Patent ID: 9595828
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: A63F,A63H,B25J,G05B,G09B,H01R,H02J,H04L,H04R,H04W,Y10S

Claim:
1. A first device for electrically connecting and detachably attaching to a second device identical to the first device, the first device having first and second ends and comprising: a first electromechanical connector at the first end; a second electromechanical connector at the second end of the first device, the second electromechanical connector being physically structured to be electrically connectable and detachably mechanically couplable to a first electromechanical connector of the second device; and an annunciator adapted to perform a module-specific task coupled to be electrically Direct Current (DC) powered from the first electromechanical connector of the first device and coupled to be activated in response to a signal received from one of the electromechanical connectors of the first device, wherein at least part of the DC power received from the first electromechanical connector of the first device is passed to the second electromechanical connector of the first device, and wherein the first device is configured to pass bi-directional digital data between the electromechanical connectors of the first device, whereby, when the first device is mechanically connected to the second device, DC power and bi-directional digital data are passed by the respective electromechanical connectors between the connected devices.