Patents Examined by William H. Mayo, III
  • Patent number: 11843211
    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: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventor: Christopher Gilpin Chadbourne
  • Patent number: 11837378
    Abstract: A communication cable includes a coating layer that contains a powdery magnetic material and that can suppress the occurrence of a powdery substance containing the magnetic material when processing the coating layer. The communication cable further includes a conductor, an insulating coating that covers an outer circumstance of the conductor, and a magnetic sheath layer that covers an outer side of the insulating coating, and the magnetic sheath layer contains the magnetic material and the magnetic material has a particle shape with an average particle diameter of not more than 50 ?m and an aspect ratio of not greater than 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Shimizu, Kinji Taguchi, Tatsuya Shimada, Takaki Endo, Ryoma Uegaki, Yuta Yasuyoshi
  • Patent number: 11837386
    Abstract: A reinforced water barrier over a joint between power cables is suited for subsea cables having different water barrier/sheathing designs. The reinforced water barrier has an intermediate water barrier made of lead or a lead alloy which stretches over the joint and is attached to the underlaying water barriers of the joined cables, and which is reinforced by being coated with a layer of polyethylene based adhesive followed by a layer of polymeric outer sheathing. The adhesive layer and the layer of polymeric outer sheathing are thermally set by a heat treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: NEXANS
    Inventors: Massimiliano Mauri, Simon Jorgensen, Pal Braekke Gronberg
  • Patent number: 11837384
    Abstract: A corona-resistant enameled round wire and preparation method of making such which is suitable for electric vehicle motors and has a copper conductor and an insulating layer. The insulating layer clads the copper conductor and has in sequence from inside to outside, a corona- resistant polyamideimide coating, a corona-resistant special resin coating, a corona-resistant polyimide coating, a corona-resistant modified silicone resin coating, and a corona-resistant polyamideimide coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignees: SHANGHAI XPT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED, SUZHOU JUFENG ELECTRICAL INSULATION SYSTEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ling Zhang, Xingwu Dai, Yanjun Cai, Ge Qin, Lu Bi, Yu Xia, Cheng Zhou, Guo Li, Qingquan Lei
  • Patent number: 11823816
    Abstract: An insulating tape, for coating a connection portion of a power cable, includes a resin material which includes polyethylene at least partially modified by a molecule imparting hydrophilicity, an antioxidant, and a crosslinking agent. The antioxidant has a molecular weight in a range of 190 or more and less than 1050. The antioxidant has a content in a range of 0.05 parts by mass or more and 0.8 parts by mass or less, with respect to 100 parts by mass of the polyethylene. The insulating tape has a thickness in a range of 50 ?m or more and 250 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Mieda, Takahiro Kanaya
  • Patent number: 11823814
    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 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Trimtabs Ltd
    Inventors: Alvin Orbaek White, Ka Chun Yick
  • Patent number: 11810692
    Abstract: A composite cable includes a sheath surrounding an outer surface of a core at least including a plurality of thick electric wires each having a resin layer on an outer circumference of a conductor, and a plurality of thin electric wires each having a resin layer on an outer circumference of a conductor, in which the sheath includes a resin composition including base resin containing at least one type of ethylene rubber and styrene elastomer at 10 to 50 mass %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takanori Yamazaki, Arifumi Matsumura, Koichi Mizuno, Masaki Nishiguchi
  • Patent number: 11811180
    Abstract: Provided herein are semiconductor packages with improved electrical contacts (e.g. pins). In some embodiments, an assembly may include a substrate and an electrical contact coupled to the substrate, the electrical contact consisting of a first component defined by a complex 3D designed receiving pin. The electrical contact may further include a second component defined by another complex 3D designed penetrating pin, wherein the first component engages the second component to deform mechanically and to weld when the first component and the second component are coupled together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: IXYS Semiconductor GmbH
    Inventors: Yong Ai-Ong, Thomas Spann
  • Patent number: 11799216
    Abstract: A terminal to be connected to a front end part in an extending direction of a wire is provided with a terminal body including a sandwiching portion for sandwiching the wire, and a slide portion slidable along the extending direction of the wire with respect to the terminal body. The slide portion includes a pressurizing portion for pressurizing the sandwiching portion toward the wire. The terminal body is formed by a metal plate material in a bent state. The sandwiching portion includes a holding protrusion projecting toward the wire to contact the wire. The holding protrusion is formed by folding a tip portion of the sandwiching portion and overlapping the tip portion on an overlapping portion of the sandwiching portion. A first facing surface of the overlapping portion and a second facing surface of the tip portion are facing each other and overlapped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shunya Takeuchi, Masaaki Tabata
  • Patent number: 11791065
    Abstract: A power cable has a cable core with at least one conductor with an insulating system and a water barrier surrounding the cable core. The water barrier has a helically wound strength bearing layer interconnected by a low melting point material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: NEXANS
    Inventors: Audun Johanson, Robin Sangar
  • Patent number: 11791069
    Abstract: A grommet includes a fitting body causing a circumferential edge portion of a through hole provided in a wall body to be fitted into a fitting groove provided in an outer wall, and a first cylinder and a second cylinder causing a harness body to be extracted through the cylinder. The fitting body includes a cylindrical portion, a plurality of ribs rising from an outer circumferential wall surface of the cylindrical portion and disposed on the outer circumferential wall surface at equal intervals in a circumferential direction, and a first support portion and a second support portion provided for each of the ribs. The first support portion and the second support portion project from the outer circumferential wall surface to be high enough to suppress elastic deformation of the rib in the circumferential direction toward the outer circumferential wall surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotaka Kiyota, Masaru Kiuchi, Takeshi Onoda, Junya Kato
  • Patent number: 11783965
    Abstract: The application discloses a flat cable assembly, which includes a plurality of cables arranged in a row and an insulating film. The cables have a center line and include connecting portions, a signal wire and a grounding wire respectively. The connection portions are located on one side of the center line. The insulating film is disposed on the connecting portion of any one of the cables and located on one side of the central line. The cables are exposed from the insulating film. The insulating film is disposed on a single side of the cables, whereby the cables are exposed from the insulating film. The flat cable assembly is easily manufactured and the amount of the cables therein can be varied according to real practice condition. The grounding wire is integrated to each cable, whereby the flat cable assembly has an excellent anti-EMI effect and performance in signal transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: LUXSHARE TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: ZhongChao Peng, JinChang Dai, BenTao Hu, HuanZhong Yan, Andrew John Nowak, Charles Lloyd Grant
  • Patent number: 11777291
    Abstract: A sanitary wall installation connection box unit, including a box housing body having a rear-side base portion and a sleeve portion projecting to the front from the base portion, which sleeve portion peripherally surrounds a sanitary component mounting space, which space is accessible via an open front end face of the sleeve portion, and a connector body disposed on the base portion of the box housing body, which connector body includes a sanitary component connection contour facing the sanitary component mounting space, a fluid line connection interface structure accessible on an outer side of the box housing body, a fluid conduit structure for fluid connection of the fluid line connection interface structure to the sanitary component connection contour and at least one electric line feed-through opening leading from an outer side of the connector body through the connector body to the sanitary component mounting space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Hansgrohe SE
    Inventors: Joachim Blattner, Jürgen Schorer, Günther Lehmann, Thomas Doll, Philip Stephan, Christoph Heizmann, Marika Krämer
  • Patent number: 11764550
    Abstract: A circuit breaker that may be plugged onto an electrical panel. The circuit breaker is preferably a low voltage circuit breaker in the range of 120-240 volts. The circuit breaker includes an electrical clip with a curved inner surface that contacts a curved outer surface of an electrical connector on the electrical panel. The circuit breaker includes a protrusion that prevents the circuit breaker from being installed in electrical panels without an electrical connector for the electrical clip to engage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Andrew Matthew Candelora, Nagesh Venkata Tumu, Timothy Thomas, Jason Edward Harmon
  • Patent number: 11764533
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of an electric wire with terminal includes a crimping step of crimping first and second fastening portions of a terminal to a conductor core wire and an insulating coating, while moving a crimping jig in a predetermined movement direction. The crimping jig includes first and second crimpers configured to crimp the first and second fastening portions, such that a width of the first fastening portion after crimping is larger than a width of the second fastening portion after crimping. The second crimper includes a fastening surface configured to fasten the second fastening portion at the time of crimping, a side surface facing the first crimper, and an inclined surface expanding in a width direction as approaching the first crimper so as to chamfer a boundary portion between the fastening surface and the side surface. The inclined surface faces an intermediate portion in the crimping step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoya Sato, Hiroya Kousaka
  • Patent number: 11760880
    Abstract: Gel compositions for filling cables, such as communication cables, in particular gel compositions containing microspheres, cables containing said gels, and methods of preparing such gels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Inventors: Scott Allen, Adrian Chisholm, Mukhtiar Singh Sohal, Ivan Tory
  • Patent number: 11763962
    Abstract: An insulating cable having a conductor and an insulator configured by a plurality of resin layers on the conductor, wherein the plurality of resin layers contain the same kind of fluorine resin, a difference in refractive index between a resin layer having the largest refractive index and a resin layer having the smallest refractive index among the plurality of resin layers is 0.03 or less, a layer thickness of an outermost resin layer of the insulator is 0.03 mm or less, and a deviation (coefficient of variation CV) in thickness of the insulator in a cross-section perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the cable is 0.035 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Junkosha Inc.
    Inventor: Shigeo Hiramatsu
  • Patent number: 11756701
    Abstract: A cable contains a core including a transmissive element and a coating layer made of a coating material. The coating material contains, with respect to the total weight of polymeric materials present in the composition, (i) 70% to 95% by weight of a recycled linear low density polyethylene (r-LLDPE); and (ii) 5 to 30% by weight of an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer (EVA). The EVA may be added to the r-LLDPE or, alternatively, be already contained in the r-LLDPE as a result of previous LLDPE use. The cable may further contain a skin layer placed around and in direct contact with the coating layer based on r-LLDPE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: PRYSMIAN S.p.A.
    Inventors: Gustaf Jonsson, Kristoffer Berglund
  • Patent number: 11756704
    Abstract: A data transmission cable includes a plurality of juxtaposed wires, a plastic layer enclosing on the wires integrally and a metallic shielding layer arranged on an outer side of the plastic layer. The metallic shielding layer defines a first shielding layer and a second shielding layer separated from each other and opposite to each other, the first shielding layer and the second shielding layer cover opposite sides of the plastic layer in a direction perpendicular to an arrangement direction of the wires, and both lateral edges of the first shielding layer and the second shielding layer in a width direction do not extend beyond the plastic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: ALLTOP ELECTRONICS (SUZHOU) LTD.
    Inventor: Yichang Chen
  • Patent number: 11751330
    Abstract: A dielectric substrate may support conductive traces that form windings for a least one pole of a planar armature of an axial flux machine. At least a portion of the dielectric substrate, which is adapted to be positioned within an annular active area of the axial flux machine, may include a soft magnetic material. Such a planar armature may be produced, for example, by forming the conductive traces on the dielectric substrate, and filling interstitial gaps between the conductive traces with at least one epoxy material in which the soft magnetic material is embedded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: E-Circuit Motors, Inc.
    Inventors: George Harder Milheim, Steven Robert Shaw, Ryan Terrence Duffy, Edward Charles Carignan