Power Strip Patents (Class 174/494)
  • Patent number: 11223172
    Abstract: An embedded electrical supply plug has a mounting base and a fastener connected to each other, wherein the mounting base is provided with a power taking contact assembly, a circuit board and a power supply connector that are electrically connected to each other, the mounting base is provided with a first fastening surface, and the fastener is provided with a second fastening surface opposite to the first fastening surface, the fastener and the mounting base are threadedly connected to adjust the distance between the first fastening surface and the second fastening surface. The electrical supply plug is applicable to support arms of different thickness by changing the connection mode, thereby improving the installation flexibility and application range of the electrical supply system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Self Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dong Chen
  • Patent number: 10978862
    Abstract: A cable bracket that can be used to hold and route electrical cables and other wires. The cable bracket has a base member and a plurality of thin flexible fingers projecting from the base member. The fingers define slots that are each adapted to releasably hold a cable or wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Inventor: Thomas Carl de Almeida
  • Patent number: 9961795
    Abstract: A power supply system for shelving system includes a support arm, and an electrical supply device mounted on the mounting plate. The support arm includes a mounting hole, and a mounting plate disposed in the mounting hole. The thickness of the mounting plate is less that the depth of the mounting hole. The electrical supply device includes a circuit board, and a first protection cover covering the circuit board. The circuit board is clamping between the mounting plate and the first protection cover. A side wall of the first protection cover opposite to the circuit board is flush with a side wall of the mounting hole. The assembly of the support arm can be completed without being affected by the electrical supply device as long as the end of the support art can be inserted into the punched hole as the side wall of the first protection cover opposite to the circuit board is flush with the side wall of the mounting hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Self Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong Chen, Jianguo Dong
  • Patent number: 9921383
    Abstract: A rack system comprising a plurality of removable housing modules each configured to hold a plurality of electronic modules in stepped rows, with the housing modules being arranged on a tray at least partly within a housing in a dense configuration, thereby providing ease of access to the electronic modules for routing wire connectors to each of the electronic modules in an organized manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Champion Optical Network Engineering, LLC
    Inventors: Keith Lewis, Oceanus Perry, Jr., Paul A. Hospodar
  • Patent number: 9640960
    Abstract: A customizable bus system includes a system module containing one or more accessory modules and is easily mounted along a surface in a workspace, such as the underside of a cabinet. The accessory modules provide conveniently located utility services and applications such as power, lighting or media connections, and may be interchanged within the bus system to provide particular services and applications where they are needed most. Additionally, the bus system may include a control center for controlling the operation of one or more of the accessory modules, such as manually or automatically. The bus system may also include multiple housings that are functionally linked, such as by a connector module having couplings for mechanically linking with housings and providing electrical or other connectivity between the housings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: The Wiremold Company
    Inventors: Mark Makwinski, Phillip Donald Prestigomo, Richard R. Picard
  • Publication number: 20140190735
    Abstract: A device that supplies electrical current to various outdoor locations via through-hole areas of building structures, such as window frames, door openings, etc. which includes a flatten portion with a male electrical outlet plug coupled to one end and one or more female electrical outlet(s) coupled to the other end. The male electrical outlet plug and/or the one or more female electrical outlet(s) can be coupled to the flattened portion by an electrical cord. The flattened portion includes two or more flat electrical conductors. A further embodiment is built into the structure of a window or the structure of a window frame and provides an interior accessible male electrical outlet plug (or electrical cord) and an accessible exterior female electrical outlet that are coupled together by wiring that extends through the window or window frame and optionally through a tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Inventor: Karen Nixon-Lane
  • Patent number: 8723055
    Abstract: An electric plug system includes a stabilizing base, a vertical support element extending from the base, a horizontal electrical socket block having a plurality of female electrical sockets that is coupled to the top of the vertical support element, and an electrical wire extending from the horizontal electrical socket block, down the vertical element, and along or through the base and there-beyond and terminating in a male electrical plug adapted to plug into a standard wall or floor electrical outlet. The vertical support element can be a telescoping tube with a height control knob.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Inventors: Gwen Beldock, Donald T. Beldock
  • Patent number: 8604343
    Abstract: A device that supplies electrical current to various outdoor locations via through-hole areas of building structures, such as window frames, door openings, etc. which includes a flatten portion with a male electrical outlet plug coupled to one end and one or more female electrical outlet(s) coupled to the other end. The male electrical outlet plug and/or the one or more female electrical outlet(s) can be coupled to the flattened portion by an electrical cord. The flattened portion includes two or more flat electrical conductors. A further embodiment is built into the structure of a window or the structure of a window frame and provides an interior accessible male electrical outlet plug (or electrical cord) and an accessible exterior female electrical outlet that are coupled together by wiring that extends through the window or window frame and optionally through a tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Inventor: Karen Nixon-Lane
  • Patent number: 8598453
    Abstract: A power strip hanging device and structure are provided. The hanging device includes a hanger element and a positioning seat. The hanger element has a pulling portion for being pulled by a user and a shoulder extended outward from the periphery of one end thereof. The positioning seat has an upper opening on one side and a lower opening on the opposite side communicating with the upper opening to form a receiving space therein, and is positioned firmly in an installation hole of a table, so that the hanging element can pass through the upper opening and be received in the receiving space with the shoulder resting on the rim of the upper opening. Thus, the hanging element is supported by the positioning seat, and the power strip can pass through the positioning seat and be secured under the table without occupying the space on a top of the table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Rite-Tech Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Feng-Hsiu Hsiao
  • Patent number: 8273998
    Abstract: An outlet box assembly for separating and insulating higher voltage power conductors from lower voltage data conductors. The assembly includes a housing, a housing divider and a bracket. The housing including at least one vertically extending side wall defining an interior space therein. The housing divider disposed within the housing and extending across the interior space forming a vertical barrier between a first housing compartment and a second housing compartment. The bracket capable of having secured thereto at least one of the higher voltage power conductors and at least one of the low voltage data conductors. The bracket including at least one partition separating conductor compartments therein, the at least one partition extending vertically and substantially perpendicular to the divider. A floor of each conductor compartment extends across at least a portion of both the first housing compartment and the second housing compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Thomas & Betts International, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark R. Drane
  • Patent number: 8217528
    Abstract: An electrical power supplying device for supplying electrical power to a group of electrical appliances located in an environment. The electrical power supplying device includes a power supply cord for plugging into a standard power receptacle by way of a supply power plug, and also a base housing portion having a 3D interior volume with a capacity for holding a plurality of power transformer modules associated with a group of electrical appliances located in the environment. A power-ring subassembly is supported within the base housing portion, and has a central aperture defining the boundaries of 3D interior volume, and adapted for supporting a plurality of electrical receptacles and one or more electronic circuits, which are electrically connected to the power supply cord.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: PUCline, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey Fleisig
  • Patent number: 8193658
    Abstract: An electrical power supplying device for supplying electrical power to a group of electrical appliances located in an environment. The electrical power supplying device includes a power supply cord for plugging into a standard power receptacle by way of a supply power plug, and also a base housing portion having a bottom surface. A power-ring subassembly is supported on the base housing portion, has a central aperture defining the boundaries of a 3D interior volume, and is adapted for supporting a plurality of electrical receptacles and one or more electronic circuits, which are electrically connected to the power supply cord. The power-ring housing portion for covering said power-ring subassembly and having a set of plug apertures, aligned with said electrical receptacles, and allowing appliance power plugs associated with said electrical appliances to plug into said electrical receptacles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: PUCline, LLC
    Inventor: Jeffrey Fleisig
  • Patent number: 8174147
    Abstract: An electrical power supplying device for supplying electrical power to a group of electrical appliances located in an environment. The electrical power supplying device includes a base housing portion having a bottom surface and a 3D interior volume. A power-ring subassembly is supported within the base housing portion, has a central aperture defining the boundaries of the 3D interior volume, and is adapted for supporting a plurality of electrical receptacles and one or more electronic circuits, which are electrically connected to a power supply cord. A power-ring housing portion covers the power-ring subassembly and has a set of plug apertures, aligned with the electrical receptacles, and allows appliance power plugs associated with the electrical appliances to plug into the electrical receptacles. A power cord portal allows a group of electrical power cords associated with the group of electrical appliances to enter/exit the 3D interior volume in a bundled manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: PUCline, LLC
    Inventor: Jeffrey Fleisig
  • Patent number: 8159085
    Abstract: A wall-mountable electrical power supplying device for supplying electrical power to a group of electrical appliances located in an environment. The wall-mountable device includes a power supply cord for plugging into a standard power receptacle by way of a supply power plug, and has a base housing portion having a bottom surface and a 3D interior volume. A power-ring subassembly is supported within the base housing portion, has a central aperture defining the boundaries of 3D interior volume, and is adapted for supporting a plurality of electrical receptacles and one or more electronic circuits, which are electrically connected to the power supply cord. A power-ring housing portion covers the power-ring subassembly and has a set of plug apertures allowing appliance power plugs associated with the electrical appliances to plug into the electrical receptacles mounted behind the plug apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: PUCline, LLC
    Inventor: Jeffrey Fleisig
  • Patent number: 8138430
    Abstract: An outdoor generator accessory comprising a window power strip, the power strip defining an encasement having a lower margin set within a window seat of a residence or commercial building, and upper margin sealed against a lower window panel, in inner surface having a plurality of AC outlets, an illumination source, circuit breakers for each outlet, and a CO detector, and a rear surface having a power inlet for connection to an outdoor electrical generator and a set of wires to be connected to the ground of the electrical generator to turn off the generator when the CO detector detects a minimal threshold amount of CO within the residence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Inventor: Jose Ucero
  • Publication number: 20110076877
    Abstract: A wall-mountable electrical power supplying device for mounting to a wall surface about a standard wall-mounted power receptacle, and supplying electrical power to a group of electrical appliances located in an environment. The wall-mountable device includes a base housing portion having a bottom surface and a 3D interior volume. A power-ring subassembly is supported within the base housing portion, has a central aperture defining the boundaries of 3D interior volume, and is adapted for supporting a plurality of electrical receptacles and one or more electronic circuits. An electrical power supply plug is integrated with the base housing portion, and is adapted for plugging into a standard wall-mounted power receptacle, and supplying electrical power to the power-ring subassembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Inventors: Jeffrey Fleisig, Fredrick Buch
  • Patent number: 7807924
    Abstract: A power post includes of a vertically disposed post member having a lower end which is embedded in the ground and which has one or more of the following mounted in the front portion thereof: an electrical receptacle, a water-proof speaker, and/or an Ethernet receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Inventor: David T. Wurzer
  • Publication number: 20090242265
    Abstract: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a power outlet unit. The power outlet unit includes an inlet, a first group of outlets spaced apart at intervals of one rack unit, a first circuit breaker electrically connected to the inlet and the first group of outlets, a second group of outlets spaced apart at intervals of one rack unit, and a second circuit breaker electrically connected to the inlet and the second group of outlets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Applicant: PANDUIT CORP.
    Inventors: Brendan F. Doorhy, Alva B. Eaton, Matthew C. Isoda, Charles T. Newcomb, Elsa V. Madrigal, Shahriar Allen, Rhonda L. Johnson, Donald J. Beran
  • Publication number: 20090152944
    Abstract: A power rail system comprises a rail for mounting on a surface and a device for providing power to the rail. An accessory releasably engages the rail and uses the power provided to the rail to power the accessory. The rail may also support non-powered accessories. In one embodiment the device for providing power to the rail comprises a power strip releasably mounted on the rail. The rail may include a first rail segment and a second rail segment where the device for providing power to the rail comprises a power strip located between the first rail segment and the second rail segment. The device for providing power to the rail may comprise an electrical conductor extending along a length of the rail. The electrical conductor is powered by a power module that connects to the rail. A power strip for use in the system is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2008
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Applicant: RUBBERMAID, INC.
    Inventors: Tim Baine, Lance Rake, Michael J. Scherzer, David Starr, Zach Utz, Robert J. Warner, JR.