Patents Examined by Dhirubhai R Patel
  • Patent number: 10286219
    Abstract: One aspect relates to an apparatus includes a ceramic body including a first surface and a further surface. The first surface is opposite the further surface, the first surface includes a first opening. The further surface includes a further opening. The first opening and the further opening are connected by a tunnel, which at least partly includes a tunnel filling and is occluded by the tunnel filling. The tunnel filling includes a first constituent, including a cermet, and a second constituent. The first and second constituents are electroconductingly connected to one another. The first constituent has a first electrical conductivity and the second constituent has a second electrical conductivity, which differs from the first by at least 5·10?4 Siemens per meter (S/m). The ceramic body is characterized by a further electrical conductivity. The first electrical conductivity is more by at least 1·105 Siemens per meter (S/m) than the 15 further electrical conductivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Heraeus Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ilias Nikolaidis, Frederik Roth, Ulrich Hausch, Robert Dittmer, Jacqueline Gebhardt, Sandra Sauer
  • Patent number: 10199814
    Abstract: An in-use outlet cover includes a base configured to be positioned over an electrical receptacle. The base having a recessed portion at least partially defining a chamber configured to receive a plug to connect a load to the outlet. A cover assembly is pivotally connected to the base. An expandable member can positioned in a central opening of the base and moveable between a first position where the expandable member has a first volume and a second position where the expandable member has a second volume greater than the first volume, and wherein movement of the expandable member varies the size of the chamber. The cover assembly can additionally or alternatively include a lower cover pivotally connected to the base and an upper cover pivotally connected to the lower cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventor: Sorin Mortun
  • Patent number: 10183636
    Abstract: A sealing grommet for a sealed feedthrough of a strand-shaped element through a wall, in particular for a cable feedthrough for the automotive sector, is configured for insertion in an installation direction into an opening, bordered by the wall and with a predefined opening width. The sealing grommet has a grommet body with a push-through area which extends in the installation direction and which is fed through the opening in the installation direction during installation, in such a way that it engages behind the wall in the installed state. An auxiliary element facilitating the insertion into the opening is provided, which has a circumferential sliding area containing at least one sliding surface, and wherein the at least one sliding surface bears at least partially on a circumferential surface of the push-through area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: LEONI Bordnetz-Systeme GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Kaefer, Matthias Groetsch, Gerhard Hein, Joerg Sauder
  • Patent number: 10181709
    Abstract: A floor box assembly includes a floor box and at least one retainer coupled to the floor box. The floor box includes an outer wall extending along a longitudinal axis, and the outer wall includes a first end and a second end. The first end is configured to be coupled to an electrical receptacle. The floor box is configured to receive at least one cable in electrical communication with the receptacle. The retainer permits the floor box to be inserted in a first direction along the longitudinal axis and secures the floor box against movement in a second direction opposite the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventors: Joseph V. DeBartolo, Sorin I. Mortun, Emircan M. Dumani
  • Patent number: 10170896
    Abstract: A window assembly is for an enclosure. The enclosure has a plurality of walls. The window assembly includes a cover member structured to be coupled to each of the plurality of walls in order to form an enclosed region; a window member coupled to the cover member; a frame member coupled to the cover member; and a number of stud members each secured to the frame member and extending through the cover member. The cover member is located between the frame member and the window member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: Warren Clift Sipe, Richard Donald Prohaska, Gilbert Ricky Carson
  • Patent number: 10164415
    Abstract: A junction box includes a first cover plate that covers a first open side defined by a main body, and a second cover plate that covers a second open side defined by the main body. The second cover plate includes a mounting pad to attach an electrical component thereto. The electrical component is disposed in an inner cavity defined by the main body when the second cover plate is in a closed position. Further, the junction box includes a fastening device that retains the first cover plate and the second cover plate in the closed position and operates without interfering with a mounting structure in which the junction box is disposed. Furthermore, the junction box includes chamfer walls and wire traps disposed thereon to receive and pass electrical wiring cables into the junction box therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: Grzegorz Wronski, Zhihong Lin, Wei Zhao, Oliver Ernst
  • Patent number: 10158216
    Abstract: An electrical box assembly and cable connector are provided. The cable connector includes a connector housing and a cable retaining member that releasably secures an electrical cable within the connector housing. The electrical box assembly includes an electrical box and a cable connector. The electrical box assembly may also include a box separator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventors: Krzysztof Korcz, Steven Johnson
  • Patent number: 10153628
    Abstract: An enclosure for containing electrical components and for recessing into and fixing to a surface is disclosed. The enclosure has a box and a flange extending the box adjacent an opening in the box. The flange has an aperture in each corn to receive a fixing screw. A first seal extends around the box on a rear surface of the flange. A lid covers the opening and the flange and touches the first seal. A second seal extends around the opening and engages the lid and the body. Lid screws fix the lid to the body. The apparatus provides an easy to clean and completely sealed enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: ELECTRIX INTERNATIONAL LTD
    Inventor: Richard John Thompson
  • Patent number: 10153627
    Abstract: The invention provides a bottomless cable cover for power and communications cables. The cable cover is characterized in part by a traffic portion and asymmetrically disposed support rails. The materials, dimensions, and aspect ratios enable faster, more adaptable, and larger-scale protection of power and communications cables that are laid on floors, without impeding hard or heavy traffic. Cable covers according to the present invention also enable decorative use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Inventor: Thomas Gamble
  • Patent number: 10135229
    Abstract: A protector is equipped with a first bent portion protecting part protecting a horizontally-bent first bent part of a wire group; a second bent portion protecting part protecting a downwardly-bending second bent part; a first cover part; a second cover part; and a first locking part, the first cover part being integrally linked to the first bent portion protecting part and being closed and locked, and the second cover part being integrally formed with, and developed on the same plane as, the first cover part and being bent downwardly and closed and locked after the first cover part is closed, and the second cover part being equipped with a second locking part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka Matsumura, Ichirou Komaba
  • Patent number: 10122158
    Abstract: The invention relates to a corrugated tube made of flexible plastic for encasing wires, having circumferential, successively alternating corrugation crests and corrugation troughs distributed over the axial length thereof, wherein the corrugation crests, seen in cross-section, perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the corrugated tube, each have a corrugation along the outside circumference thereof which forms alternating radially protruding regions and radially inward-offset regions in the circumferential direction of each corrugation crest. The corrugated tube has wall sections, which extend axially over the length thereof and lie adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction, of which wall sections one forms the radially protruding regions in the corrugation and the other forms the radially inward-offset regions. Said wall sections consist of materials of varying hardness in circumferential alternation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Inventor: Van Ngoc Chu
  • Patent number: 10123449
    Abstract: Examples herein relate to a cable bracket for a datacenter rack, the cable bracket includes a plurality of retention clamps, each retention clamp adapted to retain a cable and a side plate longitudinally connected to the plurality of retention clamps, the side plate includes mechanical attachment features. The side plate of the cable bracket is adapted to be directly attached by the mechanical attachment features on a rail of the datacenter rack and the cable bracket is located between the rail and a side panel of the datacenter rack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Matthew E. Stevens, Derrick G. Runcie, Keli Barham
  • Patent number: 10115502
    Abstract: A dielectric cover for an insulator and conductor in an electrical distribution includes an insulator cover portion for covering the insulator. A knob and ridge extend down from an inside ceiling of the insulator cover portion. An arm, for covering a portion of the conductor extending from the insulator, has a top keyhole, where the keyhole has a wide portion that fits over the knob in a first position and a narrow portion that restricts vertical movement of the arm in a locked position when the arm is withdrawn slightly. The arm also has a resilient tab that snaps over the ridge in the locked position, wherein the knob in combination with the keyhole restrict further withdrawing of the arm from the insulator cover portion in the locked position, and the tab contacting the ridge restricts further insertion of the arm into the insulator cover portion in the locked position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Eco Electrical Systems
    Inventor: Michael Lynch
  • Patent number: 10109944
    Abstract: A protective guard prevents undesired access to a wall-mounted electrical interface such as an electrical switch or outlet, particularly by small children. The protective guard includes a baseplate, cover and spring-biased latch. The baseplate is mounted to the wall and contains at least one opening to expose the electrical interface. The cover slidably attaches to the baseplate for sliding movement between a closed position that blocks access to the electrical interface and an open position that exposes the electrical interface. The spring-biased latch is attached to the cover. The latch is actively spring-biased to a locked position that holds the cover in the closed position and has an unlocked position offset from the locked position which allows sliding movement of the cover to its open position to expose the electrical interface. Advantageously, exposing the electrical interface requires no additional parts or tools that should be procured, removed, stored, or could be misplaced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: DHT Ventures, LLC
    Inventors: Dennis F Marr, Tracy Vaughn Petersen
  • Patent number: 10109945
    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 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: SnapRays, LLC
    Inventors: Jeremy C. Smith, R. Camden Robinson
  • Patent number: 10103528
    Abstract: An cable duct is presented herein. The cable duct includes a cover plate having a double sided hinge allowing the cover to be opened from one of two sides. The cover has a pair of saddle features longitudinally extending along distal edges of the cover plate, a base plate arranged opposite the cover plate, and a sidewalls extending from the base plate to the cover plate. Each sidewall defines a lobe mechanism on a sidewall end opposite the base plate that is configured to engage the corresponding saddle feature releasably secure the cover plate to the sidewall. Each saddle feature is configured to pivot about the lobe mechanism. Each lobe mechanism includes a rounded outer lobe portion having a first radius and a rounded inner lobe portion having a second radius. The first radius is greater than the second radius.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: HELLERMANNTYTON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Giovanni Lewinski
  • Patent number: 10103533
    Abstract: An electrical box assembly for mounting an electrical component in a countertop. The assembly includes an electrical box with an enclosure adapted to receive electrical wiring. A sidewall on the electrical box includes one or more channels each including a channel bottom, a ramp, and a channel cover with a slot. A mounting bracket includes a base and two arm members and is loosely assembled to the electrical box with the mounting fasteners. A cover bracket is secured in each of the slots. A cover provides access to the electrical component and includes a cover plate, a cavity for housing an electrical component, and a snap-engagement latch for selectively latching the electrical component outward of the cover plate or inward within the electrical box enclosure. Installation time and effort are minimized as site preparation requires only a single hole that may be made with a standard size hole-saw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: ARLINGTON INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventor: Thomas J. Gretz
  • Patent number: 10103479
    Abstract: A cable connector is provided for coupling to and mounted within the internal cavity of an electrical box for securing an electrical cable passing through an opening in the electrical box. The cable connector includes a body having a first end positioned next to or adjacent the cable opening in the electrical box and a second end spaced from the first end and the cable opening. At least one and typically two retaining members are spring biased from the first end of the body and extend into a cable passage of the body toward the second end. A front wall is provided at the second end of the body with an opening for receiving the wires and forming a stop member to prevent the armor sheathing from passing through the front wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventors: Krzysztof W. Korcz, Steven J. Johnson, Richard J. Wagner
  • Patent number: 10096982
    Abstract: An electrical connection box includes a housing having a temporary fixing projection. The temporary fixing projection includes a locking portion and a plate spring portion. The locking portion is provided with a locking claw projecting toward an outside in a radial direction. The plate spring portion includes a flat surface. In a temporary fixing state where the temporary fixing projection is inserted into a temporary fixing hole of an attachment panel, a locking surface of the locking claw of the locking portion faces a facing surface in an insertion direction. In the temporary fixing state, the plate spring portion is elastically deformed toward an inside in the radial direction. The flat surface of the plate spring portion is in contact with a contact surface and applies, to the attachment panel, a restoring force toward the outside in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignees: YAZAKI CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akinori Nakashima, Masahiro Wada, Takahiko Kamiya, Norihisa Miyabe
  • Patent number: 10090656
    Abstract: An electrical device enclosure has an enclosure box and two mounting plates is disclosed. The mounting plates are electrically conductive and coupled to the enclosure box. Each plate includes at least one device mounting hole positioned and sized to receive a device mounting screw that passes through a yoke of an electrical device. At least one of the mounting plates also has a grounding tab extending away from the plate and configured to receive a ground screw. The grounding tab is conductive and integral to the mounting plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Inventor: Jeffrey P. Baldwin