Patents Examined by Timothy Thompson
  • Aluminum alloy wire rod, aluminum alloy stranded wire, covered wire, and wire harness, and method of manufacturing aluminum alloy wire rod
    Patent number: 9997276
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy wire rod having a composition comprising Mg: 0.1-1.0 mass %, Si: 0.1-1.2 mass %, Fe: 0.10-1.40 mass %, Ti: 0-0.100 mass %, B: 0-0.030 mass %, Cu: 0-1.00 mass %, Ag: 0-0.50 mass %, Au: 0-0.50 mass %, Mn: 0-1.00 mass %, Cr: 0-1.00 mass %, Zr: 0-0.50 mass %, Hf: 0-0.50 mass %, V: 0-0.50 mass %, Sc: 0-0.50 mass %, Co: 0-0.50 mass %, Ni: 0-0.50 mass %, and the balance: Al and inevitable impurities, wherein a number of compound particles present on a surface and having a diameter of greater than or equal to 1 ?m in terms of equivalent circle diameter is less than or equal to one per 100 ?m2, and a tensile strength is greater than or equal to 200 MPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignees: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Sho Yoshida, Shigeki Sekiya, Kengo Mitose
  • Protecting cap for terminal consolidation splice
    Patent number: 9997900
    Abstract: A water proofing protecting cap that is placed over a terminal consolidation splice portion of a wire harness. The protecting cap being a dip molded transparent tubular body that is provided with a bottom portion wherein, from an opening for insertion at the other end, the protecting cap can be filled with a water sealant and a terminal consolidation splice portion of a wire harness is insertable. A marking line made by a rib on a male mold used in the dip molding is provided in a circumferential direction on an inner circumferential surface of a peripheral wall and is distanced by a required height from an inner surface of the bottom portion toward the opening, and a non-transparent line is provided on an outer circumferential surface of the peripheral wall following the marking line. The non-transparent line serving as a control line for a lower end position of the consolidation splice portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Takao Fukuda
  • Aluminum alloy wire rod, aluminum alloy stranded wire, covered wire, wire harness, and method of manufacturing aluminum alloy wire rod
    Patent number: 9994945
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy wire rod includes Mg: 0.1-1.0 mass %, Si: 0.1-1.2 mass %, Fe: 0.10-1.40 mass %, Ti: 0-0.100 mass %, B: 0-0.030 mass %, Cu: 0-1.00 mass %, Ag: 0-0.50 mass %, Au: 0-0.50 mass %, Mn: 0-1.00 mass %, Cr: 0-1.00 mass %, Zr: 0-0.50 mass %, Hf: 0-0.50 mass %, V: 0-0.50 mass %, Sc: 0-0.50 mass %, Co: 0-0.50 mass %, Ni: 0-0.50 mass %, and the balance: Al and inevitable impurities. In a cross section parallel to a wire rod lengthwise direction and including a center line of the wire rod, no void having an area greater than 20 ?m2 is present, or even in a case where at least one void having an area greater than 20 ?m2 is present, a presence ratio of the at least one void per 1000 ?m2 is on average in a range of less than or equal to one void/1000 ?m2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignees: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Sho Yoshida, Shigeki Sekiya, Kengo Mitose
  • Wire harness
    Patent number: 9994169
    Abstract: A wire harness and a method for manufacturing a wire harness. The wire harness includes a first wire harness to which a clamp is fixed at a predetermined position, and a second wire harness that is provided with a fitting portion into which the clamp can be fitted, and the second wire harness is attached to the first wire harness by fitting the clamp into the fitting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Miyamura, Yasuo Omori
  • Clamp mark and wire harness
    Patent number: 9994171
    Abstract: A clamp mark includes a mark main body and flange parts. The mark main body, is made of resin material by molding, and covers a circumference of an electric wire entirely in a circumference direction of the electric wire at a predetermined position of the electric wire in an axial direction of the electric wire. The flange parts are respectively provided on both end portions of the mark main body in the axial direction of the electric wire so as to project outward in a radial direction of the electric wire from an outer peripheral surface of the mark main body. A cross section of the mark main body, which is perpendicular to the axial direction, is not precise circle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masataka Yamamoto, Takehiko Uehara, Takahisa Nagatsu
  • Heat-resistant wire and heat-resistant cable
    Patent number: 9997280
    Abstract: A heat-resistant wire includes a conductor, and an insulation including not less than two layers and covering the conductor. An outermost layer of the insulation includes a flame-retardant resin composition having a melting point of not less than 200° C. and is cross-linked by exposure to ionizing radiation, the flame-retardant resin composition including a polyolefin grafted with polyamide as a base polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Nakamura, Shuichi Tadokoro
  • Exterior member end cap and wire harness
    Patent number: 9994170
    Abstract: An exterior member end cap, to be attached to an end portion of a tubular shaped exterior member from which at least one conductive path is withdrawn, is provided. The exterior member end cap includes a cap main body and a first sealing member. The cap main body is inserted into the exterior member from the end portion so as to be disposed on an outside of the conductive path. The first sealing member has a elasticity, is disposed on an outside of the cap main body in close contact with an outer peripheral surface of the cap main body, is close contact with an inner peripheral surface of the exterior member, and has a continuous bubble structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenta Yanazawa, Takatatsu Yamamoto, Toshihiro Nagashima, Hideomi Adachi, Shinichi Inao, Hiroyuki Yoshida
  • Electronic component and circuit board having the same
    Patent number: 9997294
    Abstract: An electronic component includes a body including a dielectric material and an internal electrode embedded in the dielectric material, an external electrode disposed on the body and connected to the internal electrode, and a conductive adhesive connected to the external electrode. The external electrode and the conductive adhesive include a conductive resin. A circuit board includes the electronic component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hae Suk Chung, Kyung Pyo Hong, Mi Suk Lee, Min Hyang Kim, Kyeong Jun Kim, Tae Ho Song, Seung Hyun Ra
  • Circuit carrier having a conducting path and an electric shield
    Patent number: 9999120
    Abstract: The invention relates to a circuit carrier (11), comprising a digital circuit, which contains at least two components (12, 14) that are electrically connected to each other (19, 21, 20). Additionally, an electric shield (24) is provided. According to the invention, the electric shield (24) and a conducting path (21) for electrically connecting the components (12, 14) are realized by means of a single layered composite (18). In particular, the electric shield (24) and the conducting path (21) are formed by the same electrically conductive layer, wherein a hole (25) ensures complete electrical insulation of the conducting path (21) from the shield (24). The invention further relates to a method for producing such a circuit carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Florian Poprawa, Markus Schieber, Christina Schindler, Jörg Zapf
  • Multi-phase cable
    Patent number: 9991029
    Abstract: A multi-phase cable, the cable including a plurality of conductors for conducting currents of two or more different phases, each phase being associated with one or more conductors and each conductor being associated with one respective phase. Each conductor has a cross-section with at least one dimension that is sized to decrease a skin effect of the conductor at a maximum or nominal operation frequency of the conductor. The conductors are arranged to permit free air cooling of the cable on at least two sides of each conductor, and such that each conductor of a given phase has, as immediate neighbors, only conductors of one or more different phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventor: Antwan Shenouda
  • Contacts for Junction Boxes on Solar Panels
    Patent number: 9991843
    Abstract: A connection box with reliable and yet inexpensive contacts for solar panels to enable the use of multiple types of passive and active covers for different functionalities in the junction box built into the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: TIGO ENERGY, INC.
    Inventors: Zvi Alon, Daniel Eizips, Liron Ackerman, Viktor Budykhin
  • Lined-up electrical enclosure system
    Patent number: 9991684
    Abstract: A switchgear cabinet system, which is assembled from switchgear cabinet units strung together in a row, each switchgear cabinet unit comprising a rack which is made up of frame profiles, in which at least the vertical frame profiles have the following features: the frame profile is mirror symmetrical with respect to a cross-sectional diagonal; the frame profile has profile sides that form the outer sides of the rack; projecting outward from the profile sides are profile projections, each extending outward from one of the profile sides; when two racks are strung together, corresponding profile projections of two frame profiles are situated mirror symmetrically opposite one another in each case, leaving a gap between the end faces of the profile projections, which is closed by a seal, characterized in that the seal is a push-on seal that is seated on at least one of the opposing profile projections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Daniel Brueck, Wolfgang Reuter
  • Connecting device for connecting electrical lines to electrical contacts
    Patent number: 9992892
    Abstract: A connecting device electrically connects electrical lines to electrical contacts. The connecting device includes a flexible circuit board or printed circuit board, a base support and a cover. The electrical lines are disposed on the flexible circuit board. The flexible circuit board has a contact-making region, in which at least one electrical line is electrically connected to at least one electrical contact. The electrical contacts are disposed on the base support. The flexible circuit board is disposed between the base support and the cover. The base support and the cover form a sealed housing of the contact-making region. The circuit board and the cover are each composed of a flexible material, and the physical material properties of the circuit board and of the cover are substantially identical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Conti Temic microelectronic GmbH
    Inventors: Hermann Baeumel, Matthias Wieczorek
  • Aluminum alloy wire rod, aluminum alloy stranded wire, coated wire, wire harness and manufacturing method of aluminum alloy wire rod
    Patent number: 9991024
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy wire rod comprising 0.1-1.0 mass % Mg; 0.1-1.0 mass % Si; 0.01-1.40 mass % Fe; 0.01-0.50 mass % Zr; 0.000-0.100 mass % Ti; 0.000-0.030 mass % B; 0.00-1.00 mass % Cu; 0.00-0.50 mass % Ag; 0.00-0.50 mass % Au; 0.00-1.00 mass % Mn; 0.00-1.00 mass % Cr; 0.00-0.50 mass % Hf; 0.00-0.50 mass % V; 0.00-0.50 mass % Sc; 0.00-0.50 mass % Co; and 0.00-0.50 mass % Ni, a Mg/Si ratio being greater than 1, wherein a dispersion density of an Mg2Si compound having a particle size of 0.5 ?m to 5.0 ?m is less than or equal to 3.0×10?3 particles/?m2, and in the sectional structure, a concentration of each of Mg and Si other than a compound is less than or equal to 2.00 mass %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignees: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Shigeki Sekiya, Sho Yoshida, Kyota Susai, Kengo Mitose
  • Anisotropic electrically conductive film and connection structure
    Patent number: 9991614
    Abstract: An anisotropic electrically conductive film that is suitable for use in fine-pitch FOG connections and COG connections and that also can reduce increases in production costs associated with increasing the electrically conductive particle density. The anisotropic electrically conductive film includes an electrically insulating adhesive layer and electrically conductive particles disposed within the electrically insulating adhesive layer. The anisotropic electrically conductive film has electrically conductive particle disposition regions that are disposed in a manner corresponding to the arrangement of terminals of electronic components to be connected. The electrically conductive particle disposition regions are formed periodically in the longitudinal direction of the anisotropic electrically conductive film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: DEXERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Hayashi, Masao Saito, Reiji Tsukao, Yasushi Akutsu
  • Method and apparatus for sealing motor terminals
    Patent number: 9991692
    Abstract: A wire insulator apparatus includes an insulator/separator member, a cap portion, a tube and potting material. The insulator/separator member has apertures formed therein for receiving a plurality of wires. By threading the wires through the insulator/separator member, the wires are spaced apart so that a potting material can be molded to provide a complete seal from the environment, particularly conductive liquids such as ammonia, which may cause short-circuiting between the wires. Individual wires are terminated in the cap portion, and the cap portion, the insulator/separator member and the wire ends are positioned within a tube or a mold portion depending on the application, and a potting epoxy is fluidly inserted within the tube. The epoxy surrounds or encases the wire ends within the tube or mold to insulate the wire ends in an airtight seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventor: William Joseph Fox
  • Wire and methods for preparing a wire to receive a contact element
    Patent number: 9991608
    Abstract: A method is provided for preparing a wire for installation of a terminal. The method comprises removing an insulating layer from a conductor to expose a portion of a conductor. The method further includes attaching a conductive foil layer to a portion of the exposed portion of the conductor by applying pressure to the conductive foil layer. Terminated wires are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: General Cable Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Michael L. Trafton, Robert D. Steiner
  • Exterior end portion cap and wire harness
    Patent number: 9991025
    Abstract: An exterior end portion cap is configured to be attached to electrically conductive paths and an exterior member. The exterior end portion cap includes an external exposure portion having a first blocking portion and an internal insertion portion having a second block portion. The internal insertion portion has a slit. The second blocking portion has a convex portion that is fitted to a gap between the electrically conductive paths. The exterior end portion cap is configured to be divided into two divided parts. The slit is disposed in a position corresponding to a position of a divided surface of the two divided parts and is formed so as to bring the part of the outer surfaces of the electrically conductive paths into contact with an inner surface of the exterior member near the end portion of the exterior member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenta Yanazawa, Takashi Tsukuda, Ryohei Toyoda
  • Non-halogen multilayer insulating wire
    Patent number: 9984793
    Abstract: A non-halogen insulating wire with excellent flame resistance as well as high mechanical characteristics (wear resistance) and electrical insulation characteristics is provided. A non-halogen two-layer insulating wire includes: a conductor; and an insulating layer having an insulating inner layer which covers an outer circumference of the conductor and an insulating outer layer which covers an outer circumference of the insulating inner layer. The insulating inner layer is made of a first non-halogen resin composition which contains metal hydroxide and a base polymer (A) including polyolefin, and has a thickness of 20% to 58% of an entire thickness of the insulating layer. The insulating outer layer is made of a second non-halogen resin composition which contains metal hydroxide and a base polymer (B) including polyester resin and/or polyester elastomer resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Iwasaki, Kohei Arita, Hiroshi Okikawa, Mitsuru Hashimoto
  • Metal retaining features for handheld electronic device casing
    Patent number: 9986668
    Abstract: This invention is directed to mechanical and electromagnetic shielding features of an electronic device case. An electronic device case is formed of two housings, each housing having integrated snaps, channels, or other retaining features used to secure the housings together. The housings additionally include integrated retaining features used to secure electronic components within the device case. The housings and retaining features are formed of amorphous metals or other materials with high elasticities. Because the retaining features necessary to assemble the case and secure the electronic components to the case form integral parts of the housings, no external retaining features are required to assemble the electronic device in the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Stephen P. Zadesky