Abstract: Contact pins for glass seals is provided having an iron alloy and a method for their production. The contact pins are provided with a nickel layer and coated with rhodium and/or platinum or with palladium. The contact pins may be additionally provided with a layer of gold. The contact pins are first cleaned by degreasing and activating, preferably by activating through acid etching. Thereafter, the application of a nickel layer is performed under a protective gas atmosphere, followed by formatting at 850 to 1050° C. The protective gas atmosphere is preferably made up of 10 to 100% hydrogen, with the balance formed of nitrogen. This is followed by a coating with palladium or with rhodium and platinum, or with platinum, or with rhodium and gold.

Abstract: A method of preparing a surface for deposition of a thin film thereon, wherein the surface including a plurality of protrusions extending therefrom and having shadowed regions, includes locally treating at least one of the protrusions.

Abstract: An apparatus for mounting at a conductive terminal of a high voltage insulator is provided. An apparatus includes an electrical insulator including an electrically insulating material without a conductive material. The electrical insulator includes a first surface, a second surface, a first edge that is between the first surface and the second surface, an intersection between the first edge and the first and second surfaces, and a second edge that is opposite the first edge and that is between the first surface and the second surface. The apparatus further includes a connected electrical conductor that is arranged on the first surface of the electrical insulator and is spaced apart from the second edge and an electrically conductive connector that is configured to electrically couple the connected electrical conductor to the conductive terminal of the high voltage insulator.

Abstract: A wire harness is routed from a luggage compartment of an automobile along a hinge arm and toward a luggage door. An extra wire length accommodation case is positioned between the hinge arm and a vehicle body panel of the luggage compartment in a vertical direction which is an operation direction of the hinge arm. The extra wire length accommodation case has a shape that includes an arced wire entrance having a wire harness outlet linked with an arced portion of the hinge arm, and an extra wire length bypass continuous with the arced wire entrance. The wire harness is passed into the extra wire length bypass of the extra wire length accommodation case, then is drawn out through the outlet of the arced wire entrance and routed along the arced portion of the hinge arm toward the luggage door.

Abstract: A wire harness includes: a tubular outer member; a conductive path which is inserted in and protected by the outer member; and a vibration suppressing member which reduces a movable range of the conductive path to suppress shakes of the conductive path. The vibration suppressing member includes an inward projection portion which projects inward from a tube inner surface of the outer member in a state in which the vibration suppressing member is attached to the outer member from a side of a tube outer surface after insertion of the conductive path.

Abstract: A metallic tube body is expanded in an exterior member to be an expanded state, so that an outer surface of an insulator comes into close contact with an inner surface of the exterior member.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a noise shield cable, wherein the noise shield cable includes a conductor, an insulation provided around the conductor, a noise shielding layer provided around the insulation and a sheath provided around the noise shielding layer, includes providing an insulating material including a magnetic powder, pressing and then rolling the insulating material to form a sheet, and winding the sheet around the insulation to form the noise shielding layer. An aspect ratio of the magnetic powder represented by a maximum length/a maximum thickness is more than 10.

Abstract: A wire harness includes a conductive path and an exterior member with a tubular shape which covers the conductive path. The exterior member includes a bent route portion and a straight route portion with a straight shape. The straight route portion includes a first straight tubular portion; a second straight tubular portion; a third straight tubular portion that is disposed between the first straight tubular portion and the second straight tubular portion; and a shift correction portion that allows the third straight tubular portion to be displaced relative to the first straight tubular portion and the second straight tubular portion in a perpendicular axial direction of the straight route portion.

Abstract: A vehicle vision system includes at least one camera operable to capture image data, and an image processor chip operable to process image data captured by the at least one camera for detecting at least one of a vehicle and a pedestrian present in the field of view of the at least one camera. The image processor chip is surface mounted at a mounting location of a circuit board that has a plurality of solder pads established thereat that correspond to a plurality of respective solder points of the image processor chip. The plurality of solder pads include elongated solder pads having respective longitudinal axes. The mounting location includes first, second, third and fourth quadrants. The longitudinal axes of elongated solder pads disposed at the first quadrant are aligned different from the longitudinal axes of elongated solder pads disposed at the second quadrant.

Abstract: A printed circuit board and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. A printed circuit board having conductive patterns formed in multilayers on an insulating material laminated on both surfaces of a glass core is provided. The printed circuit board includes a first insulating material disposed on a first surface and a second surface of the glass core. and a second insulating material disposed on the first insulating material. The first insulating material surrounds a first portion of a side surface of the glass core and the second insulating material surrounds a second portion of the side surface of the glass core, the second portion being a portion of the glass core not surrounded by the first insulating material.

Abstract: An apparatus for conduit to box unitary support bracket uses a plate. An electrical conduit box has end knockout openings on sides thereof, each end knockout opening having an elevation and size and location. The plate is disposed substantially perpendicular to said end knockout openings and comprising opposing rows of thin, selectively bendable fingers bent towards the knockout openings to support at least one wire carrier in alignment with an elevation and size and location of corresponding end knockout openings. A method of assembling bends tabs on the plate 90 degrees, installs a connector in an end knockout on a side of the box, bends in a direction toward the electrical conduit box opposing rows of a plurality thin metal fingers on the tab, secures the box to the plate, and feeds a wire carrier through the tabs, resting on the metal fingers bent and feeds the wire carrier into the connector.

Abstract: An electric wire and a wire harness include a linear conductor, and a covering member configured to include a covering main body that covers an outer circumferential side of the conductor, and a rib portion that is formed integrally with the covering main body, as a protrusion, on an outer circumferential surface of the covering main body.

Abstract: A shielded electric wire includes an electric wire; a shielding member that forms a shielding layer by covering a periphery of the electric wire; a sheet-shaped member that covers a periphery of the shielding member; and a protective member spirally wound on a periphery of the sheet-shaped member. The sheet-shaped member includes a first sheet material and a second sheet material. One surface of the first and second sheet materials is formed with an adhesive layer. The first and second sheet materials have a width longer than a half circumferential distance of the shielding member provided on the periphery of the electric wire, and are stuck on the shielding member to sandwich the shielding member. The adhesive layers of the first and second sheet materials are opposingly stuck in extra length portions protruding the shielding member in a width direction.

Abstract: An electrical box assembly for concrete pours. The electrical box assembly includes an electrical box with a sidewall defining an electrical enclosure and a leveling ring for accepting the mounting of an electrical component to the box. Mounting bosses within the electrical box extend longitudinally along the inner surface of the sidewall and facilitate a means for mounting the leveling ring to the electrical box. The leveling ring includes a flange that is adapted to overlap the top rim of the electrical box. Component attachment arms on the leveling ring enable mounting of an electrical component to the electrical box assembly. Cover attachment arms on the leveling ring facilitate mounting of an electrical cover to the electrical box assembly. The electrical box assembly eliminates the need for clips and adhesive for leveling an electrical component with respect to the surface of a concrete poured surface.

Abstract: A power terminal enclosure may be used to provide power conductors (power terminals) across electrical isolation boundaries while providing electrical short-circuit protections. The power terminal enclosure may be a single article molded from an electrically insulating material. The power terminal enclosure may also be dimensioned to provide sufficient separation distance between other power terminal enclosures for a given maximum voltage of a power conductor (power terminal) so that power conductors enclosed by the power terminal enclosures are properly spaced apart with a minimum separate distance. The power terminal enclosure may also include a mechanical retention mechanism, such as a snap-fit retention area, for mating with a power conductor enclosed by the power terminal enclosure. The power terminal enclosure may partially pass through an opening in an isolation barrier (such as a wall and/or plate), with the power conductor passing through the power terminal enclosure.

Abstract: A supporting rack includes two one-piece supporting foot members each including an upright base panel and a bearing panel perpendicularly extended from the top side of the upright base panel, a clamping panel outwardly extended from the bottom side of the upright base panel of one one-piece supporting foot member for holding a mobile electronic device, a tabletop mounted on the bearing panels of the two one-piece supporting foot members in a replaceable manner and defining with the two one-piece supporting foot members an accommodation chamber for accommodating computer peripheral apparatuses, and an electronic expansion box detachably mounted at the upright base panel of one one-piece supporting foot member within the accommodation chamber for connecting multiple computer peripheral apparatuses to a computer or server.

Abstract: A conductive path is formed in an elongated manner to be arranged longitudinally along a vehicle underfloor. An exterior member is made of resin, and is provided in a form without any seam or slit that communicates its outer surface and inner surface and in an elongated manner in accordance with the length of the conductive path.

Abstract: A circuit board includes a first thermally conductive structure comprising a cavity or a recess portion. At least a portion of the first thermally conductive structure is inserted into an insulating part. An electronic device comprising a portion thereof inserted in the cavity or the recess portion.

Abstract: Provided are a low emissivity film and a window having the same. According to an embodiment of the inventive concept, the low emissivity film may include a first substrate, a first metal oxide layer, a first reflective layer, a second metal oxide layer, and a second substrate. The first metal oxide layer may reflect light having a wavelength of infrared rays. The light having a first wavelength is reflected by cavity effect of the first metal oxide layer, the first reflective layer, and the second metal oxide layer, and the light having a second wavelength may pass through the low emissivity film. Thus, the low emissivity film may express a color.

Abstract: A multilayer ceramic component including a multilayer ceramic capacitor including first and second external electrodes disposed on a mounting surface of a ceramic body; and first and second terminal electrodes each including an upper horizontal part disposed on a lower surface of the respective external electrode, a lower horizontal part disposed below the upper horizontal part and spaced apart from the upper horizontal part, and a connecting part connecting the upper horizontal part and the lower horizontal part, the connecting part having a plurality of openings alternately facing opposite end surfaces of the ceramic body.