Patent ID: 6913453

Claim:
An junction box for use with a molding system for connecting a heater power cable and a thermocouple cable to a hot-half of a molding machine, comprising: a heater supply connector for mating with a corresponding connector on the heater power cable; a thermocouple connector for mating with a corresponding connector on the thermocouple cable; a first group of connection terminals each for receiving a heater wire connected to a heater in the hot-half of the molding machine; a second group of connection terminals each for receiving a corresponding wire of a thermocouple disposed in the hot-half for temperature sensing; a plurality of protection circuits each for protecting one of said corresponding connected to a pair of connection terminals of the second group and including two resettable fuses each connected in series with a wire of the corresponding thermocouple for blocking excessive current and a low-pass filter connected between the two wires of the corresponding thermocouple for filtering AC line noise.