Abstract: A seal assembly includes a circular resilient grommet-type seal having one or more through axial openings equal in number to the wires which pass through the seal and a rigid wire channel or guide which is received within a complementary pocket aligned with the seal between the seal and a reaction surface. The rigid wire channel or guide is retained in the pocket and carries any force exerted on the seal by pressure within the device to the aligned reaction surface. A method of installation includes the steps of mounting an electrical device within a component, routing the electrical wires leading from the device through an opening, routing the wires through corresponding openings in a grommet-type seal, pressing the seal into the opening, routing the wires through passageways in the rigid wire channel or guide and installing the guide in a complementary pocket which is aligned with the seal at one end and includes a reaction surface at the other end.

Abstract: A wire harness is provided with an electrically conductive path, and a tubular sheath member into which the electrically conductive path is inserted. The sheath member includes a straight portion having strength to limit bending. A bellows-shaped portion which is wavy in shape in a tube circumferential direction, is formed in a portion of the straight portion in a sectional view. The bellows-shaped portion is more flexible than a portion of the straight portion other than the bellows-shaped portion.

Abstract: One embodiment includes a cover plate for an electrical receptacle. The cover plate includes first and second conductors that protrude rearward from the cover plate and are configured to contact terminals of a receptacle to supply power to a load associated with the cover plate. Insulators over at least a portion of the conductors inhibit the conductors from contacting other conductive materials.

Abstract: Abstract in the disclosure a retaining device (1) for stopping a relative movement between a rail member and a sliding rack (3) is provided, includes: a first member (11), having a first engagement portion; a second member (12), having a second engagement portion; and a handle member (13) pivotally mounted onto the first member (11) via a pivot (14). The second member (12) includes a stopping portion (121), and the handle member (13) includes a first contacting edge (131) and a second contacting edge (132) which are configured to selectively abut against the stopping portion by means of the pivotal movement of the handle member (13).

Abstract: A cut-in floor box assembly including a bracket assembly, an electrical box, a support plate, and a cover plate for rapidly installing a duplex receptacle flush with a floor. Floor preparation requires simple drilling of the floor and subfloor with hole saws. Two concentric cuts are made in the floor, a hole of a first diameter through the floor and a second, smaller diameter hole through the subfloor. A peripheral wall on the bracket assembly fits within the hole in the subfloor. A floor mounting arrangement on the bracket assembly enables clamping the bracket to the subfloor. A component attachment arrangement on the electrical box is adapted to accept recessed attachment of a duplex receptacle enabling flush mounting of the duplex receptacle with respect to the floor surface. Two removable outlet covers on the cover plate provide convenient access to the receptacles for plug-in of electrical cords.

Abstract: An electrical box hanger assembly for hanging an electrical fixture from a ceiling. All hardware required for mounting the electrical device is included with the assembly. An adjustable mounting bar includes sliding tubular members with end flanges for spanning between adjacent overhead joists. An electrical box is connected to the adjustable mounting bar by a one-piece mounting bracket and a single box mounting fastener. The mounting bracket includes integral tensioner tangs on the mounting bracket prevent backing out of the box mounting fastener after it is secured in place. Bar fasteners are used to securely fasten the mounting bar to the joists. Load bearing device fasteners used to secure the mounting ring of an electrical fixture to the electrical box. Oversize openings are provided in the top wall of the electrical box to ensure that the suspended load is borne by the clamp and mounting bar and not the electrical box.

Abstract: A universal line components duct elbow (universal elbow) accommodates a variety of condensate tanks. The universal elbow includes an elbow base, an elbow cover, and an interface clip. The interface clip is releasably connected to the bottom wall and sidewalls of the elbow base and adapted for supporting a condensate tank within the universal elbow. In order to releasably connect the interface clip to the bottom wall of the elbow base, the bottom wall of the elbow base includes an elbow base/clip securing structure that engages a complementary clip/elbow base securing structure on one side of the interface clip. In order to secure the condensate tank within the universal elbow, the interface clip has a clip/tank securing structure on the opposite side that engages the structure of the condensate tank.

Abstract: A feed-through (300) is provided according to the invention. The feed-through (300) includes a body (305) including a passage (320), a plug (325) located in and substantially blocking the passage (320), one or more conductors (328) extending through the plug (325), and a reduced diameter region (313) located on an exterior surface of the body (305), with the reduced diameter region (313) being adapted to receive ends of one or more projecting fasteners (330) of a second component.

Abstract: An electrical junction box has a main body provided with a circuit board, and a cover externally fitted to the main body. The electrical junction box is assembled in a state in which the main body is accommodated in the cover. The main body includes an opposing surface that opposes an inner surface of the cover. The opposing surface has a water capturing hole that is a recess that opens toward the inner surface of the cover. A first opposing distance between the inner surface of the cover and an upper opening edge of the water capturing hole is larger than a second opposing distance between the inner surface of the cover and a lower opening edge of the water capturing hole.

Abstract: A wildlife guard apparatus for an electrical insulator body includes at least one guard assembly. Each guard assembly includes a guard member and a base wall member secured to the guard member. The at least one guard assembly is configured or configurable to form an enclosure defining a chamber. In the enclosure configuration, the at least one guard member defines an end opening communicating with the chamber and the at least one base wall member extends across the end opening to close at least a portion thereof. The enclosure is configured to receive the insulator body such that the insulator body includes a first portion and a second portion, the first portion extending through the end opening and adjacent the at least one base wall member, and the second portion being disposed in the chamber. The at least one guard member is formed of a first material and the at least one base wall member is formed of a second material that is softer than the first material.

Abstract: An enclosure for electrical installations includes a bottom part and a cover hinged to the bottom part, the bottom part including a first top edge with a first fastener including a first recess and a first platform for receiving a hinge of the enclosure in a form-locked manner, and a second top edge with a second fastener including a second recess and a second platform that permits the receipt of the hinge of the enclosure in a form-locked manner, and the first fastener and second fastener are arranged on respective top edges of the enclosure to be diametrically opposite each other. In order to hinge the cover on the desired top edge of the bottom part of the enclosure and to provide the locking of the cover to the bottom part with a turnable latch, the first platform forms a first cavity on a first inner wall of the bottom part of the enclosure for receiving the latch, and the second platform forms a second cavity on a second inner wall of the bottom part of the enclosure for receiving the latch.

Abstract: A slip conduit connector for use in installing electrical conduit between two fix locations, has a hollow cylindrical member, at least one threaded bore positioned near a first end of the cylindrical member, the bore for receipt of a fastener, a flange circumferentially extending around the cylindrical member inward from a second end of the cylindrical member, and an outer threaded region extending from the second end toward said flange, the threaded region dimensioned to receive a locknut; wherein a slot is formed through the cylindrical member between the flange and the bore closest to the second end, the slot dimensioned to allow viewing inside the cylindrical member to ensure entry of an electrical conduit past all of the bores, thereby ensuring mechanical and electrical securement of the electrical conduit to the slip conduit connector when the fastener is secured in the at least one bore.

Abstract: Variable electric field balancing device formed by a hollow assembly that, with geometric shapes that can be different on the outside, includes an upper passive capture element (2), as a capture electrode, a lower passive capture element (3), as a reception electrode, and an insulator element (4) that keeps them separated from each other at a distance (d) dependent on the conductivity coefficient of the materials, and that, also, externally covers the lower element (3) like a skirt to the lower base of the same, preventing the impact of a lightning bolt on the lower element (3) from being able to induce the generation of an upward leader, and there is also an expansion and compression valve (5) that connects the outside to the inside of the hollow assembly and which expands in phases of passage of current and/or absorption of external induced surges, and compressed at the end of the compensation of the field.

Abstract: An electric cable with protection member that makes it possible to waterproof an electric cable, ensure shock resistance with respect to a portion of the electric cable, and maintain the shape of the electric cable and, furthermore, that is easily adaptable to specification changes and dimensional tolerances and is produced at low cost. An electric cable with protection member includes an electric cable, a tube that is continuous in a circumferential direction, a metal exterior member surrounding the circumference of a portion of the tube, and a plurality of fixing portions. The metal exterior member is a member that is formed in a tubular shape capable of bending deformation and that can maintain a fixed shape against the load of the electric cable and the tube. The fixing portions are portions that can be fixed to a support.

Abstract: An insulator for holding an electrifiable wire includes a base, a first connecting portion provided on a first end of the base, and a second connecting portion provided on a second end of the base. The first connecting portion and the second connecting portion may be movable between a first, open position and a second, closed position.

Abstract: A divided conduit containing a thermoplastic conduit and at least one strip-shaped film having a first longitudinal edge and a second longitudinal edge which are embedded into the inner surface of the conduit forming at least two flexible, longitudinal channels for enveloping cables or other elongated structures.

Abstract: An enclosure such as an electrical junction box has fixed clamping flanges exterior to the enclosure, screws rotatable relative to the enclosure and operative for drawing clamping brackets from an initial elevated position towards the clamping flanges for clamping the edges of an opening cut in drywall or the like, thereby to fasten the enclosure inside a wall or ceiling. The clamping brackets are initially retracted in the enclosure and rotation of the screws releases the brackets to an extended clamping position relative to the clamping flanges.

Abstract: A wall plate including a plate having a front surface and a rear surface, a rear perimeter wall extending away from the rear surface, a gasket having a rear surface positioned adjacent the rear perimeter wall, and wherein the gasket rear surface is flexible and folds upon contact with a mounting surface.

Abstract: A electrical wire protection tube and a wire harness that can prevent breakage of a wire arranged in the handle swing portion of a two-wheeled vehicle. The electrical wire protection tube includes a tube main body portion made up of ring-shaped ribs and small-diameter short tube portions that are a resin molded body and are alternatingly arranged in a single line so as to form one passageway for an electrical wire. Each ring-shaped ribs has a maximum-diameter ridgeline portion and first and second truncated cone surface portions that are respectively located on different sides of the ridgeline portion and are inclined toward the small-diameter short tube portions. When the tube main body portion is bent into a U shape, the small-diameter short tube portions stretch on one side such that the first and second truncated cone surface portions of adjacent ring-shaped ribs come into close contact on the opposite side.

Abstract: A power transfer unit is disclosed. In a first implementation of the disclosed power transfer unit, a tubular assembly of the power transfer unit includes an encapsulated elbow hinge design with a reduced profile that permits substantially off-center installation of the housings of the power transfer unit. In a second implementation of the disclosed power transfer unit, the tubular assembly includes an inverted, telescoping tubing design that does not come apart during installation and use, and in some implementations may act as a stop for a closable member.