Patent ID: 6921294
Filing Date: 2005-07-26
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. An adapter for coupling an existing connector of a multi-wire interconnect system to a different ambient condition detector than the one for which the existing connector was designed. the adapter comprising: a non-conductive housing which carries a first set of electrical conductors and a second set of electrical conductors where the number of the second set of conductors at least equals the number of the first set of conductors, where members of the first set exhibit an electro-mechanical plug-type profile for engagement with socket elements of the existing connector; and where members of the second set comprise an electro-mechanical socket-type profile for engagement with a second plug carried by the ambient condition detector, where the existing connector and the second plug are incompatible and are not mutually engageable, where the first set of electrical conductors comprises a plurality of rigid connecting prongs which extend in a first direction, exposed relative to the housing, so as to engageable with the existing connector.