Patents by Inventor Steven Randall Akiyama

Steven Randall Akiyama 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: 6498295
    Abstract: An invertible side insertion trap is designed to be inserted into an opening in an electrical box and to accommodate at least two different sizes of cable or wire depending on an orientation of the trap. The trap includes a base, a first arm and a second arm. The first arm extends from the base and includes a first mating portion for mating with a first side of the opening in the electrical box. The second arm extends from the base. The arms create a passage having a first width for permitting insertion of a first cable or wire size between the arms when the trap is oriented in a first orientation with the first mating portion aligned with the first side of the opening. The passage has a second width for permitting insertion of a second cable or wire size between the arms when the trap is oriented in a second direction with the first mating portion aligned with a second side of the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2002
    Assignee: Cooper Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Randall Akiyama, Gabriel P. Gromotka, Thomas J. DeCicco
  • Patent number: 6076788
    Abstract: An improved hanger bar assembly includes a first hanger bar member and the plurality of longitudinal elongated slots and a plurality of reinforcing formations. The reinforcing formations being separated from one another by at least one of the slots and those slots being separated from each other by at least one of the reinforcing formations. A second hanger bar member is interfitted with the first hangar bar member, the second hanger bar member having a plurality of spaced retaining projections. At least one of the retaining projections engaging at least one of the slots in order to couple the first and second hanger bar members together in a longitudinally extensible manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2000
    Assignee: Cooper Industries
    Inventor: Steven Randall Akiyama
  • Patent number: 5673997
    Abstract: A trim for a recessed lighting fixture includes an upper reflector piece and a lower baffle piece. The reflector piece has a top wall for supporting a lamp socket. The baffle piece includes a trim ring at its lower end. A lower end of the reflector piece, and an upper end of the baffle piece include respective flanges projecting laterally outwardly. Those flanges are held together by spring clips which also carry torsion springs for connecting the trim to a housing. Each spring clip includes a pair of vertically spaced spring legs for clamping the flanges therebetween, and a downwardly projecting carrier portion for carrying a torsion spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 7, 1997
    Assignee: Cooper Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven Randall Akiyama
  • Patent number: 5662413
    Abstract: A trim for a recessed light fixture includes a body open at its bottom end and having a top wall at its upper end. Formed in the top wall is a circular aperture and a pair of diametrically opposed slots spaced radially from the aperture. A lamp socket is mounted in the aperture such that a cylindrical lower portion of the socket extends through the aperture, and spring latches of the socket pass through respective ones of the slots. A gasket is interposed between the socket and top wall and is compressed within the aperture to create an air seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 2, 1997
    Assignee: Cooper Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven Randall Akiyama