With External Conductor Or Cable Embedded In Insulative Sealing Material Patents (Class 439/604)
  • Patent number: 11909141
    Abstract: A connector comprises a housing defining a receptacle sized to receive a flat flexible cable. A conductive terminal is arranged within the receptacle and adapted to contact an exposed conductor of the flat flexible cable received within the receptacle. A seal is positioned in contact with a front end of the housing and defines a cable receiving slot therethrough aligned with the receptacle. A cover is arranged over the seal and includes a slotted opening aligned with the cable receiving slot of the seal and the receptacle. The cover selectively fixed to the front end of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH
    Inventor: Christopher Ryan Raybold
  • Patent number: 11881667
    Abstract: A terminal-equipped electric wire includes an electric wire, a terminal fitting, and a water-stopping member. The terminal fitting includes a bottom wall on which the electric wire end is placed, and a pair of core wire caulking pieces caulking and crimping a core wire exposed part in a state where a front end of the core wire exposed part protrudes, and the bottom wall includes a concave part that continues from a place facing the front end side of the core wire exposed part in the pair of core wire caulking pieces to the tip of a front end surface of the front end of the core wire exposed part, and receives the bottom wall side ranging from a place where the core wire exposed part is caulked and crimped by the end parts of the pair of core wire caulking pieces to the front end surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kei Sato
  • Patent number: 11842827
    Abstract: Disclosed are cable types, including a type THHN cable, the cable types having a reduced surface coefficient of friction, and the method of manufacture thereof, in which the central conductor core and insulating layer are surrounded by a material containing nylon or thermosetting resin. A silicone based pulling lubricant for said cable, or alternatively, erucamide or stearyl erucamide for small cable gauge wire, is incorporated, by alternate methods, with the resin material from which the outer sheath is extruded, and is effective to reduce the required pulling force between the formed cable and a conduit during installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Southwire Company, LLC
    Inventors: Philip Sasse, Terry Chambers, Randy D. Kummer, John Armstrong, David Reece, Hai Lam
  • Patent number: 11115744
    Abstract: A hearing device includes a housing with a retention flange defining a retention space. A conduit is disposed about an electrical wire electrically coupled to a transducer and a ferrule is disposed about an end portion of the conduit and fixed along an axial dimension of the conduit, the ferrule having a portion disposable in the retention space. A bushing has a portion disposed at least partially about the portion of the ferrule disposable in the retention space, the bushing formed of a soft material relative to a hardness of the ferrule and the housing, wherein the bushing is located between the retention flange and the ferrule and the retention flange captures the conduit relative to the housing when the portion of the bushing is disposed in the retention space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Knowles Electronics, LLC
    Inventors: Brenno Varanda, Shehab Albahri
  • Patent number: 10050381
    Abstract: A plug connector part includes a housing having first and second housing parts. The housing parts are joined together parallel to a plug contact insertion direction. The housing parts have lateral surfaces which face one another when the housing parts are joined together. The housing parts have parallel grooves at their lateral surfaces. The grooves form plug contact receiving channels when the housing parts are joined together. The plug contacts have lances which engage projections of the receiving channels when the plug contacts are fully received within the receiving channels. The first housing part includes spring tongues along the grooves of the first housing part for fixing the plug contacts within the receiving channels. The spring tongues have tab-like sections which extend into the receiving channels and engage the plug contacts to fix the plug contacts within the receiving channels in a form-fit manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Kostal Kontakt Systeme GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Wolter, Uwe Raschke, Guido Eberhardt, Alexander Koch, Christian Jaworek
  • Patent number: 9882291
    Abstract: An electric wire with a terminal is formed by coating a crimp terminal and a crimp connection portion of an electric wire with an anti-corrosive material. When the electric wire with a terminal is manufactured, in a step of setting the terminal in a mold, in a position within a cavity corresponding to the upper surface of a front end of the anti-corrosive material, a release promoting member for promoting release of the mold from a resin is arranged, and in such a state, the anti-corrosive material is molded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiko Shimizu, Yusuke Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 9721700
    Abstract: A water-stop structure for electrical wire includes: a terminal including an electrical wire connection portion; and an electrical wire in which an outer circumference of a conductor including a plurality of single wires is coated with an insulation coating portion and which is swaged to be fixed to the electrical wire connection portion, a water-stop agent being filled into a gap in the insulation coating portion to thereby perform water stop in the electrical wire. The water-stop agent includes a fluorescent agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaru Kuriyagawa, Jun Tachibana
  • Patent number: 9379476
    Abstract: A connector includes a plurality of metal terminal fittings connected to terminals of electric wires, a plurality of molded housings molded to connection parts of the electric wires and the metal terminal fittings to cover the connection parts, and an overmolded housing which accommodates and holds the plurality of molded housings. The plurality of molded housings are molded in a structure integrated by carrier portions that connect the adjacent molded housings to each other and are collectively integrated into the overmolded housing. The carrier portions have cross-section dimensions set to be smaller than those of the molded housing and have flexibility. An arrangement pitch between the adjacent molded housings are adjusted when the plurality of molded housings are collectively integrated into the overmolded housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Tanaka, Hajime Kato, Madoka Ohishi, Sotaro Kato, Takaaki Miyajima
  • Patent number: 9350125
    Abstract: Embodiments can provide reversible or dual orientation USB plug connectors for mating with standard USB receptacle connectors, e.g., a standard Type A USB receptacle connector. Accordingly, the present invention may be compatible with any current or future electronic device that includes a standard USB receptacle connector. USB plug connectors according to the present invention can have a 180 degree symmetrical, double orientation design, which enables the plug connector to be inserted into a corresponding receptacle connector in either of two intuitive orientations. Thus, embodiments of the present invention may reduce the potential for USB connector damage and user frustration during the incorrect insertion of a USB plug connector into a corresponding USB receptacle connector of an electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Warren Z. Jones, Eric T. SooHoo, Albert J. Golko, Stephen Brian Lynch
  • Patent number: 9142336
    Abstract: Disclosed is type THHN cable having a reduced surface coefficient of friction, and the method of manufacture thereof, in which the central conductor core and insulating layer are surrounded by a nylon sheath. A high viscosity, high molecular weight silicone based pulling lubricant for THHN cable, or alternatively, erucamide or stearyl erucamide for small THHN gauge wire, is incorporated, by alternate methods, with the nylon material from which the outer sheath is extruded, and is effective to reduce the required pulling force on the cable during installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Southwire Company, LLC
    Inventors: Randy D. Kummer, David Reece, Hai Lam, Philip Sasse, John Armstrong, Terry Chambers
  • Patent number: 8975524
    Abstract: A grommet has an engagement tube with an elliptical cross-section and is provided continuous with and bent from a leading end of a narrow tube through which the wire harness passes while coming into close contact therewith. An annular vehicle body engagement recess is provided in an outer circumferential surface of the engagement tube. Arc-side reinforcements protrude radially inward at connecting positions between a circumferential wall of the narrow tube and arc-shaped circumferential walls of the engagement tube that face each other in a major axis direction. The thickness of the arc-side reinforcements is greater than the thickness of connecting positions between the circumferential wall of the narrow tube and respective linear circumferential walls that face each other in a minor axis direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Mary Kanai (Popovici)
  • Publication number: 20150044902
    Abstract: The invention relates to a current-carrying lead, in particular a connecting lead and a heating tape (5), for a plug connector, which current-carrying lead has at least two strands (49, 50) that are partly surrounded by electrical insulation (47). The current-carrying lead is provided with at least one reservoir (53) for an electrically insulating medium (54). The reservoir (53) is closed by least one plunger (55), by means of which the sealing medium (54) can be forced through at least one outlet nozzle (57) into at least one sealing chamber (58 to 60). The plug connector having a current-carrying lead (3, 5) has a sealing device (36) having a sealing body (66). Said sealing body has an elastically deformable sealing part (71) that can be elastically deformed by means of a wedge-type slider (77). The wedge-type slider (77) has a conical face (82) that interacts with a conical face (76) of the sealing part (71).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: BARTEC GmbH
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Lux, Hans-Martin Lösche
  • Publication number: 20140377991
    Abstract: A crimp terminal includes; a crimping portion and a cover covering the conductor portion, the crimping portion is formed in a hollow cylindrical shape in cross section and has a first end portion and a second end portion opposite to the first end portion. The conductor portion is inserted into the first end portion in a longitudinal direction, and the second end is sealed. The second end portion at the opposite side is sealed by welding. The crimping portion, in which the exposed conductor portion is crimped, further includes a locking section locking the exposed conductor portion. A length between the first end portion into which the conductor portion is inserted and a portion, of the locking section, that is the closest to the first end portion is larger than a length of the exposed conductor portion of the insulated wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicants: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Yukihiro KAWAMURA, Takashi Tonoike, Takuro Yamada
  • Patent number: 8851935
    Abstract: A connector includes a plurality of terminal metal fittings that are arranged in parallel to one another and respectively have electric wire connection sections to which electric wires are electrically connected, and a connector housing that accommodates the plurality of terminal metal fittings therein. The plurality of terminal metal fittings are configured that the lengths of the electric wire connection sections are made longer in accordance with the arrangement thereof from one side toward the other side in an arrangement direction of the plurality of terminal metal fittings. The electric wires are connected to the electric wire connection sections respectively so that the electric wires extend from one end portions of the electric wire connection sections toward the one side and intersect with a longitudinal direction of the electric wire connection section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuaki Yoshioka, Yasuhiro Yamaguchi, Ikuo Morita
  • Patent number: 8851925
    Abstract: A wire harness includes a plurality of wires, and a connector including a housing for holding end portions of the plurality of wires. The housing includes an airtight block that includes a resin, an insertion hole formed thereon for inserting the plurality of wires, a flow channel in communication with the insertion hole to flow a molten resin therethrough for resin-sealing a gap between the insertion hole and the plurality of wires, and a melting section to be the molten resin being integrally formed with the flow channel. The gap between the insertion hole and the plurality of wires is resin-sealed such that an ultrasonic vibrator relatively moving with respect to the airtight block is brought into contact with the melting section, and the molten resin melted from the melting section by heat generated by vibration of the ultrasonic vibrator is poured into the gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuta Kataoka, Hideaki Takehara, Kunihiro Fukuda, Sachio Suzuki, Jun Umetsu, Shinya Hayashi
  • Patent number: 8834202
    Abstract: A connector assembly having a body is provided. The body forms an inlet, an internal cavity, and an outlet. A plate is oriented in the cavity and adjacent to the outlet. A harness partially extends through the inlet, into the cavity, and is connected to the plate. A molded material is disposed over the harness within the internal cavity on an inlet side of the plate. The molded material includes an integrally formed grommet that is oriented at the inlet of the body for providing strain relief to the harness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Lear Corporation
    Inventors: Keith R. Kwasny, Randall Riddle, Marc Poulin, Michael Hardy
  • Patent number: 8817480
    Abstract: In order to provide excellent waterproofness at a low manufacturing cost to a seal structure comprising a housing to which a flexible wiring board (1) is inserted and a seal member (3) integrally formed on said flexible wiring board (1) for hermetically sealing a gap between said housing and said flexible wiring board (1), a whole surface of a sensor member (31) arranged on at least one side of said flexible wiring board (1) is coated by same material as is used in said seal member (3), at a time of integrally forming the seal member (3) on the flexible wiring board (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Nippon Mektron, Ltd.
    Inventor: Takahiro Hayashi
  • Patent number: 8777639
    Abstract: A plug-in socket for coupling to a corresponding standard plug and for connection of an electrical terminal device to a primary voltage. The plug-in socket improves the use of mains units with voltage converters. The plug-in socket comprises a socket housing, a first electrical contact arranged in the socket housing for coupling to a corresponding standard plug electrical contact, a voltage converter integrated in the socket housing and converting a primary voltage into at least one secondary voltage for the electrical terminal device, a second electrical contact arranged on the socket housing for electrical contacting of the secondary voltage, wherein the voltage converter is integrated in the socket housing so that the external dimensions of the socket housing are substantially predetermined by the dimensions of the corresponding standard plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Achim Gleissner, Christoph Jehle
  • Publication number: 20140194003
    Abstract: A connector terminal includes a barrel part capable of attaching thereto a conductor exposed from an outer skin of an electric wire to cause to conduct and connect, and a terminal part caused to conduct to a mating terminal. The barrel part and an end of the electric wire are covered with a waterproof case made of resin to be made waterproof. The waterproof case is made of divided two case members, and is formed of the same material as the outer skin of the electric wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasunori NABETA
  • Patent number: 8771015
    Abstract: A terminal structure of a wiring harness for automobile use having a profound anticorrosive effect. A terminal member is fixed to a terminal portion of a coated electric wire such that a crimping portion that the member includes at its one end is crimped around a coating portion of the wire in a terminal region of the wire. A resin member completely covers at least entire outer surfaces of an exposed region at an end portion of the crimping portion and its vicinal region, and is made from a material mainly containing a thermoplastic polyamide resin, and having a tensile lap-shear strength of lapped aluminums of 6 N/mm2 or more in accordance with the JIS K6850, an elongation of 100% or more in accordance with the ASTM D-1708, and a water absorption of 1.0% or less in accordance with the JIS K7209.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignees: Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masato Inoue, Kazunari Sakura, Hiroshi Sudou, Yukiyasu Sakamoto, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Hisahiro Yasuda, Tetsuya Nakamura, Shigeyuki Tanaka, Naoya Nishimura, Daisuke Hashimoto, Yukou Sato
  • Patent number: 8772642
    Abstract: A control cabinet includes at least two plate shaped elongated wall segments. At least one wall segment features at least one open-edged cutout. Edges of adjacent wall segments facing each other, adjoin each other, forming a seal. Each cutout is covered by a frame. The frame includes a plurality of grommets to accommodate cables. In an assembled state each frame is enclosed and each frame protrudes beyond the butt joint between adjacent wall segments, covering same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Icotek Project GmbH & Co, KG
    Inventor: Bruno Ehmann
  • Patent number: 8752286
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a wire harness including a plurality of wires and a connector with a housing. The method includes arranging the plurality of wires in an insertion hole of an airtight block of the housing to have a gap between the plurality of wires and an inner surface of the insertion hole, supplying a molten resin having a fluidity into the gap through a flow channel in communication with the gap, and solidifying the molten resin inside the space to resin-seal the gap between the insertion hole and the plurality of wires. The supplying of the molten resin is conducted such that a tool for melting a solid resin member is attached to the airtight block, the resin member is melted by applying an ultrasonic vibration while being pressed against the tool, and the molten resin obtained by the melting is poured into the flow channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuta Kataoka, Hideaki Takehara, Kunihiro Fukuda, Sachio Suzuki, Jun Umetsu, Shinya Hayashi
  • Patent number: 8708740
    Abstract: A novel method, apparatus, and system are disclosed for a waterproof connector assembly apparatus, adapted to provide electromagnetic interface connectivity between a communications accessory device and a two-way radio. The waterproof connector assembly apparatus comprises a circuit board member, affixing means for at least one pin, a rigid chassis member adapted for mounting the circuit board member, a flexible overmold, and an affixing member adapted to affix the waterproof connector assembly apparatus to the two-way radio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Inventor: Henry Liou
  • Patent number: 8698011
    Abstract: A device for fixing a cable to a cable outlet connector, including a clamping sleeve, a spring element and a locking ring, whereby the spring element is in the form of an open ring whose ends are clamped between a supporting contour of the clamping sleeve and a driving contour of the locking ring, while the spring element is variable in diameter by means of a relative movement of the locking ring with respect to the clamping sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Harting Electric GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Bernard Schlegel
  • Patent number: 8692122
    Abstract: A grommet is fit on a pipe harness formed by inserting a wire harness into a metallic pipe. The grommet has a small-diameter tube configured to allow insertion of the pipe harness therethrough in a tight manner. The small-diameter tube has an inner diameter B obtained by adding an allowable tolerance dimension ? to an outer diameter A of the pipe. Two annular ribs project from an outer peripheral surface of the small-diameter tube on the side of a distal end opening and a band winding portion is interposed between the annular ribs. An annular sealing lip projects from an inner peripheral surface of the small-diameter tube at an inner position displaced from a position corresponding to the band winding portion. The sealing lip has an inner diameter C obtained by subtracting the allowable tolerance dimension ? from the outer diameter A of the pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Takashi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8648259
    Abstract: A grommet for housing electrical wires constructed in accordance with the teachings of the present disclosure includes a mounting structure, a tube, and a plurality of stiffeners. The mounting structure is configured to mount to a panel of a vehicle, the mounting structure defining a first passage extending therethrough. The tube extends from the mounting structure and defines a second passage in communication with the first passage. The tube includes a corrugated portion having a plurality of ridges and a plurality of grooves interposed between the plurality of ridges. The stiffeners are interposed between those of the plurality of ridges that are disposed within a zone of the corrugated portion. The stiffeners extend partially around a circumference of the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Yazaki North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J. Gniewek, Takeshi Takahashi, Seiji Ito
  • Patent number: 8616918
    Abstract: Disclosed is type THHN cable having a reduced surface coefficient of friction, and the method of manufacture thereof, in which the central conductor core and insulating layer are surrounded by a nylon sheath. A high viscosity, high molecular weight silicone based pulling lubricant for THHN cable, or alternatively, erucamide or stearyl erucamide for small THHN gauge wire, is incorporated, by alternate methods, with the nylon material from which the outer sheath is extruded, and is effective to reduce the required pulling force on the cable during installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Southwire Company
    Inventors: Terry Chambers, Randy D. Kummer, John Armstrong, Philip Sasse, David Reece, Hai Lam
  • Patent number: 8602820
    Abstract: An electrical apparatus according to the present disclosure comprises a molded device having a molded portion and being formed via an overmolding process. The electrical apparatus includes a wire set at least partially overmolded within the device, the wire set having an outer sheath surrounding a plurality of wires. The molded portion surrounds a portion of the wire set. The electrical apparatus further includes polyurethane bonding material occurring between the outer sheath and the molded portion. The polyurethane bonding material bonds at least a portion of the wire set to the molded portion during the overmolding process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Grote Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Miguel Omar Cortes Roque, Roberto Carlos Garcia Cardona, Alonso Loa Almaguer, Robert Hugh Dobrow, Hector Eloy Mendoza Alvarado, Alfredo Haros Hernandez, Antonio Leal Morales
  • Patent number: 8550842
    Abstract: A cable connector system includes an electrical cable (having a primary conductor and an insulation layer), a connector, a flow block member and a flowable sealant. The primary conductor of the cable extends into a conductor bore of the connector through a passage in the flow block member and is mechanically and electrically coupled to the connector. The flow block member is thereby mounted on the primary conductor and interposed between a terminal end of the insulation layer and an end face of the connector. The sealant surrounds the flow block member and adjacent portions of the insulation layer and the connector. The flow block member inhibits flow of the sealant into the conductor bore through the entry opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignees: Tyco Electronics Corporation, Tyco Electronics Raychem GmbH
    Inventors: Mario Gutiérrez, Chien-An Chen, Brian Ayres, Ladislaus Kehl
  • Patent number: 8466551
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a main current external electrode for connecting a high-voltage main current electrode of a power semiconductor element to the outside, and a resin case into which the main current external electrode is press fitted. The main current external electrode has a press-fitted fixing portion and a claw fixing portion for fixation to the resin case. The claw fixing portion includes a projection passing through a through hole defined in the resin case, and having a bendable claw portion at its tip end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Masuo Koga
  • Publication number: 20130130546
    Abstract: A cable end connector includes an insulating housing defining a rear cable-location portion thereof, a plurality of conductive terminals including contacting portions and terminal portions located in the rear cable-location portion, a plurality of cables each having wires and a connecting bar defining a first touching end and a second touching end. The wires of the cable overlap the terminal portions one by one except one wire and one terminal portion. The first touching end overlaps one terminal portion and the second touch end overlaps said one wire so as to establish an electrical connection through the connecting bar between said one terminal portion and one wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Inventors: JERRY WU, JUN CHEN, FENG-JUN QI
  • Patent number: 8420943
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of an electrical wiring grommet. In one aspect, an electrical wiring grommet includes a body mounting portion, a closure panel mounting portion and a flexible conduit portion extending between the body mounting portion and the closure panel mounting portion. The flexible conduit portion includes a longitudinally extending body contact segment having a circumference, the circumference having a first circumferential portion and a second circumferential portion. The first circumferential portion includes a corrugated surface having a plurality of ridges with a first ridge height, and the second circumferential portion includes a corrugated surface having a plurality of ridges with a second ridge height less than the first ridge height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Nissan North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Tuan La, Bert Weinert
  • Publication number: 20130084740
    Abstract: A strain relief for a coaxial cable and coaxial connector interconnection is provided as an injection moldable polymer material surrounding the interconnection. The injection moldable material fills a solder pre-form cavity between an outer conductor of the coaxial cable and an inner diameter of a bore of the connector body, strengthening and environmentally sealing the interconnection. Where the outer conductor is corrugated, the polymer material may be provided covering an exposed portion of the corrugations and/or filling portions of a corrugation trough between an outer jacket and the outer diameter of the outer conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2012
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Applicant: ANDREW LLC
    Inventor: ANDREW LLC
  • Patent number: 8382518
    Abstract: Disclosed is type THHN cable having a reduced surface coefficient of friction, and the method of manufacture thereof, in which the central conductor core and insulating layer are surrounded by a nylon sheath. A high viscosity, high molecular weight silicone based pulling lubricant for THHN cable, or alternatively, erucamide or stearyl erucamide for small THHN gauge wire, is incorporated, by alternate methods, with the nylon material from which the outer sheath is extruded, and is effective to reduce the required pulling force on the cable during installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Southwire Company
    Inventors: Terry Chambers, Randy D. Kummer, John W Armstrong, Philip Sasse, David Reece, Hai Lam
  • Publication number: 20120329294
    Abstract: A power connector including a connector housing having an interior cavity and a mating face. The connector housing is configured to be mounted to a circuit board. The power connector also includes a contact assembly that has anode and cathode contacts that are configured to electrically engage power contacts of a mating connector. The contact assembly also includes anode and cathode terminals that are disposed in the interior cavity. The anode and cathode terminals are electrically coupled to the anode and cathode contacts, respectively, and are configured to be electrically coupled to the circuit board. The power connector also includes a power cable that has substantially flat anode and cathode conductive layers that are surrounded by an insulative jacket. The anode and cathode conductive layers are electrically coupled to the anode and cathode contacts, respectively, and are electrically parallel to the anode and cathode terminals, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: TYCO ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: CHRISTOPHER RYAN RAYBOLD, MICHAEL TIMOTHY SYKES, JASON M'CHEYNE REISINGER, MICHAEL ALLEN BLANCHFIELD
  • Patent number: 8292663
    Abstract: Apparatus, systems and methods for assembling an audio plug with a cosmetic hard shell are provided. A plug may be coupled to a cable. An inner member may be molded about an end portion of the plug and an end portion of the cable. A strain relief member may be molded about a portion of the cable such that the strain relief member is adjacent to and substantially flush with the inner member. The seam between the inner member and the strain relief member may be covered by coupling a hard, smooth outer shell over a portion of the inner member and a portion of the strain relief member. Each of the inner member, the strain relief member, and the outer shell may be formed by injection molding, be of a cylindrical shape, and be formed from the same or different materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Wilhelmus M. C. Crooijmans, Kurt Stiehl
  • Patent number: 8277250
    Abstract: A wire harness includes a plurality of cables arranged in parallel, and a connector including a housing to which end portions of the plurality of cables are connected. Air-tightness between an air-tight block and the cables is maintained by inserting a melting member into cable insertion holes through a first insertion part, vibrating the melting member and pressing the melting member against a first press receiving part formed at an inner wall surface of the cable insertion holes such that a front end portion of the melting member in contact with the first press receiving part is melted into a melt resin to allow the melt resin to be poured into a gap between the cables and the air-tight block and a periphery of the cables to be covered with the melt resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi Cable, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sachio Suzuki, Hideaki Takehara, Kunihiro Fukuda, Yuta Kataoka
  • Publication number: 20120203302
    Abstract: A lead extension for an electrical stimulation system includes a connector disposed on a first end of a body. The connector includes a housing defining at least one port. Each of the at least one ports is configured to receive a proximal end of a lead. A plurality of connector contacts are disposed in each of the at least one ports. The connector contacts are configured to electrically couple to terminals of a lead when the lead is received by the housing. A first connector flange extends outwardly from a first side of the housing. A plurality of conductors extend along a length of the lead extension and electrically couple at least one of the connector contacts to at least one terminal disposed on a second end of the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Adam Moffitt, Courtney Lane, John Michael Barker
  • Patent number: 8226437
    Abstract: A connector system with a connector and a complementary connector, wherein the connector includes a housing element with a locking device and an electrical contact element, wherein the electrical contact element is arranged in the area of a front end of the housing element, and includes a closing element arranged on the housing element, which closing element surrounds both at least the rear end of the housing element and an area of the electrical cable arranged outside the housing element, and is closely connected with the housing element and the electrical cable such that at the rear end, the interior of the housing element is sealed from the surrounding in a substantially fully moisture-tight manner. The closing element may, optionally, be applied in a substantially liquid form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignees: Yamaichi Electronics Co., Ltd., Yamaichi Electronics Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Quiter, Sven Braun
  • Patent number: 8202115
    Abstract: A wire harness includes a plurality of cables arranged in parallel, and a connector including a housing to which end portions of the plurality of cables are connected. An air-tight block includes two closing parts, an insertion part, a press receiving part, and an air escape opening part that opens from a cable insertion hole between the closing parts toward an outside of the air-tight block. Air-tightness between the air-tight block and the cables is maintained by a first step that a melting member is vibrated and pressed to the press receiving part to have a melt resin, which is poured into a gap between the closing parts, and a periphery of the cables is covered with the melt resin, a second step that the air escape opening part is closed, and a third step that the cables are pressed by the melt resin poured into the gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi Cable, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sachio Suzuki, Hideaki Takehara, Kunihiro Fukuda, Yuta Kataoka, Shinya Hayashi
  • Patent number: 8192230
    Abstract: A wire harness includes a plurality of cables arranged in parallel and a connector comprising a housing to which end portions of the plurality of cables are connected. The housing has an air-tight block at a side thereof that the plurality of cables are connected. The air-tight block further includes two closing parts for closing a space between the air-tight block and the cables at two places along a longitudinal direction of the cables, and for defining a part of a cable insertion hole. A metallic member protruding outwardly in a radial direction of the cables is fixed by swaging to a periphery of each of the cables between both of two closing parts for restricting a movement of the cables along the longitudinal direction in a pulling force or pressing force of the cables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi Cable, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuta Kataoka, Hideaki Takehara, Kunihiro Fukuda, Sachio Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8137136
    Abstract: An explosion-resistant connector has a receptacle having a female portion and a first outer portion. A plurality of leads extends through the receptacle into the female portion. An adapter has a hollow portion through which the leads also extend, the adapter attaching to the first outer portion. A potting compound is disposed in the hollow portion about the leads. If an explosion occurs, it occurs on an adapter side of the connector as opposed to a receptacle side of the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Precision Engine Controls Corporation
    Inventor: Jason Bench
  • Patent number: 8124874
    Abstract: An electrical insulator disk has central recesses and peripheral recesses to enable the disk to be mounted floatingly relative to flanges between which the disk is held and to a linear conductor that extends through the disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Areva T&D AG
    Inventors: Johannes Blatter, Hugo Hiltbrunner, Gerardo Palmieri, Robert Luscher
  • Patent number: 8075333
    Abstract: A plug having a guide, which has a first guiding section and a second guiding section for guiding the plug into a corresponding plug receptacle. The second guiding section is disposed at a greater distance from the plug face than the first guiding section. The first guiding section and the second guiding section have contours in their respective cross-sections that are different from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: WABCO GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Bolik, Michael Kaufmann, Ulrich Overhage, Olaf Wichmann
  • Patent number: 8070513
    Abstract: A cable assembly includes a housing including a main body and a piece of mushy insulation block on the housing, a plurality of contacts receiving in the main body of the housing, and a plurality of cable. Each of the cable includes at least an inner conductor and an outer insulation layer. The inner conductors are soldered to the contacts and the outer insulation layer each has a part fixed in the mushy insulation block of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: David Ko, Jim Zhao
  • Patent number: 8052468
    Abstract: Apparatus, systems and methods for assembling an audio plug with a cosmetic hard shell are provided. A plug may be coupled to a cable. An inner member may be molded about an end portion of the plug and an end portion of the cable. A strain relief member may be molded about a portion of the cable such that the strain relief member is adjacent to and substantially flush with the inner member. The seam between the inner member and the strain relief member may be covered by coupling a hard, smooth outer shell over a portion of the inner member and a portion of the strain relief member. Each of the inner member, the strain relief member, and the outer shell may be formed by injection molding, be of a cylindrical shape, and be formed from the same or different materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Wilhelmus M. C. Crooijmans, Kurt Stiehl
  • Patent number: 8043119
    Abstract: Disclosed is type THHN cable having a reduced surface coefficient of friction, and the method of manufacture thereof, in which the central conductor core and insulating layer are surrounded by a nylon sheath. A high viscosity, high molecular weight silicone based pulling lubricant for THHN cable, or alternatively, erucamide or stearyl erucamide for small THHN gauge wire, is incorporated, by alternate methods, with the nylon material from which the outer sheath is extruded, and is effective to reduce the required pulling force on the cable during installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Southwire Company
    Inventors: Randy D. Kummer, David Reece, Hai Lam, Philip Sasse, John Armstrong, Terry Chambers
  • Publication number: 20110159731
    Abstract: A wire harness includes a plurality of cables arranged in parallel and a connector comprising a housing to which end portions of the plurality of cables are connected. The housing has an air-tight block at a side thereof that the plurality of cables are connected. The air-tight block further includes two closing parts for closing a space between the air-tight block and the cables at two places along a longitudinal direction of the cables, and for defining a part of a cable insertion hole. A metallic member protruding outwardly in a radial direction of the cables is fixed by swaging to a periphery of each of the cables between both of two closing parts for restricting a movement of the cables along the longitudinal direction in a pulling force or pressing force of the cables.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: HITACHI CABLE, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuta Kataoka, Hideaki Takehara, Kunihiro Fukuda, Sachio Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7952676
    Abstract: Provided is a connection structure capable of reducing the distortion of a signal. The connection structure includes a first interconnection layer including a plurality of signal lines configured to transmit an operating signal generated by a driver to a receiver; a second interconnection layer including at least one ground line configured to connect the driver and ground terminals of the receiver; and an insulating layer interposed between the first and second interconnection layers to electrically insulate the signal lines from the ground line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung-Bae Lee, Jung-Man Lim, Se-ll Kim
  • Patent number: 7928825
    Abstract: A safety plug, comprising: a housing a first metal blade a second metal blade a conducting device a bimetallic strip an isolating-equipment an elastomer a cover and an isolator, wherein all of its apparatus are all well-located even after encountering overloading. Both the bimetallic strip and the conducting device are fixed together in the housing of the safety plug thus makes sure that their restoring back at the same exact location. It increases the safety and the practical utility of the safety plug in this way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Inventor: Yung-Shan Yang