A modular interconnector

Claim 1

An electrical device to enable electrical or electronic wiring incorporating an electrical connector to be accessed for electrical testing purposes or for the connection of other electrical or electronic equipment and allowing normal operation of the said electrical or electronic wiring to be maintained and comprising a box or other method of containing the device, a connector 1, a connector 2, a connector 3 and a printed circuit board which connects the said connectors 1,2 and 3 together electrically in a point to point fashion, for example on connectors of the same type and having numbered pins, all pins numbered 1 are connected together, as are all pins numbered 2, up to the full number of pins on each connectors, the device may be modified to incorporate more or less than the three connectors described above and individual devices containing compatible connectors may be connected together to increase versatility, the orientations of the connectors which comprise the said device may be configured in any suitable way and connectors of different types and or number of pins may be contained in a single device.

Claim 4

A device according to Claims 1 and 2 in which a second connector is electrically connected to a printed circuit board.

Claim 5

A device according to Claims 1 to 3 in which a third connector is electrically connected to a printed circuit board.

Claim 6

A device according to Claims 1 to 4 in which the connectors may be but are not necessarily of the same type, make, pin configuration, number of pins or size.

Claim 7

A device according to Claims 1 to 5 in which the number of connectors comprising the device may be less than or greater than the three described in Claims 1 to 5.

Claim 8

A device according to Claims 1 to 6 in which the connectors may be configured to allow external connectors of like gender, for example male to male, to be electrically connected together.

Claim 9

A device according to Claims 1 to 7 in which the connectors are configured to offer a gender change thereby allowing an incoming male connector to be converted to female, or visa versa.

Claim 10

A device according to Claims 1 to 8 wherein the connectors may be directly soldered into a printed circuit board or where the printed circuit board may be soldered directly to the connectors.

Claim 11

A device according to Claims 1 to 9 in which the pins of the individual connectors are interconnected by the printed circuit conductors.

Claim 12

A device according to Claims 1 to 10 which when installed between two compatible mateable connectors allows electrical connection to the said compatible mateable connectors' pins via a third connector, which need not be compatible, contained in the device.