Plural Strand Patents (Class 174/128.1)
  • Patent number: 11936193
    Abstract: A device for recovering energy from a single-phase power cable includes two phase conductors, a magnetic core, in the form of an openable torus, installed around the power cable to form a magnetic circuit able to pick up a magnetic field induced by a primary current passing through the phase conductors, a detection coil wound around the magnetic core, to induce a secondary voltage from the induced magnetic field and deliver across the coil an output voltage usable to power electrical systems, and a heterogeneous magnetic circuit to induce an asymmetrical magnetic flux flow in the magnetic circuit and maximize the output voltage of the detection coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SOCOMEC
    Inventors: Thierry Save, Dominique Gautard
  • Patent number: 11887756
    Abstract: An electric wire for use in an electric vehicle with a large current of 100 A or more and a high voltage of 30 V or more includes a conductor and an electrically insulating layer covering an outer surface of the conductor, wherein the conductor includes first twisted wires in each of which a plurality of element wires are twisted together, and the first twisted wires are twisted together to form one or more second twisted wires, wherein an element-wire diameter of each of the element wires is 0.18 mm to 0.35 mm, and wherein a secant modulus of the electrically insulating layer is 15 MPa to 41 MPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Yuhei Mayama
  • Patent number: 11852327
    Abstract: A decorative light string for draping on an external structure, comprising a plurality of decorative-lighting wires, each of the plurality of decorative-lighting wires including an outer insulation layer, one or more conductors, and one or more reinforcing strands; and a plurality of lamps electrically connected to one another by the plurality of decorative-lighting wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Willis Electric Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Johnny Chen
  • Patent number: 11664135
    Abstract: A coated carbon nanotube wire for a coil includes: a carbon nanotube wire, the carbon nanotube wire being composed of a plurality of carbon nanotube aggregates each constituted of a plurality of carbon nanotubes, or being composed of a plurality of carbon nanotube element wires each constituted of a plurality of carbon nanotubes; and a coating layer coating the carbon nanotube wire, wherein each of the carbon nanotube aggregates contacts one or more other adjacent carbon nanotube aggregates, or each of the carbon nanotube element wires contacts one or more other adjacent carbon nanotube element wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Aizawa, Satoshi Yamashita, Kazutomi Miyoshi
  • Patent number: 11618966
    Abstract: Porous solid materials are provided. The porous solid materials include a plurality of interconnected wires forming an ordered network. The porous solid materials may have a predetermined volumetric surface area ranging between 2 m2/cm3 and 90 m2/cm3, a predetermined porosity ranging between 3% and 90% and an electrical conductivity higher than 100 S/cm. The porous solid materials may have a predetermined volumetric surface area ranging between 3 m2/cm3 and 72 m2/cm3, a predetermined porosity ranging between 80% and 95% and an electrical conductivity higher than 100 S/cm. The porous solid materials (100) may have a predetermined volumetric surface area ranging between 3 m2/cm3 and 85 m2/cm3, a predetermined porosity ranging between 65% and 90% and an electrical conductivity higher than 2000 S/cm. Methods for the fabrication of such porous solid materials and devices including such porous solid material are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignees: IMEC VZW, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, KU Leuven R&D
    Inventors: Stanislaw Piotr Zankowski, Philippe M. Vereecken
  • Patent number: 11615908
    Abstract: A flow-guiding rod includes a cooling channel provided in a rod portion of the flow-guiding rod, and a coolant inlet pipe and a coolant outlet pipe provided on end(s) of the flow-guiding rod. The coolant inlet pipe and the coolant outlet pipe are communicated with the cooling channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignees: State Grid Corporation of China, Tsinghua University
    Inventors: Shan Liu, Licheng Lu, Zehong Liu
  • Patent number: 11600405
    Abstract: An electronic wire and a cable which are excellent in bending resistance even when a diameter is small. The electronic wire has a conductor and a resin insulating layer coated on the conductor. The conductor is a double twisted wire in which twisted wires formed by twisting a plurality of wires are twisted, a diameter of the wire is 0.05 mm or more and 0.2 mm or less, a cross-sectional area of the conductor is 1.0 mm2 or more and 3.0 mm2 or less, a breaking elongation of the conductor is 10% or more and 17% or less, a tensile strength of the conductor is 200 MPa or more and 400 MPa or less, and the insulating layer is disposed to be in close contact with the conductor and has a solid structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takaya Kohori, Hiroyuki Okawa
  • Patent number: 11130312
    Abstract: An electrical wire includes an aluminum element wire that has an aluminum base material and carbon nanotubes dispersed in the aluminum base material, in which the aluminum element wire has an electrical conductivity of 62% IACS or more and a tensile strength of 130 MPa or more. The aluminum base material is a polycrystal having a plurality of aluminum crystal grains. Further, a carbon nanotube conductive path, which is composed of the carbon nanotube, and forms a conductive path allowing electricity to conduct therethrough in a longitudinal direction of the aluminum element wire by being present in a part of grain boundaries between the plurality of aluminum crystal grains in a transverse cross section of the aluminum base material, and being present along the longitudinal direction of the aluminum element wire, is formed in the aluminum base material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignees: YAZAKI CORPORATION, The University of Tokyo
    Inventors: Youhei Uchida, Hideo Gonda, Junichirou Tokutomi, Jun Yanagimoto
  • Patent number: 10999899
    Abstract: Provided is a heating cable having high flex resistance and flexibility. More particularly, the present invention relates to a heating cable having both an excellent mechanical property such as flex resistance and high flexibility which are in a trade-off relationship, and capable of facilitating control of heat to be generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: LS CABLE & SYSTEM LTD.
    Inventors: Sang Il Lee, Do Hyun Park, Chang Suk Kim
  • Patent number: 10985543
    Abstract: A hanging assembly includes at least one flexible hanging cable, at least one first fixing component, and a frame. The flexible hanging cable includes a power wire and a hanging wire combined with each other. The first fixing component is connected to the flexible hanging cable and adapted to be fixed at a fixed position. The frame is adapted to be fixed at the fixed position, and the at least one first fixing component is adapted to be fixed on the frame. In addition, a display apparatus applying the hanging assembly is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Wistron Corporation
    Inventors: Tze-Tien Hsu, Chin-Kun Ko, Cheng-Hua Tien, Wei-Hsien Chien
  • Patent number: 10964446
    Abstract: Provided are an electric wire conductor having both flexibility and a space-saving property, a covered electric wire, and a wiring harness containing such an electric wire conductor. The electric wire conductor contains a plurality of elemental wires, and has a flat portion in which a cross-section intersecting an axial direction of the wire strand has a flat shape. Deformation ratios of the elemental wires at peripheral end parts in a width direction are 70% or lower of deformation ratios of the elemental wires at center parts. Further, a covered electric wire contains the electric wire conductor and an insulator covering the electric wire conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hayato Ooi, Yasuyuki Otsuka, Kinji Taguchi, Toru Tanji
  • Patent number: 10872711
    Abstract: An electronic wire and a cable which are excellent in bending resistance even when a diameter is small. The electronic wire has a conductor and a resin insulating layer coated on the conductor. The conductor is a double twisted wire in which twisted wires formed by twisting a plurality of wires are twisted, a diameter of the wire is 0.05 mm or more and 0.2 mm or less, a cross-sectional area of the conductor is 1.0 mm2 or more and 3.0 mm2 or less, a breaking elongation of the conductor is 10% or more and 17% or less, a tensile strength of the conductor is 200 MPa or more and 400 MPa or less, and the insulating layer is disposed to be in close contact with the conductor and has a solid structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takaya Kohori, Hiroyuki Okawa
  • Patent number: 10808299
    Abstract: The aluminum alloy material of the present disclosure has a specific alloy composition and has a fibriform metallographic structure where crystal grains extend so as to be aligned in one direction, wherein an average value of a size perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the crystal grains is 400 nm or less in a cross section parallel to the one direction. The aluminum alloy material of the present disclosure has a main surface having a crystal orientation distribution which satisfies a peak intensity ratio R (I200/I220) of a peak intensity I200 of a diffraction peak due to a {100} plane to a peak intensity I220 of a diffraction peak due to a {110} plane, of 0.20 or more, determined by an X-ray diffraction method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kaneko
  • Patent number: 10773926
    Abstract: A belt for an elevator system includes a plurality of tension members arranged along a belt width and extending longitudinally along a length of the belt, a jacket material at least partially encapsulating the plurality of tension members, and a primary overlay layer applied to one or more of the plurality of tension members or at least a portion of the jacket material. An elevator system includes a hoistway, an elevator car movable therein, and a belt operably connected to the elevator car to suspend and/or drive the elevator car along the hoistway. The belt includes a plurality of tension members arranged along a belt width and extending longitudinally along a belt length, a jacket material at least partially encapsulating the plurality of tension members, and a primary overlay layer applied to one or more of the plurality of tension members or at least a portion of the jacket material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventor: Wenping Zhao
  • Patent number: 10714233
    Abstract: An aluminum electrical wire includes a conductor including aluminum-based core wires, and an insulating resin covering covering the conductor and having a thickness deviation of not less than 70%. The aluminum-based core wires contain 99 mass % of aluminum, and the conductor is constructed by concentrically twisting 19 or 37 of the aluminum-based core wires at the same pitch in a non-compressed state such that the aluminum electrical wire has a current capacity that is substantially the same as a current capacity of a copper electrical wire having a diameter that is substantially the same as a diameter of the aluminum electrical wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignees: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Yasuharu Uchiyama, Akihiro Sakaki
  • Patent number: 10658092
    Abstract: An electric wire conductor having both flexibility and a space-saving property, a covered electric wire, and a wiring harness containing such an electric wire conductor. The electric wire conductor contains a plurality of elemental wires, and has a flat portion in which a cross-section intersecting an axial direction of the wire strand has a flat shape. In the cross-section of the flat portion, a vacancy ratio defined as a ratio of vacancies not occupied by the elemental wires is 17% or higher. Further, a covered electric wire contains the electric wire conductor and an insulator covering the electric wire conductor. Furthermore, a wiring harness contains the covered electric wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hayato Ooi, Yasuyuki Otsuka, Kinji Taguchi, Toru Tanji
  • Patent number: 10633790
    Abstract: A mooring member comprises a rope configured for extending between a vessel floating in a body of water and an anchoring device. The mooring member comprises a plurality of functional elements, wherein a first functional element is wound onto at least a portion of the rope, a second functional element is wound onto the first functional element, and so on, until an outermost functional element is wound onto a second-to-outermost functional element. The functional elements are wound in a helical configuration, and are configured to provide at least one of the following functions: damage protection, buoyancy, optical detection, sonar detection, stiffness control, and anti-fouling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Calorflex, AS
    Inventors: Allan Boye Hansen, Peter Sörensen
  • Patent number: 10600531
    Abstract: A highly bendable insulated electric wire including: a conducting wire formed by stranding a plurality of metal strands; and an insulator covering the conducting wire, in which a twist pitch ratio of the conducting wire (a twist pitch/an outer diameter of the conducting wire) is 10.8 or less, the insulator is made of a resin composition containing a vinyl chloride resin and having an elongation rate of 130% or higher at ?40° C., and an adhesion strength between the conducting wire and the insulator is 20 N or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeshi Oshima
  • Patent number: 10578564
    Abstract: A method for producing silver nanowires, containing reduction-precipitating silver in the form of wire in an alcohol solvent having dissolved therein a silver compound, the deposition being performed in the alcohol solvent having dissolved therein a chloride, a bromide, an alkali metal hydroxide, an aluminum salt, and an organic protective agent, the molar ratio Al/OH of the total Al amount of the aluminum salt dissolved in the solvent and the total hydroxide ion amount of the alkali metal hydroxide dissolved therein being from 0.01 to 0.40, the molar ratio OH/Ag of the total hydroxide ion amount of the alkali metal hydroxide dissolved in the solvent and the total Ag amount of the silver compound dissolved therein being from 0.005 to 0.50.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: DOWA HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotoshi Saito, Daisuke Kodama, Kimitaka Sato
  • Patent number: 10566107
    Abstract: A coated electric wire includes a resin insulating layer configured to cover a conductor, the insulating layer covers the conductor with a thickness of 0.3 mm to 0.4 mm, a cross-sectional area of the conductor is 1.5 mm2 to 3.0 mm2, the conductor is configured by stranding a plurality of stranded wires, each of the stranded wires is configured by stranding a plurality of wires, and a diameter of the wires constituting the stranded wire arranged at a center of the conductor is greater than a diameter of the wires constituting the other stranded wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takaya Kohori, Hiroyuki Okawa
  • Patent number: 10468154
    Abstract: A conductor including multiple aluminum-based core wires, and an insulating resin covering directly covering the conductor such that the insulating resin covering is in contact with the aluminum-based core wires. The aluminum-based core wires includes one aluminum-based core wire containing not less than 99 mass % of aluminum in a center of the conductor and aluminum-based core wires positioned concentrically from the center of the conductor, and the conductor is constructed by concentrically twisting 19 or 37 of the aluminum-based core wires in a non-compressed state and at a same pitch such that a thickness deviation of the insulating resin covering is not less than 70%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignees: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Yasuharu Uchiyama, Akihiro Sakaki
  • Patent number: 10381130
    Abstract: A wire harness includes a group of first electric wires connected to a first circuit and a group of second electric wires connected to a second circuit whose consumption current is smaller than that of the first circuit. The group of first electric wires include aluminum electric wires. The group of second electric wires include a large diameter electric wire having a conductor formed of aluminum or aluminum alloy, a small diameter electric wire having a conductor formed of copper or copper alloy and a cross-sectional area of the conductor thereof smaller than that of the large diameter electric wire, and an extra fine electric wire having a conductor formed of the copper or copper alloy and a cross-sectional area of the conductor thereof smaller than that of the small diameter electric wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuyoshi Yabe
  • Patent number: 10304581
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy, an aluminum alloy wire, an aluminum alloy stranded wire, a covered electric wire, and a wire harness that are of high toughness and high electrical conductivity, and a method of manufacturing an aluminum alloy wire are provided. The aluminum alloy wire contains not less than 0.005% and not more than 2.2% by mass of Fe, and a remainder including Al and an impurity. It may further contain not less than 0.005% and not more than 1.0% by mass in total of at least one additive element selected from Mg, Si, Cu, Zn, Ni, Mn, Ag, Cr, and Zr. The Al alloy wire has an electrical conductivity of not less than 58% IACS and an elongation of not less than 10%. The Al alloy wire is manufactured through the successive steps of casting, rolling, wiredrawing, and softening treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Toyama Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Misato Kusakari, Yoshihiro Nakai, Taichirou Nishikawa, Yoshiyuki Takaki, Yasuyuki Ootsuka
  • Patent number: 10296576
    Abstract: A system for a mobile device includes at least one processor operatively connected to a computer readable storage medium in the at least one processor is programmed to receive a request for personal data. The request contains a plurality of input fields. The at least one processor identifies a list of applications to provide personal data based on the plurality of input fields and a user-defined security constraint. The at least one processor outputs for display the list of applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Corvillle O. Allen, Madison E. Cantrell, Michael C. Gouveia, Anandakrishnan Narayanan, Roman Ruiz-Esparza
  • Patent number: 10270004
    Abstract: Provided is a production method for a transparent electrically-conductive film including: a) a coating step of coating an electrically-conductive nanowire dispersion containing electrically-conductive nanowires with an optical activity and an organic binder onto a substrate; b) a first light irradiation step of irradiating a first light including a first ultraviolet (UV) light onto the coated electrically-conductive nanowires; and c) a second light irradiation step of irradiating a second light including a pulse-type first white light onto the electrically-conductive nanowires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: N&B CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hak-Sung Kim, Wan Ho Chung, Dong Hyun Kim
  • Patent number: 10225967
    Abstract: A noise suppression cable includes an insulated electric wire including an insulator that covers an outer periphery of a conductor wire, and a magnetic tape layer formed by transversely winding a magnetic tape on an outer periphery of the insulated electric wire. A magnetic body constituting the magnetic tape is cut out from a rolled material in such a manner that a width direction of the magnetic tape corresponds to a rolled direction, and the magnetic body has a magnetic property that is different between the width direction and an orthogonal direction to the width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Katsutoshi Nakatani, Kenji Ajima, Yosuke Sumi, Katsuya Akimoto, Naofumi Chiwata, Hiroshi Okikawa, Yasuharu Muto
  • Patent number: 10199142
    Abstract: An insulated wire that has a stranded wire conductor, and an insulator that covers an outer circumference of the stranded wire conductor. The stranded wire conductor is made up of at least a plurality of copper-based element wires twisted together, and has been heat-treated after circular compression. The copper-based element wire(s) has (have) an Ni-based plated layer on the surface. The Ni-based plated later has been compressed by the circular compression. The insulator is composed of a cross-linked ethylene-tetrafluoroethylene based copolymer, and has a heating deformation rate in the range of 65% or more, as determined under predetermined conditions using predetermined formulae in conformity with ISO6722.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Toyoki Furukawa, Hayato Ooi, Hiroshi Hayami, Kenji Hori
  • Patent number: 10199144
    Abstract: A data cable has a specially formed stranded conductor, as a result of which the transmission properties of the data cable are significantly improved. The stranded conductor is surrounded by insulation and has an unpressed assembly composed of a plurality of individual wires which are of a same type and being embodied as external wires and being disposed around a center. The external wires are embodied with a non-round cross section, with a result that when viewed in cross section an extent of the external wires increases radially outward from the center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: LEONI Kabel GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Stadler, Markus Schill, Johannes Nachtrab, Rainer Poehmerer, Yuecel Sahiner, Erwin Koeppendoerfer, Dominik Dorner
  • Patent number: 10163539
    Abstract: A high strength and high conductivity copper rod or wire includes Co of 0.12 to 0.32 mass %, P of 0.042 to 0.095 mass %, Sn of 0.005 to 0.70 mass %, and O of 0.00005 to 0.0050 mass %. A relationship of 3.0?([Co]?0.007)/([P]?0.008)?6.2 is satisfied between a content [Co] mass % of Co and a content [P] mass % of P. The remainder includes Cu and inevitable impurities, and the rod or wire is produced by a process including a continuous casting and rolling process. Strength and conductivity of the high strength and high conductivity copper rod or wire are improved by uniform precipitation of a compound of Co and P and by solid solution of Sn. The high strength and high conductivity copper rod or wire is produced by the continuous casting and rolling process, and thus production costs are reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Shindoh Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Materials Corporation
    Inventors: Keiichiro Oishi, Kazumasa Hori
  • Patent number: 10141152
    Abstract: Chamber connection methods and apparatus are provided. In some embodiments, a signal wire is attached to a drift chamber by feeding a signal wire through an end of the drift chamber; feeding the signal wire through the dielectric tube; extending the dielectric tube outwardly from the drift chamber end; and at a location on the outside of the drift chamber end, setting the extending dielectric tube and signal wire together to thereby fit the signal wire to the drift chamber end and gas seal the dielectric tube end. In some other embodiments, the drift chamber is a muon drift tube. In some embodiments, drift tube end cap assemblies with and without gas ports are provided for attaching the signal wire to the drift tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Inventor: Michael Ian Brockwell
  • Patent number: 10131973
    Abstract: The present invention provides spring steel used for spring steel wire achieving both high strength and cold coilability and spring steel wire, that is, spring steel containing, by mass %, C: 0.45 to 0.70%, Si: 1.0 to 3.0%, Mn: 0.05 to 2.0%, P: 0.015% or less, S: 0.015% or less, N: 0.0015 to 0.0200%, and t-O: 0.0002 to 0.01 and further limiting Al?0.01% and Ti?0.003%. Further, it is characterized by satisfying the following regarding the cementite-based spherical carbides present at an observed plane, an occupied area ratio of grains with a circle equivalent diameter of 0.2 ?m or more of 7% or less, a density of presence of grains with a circle equivalent diameter of 0.2 to 3 ?m of 1/?m2 or less, and a density of presence of grains with a circle equivalent diameter 3 ?m or more of 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki Hashimura, Hiroshi Hagiwara, Takanori Miyaki, Takayuki Kisu, Kouichi Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 10124685
    Abstract: A power reception device includes a flat plate-like core and a coil spirally wound around the core and having a winding central axis extending in a horizontal direction. The coil is formed like a flat plate to have a longer side portion and a shorter side portion when the coil is viewed in cross section at a plane perpendicular to an extending direction of the coil. The coil is wound around the core such that the longer side portion faces a surface of the core. Therefore, the thickness of the power reception device can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Yuasa, Satoru Horiuchi, Masayuki Kataoka, Hitoshi Takemura
  • Patent number: 10113979
    Abstract: A system for dielectric testing of wine in a bottle includes (a) a coaxial probe for interrogating the wine, wherein the coaxial probe has an open end for contacting an exterior surface of the bottle, and (b) a measurement module for determining a dielectric property associated with the wine by generating and measuring radio waves propagating through the coaxial cable. A method for dielectric testing of wine in a bottle includes measuring a radio-wave reflection signal associated with the wine by interrogating the wine, through the bottle, with radio waves, and determining a dielectric property associated with the wine from the radio-wave reflection signal. A probe for radio-wave interrogation of wine in a bottle has an inner conductor, an outer conductor, and an open end with curvature matching the curvature of an exterior surface of the bottle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: THE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE
    Inventors: Paul M. Meaney, Timothy Raynolds
  • Patent number: 10090612
    Abstract: A flat electrical cable is described. The cable includes a plurality of equally spaced substantially parallel electrical conductors lying in a same plane and extending along the length of the cable. Each conductor has a same diameter D. The cable further includes a common unitary electrically insulating layer encapsulating the plurality of conductors. The insulating layer includes a plurality of cover portions where each cover portion is concentric with a corresponding conductor and has a radial thickness t. t/D is in a range from about 0.50 to about 1.25.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: John W. Benedict, James G. Vana, Jr., Rocky D. Edwards, Mark T. Palmer, Richard J. Scherer, Steven A. Neu, Ching-Long Tsai
  • Patent number: 10020094
    Abstract: An electric conductor may be provided. The electric conductor may comprise a conductor core and a plurality of conductor strands wrapped around the conductor core. The conductor core may comprise a plurality of core strands comprising an overall number of strands. The plurality of core strands may comprise a first portion of core strands and a second portion of core strands. The first portion of core strands may comprise a first number of strands. The first portion of core strands may comprise steel. The second portion of core strands may comprise a second number of strands. The second portion of core strands may comprise a composite material. A ratio of the first number of strands to the overall number of strands and a ratio of the second number of strands to the overall number of strands may be optimized to give the conductor core a predetermined characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Southwire Company, LLC
    Inventor: Mark A. Lancaster
  • Patent number: 9997278
    Abstract: A non-magnetic stainless steel wire with an adherent corrosion resistant coating is disclosed. The surface of the non-magnetic stainless steel is pre-treated so as to be sufficiently free from oxides and form a good adhesion with the above corrosion resistant coating. The non-magnetic stainless steel wire is used as a armoring wire for a power cable for transmitting electrical power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: NV BEKAERT SA
    Inventors: Flip Verhoeven, David Hejcman, Geert Lagae, Peter Gogola
  • Patent number: 9941028
    Abstract: An electrical conductor has at least one conducting strand made up at least of a layer of copper and of a layer of silvered copper alloy, in which the silver content by mass is between 0.1% and 0.5%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: NEXANS
    Inventors: Patrick Rybski, Sebastien Dablement
  • Patent number: 9934888
    Abstract: Provided is a cable including: at least two signal cables formed of first and second signal cables for differential transmission; a third cable for ground; a fourth cable for power supply; a metal sheet adapted to cover the first and second signal cables; a coating material adapted to house the first and second signal cables covered with the metal sheet, and the third and fourth cables; and a magnetic powder-mixed resin filled into an inner space of the coating material and prepared by mixing magnetic powder with a resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Yoshino, Satoru Tsuboi, Makoto Makishima, Tomomichi Murakami
  • Patent number: 9934887
    Abstract: An umbilical for use in the offshore production of hydrocarbons comprising an assembly of functional elements at least one of which is an electrical power cable, characterised in that at least one conductor of at least one electrical power cable comprises one or more 6000 series aluminium strands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: TECHNIP FRANCE
    Inventors: Alan William Deighton, Siu Kit Joe Wong
  • Patent number: 9928936
    Abstract: Vibration resistant cables containing a first conductor and a second conductor, each having a diameter d, are disclosed. The second conductor is twisted around the first conductor at a lay length between 3 feet and 6 feet to eliminate bagging of the vibration resistant cable during installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Southwire Company, LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Lee Spruell
  • Patent number: 9887022
    Abstract: A stranded conductor contains a number of individual wires. The multiple identically designed individual wires are arranged about a central inner wire as outer wires. The individual wires form a composite which is encased by insulation, and the outer wires are uncompressed and have a non-round cross-section such that when seen in cross-section, the outer wires expand radially outwards starting from the inner wire. The composite of individual wires is not compressed such that the composite has a high alternate bending strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: LEONI Kabel Holding GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Schill, Yuecel Sahiner, Wolfgang Stadler
  • Patent number: 9818505
    Abstract: An electric cable for improving flexibility of an insulating resin portion of the electric cable expressed by a secant modulus value is provided. In an electric cable 10a in which an outer periphery of a conductor 11 made of wires with diameters from 0.15 to 0.5 mm and having a cross-sectional area of 20 mm2 or more is covered with an insulating resin 12 including a flame retardant, a ratio of an electric cable diameter to a conductor diameter is from 1.15 to 1.40, and a secant modulus of the insulating resin 12 is from 10 to 50 MPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Tozawa, Taro Fujita, Atsuko Shinomiya
  • Patent number: 9746630
    Abstract: A hybrid cable includes a jacket defining a cavity therein, a central strength member, a ribbon unit having a plurality of optical fibers, and a conductor cable, wherein the conductor cable and the ribbon unit are stranded around the central strength member to extend through the cavity of the jacket. A method of manufacturing a hybrid optical and power cable includes stranding at least one ribbon unit and at least one conductive power cable around a strength member and extruding a jacket around the stranded at least one ribbon unit and at least one conductive power cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLC
    Inventor: James Arthur Register, III
  • Patent number: 9660431
    Abstract: Vibration resistant cables containing a first conductor and a second conductor, each having a diameter d, are disclosed. The second conductor is twisted around the first conductor at a lay length between 3 feet and 6 feet to eliminate bagging of the vibration resistant cable during installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Southwire Company, LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Lee Spruell
  • Patent number: 9640301
    Abstract: An electric wire includes a conductor having a cross-sectional area of not less than 135 mm2 and not more than 165 mm2, an insulation provided so as to cover the outer periphery of the conductor, and a wire sheath provided so as to cover the outer periphery of the insulation. The amount of deflection is not less than 250 mm when, at 23° C., one end of the electric wire is fixed to a fixture table so that another end horizontally protrudes 400 mm from the fixture table and a weight of 2 kg is attached to the other end, and cracks and breaks do not occur when wound with a bending diameter of three times the diameter at ?40° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Tamotsu Kibe, Hisao Furuichi, Hiroshi Okikawa, Ryutaro Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 9545030
    Abstract: A flexible thermal conduit runs from a first housing portion of an electronic device to a second housing portion of the electronic device, to convey heat generated by an electronic component located in the first housing portion to a heat dissipation structure located in the second housing portion, where the second housing portion is flexibly coupled to the first housing portion, for example, by a hinge or other type of joint. The flexible conduit may include a plurality of layers of thin, flat thermally conductive material, which may be arranged to flex independently of each other in the region where the first and second housing portions are coupled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Nikkhoo, Doug Heirich, Roy Riccomini, Maosheng Ye, Michael Beerman, Joseph Daniel Taylor
  • Patent number: 9530532
    Abstract: A conducting medium or high voltage cable can include at least one conductor surrounded by an insulating layer. One or more layers of conducting wires can surround the insulating layers, and the layers of conducting wires themselves can be separated by insulating layers. The centrally disposed conductor and surrounding circumferential conducting layers can include copper, aluminum, or a combination of both. The central conductor can range between about 1000 kcmil to about 4000 kcmil cross-sectional area, and the surrounding layers of conducting wires can be at least about 250 kcmil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Matthew Spalding, Sherif Kamel, David Lindsay
  • Patent number: 9490050
    Abstract: An electric conductor may be provided. The electric conductor may comprise a conductor core and a plurality of conductor strands wrapped around the conductor core. The conductor core may comprise a plurality of core strands comprising an overall number of strands. The plurality of core strands may comprise a first portion of core strands and a second portion of core strands. The first portion of core strands may comprise a first number of strands. The first portion of core strands may comprise steel. The second portion of core strands may comprise a second number of strands. The second portion of core strands may comprise a composite material. A ratio of the first number of strands to the overall number of strands and a ratio of the second number of strands to the overall number of strands may be optimized to give the conductor core a predetermined characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Southwire Company, LLC
    Inventor: Mark A. Lancaster
  • Patent number: 9349505
    Abstract: An electric cable for improving flexibility of an insulating resin portion of the electric cable expressed by a secant modulus value is provided. In an electric cable 10a in which an outer periphery of a conductor 11 made of wires with diameters from 0.15 to 0.5 mm and having a cross-sectional area of 20 mm2 or more is covered with an insulating resin 12 including a flame retardant, a ratio of an electric cable diameter to a conductor diameter is from 1.15 to 1.40, and a secant modulus of the insulating resin 12 is from 10 to 50 MPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Tozawa, Taro Fujita, Atsuko Shinomiya
  • Patent number: 9293232
    Abstract: A composite conductor 10, including an internal layer 11 having a conductive material A, the conductive material A having fatigue strength of at least 150 MPa after being subjected to 106 cycles of cyclic loading in a fatigue test, and an external layer 12 having a conductive material B, the external layer coating the internal layer 11, the conductive material B having tensile strength higher than that of the conductive material A, the tensile strength being at least 250 MPa, in which the composite conductor 10 has fracture resistance to a sudden load and impact as well as bending durability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignees: DYDEN CORPORATION, FUKUOKA PREFECTURAL GOVERNMENT, NAT'L UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hiroyuki In, Fumiyo Annou, Daisuke Matsunaga, Hiromoto Kitahara, Shinji Ando, Masayuki Tsushida, Toshifumi Ogawa