Linear object identification tag, and installation instrument and installation method for same, linear object with connector

• US 20060151197A1
• Filed: 03/08/2006
• Published: 07/13/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 01/18/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NTT Advanced Technology Corporation (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Advanced Technology Corporation (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Hanari, Kenichi, Kukita, Shigezo
• Application Number:
  US11/371,266
• Publication Number:
  US 20060151197A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 174/112
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 2/20 Clips, i.e. with gripping action effected solely by the inherent resistance to deformation of the material of the fastening
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/20 for adjustable, removable, or interchangeable labels
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/205 specially adapted for electric cables, pipes or the like

Abstract

The linear object identification tag 10 can be attached to and detached from a linear object 40. This tag has a clip body having a pair of clip parts 1A, 1B openably joined to a base part 6, and a holding part 8, 9 which holds the linear object 40 inside the linear object identification tag and is formed on an inner face of at least one of the clip parts 1A, 1B. Installation is thus efficiently performed by simply inserting the linear object 40 through an aperture part 7. An installation tool (FIGS. 12, 13) with guide parts (22C, 22D) for opening the clip parts (1A, 1B) as they are slid along the tool is disclosed. In another embodiment, labels (719, 720) may be applied to plugs (75) and receptacle (72) and an instrument (722) with optical readers (723, 724) used to read codes on the labels.

Claims

1-26. -26. (canceled)

27. A connector interconnection instrument for carrying out connection and disconnection of a connector to and from a connector receptacle by gripping the connector, comprising:

at least one of (i) a connector information read-write device, which carries out reading or writing of connector information to or from a label provided on the connector or on a linear object connected to the connector;

(ii) a connector receptacle information read-write device, which carries out reading or writing of the connector receptacle information to or from a label provided on the connector receptacle or on a connector receptacle board connected to the connector receptacle; and

(iii) a connector connection detecting device, which acquires connector connection presence information indicating whether or not the connector is connected to the connector receptacle; and

a communication device, which transmits and receives each of the information to a computer.

28. A connector interconnection instrument according to claim 27, wherein

the connector information read-write device is a read-write device for a color bar, a barcode, a two dimensional code, a semiconductor memory, or a wireless tag provided on the connector or on a linear object connected to the connector, and

the connector receptacle information read-write device is a read-write device for a color bar, a barcode, a two dimensional code, a semiconductor memory, or a wireless tag provided on the connector receptacle or on a connector receptacle board connected to the connector receptacle.

31. A connector interconnection instrument according to claim 27, wherein

the connector connection detecting device has a sensor which detects a mechanical, electrical or optical change which the connector interconnection instrument receives accompanying connection and disconnection of the connector.

29. (canceled)

30. (canceled)

32-38. -38. (canceled)