Patents Examined by Michael F McAllister
  • Patent number: 12043188
    Abstract: A wire harness including: a first conductive path; a second conductive path provided side-by-side with the first conductive path; an electromagnetic wave absorber provided on a portion of the first conductive path in a length direction of the first conductive path; and a fixing member configured to fix the first conductive path to the second conductive path in a region of the first conductive path where the electromagnetic wave absorber is installed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Masahiro Fuchigami
  • Patent number: 12034287
    Abstract: The present disclosure is generally directed to visually aesthetic rotational components for electrical systems, such as lighting systems that facilitate the assembly and operation of luminaires with rotating components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Guangzhou Panyu Target Casting and Lighting Corporation
    Inventors: Zhiping Huang, Robert Lee
  • Patent number: 12027836
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a routing member and a wire harness that are capable of absorbing tolerances. A wire harness 10 has a routing member 40. The routing member 40 has a body portion 41 having a columnar shape, and a groove portion 42 in which a wire 20 is to be accommodated, the groove portion 42 being formed on an outer circumferential side of the body portion 41. The groove portion 42 has a meandering portion 45 extending in an axial direction of the body portion 41 while meandering. The wire harness 10 has the wire 20 accommodated in the groove portion 42 of the routing member 40 and routed along the groove portion 42.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Takamune Kikuta
  • Patent number: 12021360
    Abstract: A junction box includes a housing with a top portion and a bottom portion. The top portion includes an attachment portion and the bottom portion includes a first portion on an exterior side of the housing and a second portion opposite the first portion. The first portion of the bottom portion is configured to be mounted to a roof of a structure. The junction box includes a lid configured to be mounted on the attachment portion of the housing and a retention system configured to retain the lid in proximity to the to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Easy Solar Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Wade, Lee Hatley
  • Patent number: 12022623
    Abstract: A display device and a terminal apparatus are provided. The display device includes a display screen and a first drive assembly. The display screen includes a main screen and a secondary screen. The first drive assembly is connected to at least one of the main screen and the secondary screen, and is configured to drive the main screen and/or the secondary screen to move, for changing a size and/or a shape of a display area of the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignees: Wuhan Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd., Wuhan Tianma MicroElectronics Co., Ltd. Shanghai Branch
    Inventor: Liu Yang
  • Patent number: 12021358
    Abstract: An object is to further improve the reliability of a bent section of a linear transmission member. Provided is a wiring member including: a linear transmission member that includes a bent section; and a resin molded portion molded with a path holding portion of the linear transmission member being inserted thereinto, the path holding portion including the bent section, wherein recesses are formed so as to expose portions of the path holding portion other than a portion where tensile stress is concentrated due to bending, to the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hironobu Yamamoto, Kyungwoo Kim, Toshinari Kobayashi, Moriyuki Shimizu, Yukitoshi Terasaka
  • Patent number: 12014844
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a technology with which a protective portion with high protective capabilities is provided while avoiding an operation to switch out binding adhesive tape much as possible. A wire harness includes: a wire; and a tape-wrapping protective portion provided in at least a partial region along a longitudinal direction of the wire, the tape-wrapping protective portion including a spiral-wrapping portion in which an adhesive tape is wrapped in a spiral shape around the wire, and in the portion where the spiral-wrapping portion is provided, the adhesive tape being wrapped so as to form more than two layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Taiji Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 12016129
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to a printed circuit board for mechanical support and electrical connection of electrical or electronic components. The printed circuit board has conductive tracks and contact pads carved away or etched from at least one sheet layer of copper laminated onto a non-conductive substrate and has a label attached to the printed circuit board at an intended position before the assembly process. Soldering defects often occur due to the deposition of excessive amounts of solder paste on the contact pads of components adjacent to the label. To prevent soldering defects caused by incorrect solder paste application quantities by simple and inexpensive means, the printed circuit board provides the intended position of the label as a depression with respect to the surroundings thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: ZF CV Systems Europe BV
    Inventor: Marcin Calka
  • Patent number: 12014845
    Abstract: A composite cable is composed of plural electric power wires, a first twisted wire made by laying plural signal wires together, a second twisted wire disposed opposite the first twisted wire with the electric power wires between the first twisted wire and the second twisted wire, and a sheath formed over plural electric power wires, the first twisted wire, and the second twisted wire. The second twisted wire is made by laying plural electric wires including a grounding wire together. Each of the plural electric wires of the second twisted wire is composed of a conductor and an insulator formed over the conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: PROTERIAL, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Murayama, Yoshikazu Hayakawa, Hirotaka Eshima, Takahiro Futatsumori
  • Patent number: 12015257
    Abstract: A junction box includes an enclosable housing comprising sidewalls and a bottom with a bottom interior surface and a bottom exterior surface opposing the bottom interior surface. The housing is configured to mount to a roof of a structure where the roof includes a slope. The junction box includes a flashing attached to the housing and extending horizontally from the housing in a direction planar to the bottom. The junction box includes a lid configured to attach to a top of the housing along top edges of the sidewalls of the housing. The top is opposite the bottom and the lid includes an outer lip configured to overlap and extend past the top edges of the sidewalls of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Easy Solar Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Benjamin Wade
  • Patent number: 12009122
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a technique with which an exterior portion can be easily provided on a wire harness. The wire harness includes: a wire; and one or more types of tape wrapped around the wire, a plurality of tape-wrapping portions being provided by wrapping the one or more types of tape around a plurality of portions along the longitudinal direction of the wire, and at least one tape-wrapping portion of the plurality of tape-wrapping portions exhibiting a binding function and an additional function different from the binding function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takaaki Ito, Taiji Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 12005844
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to be able to attach flat harnesses of varying widths to an attachment target portion. A flat harness attachment structure to be attached to an attachment target member having an attachment target surface includes: a flat harness to be installed on the attachment target surface; a fixing portion to be fixed to the attachment target member on one side portion side of the flat harness; and a pressing portion extending from the fixing portion over the flat harness so as to press the flat harness against the attachment target surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Hisahiro Yasuda
  • Patent number: 12009124
    Abstract: A fixing structure of a wiring member includes: a wiring member including at least one wire-like transmission member; a heat generation layer provided to surround a periphery of the wiring member; an adherend to which the wiring member is fixed; and a joint layer provided on at least a portion between the heat generation layer and the adherend and a portion between the heat generation layer and the wiring member, wherein the heat generation layer is a layer which can generate heat by induction heating, the joint layer is a layer having bond properties by heat transmitted from the heat generation layer at a time of induction heating, and is joined to the heat generation layer and at least one of the adherend and the wiring member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotaka Kato, Hiroki Hirai, Makoto Higashikozono, Kosuke Sone
  • Patent number: 12003085
    Abstract: A junction box includes a housing with sidewalls and a bottom attached to the sidewalls. The bottom has an interior side and an exterior side. The exterior side is configured to mount to a roof. The junction box includes a weep hole defined in the housing, a flashing attached to the housing and extending horizontally from the housing, where the flashing is formed with the housing, and a portion defined in the interior side of the bottom defined by a groove. The portion defines a position for creating a hole in the bottom. The junction box includes a plurality of fastener openings in the bottom configured for a fastener positionable within the fastener opening. Securing a fastener through a fastener opening contributes to securing the housing to the roof. Each of the plurality of fastener openings includes a boss extending away from a bottom interior surface of the bottom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Easy Solar Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Benjamin Wade
  • Patent number: 12003080
    Abstract: A line arrangement comprising an electrical line which has at least one electrical insulator and at least one electrical conductor which runs at least in some sections adjacently to the electrical insulator along a longitudinal axis of the electrical line. The line arrangement additionally has a passive heat dissipator which runs at least in some sections along the longitudinal axis and which has at least one heat-absorbing surface portion and at least one heat-emitting surface portion thermally connected to the heat-absorbing surface portion. The heat-absorbing surface portion is brought towards the electrical conductor at least to such an extent that the heat-absorbing surface portion forms a thermally operative connection to the electrical conductor in order to dissipate waste heat from the electrical conductor to the heat-emitting surface portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Rosenberger Hochfrequenztechnik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Christian Dandl, Johann Edfelder, Johannes Hegenauer
  • Patent number: 11996685
    Abstract: A junction box includes an enclosable housing with sidewalls and a bottom with a bottom interior surface and a bottom exterior surface opposing the bottom interior surface. The housing is configured to mount to a roof of a structure and the roof includes a slope. The junction box includes an indicia on a sidewall of the housing. The indicia indicates a side area suitable for creating a hole to permit a connector to be attached to the housing. The junction box includes a flashing attached to the housing and extending horizontally from the housing in a direction planar to the bottom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Easy Solar Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Benjamin Wade
  • Patent number: 11996684
    Abstract: A junction box includes an enclosable housing that includes a bottom with a bottom interior surface and a bottom exterior surface. The housing is configured to mount to a roof of a structure with a slope. The junction box includes a central area of the bottom configured for penetrations into the roof. The junction box includes a flashing integral to the bottom of the housing and extending away from the bottom in a direction away from the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Easy Solar Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Benjamin Wade
  • Patent number: 11990254
    Abstract: A cable distributor for individual cables that are shielded by an electrically conductive shield. The cable distributor has an electrically insulating outer housing, which receives a connection piece at which at least two individual cables are connected to each another. The shields of the connected individual cables are connected to each other by means of an electrically conductive shield housing, as a result of which a continuous shielding of the current-carrying parts of the cable distributor is achieved. A method for producing such a cable distributor is also proposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: NEXANS
    Inventors: Tobias Kroop, Christoph Frank, Thomas Schneider
  • Patent number: 11990734
    Abstract: A cable gland for an armored cable comprising at least an exposed portion of the armor, comprising a clamping ring and a compression ring intended to be tightened or rotatably engaged to each other, said cable gland comprises a current conducting circular member, intended to surround the exposed portion of the armor of said cable and being attached at one end to the compression ring and at another end to the clamping ring, so that when the clamping ring and a compression ring are tightened or rotatably engaged to each other, the circular member is collapsed against an exposed portion of the armor of the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventor: Saurabh Suresh Yemawar
  • Patent number: 11990735
    Abstract: A junction box includes a housing that includes sidewalls and a bottom attached to the sidewalls. An exterior side of the bottom is configured to be mounted to a roof of a structure. The junction box includes a flashing attached to the housing and extending horizontally from the housing. The flashing is formed with the housing. The junction box includes a lid configured to be mounted a top edge of the sidewalls of the housing, where the top edge of the sidewalls is distal to the bottom, and one or more fasteners configured to retain the lid in proximity to the to the housing. The one or more fasteners are each inserted vertically though a hole in a top of the lid into the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Easy Solar Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Benjamin Wade