Patents Examined by Dhirubhai R Patel
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Patent number: 9271413Abstract: A shelter for protecting a portable electrical inlet/outlet (PEIO) includes a base and a cover. In some examples, the base includes a platform to support a body of the PEIO, and the platform is configured to segregate the PEIO body from water that may accumulate. In some examples, the cover configured to mate with the base to substantially enclose the platform. Upon being inserted into the shelter, the PEIO may be protected from unwanted elements, such as rain, snow, unintended contact by humans or animals, or the like.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2013Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: Trystar, Inc.Inventors: Frederick Alan Dahl, James Jerome Koberg, Brian Allen Amacher
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Patent number: 9270103Abstract: An insulation covered bus bar includes a bus bar formed of a conductive material for transmission of electric power. An insulation tube wraps the bus bar and formed of an insulation material having a characteristic of electric insulation. A fixing unit is formed so as to wrap around an outer circumferential surface of the bus bar, connected to an end of the insulation tube, installed to be fixedly disposed to the bus bar so that the insulation tube is fixed within the bus bar.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2014Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, YURA CORPORATION CO., LTD.Inventors: Ju Han Kim, Gil Woo Jung, Ki Wook Ohm
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Patent number: 9270091Abstract: Disclosed in this specification is a multilayer, laminated busbar and a method for making the same. Two or more elongated conductors are stacked on top of each other to align their long and short edges. Portions of the surfaces of each conductor are covered with a continuous sheet of insulating material.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2012Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: ELDRE CORPORATIONInventors: Harvey B. Erdle, Jesse A. Erdle, Robert A. Norman, Jr.
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Patent number: 9263865Abstract: A water stop structure for a wire harness includes a cylindrical shield shell which is disposed at an intermediate portion of a shield member in a longitudinal direction, an outer water stop mechanism which is disposed on a side of an outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical shield shell, and an inner water stop mechanism which is disposed on a side of an inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical shield shell. The inner water stop mechanism has an elastic water stop plug member. A shell-side seal portion which is in watertight contact with the inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical shield shell and one or plural conducting path-side seal portions which are in watertight contact with outer peripheral surfaces of covers of the conducting paths are formed on the water stop plug member.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2014Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Hideomi Adachi, Yoshiaki Ozaki
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Patent number: 9263173Abstract: A method of manufacturing a high-voltage electrical insulator (1), having at least one metal insulator element (4, 6) cemented to a dielectric insulator element (2) by a cement mortar (5), includes at least one of the following steps: preparing the cement mortar (5) from aluminous cement and sand that are mixed with at least water; assembling the dielectric element (2) with the metal element (4, 6), the mortar (5) being placed between the dielectric insulator element (2) and the metal element (4, 6); and vibrating the dielectric element (2) and the metal element (4, 6) as assembled together, so as to distribute the mortar (5) between the dielectric element and the metal element (2, 4, 6). In order to prepare the mortar (5), an active ingredient of the polymer superplasticizer type based on polyglycol methacrylic acid ester is added, and the vibrating is performed for a duration lying in the range 2 seconds to 20 seconds, and preferably in the range 4 seconds to 15 seconds.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2011Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: SEDIVER SOCIETE EUROPEENNE D'ISOLATEURS EN VERRE ET COMPOSITEInventors: Sandrine Prat, Jean-Marie George, Gilles Barthet
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Patent number: 9252578Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 13, 2014Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: HUBBELL INCORPORATEDInventors: Krzysztof W. Korcz, Steven J. Johnson, Richard J. Wagner
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Patent number: 9246318Abstract: An adjustable wireway assembly for use in an electrical enclosure includes a panel structured to form a portion of the electrical enclosure, the panel having a first aperture defined therein. The assembly further includes a plate member selectively coupled to the panel about a portion of the first aperture in at least one of a first position and a second position in a manner that blocks at least a portion of the first aperture and thereby defines a second aperture formed from a portion of the first aperture. When coupled in the first position, the second aperture is of a first area and when coupled in the second position, the second aperture is of a second area different than the first area.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2014Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: EATON CORPORATIONInventors: Matthew Ryan Hussey, Jeffrey Scott Kuykendall, James Darryl Robinson, Mitchell Dean Fretwell, Michael Howard Abrahamsen, Daniel Garett Sims, Michael Davis Pearce
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Patent number: 9247662Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 13, 2014Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: HUBBELL INCORPORATEDInventors: Krzysztof W. Korcz, Steven J. Johnson, Richard J. Wagner
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Patent number: 9246315Abstract: A number of devices (floor grommets) for providing an air seal of an aperture through which one or more cables or conduits pass are disclosed. The devices (1, 90) include a frame (6) and at least first and second opposing sealing members (91, 92) defining sealing faces mounted in the frame. At least one of the sealing members (91, 92) is movable between a position in which the aperture is substantially closed and a position in which the aperture is substantially open. The sealing members (91, 92) includes resilient flexible compressible foamed plastics or polymeric material or the like. The sealing members provide a substantial air seal across the frame opening in use with said resilient flexible compressible foamed plastics or polymeric material forming the sealing members deforming and conforming around any cables or conduits or the like extending through the frame.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2011Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: CABSCAPE HOLDINGS PTY LTD.Inventor: Michael David Boyd
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Patent number: 9247663Abstract: A waterproof structure includes a package having an opening; a lid part which is slidable between a first position that makes the opening be open and a second position that is located closer to the innermost of the opening than the first position and closes the opening; and an elastic member provided on a surface of the lid part, said surface facing an inner side of the opening, in a manner such that the elastic member is incapable of contacting the package when the lid part is positioned at the first position, and that the elastic member is pressed into the opening when the lid part is positioned at the second position. It is possible to prevent insufficient pressing of the elastic member into the opening, and thereby the relevant waterproof performance can be improved.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2012Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: NEC CorporationInventor: Taro Hirose
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Patent number: 9246316Abstract: A wiring harness includes a first power transmission path; a second power transmission path; a connecting part; and a connector. The first power transmission path has stiffness ensuring autonomously retention of its shape, the shape coinciding with an arrangement path. The second power transmission paths have stiffness smaller than that of the first power transmission path and also have flexibility. The connecting part includes a connection structure configured to connect conductive ends of the first power transmission path and the second power transmission paths to each other with the conductive ends being electrically insulated from outside.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2011Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventor: Tatsuya Oga
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Patent number: 9236722Abstract: A wall plate including a plate having a front surface and a rear surface, rear walls extending from and away from the rear surface to form a cavity, and a gasket positioned wholly within the cavity. The gasket may be positioned adjacent the rear walls or adjacent at least one aperture within the plate.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2014Date of Patent: January 12, 2016Inventors: John Klein, Jeffrey Baldwin, Ryan Liebengood
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Patent number: 9236719Abstract: A cable rail assembly including a first cable rail having a base, a cover, and a closing member, a second cable rail having a base, a cover, and a closing member, and wherein the first and second cable rails are engageable with each other along a longitudinal axis of the first and second cable rails.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2014Date of Patent: January 12, 2016Inventors: Jeffrey Baldwin, John Klein, Ryan Liebengood
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Patent number: 9231391Abstract: A charging-socket flap device for electric vehicles, including: a structure including an aperture and a jacket adjacent to the aperture, the jacket including an orifice; a movable gate forming a flap configured to close the aperture of the structure; an element hinging the gate housed in the jacket; a cover configured to close the orifice of the jacket. The cover is mounted on the orifice of the jacket to be a distance away from the orifice on at least one edge of the orifice in the closed position on the jacket, the cover being kept a distance away from the edge by a support making it possible for the cover to move with a damped movement toward the edge when a region of the vehicle body panel covering the flap device is impacted, or impacted by a pedestrian.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2012Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: RENAULT s.a.s.Inventors: Efflam Hudry, Patrick Bouas, Florent Metais
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Patent number: 9226418Abstract: An equipment enclosure includes a first compartment; a second compartment, the first compartment including a first element to guide a conduit from the first compartment to the second compartment, wherein the first element creates a first drip point with respect to the conduit that prevents a liquid from entering the second compartment; and a third compartment including a second element to guide another conduit from the third compartment toward the second compartment, wherein the second element creates a second drip point with respect to the other conduit that prevents a liquid from reaching the second compartment.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2013Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: Thomas & Betts International, LLCInventors: Joey D. Magno, Jr., Michael Devin O'Neil
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Patent number: 9219356Abstract: An electrical junction box provides a frame and a cover that covers an opening portion of the frame. There is a difference of elevation in an edge of the frame, and the edge includes a lower portion, a higher portion, and an inclination portion. A double wall formed of an exterior wall and an interior wall and positioning the edge of a peripheral wall between the exterior wall and the interior wall is provided to the cover. There is a difference of elevation in the edge of the interior wall similarly the frame, and the edge includes the lower portion, the higher portion, and the inclination portion. Also, a lapping amount between the peripheral wall and the interior wall at the inclination portion is formed larger than a lapping amount at the lower portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2014Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Sunsoku I, Takaaki Kakimi
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Patent number: 9219357Abstract: A kit for covering electrical devices includes a housing having a rear panel which receives adapter plates. An opening in an adapter plate is defined by a forwardly tapered chamfered wall. A frustum insert having a chamfered wall opening may be received in the adapter plate opening and successive frustum inserts, each having a smaller chamfered wall opening, may be inserted within the opening of the prior insert. Each of the openings is dimensioned to receive the face of a different electrical device. A frustum plug having a rectangular toggle switch opening can be received in one of the chamfered openings. The top and side of the housing include arrays of hinge pins and a lid includes mating arrays of hinge knuckles. The lid is mounted to either array of pins. Selected pins have enlarged heads to prevent inadvertent disengagement.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2014Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: SUPERFLEX, LTD.Inventors: Michael Elbaz, Edna Elbaz, Gil H. Elbaz
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Patent number: 9214758Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a housing arrangement, in particular to a hermetic housing arrangement, having at least one housing for connecting a plug-in connector, wherein the housing arrangement has at least one seal. The housing arrangement in accordance with the present disclosure is characterized in that the at least one seal can be placed in at least one opening provided in the housing and/or in an opening provided in a plug flange of the plug-in connector and designed as a milled portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2013Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: Liebherr-Elektronik GmbHInventors: Daniel Matuschek, Hubert Grau
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Patent number: 9214792Abstract: A harness outlet through which a wiring harness is passed is provided on a sidewall of a case of an electrical junction box. A harness guide is extended form a circumference of the harness outlet to protect the wiring harness and to regulate a path (outlet direction) of the wiring harness. At a side near the harness outlet, the harness guide covers a whole circumference of the wiring harness. At a side away from the harness outlet, the harness guide covers both sides and an upper portion of the wiring harness, and a portion for covering the lower portion of the wiring harness is not provided on the harness guide.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2014Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Takaaki Kakimi, Sunsoku I, Yasutomo Kubo
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Patent number: 9197042Abstract: A wire harness includes: one or more conductive paths; and an outer member that includes a plurality of leading outer members, each having a tubular shape that passes along the one or more conductive paths; and a watercrosslinkable fixing member or a photocrosslinkable fixing member that bonds adjacent leading outer members of the plurality of leading outer members which are separate away from each other in a longitudinal direction of the one or more conductive paths.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2011Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventor: Eiichi Toyama