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20080311802 | Push-in wire connector with improved busbar - A push-in wire connector has an improved busbar suitable for use with either solid or stranded wire. The connector has a housing with a hollow interior. At least two openings in the housing provide access to the interior for the ends of wires inserted into the connector. A busbar is mounted in the housing. The busbar defines at least two wire-crossing axes extending from an entry edge to an exit edge and a thickness between a top face and a bottom face. The busbar has a wire-receiving pocket extending below the top face on each of the wire-crossing axes and a wire-engaging protrusion extending above the top face on each of the wire-crossing axes. | 12-18-2008 |
20090017694 | Electrical disconnect with push-in connectors - A wire connector has an enclosure including a housing and a cap and one or more contacts supported in the enclosure. The contacts each have outer ends opposite wire ports in the cap to receive a stripped end of a wire in a push-in engagement. One set of contacts has a male blade and the other set of contacts has a female socket at the inner or forward ends thereof. The housings are arranged so that two housings are releasably engagable with one another. When two housings are engaged the male contacts electrically engages the female contacts of the other housing. The female contacts include a sacrificial tine that is always first to make and last to break engagement with the male contact so that any degradation due to arcing always occurs at the sacrificial tine. | 01-15-2009 |
20090104803 | ELECTRICAL DISCONNECT WITH PUSH-IN CONNECTORS - An electrical disconnect has first and second female contacts mounted in a power connector housing and first and second male contacts in a load connector housing. The male contacts each have a male blade contact finger. The female contacts each have a socket for removably receiving a male blade contact finger. At the rear ends of both the male and female contacts there are integrally formed push-in connector elements for receiving a conductor or wire. The disconnect is particularly suited for use in connecting power wires to a load device in a circuit, such as a fluorescent light ballast. | 04-23-2009 |
20090186517 | PUSH-IN WIRE CONNECTOR WITH IMPROVED BUSBAR - A push-in wire connector has an improved busbar suitable for use with either solid or stranded wire. The connector has a housing with a hollow interior. At least two openings in the housing provide access to the interior for the ends of wires inserted into the connector. A busbar is mounted in the housing The busbar defines at least two wire-crossing axes extending from an entry edge to an exit edge and a thickness between a top face and a bottom face. The busbar has a wire-receiving pocket extending below the top face on each of the wire-crossing axes and a wire-engaging protrusion extending above the top face on each of the wire-crossing axes. | 07-23-2009 |
20110164424 | Electrical Socket, Apparatus and System - A socket assembly, electrical apparatus and system are disclosed. The socket assembly may incorporate wire push-in terminations or accept wire plug terminations. The socket assembly may be joined to or integrally formed with the electrical apparatus. A plurality of the apparatus incorporating the socket assemblies may be combined into a system. Particular embodiments illustrating various configurations of the socket assemblies, light fixtures including such socket assemblies and a lighting system including a plurality of such light fixtures are disclosed. The socket assemblies also may incorporate terminal assemblies that include two or more metal components to permit daisy chaining of a plurality of the electrical apparatus. | 07-07-2011 |
20130077326 | DEVICE FOR HOLDING A SOURCE OF LED LIGHT - A lamp holder for holding a source of LED light includes a lamp holding component that is sized and arranged to securely receive the source of LED light. Keyed openings, engageable with fasteners associated with the mounting surface, are used to releasably attached the lamp holding component to the mounting surface and to urge the source of LED light against the mounting surface once the lamp holding component is attached thereto. Electrical contacts carried by the lamp holding component, provided to engage corresponding electrical contacts of the source of LED light, are also arranged to urge the source of LED light against the mounting surface when the lamp holding component is attached to the mounting surface. The lamp holding component also includes resiliently mounted holding elements for releasably holding the source of LED light in an accessible location. | 03-28-2013 |
20130233511 | HEAT SINK FOR USE WITH A LIGHT SOURCE HOLDING COMPONENT - A heat sink for use in connection with a LED light source holding assembly is provided with a flexible conduit fitting that is used to secure a flexible conduit directly to the heat sink. The heat sink may be provided with a sealed, integrated junction box. | 09-12-2013 |
20140154892 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTORS FOR USE WITH PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS - A connector for electrically connecting a conductor to a first printed circuit board (PCB) or for electrically connecting a first and second PCB together. A housing is adapted to be slidably moveable relative to a mounting structure to allow the mounting of the PCB to the surface and moveable over the PCB to contact pads located on the top side of the PCB. In another example, a bridging connector for electrically connecting a first PCB with a second PCB includes a resilient holding element, such as for example a spring clip, engageable with at least one of the PCBs and/or a surface supporting the PCB(s) to releasably retain the housing and the terminals in the correct location. | 06-05-2014 |
20140167501 | LOW VOLTAGE BUSS SYSTEM - An example low voltage buss system is provided. The low voltage bus system distributes low voltage DC power into the office workspace in a manner that reduces clutter and promotes customizable and efficient workspace usage. The low voltage bus system distributes low voltage DC power into the office workspace via an electrical buss having a connector at the end of the buss to distribute low voltage DC power to and throughout office workspace and, in particular, office furniture. | 06-19-2014 |
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20090119607 | INTEGRATION OF DISPARATE RENDERING PLATFORMS - A method and a processing device may be provided in which a number of disparate rendering platforms may be integrated to render a single integrated scene. The disparate rendering platforms may include logical trees of controls, which may define relationships among the controls. An integrated logical tree may formed from the logical trees of the disparate rendering platforms. At least some of the controls, related to a first rendering platform, may act as placeholders with respect to a second rendering platform. One of a number of different hosting modes may be employed to build upon the integrated logical tree to integrate the first rendering platform and the second rendering platform to produce a single integrated scene. Because the hosting modes may build upon the integrated logical tree, various embodiments may be capable of easily switching among the hosting modes. | 05-07-2009 |
20110225143 | QUERY MODEL OVER INFORMATION AS A NETWORKED SERVICE - Data is published by publishers to an information service configured to receive data sets and allow consumers to consume the data sets via queries. Structural information of the data sets (e.g., column information) is presented to the publishers to select which information of the data sets can be a search parameter and which information can be returned in query results. Query interfaces are automatically created based on the selections by the publisher, and the back end databases are optimized for such query interfaces, e.g., creation of indexes based on the search parameters or query results selected by the publisher. A query aggregator can automatically combine a given query interface with other query interfaces to form more complicated (but still permitted) queries based on the intersection of permissions for the given query interface and the other query interfaces. | 09-15-2011 |
20120158985 | DISTRIBUTED SMOOTH STREAMING UTILIZING DYNAMIC MANIFESTS - Content can be segmented and each segment encoded at multiple different quality levels. A manifest file can describe the segments, and encodings thereof, present on each computing device. A channel definition can define content, users and computing devices among which such content is shared. Computing devices receive notification of any new shared and can stream or download it from any one or more other computing devices that have such content encoded at a quality appropriate for the capabilities of the recipient computing device. The recipient computing device can aggregate manifests from currently available computing devices, or can receive an already aggregated manifest. The multi-segmented multi-encoded content can be obtained from multiple computing devices simultaneously by obtaining interleaving segments from individual computing devices. If content still cannot be obtained efficiently, a different encoding can be selected, thereby potentially making available other computing devices as additional sources. | 06-21-2012 |
20130060806 | Data Solution Composition Architecture - A solution composition architecture for accessing and processing data from multiple simple data sources is provided. The data solution composition architecture allows specification of a query involving any number of data sources for accessing and processing data to produce a solution. Upstream components pass the query (or a portion thereof) to other components. Receiving components process and/or provide the requested data, as applicable, and return the result as in input to the requesting upstream component. The resulting data solution obtained from the query is a single data stream containing a processed data set. Depending upon the availability of and access to the necessary components, the processed data set is generally ready for analysis and/or visualization by the requester. | 03-07-2013 |