US 12,363,208 B2
Distributed communication and control system using concurrent multi-channel master unit
Robert T. Fayfield, Orono, MN (US); Sabrina Kawalec, Minneapolis, MN (US); Mark Rue, Plymouth, MN (US); Paul Fabian, Minneapolis, MN (US); Arthur Padget, Minneapolis, MN (US); Charles Dolezalek, Blaine, MN (US); Luke Karnas, Minneapolis, MN (US); William Theunissen, Minneapolis, MN (US); David Franke, Minneapolis, MN (US); Robert Schlosser, Minneapolis, MN (US); Kent Dahlen, Minneapolis, MN (US); Matthew Schmitt, Minneapolis, MN (US); and Nick Olsen, Minneapolis, MN (US)
Assigned to Banner Engineering Corp., Minneapolis, MN (US)
Filed by Banner Engineering Corp., Minneapolis, MN (US)
Filed on Nov. 8, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/941,928.
Application 18/941,928 is a division of application No. 18/703,106, previously published as PCT/US2022/078548, filed on Oct. 21, 2022.
Application 18/703,106 is a continuation in part of application No. 35/516,907, filed on Apr. 21, 2022, with international filing date Apr. 21, 2022, granted, now D1051126.
Application 18/703,106 is a continuation in part of application No. 35/516,910, filed on Apr. 21, 2022, with international filing date Apr. 21, 2022, granted, now D1030453.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/270,938, filed on Oct. 22, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2025/0071193 A1, Feb. 27, 2025
Int. Cl. H04L 69/18 (2022.01); H04L 67/00 (2022.01); H04L 69/08 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 69/18 (2013.01) [H04L 67/34 (2013.01); H04L 69/08 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An in-line signal processing device, comprising:
a housing, extending along a longitudinal axis from a proximal end to a distal end, wherein the housing comprises a total thickness defined by a maximum width of a body of the housing orthogonal to the longitudinal axis;
an input port coupled to a first surface disposed at the proximal end of the housing;
an output port coupled to a second surface disposed at the distal end of the housing opposite the proximal end; and,
an electronic circuit coupled to the input port and the output port, the electronic circuit comprising:
a data register; and,
a processing circuit configured to generate a signal based on a predetermined conversion,
wherein,
the housing is overmolded to encapsulate the electronic circuit entirely in one-piece, such that a housing material is bonded to the input port and the output port, wherein:
the total thickness of the housing of the in-line signal processing device is less than or equal to twice of a greater of a maximum dimension, orthogonal to the longitudinal axis, of the input port and of the output port, such that the total thickness has a same order of magnitude of a thickness of the input port and the output port, and
the in-line signal processing device is dust tight.