Patents by Inventor Daniel Daoust

Daniel Daoust has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11962114
    Abstract: A heat dissipating hardline connector includes a first body portion configured to support a terminal pin assembly and a second body portion configured to be coupled with the first body portion. The second body portion is configured to receive a hardline cable. The second body portion includes a plurality of spaced apart annular grooves formed in an outer surface of the second body portion to define a plurality of fin portions that are spaced apart from one another along a length of the second body portion. The annular grooves and fin portions are configured to increase the surface area of the outer surface of the second body portion to provide increased heat dissipation by the second body portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventors: Joshua C. Ivancic, Noah P. Montena, Daniel Daoust
  • Publication number: 20240111113
    Abstract: A connector for connecting a cable harness having a fiber optic cable to a node that is configured to enhance feeding of the fiber optic cable through the connector, including: a first portion configured to connect to a node; and a second portion configured to connect to a cable harness having a fiber optic cable. The first and second portions may be configured to allow the fiber optic cable to pass through the first and second portions; the second portion may be configured to rotate relative to the first portion between a first position and a second position; and the second portion and the first portion may be configured to provide access to an interior of the connector from an area outside of the connector when the first and second portions are in the first position so as to enhance feeding of the fiber optic cable through the connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventor: Daniel DAOUST
  • Patent number: 11947179
    Abstract: A reel enclosure includes a base and a door pivotally coupled with the base. The door is movable between a first closed position and a second open position and is configured to hold a reel at an interior surface of the door. The reel is configured to have cable wound thereon. In the first closed position, the base is configured to prevent the reel from rotating relative to the door and the base, and, in the second open position, the door is configured to hold the reel outside of an interior of the base and permit the reel to rotate relative to the door and the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel Daoust, Peter A. Carapella, Noah P. Montena
  • Publication number: 20240079817
    Abstract: A cable system component includes a housing having a seal-grasping surface portion and a seal having an elastically deformable tubular body attached to the housing. The body has a posterior sealing surface that cooperatively engages the seal-grasping surface portion of the housing and a forward sealing surface configured to cooperatively engage an interface port. The forward sealing surface includes a radially inner facet divided into a forward portion and a rearward portion by an inner annular groove in the inner facet. The seal includes an anterior portion and a posterior portion connected by a thinned neck portion, the forward portion of the radially inner facet is on the anterior portion, and the rearward portion of the radially inner facet is on the posterior portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel DAOUST, Harold J. WATKINS, Steve STANKOVSKI
  • Publication number: 20230420894
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly that may include a connector that may comprise a first body and a second body that may be configured to be coupled to the first body, and an adapter comprising a biasing portion. The biasing portion may be configured to be coupled to the second body. The biasing portion may be configured to have a space that is configured to allow the biasing portion to elastically deform radially inwardly. The biasing portion may be configured to exert an axial biasing force axially against the second body. The biasing portion may be configured to exert an outward radial biasing force against the second body. The biasing portion may be configured to provide the axial and radial biasing forces so as to provide a secure ground connection between the connector and the adapter and such that a push/pull connection between the connector and the adapter that is operable by a non-technician user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel DAOUST, Noah MONTENA, Eric PURDY
  • Publication number: 20230378701
    Abstract: An ethernet bridge mounting arrangement includes a housing including a cover portion and a back portion and a wall mount. The housing is configured to be coupled with the wall mount, and the housing is rotatable relative to the wall mount about an axis that extends in a direction perpendicular to a rear surface of the housing between a first rotational orientation, where latching members extending from the housing can be received by and removed from latch openings in the wall mount, and a second rotational orientation, where the housing is prevented from being pulled away from the wall plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventors: Steve STANKOVSKI, David BARANY, Noah P. MONTENA, Harold J. WATKINS, Daniel DAOUST
  • Publication number: 20230352889
    Abstract: A cable connector includes: a back portion comprising a rearward end and a forward end opposite the rearward end; a conductive portion configured to be supported within the back portion and comprising a rearward end portion; and a biasing portion configured to be received by the conductive portion. In an assembled state, the biasing portion is configured to be compressed in an axial direction between the conductive portion and the back portion; and the biasing portion is configured to urge the conductive portion into contact with a front assembly to provide a secure electrical grounding path between the conductive portion and the front assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventor: Daniel DAOUST
  • Patent number: 11742623
    Abstract: An ethernet bridge mounting arrangement includes a housing including a cover portion and a back portion and a wall mount. The housing is configured to be coupled with the wall mount, and the housing is rotatable relative to the wall mount about an axis that extends in a direction perpendicular to a rear surface of the housing between a first rotational orientation, where latching members extending from the housing can be received by and removed from latch openings in the wall mount, and a second rotational orientation, where the housing is prevented from being pulled away from the wall plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventors: Steve Stankovski, David Barany, Noah P. Montena, Harold J. Watkins, Daniel Daoust
  • Patent number: 11742611
    Abstract: A cable system component includes a housing having a seal-grasping surface portion and a seal having an elastically deformable tubular body attached to the housing. The body has a posterior sealing surface that cooperatively engages the seal-grasping surface portion of the housing and a forward sealing surface configured to cooperatively engage an interface port. The forward sealing surface includes a radially inner facet divided into a forward portion and a rearward portion by an inner annular groove in the inner facet. The seal includes an anterior portion and a posterior portion connected by a thinned neck portion, the forward portion of the radially inner facet is on the anterior portion, and the rearward portion of the radially inner facet is on the posterior portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel Daoust, Harold J Watkins, Steve Stankovski
  • Publication number: 20230216257
    Abstract: A connector assembly that may include a connector portion and an adapter portion that are configured to be coupled to each other. The connector and adapter portions may include first and second conductor portions that are configured to be electrically connected to each other. The first and second conductor portions each may include perimeter end portions that are configured to contact each other when the connector portion and the adapter portion are coupled to each other. One of either the first conductor portion or the second conductor portions may include a perimeter end portion and a radially inward extending end portion that may be configured to extend radially inward from the perimeter end portion of the one conductor and may be axially spaced apart in an axial direction from an inward extremity end portion of the other conductor when the connector portion and the adapter portion are coupled to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel DAOUST, Jay KISSELSTEIN
  • Publication number: 20230216223
    Abstract: A meter box ground clamp may include a body portion having a first portion, a second portion, and a gripping portion that is configured to extend from the second portion and a fastener member configured to couple the body portion to an electrical meter box. The fastening member may be configured to extend through a receiving portion of the first portion to engage a first surface of the meter box so as to move the first portion away from the first surface of the meter box and move the gripping portion into engagement with a second surface of the meter box that faces away from the first surface of the meter box, and the receiving portion may be configured to receive the fastener member at a first angle less than 90 degrees relative to a plane of the first portion such that a free end of the fastener member forms a second angle greater than zero degrees relative to the second surface of the meter box.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2023
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel DAOUST, Andriy LOZHKO
  • Patent number: 11646530
    Abstract: A torque sleeve includes sleeve body configured to extend along an axis. The sleeve body is further configured to at least partially receive a coupling member of a coaxial cable connector. The sleeve body has an outer surface configured to permit a user to tighten the coupling member to an interface port up to a first torque, and the sleeve body includes a pair of opposed cutouts configured to receive a tightening tool so as to permit the tightening tool to grip the coupling member and tighten the coupling member to an interface port up to a second torque, the second torque being greater than the first torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventors: Harold J. Watkins, Steve Stankovski, Daniel Daoust
  • Publication number: 20230133082
    Abstract: An ethernet bridge mounting arrangement includes a housing including a cover portion and a back portion and a wall mount. The housing is configured to be coupled with the wall mount, and the housing is rotatable relative to the wall mount about an axis that extends in a direction perpendicular to a rear surface of the housing between a first rotational orientation, where latching members extending from the housing can be received by and removed from latch openings in the wall mount, and a second rotational orientation, where the housing is prevented from being pulled away from the wall plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventors: Steve STANKOVSKI, David BARANY, Noah P. MONTENA, Harold J. WATKINS, Daniel DAOUST
  • Patent number: 11495924
    Abstract: An ethernet bridge mounting arrangement includes a housing including a cover portion and a back portion and a wall mount. The housing is configured to be coupled with the wall mount, and the housing is rotatable relative to the wall mount about an axis that extends in a direction perpendicular to a rear surface of the housing between a first rotational orientation, where latching members extending from the housing can be received by and removed from latch openings in the wall mount, and a second rotational orientation, where the housing is prevented from being pulled away from the wall plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventors: Steve Stankovski, David Barany, Noah P. Montena, Harold J. Watkins, Daniel Daoust
  • Publication number: 20220209476
    Abstract: A heat dissipating hardline connector includes a first body portion configured to support a terminal pin assembly and a second body portion configured to be coupled with the first body portion. The second body portion is configured to receive a hardline cable. The second body portion includes a plurality of spaced apart annular grooves formed in an outer surface of the second body portion to define a plurality of fin portions that are spaced apart from one another along a length of the second body portion. The annular grooves and fin portions are configured to increase the surface area of the outer surface of the second body portion to provide increased heat dissipation by the second body portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventors: Joshua C. IVANCIC, Noah P. MONTENA, Daniel DAOUST
  • Publication number: 20220196947
    Abstract: A fiber optic cable includes an outer surface, an axial groove and an additional annular groove. The outer surface includes an annular groove. The axial groove that extends in an axial direction of the fiber optic cable. The additional annular groove is configured to separates sections of the outer surface. The axial groove is configured to be gripped by a connector to prevent rotation of the fiber optic cable relative to the connector. The separate sections are configured to hinge against each other such that the fiber optic cable is bendable to a predetermined bend radius.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventors: Nicholas V. CLAVER, Daniel DAOUST, Steve STANKOVSKI
  • Patent number: 11300743
    Abstract: A fiber optic cable assembly includes a fiber optic cable and a fiber optic connector. The fiber optic cable has an outer surface that includes a plurality of annular grooves spaced apart from one another in an axial direction of the fiber optic cable, and a plurality of axial grooves that extend in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventors: Nicholas V. Claver, Daniel Daoust, Steve Stankovski
  • Publication number: 20210408739
    Abstract: A tap adapter configured to removably couple a coaxial cable connector with a cable tap includes a body, a nut extending about the body, a retaining ring configured to couple the body with the nut, and a collet disposed in the body. The nut includes a first end configured to receive a coaxial cable connector. The collet has a first end configured to receive a center conductor of a cable terminated by the coaxial cable connector and a second end configured to be coupled with a port of a cable tap. The collet is configured to provide an electrical connection between the center conductor and the port of the cable tap. The nut is configured to rotate relative to the body and to slide axially relative to the body as limited by the retaining ring. The tap adapter permits the coaxial cable connector to be removed from the tap adapter while the tap adapter remains mechanically coupled with the cable tap and the second end of the collet remains mechanically and electrically coupled with the port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventors: Joshua C. IVANCIC, Noah P. MONTENA, Doug JONES, Colin MCCONNELL, Daniel DAOUST, Harold J. WATKINS
  • Publication number: 20210341698
    Abstract: A reel enclosure includes a base and a door pivotally coupled with the base. The door is movable between a first closed position and a second open position and is configured to hold a reel at an interior surface of the door. The reel is configured to have cable wound thereon. In the first closed position, the base is configured to prevent the reel from rotating relative to the door and the base, and, in the second open position, the door is configured to hold the reel outside of an interior of the base and permit the reel to rotate relative to the door and the base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel DAOUST, Peter A. CARAPELLA, Noah P. MONTENA
  • Publication number: 20210336381
    Abstract: A torque sleeve includes sleeve body configured to extend along an axis. The sleeve body is further configured to at least partially receive a coupling member of a coaxial cable connector. The sleeve body has an outer surface configured to permit a user to tighten the coupling member to an interface port up to a first torque, and the sleeve body includes a pair of opposed cutouts configured to receive a tightening tool so as to permit the tightening tool to grip the coupling member and tighten the coupling member to an interface port up to a second torque, the second torque being greater than the first torque.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Applicant: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventors: Harold J. WATKINS, Steve STANKOVSKI, Daniel DAOUST