Terminals Inside Housing Patents (Class 174/489)
  • Patent number: 11309658
    Abstract: An electrical power and/or electronic data unit is mountable in a floor, and is fitted with an upper bezel that is openable and closable to provide selective access to one or more electrical power or data outlets. A bezel supports one or more shutters that are movable between open and closed positions. Optionally, the shutters are supported on an openable main door that provides additional access to the outlets when the main door is open. The main door can be closed and opened with the shutters in either the open or closed positions. Respective top surfaces of the shutters, the main door, and the bezel may be co-planar when the main door and shutters are closed, and the shutters may be hidden entirely beneath the main door when the main door is closed and the shutters are open.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Inventors: Norman R. Byrne, Aaron G. Lautenbach, Matthew R. Haller, Marc A. Mitchell, Matthew R. Andree, Peter J. Maher, Timothy C. Cramblet
  • Patent number: 11165232
    Abstract: A housing assembly is adapted for housing fully pre-wired printed circuit boards populated with diverse electrical components. The housing assembly includes multiple nipples and an optimized geometry for mounting to or mounting within commonly available conduit-related fixtures in a variety of installation configurations. These installation configurations allow for simpler wire routing where voltage separation is required, for greater accessibility to gang junction box cover plates on gang junction boxes to which the housing assembly is mounted, and for more installation options for wide range of common gang junction boxes as compared to existing housings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: SIGMA INNOVATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Craig Michael Spencer
  • Patent number: 11019740
    Abstract: An electrical connection box mounted on a vehicle and used for connecting a plurality of on-board loads to an on-board power supply, comprising: a box main body that is provided with an opening at a side and that accommodates an electrical component for the connecting; a cover body that covers the opening and that is provided with a protrusion portion protruding outward beyond the opening; an insertion hole that is provided a side wall of the box main body and that allows for insertion of an electric wire to be connected to the electrical component; and an extension portion that extends outward from a portion of the protrusion portion corresponding to the insertion hole and that bends arcuately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignees: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Maiko Oda, Kiyofumi Kawaguchi, Nobutaka Suzuki, Takenori Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10985755
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an intelligent lighting control system include a pre-mount chassis system. The methods include attaching a chassis to an electrical wall box, the chassis comprising at least one hook extending in an upward direction and at least one opening, the at least one hook positioned along a peripheral portion of the at least one opening. The methods include hanging a base module from the at least one hook in the chassis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Racepoint Energy, LLC
    Inventor: William Lark, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10337743
    Abstract: The invention relates to an assembly unit for an induction hob with at least one induction element has a) at least one carrying element for carrying the circuits and/or devices for supplying the at least one induction element. The at least one carrying element has a base area and side areas protruding upwards from the base area. The at least one carrying element is connectable with at least one further carrying element along a side area. The side areas have connection elements for connection with the at least one further carrying element, preferably at least one power wire slot for inserting at least one power supply wire and/or preferably at least one signal wire slot for inserting at least one signal wire. Furthermore, the invention a method for manufacturing an assembly unit is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Electrolux Home Products Corporation N.V.
    Inventors: Laurent Jeanneteau, Thibaut Rigolle, Alex Viroli, Massimo Zangoli, Ulrich Häutle, Klaus Schlötterer-Fratoianni
  • Patent number: 10329007
    Abstract: An enclosure including a bottom side having a pass through opening, a connector surface having one or more connector openings, a first side adjacent to the connector surface, and a second side having at least a portion of an access opening, where the first side, the second side, the connector surface and the bottom side bound an interior cavity. The enclosure further includes one or more connectors, each of the one or more connectors disposed in a respective connector opening of the one or more connector openings and extending from the interior cavity, through the connector surface, and a cover attached to an exterior surface of at least the second side, the cover covering the access opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON INC.
    Inventors: Jayson David Roe, Ellen Slack Lindeman, Stanley Kirk Bradford, Philip John Hannan
  • Patent number: 9748751
    Abstract: An electrical device mounting assembly adapted for mounting of power and low voltage components in a shallow wall cavity to supply a television or similar electronic device. The mounting assembly recesses all high and low voltage components behind the wall surface to render them unobtrusive and out of the way. The mounting assembly includes a mounting frame with a peripheral flange, sidewalls, and a rear wall. A corner of the mounting frame is adapted to mount a duplex receptacle at an oblique angle with respect to the sidewalls. The mounting frame includes cable tie-offs for routing cables and at least one low voltage mount for the mounting of low voltage components. The mounting assembly enables consolidation of all power and signal hookups for TV or home entertainment systems in a single assembly that is recessed within the wall and allows flush wall mounting of a flat panel TV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: ARLINGTON INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventor: Thomas J. Gretz
  • Patent number: 9710025
    Abstract: A desktop receptacle includes a box with a front surface and a connector surface that has a connector opening formed through, an electrical connection assembly held within the box that has an electrical connector associated with the connector opening, and a utility surface attached to the front surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Group Dekko, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean J. Scott, Jillian Pai
  • Patent number: 8907215
    Abstract: A box-shape corrugated tube protector includes a side wall including an opening with a guide part at each both sides of the opening; a bottom wall including an insertion depression adapted to receive and support a corrugated tube, in communication with the opening; and a cover adapted to close the opening including a slide part slidably engaging with the guide part, and also including a projecting ridge and a rib inside, wherein the projecting ridge has an end face along a circumference of the corrugated tube, the rib has a projecting end face formed curved or sloped, continuous from the projecting ridge in a sliding direction of the cover, and the end face of the projecting ridge and the projecting end face of the rib smoothly intersects to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Suguru Sakai, Yoshihito Imaizumi, Hiroaki Takahashi, Ryouta Ando
  • Patent number: 8802981
    Abstract: One aspect provides of this disclosure provides a flush wall mounting system for an electronic controller. This embodiment comprises a housing for receiving electrical components therein and having a front panel and a back panel coupled to the front panel. The back panel has a raised portion extending therefrom. This aspect further includes a mounting plate removably couplable to the back panel of the housing and has front and back sides. The front side includes a flange around a perimeter thereof and has a recess formed therein configured to receive the raised portion of the back panel therein. The recess forms a raised portion extending from the back side and configured to be receivable within an opening in a wall. A method for manufacturing the mounting system is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Lennox Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Wallaert, Timothy H. Thorson, Thomas G. Pavlak
  • Patent number: 8031482
    Abstract: A mounting assembly device, system and method support multimedia/video distribution functionalities. The mounting assembly includes a front face and a rear housing sized to fit within a conventional wall box, e.g., a single gang box. The mounting assembly includes a balun that is adapted to receive and convert signals, such that signals received by the balun may be transmitted from a coaxial cable to twisted pair cable, and vice versa. Additional communication modalities may be supported by the mounting assembly device/system, e.g., conventional jack/plug based communications and/or wireless communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Ortronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark E. Martich
  • Patent number: 8023287
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a board having a first connector; a housing in which the board is disposed and which has a work opening for allowing external work for the board; and a cable which has an end reaching the board by passing through a path within the housing and has a second connector to be mated with the first connector and disposed at the end. The electronic device further includes a cable holding section provided at an inner wall of the housing and having a slit whose width is smaller than a size of the second connector. The cable holding section holds the cable so that a part of the cable reaches the work opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Tadanori Tachikawa, Sonomasa Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 7586038
    Abstract: An electrical junction box is provided to reduce looseness of a cover. The electrical junction box includes a box body and the cover to be slidably mounted on a lateral side of the box body from above. The cover has a front wall and a pair of left and right sidewalls connected to both left and right ends of the front wall to overlap with left and right connecting walls of the box body, providing a U-shaped cross section. The electrical junction box further includes first slide guides provided on both of the cover and the box body and second slide guides provided on both of the cover and the box body. The second slide guides are positioned in areas where the left and right sidewalls of the cover overlapping with the left and right connecting walls of the box body. Further, the second slide guides are closer to the front wall of the cover being mounted to the box body than the first slide guides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Kanamaru, Makoto Nakayama, Tarou Inoue
  • Patent number: 7507905
    Abstract: An electrical junction box facilitates a worker's wiring of a wire harness without using a superfluous component and allows the workability in assembling the electrical junction box as well as that in disassembling to be improved. The electrical junction box includes a box body and a cover to be mounted to the box body after wiring wire harnesses about the box body. The box body has wiring grooves shaped to have U-shaped cross sections and arranged on its exterior surface to accommodate the wire harnesses, which have been drawn out of the box body through its one side and further led from an upper part of the one side downwardly. Left and right sidewalls defining each groove are provided, at their leading ends, with temporary locking parts restricting slipping of the wire harness out of the wiring groove. The cover is provided with restricting walls (sidewalls, rib) restricting outward deflection of the left and right sidewalls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Kanamaru, Makoto Nakayama, Tarou Inoue