Patents Assigned to Leviton Manufacturing Company
  • Patent number: 4857674
    Abstract: The invention features a strain relief device for mounting wires and cable into a panel. The body of the device carrying the cable is flexible and attached to the panel by a rotational motion. The panel is locked between two flanges of the body by a number of locking ramps that bias one of the flanges into locking engagement with the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 15, 1989
    Assignee: Leviton Manufacturing Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Jacques Filbert
  • Patent number: 4836805
    Abstract: The present invention teaches a novel device that electrically connects conductors from a cable to the electrical contacts of a plug by means of a single fastener. The device comprises a shell, a plug assembly carried by the shell. The plug assembly is capable of mating engagement with other electrical contacts and has receiving means for receiving electrical conductors. A single fastener holds the terminals of the conductors in electrical connection with the electrical contacts. The single fastener includes a movable carriage on which is mounted a nut through which a screw is threaded with a head with a flange that is engaged with the wall of the plug assembly so that when the screw is rotated, the carriage moves so as to decrease or enlarge a chamber in which the conductor terminals and a portion of the electrical contacts are situated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1989
    Assignee: Leviton Manufacturing Company, Inc.
    Inventors: John M. Poliak, Juan M. Lopez, Robert W. Gritz
  • Patent number: 4722136
    Abstract: A convenience electrical connector that is snap-mounted to a wall panel. The body portion forms a body planar surface that is adapted to grip the inner wall of the panel. A cover secures the inner side of the body member. A pair of opposed biasable arms connected to the cover extend through side recesses to a position where keeper planar walls at the ends of the arms are positioned to grip the outer wall of the panel after being biased inwardly along keeper ramps by opposed edges of the panel opening. The connector comprises two units, the body and the cover with the two connected arms. Mounting is accomplished by inserting the arms into recesses and pressing the two units together. A pair of snap-in flanges at the ends of the cover are biased outwardly by clamped lock members at the side walls of the body portion and then self-biased into a locking mode with the body portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1985
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1988
    Assignee: Leviton Manufacturing Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph G. Justiano, Wolfgang F. Bienwald
  • Patent number: 4709293
    Abstract: The present invention teaches a system for protecting people and property against electrical shock which includes immersion detecting circuits, broken wire test circuits, electromechanical circuit breaking means including coil/plunger arrangements, and relay circuit breaking mechanisms cooperative with associated circuitry, all of which are able to be incorporated as a system wholly within the load (appliance) and its associated cord set (including a "plug").
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1987
    Assignee: Leviton Manufacturing Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Bernard Gershen, Saul Rosenbaum, James N. Pearse
  • Patent number: D293313
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1987
    Assignee: Leviton Manufacturing Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph G. Justiano, Wolfgang F. Bienwald
  • Patent number: D294018
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1988
    Assignee: Leviton Manufacturing Company, Inc.
    Inventors: John M. Poliak, Robert W. Gritz, Juan M. Lopez
  • Patent number: D294914
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1988
    Assignee: Leviton Manufacturing Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Chase, Stanley S. Brenner
  • Patent number: D296888
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1988
    Assignee: Leviton Manufacturing Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Jacques Filbert
  • Patent number: D296889
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1988
    Assignee: Leviton Manufacturing Company, Inc.
    Inventors: John M. Poliak, David S. Schroeder
  • Patent number: D297322
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1988
    Assignee: Leviton Manufacturing Company, Inc.
    Inventors: George E. Johnson, Walter Newman
  • Patent number: D297529
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1988
    Assignee: Leviton Manufacturing Company, Inc.
    Inventors: George E. Johnson, Walter Newman
  • Patent number: D297634
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1984
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1988
    Assignee: Leviton Manufacturing Company, Inc.
    Inventors: John M. Poliak, Robert W. Gritz, Juan M. Lopez
  • Patent number: D298729
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1988
    Assignee: Leviton Manufacturing Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Chase, Robert Blaser
  • Patent number: D300215
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1989
    Assignee: Leviton Manufacturing Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Stanley S. Brenner, Charles Chase
  • Patent number: D300314
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1989
    Assignee: Leviton Manufacturing Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Sergius P. Krzyzanowski, Richard Doyle
  • Patent number: D301675
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 20, 1989
    Assignee: Leviton Manufacturing Company, Inc.
    Inventors: James N. Pearse, Wolfgang F. Bienwald
  • Patent number: D302422
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1989
    Assignee: Leviton Manufacturing Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph G. Justiano, Wolfgang F. Bienwald
  • Patent number: D304716
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 21, 1989
    Assignee: Leviton Manufacturing Company, Inc.
    Inventors: George E. Johnson, Paul Endres
  • Patent number: D325559
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1992
    Assignee: Leviton Manufacturing Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Saul Rosenbaum, Albert Zaretsky, Lester Rivera
  • Patent number: D326086
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1992
    Assignee: Leviton Manufacturing Company, Inc.
    Inventor: David B. Balaban