CONVERTER AND PROGRAM

• US 20130210249A1
• Filed: 02/06/2013
• Published: 08/15/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/13/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Takemura, Kazuyoshi, Hayashi, Kuniya, Washiro, Takanori, Soma, Isao, Tanaka, Kayoko, Sako, Yoichiro, Serita, Kazutoshi, Higano, Satoshi
• Application Number:
  US13/760,382
• Publication Number:
  US 20130210249A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 439/170
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 1/01 electric
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 2203/5441 Wireless systems or telephone
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 2203/5445 Local network
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 2203/5454 Adapter and plugs
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 3/54 Systems for transmission via power distribution lines

Abstract

There is provided a converter including a connecting terminal connectable to a connecting device, a communicating unit capable of carrying out communication, and a communication restricting unit configured to restrict the communication carried out by the communicating unit if the connecting device is removed from the connecting terminal.

Claims

1. A converter comprising:

a connecting terminal connectable to a connecting device;

a communicating unit capable of carrying out communication; and

a communication restricting unit configured to restrict the communication carried out by the communicating unit if the connecting device is removed from the connecting terminal.

2. The converter according to claim 1, wherein

the communication restricting unit destroys the communicating unit, or blocks the communication carried out by the communicating unit if the connecting device is removed from the connecting terminal.

3. The converter according to claim 2, wherein

the communication restricting unit fixes the connecting device in a state that the connecting device is connected to the connecting terminal, and

the communication restricting unit destroys the communicating unit, or blocks the communication carried out by the communicating unit if the connecting device is removed from the connecting terminal.

4. The converter according to claim 3, wherein

the connecting device includes

a projection, and

a first through hole formed in the projection,

the connecting terminal is an aperture into which the projection is inserted,

the communication restricting unit includes

a second through hole configured to be coupled with the first through hole if the projection is inserted into the aperture, and

a fixing member configured to fix the projection in the aperture if the fixing member is inserted into the first through hole and the second through hole, and

the communicating unit is disposed at a tip end of the fixing member.

5. The converter according to claim 4, wherein

the fixing member includes

a base body configured to be inserted into the first through hole and the second through hole, and

an auxiliary fixing member configured to fix the base body in the first through hole and the second through hole.

6. The converter according to claim 5, wherein

the auxiliary fixing member allows the base body to move toward the communicating unit, and restricts the base body to move apart from the communicating unit.

7. The converter according to claim 6, wherein

the base body is configured to be movable toward the communicating unit through an unlocking member.

8. The converter according to claim 1, wherein

the communicating unit is capable of carrying out communication pertinent to the connecting device.

9. The converter according to claim 1, wherein

the communicating unit is capable of carrying out wireless communication.

10. The converter according to claim 1, wherein

the communicating unit is capable of carrying out power line communication.

11. A program allowing a computer to realize a communication restriction to restrict communication carried out by a communicating unit if a connecting device connectable to a connecting terminal is removed from the connecting terminal.