Test cable device for detecting an electrical fault

• US 8,378,690 B1
• Filed: 02/18/2010
• Issued: 02/19/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/18/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dave Jiles
• Original Assignee: Dave Jiles
• Inventors: Jiles, Dave
• Primary Examiner(s): Koval, Melissa
• Assistant Examiner(s): Baldridge, Benjamin M
• Application Number:
  US12/708,427
• Time in Patent Office: 1,097 Days
• Field of Search: 324/504
• US Class Current: 324/504
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/006 on road vehicles, e.g. automobiles or trucks testing of ignition installations peculiar to internal combustion engines F02P17/00
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/44 Testing lamps

Abstract

A test cable device comprising a main cable with a standard trailer connector; at least seven inner wires in the main cable, the first ends of each inner wire extending from the first end of the main cable, the first inner wire being a ground wire; a first clamp operatively connected to the first end of the first inner wire; and a second clamp operatively connected to each of the first ends of the second, third, fourth, and fifth inner wires; wherein the first ends of the sixth and seventh inner wires are operatively connected to a first flasher relay, the first flasher relay can be operatively connected to a port of a relay unit; wherein the device can be operatively connected to a power source via the first and second clamp, power is directed through the device and to the trailer via the trailer connector.

Claims

1. A test cable device comprising:

(a) a main cable having a first end and a second end;

(b) a standard trailer connector disposed on the second end of the main cable;

(c) a first inner wire, a second inner wire, a third inner wire, a fourth inner wire, a fifth inner wire, a sixth inner wire, and a seventh inner wire, each inner wire disposed in the main cable, each inner wire having a first end and a second end, the first ends of each inner wire extending from the first end of the main cable, the first inner wire being a ground wire;

(d) a first clamp operatively connected to the first end of the first inner wire; and

(e) a second clamp operatively connected to each of the first end of the second inner wire, the first end of the third inner wire, the first end of the fourth inner wire, and the first end of the fifth inner wire;

wherein the first end of the sixth inner wire and the first end of the seventh inner wire are both operatively connected to a first flasher relay end, wherein the first flasher relay end can be operatively connected to a first port of a relay unit;

wherein the device can be operatively connected to a power source via the first clamp and the second clamp, wherein power is directed through the device and to the trailer via the trailer connector.

2. The test cable device of claim 1 further comprising an eighth wire and a ninth wire, wherein first ends of both the eighth wire and the ninth wire are operatively connected to a second flasher relay end.

3. The test cable device of claim 2, wherein the second flasher relay end can be operatively connected to a second port of the relay unit.

4. The test cable device of claim 2, wherein second ends of the eighth wire and the ninth wire are operatively connected to the second wire and/or the third wire.

5. The test cable device of claim 1, wherein the power source is a battery.

6. The test cable device of claim 1, wherein some or all of the inner wires in the main cable are sealed together.

7. The test cable device of claim 1 further comprising an on/off switch.