Patents Examined by Dhiru R Patel
  • Patent number: 10386025
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: 2BR Creations, LLC
    Inventors: Bradley Cohen, Brian Neece
  • Patent number: 10381944
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Toshiba International Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Collette, John T. Kelley, Enrique Martinez
  • Patent number: 10381789
    Abstract: A variety of active cover plate configurations with prongs configured to contact side screw terminals of electrical receptacles are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: SnapRays LLC
    Inventors: Jeremy C. Smith, R. Camden Robinson, Darren C. Knight, Martin Johnson
  • Patent number: 10381817
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Corporation
    Inventor: Senthil A. Kumar
  • Patent number: 10381788
    Abstract: A variety of active cover plate configurations with prongs configured to contact side screw terminals of electrical receptacles are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: SnapRays LLC
    Inventors: Jeremy C. Smith, R. Camden Robinson, Darren C. Knight, Martin Johnson
  • Patent number: 10373773
    Abstract: A variety of active cover plate configurations with prongs configured to contact side screw terminals of electrical receptacles or switches are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: SnapRays LLC
    Inventors: Jeremy C. Smith, R. Camden Robinson
  • Patent number: 10374407
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: BURNDY, LLC
    Inventor: Robert V. DeFrance
  • Patent number: 10367341
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Inventors: Jeffrey P. Baldwin, John Klein
  • Patent number: 10368443
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: DEXERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Reiji Tsukao
  • Patent number: 10361546
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Appleton Grp LLC
    Inventors: Satheesh Madathil Sankarankutty Nair, Rudy Mark D. Halcon, Raymond A. Dubiel, Warren K. Fleras
  • Patent number: 10333288
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventors: Krzysztof W. Korcz, Mahran H. Ayrton
  • Patent number: 10326261
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Unitoro, LLC
    Inventor: Edward J. Kim
  • Patent number: 10325700
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventor: Lonnie Elder
  • Patent number: 10312674
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: R. Stahl Schaltgerate GmbH
    Inventors: Holger Semrau, Maxim Kutsch
  • Patent number: 10312677
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Seeless Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Shalom Illouz
  • Patent number: 10312672
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Inventor: Jeffrey Baldwin
  • Patent number: 10304595
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: HUBBELL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Eric Ralph Weatherbee, Andrew Victor McNulty, Shibao Zhang, Chungduck Ko
  • Patent number: 10298002
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: SUN MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Miyakoshi, Seitarou Onuma
  • Patent number: 10283949
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventor: Jason Thomas
  • Patent number: 10272855
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomohiro Yabashi