Patents Examined by William H. Mayo, III
  • Patent number: 12260974
    Abstract: A stranded wire conductor and a method for manufacturing a stranded wire, wherein the stranded wire conductor is made of a plurality of composite wire monofilaments stranded together, each having a nickel-tantalum-tungsten core wire, a conductive alloy tube wrapped around an outside of the nickel-tantalum-tungsten core wire, and a plating disposed on an outside of the conductive alloy tube. By stranding the plurality of composite wire monofilaments together to form the stranded wire conductor, and the composite wire monofilament is made of the nickel-tantalum-tungsten core wire, the conductive alloy tube, and the plating, the stranded wire conductor can still maintain a high strength and conductivity when operating at a temperature in a range of 600° C. to 700° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: HUZHOU JIN TAI CONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xuebin Li
  • Patent number: 12261422
    Abstract: A termination arrangement for securing an overhead electrical cable and a method for securing an overhead electrical cable. The termination arrangement includes a longitudinally-extending sheath having a high tensile modulus that is configured to receive a strength member of the overhead electrical cable therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: CTC Global Corporation
    Inventors: William Webb, Christopher Wong
  • Patent number: 12249442
    Abstract: A wiring member includes a first sheet including a fusion layer, a second sheet, and at least one first wire-like transmission member provided between the first sheet and the second sheet. The first sheet and the second sheet are fixed to each other via the fusion layer in a direction intersecting with a longitudinal direction of the first wire-like transmission member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki Mizushita, Daisuke Ebata, Yuya Fukami, Kenta Arai, Kohei Suzuki
  • Patent number: 12249814
    Abstract: A valve gas filter includes: a valve box attached to a gas enclosing port connected to a gas-insulated device to be filled with an insulating gas and hermetically sealed; and a valve body that opens and closes a gas passage by moving in the valve box, in which the valve body includes a gas filter, which is formed by a porous insulating material and allows passage of an insulating gas but does not allow passage of foreign matter contained in the insulating gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuya Katayama
  • Patent number: 12249441
    Abstract: A transmission line including a conductor and a dielectric layer, wherein the dielectric layer includes plural bubbles and plural acicular nucleating agents, and when, based on observed lengths of the plurality of acicular nucleating agents observed in a cross section of the dielectric layer, the nucleating agents having lengths longer than a median value of the observed lengths are classified into a long nucleating agent group and the nucleating agents having lengths shorter than the median value of the observed lengths are classified into a short nucleating agent group, an average length of the nucleating agents in the long nucleating agent group is 3.5 times or less an average length of the nucleating agents in the short nucleating agent group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: JUNKOSHA INC.
    Inventor: Ryo Sato
  • Patent number: 12249821
    Abstract: A service-entrance plug-on neutral (SEPON) device having a conductive neutral sled having a line sled side and a load sled side configured to electrically couple with a neutral bus of a bus assembly of a switchboard or panelboard when the SEPON device is installed on the bus assembly; a lug assembly having one or more electrically conductive terminal lugs configured to receive line neutral current from an external source and to electrically couple to the line sled side; a movable neutral disconnect link movable into a connection position to establish electrical continuity between the line sled side and the load sled side and into a disconnection position to cause a discontinuity between the line sled side and the load sled side; and a main bonding jumper having first mounted to the line sled side and a second ends configured to be moved between a non-connected position and a ground position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Schneider Electric USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Wayne Dozier, Charles Wesley Travis, Jr., Xavier Lifran
  • Patent number: 12243682
    Abstract: Described are concepts directed toward systems, structures and techniques to create low-resistance, high current capacity, demountable solder joint connections. Such systems, structures and techniques may be used to simultaneously create low-resistance, high current capacity, demountable solder joint connections at multiple locations between no insulation (NI) superconductors and in particular between NI high temperature superconductors (HTS) such as may be used in NI-HTS magnets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Brian Labombard, William Beck, Theodore Mouratidis
  • Patent number: 12237098
    Abstract: The sheath forms, in the mounted state, a flexible tubular casing configured to receive the cable. The sheath includes elongated elements such as wires or strips, which include elongated elements of a first type, made of at least one electrically conductive material; and elongated elements of a second type, different from the first type, made of at least one material having sufficient magnetic properties to produce the shielding effect. The elongated elements are assembled in a crisscross manner and/or forming an encircling, and the sheath is produced in the form of an initially substantially flat sheet, suitable for being wound around the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: TRESSE INDUSTRIE
    Inventors: Gilles Clement, Pierre Omerin
  • Patent number: 12224084
    Abstract: A cable and methods of making cables are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, a method for making a cable includes introducing a conductive material onto a sheet including a heat-shrink material. The method includes compressing a first portion of the sheet onto a second portion of the sheet to form a sheath having an interior volume, where the conductive material is disposed in the interior volume. In at least one embodiment, a cable includes a sheath including a heat-shrink material. The cable includes an interior volume including a conductive material including a conductive carbon material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Trimtabs Ltd
    Inventors: Alvin Orbaek White, Ka Chun Yick
  • Patent number: 12224534
    Abstract: A wiring component with temperature sensor includes an electric wire, a temperature sensor including a detection unit configured to detect temperature of the electric wire and a plurality of lead wires, and a plurality of connector pins respectively connected to the plurality of lead wires. The electric wire, the temperature sensor and the plurality of connector pins are collectively held by a holder made of a resin. The holder includes a connector housing member configured to hold the plurality of connector pins and a molded resin member covering a portion of the connector housing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignees: Proterial, Ltd., Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke Fukuchi, Junjie Shen
  • Patent number: 12224079
    Abstract: A copper-coated steel wire includes a core wire made of a stainless steel, and a coating layer made of copper or a copper alloy and covering an outer peripheral surface of the core wire. In a cross section perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the core wire, the outer peripheral surface of the core wire has a value of an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of not less than 25% and not more than 90% of a thickness of the coating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takumi Akada, Daigo Sato
  • Patent number: 12224088
    Abstract: A coaxial cable includes a non-conductive core and a first flexible copper conductor which surrounds the non-conductive core and is used as an inner conductor of the coaxial cable. Insulation is provided around the first flexible copper conductor. A second flexible copper conductor which surrounds the insulation and serves as an outer conductor of the coaxial cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: LEONI KABEL GMBH
    Inventors: Sebastian Stengl, Guenter Koenig
  • Patent number: 12218470
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a clamp body having a substantially C-shaped configuration defining an interior cavity. A wedge is configured to be inserted into the clamp body. The wedge has a wedge body defining a conductor channel and a plurality of fins extending from the wedge body into the conductor channel. The plurality of fins is oriented to pierce an insulation layer of a conductor when the wedge is inserted into a clamp body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventor: Christopher Gilpin Chadbourne
  • Patent number: 12205736
    Abstract: A cable protection device is applied to outdoor device, and the outdoor device has a first part, a second part and a cable; the first part and the second part are connected by a first rotating shaft, and the cable is connected between the first part and the second part; the cable protection device has a cable protection structure a first surface of the cable protection structure is fixed to the first part, a second surface of the cable protection structure is fixed to the second part, and the cable is sealed and surrounded by the cable protection structure; when the first part and the second part are unfolded or folded by the first rotating shaft, the cable protection structure expands or closes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: AMBIT MICROSYSTEMS (SHANGHAI) LTD.
    Inventor: Dong Qin
  • Patent number: 12205733
    Abstract: A shielded electrical cable includes conductor sets extending along a length of the cable and spaced apart from each other along a width of the cable. First and second shielding films are disposed on opposite sides of the cable and include cover portions and pinched portions arranged such that, in transverse cross section, the cover portions of the films in combination substantially surround each conductor set. An adhesive layer bonds the shielding films together in the pinched portions of the cable. A transverse bending of the cable at a cable location of no more than 180 degrees over an inner radius of at most 2 mm causes a cable impedance of the selected insulated conductor proximate the cable location to vary by no more than 2 percent from an initial cable impedance measured at the cable location in an unbent configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventor: Douglas B. Gundel
  • Patent number: 12205732
    Abstract: A shielded electrical cable includes conductor sets extending along a length of the cable and spaced apart from each other along a width of the cable. First and second shielding films are disposed on opposite sides of the cable and include cover portions and pinched portions arranged such that, in transverse cross section, the cover portions of the films in combination substantially surround each conductor set. An adhesive layer bonds the shielding films together in the pinched portions of the cable. A transverse bending of the cable at a cable location of no more than 180 degrees over an inner radius of at most 2 mm causes a cable impedance of the selected insulated conductor proximate the cable location to vary by no more than 2 percent from an initial cable impedance measured at the cable location in an unbent configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventor: Douglas B. Gundel
  • Patent number: 12198827
    Abstract: A cable includes: a cable core including one or more electrical wires; a shield layer made of a metallic wire arranged on a periphery of the cable core; and a sheath arranged on a periphery of the shield layer. The metallic wire is made of a copper alloy wire made of a copper alloy containing indium, a content of which is equal to or more than 0.3 mass % and equal to or less than 0.65 mass %, and the metallic wire has tensile strength that is equal to or higher than 350 MPa and elongation that is equal to or higher than 7%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: PROTERIAL, LTD.
    Inventors: Tamotsu Sakurai, Masanori Kobayashi, Setsuo Kobayashi, Hiromitsu Kuroda
  • Patent number: 12198833
    Abstract: Magnet wire with corona resistant enamel insulation may include a conductor, and at least one layer of polymeric enamel insulation may be formed around the conductor. The polymeric enamel insulation may include a filler dispersed in a base polyimide material. Additionally, the polymeric enamel insulation may have a thermal index of at least 260° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: ESSEX SOLUTIONS USA LLC
    Inventor: Allan R. Knerr
  • Patent number: 12191050
    Abstract: A coaxial cable may include a center conductor; a dielectric insulator configured to surround the center conductor; an inner conductive foil layer configured to surround the dielectric; a braided shield layer configured to surround the inner conductive foil layer; and an outer jacket configured to surround the outer conductive foil layer. The outer conductive foil layer may be bonded to the outer jacket; the outer conductive foil layer may include a first lateral region, a second lateral region, and a sealant; the first and second lateral regions may be configured to overlap each other; the sealant may be disposed between the first lateral region and the second lateral region to form a sealed joint; and the sealed joint may be configured to prevent moisture from passing the outer conductive foil layer and migrating along the coaxial cable, which may prevent signal loss or coaxial cable connector damage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventor: Roger Mathews
  • Patent number: 12191641
    Abstract: An adaptive seal for a cable gland including a body including a compression portion defining a distal surface and an insertion portion defining a proximal surface, the compression portion having an outer diameter greater than an outer diameter of the insertion portion, a plurality of insertion apertures in the proximal surface, a plurality of tubes extending from the distal surface, each having a closed end and each at least partially tapering in diameter from the distal end of the body to the closed end, and a plurality of channels, each defined between one of the insertion apertures of the body and one of the closed ends of a respective one of the tubes, wherein the body and the plurality of tubes are integrally formed a single piece of elastic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: HUBBELL INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Lawrence Murray Lonergan