Wall plate adapter for coupling home network control signals...

Details Wall plate adapter for coupling home network control signals... Wall plate adapter for coupling home network control signals...

2007-07-24

2007-07-24

Estrada, Angel R. (Department: 2831)

Electricity: conductors and insulators

Covers or face plates

C174S067000, C220S241000, C220S242000, C439S502000, C439S536000

Reexamination Certificate

active

11051076

ABSTRACT:
A wall plate adapter for coupling home network control signals to AC power wiring, where the wall plate adapter includes built-in signaling circuitry. The wall plate adapter includes a plate with a receptacle face with slots that are aligned with slots of an underlying AC receptacle. When prongs of a plug are inserted into the slots of the wall plate adapter, they touch contacts that are located in the slots of the receptacle face. The contacts are, in turn, coupled to the signaling circuitry, which may be located in an enlarged region of the wall plate. The signaling circuitry is only coupled to the AC power when a plug is inserted. The plug may be coupled to a transformer and a network device.

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Data sheet, Power Sentry Wall Plate Surge Protector, Fiskars Consumer Products, Inc., 1 p., Jan. 2002.

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