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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 14, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Richard E Benson, Jr, Mentor, OH (US);
Thomas H Burchard, Winchester, MA (US);
Youngminh Kim, Lexington, MA (US);
Donald L Oros, Gates Mills, OH (US);
David S Priscak, Lakewood, OH (US);
Arthur Rousmaniere, Andover, MA (US);
Assignee:
Elsag International N.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05K / ; H05K / ; H05K / ; H05K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
361724 ; 361724 ; 361725 ; 361726 ; 361727 ; 361731 ; 361760 ; 361788 ; 361686 ; 361629 ; 361636 ; 4399241 ; 3122232 ;
Abstract
A unique cabinet mounted I/O assembly adapted for integration into a control system which allows a block I/O assembly to be mounted in both sides of the cabinet allowing a blind fit of power and signal connections insuring that power will be provided to the block I/O assembly before any application of signals thereto. and preventing any mismatching of I/O units to wrong processor blocks in the cabinet by a color matching scheme.