Patents Assigned to ETCO Incorporated
  • Premolding electrical receptacles
    Patent number: 6767226
    Abstract: A premold for a receptacle for an electrical male plug includes valving means on particular contact cooperative valving portions and through ground pin receptacle expansion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2004
    Assignee: ETCO Incorporated
    Inventor: Thomas R. Varatta
  • Range plug
    Patent number: 6517393
    Abstract: Range plug blades with integral conductor-accepting cups bisected by planes parallel with the blades are inserted into plug die slots, following which conductors are crimped into the cups, after which plastic is introduced into the die and hardened into a range plug holding the blades, cups, and conductors in predetermined positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2003
    Assignee: ETCO Incorporated
    Inventors: Stephen A. Blanche, Thomas R. Varatta
  • Battery terminal connector
    Patent number: 6234849
    Abstract: An electrical connector to post-type batteries in which the electrical cable or the like is selectively settably gripped using jaw elements movable toward or away from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2001
    Assignee: ETCO Incorporated
    Inventor: Stephen A. Blanche
  • Plural socket receptacle
    Patent number: 5816860
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle for a plurality of plugs includes insulatively spaced conductive contact elements each including one of a pair of plug receptive forks, different forks extending in different and non-parallel directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1998
    Assignee: Etco Incorporated
    Inventor: Stephen A. Blanche
  • Bridged electrical plug
    Patent number: 5662484
    Abstract: A bridged electrical plug in which blade elements have integral cup-like and blade contact portions and an intermediate neck twisted to bring openings of the cup-like portions into transversely spaced parallel directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 2, 1997
    Assignee: ETCO Incorporated
    Inventor: Stephen A. Blanche
  • Bridged electrical plug
    Patent number: 5411403
    Abstract: An electrical plug with power blades in a power bridge portion and a ground pin in a ground bridge portion, the portions being non-integrally joined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1995
    Assignee: ETCO Incorporated
    Inventor: Stephen A. Blanche
  • Bridged electrical plug
    Patent number: RE36829
    Abstract: An electrical plug with power blades in a power bridge portion and a ground pin in a ground bridge portion, the portions being non-integrally joined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2000
    Assignee: ETCO Incorporated
    Inventor: Stephen A. Blanche