Patents Examined by Timothy Thompson
  • Patent number: 9831643
    Abstract: Current transformer (CT) retainers (100, 200, 300, 400) are disclosed for use in an electrical enclosure (510) for an electrical panel (500). An exemplary CT retainer includes a body that has one end portion (110, 210, 410) configured to mount onto a wall (140) of the electrical enclosure. The body of the CT retainer also includes an opposite end portion with a basket (150, 250, 350, 450) for housing a CT. The basket includes a flexible clip (160 and 180, 260 and 280, 360 and 380, or 470) which is configured to flex to allow insertion of the CT into the basket or removal of the CT from the basket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC USA, INC.
    Inventors: Gerardo Rodriguez Najera, Cristina Rosas Salazar
  • Patent number: 9826645
    Abstract: The present application provides a circuit substrate and a method of managing the placement of one or more groupings of a plurality of capacitors coupled to a circuit substrate. Each capacitor has a pair of terminals, as well as a component shape which changes as a voltage difference is selectively applied across the pair of terminals. When a voltage difference is applied across the pair of terminals, the component shape of the capacitor will contract in a first direction and expand in a second direction, where the second direction is substantially orthogonal to the first direction. When the voltage difference is removed from the pair of terminals, the component shape of the capacitor will return to an uncontracted state in the first direction and an unexpanded state in the second direction. Each of the plurality of capacitors in a particular grouping is driven by a complementary signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Robert Zurek, Robert M Netz
  • Patent number: 9824792
    Abstract: A wiring harness has a waterproof structure in which a waterproof agent covers a conductor exposed portion-and outer peripheral surfaces of end portions of wire covering members of a plurality of insulated wires in succession, the portion including a splice portion where portions of the members of the insulated wires are removed and the exposed conductors are spliced together and a bundle of the exposed conductors of the insulated wires, the end portions being adjacent to the portion, whereby the portion is sealed with the waterproof agent, wherein the waterproof agent is a cured product of an ultraviolet curable adhesive agent that contains (A) an ester acrylate having a linear or branched C2-C12 alkyl group, (B) a (meth)acrylate compound comprising at least two urethane bonds in one molecule, and (C) a photopolymerization initiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Kyushu University
    Inventors: Kazuo Nakashima, Takehiro Hosokawa, Tatsuya Hase, Kenji Ito, Makoto Mizoguchi
  • Patent number: 9825394
    Abstract: A wire harness includes at least two sub-harnesses having a plurality of electric wires whose one terminal portions are led out from a plurality of connector portions connected to a plurality of electric devices respectively. The other end portions of the electric wires to establish direct connection between the connector portions are electrically connected to each other by a connection mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukinari Naganishi, Kousuke Kinoshita, Kazuomi Kiyosue, Hiromichi Inoue, Akinori Yoshimoto, Yuuki Fujii
  • Patent number: 9823692
    Abstract: A hard drive includes a base deck and process cover that define a cavity for housing data storage components. The hard drive further includes a final cover that is placed over the process cover and is coupled to the base deck. The final cover and process cover are directly coupled to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: David G. Fitzgerald, Jerome Thomas Coffey, Samuel Edward Severson, David R. Lapp
  • Patent number: 9824796
    Abstract: An oxide superconductor includes: a substrate made of a metal; an insulating intermediate layer provided on the substrate; an oxide superconducting layer provided on the intermediate layer; a metal stabilizing layer provided on the oxide superconducting layer; and a plurality of dividing grooves which divide the metal stabilizing layer and the oxide superconducting layer along a longitudinal direction of the substrate, reach the inside of the intermediate layer through the oxide superconducting layer from the metal stabilizing layer, and do not reach the substrate. The metal stabilizing layer and the oxide superconducting layer are divided to form a plurality of filament conductors by the plurality of dividing grooves, and in each dividing groove of the plurality of dividing grooves, a width of a groove opening portion of the dividing groove is equal to or greater than a width of a groove bottom portion of the dividing groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignees: FUJIKURA LTD., SWCC SHOWA CABLE SYSTEMS CO., LTD., FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takato Machi, Tomo Yoshida, Tatsunori Nakamura, Kota Katayama, Koichi Nakao, Keiichi Tanabe
  • Patent number: 9819263
    Abstract: A power converter includes a carrier, a first electronic component, a second electronic component, and a connection part. The first electronic component is disposed on the bottom surface of the carrier. The second electronic component is disposed on the top surface of the carrier. A first terminal of the connection part is coupled to the top surface or the bottom surface of the carrier. A second terminal of the connection part is a bonding pad and attached to the first electronic component's surface apart from the carrier. The carrier is disposed at ? to ? of a height of the power-converter. The connection part is fabricated by mechanical support of the first electronic component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Jian-Hong Zeng, Shou-Yu Hong, Xiao-Ni Xin, Pei-Qing Hu
  • Patent number: 9815421
    Abstract: A core unit includes a magnetic substance core formed in an annular shape, electric wires of plural phases being wound around the magnetic substance core at respective positions that are different from each other, and a restriction member that restricts the displacement of the electric wires about the axis of the magnetic substance core, the electric wires being wound around the magnetic substance core. The restriction member has a body fixed to one end of the magnetic substance core in the axial direction, and a plurality of cutout portions are formed in edge portions of the body, the cutout portions surround the respective electric wires wound around the magnetic substance core separately from the inside of the magnetic substance core in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignees: YASAKI CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Yamaguchi, Hayato Iizuka, Takeshi Innan, Hiroshi Aihara
  • Patent number: 9819171
    Abstract: An electric device includes a housing and a cable. The housing has a pipe bracket disposed on the housing. The pipe bracket includes an interior pathway extending from a free-end of the pipe bracket into the housing. The free-end of the pipe bracket has teeth thereon. The cable has a union nut and a sleeve. The sleeve has a crimped section attached to the cable such that the crimped section is non-displaceable. The sleeve further has a toothed annular surface. In an installed state of the cable to the housing, a feedthrough portion of the cable extends through the interior pathway of the pipe bracket and into the housing. The union nut encompasses the sleeve and is attached to the pipe bracket to thereby press the toothed annular surface of the sleeve against the teeth of the pipe bracket such that the cable is fixed rotationally to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Kostal Industrie Elektrik GmbH
    Inventors: Niklas Kinzl, Herwig Rilling, Kay-Hendryk Schmidt
  • Patent number: 9820397
    Abstract: A housing for receiving electronic components includes a housing body and a housing cover. The housing body and the housing cover are connected to one another at multiple fastening points. At least one of the fastening points is surrounded by recesses at least in part on the housing body or on the housing cover so that in the event of an internal pressure pin in the housing exceeding a predetermined threshold value pmax the housing body or the housing cover deforms in the region of the at least one fastening point and a gap is formed between the housing body and the housing cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: SMA Solar Technology AG
    Inventors: Jan-Hinrich Ahrens, Daniel Strautmann
  • Patent number: 9819164
    Abstract: An intermediate member that enables enhancement of ease of fabrication of a wire harness and a wire harness including such an intermediate member are provided. A wire harness is divided into an intermediate member placed in an intermediate portion of the wire harness and two terminal members placed at respective terminals of the wire harness and to be connected to equipment. After being separately fabricated, the intermediate member and the two terminal members are connected together, whereupon fabrication of the wire harness is completed. The intermediate member includes one or a plurality of intermediate conducting paths, intermediate routing path retaining means retaining a cable routing path geometry of the intermediate conducting paths; intermediate shield means covering and shielding the intermediate conducting paths; and intermediate protection means covering and protecting the intermediate conducting paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidehiro Ichikawa, Makoto Katsumata
  • Patent number: 9814128
    Abstract: A multiple board standoff for interconnecting a plurality of electronic boards, such as printed circuit boards, having at least one keyhole slot. The standoff comprises a plurality of major diameter portions, a plurality of minor diameter portions each disposed between two of the plurality of major diameter portions, and a plurality of abutment surfaces each transversely extending from one of the major diameter portions to one of the minor diameter portions. At least one of the minor diameter portions is configured to be inserted into the keyhole slot when the standoff is in a first orientation with respect to the electronic board and being retained within the keyhole slot when the standoff is in a second orientation with respect to the electronic board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Crestron Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Agnieszka Wynar, Stan Wisniewski, Michael Campagna, Scott Wisniewski
  • Patent number: 9814140
    Abstract: A printed circuit board assembly and method of assembly is provided for a printed circuit board having a top and bottom surface with at least one edge portion having a rounded surface extending from the top surface to a point below the top surface and at least one electrical contact pad located on the top surface and extending over the edge portion rounded surface to a point below the top surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Brian Samuel Beaman
  • Patent number: 9814131
    Abstract: An interconnection substrate includes: a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface; and a transmission line including two parallel through-hole interconnections that are exposed to the first and second surfaces and are formed inside the substrate. Also, at least one of the two through-hole interconnections includes a narrow portion having a smaller diameter than a diameter of the through-hole interconnection in the first surface and a diameter of the through-hole interconnection in the second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: FUJIKURA LTD.
    Inventor: Yusuke Uemichi
  • Patent number: 9806506
    Abstract: A high voltage equipment box for a rail vehicle includes a box body and electric equipment arranged in the box body, two ends of the box body in a width direction of the vehicle extend to respective skirt plates, and an avoidance gap is provided at a bottom of each of the two ends of the box body, a bottom of each of the skirt plates is fixed at the respective avoidance gap, a top of the box body extends to a position above a bottom beam of a vehicle body, and a bottom of the box body is flush with a bottom plate of the vehicle body and forms a part of the bottom plate of the vehicle body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: CRRC QINGDAO SIFANG CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hongbo Wang, Yongzhen Qin, Lin Tao, Xiankai Zhang, Yongming Zhang, Jinghai Jiao, Guangwei Xu, Buzhao Niu
  • Patent number: 9801303
    Abstract: Provided is an enclosure for encapsulating one or more printed circuit boards (PCBs) configured for having electronic devices mounted thereon. The enclosure includes a main chassis body including a bottom portion and an outer wall including connectable panels for encasing the main chassis body. The enclosure also includes a top portion configured for completing a seal between the main chassis body and the outer wall, wherein one of the PCBs forms one of the connectable panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Abaco Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Bernd Sporer
  • Patent number: 9800040
    Abstract: A fitting for use with a cable contained in a corrugated metal tubing, the fitting including an adaptor having an internal, longitudinal passage to receive the cable; a body coupled to the adaptor; an internal seal positioned between the adaptor and the body, the internal seal radially disposed about the cable; a nut coupled to the body; and a sealing member positioned between the nut and the body, the sealing member for placement in a valley of the corrugated metal tubing to compress a portion of the corrugated metal tubing between the sealing member and the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: OMEGA FLEX, INC.
    Inventor: Dean W. Rivest
  • Patent number: 9799594
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a microstructure capable of improving the withstand voltage of an insulating substrate while securing fine conductive paths, a multilayer wiring board, a semiconductor package, and a microstructure manufacturing method. The microstructure of the present invention has an insulating substrate having a plurality of through holes, and conductive paths consisting of a conductive material containing metal filling the plurality of through holes, in which an average opening diameter of the plurality of through holes is 5 nm to 500 nm, an average value of the shortest distances connecting the through holes adjacent to each other is 10 nm to 300 nm, and a moisture content is 0.005% or less with respect to the total mass of the microstructure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Kosuke Yamashita
  • Patent number: 9799425
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a high speed transmission cable that includes a first conductor set, a dielectric film at least partially concentrically disposed around the first conductor set and a pinched portion forming an insulating envelope around the first conductor set. The dielectric film includes a base layer having a plurality of first protrusions formed on a first major surface of the base layer, wherein the dielectric film is disposed such that the base layer is partially concentric with the conductor set and wherein a portion of the first protrusions is disposed between the first conductor set and the base layer in a region where the base layer is concentric with the first conductor set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventor: Douglas B. Gundel
  • Patent number: 9800032
    Abstract: A while-in-use cover assembly includes a hood and a base connected to the hood. The base includes a first side wall and a first back wall forming a first cavity with a first opening opposite the first back wall. The hood covers the first opening, the first side wall includes a first side wall edge and a second side wall edge opposite the first side wall edge. The first side wall edge is proximate to the first opening, and the second side wall edge is proximate to the first back wall. The first back wall includes a second opening to a second cavity. A second side wall defines the second cavity and extends from the first back wall from the first opening. The first cavity and the second cavity provide access through the first opening and the second opening to an electrical device coupled to the second side wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Thomas & Betts International LLC
    Inventors: Robert Kevin Jolly, Peter J. Gallucci