Patent ID: 7575467
Filing Date: 2009-08-18
Classification: H01R,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A safe electrical wall receptacle that provides power only to a properly configured and inserted male plug comprising: a receptacle with a front face, and a back face sized and formed in the shape of a standard electrical wall socket with at least three passages on the front face side; two oblong vertically oriented openings and one semi-circular opening disposed below and equidistant from the vertically oriented slots sized and defined for receiving metallic prongs of a cooperating male appliance plug; further comprising two conductive elements disposed within the vertically oriented openings, one power and one neutral return path, and one non-conductive grounding element disposed with in the semi-circular opening; further comprising a normally open modular relay switch housed in a separate housing and attached to the back face of the receptacle and the means to connect conductive side of the normally open relay switch to a power source; further consisting of a single sensor means positioned on the face of the receptacle between and equidistant from the vertically oriented openings to only detect the presence of a fully inserted male plug said sensor means being wired in series with the normally open relay switch.