Patents Examined by Chau N. Nguyen
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Patent number: 11923104Abstract: A cable includes a cable core including one or more electric wires, a shield layer covering around the cable core, and a sheath covering around the shield layer. The shield layer is composed of a braided shield including a plurality of first metal wires composed of aluminum or aluminum alloy and a plurality of second metal wires composed of copper or copper alloy. The plurality of first metal wires and the plurality of second metal wires are cross-braided.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: PROTERIAL, LTD.Inventors: Detian Huang, Yoshinori Tsukamoto, Masanori Kobayashi, Masashi Moriyama, Koji Fukuzato
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Patent number: 11909153Abstract: A safety cap device includes a flexible cylindrical cap formed of material of low conductivity such as rubber. Additionally, the device includes a spring biased clip is integrated on the open end of the cap such that the clip is used to clip about a wire and hold the cap over the end of said wire. In one embodiment, the clip retains the cap in a closed position by the tension of the spring in its relaxed stated. The clip is then compressed which then in turn compresses the spring to engage the cap in an open position. The cap is then mounted onto exposed electrical wiring which will provide protection to a user working with the exposed wiring. A user utilizes the cap as a handle which prevents direct contact with the exposed wiring.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Inventor: Joshua Koehn
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Patent number: 11909152Abstract: An electrical device having a terminal region for connection with a printed circuit board. The terminal region has a stranded wire and an enclosure piece surrounding the stranded wire. The enclosure piece is connected with the stranded wire, for example, by thermal diffusion bonding.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2018Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: TDK Electronics AGInventors: Yun Jiang, Karsten Frey
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Patent number: 11894165Abstract: A braided part connection structure includes a conductive braid and a conductive member electrically connected and fixed to the braid and made of a conductive plate material. The conductive member includes a braid joining portion. The braid joining portion includes, at a part of the conductive member in a longitudinal direction of the conductive member, a plurality of openings formed at intervals with each other along a direction intersecting the longitudinal direction and a welded portion defined by two adjacent openings of the plurality of openings. The braid joining portion is provided on the braid in an overlapping manner and the welded portion is laser-welded onto the braid.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventor: Kazutaka Uki
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Patent number: 11881668Abstract: A wire connector includes an outer shell with a wire cavity therein, a plurality of raised ribs on the surface of the outer shell, each of the raised ribs having a rib cap overmolded on to a top surface with a gap between the rib cap corresponding to each of the raised ribs and the rib cap corresponding to each adjacent raised rib. Two leverage wings may extend outward from the outer shell on opposing sides. A wire skirt may be overmolded around the open end of the outer shell, the wire skirt and plurality of rib caps formed of a material more flexible than a material used to form the outer shell. A wing rib may be overmolded onto a portion of the first side of each leverage wing. A base of the wire connector may include texture in the form of raised grip bumps of various shapes.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2022Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Titan3 Technology LLCInventors: John E. Klein, Jeffrey P. Baldwin
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Patent number: 11862918Abstract: The present invention provides an electric wire joining structure (80), an electric wire joining method, and a terminal (1), each of which allows a reduction in burden on an operator. The present invention includes: one or more electric wires (10); a terminal (1) including one or more insertion holes (7) for the respective one or more electric wires (10), the one or more electric wires (10) being inserted into the respective insertion holes (7); and a joining part (20) formed by thermal spraying, the joining part (20) joining the one or more electric wires (10) to the terminal (1) on a side on which the one or more electric wires (10) have passed through the respective one or more insertion holes (7).Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2018Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: TATSUTA ELECTRIC WIRE & CABLE CO., LTD.Inventor: Masaki Hirano
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Patent number: 11848119Abstract: A high frequency signal transmission cable includes a conductor, an insulator provided over a periphery of the conductor, a plating layer provided over a periphery of the insulator, and a sheath provided over a periphery of the plating layer. A crack suppressing layer includes a non-cross-linked polyethylene is provided between the insulator and the plating layer, in such a manner as to remain in contact with the insulator while being provided with the plating layer over an entire periphery of a roughened outer surface of the crack suppressing layer. The crack suppressing layer is unadhered to the insulator. The plating layer is adhered to the crack suppressing layer. The crack suppressing layer suppresses an occurrence of a cracking in the plating layer by bending together with the plating layer while being integral and moving with the plating layer in a longitudinal direction of the cable.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2020Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: PROTERIAL, LTD.Inventors: Detian Huang, Yoshinori Tsukamoto, Masashi Moriyama, Hideyuki Sagawa, Takahiro Sugiyama
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Patent number: 11843191Abstract: A soldering aid for electrically conductively connecting a cable core of a cable to a conductor area includes a body made of an electrically insulating material and an electrically conductive contact part received in the body. The contact part has a contact surface configured to electrically conductively contact the conductor area. The body is formed with a receptacle having a slot open toward one side configured to receive the cable core of the cable, and is formed with a through-bore configured to surround a sheathed portion of the cable. The contact part closes an opening at a bottom of the slot and conductively contacts the cable core.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2021Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: MD ELEKTRONIK GMBHInventors: Daniel Bock, Christian Stoemmer, Nikolaus Lechleitner
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Patent number: 11837385Abstract: Disclosed is an armored cable assembly which may include a plurality of conductors and a metal sheath disposed over the plurality of conductors. The metal sheath may have a plurality of revolutions extending helically along a lengthwise axis, each of the plurality of revolutions including a first section having a curved profile, a second section extending from the first section, the second section having a planar profile, and a third section extending from the second section. The third section may include a free end angled towards an interior cavity of the metal sheath, the free end extending past a plane defined by a bottom most point of the first section of an adjacent revolution, the plane extending perpendicular to the second section.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: AFC CABLE SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Peter Lafreniere, Stephen Lundgren, Paulo Damoura, Ronald Pegg, Antonio Araujo, David Campbell
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Patent number: 11824317Abstract: This present invention relates to an electric testing assistance tool in the form a wire nut or electrical connector. The tool is a funnel shaped flame resistant and insulating device and has a top end and a bottom end with curved walls. The top end includes a central hole to receive a testing probe of a tester device. The device has an internal metal spiral thread connected to a metal ball connector. The metal spiral thread twistable about a plurality of wire end leads. The leads extending from the bottom end opening are connected to a target wiring whose electrical parameters and continuity is to be measured using the electric testing assistance tool. The testing probe can be inserted through the central hole to contact the metal ball to measure the electric parameters and continuity of the target wiring.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Inventors: Lyndon Graham, Tammy Graham
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Patent number: 11810689Abstract: A signal cable for an AC-coupled link, may include: a signal conductor; a dielectric surrounding the signal conductor; and a ground sheath having a conductive layer disposed at least partially around the conductor such that the dielectric is positioned between the ground sheath and the signal conductor, wherein the conductive layer comprises a first portion extending in a first direction along the cable and a second portion extending in a second direction, opposite the first direction, along the cable and further wherein the first and second portions of the conductive layer are separated from each other by a gap, the gap being dimensioned to provide a determined amount of capacitance in series in the ground sheath. The gap may form a complete separation between the first and second portions of the conductive layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2020Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LPInventors: Karl J. Bois, James David Stewart, David P. Kopp, Elene Chobanyan
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Patent number: 11798709Abstract: The present invention relates to a cable comprising a crosslinked layer obtained from a polymer composition, the polymer composition comprising: a polymer blend comprising an ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) copolymer, nitrile rubber (NBR), and an ethylene-methyl acrylate (EMA) copolymer; a crosslinking agent; and a flame-retardant filler.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: NEXANSInventors: Dae-Up Ahn, Jong-Chan Lim
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Patent number: 11791062Abstract: A cable with a non-circular ground wire is provided, including two wires, two ground wires, and an insulating tape; wherein the inner sides of the wires are in contact with each other; the ground wires are respectively arranged on two opposite sides of the wires; each ground wire at least includes a first side surface, a second side surface, and a third side surface; the first and second side surfaces respectively contact the outer surfaces of the two wires, and the shapes of the first side surface and the second side surface respectively correspond to the shapes of the outer surfaces of the two wires; the insulating tape covers the outer surfaces of the wires and the third sides of the ground wires. Thereby, the mechanical properties of the cable of the present invention, such as small impedance variation of high-frequency signal transmission, transmission stability, structural flexibility and bending, can be significantly improved.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Inventor: James Cheng Lee
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Patent number: 11783964Abstract: A differential signal transmission cable includes: an insulating electric wire having a pair of conductive wires and an insulating layer covering the pair of conductive wires; a shield tape wound around an outer periphery of the insulating electric wire; a first tape wound around an outer periphery of the shield tape and having a first resin covering layer; and a second tape wound around an outer periphery of the first tape and having a second covering layer. The second covering layer is made of a high softening point material having a softening point that is higher than a softening point of the first resin covering layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Proterial, Ltd.Inventor: Hiroshi Ishikawa
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Patent number: 11758066Abstract: An FFC coupling a sensor substrate and an AFE substrate includes a configuration in which a ground line is sandwiched between a first lead wire and a second lead wire that are signal lines that transmit a read signal from the sensor substrate to the AFE substrate, and includes a configuration in which a third lead wire having a smaller voltage change than the signal line is sandwiched between two signal lines that are at least one set other than a set of the first lead wire and the second lead wire, wherein each of the signal lines is coupled to a ground pattern of the sensor substrate and is coupled to a ground pattern of the AFE substrate, and the third lead wire is coupled to a ground pattern of the sensor substrate and is coupled to a ground pattern of the AFE substrate.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Seiji Takamatsu
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Patent number: 11735338Abstract: Data/telecommunication cables that include one or more layers of an integral, bonded electromagnetic shield are described. The shield may be configured to form an electrical ground path.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Molex, LLCInventors: Jared D. Sullivan, Michael McGee, Eran J. Jones, David Gader, Andrew J. Wehrli, Todd D. Ward, Gianni R. Bardella, Ayman Isaac, Darian Schulz
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Patent number: 11721916Abstract: A connection structure of a bus bar and a cable has: a bus bar that serves as an external terminal; a cable that has a core wire exposed from an insulation sheath at a terminal, the core wire being joined with the bus bar; a protective member that covers at least a joining portion of the bus bar and the core wire of the cable; and a cut portion that is formed in the core wire at the joining portion with the bus bar.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2022Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuma Watanabe, Hideki Mizuno, Yasuhiro Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 11715584Abstract: A coaxial cable is composed of a conductor, an insulator around the conductor, a shield layer around the insulator, and a sheath around the shield layer. The shield layer includes a lateral winding shielding portion with metal wires helically wrapped around the insulator, and a batch plating portion covering the lateral winding shielding portion. The shield layer includes a joining portion where adjacent metal wires are joined with each other with the batch plating portion at a gap between the adjacent metal wires, and inner peripheral portions where the metal wires are not being covered with the batch plating portion and plating layers are exposed. The joining portion is provided between adjacent inner peripheral portions. When an elemental analysis is performed in any analysis region having an area of 0.015 mm2 or more and 0.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2021Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: PROTERIAL, LTD.Inventors: Hiromitsu Kuroda, Tamotsu Sakurai, Keisuke Fujito, Yoshiki Nakade, Detian Huang, Hideki Nonen
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Patent number: 11715582Abstract: A shielded flat cable includes multiple flat conductors arranged in parallel, a lower insulating layer provided on lower surfaces of the multiple conductors, a lower shield layer provided on a lower surface of the lower insulating layer, a lower protective layer provided on a lower surface of the lower shield layer, a lower contact portion that is exposed from the lower protective layer and provided to contact a second contact member of the connector, and that is electrically coupled to the lower shield layer, a terminal in which the multiple conductors are exposed at an end, and a reinforcing plate provided on the lower surface of the lower insulating layer and the lower surfaces of the multiple conductors at the terminal. The multiple conductors extend along the lower insulating layer and the reinforcing plate, and the lower contact portion and the terminal overlap in a side view.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2022Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Chiaki Kojima, Tatsuo Matsuda
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Patent number: 11688527Abstract: Magnet wire including extruded insulation formed from multiple layers of different materials is described. A magnet wire may include a conductor and insulation formed around the conductor. The insulation may include a first layer of extruded thermoplastic insulation formed around the conductor and a second layer of extruded thermoplastic insulation formed around the first layer of extruded thermoplastic insulation. The first layer may be formed from a first polymeric material having a first thermal index, and the second layer may be formed from a second polymeric material having a second thermal index higher than the first thermal index.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Essex Furukawa Magnet Wire USA LLCInventors: Matthew E. Leach, Mohammad Mazhar Said, Guadalupe Arambula, Zhiyang Zhao