Electrical device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10070545-B2
Application number	US-201514633954-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 27, 2015
Priority date	Feb 27, 2014
Publication date	Sep 4, 2018
Grant date	Sep 4, 2018

Abstract

The invention relates to an electrical device ( 1 ) having a housing ( 2 ) and at least one receiving shaft ( 3 ), which is accessible from an outer side of the housing ( 2 ), for an electronic data storage means ( 4 ) which can be inserted into the receiving shaft ( 3 ) and, as a result, can make contact with electrical components arranged in the electrical device ( 1 ) and optionally can be removed again from the receiving shaft ( 3 ), wherein the receiving shaft ( 3 ) is surrounded at least partially by a recessed grip ( 5 ) on the outer side of the housing ( 2 ), which recessed grip is designed as a depression with respect to the outer contour of the housing ( 2 ), wherein at least one light exit opening ( 9 ) for light output by at least one electric light source ( 10 ) of the electrical device ( 1 ) is arranged within the recessed grip ( 5 ).

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electrical device, comprising:
a housing; and
at least one receiving duct, which is accessible from an outer side of the housing, for an electronic data storage means which can be inserted into the receiving duct and, as a result, can make contact with electrical components arranged in the electrical device and optionally can be removed again from the receiving duct,
wherein the receiving duct is surrounded at least partially by a grip cavity on the outer side of the housing, which grip cavity is designed as a hollow recess with respect to the outer contour of the housing,
wherein at least one light exit opening for light output by at least one electric light source of the electrical device is arranged within the grip cavity, and
wherein a light exit duct is arranged within the grip cavity, which light exit duct is designed as another hollow recess with respect to the surface of the grip cavity, the light exit duct being defined by a wall of the housing extending from the grip cavity and further into a more interior portion of the housing relative to the grip cavity, the light exit duct being open through the grip cavity to a region outside of the housing, wherein the light exit opening is arranged in the wall of the housing that defines of the light exit duct.

2. The electrical device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the electric light source is arranged fully or at least partially within the housing of the electrical device.

3. The electrical device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the electric light source itself is not visible or at least partially not visible outside of the housing.

4. The electrical device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the arrangement composed of electric light source and light exit opening is designed in the form of an indirect illumination means.

5. The electrical device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the light output by the electric light source is visible outside of the housing in the grip cavity.

6. The electrical device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the light exit opening is at least one of designed to be open or with an at least partially transparent cover.

7. The electrical device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the housing of the electrical device is substantially non-transparent.

8. The electrical device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the electric light source is designed as a light-emitting diode or has a light-emitting diode.

9. The electrical device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the electric light source is at least one of electrically connected to an electrical printed circuit board which is located in the housing of the electrical device, or is mechanically mounted on the electrical printed circuit board.

10. The electrical device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the grip cavity has a rounded or substantially circular outer contour in plan view of the side of the housing of the electrical device having the grip cavity.

11. The electrical device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the light exit duct has an outer contour which is substantially in the form of a circular section or is rectangular or round in plan view of the side of the housing having the grip cavity.

12. The electrical device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the light exit opening is at least one of arranged in a region of a wall of the housing or of the light exit duct, which is arranged substantially parallel to the insertion plane of the electronic data storage means in the receiving duct.

13. The electrical device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the electrical device has a controller, which is set up to automatically activate the electric light source on the basis of an operating state of the electronic data storage means, in particular in the form of an automatic access indicator for the electronic data storage means.

14. The electrical device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the electrical device has at least one locking means arranged in the region of the receiving duct, by means of which an electronic data storage means placed into the receiving duct can be secured against unauthorized removal.

15. The electrical device as claimed in claim 14 , wherein the at least one locking means is arranged outside of the grip cavity.

16. The electrical device as claimed in claim 14 , wherein the grip cavity and the receiving duct, and optionally also the electric light source, are designed in the form of a common data storage means receiving module.

Assignees

• Wago Verwaltungs Gmbh

Inventors

• Binner Lars

Classifications

• G06K7/0056

  housing of the card connector · CPC title

• G06K13/085

  using an arrangement for locking the inserted card · CPC title

• G06K7/0013 Primary

  by galvanic contacts, e.g. card connectors for ISO-7816 compliant smart cards or memory cards, e.g. SD card readers (connectors in general H01R13/00; connectors for SIM cards used in mobile phones or the like H04B1/3816) · CPC title

• H05K5/0217 Primary

  Mechanical details of casings (covers, lids, hoods or members for covering apertures H05K5/03) · CPC title