Patents Examined by Renee Luebke
  • Patent number: 9953780
    Abstract: A “five-prevention” interlocking pole type high-voltage switchgear includes a pole bracket, embedded poles, and spring and earthing isolated switch operating mechanisms; every three poles are arranged in a row on the bracket, the spring operating mechanism is joined with the switch operating mechanism through the chamber door interlocking piece and mechanism interlocking piece; the chamber interlocking piece, mechanism interlocking piece and door lock plate are joined, the door lock plate is opposite the opening semi-axis pinch plate in the spring operating mechanism and the door lock plate is set with a door lock pin. Chamber interlocking piece movement is used to open or close the switch operating mechanism crank operation hole and corresponds to the start of close brake operation and limit brake of opening pinch plate in the spring operating mechanism and the limiting and opening of the opening semi-axis and cable chamber door in the spring operating mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG LIMITED CORPORATION OF DAODU INTELLIGENT SWITCH
    Inventor: Guangfu Hu
  • Patent number: 9953779
    Abstract: A bypass switch includes: a casing; a vacuum interrupter disposed inside the casing, the vacuum interrupter being disposed such that a movable contact is movable to a fixed contact; a first fixing bus-bar fixed to the casing; a second fixing bus-bar fixed to the casing to be spaced apart from the first fixing bus-bar; a moving pusher connected to the movable contact; a drive source installed in the casing, the drive source pushing the moving pusher to a position at which the movable contact and the fixed contact are contacted with each other; and a multi-contactor disposed to be contacted with the moving pusher. Accordingly, the moving pusher can rapidly contact the movable contact with the fixed contact. Further, the moving pusher can be moved with a small external force. Thus, it is possible to minimize the size of the drive source and the power used in the drive source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: LSIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Teag Sun Jung
  • Patent number: 9941625
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly is disclosed having a socket-shaped housing with a cable receiving end and an opposing support facing end, a plug connector receiving space, and a flange positioned on the support facing end. A cable collar is positioned in the plug connector receiving space and supported by the housing, and has at least one cable receiving space. At least one cable is secured in the cable receiving space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Boemmel, Rolf Jetter
  • Patent number: 9935410
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a female connector removably connectable with a male connector. The female connector includes an outer ring shield, and first and second ring insulator. The first ring insulator is spaced inwardly of the outer ring shield to define a first recess with a first female electrical contact provided in the first recess. The second ring insulator is spaced inwardly of the first ring insulator to define a second recess with a second female electrical contact provided in the second recess. The male connector includes first and second. When the male and female connectors are electrically connected, the first and second male electrical contacts are received in the first and second recesses respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: STERLING INNOVATION INC.
    Inventor: Sterling Roberts
  • Patent number: 9935402
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly is described. The electrical connector assembly includes a first connector body, a second connector body, a first removable cap, and a second removable cap. The first connector body has a first connector end, a first cap end, and first and second electrodes that protrude from the first cap end. The second connector body has a second connector end, a second cap end, and third and fourth electrodes that protrude from the second cap end. The first and second removable caps each have a cavity, formed by an outer wall portion that shields the corresponding electrodes, and an interior wall portion that shields at least a portion of the corresponding electrodes. Upon an engagement of the first and second connector bodies, the first connector end abuts the second connector end, the first and third electrodes are electrically connected, and the second and fourth electrodes are electrically connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Hobbico, Inc.
    Inventors: Shane Curry, Neal Cloud, Kevin Burner, Robert Csiki, Jamie M. Seymour
  • Patent number: 9929487
    Abstract: A connector assembly includes a receptor connector and a cable end connector. The receptor connector has a receptor terminal set, a receptor connector body, a slot set and a guide slot set. The cable end connector has a cable end terminal set, a cable end connector body, a block set and a guide block set. The invention allows the cable end connector body to be connected with the receptor connector body by means of the guide slot set and the guide block set, and also allows the receptor terminal set to be plugged with the cable end terminal set by means of the slot set and the block set. Thereby, the receptor connector and the cable end connector of the invention can be easily connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignees: TARNG YU ENTERPRISE CO., LTD., DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
    Inventors: Tsung-Chi Chen, Mu-Jung Huang, Chai-Fa Chang, Shao-Szum Ho
  • Patent number: 9922777
    Abstract: An electrical contact for a vacuum switching apparatus. The vacuum switching apparatus includes a second electrical contact. The electrical contact includes a hub portion and a plurality of petal portions each extending from the hub portion. Each of the plurality of petal portions has a first surface and a second surface. The first surface faces in a first direction and is structured to engage the second electrical contact. The second surface faces in a second direction generally opposite the first direction. At least one of the plurality of petal portions further has a grooved portion extending inwardly from the second surface toward the first surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: EATON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wangpei Li, Li Yu, Somasundara Rao Matu
  • Patent number: 9922780
    Abstract: A switching device including a switching chamber, in which a stationary switching piece is arranged opposite a movable switching piece, where the stationary switching piece is placed on a plastic carrier part and this component combination of stationary switching piece and plastic carrier part is configured as an exchangeable switching piece assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ludwig Niebler, Vadzim Kulinovich, Tobias Viehauser
  • Patent number: 9916949
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electric switching device (1), comprising at least one switching-device pole filled with insulating gas and a monitoring apparatus (14). The monitoring apparatus (14) comprises a density monitor (15) and a housing part (16), wherein a gas chamber (17) is contained in the housing part (16), which gas chamber is connected to the switching-device pole and to the density monitor (15) and can be connected to a testing device for the density monitor (15), and wherein the housing part (16) contains a shut-off element (20), which can be actuated into an open position and into a closed position. The actuation of the shut-off element (20) is independent of the connection of the gas chamber (17) to the testing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: General Electric Technology GmbH
    Inventors: Achim Stelter, Klaus-Peter Magazin
  • Patent number: 9912097
    Abstract: A connector assembly that prevents damage to a cable is provided. The connector assembly includes an inserting aperture that is disposed on one side of a housing of an electronic power element and a female connector that is connected to an embedded cable disposed within the housing and detachably mounted in the inserting aperture. Further, a male connector connects the embedded cable to an external cable when coupled with the female connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventor: Seung-Geun Lee
  • Patent number: 9912098
    Abstract: A connector (10) includes a housing (20) having a wire pull-out surface (27), and wires (500) are pulled out from the wire pull-out surface (27). The housing (20) also has an outer peripheral surface (28) arranged to intersect with the wire pull-out surface (27). A wire cover (60), including a cover main body (61), is mounted on the housing (20) and is arranged to cover the wire pull-out surface (27) of the housing (20) while having the wires (500) arranged inside. A fitting tube (63) is connected integrally to the cover main body (61). The fitting tube (63) covers the outer peripheral surface (28) of the housing (20) and is held in a state where rotation about an axis extending in a fitting direction of the fitting tube (63) is regulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Takahiro Shibata
  • Patent number: 9899167
    Abstract: An electrical switching device is filled with a dielectric insulating medium comprising an organofluorine compound, in particular a fluoroether, a fluoroarnine, a fluoroketone or a fluoroolefin, and comprises at least an arcing contact arrangement with a first arcing contact and a mating second arcing contact. At least a first intermediate volume is provided downstream from the first arcing contact, and/or at least a second intermediate volume is provided downstream from the second arcing contact. The intermediate volumes are for intermediate pressure enhancement and exhaust gas jet formation for turbulent convective heat transfer to metal walls of the exhaust system. In embodiments, the first and/or second intermediate volume is delimited by at least one moveable wall arranged transversally to the longitudinal axis and shiftable parallel to it by an actuation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Javier Mantilla Florez, Xiangyang Ye, Mahesh Dhotre, Oliver Cossalter, Stephan Grob
  • Patent number: 9899163
    Abstract: A switch unit has a display part configured to display an image, and an operation part provided on the display part in a stacked manner. The operation part includes a button made of a transparent material except for an edge, a transparent button case having an opening formed in a position corresponding to a display region of the display part and configured to position the button, and a transparent substrate provided below the button case and having an electronic component disposed in a position corresponding to the edge of the button. The button is disposed on the transparent substrate via the opening in the button case. A discharge gap in parallel with the electronic component is provided on a wire in a position corresponding to the edge of the button on the transparent substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Takehiro Agata, Hiroyuki Onitsuka, Taichi Onoyama, Masaaki Sumi, Masataka Kimura
  • Patent number: 9893459
    Abstract: An electrical connector, for mounting to an electrical device which has a mating hole and a stepped portion located at a rear end of the mating hole to form a receiving space therebetween, includes: an insulative housing having a base portion and a tongue portion extending forwardly from the base portion; plural conductive contacts affixed to the insulative housing; a shielding plate affixed to the insulative housing; a shell attached to the insulative housing to form a mating room and adapted for assembling to the receiving space; and a sealer enclosing a front end of the shell and adapted for resisting against the stepped portion; wherein the tongue portion extends out of the mating room and stretches into the mating hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jun Zhao, Cai-Yun Zhang
  • Patent number: 9892873
    Abstract: A multi-purpose mounting assembly is provided. The multi-purpose mounting assembly is structured to be disposed in an electrical switching apparatus housing assembly. The multi-purpose mounting assembly includes a body defining a first mounting assembly and a second mounting assembly. The first mounting assembly includes a first mounting construct. The second mounting assembly includes a second mounting construct. The first mounting construct is structured to support a first electrical component. The second mounting construct is structured to support a second electrical component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Eaton Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Paul Malingowski, James Patrick Sisley, Mark Anthony Janusek
  • Patent number: 9881754
    Abstract: A toggle switch includes a first substrate, a lever, an operation knob, and a light guide. The first substrate includes a first contact, a second contact, and a light source. The lever is configured to pivot in a thickness-wise direction of the first substrate and contact one of the first contact and the second contact. The operation knob is attached to the lever and includes a light outlet. The operation knob receives light, guides the light, and emits the light out of the light outlet. The light guide guides light emitted from the light source to the light outlet. The lever includes a metal plate and a resin plate into which the metal plate is inserted. The resin plate includes an attachment groove that extends in the thickness-wise direction of the first substrate. The light guide is attached to the attachment groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventor: Yasuo Kawachi
  • Patent number: 9882332
    Abstract: A connector assembly having a housing and a shaft; at least a groove in the housing or on the shaft; one of the housing and the shaft has a first component and a second component; there being at least a first groove configuration and a second groove configuration resulting from two different relative positions of the first and second components; the first and second groove configurations resulting in a first insertion force and a first removal force of the shaft into and from the housing and a second insertion force and a second removal force of the shaft into and from the housing, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Bal Seal Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeff Frederick, Derek Changsrivong, Pere Pla-Junca, Peter J. Balsells, Richard Dawson
  • Patent number: 9876310
    Abstract: A connector pair includes a connector and a mating connector. A movement of the connector to a first position along a first direction and a subsequent movement of the connector from the first position to a second position along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction completes a connection between the connector and the mating connector. The connector includes a magnetic portion, and the mating connector comprises a mating magnetic portion. When the connector is located at the first position, the magnetic portion receives a force, which urges the connector to be moved toward the second position, from the mating magnetic portion. When the connector is located at the second position, the magnetic portion receives a force, which binds the connector at the second position, from the mating magnetic portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventor: Osamu Hashiguchi
  • Patent number: 9876308
    Abstract: A connector part which is a female connector part for engagement with a male connector part having a pin. A connector body has a front portion with an opening for receiving a pin of a male connector part. A chamber inside the connector body is filled with dielectric liquid. A shuttle pin is configured to seal the opening in the front portion of the connector body when the connector part is in a de-mated state. The shuttle pin is moveable rearwardly into a rear portion of the connector body during mating. The first latching mechanism latches the shuttle pin to the pin of the male connector part during mating. A second latching mechanism in the rear portion of the connector body inside a fluid-filled chamber latches at least one of the shuttle pin or the pin towards the connector body in a mated state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Trevor Jones, Christopher Plant
  • Patent number: 9876319
    Abstract: A shield is described for minimizing leakage of electromagnetic waves from a connector/chassis interface. The shield includes a conductive strip sized to at least partially surround an aperture in a chassis, where the chassis receives a connector port assembly through the aperture. The conductive strip includes an outer portion affixed to an interior surface of the chassis, and an inner portion able to be manipulated to at least partially cover one or more gaps between the connector port assembly and the chassis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Huasheng Zhao, Zheng Yin, Hongmei Fan, Yingchun Shu, Jinghan Yu, Alpesh Bhobe