Patents by Inventor Brian Louis Hilgert

Brian Louis Hilgert has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Electrical busway housing system and connection means therefor
    Patent number: 6521837
    Abstract: An electrical busway housing system mechanically connected at the joints of adjoining housing sections by utilization of a coupling system having a top plate and a bottom plate, at least one of which has a roughened surface that provides superior gripping strength when the adjoining sections of busbar housing are clamped between them. Frictional clamping force is provided by a means of drawing the top plate and the bottom plate together and securing between them flanges or similar structural features of the busbar housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Assignee: Universal Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Louis Hilgert, Edward James Schultz
  • Electrical busway housing system and connection means therefor
    Publication number: 20020117322
    Abstract: An electrical busway housing system mechanically connected at the joints of adjoining housing sections by utilization of a coupling system having a top plate and a bottom plate, at least one of which has a roughened surface that provides superior gripping strength when the adjoining sections of busbar housing are clamped between them. Frictional clamping force is provided by a means of drawing the top plate and the bottom plate together and securing between them flanges or similar structural features of the busbar housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2001
    Publication date: August 29, 2002
    Inventors: Brian Louis Hilgert, Edward James Schultz