WALL PLATE ASSEMBLY WITH INTEGRAL UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS MODULE

• US 20100240250A1
• Filed: 06/07/2010
• Published: 09/23/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/19/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Legrand DPC LLC (Legrand SA)
• Original Assignee: Gary Michael Hess, Jennifer Dawn Crotinger, Timothy Kerby
• Inventors: Hess, Gary Michael, Crotinger, Jennifer Dawn, Kerby, Timothy
• Granted Patent: US 7,915,529 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 439/535
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6658 on printed circuit board H01R13/6666 - H01R13/6691 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 2103/00 Two poles
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 2107/00 Four or more poles
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 2201/24 for radio transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/76 with sockets, clips or analogous contacts and secured to apparatus or structure, e.g. to a wall
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 27/02 for simultaneous co-operation with two or more dissimilar counterparts
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49117 Conductor or circuit manufacturing

Abstract

A wall plate assembly including a wall plate with an integrated USB module. The assembly includes a USB connector and printed circuit board formed together on the wall plate as an integral whole. By placing USB extender circuitry directly on the printed circuit board, rather than in a separate housing, the present assembly can maintain its bus-powered attributes without the bulk of a separate extender housing. A quick-connect coupling enables fast electrical connection and disconnection with a complementary quick-connect coupling on a USB wire.

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