Patents Examined by Dhirubhai R Patel
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Patent number: 9325161Abstract: A universal receptacle cover for an electrical receptacle is provided. The universal receptacle cover includes a base, a neck supported by the base, and a cap coupled to the neck, the cap moving between an open configuration and a closed configuration. In some cases, a portion of the universal receptacle cover consists essentially of a material transparent to visible light. In some cases, the universal receptacle cover is sized and shaped to completely cover standard electrical receptacles when the cap is in the closed configuration.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2013Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: Trystar, Inc.Inventors: Frederick Alan Dahl, James Jerome Koberg, Brian Allen Amacher
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Patent number: 9312675Abstract: The invention is relative to a junction box auxiliary securing structure having an auxiliary securing plate mounted in the junction box, and a switch base mounted securely on the auxiliary securing plate. The auxiliary securing plate extends from outside to inside, and oppositely defines long slots, short slots at two sides thereof, respectively, and a central opening formed at a center thereof. The four corners of the central opening have securing tongues slantly extending therefrom and toward a center of the auxiliary securing plate. Two sides of the switch base have a plurality of first fixing holes and a plurality of second fixing holes, respectively. The first fixing holes are corresponding to the long slots of the auxiliary securing plate, and the second fixing holes are corresponding to the short slots of the auxiliary securing plate.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2014Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Inventor: Yi-Yuan Chen
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Patent number: 9300121Abstract: A magnetic wall cover system that includes an inner cover made at least partially of a ferrous material. The inner cover has an outer alignment surface. The magnetic wall cover system also has an outer cover that has an inner alignment surface. The outer cover is adapted to be removably mounted on the inner cover such that the inner alignment surface is in engaging relationship to the outer alignment surface when the outer cover is mounted over the inner cover. The magnetic wall cover system also includes at least one magnet disposed on the outer cover. The magnet is adapted to form a magnetic attraction between the magnet and the ferrous material of the inner cover.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2015Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: Belwith Products, LLCInventors: Gary L. Myers, Michael Aaron Cohen, Alyssa M. Nelson
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Patent number: 9300120Abstract: A childproof safety outlet is configured to install onto an existing electrical outlet. The electrical outlet cover includes at least one cover plate that is provided on an inner surface, and able to slide longitudinally in order to either expose or hide the electrical outlet. The electrical outlet cover includes armatures that attach to the cover plate in order to move the cover plate longitudinally. The armatures are each attached to a servomotor that is in wired communication with a control member. The servo motors, armatures, control member, and the cover plate are all located on the inner surface of the electrical outlet cover, and are not accessible when installed against the existing electrical outlet.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2014Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Inventors: Jay R. Clough, Faith Gould
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Patent number: 9300118Abstract: A system for managing a plurality of cables that are connectable to one or more electronic devices is described. The system includes a housing and a plurality of openings in the housing. Each opening is dimensioned to receive one or more cables entering and/or exiting the housing. At least one of the plurality of openings is dimensioned to receive two or more of the plurality of cables at a given time. The system further includes an inner space defined by the housing. The inner space is configured to store at least a portion of each of the plurality of cables within the housing. Also, the system includes a weighted disk located within the inner space. The weighted disk has a weight sufficient to maintain the system in a substantially stationary position on a substantially level surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2013Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: Limitless Innovations, Inc.Inventor: Michael V. Smeja
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Patent number: 9295172Abstract: A wire harness protector includes a resin plate. A plurality of excavated portions are recessed into a panel surface of the plate, the excavated portions having a circular shape in plan view and being aligned at intervals in an X axis direction and a Y axis direction orthogonal to the X axis direction. The excavated portions are arrayed in the X axis direction in a straight line shape along the X axis direction and are arrayed in the Y axis direction in a zigzag shape, shifting a phase so as to be positioned between excavated portions neighboring each other in the X axis direction. The excavated portions neighboring each other in the Y axis direction are further arrayed so as to have portions mutually overlapping in the Y axis direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2012Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Daiki Nagayasu, Hiroaki Sakamoto
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Patent number: 9287691Abstract: An electrical box block bracket can include a face place and rotatable members extending from each of two opposing edges of the face plate. The face plate can also include a aperture providing a passageway through the face plate and sized and shaped to receive a mud ring and/or electrical junction box. Each rotatable member can be rotatable about an axis defined by the intersection between the face plate and the respective rotatable member. Each rotatable member can also include an adjustable tab disposed along the surface of the rotatable member. The adjustable tab can rotate from a first position aligned with the surface of the rotatable member to a second position at an angle to the surface of the rotatable member such that the tab can be folded over at least a portion of an outer wall or rib of a construction block.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Inventor: Willie Franklin Fowler, Jr.
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Patent number: 9285074Abstract: 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: November 14, 2014Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: Hubbell IncorporatedInventors: Krzysztof W. Korcz, Mahran H. Ayrton
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Patent number: 9288924Abstract: A desktop receptacle assembly includes a box having a bottom surface, an electrical connection assembly held within the box, a first finger connected to the bottom surface that has a first portion connected to the bottom surface and a second portion connected to the first portion, the first portion having a first width and the second portion having a second width that is greater than the first width, and a mounting plate associated with the bottom surface that includes at least one bracket and a first finger opening associated with the first finger. The first finger opening has a first opening width corresponding to the first width of the first finger and a second opening width corresponding to the second width of the first finger.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2014Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: Group Dekko, Inc.Inventor: Richard J. Page
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Patent number: 9281665Abstract: A device for mounting a switch or the like on a mounting plate having a front side, a back side as well as a mounting hole. The switch has a housing with a housing upper side and at least one fixing projection insertable into the mounting hole from the back side of the mounting plate. Moreover, both a support to support the fixing projection against the front side of the mounting plate and counter-supporting elements to support the housing upper side against the back side of the mounting plate are provided. The counter-supporting elements are springs.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2012Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: Schaltbau GmbHInventor: Heinz Bauer
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Patent number: 9282654Abstract: A wall plate assembly for an HVAC controller may include a rear plate including an aperture extending through the rear plate and a front plate securable to the rear plate. In some cases, the front plate may have a recessed portion that is recessed back toward the rear plate and align with the aperture in the rear plate. An air flow barrier may be secured to the recessed portion of the front plate. The air flow barrier may include a barrier surface that covers a portion of the aperture formed in the recessed portion of the front plate to reduce air infiltration. The air flow barrier may include an air flow barrier aperture that is sized to accommodate wires passing through the aperture in the recessed portion of the front plate for connection to a wire connection block of the front plate.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2014Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Robert Bick, Brad Terlson, Mark E. Stout, Mark Ekblad, Eugene J. Takach, Steven L. Wolff, David J. Emmons, Travis Read
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Patent number: 9281139Abstract: A cover assembly for a first electrical switch and a second electrical switch. The cover assembly includes an alignment plate configured to be removably coupled to the first electrical switch. The alignment plate includes a first alignment feature that receives a portion of the first electrical switch to align the alignment plate with the first electrical switch, and a second alignment feature that receives a portion of the second electrical switch to align the alignment plate with the second electrical switch and to align the second electrical switch with the first electrical switch. The assembly further includes a faceplate that is removably coupled to the alignment plate.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2014Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: Electronic Theatre Controls, Inc.Inventors: Jeff de Peralta, Ben Rodgers, Dan Talajkowski
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Patent number: 9279425Abstract: An electrical feedthrough assembly for providing connection to components of a compressor includes a housing having an inner surface defining a channel. A sealed wire assembly is provided in the channel. The sealed wire assembly includes a body having an outer surface and a plurality of wires sealingly passing through the body.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2013Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: Bristol Compressors Interntional, Inc.Inventors: John W. Tolbert, Jr., Scott G. Hix, David R. Gilliam, Joseph A. Newland, Doug Blankenship
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Patent number: 9281670Abstract: A passage restricting member is attached to a corrugated tube. This corrugated tube includes a corrugated tube, a passage maintenance member, and an attachment member. The passage maintenance member is die-molded so as to maintain a shape in which at least a portion is curved in the longitudinal direction, and the transverse cross-section is arc shaped. The passage maintenance member has an opening penetrating to the internal peripheral side and the external peripheral side. The attachment member has an internal peripheral engaging part engaging with an internal peripheral portion of a slit in the corrugated tube, an external peripheral engaging part engaging with an external peripheral portion of the opening in the passage maintenance member, and a connecting part for connecting the internal peripheral engaging part and the external peripheral engaging part while disposed in the slit and the opening.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2012Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventor: Takashi Okuhara
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Patent number: 9278658Abstract: A water stop sheet to be wound around a wiring harness wired in a vehicle includes a closed-cell elastic sheet, an entire adhesive layer provided on one surface of the elastic sheet, and a partial adhesive layer provided only on a part of the other surface along one end edge. The water stop sheet is wound with the entire adhesive layer located on an inner surface side to be held in contact with the outer periphery of a wire group of the wiring harness and wound at least one turn. A winding end part is placed on the outer peripheral surface of a winding start part. The partial adhesive layer located on the outer peripheral surface of the winding start part and the entire adhesive layer located on the inner peripheral surface of the winding end part are adhered to each other.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2014Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventor: Takao Fukuda
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Patent number: 9276389Abstract: An electrical device cover includes an access panel having an orifice and an adapter plate configured with an opening dimensioned to receive the operative face of an electrical device. The front face of the access panel includes a depressed platform surrounding the orifice and dimensioned to receive the adapter plate. An interlock between the access panel and the adapter plate is provided by channels formed on the rear face of the adapter plate and the front of the access panel and fillets formed on the access panel, and adapter plate, the fillets being seated in the channels. The adapter plate includes a pair of trapezium flanges which define the longitudinal boundaries of the adapter plate and which are received in the depressed platform.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2014Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: Superflex, Ltd.Inventor: Michael Elbaz
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Patent number: 9277665Abstract: A material-saving, cost-efficient and simultaneously safe high-voltage system for energy transfer includes a busbar and at least one high-voltage device connected to the busbar by an electrically conductive connecting device or connector. The connecting device or connector has a predetermined breaking point which is constructed in such a manner that the predetermined breaking point will break if a predetermined force is exerted between the busbar and the high-voltage device.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2011Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Christoph Armschat, Christoph Beck
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Patent number: 9276390Abstract: In a bus bar assembly includes a magnetic body having at least a first insertion hole and a second insertion hole and a bus bar. The bus bar is configured so that directions of electrical current flowing through it are opposed to each other at least once. The magnetic body includes a middle leg in the middle region located between portions of the bus bar. At least the middle leg defines a gap rendering a magnetic field discontinuous. The bus bar is configured to extend through the first insertion hole of the magnetic body from a first side of the magnetic body to a second side opposed to the first side with respect to an extending direction of the bus bar and further through the second insertion hole from the second side to the first side. The middle leg is located between the first and second insertion holes.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2013Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: KITAGAWA INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomokazu Tanimizu, Hideharu Kawai, Kazushige Ueno, Toshio Sakamoto, Keisuke Asoh
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Patent number: 9275774Abstract: A busbar for use in a busbar assembly, the busbar having an elongate body portion structured to be generally disposed about, an in contact with an elongate inner component, the body portion being formed from a conductive material.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2014Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: UNIVERSAL ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Steven L. Ross, Russell C. Griffith
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Patent number: 9277663Abstract: According to embodiments of the disclosure, assemblies, and methods for cable management are disclosed. The assembly may include a chassis and a cable management apparatus pivotably connected to the chassis. The chassis may have an interior compartment adapted to receive a first and second electronic component. The first electronic component may be adapted to connect to a first cable assembly and the second electronic component may be adapted to connect to a second cable assembly. The cable management apparatus may include a first bracket and second bracket supporting a management arm, the management arm may include two parallel planar bars, the bars fixedly attached together by one or more members perpendicular to the bars. The management arm may be adapted to support at least one of the first and second cable assemblies and may pivot between an operational position and a service position.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2014Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Mary F. George, Daniel P. Kelaher, Paul A. Wormsbecher
