Patents Examined by Krystal Robinson
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Patent number: 11581715Abstract: A corrugated tube mounting structure includes: a corrugated tube into which an electric wire is inserted, formed with a slit into which the electric wire can be inserted, the slit being formed along a length direction of the corrugated tube; and a protector includes a main body inside which the electric wire is arranged and an outlet portion from which the electric wire is drawn out. The outlet portion is provided with a cover configured to close an opening into which the corrugated tube can be inserted. The cover is provided with a pressing portion configured to press the electric wire, which is exposed from an end of the corrugated tube on a main body side, toward the inside of the corrugated tube.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2021Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Nomoto, Katsuya Yoshimura
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Patent number: 11581717Abstract: A junction box mountable on a roof surface, comprising a housing unit and an enclosing unit, the housing unit and enclosing unit combining to form a waterproof assembly. The housing unit is mountable to a roof surface via a flashing having a continuous, raised waterproofing track that mates with a waterproofing recess in a bottom surface of the housing unit to create a waterproofing zone inside the housing unit. At least one bottom pass through is located within the waterproofing zone and provides a channel from the internal housing area through the roof surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2021Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Esdec, Inc.Inventors: Duane Menton, Bryan R. Falk, Susan E. Stark, Yann Schwarz, Jon Ash
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Patent number: 11581719Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 9, 2018Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: HUBBELL INCORPORATEDInventors: Krzysztof Korcz, Steven Johnson
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Patent number: 11569004Abstract: The wiring member includes a wiring body and a shape maintaining member. The wiring body includes a sheet-like member and a wire-like transmission member fixed on the sheet-like member. The shape maintaining member is formed into a sheet-like shape having higher stiffness than the sheet-like member and covers at least one side of the wiring body along a front-back direction of the wiring body to maintain a shape of the wiring body.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2019Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD.Inventors: Haruka Nakano, Motohiro Yokoi, Kenta Ito, Shigeki Ikeda, Suguru Yasuda, Tetsuya Nishimura, Hiroki Hirai, Housei Mizuno, Koichiro Goto, Junichi Shirakawa, Yoshitaka Kami, Yasushi Nomura, Sofia Barillaro
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Patent number: 11566371Abstract: According to embodiments of the present invention, a stranded conductor is formed in which the occurrence of defects, such as strand unevenness of filaments and outward protrusion of filaments, is inhibited. According to embodiments of the present invention, a stranded conductor (1a) includes soft filaments (2a) stranded together. The soft filaments (2a) include a soft filament made of an aluminum material, disposed along a center (101), and include six soft filaments, twelve soft filaments, and eighteen soft filaments made of an aluminum material, disposed around and concentrically with the center. The filaments are softened filaments that are softened. A lay length (Pa) is from 6.2 times to 15.7 times a conductor diameter of the stranded conductor.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2019Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignees: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC.Inventors: Masahiro Yoshimaru, Hideyuki Osuga
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Patent number: 11564306Abstract: A vehicle lighting control circuit box is provided, including a case member, a circuit unit, at least one cover member and a positioning assembly. The case member is a metal member and extends along a longitudinal direction, the case member defines a receiving space, and two ends of the case member on the longitudinal direction respectively have an opening communicating with the receiving space. The circuit unit is received in the receiving space. Each of the at least one cover member covers one of the two openings. The positioning assembly is disposed on the case member to position the circuit unit within the receiving space to make the circuit unit contact with the case member.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2020Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: JUTE INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Chia-Chun Yu, Che-Hung Lin
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Patent number: 11560072Abstract: A seat track covering system and method are configured to cover a seat track and one or more cables within an internal cabin of a vehicle. The seat track covering system and method include a seat track cover that securely couples to the seat track, and at least one cover adjustment member moveably coupled to the seat track cover. The seat track cover and the cover adjustment member(s) cover at least a portion of the seat track and at least a portion of the cable(s).Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2019Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: Rachelle N. Ornan, Dean Hettick, Amy L. Wisch, Patrick William O'Neill, Mark L. Cloud
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Patent number: 11558980Abstract: A solid-state drive device includes a first module including a first region containing a volatile main memory device and a controller device and a second region containing a first nonvolatile memory device, a second module disposed on the first module and having a third region containing a second nonvolatile memory device, the second module being connected to the first module, and a heat dissipating member disposed on the second module as vertically juxtaposed with the first and second modules. The heat dissipating member has a protruding portion protruding toward the first module and in direct thermal contact with the first region, and a plate-shaped portion having a main surface in direct thermal contact with the third region.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2022Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sung Chul Hur, Do Il Kong
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Patent number: 11557408Abstract: An electrical cable assembly, comprising a first electrical circuit further comprising a first plurality of insulated conductors longitudinally disposed to one another, wherein the first plurality of insulated conductors are cabled together in a bundle. The electrical cable assembly further comprises a second electrical circuit longitudinally disposed to the first electrical circuit, the second electrical circuit comprising a second plurality of insulated conductors longitudinally disposed to one another and cabled together in a bundle and a nonmetallic jacket surrounding the second plurality of insulated conductors and wherein the nonmetallic jacket isolating the first electrical circuit from the second electrical circuit. The electrical cable assembly further comprises a flexible interlocking metallic armor encasing the first and second electrical circuits.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2020Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: Encore Wire CorporationInventors: Troy D. Skidmore, Paul Abernathy, David W. Maxey, William T. Bigbee, Jr.
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Patent number: 11557886Abstract: A cable conduit comprises at least one cable, a tube, which accommodates the cable in an interior space and a sensor for sensing an environmental condition in the interior space of the tube.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2019Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: ABB Schweiz AGInventors: Pierre Elser, Peter Schuster, Yannick Maret, Rudi Velthuis
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Patent number: 11555254Abstract: An insulated conductor of the present invention is an insulated conductor having a conductor and an insulating film provided on a surface of the conductor, in which the insulating film has a low-concentration fluorine layer disposed on a surface side of the conductor and a high-concentration fluorine layer disposed on at least a part of an outside surface of the low-concentration fluorine layer, the low-concentration fluorine layer includes a cured product of a thermosetting resin and a fluororesin and has a fluorine atom content relatively lower than that of the high-concentration fluorine layer, and the high-concentration fluorine layer includes a cured product of a thermosetting resin and a fluororesin and has a fluorine atom content relatively higher than that of the low-concentration fluorine layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2018Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATIONInventors: Shintaro Iida, Hideaki Sakurai
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Patent number: 11552462Abstract: A wiring member includes a sheet-shaped member and multiple linear transmission members that are fixed on the sheet-shaped member. The plurality of linear transmission members are fixed on the sheet-shaped member such that a portion of the plurality of linear transmission members branches with respect to another said linear transmission member at a branching portion. An intersection location of the plurality of linear transmission members is located at the branching portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2019Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Tetsuya Nishimura, Motohiro Yokoi, Kenta Ito, Haruka Nakano, Masaki Mizushita, Ryusuke Kudo, Kenta Arai, Hidetoshi Ishida, Daisuke Ebata, Yasuyuki Yamamoto, Suguru Yasuda
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Patent number: 11551832Abstract: The sheath (3) is a material, which includes an aluminium (Al) matrix, in which nanometric aluminium oxide particles (Al2O3) are homogenously dispersed, the content of Al2O3 is 0.25 to 5 vol. % and the balance is Al. It is preferred that Al2O3 originates from the surface layer present on Al powder used as feedstock material for consolidation. The superconductor based on magnesium diboride (MgB2) core (1) is fabricated by powder-in-tube or internal magnesium diffusion to boron technology, while the tube is the Al+Al2O3 composite, which is a product of powder metallurgy. A loose Al powder is pressed by cold isostatic pressing, and then the powder billet is degassed at elevated temperature and under vacuum, and then is hot extruded into a tube. A thin diffusion barrier (2) tube filled up with a mixture of Mg and B powders or Mg wire surrounded with B powder is placed into the Al+Al2O3 composite tube under inert gas or vacuum. Such composite unit is cold worked into a thin wire and then annealed at 625-655° C.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2018Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignees: USTAV MATERIALOV A MECHANIKY STROJOV SAV, ELEKTROTECHNICKY USTAV SAVInventors: Martin Balog, Peter Krizik, Pavol Kovac, Imrich Husek, Lubomir Kopera, Alica Rosova
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Patent number: 11545279Abstract: A wiring harness comprises a first covered electric wire, and a second covered electric wire. The first covered electric wire comprises a first electric wire conductor made of aluminum or an aluminum alloy and an insulator covering the first electric wire conductor. The first electric wire conductor comprises a wire strand of a plurality of elemental wires twisted together, and has a flat portion where a cross-section of the wire strand intersecting an axial direction of the wire strand has a flat shape. The second covered electric wire comprises a second electric wire conductor made of copper or a copper alloy and an insulator covering the second electric wire conductor. The second electric wire conductor has a lower flatness and a smaller conductor cross-sectional area than the first electric wire conductor of the first covered electric wire.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2021Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hayato Ooi, Yasuyuki Otsuka, Kinji Taguchi, Toru Tanji
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Patent number: 11538606Abstract: An electrical cable assembly comprising a first electrical circuit comprising at least two insulated conductors, a second electrical circuit, and a conductive metallic armor encasing the first and second electrical circuits, wherein the conductive metallic armor provides a return ground path. The second electrical circuit comprising at least two control insulated conductors, a jacket surrounding the control insulated conductors, and a wrap surrounding the jacket which is surrounding the control insulated conductors.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2021Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Encore Wire CorporationInventors: William T. Bigbee, Jr., Micah W. Latimer, John L. Rhoads, Andrew P. Hull, Troy D. Skidmore, Paul Abernathy, David W. Maxey
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Patent number: 11532407Abstract: The present disclosure concerns aluminum conductor alloys having increased creep resistance, aluminum products comprising same and process using same. In some embodiments, the aluminum conductor alloy comprises, in weight percent: up to about 0.10 Si; up to about 0.5 Fe; up to about 0.30 Cu; between about 0.02 and about 0.1 Mg; up to about 0.04 B; and the balance being aluminum and unavoidable impurities.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2017Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: UNIVERSITE DU QUEBEC A CHICOUTIMIInventors: Xiao-Grant Chen, Lei Pan, Kun Liu, Alexandre Maltais, Bruno Bourassa
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Patent number: 11521765Abstract: A tube equipped electric wire, which is configured to be used in a catheter equipped with a catheter tube and be installed within the catheter tube, is composed of a tube including an outer surface, and one or more electric wires helically wound around the outer surface of the tube.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2021Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.Inventors: Kotaro Tanaka, Takanobu Watanabe, Kimika Kudo, Takanori Komuro
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Patent number: 11515694Abstract: A stiffening member for a protective housing assembly which defines a bore for receiving a utility line. The housing assembly includes a first body member, and a second body member arranged adjacent to one another to define immediately adjacent sections of the bore which surrounds the utility line. The stiffening member includes a first side for engagement with the first body member, and a second side for engagement with the second body member wherein pedestals extend from the first side of the stiffening member in a first direction away from the second side.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2018Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Subsea Energy Solutions LtdInventor: Philip Stanyon
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Patent number: 11515695Abstract: A junction box for electrical wiring includes a housing and a base plate. The housing is adapted to removably connect with the base plate to house the electrical connection. The base plate is secured to a support beam to provide stability to the junction box. The housing and the base plate are either of a unitary structure, or include tabs and/or attachment flanges that provide additional access and stability to the electrical connection, while reducing strain. The junction box may be secured to the support beam via a telescoping bar hanger.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2021Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: RezGo, LLCInventors: David Barr, Jeff Davis
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Patent number: 11508496Abstract: Disclosed is an opto-electric cable including one or more electrical conductors. Each conductor includes an electrically conductive core and an electrically insulating layer surrounding it. The cable also includes an optical unit embedded within one of the electrically conductive cores. The optical unit includes at least two optical fibers and a single buffer jointly surrounding all the optical fibers. Each optical fiber includes a core, a cladding and a coating. Since all the optical fibers of the optical unit are jointly surrounded—and protected—by a single buffer, an optical unit with a reduced size is obtained. This allows reducing the cross section of the electrical conductor in which the optical unit is arranged. In particular, electrical conductors with cross section lower than 10 mm2 are obtained.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: PRYSMIAN S.p.A.Inventors: Florin Chirita, Vili Popescu, Cristian Gheorghe, Baris Sönmez