Patents by Inventor Mark R. Drane
Mark R. Drane 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).
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Patent number: 11605939Abstract: A conduit assembly provides a thermal break about an opening in an insulated panel. An elongate conduit extends through an opening in the panel. The conduit has an interior for passage of wires and an exterior. An electrical enclosure is mounted to one end of the conduit on one side of the panel. The conduit and the box being in communication for passage of the wires into the enclosure. A panel seal is provided for sealing the opening in the panel about the conduit.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2020Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: ABB INSTALLATION PRODUCTS INTERNATIONAL LLCInventors: Mark R. Drane, Stephen V. Norako, Darren Tremelling, Peter Schuster
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Publication number: 20200303914Abstract: A conduit assembly provides a thermal break about an opening in an insulated panel. An elongate conduit extends through an opening in the panel. The conduit has an interior for passage of wires and an exterior. An electrical enclosure is mounted to one end of the conduit on one side of the panel. The conduit and the box being in communication for passage of the wires into the enclosure. A panel seal is provided for sealing the opening in the panel about the conduit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2020Publication date: September 24, 2020Inventors: Mark R. Drane, Stephen V. Norako, Darren Tremelling, Peter Schuster
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Patent number: 10530140Abstract: A poke-through device for installation in a hole in a floor structure, the floor structure defining a floor in a first working environment and a ceiling in a second working environment, the hole communicating between the first and second working environments, the poke through device. The poke-through device includes a body defining an interior and having an upper end and a lower end. A mounting frame is adapted to secure an electrical device within the body. A first intumescent member is disposed at the body upper end, and an electrical box is secured to the body lower end. A fire resistant gasket is disposed between the electrical box and the body lower end. The gasket includes openings therein to permit passage of wiring between the electrical box and the body.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2017Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: Thomas & Betts International LLCInventor: Mark R. Drane
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Patent number: 10439378Abstract: A poke-through device for installation in a hole in a floor structure, the poke-through device including a body defining an interior. The body including a length bounded by an upper end and a lower end, the body including a central axis extending along its length. A mounting frame including a pair of opposed end lobes separated by at least one divider. One of the pair of lobes has a first electrical device mounting surface and the other of the pair of lobes including a second electrical device mounting surface. The first and second electrical mounting surfaces are angled toward the central axis. The first and second electrical device mounting surfaces each including an opening adapted to receive therein an electrical device. A first intumescent member is disposed at the body upper end, and an electrical box is secured to the body lower end. A fire resistant gasket is disposed between the electrical box and the body lower end.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2018Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: ABB Schweiz AGInventors: Gregory Richards, Mark R. Drane, Robert Kevin Jolly, Michael D. Martin
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Publication number: 20190013659Abstract: A poke-through device for installation in a hole in a floor structure, the floor structure defining a floor in a first working environment and a ceiling in a second working environment, the hole communicating between the first and second working environments, the poke through device. The poke-through device includes a body defining an interior and having an upper end and a lower end. A mounting frame is adapted to secure an electrical device within the body. A first intumescent member is disposed at the body upper end, and an electrical box is secured to the body lower end. A fire resistant gasket is disposed between the electrical box and the body lower end. The gasket includes openings therein to permit passage of wiring between the electrical box and the body.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2017Publication date: January 10, 2019Applicant: Thomas & Betts International LLCInventor: Mark R. Drane
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Publication number: 20190006830Abstract: A poke-through device for installation in a hole in a floor structure, the poke-through device including a body defining an interior. The body including a length bounded by an upper end and a lower end, the body including a central axis extending along its length. A mounting frame including a pair of opposed end lobes separated by at least one divider. One of the pair of lobes has a first electrical device mounting surface and the other of the pair of lobes including a second electrical device mounting surface. The first and second electrical mounting surfaces are angled toward the central axis. The first and second electrical device mounting surfaces each including an opening adapted to receive therein an electrical device. A first intumescent member is disposed at the body upper end, and an electrical box is secured to the body lower end. A fire resistant gasket is disposed between the electrical box and the body lower end.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2018Publication date: January 3, 2019Inventors: Gregory Richards, Mark R. Drane, Robert Kevin Jolly, Michael D. Martin
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Patent number: 10125898Abstract: A cable hanger is disclosed. The cable hanger may include a first latch configured to suspend the cable hanger from a strut and a second latch configured to suspend the cable hanger from the strut. The cable hanger may also include a cable saddle to hold one or more cables. When the cable hanger is suspended by the first latch and not the second latch, a gap may be formed between the cable saddle and the strut such that the cable saddle is configured to receive the one or more cables through the gap. When the cable hanger is suspended by the second latch, the gap may be closed between the cable saddle and the strut to secure the one or more cables.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2017Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: Thomas & Betts International LLCInventors: Charles E. Whipple, Mark R. Drane, Andrew Cole, Joey Magno
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Patent number: 10119648Abstract: The disclosed invention provides a conduit sleeve with detachable end cap that greatly reduces the complexity of the current system that requires a multiplicity of integral sleeve conduit bodies, styles, fixtures, fittings, connectors, rigid conduits with female threading, and other receiving structures. Now, one conduit sleeve with detachable end cap can be used to protect a threaded conduit end without the need for specialty receiving structures having an integral sleeve. This is accomplished by having a single object performing both roles as conduit sleeve and end cap. The end cap portion can simply be cut or twisted off from the conduit sleeve portion at a convenient time after installation onto a rigid conduit, tube, pipe, or similar structure. The remaining conduit sleeve that is left protects the area of the rigid conduit where conduit threads would have been left exposed since they are not fully threaded into the receiving structure.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2015Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: Thomas & Betts International LLCInventor: Mark R. Drane
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Patent number: 10106303Abstract: A cable tie includes a cable tie head that comprises a head portion. The cable tie also includes a cable tie body. The cable tie body comprises a main body that includes a body passageway; and a strap, wherein the cable tie head is attachable to and detachable from the cable tie body, and wherein the body passageway is formed to receive the legs for coupling the cable tie head with the cable tie body. The cable tie head is made from a different material than the cable head body.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2015Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: Thomas & Betts International LLCInventors: Mark R. Drane, Yan Gao, Bobby N. Norwood, Cong T. Dinh
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Publication number: 20170335995Abstract: A cable hanger is disclosed. The cable hanger may include a first latch configured to suspend the cable hanger from a strut and a second latch configured to suspend the cable hanger from the strut. The cable hanger may also include a cable saddle to hold one or more cables. When the cable hanger is suspended by the first latch and not the second latch, a gap may be formed between the cable saddle and the strut such that the cable saddle is configured to receive the one or more cables through the gap. When the cable hanger is suspended by the second latch, the gap may be closed between the cable saddle and the strut to secure the one or more cables.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2017Publication date: November 23, 2017Inventors: Charles E. Whipple, Mark R. Drane, Andrew Cole, Joey Magno
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Patent number: 9704373Abstract: A device includes a device body that further includes a first attachment mechanism for attaching to another object, structure, or item of equipment. The device also includes wireless communication circuitry affixed to the device body, and one or more sensor components affixed to the device body, coupled to the wireless communication circuitry, and configured to sense environmental parameters associated with the device or with the object, structure or item of equipment. The device may further include powering circuitry, affixed to the device body, and configured to provide electrical power to the wireless communication circuitry and/or the one or more sensor components. The device may include a lug, connector or terminal.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2015Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: Thomas & Betts International LLCInventors: Ian Rubin de la Borbolla, Mark R. Drane, Cong Thanh Dinh, Andrew J. Feudner, Brian Burke
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Patent number: 9671046Abstract: A cable hanger is disclosed. The cable hanger may include a first latch configured to suspend the cable hanger from a strut and a second latch configured to suspend the cable hanger from the strut. The cable hanger may also include a cable saddle to hold one or more cables. When the cable hanger is suspended by the first latch and not the second latch, a gap may be formed between the cable saddle and the strut such that the cable saddle is configured to receive the one or more cables through the gap. When the cable hanger is suspended by the second latch, the gap may be closed between the cable saddle and the strut to secure the one or more cables.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2010Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: Thomas & Betts International LLCInventors: Charles E. Whipple, Mark R. Drane, Andrew Cole, Joey Magno
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Patent number: 9614359Abstract: A while-in-use electrical box including a housing having a front wall, a back wall, a top wall, a bottom wall and two opposed side walls. The housing has a longitudinal axis extending along the length of the box between the two side walls. The housing has a transverse axis extending from the back wall to the front wall. A device plate is disposed within the housing dividing the housing into a first section and a second section. The first section of the housing is enclosed and adapted to house an electrical device and the second section forms an electrical device access area. The device plate has a first panel forming a face plate for receiving a face of the electrical device. The second section is spaced from the first section along the longitudinal axis, and the face plate is in a non-parallel, non- perpendicular alignment with the housing transverse axis.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2016Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignee: Thomas & Betts International LLCInventors: Mark R. Drane, Henry Stefanov
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Publication number: 20160294172Abstract: A while-in-use electrical box including a housing having a front wall, a back wall, a top wall, a bottom wall and two opposed side walls. The housing has a longitudinal axis extending along the length of the box between the two side walls. The housing has a transverse axis extending from the back wall to the front wall. A device plate is disposed within the housing dividing the housing into a first section and a second section. The first section of the housing is enclosed and adapted to house an electrical device and the second section forms an electrical device access area. The device plate has a first panel forming a face plate for receiving a face of the electrical device. The second section is spaced from the first section along the longitudinal axis, and the face plate is in a non-parallel, non-perpendicular alignment with the housing transverse axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2016Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: Mark R. Drane, Henry Stefanov
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Patent number: 9254949Abstract: A cable tie includes a band having a first end and a second end a housing, affixed to the band near the second end, with a first opening to receive the first end of the band. The housing comprises a first mass near the first opening and one side of the housing, a stop mass near a second side of the housing, and a second mass between the first mass and the stop mass. When the first end is inserted into the housing, the second mass prevents the first mass from moving a first distance occupied by the second mass, toward the stop mass. When the first end in the housing is being pulled out of the housing, the first mass locks the first end in the housing and prevents the first end from slipping over a second distance.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2013Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: Thomas & Betts International, Inc.Inventors: Cong T. Dinh, Andrew C. Cole, Mark R. Drane
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Publication number: 20150348394Abstract: A device includes a device body that further includes a first attachment mechanism for attaching to another object, structure, or item of equipment. The device also includes wireless communication circuitry affixed to the device body, and one or more sensor components affixed to the device body, coupled to the wireless communication circuitry, and configured to sense environmental parameters associated with the device or with the object, structure or item of equipment. The device may further include powering circuitry, affixed to the device body, and configured to provide electrical power to the wireless communication circuitry and/or the one or more sensor components. The device may include a lug, connector or terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2015Publication date: December 3, 2015Inventors: Ian Rubin de la Borbolla, Mark R. Drane, Cong Thanh Dinh, Andrew J. Feudner, Brian Burke
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Publication number: 20150330549Abstract: The disclosed invention provides a conduit sleeve with detachable end cap that greatly reduces the complexity of the current system that requires a multiplicity of integral sleeve conduit bodies, styles, fixtures, fittings, connectors, rigid conduits with female threading, and other receiving structures. Now, one conduit sleeve with detachable end cap can be used to protect a threaded conduit end without the need for specialty receiving structures having an integral sleeve. This is accomplished by having a single object performing both roles as conduit sleeve and end cap. The end cap portion can simply be cut or twisted off from the conduit sleeve portion at a convenient time after installation onto a rigid conduit, tube, pipe, or similar structure. The remaining conduit sleeve that is left protects the area of the rigid conduit where conduit threads would have been left exposed since they are not fully threaded into the receiving structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2015Publication date: November 19, 2015Applicant: THOMAS & BETTS INTERNATIONAL, LLCInventor: Mark R. Drane
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Patent number: 9160153Abstract: An electrical box includes a back wall and a front wall, configured to be essentially parallel to a mounting surface when the base is installed to the mounting surface, and a pair of interchangeable top and bottom walls. Each interchangeable top and bottom wall is connected to the back wall and the front wall. The electrical box includes a side wall connected to each of the other walls and an open end opposite the side wall that is configured to receive an electrical device therein. A standoff extends laterally from the back wall. The standoff is configured to provide a mounting structure and to position the electrical box away from the mounting surface. The electrical box is configured to receive a top-mounted hood to cover the open end when the base is installed with the open end positioned to face either of the right side or the left side.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2013Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: Thomas & Betts International, Inc.Inventors: Joey D. Magno, Jr., Mark R. Drane, Robert Kevin Jolly
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Patent number: 9148007Abstract: A poke-through device includes a tubular main body sized for insertion into a hole formed through a concrete floor. A device frame is mounted in the tubular main body for mounting one or more electrical devices. An intumescent insert is mounted in the tubular main body below the device frame. A junction box assembly is mounted to a bottom end of the tubular main body. A cover assembly is configured to enclose an opening in a top end of the tubular main body. The intumescent insert is mounted in the tubular main body so as to not contact the device frame to allow intumescent material to flow around the device frame in the event of a fire.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2013Date of Patent: September 29, 2015Assignee: THOMAS & BETTS INTERNATIONAL, LLCInventor: Mark R. Drane
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Publication number: 20150266637Abstract: A cable tie includes a cable tie head that comprises a head portion. The cable tie also includes a cable tie body. The cable tie body comprises a main body that includes a body passageway; and a strap, wherein the cable tie head is attachable to and detachable from the cable tie body, and wherein the body passageway is formed to receive the legs for coupling the cable tie head with the cable tie body. The cable tie head is made from a different material than the cable head body.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2015Publication date: September 24, 2015Inventors: Mark R. Drane, Yan Gao, Bobby N. Norwood, Cong T. Dinh