Patents Assigned to Cooper Technologies
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Patent number: 10100861Abstract: A beam clamp for securing strut to a beam includes a clamp body having a first strut engagement portion configured for engaging a first attachment structure of a strut, and a second strut engagement portion separate from the first strut engagement portion and configured for engaging a second attachment structure of a strut.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2015Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: Cooper Technologies CompanyInventor: Zhihui Zhang
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Patent number: 10100869Abstract: A system for fastening a cover to a body of an explosion-proof enclosure using a plurality of fastening devices. Each fastening device can include a first load distributing member disposed on a body flange of a body of the explosion-proof enclosure, and a second load distributing member disposed on a cover flange of a cover of the explosion-proof enclosure. A fastening device can also include a securing member having a top end disposed on the first load distributing member and a bottom end disposed on the second load distributing member. A fastening device can further include a cam rotatably coupled to and positioned atop the first load distributing member.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2015Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: Cooper Technologies CompanyInventor: Joseph Michael Manahan
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Patent number: 10103568Abstract: A remote emergency light system provides a base unit that is electrically coupled to one or more remote emergency light fixtures using cables. The base unit may provide power to each of the remote emergency light fixtures using the cables to activate the remote emergency light fixtures during an emergency condition. Alternatively, the base unit may provide a trickle charge to one or more remote emergency light fixtures when each of the remote emergency light fixtures includes an energy charging device. The base unit may be configured to communicate with the remote emergency light fixtures and determine when a trickle charge should be sent to a remote emergency light fixture, when a trickle charge should be stopped for a remote emergency light fixture, and/or when an energy charging device needs to be replaced. The cables can meet the requirements for Class 2 circuits as defined by the National Electric Code.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2016Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: Cooper Technologies CompanyInventors: Anthony Audenzio Mangiaracina, Daniel Leland Bragg, Westly Davis Hetrick
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Publication number: 20180294123Abstract: An electrical switching apparatus is for an electrical system. The electrical system has an enclosure and an electrical apparatus coupled to the enclosure. The electrical switching apparatus includes a pair of separable contacts electrically connected to the electrical apparatus, an operating handle for opening and closing the pair of separable contacts, and a support assembly having a cover and an elongated extension extending from proximate the cover to proximate the operating handle. The cover at least partially encloses the pair of separable contacts. The elongated extension is structured to be coupled to the enclosure.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2017Publication date: October 11, 2018Applicant: COOPER TECHNOLOGIES COMPANYInventors: RICHARD JAMES SMITH, MOHANESH MADHUKAR PATOLE, AMOL NIVRATIRAO JADHAV, RANDAL VERNON MALLIET, BRYAN JOSEPH LOEB, KURT LAWRENCE LINDSEY, ARTHUR THOMAS DAVIES
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Publication number: 20180285303Abstract: The present invention provides for an improved network bus terminator (4), and related bus networks and bus network segments/trunks (1), and comprising a bus network terminator (4) including bus network termination functionality and a diagnostic analyser (2) and wherein the degree of diagnostic functionality provided within the terminator (4) can then, as with the terminator itself, be provided as an inherent feature of the segment/trunk (1), and thus also the bus network, and can comprise limited, simple but suitably effective diagnostic functionality, and which can be inherently suited to bus analysis during a commissioning, and/or initial deployment, phase and be provided in a cost-effective manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2016Publication date: October 4, 2018Applicant: Cooper Technologies CompanyInventor: Frederic Vladimir Esposito
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Patent number: 10077866Abstract: A mounting bracket for a junction box includes a face plate having left and right edge margins and a central opening. The face plate includes a first set of indicia adjacent a top edge of the central opening and a second set of indicia adjacent a bottom edge of the central opening. Each set of indicia includes ruler graduations indicating a distance from the left edge margin of the face plate to the respective ruler graduation.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2015Date of Patent: September 18, 2018Assignee: Cooper Technologies CompanyInventor: Martin Lee Witherbee
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Patent number: 10077880Abstract: A shield for a lighting fixture includes a panel that is optically transparent and a screen attached to the panel. The screen has opaque segments, where the opaque segments have gaps therebetween. The screen is screen printed onto the panel. The opaque segments are distributed on the panel in a pattern.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2015Date of Patent: September 18, 2018Assignee: Cooper Technologies CompanyInventors: Christopher Joseph Pahl, Adam Moore Foy
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Patent number: 10072829Abstract: A lighting system, for example a portable light, can have at least two configurations that support outputting illumination in at least two different patterns. The lighting system can incorporate at least two light emitting diodes and at least two optics, for example two diffusing lenses or filters. In a first configuration, the light emitting diodes can emit light that provides illumination without incidence on the optics. In a second configuration, the light emitting diodes can emit light that is incident upon and controlled by the optics. Changing between the first and second configurations can move the optics into the respective light paths of the light emitting diodes.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2016Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: Cooper Technologies CompanyInventors: James Richard Christ, Christopher Michael Bryant
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Patent number: 10076011Abstract: A method of adjusting a correlated color temperature (CCT) of a light provided by a lighting fixture includes receiving, by a DALI command converter device, a DALI dim level command indicating a dim level for the light provided by the lighting fixture. The method further includes providing a first output signal to adjust a dim level of a first light emitted by a first light emitting diode (LED) light source to a first dim level. The method also includes providing a second output signal to adjust a dim level of a second light emitted by a second LED light source to a second dim level that is different from the first dim level. The light provided by the lighting fixture is a combination of the first light and the second light. The DALI command converter device generates the first output signal and the second output signal based on the DALI dim level command.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2017Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: Cooper Technologies CompanyInventors: Soroush Amidi, Kyle Joseph Van Bavel
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Patent number: 10072806Abstract: A luminaire downlight includes a housing and an outer ring that is disposed below and coupled to the housing using one or more fasteners. The outer ring secures one or more extension arms to the housing. The one or more extension arms are adapted to secure a shade to the luminaire downlight. Further, the luminaire downlight includes a light module that is disposed within and coupled to the housing via the outer ring. In particular, an inner surface of the outer ring is indexed to twist and lock the light module to the housing. Furthermore, the luminaire downlight includes a twist lock ring that is coupled to an inner surface of the light module. Additionally, the luminaire downlight includes a lens that is disposed below the outer ring and coupled to the twist lock ring.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2016Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: Cooper Technologies CompanyInventor: Kenneth Edward Yarnell
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Patent number: 10067284Abstract: A lighting fixture includes a first end plate and a second end plate that are coupled to and disposed on opposite sides of a reflector panel. Further, the lighting fixture includes a pair of elongated heat sinks that are coupled to the first end plate and the second end plate on opposite latitudinal ends of the pair of elongated heat sinks. Each elongated heat sink retains a longitudinal edge of a light guide and/or a plurality of LEDs directed towards the longitudinal edge. Further, the lighting fixture includes an optical device that is removably coupled to the lighting fixture such that the first end plate, the second end plate, and the pair of elongated heat sinks retain and overlap a perimeter of an optical device to prevent light leakage. The light guide is oriented horizontally and the optical device is oriented to receive light exiting the light guide.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2016Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: Cooper Technologies CompanyInventors: Eric DiFelice, Patrick Neal Walker
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Patent number: 10064254Abstract: An electrical system can include a power supply coupled to an electrical load, where the power supply includes an AC/DC converter and a number of DC/DC converters, where the AC/DC converter provides raw DC power to the DC/DC converters, where the DC/DC converters receive the raw DC power and generate final DC power for the electrical load. The electrical system can also include a controller coupled to the power supply, where the controller selectively enables and disables the DC/DC converters.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2017Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: Cooper Technologies CompanyInventor: Hui Zhang
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Patent number: 10064248Abstract: A lighting device includes a ferroresonant transformer that receives an alternating current (AC) power signal and outputs an output power signal. The lighting device further includes a rectifier coupled to the ferroresonant transformer. The rectifier rectifies the output power signal from the ferroresonant transformer and generates a rectified power signal. The lighting device also includes a dc-to-dc converter coupled to the rectifier, wherein the dc-to-dc converter receives the rectified power signal and generates a regulated power signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2017Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: Cooper Technologies CompanyInventors: Raymond George Janik, Russell Scott Trask
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Patent number: 10057948Abstract: An LED driver includes a controller configured to detect toggles of a switch that controls whether electrical power is provided to the LED driver. The controller is further configured to determine whether a toggle sequence of the switch matches an operation mode sequence. The toggle sequence of the switch includes a sequence of one or more toggles of the toggles of the switch that the controller detects. The controller is also configured to change a setting of the LED driver based on whether the toggle sequence of the switch matches the operation mode sequence.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2017Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: COOPER TECHNOLOGIES COMPANYInventors: Nam Chin Cho, Ryan Lamon Cunningham
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Patent number: 10042113Abstract: Embodiments described herein are directed to a lighting fixture including a lightguide that distributes light from a major surface, a light assembly including light sources arranged linearly, and a frame including a means for providing a force that urges the light assembly against an edge of the lightguide. A standoff or spacer can provide an air gap between a light source of the light assembly and the waveguide edge. In various embodiments, the lighting fixture may incorporate a spring, a spring finger, a spring clip, a screw, or other means for securing the light assembly against the edge of the lightguide. In this manner, substantially all light provided by the light assembly is emitted into the edge of the lightguide. The fixture is formed to accommodate tolerances among elements of the lighting fixture, while maintaining the light assembly securely against the edge of the lightguide.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2015Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: Cooper Technologies CompanyInventors: James H. Blessitt, Russ Clements, Ellis W. Patrick
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Patent number: 10041638Abstract: A system can comprise tabs and notches or a twist-and-lock mount for detachably mounting components adjacent a light emitting diode that is utilized for illumination, for example in a luminaire. Representative mounted components can include protective covers and optics for managing light emitted by the light emitting diode. The tabs and notches can be located rear of an aperture in a recessed lighting fixture or in a cover of a luminaire, for example. That cover, or another cover that may not utilize a releasable mount, can extend circumferentially about a periphery of a light emitting diode to cover and protect wiring for the light emitting diode and to hide the wiring from view by people occupying an illuminated space.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2016Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: Cooper Technologies CompanyInventors: Charles Vasquez, Jason Quentin Paulsel, Steven Walter Pyshos, Jyoti Kathawate
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Patent number: 10041646Abstract: An optic can manage light emitted by a light emitting diode. The optic can comprise a backside that faces the light emitting diode and a front side opposite the backside. The front side can be convex. The backside can have a central region that is adjacent the light emitting diode and that is either concave or convex. One or more grooves can extend peripherally about the central region. An injection molding system can produce optics in which the backside comprises the concave central region as well as optics in which the backside comprises the convex central region. The molding system can utilize one molding member shaped according to the front side of the optic. That molding member can be compatible with two other molding members that are shaped according to the different backsides of the optic. Thus, two different optic forms can be produced with three molding members.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2015Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: Cooper Technologies CompanyInventor: Anthony Ryan Gibbs
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Patent number: 10041654Abstract: A finishing section for a recessed lighting fixture includes a trim structure that includes a shielding reflector and a trim ring. The shielding reflector is attached to the trim ring. The finishing section further includes a ring structure attached to the shielding reflector distal from the trim ring. The trim structure and the ring structure are rotatable relative to each other.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2015Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: Cooper Technologies CompanyInventors: Oliver Ernst, Grzegorz Wronski
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Patent number: D828605Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2017Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: Cooper Technologies CompanyInventors: Grzegorz Wronski, Zhihong Lin, Steven Pyshos
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Patent number: D831266Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2017Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: Cooper Technologies CompanyInventors: Steven Pyshos, Nivay Sahaye