Patent ID: 6848951

Claim:
An interface device for connecting one or more external multipoint connectors used to establish one or more functional communication channels between devices which employ electrical or optical conductors, comprising: a linear assembly of functional modules, said functional modules being positioned in alignment, in said linear assembly, each functional module having a peripheral wall and an end wall and defining an elementary part of one or more multipart connectors formed by a plurality of said functional modules and having substantially mutually perpendicular sides, wherein the modularly assembled multipart connector provides for direct connection, with one or more external multipoint connectors, using ducts in each of two substantially mutually perpendicular sides one of which ducts is a guiding duct in the peripheral wall and which opens over its length into the wall making up the end wall of its functional module, the ducts being adapted for interconnecting one or more electrical or optical conductors which form one or more functional communication channels and communication functions performed through the interface device are distributed among a plurality of aligned functional modules.