Electrical connectors – With provision to isolate circuitry by severance of bridging...
Patent
1994-10-07
1998-09-29
Paumen, Gary F.
Electrical connectors
With provision to isolate circuitry by severance of bridging...
439622, 257529, 257530, H01R 2900
Patent
active
058138811
ABSTRACT:
Two types of programmable elements, fuses and antifuses, are disclosed for forming an electrically programmable cable in one embodiment and a cable adapter in another embodiment. The cable and the cable adapter can be used for interconnecting a cable connector of a first configuration to a cable connector of a second configuration.
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MacPherson Alan H.
Paumen Gary F.
Prolinx Labs Corporation
Suryadevara Omkar K.
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