Patents Examined by Dhirubhai R Patel
  • Patent number: 9979118
    Abstract: A hermetic power terminal feed-through for use in high-pressure applications is disclosed as including a fused pin subassembly includes a tubular reinforcing member and a current-conducting pin. The pin passes through the tubular reinforcing member and is fixed thereto by a fusible sealing material to create a hermetic seal. The fused pin subassembly is then joined and hermetically sealed to a terminal body. A method for manufacturing the high-pressure hermetic power terminal feed-through is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Emerson Electric Co.
    Inventors: Prasad S. Khadkikar, Gabriel Lakner
  • Patent number: 9979169
    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 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventors: Grzegorz Wronski, Zhihong Lin, Wei Zhao, Oliver Ernst
  • Patent number: 9972990
    Abstract: The assembly includes a protective elastic tubular body and a tubular core for holding the tubular body expanded including a first part and a second part which are associated, the core being in an operating position in which the second part covers the first part, and being configured for an elongate member to be inserted into its internal space in operating position and for a pull then applied to the first part to make it slide relative to the second part to reach an extended position in which it can no longer move in relation to the second part; the second part including legs projecting axially from a collar and connected to each other exclusively by the collar; in the operating position the collar and legs surround the first part; and in the extended position the collar surrounds the first part and the legs are axially beyond the first part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: SOCIETE INDUSTRIELLE DE CONSTRUCTION D'APPAREILS ET DE MATERIEL ELECTRIQUES
    Inventor: Adrien Capitani
  • Patent number: 9970634
    Abstract: A remodel recessed luminaire includes a housing can that defines a first slope and a junction box that defines a second slope. Further, the housing can includes a channel to retain a thermoprotector therein, the channel being defined by an indentation formed in a top wall of the housing can. The junction box includes a top cover that is coupled to a main body of the junction box and the top wall of the housing can such that the top cover encloses a wire management cavity that is formed by the channel that is communication with a second cavity defined by the main body. Furthermore, the junction box includes a coupling feature to attach an electrical component to the junction box. The first slope and the second slope operate in unison to fit the remodel recessed luminaire through small ceiling apertures and/or ceiling apertures in thick ceilings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventors: Grzegorz Wronski, Zhihong Lin, Steven Pyshos, Oliver Ernst
  • Patent number: 9966752
    Abstract: A recessed, deployable ceiling box assembly includes a ceiling frame-mounting member and a ceiling box member, a support member for securing the ceiling frame-mounting member to a ceiling structural member and one or more connector members for attaching the ceiling box member to the ceiling frame-mounting member. The ceiling box member is deployable from a retracted position, where the ceiling box member is retained within the ceiling frame-mounting member at or above the height of the ceiling, to a deployed position, where the ceiling box member hangs by the connector member below the height of the ceiling. A door may be used to cover the contents of the deployable ceiling box assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: FSR, Inc.
    Inventor: David R. Hansen
  • Patent number: 9966746
    Abstract: Electric boxes and hanging brackets and more particularly adjustable electric boxes with parallel rails for connection with reciprocal parallel grooves in a hanging bracket that is configured to connect to a support, for example, a wall stud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Cantex, Inc.
    Inventors: Steve D. Ediger, Paul R. Metcalfe, Weston Skye, Scott E. Urban
  • Patent number: 9960577
    Abstract: To provide a wiring harness and a routing structure of the wiring harness able to prevent high temperature and its influence caused by heat generation. A wiring harness includes a harness main body having a plurality of high voltage conducting lines. The high voltage conducting lines are arranged with gaps between the adjacent high voltage conducting lines. Further, the plurality of high voltage conducting lines are arranged to maintain an interval as the gap. It becomes a routing structure of the wiring harness when curved portions of such high voltage conducting lines are directly or indirectly made contact with a shield cover covering the wiring harness. Because the high voltage conducting lines of the wiring harness are arranged with gaps between the adjacent high voltage conducting lines, radiation performance of the wiring harness is better than the wiring harness of which high voltage conducting lines are bundled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Hideomi Adachi, Hidehiko Kuboshima
  • Patent number: 9944239
    Abstract: A grommet assembly to support a wiring harness passing through an opening in a panel, the assembly including two rotationally symmetrical components coupled together along a primary coupling face to form a harness-receiving passage therethrough. Each rotationally symmetrical component including a first, thermoplastic structural portion integrated with a second, resilient sealing portion. The structural portions including a plurality of interlocking elements cooperating to couple the components together, and a plurality of retention arms engageable against the panel to retain the assembly and panel together. The sealing portion forming an outer sealing lip having a lip distal edge engageable against a surface of the panel adjacent the opening. The outer sealing lip including lap joints adjacent opposite sides of the primary coupling face. The structural portions including reinforcement tabs extending over each lap joint and designed to resist separation of the lap joints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Newfrey LLC
    Inventors: Tien T. Diep, Jason A. Meyers, Gerard J. Kmita, Kei Akazawa
  • Patent number: 9948079
    Abstract: Provided herein in some embodiments is an quick-connect electrical junction box including a front cover, a bus module, and a back cover configured to fit together and form the quick-connect electrical junction box. The front cover can include a front face including a number of sockets configured to accept a number of prongs of one or more electrical accessory modules. The front cover can also include a back face including a number of clamp tunnels corresponding to the number of sockets. The bus module can include a front face including a bus assembly fixed to the bus-module front face, wherein the bus assembly can include a number of clamps correspondingly disposed in the number clamp tunnels. The bus module can also include a back face including a number of bus assembly-connected wire lugs fixed thereto for wiring the quick-connect electrical junction box to a circuit breaker or another quick-connect electrical junction box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Power Access Solution, Inc.
    Inventor: Khem C. Babbar
  • Patent number: 9943003
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to network cabinets and components thereof. In an embodiment, the present invention is a system that includes a network appliance, and a network cabinet having a bottom portion, a center portion providing a plurality of rack unit spaces, a top portion, and a network appliance mounting kit positioned in the top portion. The network appliance mounting kit includes a mounting feature for attaching the network appliance to the network cabinet such that the network appliance does not interfere with any one of the plurality of rack unit spaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Panduit Corp.
    Inventors: Roger D. Segroves, Mark J. Donnell, Alex C. Brouwer
  • Patent number: 9941679
    Abstract: An interlocking floor box assembly including one or more electrical boxes which may be securely ganged together to form a multi-gang floor box for mounting one or more electrical components, such as duplex outlets, directly in a concrete pour area or in a floor above a concrete base. Opposing side walls include an internal hub and an external hub respectively for interlocking two or more electrical boxes together. Other embodiments may include a tab and a corresponding slot on opposing walls on the electrical boxes to enable interlocking two or more boxes. The interlocking floor box assembly enables secure side to side interlocking of two or more boxes to form a multi-gang floor box. A cover plate and a lid assembly enable plug in of electrical cords into the duplex outlets with the plug ends of the cords recessed below the floor level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: ARLINGTON INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventor: Thomas J. Gretz
  • Patent number: 9935432
    Abstract: A housing includes a main housing body with an opening in at least one side face of the main housing body; a sealing element on the at least one side face, the sealing element surrounding the edge of the opening; a frame element on the at least one side face, the frame element surrounding the edge of the sealing element; and a cover element for closing the opening, which cover element abuts the frame element and the sealing element in a planar manner when the opening is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Torben Loebowitz, Axel Grimm
  • Patent number: 9935440
    Abstract: A powered wall mount includes a cover plate and a mount head in electrical communication with one another. The cover plate is configured to cover an electrical outlet in a wall without blocking any sockets. The cover plate includes a pair of resilient contacts that resiliently contact respective terminals of a pair of terminals of the electrical outlet upon mating of the cover plate with the electrical outlet. The mount head, which may be attached to the wall near the electrical outlet, includes a device mounting surface, at least one connector configured to hold a portable electronic device at the device mounting surface, and a power transfer mechanism configured to transfer power to the device when held at the device mounting surface. The connector(s) may be magnetic. Conveniently, the device may be attached to the mount head, used indefinitely while drawing power as needed, and then detached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: NANOPORT TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Timothy Jing Yin Szeto, David Michael Lopez Reyes
  • Patent number: 9935436
    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: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Inventor: Jeffrey P. Baldwin
  • Patent number: 9930799
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device having a waterproof function. The electronic device includes a housing in which a coupling groove is formed, a cover including a hook detachably fit to the coupling groove, the cover configured to detachably couple to the housing by the hook, and a sealing band disposed on an inner side of the cover configured to contact at least a part of a surface of the housing which faces the cover when the cover is coupled to the housing, wherein the sealing band has a rib extending towards the housing, at least a part of the rib being bent in a specific direction. Other embodiments derived from the specification are possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hee Cheul Moon, Min Sung Lee
  • Patent number: 9925934
    Abstract: A corrugated tube having a tube shape is provided with a tubular member configured to contain a conductor path, a first bellows portion, a second bellows portion, and a straight portion. The first bellows portion and the second bellows portion include recessed grooves extending in a circumferential direction of the tubular member and projection strips extending in the circumferential direction of the tubular member. The recessed grooves and projection strips are alternately arranged in a longitudinal direction of the tubular member. In the first bellows portion and the second bellows portion, a pitch which is a distance from one of the recessed grooves to a next recessed groove through one of the projection strips is set as a first distance and a second distance which is longer than the first distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shota Mochizuki, Hiroshi Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 9929552
    Abstract: A cable head of a cable of a cable fixing assembly includes a joint portion and a lock body. The lock body is disposed on two opposite side surfaces of one end of the joint portion and extends therefrom. A fixing board of a cable fixing assembly includes a joint hole, a no-return block and a hook. The joint hole is formed through the fixing board. The no-return block is formed adjacent to the joint hole and includes a guiding slope and a no-return surface. The hook is disposed on the fixing board to fix conductive stranded wires in the cable body. The joint portion and the lock body are inserted into the joint hole and are rotated by an angle, and the lock body moves on the guiding slope and then is locked by the no-return surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: PHIHONG TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventor: Hsing-Kuang Chen
  • Patent number: 9929551
    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: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventors: Krzysztof Korcz, Steven Johnson
  • Patent number: 9923350
    Abstract: A decorative and functional electrical wall box plate cover assembly consisting of a back plate, center plate and front plate held together with a connecting and aligning mechanism. The center and front plate can be configured with decorative designs. The electrical plate cover assembly is designed to interconnect with auxiliary plate system to form a predetermined configuration on a wall surrounding the electrical box on the wall. The electrical wall box plate cover assembly can be used with electrical switch boxes, electrical outlet boxes or a combination of both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Inventor: Michael Hunt
  • Patent number: 9917431
    Abstract: An electrical wall box having plurality of wire power terminals on exterior of electrical wall box, wire power terminals are electrically connected to one of plurality of insulated distribution buses within electrical wall box, each distribution buses has first quick connect terminal electrically connected thereto one distribution buses; each plurality of switch wiring terminals includes insulated electrical tap connecting one switch wiring terminals to one plurality of internal insulated distribution buses or to quick connect terminal within electrical wall box; each one or more pluggable electrical receptacles includes two or more second quick connect terminals to electrically connect thereto one of said one or more first quick connect terminals; a second wall box, a plaster ring, and cover plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Inventor: J Moss