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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:
Dec. 24, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 14, 1999
Scott J. Hadderman, Pleasant Valley, NY (US);
William F. Relyea, Staatsburg, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An exemplary embodiment of the invention is an interconnection system including a primary connector having a first detection contact coupled to a first voltage, a second detection contact coupled to said first voltage and a reference contact coupled to a second voltage. The interconnection system includes a secondary connector having a first contact, a second contact and a secondary reference contact. The second contact and secondary reference contact are electrically connected. The first contact makes electrical connection with the first detection contact, the second contact makes electrical connection with the second detection contact and the secondary reference contact makes electrical connection with the reference contact. When the second detection contact makes electrical connection with the second contact, the second detection contact is connected to the second voltage.