Patent ID: 6913477

Claim:
An electrical coupling device comprising: a contactor device including a contactor body defining a generally flat contactor surface shaped and dimensioned to make physical contact with an adaptor surface of an adaptor device; a plurality of electrical contacts on the contactor body at or adjacent the contactor surface, a number, shape, dimension, and spatial configuration of the electrical contacts permitting at least two of the electrical contacts to be electrically connected to corresponding electrical contacts of the adaptor device to close an electrical circuit between the contactor device and the adaptor device when the adaptor surface of the adaptor device is brought into physical contact with the contactor surface of the contactor body, there being no need for aligning the electrical contacts of the adaptor device and the contactor device; a control mechanism comprising a sensing circuit to select a pair of the electrical contacts of the contactor body to energize in order to complete the circuit; and a controller to energize the selected pair based on input from the sensing circuit, wherein the sensing circuit selects multiple pairs of electrical contacts to energize; and the controller energizes each selected pair.