Patents Examined by Krystal Robinson
  • Patent number: 11491928
    Abstract: An illustrative example embodiment of a connector shell includes a connector cover and a cable-guiding sleeve having a curved conduit. The cover and the cable-guiding sleeve are made up of two separate elements. The cable-guiding sleeve is mounted on the cover so as to be rotatable about an axis of rotation. The cable-guiding sleeve and the cover comprise means for blocking the rotation of the cable-guiding sleeve on the cover in at least two different pre-set angular positions about the axis of rotation. These blocking means comprise shapes that engage with each other in a complementary way, and that are able to release each other and allow the passage from one angular position to the next.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: APTIV TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Frédéric Menez, Prasanna Ramakrishnan, Rama krishna Manne
  • Patent number: 11495372
    Abstract: In various embodiments, superconducting wires incorporate diffusion barriers composed of Nb alloys or Nb—Ta alloys that resist internal diffusion and provide superior mechanical strength to the wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Materion Newton Inc.
    Inventors: David B. Smathers, Paul Aimone
  • Patent number: 11489320
    Abstract: A cord protector comprising at least one elongated body and at least one coupler. The elongated body has a base and a lid, and has a cavity in each of the first end and second end of the elongated body. The base has a channel extending between the first end and the second end in which a cord may rest. The channel may have one or more ridges. The lid is configured to insert into and cover the channel, and may have one or more grooves sized and shaped to receive a ridge. The coupler has a leading end and a trailing end. The leading end is sized and shaped to mate with the cavity of the first end and the trailing end is sized and shaped to mate with the cavity of the second end. Multiple elongated bodies can be coupled together through the use of the couplers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Inventors: Jeffrey P. Baldwin, John E. Klein
  • Patent number: 11485300
    Abstract: The wire harness protector includes: electrical wiring insertion parts in which electrical wirings constituting a wire harness are divided and housed, wherein electrical wiring insertion parts are arranged in parallel, at least one side of an arrangement direction of electrical wiring insertion parts is a branch direction of the electrical wirings, at least one branch electrical wiring window is provided in each of the electrical wiring insertion parts except for one of the electrical wiring insertion parts located farthest from the branch direction to extending in a longitudinal direction and be opened in both side surfaces, into which branch electrical wirings made up of a part of the electrical wirings can be inserted, and the branch electrical wiring insertion window is provided in at least a side surface on a side of the branch direction of one of the electrical wiring insertion parts located farthest from the branch direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryuta Takakura, Shigeki Ikeda, Tetsuya Nishimura, Takayuki Suzuki, Housei Mizuno
  • Patent number: 11482760
    Abstract: A busbar module includes a case to be attached to a battery assembly, a busbar supported by the case and to be connected to an electrode of single cells of the battery assembly and electric wires to be routed in the case. The case is provided with electric wire routing grooves to accommodate the electric wires, the electric wire routing grooves intersecting with one another. A part of the plurality of electric wires bends at a connection portion of the plurality of electric wire routing grooves. The connection portion is provided with a guide taper provided inside a bent portion of the part of the plurality of electric wires and a wire locking portion to lock the at least a part of the electric wires at a side of the bent portion of the at least the part of the electric wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yutaro Okazaki, Yoh Matsui, Koji Haneda, Masao Kubota, Daiki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11476653
    Abstract: A disconnect system for modular cable protectors includes tool engagement features to facilitate disassembly of the side ramps from the center sections of the cable protectors using a hand tool. The tool is used to removably engage these tool engagement features to enable the user to exert an upward force to disengage the edge connectors and end connectors on the side ramps and center section of each cable protector. For example, the tool engagement features can be openings (e.g., slots or recesses) in the top surface of the side ramp with undercuts adjacent to the lower ends of the openings. A tool with vertical rods is manually inserted into the openings to disengage the side ramps. Horizontal projections at the bottom of the vertical rods engage the undercuts and allow the user to disengage the side ramps by lifting upward on the tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Inventor: Stephen K. Henry
  • Patent number: 11469578
    Abstract: A flip-type wire slot relates to the technical field of wire slots, including: a wire slot main body and a wire slot cover, wherein one side of the wire slot cover is fixedly connected to one side of the wire slot main body, the other side of the wire slot cover is a free side, and the free side of the wire slot cover (2) is detachably connected to the other side of the wire slot main body. The adoption of the above technical solution has the advantage of facilitating the removal of the wire slot cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN JINMING ELECTRONIC COMMERCE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kai Hu
  • Patent number: 11462896
    Abstract: An electrical connection box includes a casing and a cover member. The cover member includes: a cover-member main body; a restriction piece arranged along an arrangement direction with respect to a pair of locking pieces; and a rigid part that is disposed with a space provided with respect to the cover-member main body in an orthogonal direction and is extended toward the orthogonal direction. The casing includes: a pair of restriction reception parts opposing to respective ends in the arrangement direction of a pair of the restriction pieces in a state in which the cover member is fitted to the casing; and a rigid reception part having a rigid-reception-part projecting wall part located between the rigid part and the cover-member main body in a state in which the rigid part is inserted and the cover member is fitted to the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Tashiro, Ryouichi Yokoyama, Takuma Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11456580
    Abstract: A wire exterior body and an exterior-covered wire harness, capable of preventing damage to thereby suppress deterioration in the protective function for electric wires, are provided. A wire exterior body (3) formed of a resin sheet, to be mounted on the outer periphery of the wire harness (2), includes bending portions (20a) to (20d) at which the resin sheet is bent, and a plurality of wall parts (4) formed of the resin sheet bent at the bending portions (20a) to (20d). The wall parts (4) extend along the extending direction of the electric wires and form an accommodating part (5) that accommodates the electric wires. Grooves (21a) to (21d) are formed in the bending portions (20a) to (20d) at positions separated by predetermined spaces (S1) and (S2) from end portions (4a) and (4b), in the extending direction of the electric wires, of the wall parts (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignees: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Takashi Oshino, Koichi Maeno, Naoyuki Kojima, Hideyuki Ikeda, Yoshikazu Kamei
  • Patent number: 11451024
    Abstract: A wiring member integrated door resin component includes a built-in component (for example, a door resin component) and a wiring member. The built-in component is a component having a wiring member housing groove in one main surface and incorporated into a box-like member to partition an inner side and outer side of the box-like member. The wiring member is held by the built-in component in a state where at least a part thereof in an extension direction is housed in the wiring member housing groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Yamaguchi, Hiroki Hirai, Makoto Higashikozono, Housei Mizuno
  • Patent number: 11451025
    Abstract: This publication describes techniques and apparatuses for releasably attaching an object (e.g., a wire tray) to a substrate. Current apparatuses generally do not enable the removal of an attached wire tray from a substrate without first removing an insert from a mounting stud extending from the substrate. The disclosed techniques and apparatuses are configured to permit the removal of an attached wire tray from a substrate without first removing an insert from a mounting stud extending from the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Hellermann Tyton Corporation
    Inventors: James S. Teece, Scott J. Adams
  • Patent number: 11452236
    Abstract: A housing includes a cup-shaped, plastic housing case; a cooling channel guided in the housing case for fluid cooling of an electric or electronic device situated in an interior of the housing case; and a planar shielding body integrated into the housing case and traversing walls of the housing case for shielding from electromagnetic radiation. The shielding body is a metallic wire cage or trough. The cooling channel is a metallic tubing. The shielding body and the cooling channel are connected to form a frame-like, pre-assembled assembly. The pre-assembled assembly, consisting of the shielding body and the cooling channel, is extrusion-coated with a plastic or encapsulated in a plastic to form the housing case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: KOSTAL Automobil Elektrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Berthold Esders, Matthias Thiel, Thorsten Puehl, Rene Riedel
  • Patent number: 11452198
    Abstract: A printed circuit board (PCB) including a first side and a second side; a conductive layer within the PCB between the first side and the second side; one or more first side electrical components that are physically attached to the first side and electrically connected to the conductive layer; one or more second side electrical components attached to the second side of the PCB and electrically connected to the conductive layer; and a thermally and electrically insulating dielectric layer, within the PCB between the first side electrical components and the second side electrical components, that prevents heat emitted by the first side electrical components from increasing the temperature of the second side electrical components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: BORGWARNER, INC.
    Inventor: Lathom Alexander Louco
  • Patent number: 11452228
    Abstract: A driver is provided. A driver (1) includes an aluminum substrate (10) to which electronic components (13) are joined, and a resin member (20) that covers the electronic components (13). The resin member (20) has a first resin portion (21) that covers the electronic components (13) and a second resin portion (22) that covers the first resin portion (21). The hardness of the first resin portion (21) is lower than the hardness of the second resin portion (22).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBA Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiko Ogane, Fumiaki Koshio, Hiroyuki Hirano, Hirokazu Takada
  • Patent number: 11451034
    Abstract: A raceway system and method within an internal cabin of an aircraft include a plurality of routing modules that are coupled together. Each of the plurality of routing modules includes a main housing that routes one or more transferring components to one or more monuments within the internal cabin. A raceway system and method for an aircraft includes a transferring component attachment system that includes a plurality of transferring component support struts, and one or more transferring components coupled to the plurality of transferring component support struts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Thomas J. Harleman, Nicholas J. Foti, Christopher M. Lombardi
  • Patent number: 11451023
    Abstract: An auxiliary side ramp for use with modular cable protectors includes a number of tool engagement features. A tool can be used to removably engage these tool engagement features and allows a user to exert an upward force to disengage the edge connectors on adjacent auxiliary side ramps, and also disengage the auxiliary side ramp from the underlying cable protector. For example, the tool engagement features can be slots in the top surface of the auxiliary side ramp with undercuts adjacent to the lower ends of the slots. A tool with vertical rods is manually inserted into the slots to disengage the cable protectors. Horizontal projections at the bottom of the vertical rods engage the undercuts in the slots, and allow the user to disengage adjacent auxiliary side ramps by lifting upward on the tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Inventor: Stephen K. Henry
  • Patent number: 11450929
    Abstract: An automotive bus bar module includes a flat plate-shaped bus bar arranged to extend over electrodes of two adjacent unit batteries of a plurality of linearly arranged unit batteries of a battery assembly to electrically connect the electrodes to each other, a plurality of electric wires arranged to extend along an arrangement direction of the unit batteries, one of the plurality of electric wires being connected to the bus bar and an electric wire holding plate made of resin and arranged to extend over an upper surface of the bus bar, the electric wire holding plate holding the plurality of electric wires in a state of being parallel to each other and arranged planarly such that the plurality of electric wires extend along the arrangement direction of the unit batteries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsunori Sato, Shinichi Yanagihara, Takuto Goto
  • Patent number: 11447082
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include an automobile panel that can include a polymer substrate, a network of conductive pathways, and connectors coupled to ends of the network of conductive pathways. The network of conductive pathways can include conductive material disposed in cavities forming a network of channels in the polymer substrate. The conductive material at least partially encapsulates by the polymer substrate. The connectors are connectable to automotive electronic devices thereby forming electrical circuits that include the network of conductive pathways and the automotive electronics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satyabrata Raychaudhuri
  • Patent number: 11447081
    Abstract: A wire harness having a bent router configured to be routed in a bent manner in a vehicle, the wire harness including: a wire; an exterior tube enclosing an outer peripheral surface of the wire; and a heat transfer tube having a rectangular tubular shape, provided between the wire and the exterior tube, and contacting an entire periphery of both the outer peripheral surface of the wire and an inner peripheral surface of the exterior tube, wherein the wire has an exposed part not covered by the heat transfer tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Tamaru, Yuichi Kimoto, Yasushi Itani
  • Patent number: 11451035
    Abstract: A wiring clip is provided for securing one or more conductors to a stud. The wiring clip can include a support portion configured to engage the one or more wires and an attachment portion that at least partly defines an inner recess that can be configured to receive the stud. The attachment portion can be configured to secure the wiring clip to the stud without the use of separate fasteners, including through selectively engagement of hooks of the attachment portion with open or closed sides of the stud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: ERICO International Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel A. Kozlowski, Jeffrey A. Wilson, Scott E. Anderson