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Cable locating device

  • US 7,307,408 B2
  • Filed: 05/03/2006
  • Issued: 12/11/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/09/2005
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A device for identifying cables within an office or building comprising:

  • a plurality of means for receiving a distal end of a cable, each of said plurality engaged to a mounting surface;

    each of said plurality of means for receiving a distal end of a cable, having means to electrically communicate with a cable engaged therewith;

    a plurality of means for visual identification, each of said plurality of means for visual identification corresponding to a single one of said means for receiving a distal end of a cable;

    each said means for visual identification having a static state and having an active state visually identifiable from the rest of said means for visual identification in said static state;

    means to generate an electrical signal;

    a connection wire electrically engageable at a first end to said means to generate an electrical signal, and adapted at a second end for an electrical engagement with the ground circuit of the AC power supply installed in said building;

    a second connection wire configured at a first end for an electrical engagement with a remote ground receptacle electrically communicating with said ground circuit;

    said second connection wire having a second end, said second end of said second connection wire configured for an electrically engageable connection with a remote end of said cable;

    means to activate each said means for visual identification having an electrical communication with each respective means to electrically communicate with a cable, said means to activate changing a respective said means for visual identification to said active state, only when said electrical signal is communicated through said ground circuit to said remote end of a respective said cable engaged with said corresponding single one of said means for receiving said distal end of said cable; and

    whereby a particular said cable, out of a plurality of said cables, is visually identifiable, when engaged with a respective said means for receiving a distal end of a cable, by a resulting change to said active state, of a corresponding one of said means for visual identification.

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