Conductor Only Patents (Class 174/36)
  • Patent number: 11956865
    Abstract: A low smoke, zero halogen self-regulating heating cable includes a semi-conductive heating core and two conductive wires embedded within and separated by the semi-conductive heating core. The cable also includes a primary jacket surrounding the semi-conductive core, a braid surrounding the primary jacket, and a final jacket surrounding the braid. At least one of the primary jacket and the final jacket includes a low smoke, zero halogen material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: nVent Services GmbH
    Inventors: Sirarpi Bicakci Jenkins, Jonathan Jones
  • 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: 11694823
    Abstract: An Ethernet cable that includes a pair of cores including a single-wire conductor and an insulator covering the single-wire conductor; and an armoring layer entirely covering the pair of cores, wherein the pair of cores are twisted together to have a twist pitch (P1) in a cable length direction satisfying certain characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: LS CABLE & SYSTEM LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Sung Park, Sung Hoon Kim, Woo Kyoung Lee, Jung Pyo Hong
  • Patent number: 11600407
    Abstract: Cables, including electrical cables. The cables are provided with a series of elements designed to interlock with each other when a first length of cable is pressed against a second length of cable, the element including protrusions and spaces between the protrusions. A user folds a length of cable on itself or on another cable, snugly pressing the protrusions into the spaces, to store the cable, or to restrict the movement of the cable during use. In this manner, movement of the cable is restricted into the configuration set by the user, and preventing the cable from becoming tangled, knotted, or so forth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Inventor: Morris E. Cohen
  • Patent number: 11536096
    Abstract: A downhole cable includes a central core. The central core includes a metal tube having a plurality of optical fibers therein or a copper wire. The downhole cable further includes an extruded aluminum tube surrounding the central core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: AFL Telecommunications LLC
    Inventors: Brett Villiger, Joseph Cignarale
  • Patent number: 11505138
    Abstract: A wire harness including: a wire member; a protector that houses the wire member; a first corrugated tube that externally extends from an end of the protector and covers an outer circumference of the wire member; a second corrugated tube that is provided at a location that is on an opposite side to the protector with respect to the first corrugated tube and spaced apart from the first corrugated tube, and covers the outer circumference of the wire member; and an exterior cover that covers the outer circumference of the wire member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Sei Sugihara, Toshiya Ota
  • Patent number: 11488774
    Abstract: Systems and methods for forming insulation on magnet wire are provided. An extruder that includes one or more rotating screws may receive a plurality of ingredients for a polymeric insulation material and process the plurality of ingredients to facilitate polymerization of the polymeric insulation material within the extruder. An application assembly in fluid communication with the extruder may apply the polymeric insulation material onto a wire. A curing device may then cure the polymeric insulation material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: ESSEX FURUKAWA MAGNET WIRE USA LLC
    Inventors: Rakshit Amba, Matthew Leach, M. Mazhar Said
  • Patent number: 11447082
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include an automobile panel that can include a polymer substrate, a network of conductive pathways, and connectors coupled to ends of the network of conductive pathways. The network of conductive pathways can include conductive material disposed in cavities forming a network of channels in the polymer substrate. The conductive material at least partially encapsulates by the polymer substrate. The connectors are connectable to automotive electronic devices thereby forming electrical circuits that include the network of conductive pathways and the automotive electronics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satyabrata Raychaudhuri
  • Patent number: 11434878
    Abstract: There is provided a wind turbine rotor blade comprising a rotor blade casing, and a lightning protection system having at least one lightning protection cable and a lighting protection cable holder. The lighting protection cable holder is fixed in or to the inside of the rotor blade casing. The lighting protection conductor holder has a first part and a second part. The first part is fixed to an inside of the rotor blade casing and has a receiving portion for receiving the lighting protection cable. The second part is in the form of a cover or covering means and is placed over the receiving portion. The first and second parts each have a radar-absorbing core or a radar-absorbing layer and an electrically insulating material which surrounds the radar-absorbing core or the radar-absorbing layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventors: Daniel Vinke, Sebastian Engelhardt
  • Patent number: 11433786
    Abstract: A cable winding device is provided, which is for a flexible flat cable routed to a sliding seat slidably supported allowing for forward and backward movement in a longitudinal direction of a fixed rail; a first side end portion of the cable being fixed to an end of the fixed rail corresponding to a first rail end portion; the device including a winding housing portion inside which a second side end portion of the cable is fixed; the winding portion being fixed to a movable body supporting the seat and configured to slide in a forward and backward direction relative to the fixed rail; in a case where the winding portion moves in a forward (or backward) movement direction toward (or away from) the first rail end portion, the cable is wound in the winding portion (or is fed out along the fixed rail from the winding portion).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignees: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Masahiro Okumura, Naoshi Saoya
  • Patent number: 11430585
    Abstract: An insulated conductor having a conductor and an insulating film provided on a surface of the conductor, in which the insulating film has a fluorine-containing resin composition layer including a cured product of a thermosetting resin and a fluororesin and a fluorine concentration gradient layer which is disposed between the conductor and the fluorine-containing resin composition layer. The fluorine-containing resin composition layer includes a cured product of a thermosetting resin and a fluororesin, and is provided with a concentration gradient in which a fluorine atom content decreases from the fluorine-containing resin composition layer side toward the conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shintaro Iida, Hideaki Sakurai
  • Patent number: 11424048
    Abstract: A cable includes at least one inner conductor and an insulation layer surrounding the inner conductor. An outer conductive layer surrounds the insulation layer and center conductor and includes a carbon nanotube substrate having opposing face surfaces and edges. One or more metals are applied as layer(s) to the opposing face surfaces and edges of the carbon nanotube substrate for forming a metallized carbon nanotube substrate. The metallized carbon nanotube substrate is wrapped to surround the insulation layer and center conductor for forming the outer conductive layer. Embodiments of the invention include a braid layer positioned over the outer conductive layer. The braid layer is woven from of plurality of carbon nanotube yarn elements made of a plurality of carbon nanotube filaments. The carbon nanotube filaments include a carbon nanotube core and metal applied as a layer on the carbon nanotube core for forming a metallized carbon nanotube filaments and yarns woven to form the braid layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Carlisle Interconnect Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Natalie Garrett, Ronald A. Souders, Nicholas Pizzo
  • Patent number: 11410794
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an armoured AC cable comprising at least one core comprising an electric conductor, and an armour surrounding the at least one core and comprising ferromagnetic wires, wherein the ferromagnetic wires are permanently magnetized with a remanent magnetic field which is uniform or variable along the cable length L. The present disclosure also relates to a process for producing an armoured AC cable, a method for improving the performances of an armoured AC cable, and a method for reducing losses in an armoured AC cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: PRYSMIAN S.p.A.
    Inventors: Paolo Maioli, Marco Ruzzier, Monica Lucarelli
  • Patent number: 11401751
    Abstract: Downhole connection assemblies include a connector to receive a conductor and pin at opposite ends. The connector includes a first electrical collet, a separate second electrical collet and a sleeve. The first collet includes a first recess in a first end to receive the conductor and a second recess in a second end to receive the pin. The second collet is positioned around the pin and separated from the first collet. The sleeve is positioned around the pin, first collet and the second collet. Downhole cables include a center electrical conductor, a first insulator positioned around the center conductor, a second insulator positioned around the first insulator, and a pressure tube surrounding the second insulator. The cable further includes one or more slots extending axially along a length of the second insulator, or one or more slots extending axially along an inner diameter of the pressure tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert William Gissler
  • Patent number: 11398749
    Abstract: A network unit may be operatively attached to power lines of an interconnected power system and/or a device such as a power module that may further include a communication interface. The network unit may be operable to superimpose a first signal representative of a sensed parameter of the power system onto the power lines, thereby to transmit the first signal to other power modules in the interconnected power system or to a power device in interconnected power system. The network unit may receive a second signal of the parameter superimposed onto the power lines from another network unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Solaredge Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: David Braginsky, Yoav Galin, Ilan Yoscovich
  • Patent number: 11332260
    Abstract: An electrode-arc sensor for measuring air data. The sensor includes a pair of electrodes which are arranged substantially parallel to one another to form a fluid gap therebetween. The fluid gap is arranged to receive a stream of fluid such as air. A voltage source is operatively connected to the pair of electrodes to generate a voltage and induce an arc therebetween. A controller operatively connected to the voltage source is configured to command the voltage source to generate a voltage until the arc is induced. Once induced, a time-series of the voltage measurements is generated based on a voltage sensor across the pair of electrodes. The ionized air surrounding the induced arc is acted upon by the fluid stream. The controller determines a fluid speed and fluid density of the fluid stream based on the time series of voltage measurement as the arc travels past the pair of electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Brian Tillotson
  • Patent number: 11328839
    Abstract: Energy and a control signal may be provided using a coupled power and control cable. The coupled power and control cable may comprise a power cable, a control cable, and an overall jacket. The power cable may be connected between a switch and a fixture and may provide energy to the fixture from the switch. The control cable may be connected between the control circuit and the fixture and may provide the control signal to the fixture from the control circuit. The power cable and the control cable may be disposed beneath the overall jacket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: SOUTHWIRE COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Randy D. Kummer, Scotty Joe Ledbetter
  • Patent number: 11297280
    Abstract: A network element of a cable television (CATV) network, comprising a first input for downstream signal transmission; a plurality of components arranged to form a downstream signal path, wherein at least one of said components is a downstream amplifier (330); a second input for upstream signal transmission; a plurality of components arranged to form an upstream signal path, wherein at least one of said components is an upstream amplifier (340); means (360) for inputting a control signal for adjusting one or more amplification parameters of the downstream amplifier; and means (350) for adjusting one or more amplification parameters of the upstream amplifier, wherein said one or more amplification parameters of the upstream amplifier are automatically calculated on the basis of the one or more amplification parameters of the downstream amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Teleste OYJ
    Inventors: Sami Halen, Sami Kuusisto, Kari Mäki, Anssi Mäkiranta, Matti Susi
  • Patent number: 11270813
    Abstract: A high-speed transmission line includes a first shielded layer, a first insulating layer, a conductor layer, a second insulating layer and a second shielded layer sequentially attached to each other. The conductor layer includes plural first conductors and plural first conductors interspersed with each other, and the first conductor has a round cross section and is made of a round copper wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: DONGGUAN SINHO TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Han Shi
  • Patent number: 11264147
    Abstract: A cable assembly extends in a longitudinal direction. The cable assembly comprises a first cable, two second cables, two coupling portions, an interposing portion and an outer cover. The first cable has a first conductor and a first cover. Each of the second cables has a second conductor and a second cover. The coupling portions couple the second covers, respectively, with the first cover. The first cable, the two second cables and the two coupling portions are arranged in a V-shape in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. The interposing portion extends along the first cable and the two second cables and has a full length which is equal to that of each of the first cable and the two second cables. The interposing portion is brought into contact with all the first cable and the two second cables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventor: Kentaro Toda
  • Patent number: 11225208
    Abstract: A wire harness including: a wire; an electromagnetic wave absorber that has a through hole through which the wire passes, and that is provided so as to surround an outer circumference of the wire; and a movement restrictor that is provided adjacent to the electromagnetic wave absorber, and that restricts movement of the electromagnetic wave absorber in a length direction of the wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Masaya Fujikura
  • Patent number: 11226463
    Abstract: A flexible innerduct structure having a first margin region, a second margin region, and a middle region, where the middle region is located between the first and second margin regions. The innerduct structure contains at least two flexible, longitudinal chambers, with each chamber being designed for enveloping at least one cable. The flexible innerduct structure contains at least one strip-shaped textile, each strip containing a first side and a second edge and extending in the longitudinal direction. All first and second edges of the strips are located in the middle region and each strip-shaped textile extends outwards from the middle region, folds about a fold axis located in either the first or second margin region and returns to the middle region. At least one strip extends from the first to the second margin region and the strips are attached together in the middle region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Milliken & Company
    Inventors: Steven L. Bedingfield, Kwee C. Lee, Kai Chen
  • Patent number: 11205866
    Abstract: A joint structure of a high-voltage cable includes a cable core wrapped from interior to exterior sequentially by an inner insulating layer, a shielding layer and an outer insulating layer, a section of the inner and outer insulating layers is stripped at an end of the cable core, and a length of the stripped section of the outer insulating layer is greater than a length of the stripped section of the inner insulating layer. The end of the cable core is connected to an external terminal, a connection between the end and the external terminal and an adjacent section of the inner insulating layer are wrapped by a heat-shrinkable tube, a spacing is provided between an end of the heat-shrinkable tube and the outer insulating layer, the shielding layer within the spacing is wrapped by a copper foil and connected externally to a cable connector via the copper foil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: JING-JIN ELECTRIC TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pengyang Sun, Hao Zhang, Yanhao Wang
  • Patent number: 11198099
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a porous sheet product, to a filter element comprising the porous sheet product, to a method for producing the porous sheet product, to a method for producing the filter element, and to the use of the sheet product and of the filter element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Inventors: Thomas Loewe, Thomas Friese, Sebastian Handt, Mario Strauss, Paschalis Nikoloudis
  • Patent number: 11129286
    Abstract: A power supply noise suppressor includes a housing configured to be fastened or adhered to a customer-premises equipment (CPE) device. A first connector is configured to connect to a cable. A second connector is configured connect to the CPE device. A circuit is positioned at least partially within the housing and connected to the first and second connectors. The circuit is configured to reduce an amount of a power supply switch noise that is transmitted in an upstream direction from the CPE device to the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventors: David A. Barany, Timothy John Welch
  • Patent number: 11104476
    Abstract: A package is formed of a die cut paperboard that includes a cutout that is covered by a polymer sheet. The sheet holds an item, such as by stretching, against the bottom side of the unpadded paperboard, which is chosen according to its ability to be transported on metal roller conveyors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Qi Zhang, Ryo Igarashi, Yuichi Kosaka, Masahiro Uchida, Susumu Yamasaki, Shigekazu Ishiguro, Sayaka Kishimoto
  • Patent number: 11087904
    Abstract: A multicore cable includes two-core parallel electric wires, wherein the two-core parallel electric wires each includes two conductors; an insulating layer that covers a periphery of the two conductors and having first and second flat portions and first and second semicircular portions; a first shield tape that covers a periphery of the insulating layer; a drain wire arranged inside the first shield tape; and a jacket that covers the first shield tape, wherein a cross-section of the insulating layer is an oval shape and has a groove at a portion at the first flat portion, wherein the drain wire is retained in the groove such that a portion of the drain wire protrudes toward the first shield tape with respect to the insulating layer, and wherein a twist pitch of twisting together the two-core parallel electric wires is shorter than 250 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuto Kobayashi, Masaki Hayakawa, Jun Otsuka
  • Patent number: 11062822
    Abstract: A communication cable that includes a twisted wire pair that includes a pair of insulated wires that are twisted together and that each include a conductor and an insulating covering that covers an outer periphery of the conductor; and a sheath that is made of an insulating material and continuously covers an entire outer periphery of the twisted wire pair about a center along a longitudinal axis of the twisted wire pair, wherein the sheath has a dielectric loss tangent of 0.0001 or more in a frequency range of 1 to 50 MHz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryoma Uegaki, Kinji Taguchi
  • Patent number: 11037701
    Abstract: A transmission line substrate includes a stacked body that includes insulating base materials, first and second signal lines, and first and second ground conductors. The second signal line is provided on a layer different from the layer of the first signal line and extends in parallel with the first signal line. The first ground conductor is provided on the same layer as the layer of the second signal line and overlapped with the first signal line when viewed in the Z-axis direction. The second ground conductor is provided on the same layer as the layer of the first signal line and overlapped with the second signal line when viewed in the Z-axis direction. A first transmission line includes the first signal line, the first ground conductor, and an insulating base material, and a second transmission line includes the second signal line, the second ground conductor, and the insulating base material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Baba, Lijun Zhao, Chu Xu, Hiromasa Koyama, Satoshi Matsuura
  • Patent number: 11027094
    Abstract: A catheter having excellent flexibility in order to follow a guidewire, and that is not easily kinked even when the catheter is bent strongly. The catheter includes a catheter shaft having a hollow resin body and a coil body within the hollow resin body. The coil body is formed of a spirally wound wire, which is slidable with respect to the hollow resin body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: ASAHI INTECC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takeshi Kizuka
  • Patent number: 11008680
    Abstract: An innerduct for a cable containing one or more strip-shaped lengths of woven textile fabric configured to create a flexible, longitudinal compartment for enveloping a cable. The woven fabric comprises a plurality warp yarns and a plurality of picks of weft yarns, the weft yarns contain a repeating first weft pattern of at least one monofilament yarn, at least one multiple-inserted multifilament yarn, and optionally at least one single-inserted multifilament yarn. The woven fabric contains an alternating pattern containing first weave zones and partial float weave zones. The warp yarns in the first weave zone pass successively over and under each adjacent weft yarn and at least a portion of the warp yarns in the partial float zone float over some adjacent weft yarns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Milliken & Company
    Inventors: Steven L. Bedingfield, Christopher G. Durham
  • Patent number: 11006555
    Abstract: A shield member that includes a drain wire with a free end portion by cutting a long drain wire-attached shield member to a desired length. The shield member includes a shield portion and a drain wire. The shield portion can shield an electric wire. The drain wire includes a holding portion provided between a first end and a second end of the shield portion and held in the shield portion; and an extension portion that is continuous with the holding portion and extends outward from the shield portion. At least a portion of the holding portion extends between the first end and the second end of the shield portion while having excess length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Housei Mizuno, Hidetoshi Ishida, Yasuyuki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10980979
    Abstract: A medical device such as a needle subassembly is disclosed including a cover over a magnetized portion of a tissue-penetrating medical device having a shielding material associated with the cover that prevents the magnetized portion of the tissue-penetrating medical device from being de-magnetized when the cover is positioned to cover the tissue-penetrating medical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Yiping Ma, Jeffrey C. O'Bryan, S. Ray Isaacson
  • Patent number: 10973121
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the technical field of manufacturing display device, and disclose a backlight golden finger structure and a display device. The backlight golden finger structure includes: a plurality of golden finger bodies, one end of each golden finger body being configured to be connected with a backlight flexible circuit board, the other end of each golden finger body being overhung and configured to be connected with a display panel flexible circuit board at a first surface of the backlight golden finger structure; and a first covering film disposed on the first surface of each golden finger body, an edge of the first covering film adjacent to the overhung end of the golden finger body being in a curved shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BOE (HEBEI) MOBILE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junqi Huai, Ermao Zhang, Songsong Shi, Pengxin Liu, Jun Sheng
  • Patent number: 10959295
    Abstract: A skin effect heating system for long pipelines includes a heater cable disposed in a ferromagnetic or other conductive heat tube, the heater cable and heat tube cooperating to produce heat that is applied to the carrier pipe. The heater cable includes a conductor surrounded by an insulating layer, and then a semiconductive outer layer or “jacket.” The semiconductive jacket contacts the inner surface of the heat tube, where the charge density of the return current carried by the heat tube is at its highest. The semiconductive jacket material has a resistivity that is sufficiently low to reduce or eliminate arcing events such as corona discharge by allowing accumulated charge on the heat tube to dissipate. The resistivity is also high enough to prevent the return current from flowing into or through the semiconductive outer layer, so that heat production capacity of the system is maximized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: nVent Services GmbH
    Inventors: Wesley Dong, Paul Becker
  • Patent number: 10937568
    Abstract: An apparatus to be introduced into a conduit includes a cable and a fabric sleeve which extends longitudinally along the cable. The sleeve is secured around the cable by complimentary connectors which extend outwardly from the edges of the sleeve. The connectors can take the form of many configurations including a hook and slot, a ball and socket, a hook and loop, and zipper teeth, among others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: WESCO DISTRIBUTION INC.
    Inventor: Jerry L. Allen
  • Patent number: 10939595
    Abstract: This invention provides an EMF/RF radiation shielding means including a conductive fabric enclosure functioned as a Faraday cage, a pair of flexible magnets for sealing the Faraday cage and a zipper to complete the closure and allow the two magnets to connect. The conductive fabric enclosure has a closable and openable top side, a left side, a right side and a closed bottom side. The conductive fabric enclosure is provided with two accommodations opposite to each other at its inner surface under and along the closable and openable top side. The pair of flexible magnets is respectively placed in the accommodations for connecting and sealing the Faraday cage. The zipper provides easy closing and opening to the enclosure, where the zipper closes it allows the two magnets to connect and when opening it allows easy access to the enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Inventor: Ornan Abouhatsira
  • Patent number: 10878686
    Abstract: A badge holder is carried upon a person and has a pocket to contain and display an identification badge. A plurality of switches are provided, in a preferred embodiment discretely accessible on the rear face of the holder, opposite to the badge. Each of the switches presents a unique tactile configuration that enables the person to identify and activate a selected switch entirely by touch, which will initiate a desired communication with a command center. The command center will determine from the communication, which preferably uniquely identifies the selected switch, the badge holder, the badge holder location, and what actions are desired by the person. These actions will then be communicated from the command center to other devices for handling by appropriate personnel. The communications may further include text, audio, or video files, where appropriate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Badge Messenger Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory A. Pederson, Michael J. Muggli, Stephanie M. Pederson, David G. Sexton, Hans A. Mersinger
  • Patent number: 10829874
    Abstract: An innerduct for a cable containing one or more strip-shaped lengths of woven textile fabric configured to create a flexible, longitudinal compartment for enveloping a cable. The woven fabric comprises a plurality warp yarns and a plurality of picks of weft yarns and contains an alternating pattern containing first weave zones and partial float weave zones. The warp yarns in the first weave zone pass successively over and under each adjacent weft yarn and at least a portion of the warp yarns in the partial float zone float over some adjacent weft yarns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Milliken & Company
    Inventors: Steven L. Bedingfield, Christopher G. Durham
  • Patent number: 10825579
    Abstract: A cable includes a plurality of wires, an wrapping tape covering the outside of the wires, a shielding layer coated on the outside of the wrapping tape and an insulating cover coated on the outside of the shielding layer, the shielding layer includes a plurality of conductors, wherein the shielding layer includes fibers mixed with the conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Han-Run Xie, A-Nan Yang, Lu-Yu Chang
  • Patent number: 10804210
    Abstract: A wiring board includes an insulating layer, and a metal layer, formed on the insulating layer, and including a first pattern that includes a plurality of wirings extending parallel to each other, and a second pattern that includes a degassing hole. The insulating layer includes a groove exposed between the plurality of wirings, and a surface of the insulating layer inside the degassing hole is located above a bottom surface of the groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: SHINKO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Rie Mizutani
  • Patent number: 10755836
    Abstract: A signal transmission cable includes: at least one conductor including at least one wire; a covering layer coating the at least one conductor, the covering layer being made of an insulator; a coating layer coating a periphery of the covering layer; and a plated layer coating the coating layer, the plated layer being made of a material including a metallic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Sagawa, Takahiro Sugiyama, Kazufumi Suenaga, Hiroshi Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 10748677
    Abstract: A signal transmission cable configurable to allow variable electromagnetic field transmission along a length thereof is disclosed herein. The signal transmission cable includes at least one inner signal wire, the at least one inner signal wire configured to convey a signal originating from a signal transmitter; a shielding layer circumscribing the at least one inner signal wire, the shielding layer configured to prevent an electromagnetic field from escaping exteriorly from the signal transmission cable; and an outer protective layer circumscribing the shielding layer, the outer protective layer configured to prevent damage to the shielding layer and the at least one inner signal wire. One or more portions of the outer protective layer and the shielding layer are configured to be selectively removed by a user so as to enable the electromagnetic field emanating from the signal transmission cable to be varied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Inventor: Chris Lee Nelson
  • Patent number: 10736210
    Abstract: A circuit board includes a plurality of insulators provided horizontally side by side and at least one first electric conductor. A first accommodating space is formed between two adjacent ones of the insulators, and each of the two adjacent ones of the insulators is provided with at least one fixing portion in the first accommodating space. The first electric conductor is accommodated in the first accommodating space, and is retained in the fixing portions of the two adjacent ones of the insulators only at two sides thereof. The first electric conductor in the circuit board is used to transmit signals and surrounded with air, and compared with the conventional circuit board in which signals are transmitted through a dielectric layer, a signal transmission effect with ultra-low signal attenuation can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: LOTES CO., LTD
    Inventor: Chin Chi Lin
  • Patent number: 10683608
    Abstract: A rope having a core for providing strength to the rope, where at least a metal or composite woven or warp knitted fabric having multiple substantially parallel elongated metal elements is provided around the core for protecting said core from impact and cutting, and where the multiple substantially parallel elongated elements are in the warp direction and held by yarns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: BEKAERT ADVANCED CORDS AALTER NV
    Inventors: Hendrik Rommel, Veerle Van Wassenhove, Thomas Hanselaer
  • Patent number: 10661731
    Abstract: A wire assembly includes a flexible wire, a flat wire made of a rigid material, and a protector attached to the flat wire such that the protector and the flat wire constitute a tubular portion. The flexible wire is at least partially disposed in the tubular portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kazunori Takata
  • Patent number: 10656044
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an easy-to-mount leakage detection sleeve configured to be mounted on a tube. The easy-to-mount leakage detection sleeve includes a flexible water absorbing layer, a plurality of electrically conductive wires and a connecting assembly. The plurality of electrically conductive wires are disposed on the flexible water absorbing layer and spaced apart from each other. The connecting assembly includes a first connecting part and a second connecting part. The first connecting part and the second connecting part are respectively disposed on two opposite sides of the flexible water absorbing layer, and the second connecting part is detachably engaged with the first connecting part so that the flexible water absorbing layer forms a tube accommodation space configured for accommodating the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: COOLER MASTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chu-Yi Kuo, Tsung-Wei Lin, Chun-Hsien Chen
  • Patent number: 10624209
    Abstract: A flexible printed circuit board is introduced. The flexible printed circuit board of the present invention has a first substrate part, comprising a first signal line, and a second substrate part, comprising a second signal line that is parallel to the first signal line, arranged on the same plane while having a shielding part interposed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: GIGALANE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ik Soo Kim, Byung Yeol Kim, Sang Pil Kim, Byung Hoon Jo, Da Yeon Lee, Hwang Sub Koo, Hyun Je Kim, Hee Seok Jung
  • Patent number: 10591089
    Abstract: The invention concerns a line guide device (100 . . . 1100) for lines like for example cables, hoses or the like, in particular for a clean room application, which has a flexible sheath (210 . . . 610). The sheath (210 . . . 1100) is designed in the manner of a corrugated tube and has a corrugated profile for the purposes of flexibility. The sheath (210 . . . 1100) has an asymmetric bending characteristic in relation to curvature about the direction-changing axis and to opposite curvature such that the permitted bending sag is considerably less than the desired curvature. According to an aspect there is proposed a particular configuration of shell portions (331, 332; 1031, 1032; 1201, 1202) for constructing the sheath, in particular in respect of the corrugated profiles and the fixing of the shell portions (1201, 1202). A further aspect concerns a supporting skeleton (440; 540; 640; 940) for a corrugated tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: IGUS GMBH
    Inventors: Dominik Barten, Andreas Hermey, Thilo-Alexander Jaeker
  • Patent number: 10483016
    Abstract: A conductive wire has a peripheral disposition part disposed around a center member and an extension part integrally formed with the peripheral disposition part so as to extend from the peripheral disposition part. A plurality of conductive wires are disposed. A sheath is disposed so as to cover the center member and the peripheral disposition part. A tube is disposed so as to surround an end portion of the sheath and a part of the extension part, and is thermally shrinkable. An adhesive is disposed inside the tube and is melted or softened by heat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiro Suzuki, Takeshi Konishi, Shigetoshi Fukaya