Patent ID: 7119708
Filing Date: 2006-10-10
Classification: H05K

Abstract:
1. Devices for visual and electronic identification of electronic carriers having only one individual device for each electronic carrier and each electronic carrier has a plurality of card slots for receiving a plurality of printed circuit cards, each device comprising: an enclosure; a carrier label for providing visual identification for an individual one of the electronic carriers and affixed to the enclosure; and a circuit board encapsulated in the enclosure and the circuit board having electronic identification of the individual one of the electronic carriers and the electronic identification of the individual one of the electronic carriers is communicated via bus pins attached to the circuit board to the individual one of the electronic carriers upon the bus pins being inserted into the individual one of electronic carriers and the circuit board defining electronic identifications of each of the card slots of the individual one of the electronic carriers whereby the electronic identification of the card slots defines the type of printed circuit card that can be inserted into a particular card slot.