Patents Examined by Krystal Robinson
  • Housing for a converter, output stage of a converter having such a housing, converter, and aircraft having a converter
    Patent number: 11450621
    Abstract: A housing is provided for an output stage with power semiconductors of a modular converter. The housing includes a stretchable hood arranged on the base plate. The housing further includes a metallic lattice formed in or on the hood and forming a Faraday cage, wherein the hood is configured to be stretchable so as to enlarge the volume enclosed by the hood in the event of an explosion of a power semiconductor as a result of the explosion energy, without destroying the hood. An output stage, a converter, and an aircraft are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventor: Marco Bohlländer
  • Snap-in connector
    Patent number: 11451030
    Abstract: A tubular snap-in connector includes one or more elastically mounted retaining tabs formed integrally with the connector. The retaining tabs permit the connector to be selectively connected to an electrical junction box by inserting a body of the connector into an appropriate opening in the junction box, advancing the body of the connector forward so that a wall of the junction box depresses a ramp portion of the retaining tabs, and continuing to advance the body of the connector forward until a wedge portion of the retaining tabs passes the wall of the junction box, at which point the retaining tabs spring outwards. A rear wall of each wedge engages an inner wall of the junction box to retain the connector within the box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: CHANGZHOU YINLEI ELECTRONIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jinxing Yang
  • Explosion-protected device
    Patent number: 11451022
    Abstract: An explosion-protected device (1) comprises a deformable interior body (20) that comprises at least one line channel (30, 31) extending along a longitudinal axis (L) through the interior body (20) for a line. The line extends through the at least one line channel (30, 31). The interior body (20) is encompassed by a housing (2). The housing (2) is divided into an incoming section (3), an outgoing section (4) as well as a middle section (5) disposed between the incoming section (3) and the outgoing section (4). A spring element (25) is provided which is disposed in the middle section (5) and exerts pressure onto the interior body (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Pepperl + Fuchs SE
    Inventor: Michael Hellmann
  • Power phase module of a converter, converter, and vehicle
    Patent number: 11452227
    Abstract: A power phase module has at least one first DC terminal pair on a face of the power phase module with respective connection elements for connection to a current bar pair. The power phase module further has a first DC capacitor terminal pair on the face being spaced apart from the first DC terminal pair and connected in parallel with it and having respective connection elements for connection to an intermediate circuit capacitor module associated with the power phase module. The power phase module further has a first AC terminal on another side of the power phase module and a switching device connected with the first AC terminal and the first DC terminal pair for converting a direct voltage. The power phase module further has a cooling device to carry heat out of the power phase module. Further proposed are a converter and a rail vehicle with a converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventors: Roland Schmid, Stefan Lagger, Reinhard Reichelt, Klaus Schwichtenberg, Adrian Laudan
  • Insulated wire
    Patent number: 11450450
    Abstract: An insulated wire comprising a conductor and a bubble-containing insulating layer, directly or indirectly coating the outer periphery of the conductor and containing a thermosetting resin, wherein the bubbles in the bubble-containing insulating layer include flattened bubbles whose oblateness in the cross-section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the insulated wire (lateral length of the bubble cross-sectional shape/vertical length of the bubble cross-sectional shape) is 1.5 or more and 5.0 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: ESSEX FURUKAWA MAGNET WIRE JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Natsuko Hara, Keisuke Ikeda, Daisuke Muto
  • Insulated flat rectangular conductor, coil, and method of producing insulated flat rectangular conductor
    Patent number: 11450452
    Abstract: There is provided an insulated flat rectangular conductor including: a flat rectangular conductor; and an insulating film coating the flat rectangular conductor, in which the flat rectangular conductor has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, and the first surface is rougher than the second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Urushihara, Hideaki Sakurai
  • Irregular-shaped cable and method for manufacturing the cable
    Patent number: 11361881
    Abstract: An irregular-shaped cable and a method for manufacturing the cable. The irregular-shaped cable includes a conductive core formed by at least two conductive core segments having different cross-sectional shapes which are connected end to end. An insulation layer is wrapped over the conductive core segment from the outside, and the profile of the insulation layer fits with the conductive core segments. The cable can be fitted with the vehicle body. The manufacturing method includes a manufacture of the conductive core segments, a connection of the conductive core segments, and a manufacture of the insulation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: JILIN ZHONG YING HIGH TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chao Wang
  • Embedding magnetic material, in a cored or coreless semiconductor package
    Patent number: 11355459
    Abstract: Techniques for fabricating a semiconductor package having magnetic materials embedded therein are described. For one technique, fabrication of package includes: forming a pad and a conductive line on a build-up layer; forming a raised pad structure on the build-up layer, the raised pad comprising a pillar structure on the pad; encapsulating the conductive line and the raised pad structure in a magnetic film comprising one or more magnetic fillers; planarizing a top surface of the magnetic film until top surfaces of the raised pad structure and the magnetic film are co-planar; depositing a primer layer on the top surfaces; removing one or more portions of the primer layer above the raised pad structure to create an opening; and forming a via in the opening on the raised pad structure. The primer layer may comprise one or more of a build-up layer, a photoimageable dielectric layer, and a metal mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corpoation
    Inventors: Kyu-Oh Lee, Sai Vadlamani, Rahul Jain, Junnan Zhao, Ji Yong Park, Cheng Xu, Seo Young Kim
  • Mounting bracket for electrical boxes
    Patent number: 11349289
    Abstract: A bracket system for mounting an electrical box and other components can include a mounting bracket configured to be removably secured to a support bar or a threaded rod. The mounting bracket can include a plurality of spring arms that can be manually moved towards each other to insert locking profiles of the spring arms into one or more mounting openings of the electrical box. Once the locking profiles are inserted, the spring arms can be released so that they spring resiliently apart from each other and secure the locking profiles against removal from mounting openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: ERICO International Corporation
    Inventor: Scott Ernest Anderson
  • Aluminum alloy wire, aluminum alloy strand wire, covered electrical wire, and terminal-equipped electrical wire
    Patent number: 11342094
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy contains equal to or more than 0.005 mass % and equal to or less than 2.2 mass % of Fe, and a remainder of Al and an inevitable impurity. In a transverse section of the aluminum alloy wire, a surface-layer void measurement region in a shape of a rectangle having a short side length of 30 ?m and a long side length of 50 ?m is defined within a surface layer region extending from a surface of the aluminum alloy wire by 30 ?m in a depth direction, and a total cross-sectional area of voids in the surface-layer void measurement region is equal to or less than 2 ?m2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Misato Kusakari, Tetsuya Kuwabara, Yoshihiro Nakai, Taichiro Nishikawa, Yasuyuki Otsuka, Hayato Ooi
  • Ribbed extruded electrical conduit
    Patent number: 11322920
    Abstract: An extruded aluminum conduit comprising a substantially cylindrical body including defining a conduit interior. The body may include an exterior surface defined by an outer diameter and an interior surface defined by an inner diameter. The conduit may include one or more protrusions protruding from the interior surface of the body toward the conduit interior and away from the exterior surface. The one or more protrusions may run substantially continuously from a first end of the body to a second end of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: HYDRO EXTRUSION USA, LLC
    Inventors: Carmen Morello, Ralph Westphal
  • Wire harness and method of manufacturing wire harness
    Patent number: 11322270
    Abstract: A wire harness includes: a first wiring member including a plurality of first linear transmission members and at least one first intermediate connector, some of the plurality of first linear transmission members being connected to the first intermediate connector; and a second wiring member including at least one second linear transmission member and a second intermediate connector to which the at least one second linear transmission member is connected. The first intermediate connector and the second intermediate connector are connected to each other, thus at least one part member of plurality of first linear transmission members which are connected to the first intermediate connector are connected to at least one second linear transmission member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki Mizushita, Yuya Fukami, Kenta Ito, Motohiro Yokoi
  • Cable wall passthrough and kit
    Patent number: 11316330
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wall duct for cables, comprising a housing component which can be mounted on a housing wall in the region of a wall opening and has a recess for guiding cables through the housing component; separators which are integrally formed on the housing component and with which multiple openings separated by the separators are formed in the recess, wherein the openings are configured to accommodate one or more respective sealing elements, with which a cable duct for at least one of the cables is produced; and a closure component which closes at least one of the openings and is arranged on the housing component and/or the separators by means of one or more target breaking points. The invention also relates to an assembly for a wall duct for cables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: CONTA-CLIP VERBINDUNGSTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventor: Jörg Nowastowski-Stock
  • Cable end fitting and cable abutment and method of securement
    Patent number: 11316327
    Abstract: A cable conduit end for securing a cable to a cable abutment of a latch, the cable conduit end including: a housing; a pair of arm members integrally formed with the housing of the conduit end, wherein the pair of arm members are spring biased into a first position; and a platform integrally formed with the pair of arm members, the platform extending laterally from the pair of arm members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: INTEVA PRODUCTS, LLC
    Inventor: Lianming Yang
  • Wireway and wireway connector for wireway system
    Patent number: 11316328
    Abstract: A wireway connector for a wireway section having an open longitudinal end and a plurality of sidewalls includes a connector body having a plurality of side panels. The wireway connector is configured to be attached to an open longitudinal end of a wireway section. A snap-fit component is on at least one of the side panels. The snap-fit component is configured to mateably connect to a snap-fit component on one of the sidewalls of the wireway section as the connector body is attached to the open longitudinal end of the wireway section to connect the wireway connector to the wireway section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: Amol Khalkar, Nicholas R. Grahek
  • Method of forming circuit body and circuit body
    Patent number: 11306398
    Abstract: A conductive portion of a circuit body is formed by performing spraying on a surface of a resin casing. For spraying of the conductive portion, a cold spray method in which metal powder and inert gas are sprayed to an object is used. A circuit component is mounted on the conductive portion. Each terminal portion of the conductive portion is provided with a connector for connection with an external circuit body. An insulating resin is laminated on a surface of the conductive portion. The circuit body is directly formed on the surface of the resin casing by a series of processes described above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keita Shimakura, Takuo Matsumoto
  • Wire harness
    Patent number: 11309694
    Abstract: A wire harness including: a wire; a flexible outer cover covering the wire; a route regulator that has an axial direction extending along a route where the wire is routed, and that is configured to regulate the route where the wire is routed, from an outside of the outer cover; and a fixing member that is configured to fix the route regulator to the outer cover, wherein the route regulator includes an elastic deformation portion that is elastically deformable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Yuichi Kimoto
  • Cable carrier apparatus with power supply function
    Patent number: 11309696
    Abstract: Provided is a cable carrier apparatus with a power supply function. The apparatus includes a chain unit, where the chain unit includes a bottom plate, a side plate is provided on each of both sides of the bottom plate, a slot is provided on the side plate; a detachable plate is mounted in the slot, the chain unit is provided with a mounting hole and a mounting pillar, where a conductive layer is provided on each of both sides of the side plate of the chain unit, and an insulating layer is attached to an upper side of the conductive layer. In this way, the cable carrier can have a power supply function, and strong electricity and weak electricity are separated so as to reduce interferences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: INSPUR SUZHOU INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventor: Yanqun Zhang
  • Insulated electric cable
    Patent number: 11295875
    Abstract: An insulated electric cable including: two first core wires, each of the two first core wires including: a first conductor; and a first insulating layer covering the first conductor; and two second core wires, each of the two second core wires including: a second conductor having a cross-sectional area smaller than that of the first conductor; and a second insulating layer covering the second conductor; wherein the two second core wires are mutually stranded to form a subunit, and wherein one of the two first core wires, another of the two first core wires, and the subunit are mutually stranded and are in contact with each other to form a core member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Hashimoto, Yuji Ochi, Masayuki Ishikawa, Takami Sagisaka, Takaya Kohori
  • Ignition suppression circuiting technology
    Patent number: 11295874
    Abstract: A cable system is provided which is configured with both electric wires and a fluid conduit running through the axial passage of a surrounding flexible sheath of the cable. The system allows for communication of electricity over the wires for electrical circuits and concurrent communication of a fire ignition suppressant fluid or gas through the fluid conduit, to all points in an electric circuit using the cable. Suppressant chambers may be located in or on or engaged with junction boxes in such circuits to locally extinguish electrical fires. Fluid nozzles may be operatively engaged with sidewalls of the junction box to disburse fire suppressant therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Inventor: Clifton Royston