Educational device for teaching electrical circuit theory, fundamentals, electronics, and the like

Claim 1

A VISUAL EDUCATIONAL DEVICE FOR TEACHING INFORMATION ABOUT ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS AND COMPONENTS COMPRISING A SUBSTANTIALLY FLAT PANEL MEMBER HAVING A PLURALITY OF SPACED ELECTRICAL JUNCTIONS THEREON IN A MODULAR PATTERN, SAID JUNCTIONS BEING INSULATED ONE FROM ANOTHER, EACH OF SAID JUNCTIONS INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF INTERCONNECTED ENGAGEABLE ELECTRICAL CONTACT ELEMENTS ARRANGED IN A PREDETERMINED PATTERN, A PLURALITY OF MODULE UNITS EACH INCLUDING AN ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT COMPONENT HAVING ITS TERMINALS ELECTRICALLY CONNECTED TO A PLURALITY OF ELECTRICAL CONTACT MEMBERS SELECTIVELY SPACED ON THE MODULE UNIT FOR ENGAGEMENT WITH THE CONTACT ELEMENTS OF A PLURALITY OF SAID JUNCTIONS, EACH MODULE UNIT INCLUDING A SUBSTANTIALLY FLAT PLATFORM DEFINING A FRONT SURFACE OF THE MODULE UNIT, A SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION ON SAID PLATFORM IDENTIFYING THE ELECTRICAL COMPONENT IN THE MODULE UNIT, AND LINES EXTENDING FROM EACH SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION TO CORRESPONDING POINTS ON THE EDGES OF EACH OF SAID PLATFORMS FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY CONSTRUCTING A CIRCUIT AND A SCHEMATIC DIAGRAM OF SAID CIRCUIT IN THE PLANE OF SAID PLATFORMS WHEN THE CONTACT MEMBERS OF SAID MODULE UNITS ARE ENGAGED WITH THE CONTACT ELEMENTS OF SAID JUNCTIONS WITH SAID MODULE UNITS IN ABUTTING RELATIONSHIP ON SAID PANEL MEMBER.