Patents Examined by Michael F McAllister
  • Patent number: 11505133
    Abstract: An attachment member is configured to support an electric component to which a harness is connected, and be attached to a wall portion of a vehicle interior. The member includes a base portion to which the electric component is fixed, a first engaging portion and a second engaging portion each standing on the base portion and configured to engage with the wall portion. Each of the first and second engaging portions includes a proximal-side end portion on a side of the base portion, and a distal end-side end portion opposite to the proximal-side end portion. The first and second engaging portions are arranged so as to sandwich a harness connecting portion of the electric component. The attachment member further includes a coupling portion configured to couple the distal end-side end portions of the first and second engaging portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichi Yamase, Junya Adachi
  • Patent number: 11498093
    Abstract: A dispenser apparatus (10) for dispensing curable liquid material into a space in a cable gland is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a housing (12) for separately storing of components of a curable liquid material and provided with a respective first outlet (14) for each component. A mixing chamber (16) mixes the components to cause curing of the curable liquid material and has an inlet (18) for receiving the components from the first outlets, and a second outlet (20) for the mixed components. A plunger (22) urges the components out of storage chambers of the housing via the first outlets and into the mixing chamber via the inlet. The dispenser apparatus is adapted to be located in a body of a cable gland such that the mixed components are dispensable from, the second outlet into a space defined by the body and a cable extending through the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: CMP PRODUCTS LIMITED
    Inventor: Lee Frizzell
  • Patent number: 11501892
    Abstract: A wire harness includes a multi-core cable including a group of cables composed of a plurality of cables, and a sheath provided around the group of cables, and a resin mold covering the group of cables at a cable branching portion where the group of cables exposed from an end of the sheath of the multi-core cable are branched. An outermost layer of each cable constituting the group of cables includes polyolefin or thermoplastic polyurethane. When the sheath includes polyolefins, the group of cables includes at least one cable including an outermost layer including thermoplastic polyurethane. When the sheath includes thermoplastic polyurethane, the group of cables includes at least one cable having an outermost layer comprising polyolefin. The resin mold includes a resin composition of a polymer alloy of a first polymer including at least one of polyamide polymer, polyester polymer, and thermoplastic polyurethane and a second polymer including polyolefin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Sugita, Masahiro Abe
  • Patent number: 11502492
    Abstract: A watertight electrical compartment for use in an irrigation device can include a compartment body having a chamber and a sealing section configured to mate with one or more sealing rings. A sealing cap can mate with the sealing section and/or the sealing rings to seal the chamber. A cap retainer can be advanced over at least a portion of the sealing cap. One of the compartment body and cap retainer can have internal threads to be screwed onto external threads of the other one of the compartment body and cap retainer. The cap retainer can also have a stopping feature to keep the sealing cap in its sealed position. The watertight electrical compartment can be used in a wireless flow sensor assembly, a battery operated irrigation controller, and/or a battery-operated central controller device, to provide irrigation control, and/or sensor information, without the need for AC power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Hunter Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael F. Paul
  • Patent number: 11502496
    Abstract: A cable joint assembly and a method for assembling such a cable joint assembly. The cable joint assembly joins at least two cable ends, said cable joint assembly comprising a cable joint defining an interior space into which in use said at least two cable ends extend and are joined and which in use is filled with a liquid, wherein said cable joint assembly further comprises a barrier element that is placeable in said interior space in such a manner, that in use the barrier element extends around the at least two cable ends at least in an area where the at least two cable ends are joined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: LEIA B.V.
    Inventor: Lukasz Andrzej Chmura
  • Patent number: 11491929
    Abstract: A wire harness having a round cross-section, a clamp that has an engagement portion for attachment to a vehicle body, a placement portion on which the wire harness is placed, and a pressing portion for pressing the wire harness, and a binding member are used. The pressing portion has pressing body portions opposing in a longitudinal direction of the wire harness, and opposing extending portions for joining the pressing body portions, and can be provisionally combined with the placement portion in a state where the wire harness is pressed to have a reduced height. In the provisionally combined state, the wire harness in the low height state, the placement portion, and the opposing extending portions are bound between the pressing body portions opposing each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: DAIWA KASEI INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Katsuya Hirakawa
  • Patent number: 11495371
    Abstract: Ribbon cables including a plurality of spaced apart substantially parallel conductors extending along a length of the cable and arranged along a width of the cable, and first and second insulative layers disposed on opposite sides of and substantially coextensive with the plurality of conductors along the length and width of the cable are described. Each insulative layer may be adhered to the conductors and may include alternating substantially parallel thicker and thinner portions extending along the length of the cable. The thicker portions of the first and second insulative layers are substantially aligned in one to one correspondence. Each corresponding thicker portion of the first and second insulative layers have at least one conductor in the plurality of conductors disposed therebetween. The thicker portions may have an effective dielectric constant less than 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventor: Douglas B. Gundel
  • Patent number: 11495951
    Abstract: A sealing device adapted for an object to be disposed through is provided. The sealing device includes a casing, a sealing elastic member, and a pressing member. The casing has an accommodating groove and a penetrating via communicated with the accommodating groove. The sealing elastic member is detachably disposed in the accommodating groove and has a through hole aligned with the penetrating via. The sealing elastic member is adapted to be compressed along an axis. The through hole has a first inner diameter before compression and a second inner diameter after compression. An outer dimension of the object is less than or equal to the first inner diameter and greater than the second inner diameter. The pressing member is detachably disposed at the casing and presses against the sealing elastic member, so that the compressed sealing elastic member is fixed in the accommodating groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: PEGATRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ming-Ju Chung, Chun-Liang Yeh
  • Patent number: 11489321
    Abstract: A wire management system including a cord cover. The cord cover includes a front wall coupled or integral with two side walls. A flexible entry tab is formed at an end of one of the side walls. An end of the other of the side walls is coupled or integral to a rear wall extending laterally from the side wall. The width of the rear wall can be less than the width of the front wall to form an opening between the rear wall and the opposed side wall. A cavity is formed between the front wall, side walls and rear wall. An adhesive material or adhesive strip is attached to an outer surface of the rear wall for attachment of the cord cover to a surface. The flexible tab can be flexed for inserting a cord or wire and automatically returns to the same plane as the side wall for providing a streamlined appearance of the cord cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Inventor: Albert Santelli, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11479188
    Abstract: An apparatus for limiting a movement of a wiring harness includes a binding unit configured to bind the wiring harness electrically connected to a moving component configured to be movable relative to a vehicle body, the binding unit configured to be movable according to a movement of the moving component, and a guide track configured to guide a movement of the binding unit, wherein the guide track defines a movement path of the binding unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, Yura Corporation Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kwon Hyeon Jang, Yun Tae Hwang, Jin Yeob Roh
  • Patent number: 11476014
    Abstract: A wire harness includes a cable and a holding member. The cable includes a twisted wire, and an insulation coating that coats the twisted wire. The cable has a bent portion. The holding member covers a range of the cable including the bent portion, and retains a shape of the bent portion. The twisted wire is in contact with the holding member at least in a part of the bent portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotaka Eshima, Takahiro Futatsumori, Shingo Hatayama
  • Patent number: 11465572
    Abstract: A clamp and a wire harness capable of being easily installed on a fixation portion are provided. The clamp 41 includes the holder 70, which holds the outer sheath 36 accommodating an electric wire, and the fixed portion 50, which is connected to the holder 70 and fixed to the vehicle body panel P1. The fixed portion 50 includes the insertion groove 60, into which the columnar fastener B1 on the vehicle body panel P1 is inserted. The insertion groove 60 extends through the fixed portion 50 in the X-axis direction. The insertion groove 60 is shaped so as to include the mouth 61 in the plan view seen in the X-axis direction. The mouth 61 opens in the Y-axis direction in this embodiment, which is orthogonal to the X-axis direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignees: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Fuchigami, Kazuma Ogino, Yusuke Noda, Thapakorn Thongchuch
  • Patent number: 11465573
    Abstract: An electric wire fixing structure includes a metal protector that houses a protection target part of an electric wire in an electric wire housing chamber on an inner side and allows the electric wire in the electric wire housing chamber to be led out from an electric wire outlet of the electric wire housing chamber; and a fastening structure that fixes the protector to a metal fastening target. The fastening structure includes a male screw member, a through-hole formed in the protector and through which the male screw member is inserted, and a female screw part provided in the fastening target and in which the male screw member is screwed. At least a part of the protector is abutted against the fastening target when the protector is fixed to the fastening target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Kazutaka Uki, Jumpei Kato, Yukihiro Kawamura
  • Patent number: 11465320
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, provided is a method for manufacturing a bus bar in which a frame including a sensing part and a body part connected to the sensing part is prepared, the frame is inserted into and fixed to an injection molding mold, and an enhanced part enhancing the strength at a position where fatigue is concentrated by an enhancing injection material injected into the injection molding mold is formed in the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: DAE SAN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sangyoung Ma
  • Patent number: 11458913
    Abstract: A wiring module includes: a common power supply line whose one end is electrically connected to a power source; and a power supply branch part provided halfway through the common power supply line, wherein the power supply branch part includes at least one group of a power supply branch line branched halfway through the common power supply line and an overcurrent blocking part provided in the power supply branch line to enter a non-continuity state when current exceeding allowable current flows in the power supply branch line. A wiring module is a wiring module disposed along a fixing target member, and includes: a power supply flat wiring body disposed along a surface of a fixing target member; and a ground flat wiring body disposed along a surface of the power supply flat wiring body on an opposite side from the fixing target member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Haruka Nakano, Shigeki Ikeda, Daisuke Fukai, Tetsuya Nishimura, Motohiro Yokoi, Housei Mizuno, Yuichi Nakamura, Kenta Itou, Masaki Mizushita, Susumu Hiei, Kohei Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11460007
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a cable protection device and a wind generator set. The cable protection device comprises: a fixing ring, which has a through hole extending along a first direction, wherein the fixing ring includes an inner side surface and an outer side surface that are opposite along a radial direction of the fixing ring, the outer side surface comprises two or more attaching surfaces, and a vertical axis is defined in the attaching surface; and a clamping member, which is disposed on the attaching surface, wherein the clamping member is deflectable at least about the vertical axis, the clamping member has at least one penetration hole penetrating along the first direction, and a cable is clamped within the penetration hole and is deflected about the vertical axis relative to the fixing ring within a preset range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: JIANGSU GOLDWIND SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mykhailo Sosnenko, Uwe Hinz, Xingang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11458910
    Abstract: A wire harness unit includes a first electrical cable, a first tubular member that covers the first electrical cable, a rubber member that is attached to an outer circumferential surface of the first tubular member, a bracket that includes a first fixing portion supporting the first tubular member with the rubber member in between, and a fastening member that surrounds and fastens the rubber member and the first fixing portion. The first tubular member is made of a metal that contains a first metal as a major component. The bracket is made of a metal that contains a second metal, which is different from the first metal, as a major component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignees: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Seiya Tanji, Yuji Tanaka, Hiroki Yuasa, Isamu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11462342
    Abstract: A cable harness assembly includes a cable having a pair of wires and a connector assembly including an inner ferrule formed of a conductive material. Each of the wires has a conductor and a insulation disposed around the conductor. The pair of wires have a twisted region and an untwisted region. The inner ferrule has a cable passageway extending through the inner ferrule and a separator disposed within the cable passageway. The untwisted region is disposed in the inner ferrule and the separator is disposed between the wires in the untwisted region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Daniel Stack, Sterling A. Vaden
  • Patent number: 11456090
    Abstract: Provided is an insulated electrical cable including: a core wire made up of at least one insulated wire including a conductor and an insulating layer covering the conductor; an inner sheath layer covering the core wire; and an outer sheath layer covering the inner sheath layer. The inner sheath layer has an elastic modulus A at ?30° C. in a range from 10 MPa to 1000 MPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutaka Matsumura, Shigeyuki Tanaka, Taro Fujita, Takaya Kohori, Masayuki Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 11457525
    Abstract: An interconnect structure includes a substrate, a dielectric block, and a conductor. The dielectric block is in the substrate. A dielectric constant of the dielectric block is smaller than a dielectric constant of the substrate, and the dielectric block and the substrate have substantially the same thickness. The conductor includes a first portion extending from a top surface to a bottom surface of the dielectric block and a second portion extending along and contacting the top surface of the dielectric block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiun-Yi Wu, Chien-Hsun Lee, Chewn-Pu Jou, Fu-Lung Hsueh