Patent ID: 8552876
Filing Date: 2013-10-08
Classification: G01D,H01R

Abstract:
1. An twist-on wire connector for joining electrical wires into an electrical connection therein comprising: an electrically insulated housing having a closed end and an open end; a spiral coil for maintaining an electrical wire in electrical contact within the insulated housing; and an information device comprising a microprocessor carried by said twist-on wire connector, said microprocessor having a transmitter operable to transmit dynamic information generated by a sensor to a location remote from the twist-on wire connector either periodically, continually or in response to a signal external to the twist-on wire connector, said sensor is integral to the microprocessor and the transmitter is a wireless transmitter; a looped coil for inductively powering the microprocessor from an internal ac current carried by the electrical wire secured in the twist-on wire connector wherein the microprocessor is shielded from the internal ac current by the electrically insulated housing of said twist-on wire connector.