Patents Examined by Dhiru R Patel
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Patent number: 10386025Abstract: An electrical cover including a pair of opposed rim sides having an amount of curvature between the pair of opposed rim sides, a switch guard medially disposed in the electrical cover, the switch guard including a pair of opposed grasp wall sides convex in relation to the interior space of the switch guard, and a pair of aperture elements disposed adjacent the switch guard.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2017Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: 2BR Creations, LLCInventors: Bradley Cohen, Brian Neece
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Patent number: 10381944Abstract: Presently disclosed embodiments are directed to an adjustable-speed drive comprising a transformer module and an inverter module configured for installation in either of a side-by-side or stacked configurations. The disclosed embodiments utilize a modular design for the transformer and inverter modules. Thus, the adjustable-speed drive is capable of being installed in either of a side-by-side configuration or a stacked configuration. This modular design allows for installation at a site in accordance with the space limitations of any given location.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2017Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: Toshiba International CorporationInventors: Michael Collette, John T. Kelley, Enrique Martinez
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Patent number: 10381789Abstract: A variety of active cover plate configurations with prongs configured to contact side screw terminals of electrical receptacles are described.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2019Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: SnapRays LLCInventors: Jeremy C. Smith, R. Camden Robinson, Darren C. Knight, Martin Johnson
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Patent number: 10381817Abstract: An assembly for use with an oil-filled cable termination includes a cable gland, a cable received in the cable gland, and a stress cone received around the cable and spaced apart from the cable gland. The cable includes a central conductor and a polymeric insulation layer surrounding the central conductor. A lug is spaced apart from the stress cone and includes a barrel portion with the central conductor of the cable received in the barrel portion. An oil barrier system including an oil barrier layer surrounds the polymeric insulation layer of the cable between the stress cone and the lug.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2018Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: TE Connectivity CorporationInventor: Senthil A. Kumar
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Patent number: 10381788Abstract: A variety of active cover plate configurations with prongs configured to contact side screw terminals of electrical receptacles are described.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2019Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: SnapRays LLCInventors: Jeremy C. Smith, R. Camden Robinson, Darren C. Knight, Martin Johnson
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Patent number: 10373773Abstract: A variety of active cover plate configurations with prongs configured to contact side screw terminals of electrical receptacles or switches are described.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2019Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: SnapRays LLCInventors: Jeremy C. Smith, R. Camden Robinson
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Patent number: 10374407Abstract: Conductor spacer assemblies are disclosed that can be easily and rapidly clamped to parallel electrical conductors suspended between supports, and that can be easily and rapidly secured together with an automatically actuated fastener assembly. The conductor spacer assembly includes an upper spacer body that is coupled to a lower spacer body and an automatically actuated fastener assembly that facilitates quick and safe installation of the conductor spacer assemblies.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2018Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: BURNDY, LLCInventor: Robert V. DeFrance
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Patent number: 10367341Abstract: An electrical outlet cover with a lid having a configurable protrusion or recess to accommodate different uses and weather resistance states. The electrical outlet cover includes a base coupled to an electrical outlet and a lid hingedly coupled to the base along a first side. The lid includes a frame with a central aperture and a telescoping enclosure with a flange at a front edge of a sleeve, the flange extending outward from the sleeve. The sleeve may include a ledge extending outward from the sleeve adjacent a back edge of the sleeve on at least two sides of the sleeve. The sleeve is slidably coupled within the central aperture and movable between an expanded position and a collapsed position. The flange may abut the frame in the collapsed position and the ledge may abut the frame in the expanded position.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2018Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Inventors: Jeffrey P. Baldwin, John Klein
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Patent number: 10368443Abstract: A connection body for which a determination of the pass/fail of the electrical continuity can be made by an indentation inspection and in which conduction reliability is ensured.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2016Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: DEXERIALS CORPORATIONInventor: Reiji Tsukao
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Patent number: 10361546Abstract: An electrical housing including a housing portion defined by a base and sidewalls extending from the base. The housing portion is adapted to be covered by a lid to configure an enclosure for housing electric components therewithin. A flange portion extends from the at least one sidewall for facilitation mounting of the electrical power housing. The flange portion comprises a pair of apertures configured at operative ends of the flange portion, and a corner portion surrounding the pair of apertures. The corner portion is defined by an arcuate projection circumscribing the pair of apertures.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2018Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: Appleton Grp LLCInventors: Satheesh Madathil Sankarankutty Nair, Rudy Mark D. Halcon, Raymond A. Dubiel, Warren K. Fleras
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Patent number: 10333288Abstract: A brace assembly is provided having a brace for mounting to a support and a hanger member. The hanger member is coupled to the brace by a bar positioned in a longitudinal slot in the bottom side of the brace. The bar enables the hanger member to slide along the length of the brace. The hanger member has a bottom wall and side walls with a top end for coupling to a support. A mounting bracket is removably coupled to the hanger member for supporting the brace.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2018Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: Hubbell IncorporatedInventors: Krzysztof W. Korcz, Mahran H. Ayrton
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Patent number: 10326261Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for concealing indoor wiring and cables while serving as architectural wall panels or adornments. In various embodiments, a system of architectural wall panels might include one or more architectural wall panels and a plurality of wall mounts that are removably securable to a wall. Each architectural wall panel might include a front face having a decorative or architectural pattern thereon, a rear face, and two or more mounting protrusions formed on a surface of the rear face. Each mounting protrusion and an adjacent mounting protrusion might form or define a vertical channel having a size through which cables can be disposed when the wall panel is mounted on the wall. The two or more mounting protrusions removably couple with two or more corresponding wall mounts that have been secured to the wall, thereby allowing the wall panel to mount on the wall.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2018Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: Unitoro, LLCInventor: Edward J. Kim
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Patent number: 10325700Abstract: A cast condenser bushing includes an electrical conductor; a plurality of condenser layers disposed about the conductor, each condenser layer including a fluted, corrugated electrical insulator and a conductive sheet; and epoxy encapsulating the plurality of condenser layers and forming an epoxy casting, wherein the epoxy is disposed within and between each condenser layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2017Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: ABB Schweiz AGInventor: Lonnie Elder
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Patent number: 10312674Abstract: An explosion-proof arrangement (20) having a bushing part (23) with a bushing opening (24) that defines a bushing surface (25) and a structural unit (29) arranged in the bushing opening (24). The structural unit (29) includes a deformable inner body (31) with at least one conductor channel (32) extending through in a longitudinal direction (L), and a plastically deformable connecting sleeve (30) surrounding the inner body (31). At least one conductor (21) is guided through its own associated conductor channel (32) in the inner body (31). A connecting portion (33) of the connecting sleeve (30) is plastically deformed so that it presses radially inwardly on the inner body (31) and deforms it in a radial direction (R). A first delimiting surface (35) is formed on an outer circumference of the plastically deformed connecting portion (33). The bushing surface (25) forms a second delimiting surface (36).Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2016Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: R. Stahl Schaltgerate GmbHInventors: Holger Semrau, Maxim Kutsch
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Patent number: 10312677Abstract: A recessed wall mounting apparatus and method are presented. The invention includes a housing unit coupled with a mounting ring. The housing unit has a base wall with a front side having an outwardly extending perimeter wall from each side of the base wall to form a recessed compartment. The perimeter wall terminates in an outer edge that is configured to be flush with a drywall of an architectural structure. The base wall has an access hole configured substantially in alignment with an accessory window in the mounting ring. The mounting ring is configured for removably mounting an accessory device, e.g. light switch, to the accessory window. One or more removable and adjustable wall brackets are coupled to one or more sides of the housing unit for securing the housing unit to the wall of the architectural structure.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2018Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: Seeless Solutions, Inc.Inventor: Shalom Illouz
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Patent number: 10312672Abstract: A cable conduit system including a curved conduit having a first end and a second end with the first end being perpendicular to the second end, and an inner curved surface opposite an outer curved Surface, wherein the inner curved surface and the outer curved surface define a space for receiving a plurality of cables, and wherein the inner curved surface is oriented to abut a mounting surface and is complimentary shaped to the mounting surface.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2018Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Inventor: Jeffrey Baldwin
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Patent number: 10304595Abstract: Systems and methods for providing electrical bushings for maintaining a seal during severe incidents are provided. The bushings provide for relatively large gap formations and seal spacings by using one or more self-modulating seals. In certain configurations, the bushings provide for relatively large gap formations and seal spacings by using a wider or narrow top portion adjacent to a relatively narrower middle portion. The systems and methods can be also applied to other apparatus when deemed proper.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2018Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: HUBBELL INCORPORATEDInventors: Eric Ralph Weatherbee, Andrew Victor McNulty, Shibao Zhang, Chungduck Ko
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Patent number: 10298002Abstract: A cable protector includes: a helical portion where a helical strip-like member surrounds a barrel portion of a cable, an equipment housing mounting portion configured to surround the barrel portion between a rear end portion of the strip-like member and an equipment housing, and a distal cylindrical portion configured to surround the barrel portion. The equipment housing mounting portion includes a mounting plate and a cylindrical body. The equipment housing mounting portion forms a notched portion thereon for allowing entering and exiting of the barrel portion into and from the mounting plate. The distal cylindrical portion has an opening/closing portion changeable between a surrounding state where the distal cylindrical portion surrounds the barrel portion and a state which allows entering and exiting of the barrel portion into and from the distal cylindrical portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2017Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: SUN MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH CORPORATIONInventors: Takayuki Miyakoshi, Seitarou Onuma
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Patent number: 10283949Abstract: A floor box for accommodating and protecting an electrical device such as a receptacle includes a housing and a cover. The floor box can be placed within a floor or ground. Rain water or other liquids that enter the floor box are isolated from the electrical device within the box and are removed from the interior of the box by a drain.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2017Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: Hubbell IncorporatedInventor: Jason Thomas
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Patent number: 10272855Abstract: Provided is a grommet and a grommet attachment structure configured to prevent a foreign object from entering. The grommet is externally mounted to a bundle of wires, and to a through hole formed in a panel disposed between a waterproof region and a non-waterproof region, the grommet includes a body portion fitted to the through hole; a waterproof-side protruding portion protrudes from the body portion to the waterproof region side; and a non-waterproof-side protruding portion protrudes from the body portion to the non-waterproof region side. The non-waterproof-side protruding portion includes a tubular portion surrounding the bundle of wires, and a projecting piece portion disposed along a portion of an outer circumference of the bundle of wires.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2018Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventor: Tomohiro Yabashi