Cable tester with first and second interengaging test modules

• US 4,326,162 A
• Filed: 05/02/1980
• Issued: 04/20/1982
• Est. Priority Date: 05/02/1980
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: James H. Hankey
• Original Assignee: James H. Hankey
• Inventors: Hankey, James H.
• Primary Examiner(s): Strecker, Gerard R.
• Application Number:
  US06/146,081
• Time in Patent Office: 718 Days
• Field of Search: 324/51, 324/66, 324/73 R
• US Class Current: 324/542
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/58 Testing of lines, cables or conductors testing of electric windings G01R31/72

Abstract

A cable tester composed of a first and second separate module each sized and configured with banks of male and female pins for nesting interengaged relationship and one of said modules including a battery and a switch in series with said battery and each of said modules including a circuit means including an LED, light emitting diode, in association with the pin of the bank of each module, so that the device may be used when connected to a cable, such as an IBM standard cable, for testing the same as is set forth more fully hereinafter.

Claims

1. A cable tester device comprising:

a first and second module, said modules each having a main face,

each main face being companionately sized and configured for mating interengagement with each other in snug nested relation,

each of said main faces having a bank of connector adapters composed of male and female pin means to connect one of the modules to each end of a cable provided with a companionate connector, said banks of pin means being composed of mating pins electrically in engagement with one another when said modules are interengaged in nesting relation with one another,

a circuit means in said first module including a conductor electrically connected to each pin and electrically in series with a separate light emitting diode and resistor in series with one another,

all of said conductors including said light emitting diodes and resistors in series therewith being in parallel with one another and in series with a main conductor circuit, said main conductor circuit including a battery in series with said parallel conductors to simultaneously energize the same and switch means for controlling energy flow from said battery through said circuit means of said first module;

the pin means of said second module being arranged in an array corresponding to the pins of said first module and said pin means of said array of said second module being in a pattern of odd and even pin means with an odd pin means between each even pin means, and a circuit in said second module connecting each adjacent odd and even pin through a light emitting diode in series therewith and comprising 24 separate circuits.

2. The device as set forth in claim 1 wherein said main faces include an upwardly opening U-shaped portion and a foreshortened downwardly opening U-shaped portion and said U-shaped portions being adapted for interengaged nesting relation one with the other.

3. The device as set forth in claim 1 wherein said light emitting diodes of said modules are each arranged in an array corresponding to the location of the pin means and said module includes window means through the light emitting diodes may be observed.

4. The device as set forth in claim 1 wherein said device includes 24 separate diodes in each module.