Patent ID: 7014509
Filing Date: 2006-03-21
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. An adapter for coupling an existing connector to a different electrical unit 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 is the same as the number of the first set of conductors, where members of one set exhibit a manually variable electro-mechanical plug-type profile for engagement with socket elements of the existing connector and where members of the other set exhibit an electro-mechanical profile for engagement with a second plug carried by the electrical unit where the existing connector and the second plug are incompatible and are not mutually engageable; and where the one set of electrical conductors includes a plurality of flexible, elongated, conductors which terminate in respective rigid conducting prongs engageable with the existing connector.