Abstract: A hermetically sealed current conducting terminal assembly for installation in an opening in the wall of a housing. The terminal assembly includes a current conducting pin assembly comprising a first pin member electrically connected to a second pin member at a conductive core and a first and second seal that electrically isolate the pin assembly from the housing.

Abstract: A method of providing a shed (2) for a high-voltage insulator (1) includes providing a substantially tubular substrate (3), providing an extruder (10) having an extruder head (11) defining an extrusion direction (A), using the extruder (10) to extrude the shed (2) and applying the shed (2) on the substrate (3) while rotating the substrate relative to the extruder head (11). The extrusion direction (A) substantially coincides with the longitudinal axis of the substrate (3), and the substrate (3) is fed through the extruder head (11).

Abstract: In the manufacture of a gas discharge type display panel, by applying a sealing operation along with an exhausting operation, the sealing glass 14 is broken down by a pressure difference between the inside and outside of the panel, and thus, the clearance gap between the substrates can be controlled as desired. In addition, the gaseous component that is unnecessary for the discharge operation is exhausted by setting the temperature of the amorphous sealing glass to exceed its softening-point and be no more than its working point. In the structure of the gas discharge type display panel, a protruding portion having a radius of curvature between 0.1 mm and 1 mm is formed on the sealing glass to reduce the dispersion in the thickness direction of the sealing glass, or the cross-sectional shape of the sealing glass is made convex both at its inside end part and its outside end part.

Abstract: The present invention provides a composite material such as a passive element, a passive element composite component, a substrate with a built-in passive element and a composite wiring substrate which are free from, for example, a layer peeling problem and enables high density packaging with ease. In the present invention, a porous base material is divided into plural functional regions and a material having different electromagnetic characteristics is filled in a pore of the porous base material of each functional region, to form a passive element or a wiring substrate. Among the aforementioned plural functional regions, at least one functional region is a conductive material region filled with a conductive material and other regions are filled with a high-dielectric material, a high-permeability material or a low-dielectric material.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composite insulator comprising: (i) a composite body having at least two connectors, wherein the composite body is coupled to a conductor; and (ii) a housing, wherein the housing is a one-piece housing and the composite body is located inside the housing.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a binding band (1) for a wire harness diverging portion, which is used for binding a diverging portion having a trunk portion (TL) formed by gathering plural wire harnesses (WH) and a branch portion (BL) branching from the trunk portion. An object of the present invention is to improve an operation efficiency wherein a band body (2) is passed through a piercing-engagement hole (7) of a lock portion (4), and a binding operation efficiency for binding a wire harness diverging portion (WD).

Abstract: The method of manufacturing a composite insulator constituted by a rod surrounded by an insulating coating and provided at its two ends with two metal end fittings respectively consists in the following steps: fixing two respective metal interfaces to the two ends of the rod, the metal end fittings of the insulator subsequently being fixed to the interfaces; and putting the coating into place around the rod and around the metal interfaces while leaving an end portion of each metal interface uncovered by the coating so as to enable the metal end fittings to be fixed thereto subsequently.

Abstract: A suspended type cable fixing-up rack adapted to mount on a frame includes a cable patch board for a plurality of cables to connect thereto, a cable support, and mounting elements. The cable patch board includes two side wings provided with mounting holes. Each of the mounting elements includes a first bent section having mounting holes provided at a flat head portion thereof, and a second bent section provided with retaining holes, into which hooks provided on two cantilever arms at two lateral ends of the cable support are extended. Whereby the cable patch board and the mounting elements are connected together and fixed to the frame by threading screws through mounting holes on the first bent sections of the mounting elements and the wings of the cable patch board against the frame. Weight of cables fallen on the cable support is therefore evenly distributed to the frame.

Abstract: A device for absorbing harness slack is disclosed wherein a leaf spring (resilient member) 37 is provided with a harness-guide member 34 which supports a curved portion 33 of a wire harness 32 slidably. The harness-guide member 34 has an upper surface (harness-support member) 38 curved throughout its length toward the curved portion 33. Alternatively, the leaf spring 37 may be provided with the curved harness-guide member 34 rotatably through a coupling member 36. Also alternatively, a protector protecting the curved portion 33 of the wire harness 32 may be provided with the curved harness-guide member 34 rotatably, and the leaf spring 37 may urge the harness-guide member 34 through such as a cap in a direction of absorbing harness slack slidably. Also alternatively, the upper surface 38 may compose a groove curved in a circumferential direction of the wire harness.

Abstract: A twist-on wire connector having a housing with a spiral tread for engaging and holding electrical wires in an electrical connection and a chamber for carrying a member having a wire passageway so that the electrical wires can be retained within the connector by conforming the member about the wires to inhibit strain therein and a method of making an electrical connection that inhibits strain of the wire by inserting a plurality of wires into a spiral thread of a twist-on wire connector, rotating the plurality of wires to bring the electrical wires into electrical connection with each other and squeezing a member around the plurality of wires to bring the member into pressure contact along a portion of the plurality of wires to thereby inhibit strain on the plurality of wires held in the electrical connector.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for electrically grounding and supporting poles or posts which are used in electrical and/or telecommunication networks. The system includes a conductive base support affixed at or near the base of the pole and to which the ground wire is attached. The base support not only provides resistance to lateral forces, thereby anchoring the bottom of the pole, but also presents a relatively large surface area for electrical bonding with the soil/earth at the bottom of the pole which facilities grounding.

Abstract: A light-emitting device includes 16 vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser diodes (VCSELs) disposed like a 4×4 grid, for example, in a sufficiently narrower range than the end surface of an optical fiber. The 16 VCSELs disposed in the light-emitting device emit optical signals in the same direction. Since the VCSELs are disposed with a concentration in the sufficiently narrower range than the end surface of the optical fiber as described above, if the optical signals emitted from the VCSELs are spread, almost all optical signals generated by the light-emitting device are incident on the end surface of the optical fiber and are transmitted through the optical fiber.

Abstract: Disclosed is a bipolar multi electrostatic inducing discharge-dissipation lightning air terminal, in which different charges are applied to upper and lower sections thereof by an isolation polymer insulator in such a manner that an earth-charge is preliminarily discharged as a thundercloud approaches, so that a thunderbolt is prevented from falling onto a building, thereby preventing a loss of lives and protecting electronic products installed in a building from being damaged.

Abstract: A door wire routing system for efficiently routing wiring from a door jam to a swinging door in a concealed and protective manner. The door wire routing system includes a flexible tubular member that receives and protects a wire, and a pair of guide members that slidably receive the tubular member. One of the guide members is installed within an opening within a doorjamb and the other guide member is installed within an opening within an inner edge of a door member. The wire is extended through the tubular member for providing electrical power and data communications to the door member. When the door member is opened or closed, the tubular member slides within the guide members while protecting the wire from damage or sabotage.

Abstract: A dielectric device for protecting animals from becoming a short between power lines and poles or other lines. In an alternate embodiment the device includes prongs to deter birds from landing on the protection device.

Abstract: Systems and techniques are described for monitoring a pre-splice heat treatment of an optical fiber. In one described technique, a lead end of a first fiber is prepared for splicing. The lead of the fiber is then loaded into a heat treatment station. While heating the lead fiber end, an optical time domain reflectometer is used to measure reflected backscatter loss from the lead fiber end. The lead fiber continues to be heated end until the measured reflected backscatter loss from the lead fiber end reaches a predetermined level. At that point, the heat treatment is discontinued.

Abstract: An accessory for immobilizing, an electrical device fitted into a longitudinal opening of a trunking base section and clipped directly to parallel clipping strips flanking the longitudinal opening includes a rigid member which is fitted transversely into the longitudinal opening of the trunking base section alongside an electrical device to stabilize locally the width of the longitudinal opening. The rigid member has on two parallel sides attachment arrangements adapted to cooperate with the clipping strips. The rigid member carries a locking lever one end of which has a bearing surface which bears on one of the clipping strips. The locking lever pivots between two positions, namely a rest position in which the bearing surface is at a distance from the clipping strip and a locking position in which the bearing surface is pressed against the clipping strip, exerting a pressure force thereon to lock the rigid member in position on the trunking base section.

Abstract: A housing has second and third bays, where each bay receives equipment therein. The housing also has a plurality of lines traveling therein from a site such as a first bay to the second bay and the third bay. A line routing device is positioned above the second and third bays and routes the lines from the site to the second and third bays. Each line is secured at a common securing point above the second and third bays, and each of the second and third bays has a vertical down-channel at one side thereof. Each line extends from the securing point, through the line routing device, and down one of the down-channels such that the line when positioned to hang in either down-channel hangs substantially the same length within such down-channel.

Abstract: An insulating device for insulating an electronic device having at least one hole and fixed on a metal case having at least one hole is provided. The insulating device includes a hollow insulating portion passing through the at least one hole of the metal case, a first insulating washer disposed on a first end of the hollow insulating portion, a second insulating washer disposed on a second end of the hollow insulating portion, and a fastening element passing through the first insulating washer, the second insulating washer and the at least one hole of the electronic device for fastening with the electronic device, so as to fix and insulate the electronic device against the metal case.

Abstract: For multichannel optical communications system, an optical communications module comprises a first story in a lower insulating case and a second story in an upper insulating case, allocating either story for an LD set having an optical connector, a silicon bench with lightwaveguides, a WDM (wavelength division multiplexer), LDs and an LD leadframe with leadpins, and the other story for a PD set having PDs and a PD leadframe with leadpins. Another optical communications module comprises a first story in a lower insulating case and a second story in an upper insulating case, allocating either story for an LD set having an optical connector, a silicon bench with lightwaveguides, a beamsplitter, LDs and an LD leadframe with leadpins, and the other story for a monitoring PD set having monitoring PDs and a PD leadframe with leadpins. The both stories are filled with a transparent resin and the both cases are molded with another hard resin.