Electricity: electrical systems and devices – Housing or mounting assemblies with diverse electrical... – For electrical power distribution systems and devices
Patent
1995-07-20
1997-01-21
Thompson, Gregory D.
Electricity: electrical systems and devices
Housing or mounting assemblies with diverse electrical...
For electrical power distribution systems and devices
307150, 361736, 361826, 361828, 439 4, 439501, H02B 104
Patent
active
055964796
ABSTRACT:
A power director enables a user to apply power through one or more power outlets via one or more switches to a cluster of electrical devices, for example, the components of a desk top computer system. A typical computer system may have a CPU chassis, monitor, printer, CD-ROM and a document scanner each of which may have its own power line cord. The housing of the current power director has internal storage spaces or bays for coiling the excess portions of the power cords of the various computer components to eliminate the tangled mess associated with such systems. The electrical outlets are located in a component bay within the housing separate from but adjacent to the line cord storage bay to be accessible to the plugs of the line cords of the electrical devices sought to be controlled. The component bay contains a first printed circuit board (PCB) which carries the electrical outlets and a second PCB that contains an electrical surge protection circuit, a fault isolation circuit and the switches. The first and second PCBs are initially manufactured as a single PCB having a V-shaped groove which permits the single PCB to be broken into the first and second PCB parts, by hand, prior to installation in the component bay. The power director housing is able to support the weight of a 70 pound electrical device, such as a computer monitor, on its top surface.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4731029 (1988-03-01), Lerner et al.
patent: 4944694 (1990-07-01), Dorn
Bleck James H.
Campbell Colin D.
American Power Conversion Corporation
Thompson Gregory D.
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