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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2009
Scott D. Thompson, State College, PA (US);
David E. Young, Pennsylvania Furnace, PA (US);
Scott D. Thompson, State College, PA (US);
David E. Young, Pennsylvania Furnace, PA (US);
Oberon, Inc., State College, PA (US);
Abstract
A POE tapping device for extracting power from a data cable. The POE tapping device includes an input connector, an output connector, a flow through connection, a bridge circuit, and a remote accessory connector. The flow through connection is between the input connector and the output connector, such that there is a direct feed from the first data cable to the second data cable. The bridge circuit is connected to the flow through connection to tap electrical current from the flow through connection, where the bridge circuit has a positive output and negative output to provide electrical current. The remote accessory connector is to be connected to a remote accessory, where the remote accessory connector is connected to the positive output and the negative output of the bridge circuit to receive electrical current from the bridge circuit that was tapped from the flow through connection.