Patent ID: 7893567
Filing Date: 2011-02-22
Classification: H02G

Abstract:
1. A modular utility system for providing high-voltage power and low-voltage telecommunications connectivity to equipment of at least one work station, said system comprising: a whip cable having up to 10 conductors and operative to carry a pre-determined assignment of phase, neutral, and ground circuits in said conductors; a power core module in electrical contact with said whip cable and operative to maintain said pre-determined assignment of phase, neutral, and ground circuits; and at least one high-voltage power module in mated physical and electrical contact with said power core module and operative to distribute high-voltage power to the workstation equipment with said pre-determined assignment of phase, neutral, and ground circuits; wherein: a) said power core and each of said high-voltage power modules comprises a male connector on one side and a female connector on an opposing side; b) at least one of the following conditions occurs: c) said male and female connectors each include mated key features correlated with said pre-determined assignment of phase, neutral, and ground circuits; d) said key features are operative to align and mate adjacent modules, each module having a front, two sides, and a male connect bezel on one side and a female connect bezel on the other side; e) said key features comprise a male mating surface at the exterior of each of said male connect bezels and openings through said male mating surface into which electrical contacts extend from the interior of said module, with a distinctively shaped key protruding outward from said male mating surface; f) said key features also comprise a female mating surface at the exterior of each of said female connect bezels and openings through said female mating surface into which electrical contacts extend from the interior of said module, with a keyhole in said female mating surface having a shape complementary to said distinctively shaped key; and g) said key of said first module is insert-able into said keyhole of said second module to mate said modules with said electrical contacts of said modules providing electrical continuity of said pre-determined power configuration between said modules.