US 12,294,467 B2
Profile cable switching
Chad A. Niehaus, Brookfield, WI (US); Ronald W. David, Sparta, MI (US); Brian K. Doyle, Wayland, MI (US); and Kraig L. Rotman, Zeeland, MI (US)
Assigned to Dematic Corp., Grand Rapids, MI (US)
Filed by Dematic Corp., Grand Rapids, MI (US)
Filed on Nov. 9, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/983,453.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/277,218, filed on Nov. 9, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0145122 A1, May 11, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 12/10 (2006.01)
CPC H04L 12/10 (2013.01) 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A network module configured to provide switched auxiliary (AUX) power for emergency stop (“E-stop”) system functionality in a network system, the network module comprising:
a switch assembly disposed within the network module, wherein the switch assembly controls a passage of power from an unswitched AUX cable through a switched AUX cable for E-stop functionality, wherein the switch assembly receives the switched AUX cable, wherein the network module receives the unswitched AUX cable as a pass-through cable such that the unswitched AUX cable enters, passes through, and exits the network module, and wherein the switch assembly is coupled to the unswitched AUX cable inside the network module to provide power to the switched AUX cable; and
a controller communicatively coupled to a communications cable, wherein the controller controls switching actions of the switch assembly as defined by switching instructions received via the communications cable to selectively control the passage of power from the unswitched AUX cable through the switched AUX cable.