene Duzac

William H Schenk

Kimberly Rae Turner

Mark L Munday

Terri LaBelle Cruse

Sean P Ryan

William P Doby

An apparatus for connecting a router blade to a router chassis is provided. The apparatus includes an engagement portion; a first side portion coupled with the engagement portion; and a second side portion coupled with the engagement portion. The engagement portion includes a connector system that is operable to couple a router blade with a router chassis. The first side portion is operable to engage the router blade and the router chassis. The second side portion is operable to engage a router blade and the router chassis. The engagement portion, first side portion, and second side portion are sized to engage the router chassis and receive the router blade.

Adaptor for a router blade

A network device includes card slots and Network Module slots that be reconfigured to hold cards and network modules having different form factors.

Slot adapter for reconfiguring slots in a network device

A router includes WIC and Network Module slots that be reconfigured to hold cards and network modules having different form factors. A motherboard/midplane arrangement provides for a field replaceable motherboard that can be replaced without removing the router from the rack.

Router with field replaceable motherboard

A card-receiving connector includes a legacy connector part and an additional connector part that facilitates plugging in cards having improved functionality while also allowing legacy cards to be plugged in. In one embodiment, the legacy part includes signal, power, and supply contacts required by a legacy card and includes power and supply contacts required by an improved card in an extension part. A legacy card can be connected to the legacy part without interference from the extension part to facilitate backward compatibility with the legacy card.

Connector assembly including legacy and extension parts that maintains backward compatibility

A fluid containment fence apparatus provides a border around the perimeter of an area to be potted on one or both sides of a circuit board. First, or first and second (top and bottom), containment walls are secured in place using interlocking elements integral to the walls such that no external fasteners are needed. The interlocking elements permit snug adhesion of the fence to the board even when the board has variations in thickness. The interlocking elements extend through and interlock through engagement with another fence or the board. The size of the holes is minimized. As a result, a minimum amount of board space is occupied by the fence, and the overall size of the board is maintained.

Circuit card with potting containment fence apparatus

A fluid containment fence apparatus provides a border around the perimeter of an area to be potted on one or both sides of the board. First, or first and second and second (top and bottom), containment walls are secured in place using interlocking elements integral to the walls such that no external fasteners are needed. The interlocking elements permit snug adhesion of the fence to the board even when the board has variations in thickness. The interlocking elements extend through and interlock through engagement with another fence or the board. The size of the holes is minimized. As a result, a minimum amount of board space is occupied by the fence, and the overall size of the board is maintained. A potting fluid containment fence for a board having components to be encased in a potting fluid includes a first wall. The components to be encased are arranged on an upper face of the board, at least. The first wall has segments that form a closed first polygon and a protrusion for engaging a corresponding hole on the upper face of the board. The protrusion is on a lower face of the first wall. The first wall is formed of material which is rigid before the protrusion is engaged in the corresponding hole.

Containment fence apparatus and potting method

An electrical cable includes a connector that contains an electrically conductive shunt. The shunt includes multiple electrically conductive clips that shunt selected wires in the connector together. The chips are removable so that different combinations of wires can be shunted together. The clips each comprise a pair of vertically aligned fingers extending perpendicularly from a top surface of a mounting plate. The fingers on each clip include oppositely aligned tapered top ends forming a wide opening for receiving the cable wire. The clips extend longitudinally along an entire front end and longitudinally along an entire rear end of the mounting plate. The clips on the front end of the shunt are offset from the clips in the rear end so that each clip aligns with only one wire in the connector.

Configurable electrical shunt for a computer cable

An electric utility meter composed of: a chassis assembly (2) having elements (4) for connecting the meter between a source of electrical power and a consumer of the electrical power; a signal generating unit (30) carried by the chassis assembly (2) and electrically coupled to the elements (4) for connecting for providing a signal which is a function of the energy being supplied to the consumer, the signal generating unit including a first electrical connector (34) to which the signal is supplied; a front plate member (16,20) carried by the chassis assembly (2) and bearing legible information (48) identifying the meter; circuitry (100) for deriving information relating to the rate at which energy is being supplied to the consumer; an electrical signal conductor (72) connected to the circuitry (100) and having a second electrical connector (70) coupled to the first electrical connector (34) for supplying the signal to the circuitry (100); and an electrically actuated numeric display device (81) electrically connected to the circuitry (100) for displaying the information derived by the circuitry (100), wherein the circuitry (100), the electrical signal conductor (72), and the display device (81) form a plug-in module which is removably inserted into the chassis assembly (2) behind the plate member so that the legible information is not obscured by the module, and the first and second electrical connectors (34,70) are disposed to become coupled together as a result of insertion of the module into the chassis assembly (2).

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Cary, NC, United States of America

Robert Arthur Loose