Patent ID: 6248424
Filing Date: 2001-06-19
Classification: B29C,H01R,H05K,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
A method of indicating the degree of manufacture of a single article entity which is useable in an end use assembly, comprising the steps of:manufacturing said single article entity to a first degree wherein said single article entity, manufactured to said first degree, includes at least one removable appendage formed during said manufacture of said single article entity to said first degree so as to be integral with said single article entity and protruding outwardly from said single article entity manufactured to said first degree, for the purpose of indicating to manufacturing personnel that said single article entity manufactured to said first degree is not as yet completely manufactured, to be accomplished within a subsequent manufacturing step, for use within an end use assembly, and for physically preventing interactive use of said single article entity, manufactured to said first degree, in an end use assembly unless said at least one removable appendage is removed from said single article entity be fore use of said single article entity in the end use assembly; andmanufacturing said single article entity to a second degree by means of said subsequent manufacturing step, wherein said single article entity now manufactured to said second degree by means of said subsequent manufacturing step is more completely manufactured than said single article entity manufactured to said first degree, by necessarily removing said at least one removable appendage from said single article entity, manufactured to said first degree, so as to permit use of said single article entity, now manufactured to said second degree, within an end use assembly.