Patents Examined by Muhammed Azam
  • Patent number: 10624224
    Abstract: A device includes an interior which is enclosed by a housing. The housing includes an opening. A movable component closes the opening in the housing between the interior and an exterior of the housing. The passage points for movable components have hydrophobic surfaces. A device of this type is protected in a non-contacting manner against penetration and discharge of fluids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Inventor: Martin Koepsell
  • Patent number: 10618206
    Abstract: An electronic device includes an electronic component having electrodes, a resin molded body embedding the electronic component such that the electrodes are exposed, a resin member interposed between the resin molded body and the electronic component and exposed from the resin molded body, and wires formed on the resin molded body and the resin member and respectively connected to the electrodes. A thermal expansion coefficient of the resin member is lower than a thermal expansion coefficient of the resin molded body and is higher than a thermal expansion coefficient of the electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Wakahiro Kawai
  • Patent number: 10615581
    Abstract: A textile sleeve for protecting elongate members against EMI and method of construction thereof is provided. The sleeve includes a wall having opposite edges extending lengthwise in generally parallel relation with a longitudinal axis between opposite ends. The opposite edges are configured to overlap one another to bound a central cavity extending between the opposite ends. The wall includes warp filaments, extending generally parallel to the longitudinal axis, woven with weft filaments, extending generally transversely to the warp filaments. The warp filaments include substantially electrically non-conductive multifilaments woven in a plain weave pattern with the weft filaments and electrically conductive members woven with the weft filaments to form a plurality of floats, with each of the floats extending over at least two adjacent ones of the weft filaments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul Powertrain, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Knudson, Yi Li, Daniel Neff
  • Patent number: 10608354
    Abstract: An example implantable connector for connecting an electronics package and a neural interface is made by way of a set of compressible contacts (e.g., springs) that physical contact a set of corresponding exposed bond pads. The compressible contacts are held in compression with the exposed bond pads using a mechanical coupler. The compressible contacts are physically separated and electrically isolated from each other by way of a compressible gasket. The compressible gasket is also held in compression using the mechanical coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: VERILY LIFE SCIENCES LLC
    Inventor: Kedar Shah
  • Patent number: 10602627
    Abstract: A key device comprises a housing in which a key hole is formed, a side key unit assembled at the key hole of the housing, and a gap of a predetermined thickness formed between a portion of the assembled side key unit located within the key hole and the key hole, wherein the gap is secured by processing any one or both of the side key unit located within the key hole or the housing in which the side key unit is assembled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sungho Lee, Hyosung Kang, Sangjin Kim, Sungsun Park, Dongchul Song
  • Patent number: 10602619
    Abstract: An anisotropic conductive connection structure body includes: a first electrode terminal on a surface of which a protruding portion is formed; a second electrode terminal; and an anisotropic conductive adhesive layer containing electrically conductive particles that provide conduction between the first electrode terminal and the second electrode terminal. A ratio of a height of the protruding portion to a before-compression particle size of the electrically conductive particle is less than 60%, an opening area ratio of the first electrode terminal is more than or equal to 55%, and a height of the second electrode terminal is more than or equal to 6 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: DEXERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Sato, Akifumi Higuchi
  • Patent number: 10601211
    Abstract: An assembly includes a harness. The harness includes a plurality of electrical cables and a coil. The coil has a body on which said cables are fixed. The coil includes arms mounted on said body, at a first end, each arm having a second end on which one of said cables is fixed. The second end is movable with respect to the body, independently of the second ends of the other arms, between a position for maximum absorption of overlength of cable, in which the second end is remote from the body, and a position for maximum creation of overlength of cable, in which the second end is closer to the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Safran Electrical & Power
    Inventors: Ismail Tchaaouaou, Mickael Rubio, Frédéric Colin
  • Patent number: 10576912
    Abstract: A circuit assembly includes a circuit board having a control circuit controlling the flow of electric current in a power circuit is integrally formed with a top of a plate-shaped busbar. The circuit assembly includes a busbar that is provided with a first through hole, a circuit board in which both surfaces are provided with circuit patterns and that is provided with a second through hole that is aligned with the first through hole, an insulating sheet that is arranged on one side of the circuit board and is interposed between the busbar and the circuit board, and a conductive rivet that is inserted into the first through hole and the second through hole and fixes the circuit board to a top of the busbar. The rivet includes a body inserted into the first through hole and the second through hole, and a head protruding from the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Akira Haraguchi
  • Patent number: 10576914
    Abstract: A protector having an insertion path of a branch wire which branches from a trunk wire of a wire harness where, when the branch wire is not inserted into the branch wire insertion path, the branch wire insertion path can be closed. The wire harness protector includes a closing plate provided integrally with the main body or retrofitted separately, when a branch wire may be present to be inserted through the branch wire insertion path, the branch wire being branched from a trunk wire of a wire harness inserted through the trunk wire insertion path, the closing plate closing a middle or an outlet of the branch wire insertion path, and the closing plate is pressed by the branch wire being inserted and has elasticity to be folded down or vulnerability to be torn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Ayaka Toyosaka
  • Patent number: 10573428
    Abstract: An electric wire protection member includes a metal pipe to which processing oil adheres, and a resin coating that covers an outer surface of the metal pipe and has a water contact angle of 55 to 78°. The resin coating may be formed by curing a resin paint that is applied to the outer surface of the metal pipe and has a surface tension of 25 to 32 mN/m. A wire harness can be formed by inserting an electric wire into the metal pipe of the electric wire protection member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Hironobu Rachi
  • Patent number: 10569723
    Abstract: A wire harness includes a plurality of wires that include a plus high-voltage wire and a minus high-voltage wire. The plus high-voltage wire and the minus high-voltage wire are configured to be electrically connected to an in-vehicle high-voltage battery. The wire harness includes a sheathing material for collectively enclosing the plurality of wires, where the sheathing material is tube-shaped. The wire harness also includes a cover that covers an outer periphery of the sheathing material, where the cover is tube-shaped and made of an insulating reinforced fiber. The sheathing material includes a metal pipe having a bend that is bent along a wiring line, and the cover is provided in an area at least including the bend of the metal pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD
    Inventor: Masahiro Hagi
  • Patent number: 10573433
    Abstract: A guarded coaxial cable assembly including at least a pair of conductors, one or more rails, and a jacket covering these parts such as a first rail extending alongside two nearby conductors, the rail and the conductors embedded in an outer electrically insulating jacket, the outer jacket having a pair of generally opposed bearing surfaces for bearing transverse loads, the rail operative to reduce outer jacket deformations resulting from transverse loads applied to the bearing surfaces; and, the orientation of the rail and the conductors within the outer jacket operative to limit conductor or conductor jacket deformations resulting from transverse loads applied to the bearing surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Holland Electronics, LLC
    Inventors: George Goebel, Reed Gibson, Scott Hatton
  • Patent number: 10573431
    Abstract: A communication cable includes a cable core including a plurality of pairs of wires, each of the pairs of wires being formed by spirally twisting two wires including conductors covered with an insulator, and an external jacket configured to cover an outer side of the cable core, where the external jacket includes a plurality of support arms to prevent contact between the cable core and an inner surface of the external jacket and to secure a separation space in a radial direction, the plurality of support arms being integrally formed with the external jacket, and each of the plurality of support arms including a connection part connected to the inner surface of the external jacket and a support part having an increased width at an end portion of the connection part to support the cable core, thereby enabling the communication cable to satisfy a standard of Cat.6A or higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: LS CABLE & SYSTEM LTD.
    Inventors: Woo Kyoung Lee, Jung Jin Kim, Tae Seong Kim, Young Il Cho
  • Patent number: 10569722
    Abstract: A wire harness includes a conductive first wiring material, wired to a vehicle, and a second wiring material wired to the vehicle in a state where at least a part of the second wiring material is bundled with the first wiring material. The second wiring material has a flow passage formed therein through which a liquid can flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ken Ito, Naoto Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 10574046
    Abstract: A grommet includes a grommet main body made of an elastic material and an inner member. The grommet main body includes a cylinder portion and a large diameter portion that is formed so as to extend toward the outer circumference side from the cylinder portion, a ring-shaped portion that can be arranged on the inner circumference side of the attachment hole being formed on the outer circumferential portion. The grommet main body is fit into the attachment hole from one end side in the attachment direction of the large diameter portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi Okuhara
  • Patent number: 10562470
    Abstract: A wire harness that includes an electric line; a corrugated tube that includes annular ridges and annular valleys alternately formed along an extension direction, and that covers the electric line; a path control that is arranged in at least one section that extends in the extension direction of the electric line so as to be parallel to the corrugated tube, and that is shaped so as to conform to a path along which the electric line is arranged in the section and to control the path in the section; and a support that includes a first support that supports the path control and a second support that is fitted into the annular valleys of the corrugated tube so as to support the corrugated tube, the support being configured to connect the path control to the corrugated tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoya Kawaguchi, Masaharu Suetani
  • Patent number: 10559895
    Abstract: Connection adapter for connecting an earthing line to a metal protective hose comprising a line contact having at least one ring segment resting on the outer sheath of the earthing line and comprising a hose contact having a contact tab resting on the inner sheath of the protective hose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Wieland Electric GmbH
    Inventors: Edwin Haas, Dharmesh Patel, Noaman Makki, Steven Hughes
  • Patent number: 10553333
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a telecommunications cable. The telecommunications cable includes a plurality of twisted pairs of insulated conductors. The plurality of twisted pairs of insulated conductors extends substantially along a longitudinal axis of the telecommunications cable. In addition, the telecommunications cable includes a separator. The separator separates each twisted pair of insulated conductor of the plurality of twisted pairs of insulated conductors. Moreover, the telecommunications cable includes a first layer. The first layer surrounds the separator and the plurality of twisted pairs of insulated conductors along a length of the telecommunications cable. The separator is I-shaped filler. The separator is made of low smoke zero halogen material or MDPE. The first layer is made of low smoke zero halogen material, polyethylene or poly vinyl chloride. The first layer has a thickness in a range of about 0.4 millimeter-2.5 millimeters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: STERLITE TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Andrew Kaczmarski, Darshana Bhatt
  • Patent number: 10548214
    Abstract: A multi-layer circuit board capable of being applied with electrical testing includes a metallic delivery loading plate, a bottom-layer circuit structure, a conductive corrosion-barrier layer, and a multi-layer circuit structure. The bottom-layer circuit structure is overlapping on the delivery loading plate. The conductive corrosion-barrier layer is disposed on the bottom dielectric layer. The multi-layer circuit structure is overlapping on the bottom-layer circuit structure. The top-layer circuit of the multi-layer circuit structure is electrically connected to the conductive corrosion-barrier layer through the inner-layer circuit of the multi-layer circuit structure and the bottom-layer circuit of the bottom-layer circuit structure. The delivery loading plate and the bottom dielectric layer of the bottom-layer circuit structure expose the conductive corrosion-barrier layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: KINSUS INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventors: Chin-Kuan Liu, Chao-Lung Wang, Shuo-Hsun Chang, Yu-Te Lu, Chin-Hsi Chang
  • Patent number: 10547149
    Abstract: A wiring module includes a plurality of conductive plates, and first coupling portions and second coupling portions that are provided on outer peripheral portions of the plurality of conductive plates and have mutually connectable shapes. In this wiring module, the plurality of conductive plates are electrically connected by coupling the first coupling portions and the second coupling portions. Therefore, changing a manner in which the conductive plates are coupled (for example, changing the number of coupled conductive plates, the coupling positions thereof, or the coupling angles thereof) makes it possible to use the wiring module in various layouts depending on the shapes of vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takuji Kobayashi, Misako Nagai