Patents Assigned to Cooper Technologies
  • Patent number: 9574751
    Abstract: A luminaire can comprise a frame that provides a cavity for emitting illumination towards a space to be illuminated. A light source, such as a row of light emitting diodes, can emit light into the cavity. The cavity can extend lengthwise between two end caps of the frame that are located at opposing ends of the luminaire. The frame can further comprise two bridges that are located adjacent the end caps, one at each end of the frame. Two rails that extend on opposing sides of the cavity can connect the two bridges to one another. A system of grooves and protrusions can interlock the rails to the bridges. A system of standardized interchangeable components that facilitates rapid manufacture of custom luminaires can comprise the bridges, the rails, and the end caps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventors: Jason Medric Eubanks, Travis William Francis Boyle, Brett Allan Guhde
  • Patent number: 9562628
    Abstract: A bracket for mounting wiring on a stud. The bracket includes a stud securement portion configured for attachment to a wall stud. A stationary jaw has a longitudinal axis extending laterally outward from adjacent a rear end of a side wall of the stud securement portion. A clamping jaw has a longitudinal axis extending laterally outward from adjacent the rear end of the side wall. The clamping jaw is at least one of pivotable relative to the stationary jaw and bendable along its longitudinal axis for clamping the wiring between the stationary jaw and the clamping jaw. A locking tie is secured to the clamping jaw adjacent the free longitudinal end of the clamping jaw. The locking tie includes a toothed, elongate member receivable in the locking opening to lock the free longitudinal end of the clamping jaw to the stationary jaw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventor: Eric Roland Nuernberger
  • Patent number: 9556976
    Abstract: A guide body for a cable guide includes a stem having an upper end, a lower end, and a longitudinal axis extending between the upper and lower ends, and base adjacent the lower end of the stem. The guide body is rotatable about the longitudinal axis of the stem to configure the base from an unlocked orientation relative to the wire basket cable tray, in which the base is receivable in and removable from a floor opening of a wire basket cable tray, and a locked orientation relative to the wire basket cable tray, in which the base is secured to the wire basket cable tray in the floor opening. A snap-fit component attaches a roller retainer to a stem body by snap-fit connection when a roller is received on the stem body to retain the roller on the stem body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventors: Stephen Nathaniel Thompson, Travis Cole Shelton, Mohan Ravilla
  • Patent number: 9560009
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides techniques for commissioning a light switch and a control device. A wireless light system implementing such techniques includes a light switch comprising a first microcontroller, a first wireless transceiver, and a first magnetic reed switch. The wireless light system further includes a control device comprising a second microcontroller, a second wireless transceiver, and a second magnetic reed switch. When the second magnetic reed switch is closed, the control device transmits via the second wireless transceiver a second unique address to the first wireless transceiver. When the first magnetic reed switch is closed and when the first wireless transceiver receives the second unique address, the first wireless transceiver transmits to the second wireless transceiver a first unique address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventor: Barry Martin
  • Patent number: 9560723
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides techniques for a self-commissioning and locating lighting system. The system includes a group of light fixtures, each emitting a unique optical data signal. A remote control device detects the unique optical data signal from the light fixtures when the light fixture is within a visual field of the remote control device. A central controller receives a signal from the remote control device, wherein the signal comprises data regarding the GPS location of the remote control device and the digital identities of the light fixture within the visual field of the remote control, wherein the signal further comprises a control command for operation of the light fixtures, and wherein the central controller sends a control signal to the light fixture implementing the control command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventors: Kenneth Walma, James Moan
  • Patent number: 9557048
    Abstract: A heat dissipating housing for a lighting device includes a back wall comprising an upper section and a lower section. The housing further includes a sidewall extending down from the upper section of the back wall. The back wall and the sidewall define a cavity of the housing. The upper section of the back wall is elevated from the lower section of the back wall such that when a printed circuit board (PCB) having an uninsulated electrical element on a back side of the PCB is in contact with the lower section of the back wall within the cavity, the uninsulated electrical element is separated from a closest point on the housing by an air gap and a distance that is compliant with an Underwriters Laboratories (UL) spacing requirement. The back side of the PCB faces the upper section of the back wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventor: Philip Dean Winters
  • Patent number: 9551445
    Abstract: Example embodiments are directed to an enclosure. The enclosure can include at least one wall forming a cavity. The enclosure can also include a conduit receiver disposed in the at least one wall. The conduit receiver can include a housing having an aperture, where the aperture is configured to receive a conduit. The conduit receiver can also include a retaining element disposed within the housing at a distal end of the housing. The conduit receiver can further include a sealing device disposed within the housing at a proximal end of the housing. The conduit receiver can also include a bushing adjacent to the proximal end of the housing, where the bushing extends radially inward from the at least one wall, where the bushing is configured to abut against the conduit when the conduit is received in the aperture, and where the bushing covers an end of the conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventors: Bradford James Morse, Joseph Michael Manahan
  • Patent number: 9553389
    Abstract: An electrical connector having an active cooling system is described herein. The electrical connector can include a conductor having an electrically conductive pin, and a conductor receiver slidably coupled to the conductor. The conductor receiver can include a wall having an electrically conductive material forming a cavity into which the pin is received. The conductor receiver can also include an insulating sleeve mechanically coupled to the wall. The conductor receiver can further include a heat sink mechanically coupled to the insulating sleeve and a channel that collects heat absorbed by the heat sink. The heat collected by the channel can be vented outside the conductor receiver. Alternatively, the wall of the conductor receiver can be coupled to an insulator and have at least one aperture that vents heat from the cavity to the insulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventors: Joseph Michael Manahan, Adam Ledgerwood
  • Patent number: 9553435
    Abstract: A manifold within an explosion-proof enclosure is described herein. The manifold can include an inlet duct coupled to an air moving device, where the inlet duct can receive exhaust air from the air moving device. The manifold can further include an outlet duct that includes a perimeter and at least one channel, where the outlet duct can send the exhaust air outside the explosion-proof enclosure, where the perimeter of the outlet duct is coupled to a first portion of an inner surface of an outer wall of the explosion-proof enclosure, and where the first portion of the inner surface includes at least one aperture that traverses the outer wall. The manifold can also include a body that includes a cavity, where the body couples the inlet duct to the at least one channel, and where the exhaust air flows from the inlet duct through the cavity to the outlet duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventors: Joseph Michael Manahan, Graig E. DeCarr
  • Patent number: 9548598
    Abstract: A cable management attachment fitting for a ladder-type cable tray includes a rung attachment portion configured to attach to a lower flange of a rung of the ladder-type cable tray without the use of an additional fastener. A cable management attachment portion extends upward from the rung attachment portion and is configured to provide a structure to which a cable management device can be secured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventors: Brandon Michael Tally, Stephen Nathaniel Thompson, James A. Knutson
  • Patent number: 9546744
    Abstract: A conduit clamp includes a first coupling component configured for attachment to a first attachment structure of a strut channel and a second coupling component different from the first coupling component and configured for attachment to a second attachment structure of a strut channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventors: Sagar Ashok Patil, Zhihui Zhang
  • Patent number: 9548794
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides techniques for power factor correction on a constant current system and also provides power line communications on the same power factor correction circuit. In one example embodiment, through controlled charging and draining of an input capacitor, the power factor correction circuit generates an input voltage which is in phase with the input current. Communication data is also embedded in the input voltage and/or input current by further charging and draining of the input capacitor according to a controlled switching scheme which includes both input current phase data and corresponding communication signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventor: Traver Gumaer
  • Patent number: 9541244
    Abstract: A multi-purpose portable light includes an elongated body that has a first end and a second end. The elongated body extends from the first end to the second end. A headlight is mounted on the first end of the elongated body and a floodlight panel is located at a front portion of the elongated body. Further, the second end of the elongated body includes a base member. In addition, the elongated member includes one or more of the following elements: a belt clip, one or more magnets, an aperture to attach a fastener, a bottle opener, and a hook mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventors: Kenneth Berezinski, Nivay Sahaye, Patrick Ryan McDowell, James Richard Christ
  • Patent number: 9537281
    Abstract: A power supply and circuitry system for powering HVPT devices includes a power supply circuit that selectively provides an operating power and a simmer power to multiple HVPT devices. The system also includes a trigger circuit for each respective HVPT device that selectively couples the power supply circuit to one HVPT device to provide the operating power thereto. The system also includes a simmer control circuit for selectively coupling the power supply circuit to the HVPT devices to provide the simmer power thereto, the simmer control circuit further including a simmer switch circuit for each HVPT device, wherein each simmer switch circuit comprises an input coupled to the power supply circuit to receive the simmer power therefrom and an output coupled to one HVPT device. The simmer control circuit also further includes a simmer drive circuit coupled to each simmer switch circuit for selectively enabling the simmer switch circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventor: Shawn Patrick Murray
  • Patent number: 9528717
    Abstract: An extended run time device for extending the time that a compressor-based heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC) system runs so as to increase energy efficiency of the HVAC system. The extended run time device includes a sensing circuit, a switching device and a processor. Based upon a signal from the sensing circuit, the processor causes the switching device to transmit a proxy control signal to the compressor, thereby causing power to the compressor to be maintained for a time period longer than a time period requested by the temperature control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventors: Joseph E. Childs, Roger W. Rognli, Robert J. Cox, Brock Simonson
  • Patent number: 9525306
    Abstract: An emergency load control device includes a lighting relay that is coupled to a lighting load based on a relay control signal input. Further, the emergency load control device includes an emergency relay that is coupled to an emergency lighting load based on an emergency relay control signal input. Furthermore, the emergency load control device includes a power controller that is coupled to the lighting relay and the emergency relay. The power controller is configured to output the relay control signal input to the lighting relay and the emergency relay control signal input to the emergency relay to control the operation of the lighting load and the emergency lighting load respectively. In addition, the emergency load control device includes a dimmer control circuit coupled to the lighting load and the emergency lighting load. The dimmer control circuit controls dimming of the lighting load and the emergency lighting load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventors: Michael Alan Lunn, Jonathon L. Germon, Kishore S. Aligeti
  • Patent number: 9523490
    Abstract: The luminaire includes a light emitting diode (LED) module that includes a heat sink with an outer wall defining a top cavity and a bottom cavity and a mounting flange generally positioned along the bottom of the outer wall. A LED light source is positioned within the bottom cavity and in thermal communication with the heat sink. The bottom surface of the mounting flange includes one or more alignment features or keys extending out from the bottom surface. A trim having a corresponding alignment aperture is matingly engaged by positioning all or a portion of the alignment feature into the alignment aperture to ensure proper orientation of the trim with the LED module and to provide sufficient surface area for good thermal transfer between the heat sink and the trim.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventors: Jyoti Gururaj Kathawate, Evans Edward Thompson, III, Russell Bryant Green, Kevin Roy Harpenau
  • Patent number: 9525487
    Abstract: A method of increasing modulation of a visible light signal. The method can include receiving a signal that corresponds to the visible light signal, where the visible light signal has a magnitude. The method can also include adjusting, by a controller and based on the signal, a dimmer level of a dimmer by an amount, where the amount is proportional to the magnitude of the visible light signal, and where the dimmer level adjusts an output of a driver circuit. The visible light signal and the output of the driver circuit can be combined into a power signal and sent to one or more light sources. The one or more light sources can use the power signal to generate a light output that includes a visible light communication signal that is received by a receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventors: Christopher Lee Bohler, Li Li, Vaske Mikani
  • Patent number: 9518722
    Abstract: An edge-lit lighting structure includes a first end panel and a second end panel. The edge-lit lighting structure further includes a first side panel extending between the first end panel and the second end panel at a first longitudinal side of the edge-lit lighting fixture. The edge-lit lighting structure also includes a second side panel extending between the first end panel and the second end panel at a second longitudinal side of the edge-lit lighting fixture opposite the first longitudinal side. Further, the edge-lit lighting structure includes a center beam having a hollow portion. The center beam is positioned between the first side panel and the second side panel and is attached to the first end panel and the second end panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventors: Gregg Arthur Lehman, Paul Wayne Lewis, Jr.
  • Patent number: D774677
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventor: Gregg Arthur Lehman