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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2004
John Paul Schofield, Iii, Washington, IN (US);
Dennis George Jones, Bloomington, IN (US);
Mark G. Taylor, North Huntingdon, PA (US);
Leonard J. Mayotte, White Oak, PA (US);
John Paul Schofield, III, Washington, IN (US);
Dennis George Jones, Bloomington, IN (US);
Mark G. Taylor, North Huntingdon, PA (US);
Leonard J. Mayotte, White Oak, PA (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Department of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
The present invention can be generally described as a backplane test device that provides the possible flexibility of being operationally resident on a standard card form factor, and thereby, potentially able to provide a testing capability that does not require the use of hardware or software not residing on the card form factor. Moveover, since the test device may be operationally inserted into a backplane, the present invention may be effectively used in a variety of environments including, but not limited to, those constrained by space considerations, and/or to those that are subject to vibrations due to their operational nature. This may provide a technician with greater flexibility, and could possibly allow a backplane to be tested, and possibly repaired, while the platform is operational.