Patents Examined by William H. Mayo, III
  • Core wire for multi-core cables and multi-core cable
    Patent number: 11410789
    Abstract: A core wire for multi-core cables includes a conductor obtained by twisting a plurality of elemental wires, and an insulating layer coated on an outer peripheral surface of the conductor. The insulating layer contains polyethylene-based resin as a main component, and the product of a linear expansion coefficient C1 of the insulating layer in the range of 25° C. to ?35° C. and an elastic modulus E1 at ?35° C., namely (C1×E1), is 0.01 MPaK?1 or more and 0.90 MPaK?1 or less. The melting point of the polyethylene-based resin is 80° C. or higher and 130° C. or lower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka Matsumura, Shigeyuki Tanaka, Taro Fujita, Takaya Kohori, Masayuki Ishikawa
  • Armoured cable for transporting alternate current with permanently magnetised armour wires
    Patent number: 11410794
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an armoured AC cable comprising at least one core comprising an electric conductor, and an armour surrounding the at least one core and comprising ferromagnetic wires, wherein the ferromagnetic wires are permanently magnetized with a remanent magnetic field which is uniform or variable along the cable length L. The present disclosure also relates to a process for producing an armoured AC cable, a method for improving the performances of an armoured AC cable, and a method for reducing losses in an armoured AC cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: PRYSMIAN S.p.A.
    Inventors: Paolo Maioli, Marco Ruzzier, Monica Lucarelli
  • Bending-resistant communication cable and wire harness
    Patent number: 11410793
    Abstract: A bending-resistant communication cable includes a parallel two-core shielded wire that includes a drain wire in a gap between two-core communication wires and is formed by collectively covering the two-core communication wires and the drain wire by an external conductor. Each of the drain wires in a plurality of parallel two-core shielded wire is arranged to face inside of the bending-resistant communication cable. Further, a twist pitch of the plurality of two-core shielded wires is 20 mm or more and less than 100 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiharu Shimizu, Hiroki Kondo
  • Connector
    Patent number: 11411330
    Abstract: A connector includes: a number of busbars; a housing holding of the busbars; and a cover mounted on the housing. The busbars each have a fastening target portion to connect a terminal metal fitting by using a bolt. The fastening target portion is housed in a housing room, and a number of the housing rooms is defined between the housing and the cover. One of the housing rooms corresponding to the fastening target portion of one of the busbars and another of the housing rooms corresponding to the fastening target portion of another of the busbars are separated with a partition wall, and at least part of the partition wall has a liquid-tight portion formed by engaging a projection of one of the housing and the cover with a recess of the other of the housing and the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masataka Nagayama, Kiyotaka Mizuno
  • Resin composition, sheath cable, and wire harness
    Patent number: 11407887
    Abstract: A resin composition contains a resin component containing a copolymer of olefin and a comonomer having polarity and an ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymer. The resin component is cross-linked and the tensile stress at 19% strain is 2.0 MPa or less. The resin composition has a sea-island structure in which the copolymer of olefin and a comonomer having polarity is the continuous phase, and the ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymer is the dispersed phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiro Taki
  • Low cost extrudable isolator from slit-tape
    Patent number: 11410800
    Abstract: A dielectric isolator for a twisted pair cable includes a body formed as an elongate strip with a top surface, bottom surface, a first side edge and a second side edge. A first slot is formed in the first side edge and extends at least half way toward the center of the isolator. A second slot is formed in the second side edge and extends at least half way toward the center of the isolator. During cable manufacturing, first and second wedges open the first and second slots. First and second twisted pairs are inserted into the first and second opened slots, respectively. Third and fourth twisted pairs reside at the top and bottom surface, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Wayne C. Hopkinson, Trent M. Hayes, Ted Q. Cobb, Jr., Douglas R. Brake, David A. Wiebelhaus, Thomas M. Faison
  • Copper alloy wire, plated wire, electrical wire and cable
    Patent number: 11404181
    Abstract: A copper alloy wire is made of a copper alloy, and the copper alloy contains indium, a content of which is equal to or more than 0.3 mass % and equal to or less than 0.45 mass %. A tensile strength of the copper alloy wire is equal to or higher than 800 MPa, and an electrical conductivity of the same is equal to or higher than 80% IACS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromitsu Kuroda, Takashi Hayasaka, Detian Huang, Ryohei Okada, Tamotsu Sakurai
  • Cable termination and method of manufacture
    Patent number: 11404856
    Abstract: A cable termination includes a cable end of a cable having a protective outer jacket and an overmolded sealant. The cable termination is manufactured using a method having the steps of providing a cable end of a cable having a protective outer jacket, preparing the protective outer jacket of the cable end such as to promote adhesion with a sealant, and overmolding the cable end with a sealant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Inventors: Szymon Bak, Tomasz Slizowski, Artur Kliszka, Paulina Budny, Marta Uroda-Bigaj, Pawel Kozak, Marcelina Skawinska, Grzegorz Paletko, Adam Gorzelak, Karol Janicki, Michal Cieszynski, Marcin Gawlik
  • Clamp and wire harness
    Patent number: 11400873
    Abstract: A clamp and wire harness that allow for position adjustment with respect to an object of installation; wherein the clamp holds a tubular member accommodating an electric wire and is fixed to an object of installation. The clamp includes a clamp body, which holds the tubular member, and a core block, which is separate from the clamp body. The clamp body includes a through-hole, which accommodates the core block, inner surfaces opposed to the core block in the through-hole, and a bottom surface. The core block includes a body portion accommodated in the through-hole, a coupling portion to be coupled to the object of installation, and a protrusion that protrudes in a direction orthogonal to a central axis O of the through-hole. The protrusion is opposed to the bottom surface. The body portion is configured to be separated from one of the inner surfaces when contacting the other inner surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignees: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Fuchigami, Kazuma Ogino, Yusuke Noda
  • Ethernet cable cross-filler with notches
    Patent number: 11393610
    Abstract: A cross filler for arrangement within a LAN cable has a plurality of twisted pair conductors. The cross filler has a body and a plurality of radially extending arms from a center point. Each of the arms has a plurality of spaced apart notches cut into the arms, the notches spaced apart along the length of the arms. Each of the notches are dimensioned allowing bending of the LAN cable without physical breakdown of the cross filler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Berk-Tek LLC
    Inventor: Bradley G. Hess
  • Surface protection composition and terminal fitted electric wire
    Patent number: 11390759
    Abstract: A surface protection composition forms a uniform film, and a terminal fitted electric wire coated with the composition, the composition containing (a) a phosphorus compound represented by the formula (1) in an amount of 0.1 to 10 mass % in terms of phosphorus element, (b) a metal-containing compound in an amount of 0.1 to 10 mass % in terms of metal element or an amine compound in an amount of 0.1 to 5.0 mass % in terms of nitrogen element, (c) a (meth)acrylate compatible with a solvent with a solubility parameter of 8.2 or lower and has a hydrocarbon chain with 4 or higher carbon atoms in an amount of 1.0 to 70 mass %, and (d) at least one of a photopolymerization initiator and a thermal polymerization initiator in an amount of 0.1 to 10 mass %, with respect to the total amount of the composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, ANTIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoyuki Oshiumi, Takehiro Hosokawa, Makoto Mizoguchi
  • Electrical equipment and additional functional module associated therewith
    Patent number: 11393645
    Abstract: An electrical equipment (1) for an electrical installation suitable is provided, connected to an electrical grid having at least: —a primary functional module (2) suitable and intended for carrying out a current interruption function, and an additional functional module (5) for carrying out at least one function requiring a power supply The function of the additional functional module (5) is selected, alone or in combination, from a function of measuring at least one physical parameter and/or a function of emitting and/or receiving electromagnetic radiation, and/or a display function, and/or an actuation function, and/or a data processing function, and/or a function of converting a physical signal into an electrical signal or vice versa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: BERKER GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jacques Kraemer, Pascal Noel
  • Electrical wiring device with flexible terminal for eliminating connection to ground
    Patent number: 11387608
    Abstract: An electrical wiring system providing selectable referencing to earth ground having a housing having a first terminal for attachment to HOT, a second terminal for attachment to LOAD, and a flexible terminal having a first leg mounted to the electrical wiring device and a second leg connected to the first leg via a flexible joint, wherein the relative distance between the first leg and the second leg is adjustable between an extended position and a retracted position by flexing the flexible joint. The flexible joint being biased in the extended position, wherein the first leg defines a first aperture and the second leg defines a second aperture, and a load control circuit disposed within the housing and receiving a line input from the first terminal and a reference input. The reference input being referenced to the electric potential of the flexible terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Pass & Seymour, Inc.
    Inventors: Gerald R. Savicki, Jr., Syed J. Jamal
  • Electrical unit and associated additional functional module
    Patent number: 11380498
    Abstract: An electrical unit (1) for an electrical installation that is connected to an electrical network, comprising at least: a primary functional module (2) that is capable of for performing a current-switching function, and an additional functional module (5) for performing at least one function requiring an electrical power supply. The function of the additional functional module (5) is a function requiring an electrical power supply with the exception of a lighting function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: BERKER GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jacques Kraemer, Pascal Noel
  • Covered electrical wire, terminal-equipped electrical wire, copper alloy wire, and copper alloy stranded wire
    Patent number: 11380458
    Abstract: A covered electrical wire comprises a conductor and an insulating covering layer provided outside the conductor, the conductor being a stranded wire composed of a plurality of copper alloy wires composed of a copper alloy and twisted together, and has a wire diameter of 0.5 mm or less, the copper alloy containing Ni, or Ni and Fe in an amount of 0.1% by mass or more and 1.6% by mass or less in total, and P in an amount of 0.05% by mass or more and 0.7% by mass or less, with a balance being Cu and impurities, in the copper alloy, a ratio of precipitation of P to solid solution of P being 1.1 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kei Sakamoto, Akiko Inoue, Tetsuya Kuwabara, Yusuke Oshima, Minoru Nakamoto, Kazuhiro Nanjo, Taichiro Nishikawa, Yoshihiro Nakai, Kazuhiro Goto, Ryo Toyoshima, Yasuyuki Otsuka, Fumitoshi Imasato, Hiroyuki Kobayashi
  • Hybrid cables for use with sensitive detectors
    Patent number: 11373783
    Abstract: A hybrid cable for use with sensitive detectors may include a central power delivery component, a data delivery component positioned around the power delivery component, and a jacket formed around the power delivery component and the data delivery component. The power delivery component may include a plurality of shielded first individually insulated conductors. The data delivery component may include four twisted pairs of second individually insulated conductors and respective shield layers formed around each of the four pairs. An outer diameter of the cable may be less than 8.5 mm, and the cable may be capable of transmitting data within an operating frequency range of up to 2.5 GHz over a distance of at least 100 m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Superior Essex International LP
    Inventors: Christopher W. McNutt, Amir Sekhavat, Nathan Spare
  • Fire resistant data communication cable
    Patent number: 11367541
    Abstract: Data communication cables include twisted wire pairs, a fire retardant tape, a metallized tape shield, a braided metallic shield, and a jacket layer. The fire retardant tape surrounds the twisted wire pairs has an overlap of about 15% to about 25%. The data communication cables are also halogen-free and may pass the fire retardant standards of National Fire Protection Agency (“NFPA”) 130.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: GENERAL CABLE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gregg Raymond Szylakowski, Scott M. Brown
  • Series terminal assembly and method for implementing wiring on a matrix of conductor connection devices
    Patent number: 11367970
    Abstract: A method for implementing-a wiring on a matrix of conductor connection devices such as terminal conductor connection devices for connection of the ends of a conductor to at least one series terminal block uses at least one luminous element to identify conductor connection devices which are illuminated in the matrix directly or indirectly in accordance with a wiring diagram. The conductor connection devices that are illuminated by the luminous element and that are to be interconnected are connected to conductors, the ends of which are inserted in the conductor connection devices to establish a respective conducting wiring connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Inventors: Ralf Henke, Frank Hackemack, Andreas Rutz
  • Cable holder for storing unused cores of a multicore cable
    Patent number: 11361880
    Abstract: A cable holder (10) attaches to a cable (1) with a plurality of cores (2). The cable holder (10) has a receiving body (11) with a plurality of receiving chambers (12). The chambers (12) extend in a cable longitudinal direction (L). An insertion opening (13) is formed at least on one side of the receiving chamber for inserting an end of a core (2). A fastening portion (14) is connected to the receiving chamber (12). The fastening portion (14) fastens the cable holder (10) to the outer sheath of the cable (1) by a fastening device (3) engaging around the cable (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Othmar Ströbel, Christian Zeller
  • Reinforced electric wire and methods of making the same
    Patent number: 11361883
    Abstract: The invention relates to reinforced electric wires, particularly reinforced electric wires as used in holiday lighting such as Christmas light strings. In some embodiments, the reinforced electric wire has a conductor, a reinforcing string or one or more reinforcing threads, and an insulator jacket. In some embodiments, the conductor has a single conductor strand. In some embodiments, the conductor has a plurality of conductor strands. In some embodiments, the wire has an insulator jacket having a plurality of channels therein, where a conductor is passed through the center channel, and reinforcing threads are passed through the other channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Polygroup Macau Limited (BVI)
    Inventor: Xiaofeng Cao