Patents Examined by Rhadames J Alonzo Miller
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Patent number: 9595371Abstract: A shielded cable includes a plurality of conductor sets. Each conductor set is substantially surrounded by a shield and includes two insulated conductors. The plurality of conductor sets includes adjacent first and second conductor sets. First and second non-conductive polymeric layers are disposed on opposite sides of the cable and include cover portions and pinched portions. The cover portions in combination substantially surround the plurality of conductor sets. The pinched portions in combination form pinched portions on each side of the cable. A first conductor of the first conductor set is nearest the second conductor set, and a second conductor of the second conductor set is nearest the first conductor set. The first and second conductors have a spacing S and respective outer dimensions D1 and D2. S/Dmin is from 1.7 to 2. Dmin is the lesser of D1 and D2.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2016Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Douglas B. Gundel, Rocky D. Edwards, Mark M. Lettang, Charles F. Staley
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Patent number: 9596754Abstract: A dry film includes a carrier film, a thermosetting resin composition layer, and a photocurable resin composition layer formed between the carrier film and the thermosetting resin composition layer. The thermosetting resin composition layer is formed by applying and drying a thermosetting resin composition. The photocurable resin composition layer is formed by applying and drying a photocurable resin composition. A method of producing a printed writing board includes forming a resin insulation layer which includes a thermosetting resin composition layer and a photocurable resin composition layer on the substrate, in the order of the thermosetting resin composition layer and the photocurable resin composition layer from a surface side of the substrate, patterning the resin insulation layer by photolithographic approach, and patterning the resin insulation layer by laser processing.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2012Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: TAIYO INK MFG. CO., LTD.Inventors: Gento Iwayama, Arata Endo, Shoji Minegishi, Masao Arima
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Patent number: 9583883Abstract: The method for re-establishing the shielding of the cables of a strand on an electrical connector consists, over an annular part situated at one end connected to the connector, in removing only the outer insulating sheath of each shielded cable without stripping the cables of their electromagnetic shield, in grouping the shielded cables together into a strand and in surrounding the strand with an electrically conducting tape forming a sheath re-establishing the shielding of the strand, the sheath re-establishing the shielding being positioned in contact with the electromagnetic shield of the shielded cables and connected to the connector.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: THALESInventors: Olivier Bourgue, Guillaume Prevost, Anthony Pajot
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Patent number: 9536637Abstract: A multilayered heat-recoverable article 1 includes a base material layer 10 and an adhesive layer 11 disposed on the inner side of the base material layer 10. The adhesive layer 11 includes [A] a thermoplastic resin having a melt flow rate of 15 g/10 min to 1,000 g/10 min at 190° C. and a load of 2.16 kg, [B] an organically treated layered silicate, and [C] a deterioration inhibitor. The shear viscosity at 150° C. of the adhesive layer 11 is 300 Pa·s or more at a shear rate of 0.1 s?1 and 200 Pa·s or less at a shear rate of 100s?1.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2013Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC FINE POLYMER, INC.Inventors: Satoshi Yamasaki, Shinya Nishikawa, Ryouhei Fujita, Yasutaka Emoto
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Patent number: 9520705Abstract: A shielded power feeder system may include at least one unshielded power feeder conductor, and at least one grounded guard wire conductor positioned adjacent to the at least one unshielded power feeder conductor, the at least one unshielded power feeder conductor and the at least one grounded guard wire forming a bundle.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2013Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Phillip S. Trifeletti, John Kemp Erdelyan, Michael C. Dosch
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Patent number: 9502154Abstract: A shielded electrical ribbon cable includes adjacent first and second longitudinal conductor sets where each conductor set includes two or more insulated conductors. The first conductor set also includes a ground conductor that lies in the plane of the insulated conductors of the first conductor set. At least 90% of the periphery of each conductor set is encompassed by a shielding film. First and second non-conductive polymeric films are disposed on opposite sides of the cable and form cover portions substantially surrounding each conductor set, and pinched portions on each side of each conductor set. When the cable is laid flat, the distance between the center of the ground conductor of the first conductor set and the center of the nearest insulated conductor of the second conductor set is ?1, the center-to-center spacing of the insulated conductors of the second conductor set is ?2, and ?1/?2 is greater than 0.7.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2016Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Douglas B. Gundel, Rocky D Edwards, Mark M. Lettang, Charles F. Staley
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Patent number: 9496695Abstract: An electrical outlet box acoustic seal includes a seal body formed from a flexible sound suppressing material. The seal body has a front side, a rear side, and a peripheral edge. A seal rear projection extends from the seal rear side. The seal rear projection is configured to wrap around a front peripheral edge of an electrical outlet box having left and right sides, top and bottom sides, a rear side, and an open front defined by the outlet box front peripheral edge that provides access to an outlet box interior. When the outlet box is mounted in an opening formed in an architectural separation, and when the acoustic seal is installed on the outlet box, the seal rear projection inserts into a gap between the outlet box front peripheral edge and the opening of the architectural separation to assist in blocking noise transmission through the gap.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2012Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: STC Architectural Products, LLCInventor: Paul L. Battaglia
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Patent number: 9485894Abstract: A metal foil for electromagnetic shielding, comprising: a metal foil base, an Sn—Ni alloy layer formed on one or both surfaces of the base, and an oxide layer formed on a surface of the Sn—Ni alloy layer, wherein the Sn—Ni alloy layer includes 20 to 80% by mass of Sn and has a thickness of 30 to 500 nm, and wherein when an analysis in a depth direction is carried out by an XPS being the depth from an outermost surface as X nm, and an atomic percentage (%) of Sn is represented by ASn (X), an atomic percentage (%) of Ni is represented by ANi (X), an atomic percentage (%) of oxygen is represented by AO(X), and X is defined to be XO when AO(X)=0, 30 nm=>XO=>0.5 nm, and 0.4=>?ANi(X)dx/?ASn(X)dx=>0.05 in a section [0, X0] is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2014Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: JX Nippon Mining & Metals CorporationInventor: Koichiro Tanaka
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Patent number: 9480172Abstract: A printed circuit board and a method for producing a printed circuit board consisting of at least two printed circuit board regions, wherein the printed circuit board regions each comprise at least one conductive layer and/or at least one conductive component, wherein printed circuit board regions to be connected to one another, in the region of in each case at least one lateral surface directly adjoining one another, are connected to one another by a mechanical coupling. At least one sub-region or connection port of the conductive layer, and/or a conductive element of the component are electrically conductively coupled to each other at the lateral surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2012Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: AT & S AUSTRIA TECHNOLOGIE & SYSTEMTECHNIK AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Volodymyr Karpovych, Johannes Stahr
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Patent number: 9449738Abstract: A shielded electrical ribbon cable includes conductor sets each including a pair of twisted conductors, and first and second shielding films on opposite sides of the cable including cover portions substantially surrounding each conductor set, and pinched portions on each side of each conductor set. S is a minimum center-to-center spacing between nearest insulated conductors of two adjacent conductor sets, and Dmin is a minimum outer dimension of the nearest insulated conductors. S/Dmin is between 1.7 and 2.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2015Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Douglas B. Gundel, Rocky D. Edwards, Mark M. Lettang, Charles F. Staley
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Patent number: 9450556Abstract: Surface mount components and related methods involve thin film circuits between first and second insulating substrates. The thin film circuits may include passive components, including resistors, capacitors, inductors, arrays of such components, networks, or filters of multiple passive components. Such thin film circuit(s) can be sandwiched between first and second insulating substrates with internal conductive pads which are exposed to the outside of the surface mount component and electrically connected to external terminations. External terminations may include at least one layer of conductive polymer. Optional shield layers may protect the surface mount components from signal interference. A cover substrate may be formed with a plurality of conductive elements that are designed to generally align with the conductive pads such that conductive element portions are exposed in groups along surfaces of a device.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2010Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: AVX CorporationInventors: Gheorghe Korony, Andrew P. Ritter
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Patent number: 9443644Abstract: A shielded electrical ribbon cable includes conductor sets each including two or more insulated conductors, each conductor set surrounded by a shielding film, and a first and second non-conductive polymeric films on opposite sides of the cable including cover portions and pinched portions. When the cable is laid flat, S/Dmin is in a range from 1.7 to 2, where S is a center-to-center spacing between nearest insulated conductors of two adjacent conductor sets, and Dmin is the lesser of the outer dimensions of such nearest insulated conductors.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2014Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Douglas B. Gundel, Rocky D. Edwards, Mark M. Lettang, Charles F. Staley
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Patent number: 9445493Abstract: A signal line that is easily inflected includes a laminated body including at least insulator layers that include flexible material and are laminated from a positive direction side in a z axis direction to a negative direction side therein in this order. A ground conductor is securely fixed to a main surface on the positive direction side of the insulation sheet in the z axis direction. A signal line is securely fixed to a main surface on the positive direction side of the insulator layer in the z axis direction. A ground conductor is securely fixed to a main surface on the positive direction side of the insulator layer in the z axis direction. The ground conductors and the signal line define a stripline structure. The laminated body is inflected so that the insulator layer is located on an inner periphery side, compared with a location of the insulator layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2015Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Noboru Kato, Jun Sasaki
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Patent number: 9425595Abstract: A wiring module includes a connecting member configured to connect neighboring electrode terminals of electrical storage elements that each have a positive electrode terminal and a negative electrode terminal and an insulating protector that accommodates the connecting member. The insulating protector includes a main body configured to hold the connecting member, an insulating cover that is supported by the main body so as to be capable of moving to a closed position in which the insulating cover covers at least part of the connecting member, and an electric wire guide that can be laid over at least a portion of the insulating cover located in the closed position and that has an electric wire passing portion through which an electric wire can be passed.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2013Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Osamu Nakayama, Mitsutoshi Morita, Kotaro Takada
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Patent number: 9411120Abstract: A multi-cable breakout assembly includes: a plurality of cables arranged in a rectangular array of M rows×N columns, wherein M and N are positive whole numbers greater than one; a first sleeve that encircles the plurality of cables; first and second ribbon members, the first ribbon member being threaded through the plurality of cables to separate the cables into M rows; and the second ribbon member being threaded through the plurality of cables to separate the cables into N columns; and a second sleeve that overlies an end of the first sleeve and the first and second ribbon members.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2014Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: CommScope, Inc. of North CarolinaInventor: Charles T. Crain, Jr.
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Patent number: 9379531Abstract: A device is provided for connecting two hybrid electrical transmission cables each having stranded first conductive wires made of a first metal in the central zone of the cable and second conductive wires that are made of a second metal of higher hardness than that of the first metal and wound on and outside this central zone, the second conductive wires of the cables being connected by an external conductive sleeve. The central first wires of the cables are connected by a weld made of the first metal and connecting their end, this weld and this end being covered by a tube of metal of hardness equal to or higher than that of the second wires, at least partially in line with the sleeve, the end of the second wires being re-formed on the first wires and on the tube under the external conductive sleeve.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2014Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: NEXANSInventors: Marc Laurent Boedec, Abdellatif Ait Amar
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Patent number: 9374885Abstract: A ceramic elements module including ceramic elements that have a plurality of lower inserting grooves; an electronic component that is mounted on a lower surface of the ceramic elements; and a heat sink that is coupled with a lower part of the ceramic elements mounted with the electronic component and has a first penetrating hole corresponding to the lower inserting groove and a second penetrating hole into which the electronic component is inserted.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2012Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Gyu Man Hwang, Dae Hyeong Lee
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Patent number: 9374886Abstract: A signal line that is easily inflected includes a laminated body including at least insulator layers that include flexible material and are laminated from a positive direction side in a z axis direction to a negative direction side therein in this order. A ground conductor is securely fixed to a main surface on the positive direction side of the insulation sheet in the z axis direction. A signal line is securely fixed to a main surface on the positive direction side of the insulator layer in the z axis direction. A ground conductor is securely fixed to a main surface on the positive direction side of the insulator layer in the z axis direction. The ground conductors and the signal line define a stripline structure. The laminated body is inflected so that the insulator layer is located on an inner periphery side, compared with a location of the insulator layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2012Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Noboru Kato, Jun Sasaki
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Patent number: 9365170Abstract: A grommet assembly that has a retainer and a grommet that is coupled to the retainer. The retainer includes first and second body portions that are connected via a hinge that permits the first and second body portions to be spread apart into an open condition to receive a wire harness. The retainer also includes a latch that permits the first and second body portions to be held in a closed position. The grommet is coupled to the retainer and is configured to form a seal about the retainer. The grommet can have seal members that sealingly engage one another when the retainer is latched in the closed position. Additionally or alternatively, the retainer can have a channel that is configured to support a wire harness and the grommet can have a resilient tubular portion that can be stretched over the channel and the wire harness.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2012Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: Yazaki North America, Inc.Inventors: William Gronowicz, Jr., Anil K. Sahoo, Robert D. Clisch
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Patent number: 9340924Abstract: The invention is directed to a braided chemical fibre cable in which at least one electric conductor is contained, in which the cable is thermally stretched together with the conductor contained therein.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2008Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: Helukabel GmbHInventor: Hansjorg Struwe