| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 174151000 | Through wall or plate | 78 |
| 20080210455 | Hermetically-Sealed Feed-Through Device and Method of Assembly - A method of making a hermetically-sealed feed-through device includes inserting an elongate conductor or conductors within a hollow portion or portions of a plastic insulator body and inserting the plastic insulator body within a hollow outer jacket to form an assembly. At least one of the conductor or conductors, insulator body, or jacket of the assembly has a plurality of circumferential grooves. Thereafter, the assembly is crimped and/or is swage-crimped at ambient temperature to cause the materials of the conductor or conductors, insulator body, and outer jacket to be displaced or extrude into the grooves thereby creating mechanical interlocks between the conductor or conductors, insulator body, and outer jacket. Additional methods and feed-through devices made by the methods are also disclosed. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20110000699 | Co-fired metal and ceramic composite feedthrough assemblies for use at least in implantable medical devices and methods for making the same - A hermetic interconnect for medical devices is disclosed. In one embodiment, the interconnect includes platinum leads co-fired between alumina substrates to form a monolithic composite that is subsequently bonded into a titanium alloy flange. Both methodology for forming these interconnects as well as specific geometries and compositions are disclosed. Interconnects formed in this fashion enable significant reductions in overall size of the interconnect relative to the number of feedthrough leads as well as substantial improvements in robustness versus currently available technology. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20120160541 | Hermetically-Sealed Feed-Through Device and Method of Assembly - A method of making a hermetically-sealed feed-through device includes inserting an elongate conductor or conductors within a hollow portion or portions of a plastic insulator body and inserting the plastic insulator body within a hollow outer jacket to form an assembly. At least one of the conductor or conductors, insulator body, or jacket of the assembly has a plurality of circumferential grooves. Thereafter, the assembly is crimped and/or is swage-crimped at ambient temperature to cause the materials of the conductor or conductors, insulator body, and outer jacket to be displaced or extrude into the grooves thereby creating mechanical interlocks between the conductor or conductors, insulator body, and outer jacket. Additional methods and feed-through devices made by the methods are also disclosed. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20130032378 | HERMETIC FEEDTHROUGH - A hermetic feedthrough for an implantable medical device includes a sheet having a hole, where the sheet includes a ceramic comprising alumina. The feedthrough also includes a second material substantially filling the hole, where the second material includes a platinum powder mixture and an alumina additive. The platinum powder mixture includes a first platinum powder having a median particle size of between approximately 3 and 10 micrometers and a second platinum powder that is coarser than the first platinum powder and has a median particle size of between approximately 5 and 20 micrometers. The platinum powder mixture includes between approximately 50 and 80 percent by weight of the first platinum powder and between approximately 20 and 50 percent by weight of the second platinum powder. The first and second materials have a co-fired bond therebetween that hermetically seals the hole. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130292157 | FRAME FOR A CABLE PENETRATION SYSTEM, AND BUSH THEREFOR - The invention relates to a frame ( | 11-07-2013 |
| 174152000 | Bushing type | 73 |
| 20080314616 | HIGH PRESSURE, HIGH VOLTAGE PENETRATOR ASSEMBLY FOR SUBSEA USE - The invention relates to a high pressure, high voltage penetrator assembly for subsea use, wherein the assembly is upright attachable to a wet gas, subsea gas compressor, and wherein the assembly comprises a penetrator unit for feed-through of electric power to a compressor motor; a funnel shaped housing with a housing chamber, the penetrator unit being located at an upper end of the chamber; a grid located inside the chamber transversely of a longitudinal axis of the chamber, the penetrator unit being located above the grid, a filter located in the chamber below the grid and above an inlet to a housing of the compressor motor, and a sensor unit extending into the chamber from the penetrator unit and towards, but spaced from the grid. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20090032283 | Electric bushing and a method of manufacturing an electric bushing - A bushing for electrical current and/or voltage through a grounded plane. A substantially rotationally symmetrical insulating body surrounds a central electrical conductor. The bushing includes a sealing member for gas/liquid sealing between the conductor and the insulator body. The bushing includes a compressible sealing element, which forms a gas /liquid seal, integrated with the insulating body, between the conductor and the insulating body. A method of manufacturing a bushing. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090050351 | Hermetic electrical feedthrough assembly for a compressor and method for making the same - An electrical feedthrough assembly for providing connection to components of a compressor. The electrical feedthrough assembly includes a housing having an inner surface defining a channel. A sealed wire assembly is provided in the channel. The sealed wire assembly includes a body having an outer surface defining a groove and a plurality of wires sealingly passing through the body. An o-ring fits in the groove to provide a hermetic seal between the body and the inner surface of the housing. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090084579 | Electrical Power Feed Thru for Aircraft Fuselages - An electrical power feed thru for thin-walled vessels such as aircraft fuselages is disclosed which allows high electrical current power lines, and their associated high operating temperatures, to transition from the inside to the outside of the aircraft. The feed thru includes sealing surfaces, anti-rotation features and safety covers. This low-profile configuration permits the attached cables to run close to the fuselage walls, permitting easier routing and clamping. The feed thru has a variable geometry which permits alternate spacing of the end terminations in reference to the fuselage while maintaining the same parts. Installation is simplified through a single fuselage wall mounting hole design that can be done with a standard punch. The feed thru exceeds the shock and vibration environments of various aircraft such as a military aircraft. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20100018753 | HIGH VOLTAGE DEVICE, HIGH VOLTAGE BUSHING AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLING SAID DEVICE - A high voltage device comprises multi contacts as interfaces between internal components and bushings. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100163280 | FEED-THROUGH AND BUSHING - A feed-through for feeding electric power to a submerged pump installed in a tank for cryogenic liquefied gases such as LNG and LPG. In the feed-through, a bushing made of an insulating material is inserted in the bushing insertion hole of a flange, and a conductor is inserted in the hollow part of the bushing. A gap between the flange and each end of the bushing insertion hole and a gap between each end of the bushing and the conductor are sealed airtight by seal members. A through-hole is formed in the wall of the bushing, and a space part communicating with the through-hole is formed in the flange. The pressure in the space part of the flange is detected by a pressure detector. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20110061896 | Electrical power connection device - A power connection device, in particular for power connections of safety containers, is provided. To improve the operational safety, the power connection device includes two cascaded current feedthroughs, whereby the electrical connections between the conductors of the feedthrough are arranged in conduits of reduced volume so that the interstices between the conductors are at least partially filled. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20120055696 | HIGH VOLTAGE BUSHING - A high voltage bushing assembly includes an insulator shell adapted to enclose an electrical conductor. An annular flange is slidably received over the insulator shell, the annular sleeve formed with a radially outwardly directed flange at an upper end and a radially inwardly directed flange at a lower end, with a sleeve portion extending axially therebetween. The insulator shell has an outside diameter and the sleeve portion has an inside diameter sized to create an annular, radial gap therebetween filled with a high thermal endurance fiberglass-reinforced epoxy resin. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120285729 | ELECTRICAL WIRE HOLDING DEVICE - An electrical wire holding device includes a seal retention member having an insertion hole configured to allow an electrical wire to be inserted therethrough, and housed in a mounting hole formed in a mounted member, an outer periphery seal member retained on an outer peripheral surface of the seal retention member, and sealing a gap between an inner surface of the mounting hole and seal retention member, and an electrical wire holding member juxtaposed with the seal retention member along the electrical wire, and having a fixing part configured to retain the electrical wire and fixing the electrical wire to the mounted member. The seal retention member is configured to be relatively movable to the electrical wire holding member. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20130056242 | ARM ATTACHMENT BUSHING ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF USING SAME - A bushing assembly including a first bushing element, a second bushing element, and a locking subsystem. The first bushing element has a first end, a second end, a first outer surface with a first outer diameter, a first inner surface defining a first channel, and a first flange positioned proximate the first. The second bushing element has a first end, a second end, a second inner surface having a second inner diameter greater than the first outer diameter, a second outer surface, and a second flange positioned proximate the second end. The second inner surface defines a second channel that receives a portion of the first bushing element. The locking subsystem is proximate the first end of the first bushing element and secures the first bushing element to the second bushing element. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20140000936 | High Voltage Bushing With Support For The Conductor | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140166342 | SEALING DEVICE FOR FEEDING THROUGH FILAMENTS - Sealing device ( | 06-19-2014 |
| 20150129281 | WIRE HOLDER - A wire holder which is configured to hold an electric wire that is to be passed through a housing, includes: a resin-made holder body which is inserted into the housing, and in which a wire passing hole through which the electric wire is to be passed is formed; and annular rubber packings which are attached to an outer surface of the holder body and an inner surface of the wire passing hole, respectively, and which are formed by insert molding in which the holder body is set in a molding die. | 05-14-2015 |
| 20090229858 | INSULATOR FOR FEEDTHROUGH - A hermetically sealed microelectromechanical system (MEMS) package for an implantable medical device is presented. The MEMS comprises a first substrate that includes an aperture. A feedthrough assembly is coupled to the aperture; the feedthrough assembly comprises a conductive element housed in a glass insulating member. A second substrate is coupled to the first substrate. | 09-17-2009 |
| 20110048770 | INJECTION MOLDED FERRULE FOR COFIRED FEEDTHROUGHS - Feedthrough assemblies and methods of manufacturing feedthrough assemblies are provided. Methods include molding a ferrule comprising titanium using metal injection molding and positioning the ferrule about at least a portion of an insulator, the insulator comprising alumina. Methods also include overmolding a ferrule about at least a portion of an insulator using metal injection molding, the ferrule comprising titanium and the insulator comprising alumina. Sintering densifies the ferrule and provides a hermetic seal between the ferrule and insulator. The insulator may be fired or unfired prior to sintering of the ferrule. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110056731 | SOLID CORE GLASS BEAD SEAL WITH STIFFENING RIB - A hermetic feed-through includes a housing body defining a hollow space, a plurality of conductive pins and a seal structure. The plurality of conductive pins extend through the hollow space. The seal structure is provided in the hollow space and includes a single-piece glass component. The single-piece glass component hermetically seals at least two conductive pins to the housing body and electrically insulates the at least two conductive pins from the housing body. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20120193125 | CERMET-CONTAINING BUSHING FOR AN IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE HAVING A CONNECTING LAYER - One aspect relates to an electrical bushing for use in a housing of an implantable medical device. The electrical bushing includes at least one electrically insulating base body and at least one electrical conducting element. The conducting element establishes, through the base body, at least one electrically conductive connection between an internal space of the housing and an external space. The conducting element is hermetically sealed with respect to the base body. The at least one conducting element includes at least one cermet. The at least one conducting element includes at least one electrically conductive connecting layer. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20130284496 | Solid Core Glass Bead Seal With Stiffening Rib - A hermetic feed-through includes a housing body defining a hollow space, a plurality of conductive pins and a seal structure. The plurality of conductive pins extend through the hollow space. The seal structure is provided in the hollow space and includes a single-piece glass component. The single-piece glass component hermetically seals at least two conductive pins to the housing body and electrically insulates the at least two conductive pins from the housing body. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20090065235 | GROMMET - In a grommet ( | 03-12-2009 |
| 20100000764 | GROMMET - The present invention provides a grommet configured of an elastic body, which is externally mounted on a group of electric wires spanned between a vehicle-body panel and a movable body coupled to the vehicle-body panel with a hinge. The grommet includes short large-diameter tubular sections having annular locking grooves inserted into and locked to through-holes respectively provided in the vehicle-body panel and the movable body at both ends in the lengthwise direction; long small-diameter tubular sections that are continuous with the large-diameter tubular sections; and a corrugated tubular section continuously provided between the small-diameter tubular sections at the both ends, the corrugated tubular section being bent into a U shape when the movable body is closed. The small diameter tubular section at the locking side for the vehicle-body panel and a portion of the corrugated tubular section that is continuous with the small diameter tubular section are projectively provided with a rib that is continuous in a lengthwise direction, on outer peripheries thereof. The rib projects out of the outer peripheries of ridge and valley portions alternately provided on the corrugated tubular section, and the rigidity of the rib restrains the corrugated tubular section from curving outward. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100065305 | Electrical lead-through for safety tanks - An improved electrical lead-through, particularly for safety tanks, is provided that includes at least one electrical conductor which is guided through a rigid insulation material, wherein a silicone insulation is introduced over at least one segment of the conductor projecting on one side of the insulation material. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100071934 | Grommet Installation Tools and Methods - A grommet and corresponding installation system includes a grommet body with an outer surface and a cord that is attached to and extends outwardly from the grommet body, along with a grommet installation tool having a cord-engaging end removably attached to the cord such that the tool can be manipulated to tighten the cord which radially compresses the grommet body, whereby the tool can be used to pull the grommet through a panel hole when the grommet body is in such radially compressed state. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100181097 | GROMMET - A grommet includes a small tubular section, an enlarging tubular section continued from an end of the smaller tubular section, and an annular recess on an outer surface at a large diameter end of the enlarging tubular section. The small tubular section is inserted into a through-hole from one side of a vehicle body panel so that the annular recess engages the vehicle body panel. Stepped projections extend axially from the small tubular section to the annular recess. Each stepped projection has an angle rib that protrudes from a connecting end of the small tubular section to a position where the angle rib contacts a peripheral edge around the through-hole. Slopes of the angle ribs at upper positions contact a peripheral edge around the through-hole at a position where the slopes at the upper positions do not pass the annular recess. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100307794 | Grommet - A grommet providing triple sealing feature when mounted in an opening of a panel is disclosed. When the panel into which the grommet is mounted is between a compartment exposed to ambient conditions and a passenger compartment, a seal minimizes water, fumes, dust, and noise from entering into the passenger compartment. The triple seal, according to an embodiment, provides higher sealing forces than shown previously. The disclosed grommet can be engaged with a flat, non-flanged panel as well as a panel having a flange near the opening. The disclosed grommet has multiple longitudinal slits sawed through a tubular portion of the grommet through which the wiring harness is threaded. The cuts allow a subset of wires to be splayed out from the grommet at a different routing than the remainder of the wires in the wiring harness bundle. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20100314158 | GROMMET - A grommet includes a smaller diameter tubular section, an increasing diameter tubular section, and a larger diameter tubular section. The smaller diameter tubular section is connected through the increasing diameter tubular section to the larger diameter tubular section in an axial direction. A U-shape folded portion is provided on a connecting portion (a middle diameter tubular section) between the smaller diameter tubular section and the increasing diameter tubular section. A flap section that spreads conically toward the increasing diameter tubular section is provided on an outer periphery of the smaller diameter tubular section or an outer periphery of the folded portion. The folded portion is stretched straightly when the grommet is inserted into a through-hole. When a vehicle body latching recess is engaged with a peripheral edge around the through-hole, the folded portion returns to the original shape, and a distal end peripheral edge of the flap section contacts with a vehicle body panel at a passenger room side to define a sound absorbing closed space. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20110011625 | GROMMET - A grommet includes a small diameter tubular section and a large diameter tubular section contiguous with the small diameter tubular section. Both of the sections are attached to a wire harness for a motor vehicle by threading the wire harness through both of the sections. The small diameter tubular section is inserted into a through-hole in a vehicle body panel. The large diameter tubular section is provided on an outer peripheral surface with a vehicle body engagement annular recess. The recess is adapted to be engaged with the vehicle body panel. The large diameter tubular section is provided on the outer peripheral surface with a plurality of projecting portions that extend from a connecting part between both of the sections to a side wall of the vehicle body engagement annular recess in an axial direction of the large diameter tubular section and are separated apart from one another in a peripheral direction of the large diameter tubular section. Each of the projecting portions includes a contact point that initially contacts with an inner peripheral surface around the through-hole upon inserting the grommet into the hole, a bending point above the contact point, a distal end point at a side of the vehicle body engagement annular recess, and a proximal end point at the connecting part. Each of the projecting portions includes an increasing diameter directing slant portion that extends from the proximal end point through the contact point to the bending point in parallel to the outer peripheral surface of the large diameter tubular section, and a reducing diameter directing slant portion that extends from the bending point to the distal end point and inclines in a reversed slant direction. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110042123 | Sealing Grommet - A sealing grommet, particularly for data centers and the like, formed of one or a pair of U-shaped frame sections, each co-molded with a thermoplastic elastomeric seal of corrugated wave form, with corrugated edges of the seals exposed at the open sides of the U-shaped frames. A pair of such grommet sections joined together, with the corrugated edges arranged to be in contact and in phase, provides a uniquely efficient seal to hold back air under pressure while allowing various pass-through elements, such as cables, hoses, etc., to be extended through the grommet and while enabling the pass-through elements to be easily added, removed, or rearranged as may be necessary to accommodate the dynamic changes experienced in the operation of a data center. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110056730 | WIRING HARNESS INSTALLATION STRUCTURE FOR VEHICLE - A wiring harness installation structure is provided which can reduce the installing cost of a wiring harness by omitting an operation of injecting a water stop agent into an interior of a grommet. A grommet | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110073350 | GROMMET - Even if a wire harness that passes a grommet is bent sharply, a vehicle body latch recess of the grommet is not deformed, thereby enhancing a sealing function. A grommet includes: an inner tube having a smaller diameter and passing electrical cables in a wire harness in a close contact manner; an annular coupling section protruding from an outer peripheral surface of an intermediate part between both ends of the inner tube at a pushing-in side and a drawing-out side in a longitudinal direction; and an outer tube having a larger diameter, contiguous with an outer peripheral surface of the annular coupling section, and coaxially disposed around the inner tube through a space. The outer tube is provided with a slant wall section that reduces a diameter from a larger thickness portion at a coupling position with the annular coupling section to the drawing-out side. The outer tube is provided with a vehicle body latch recess between the larger thickness portion and the slant wall section in an annular manner. An inner peripheral surface at a smaller diameter end side of the slant wall section is spaced through a given clearance apart from an outer peripheral surface of the inner tube. Both ends of the inner tube protrude outward from the outer tube at the pushing-in side and drawing-out side. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110073351 | GROMMET - Even if a wire harness that passes a grommet is bent sharply, a vehicle body latch recess of the grommet is not deformed, thereby enhancing a sealing function. A grommet includes an inner tube through which electrical cables in a wire harness pass in a close contact manner, and an outer tube coupled through an annular coupling section to the inner tube and provided with a slant wall section. The slant wall section of the outer tube is provided with a curved portion at a position having an outer diameter equal to an inner diameter of a through-hole in a vehicle body panel. The curved portion has a different inclination angle from the slant wall section. An inclination angle of the slant wall section at a larger diameter side with respect to the curved portion is set to be smaller than an inclination angle at a smaller diameter side with respect to the curved portion. A larger thickness portion is contiguous with a larger diameter end of the slant wall in parallel to an axial direction. A vehicle body latch recess is provided in an outer peripheral surface of the slant wall section between the larger diameter end of the slant wall and the larger thickness portion in an annular manner. The slant section is provided with a plurality of stepped projecting ribs that extend from a smaller diameter end of the slant wall section to the larger diameter end and are spaced apart from one another in a peripheral direction. The slant wall section is provided on an inner peripheral surface at the smaller diameter side with a bending stress absorbing portion of which an inner surface is recessed annularly to be a smaller thickness. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110079417 | GROMMET - Even if a wire harness that passes a grommet is bent sharply, a vehicle body latch recess of the grommet is not deformed, thereby enhancing a sealing function. A grommet includes: an inner tube for passing electrical cables in said wire harness in a close contact manner; and an outer tube contiguous with an outer peripheral surface of said inner tube and provided with a slant wall section. The slant wall section of the outer tube is provided with a curved portion at an outer diametrical position having an outer diameter corresponding to an inner diameter of the through-hole. The curved portion has a different inclination angle from the slant wall section. An inclination angle of an outer peripheral surface of the slant wall section at a larger diameter side with respect to the curved portion is set to be smaller than an inclination angle at a smaller diameter side with respect to the curved portion. A larger thickness portion is contiguous with a larger diameter end of the slant wall in parallel to an axial direction of the inner tube. A vehicle body latch recess is provided in an annular manner in an outer peripheral surface of a boundary area between the larger diameter end of the slant wall section and the larger thickness portion. A part from an inner peripheral surface of the larger thickness portion to an inner peripheral surface corresponding to the curved portion of the slant wall section extends in parallel to the axial direction of the inner tube. The part has a larger thickness. The slant wall section is provided on an outer peripheral surface with a plurality of stepped projecting ribs that extend from a smaller diameter end of the slant wall section to the larger diameter end and are spaced apart from one another in a peripheral direction. The slant wall section is provided in an inner peripheral surface of each stepped projecting rib with a recess that extends along a whole longitudinal length of the each stepped projecting rib. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20120211262 | GROMMET WITH SILENCER - A grommet includes a small diameter tubular portion to which a wire harness is tightly fitted and inserted therethrough, and a large diameter tubular portion continuous to one end of the small diameter tubular portion. A silencer made of rubber is fitted within the large diameter tubular portion. The silencer includes a flat circular piece blocking a central cavity of the large diameter tubular portion. A wire harness insertion hole is provided on the flat circular piece communicating with the small diameter tubular portion of the grommet. A slit is provided from the wire harness insertion hole to an outer peripheral surface of the flat circular piece in order to insert the wire harness into the wire harness insertion hole with sideways insertion. The slit is provided with an irregularly shaped line portion to inhibit separation, configured with a keyhole-shaped or a dovetail groove-shaped line between both ends. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120285727 | GROMMET - A grommet includes a wire passage supporting a wire harness, a pinch-grip, and a connector. The pinch-grip is fixable to a vehicle body panel by pinching a peripheral edge of the panel surrounding a through-hole. The connector has an annular shape having a curved portion recessed to an inner periphery, the recessed portion extending in a peripheral direction. One end of the connector is joined to the wire passage and the other end is joined to the pinch-grip. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120285728 | CORRUGATED TUBE PROTECTOR - 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. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20130008693 | GROMMET FOR WIRE HARNESS - A grommet is fit externally to a wire harness to be wired in a vehicle and mounted in a through hole of a vehicle-body panel. The grommet has a small-diameter cylindrical portion molded of elastomer and through which the wire harness is tightly inserted. A radial projection in the form of bellows projects radially out from an outer peripheral position of an intermediate longitudinal part of the small-diameter portion. An outer peripheral portion is connected to the outer peripheral end of the radial projection. The outer peripheral portion has a conical tubular shape and is connected at an intermediate longitudinal position to the radial projection. An annular vehicle-body locking recess is provided on the outer peripheral surface of a large-diameter side of the outer peripheral portion. A small-diameter side is thicker than the radial projection portion. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130043059 | GROMMET - When a grommet provided with a wire insertion tubular portion is mounted in a through-hole of a vehicle body panel by engaging a vehicle body engagement recess on an outer periphery of the grommet with a peripheral edge of the through-hole, the present invention prevents the wire insertion tubular portion from being caught by the peripheral edge of the through-hole, bending toward the vehicle body engagement recess side, and being wedged in between the peripheral edge of the through-hole and the vehicle body engagement recess, and thus enables the grommet to be securely mounted in the through-hole. A rib is provided between an outer peripheral surface on a central axis line side of a wire insertion tubular portion and a peripheral wall of a central tubular portion in order to reinforce a base on the central axis line side of the wire insertion tubular portion. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130068502 | DRY DOOR GROMMET - A protective wiring grommet that prevents water or debris from entering the grommet. The grommet includes a lower member, an intermediate member coupled to the lower member; and an upper member coupled to the intermediate member. The lower member, the intermediate member, and the upper member collectively define a wiring trough, a wiring conduit in communication with the trough that extends substantially orthogonal to the wiring trough in a first direction, and a wiring feed tube in communication with the wiring conduit that extends substantially orthogonal to the wiring conduit in a second direction. Such a configuration assists in routing wiring within the vehicle and through the grommet, to reduce manufacturing costs and efforts, as well as maintenance costs and efforts. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130075133 | BUSHING OF AN ELECTRICAL CONDUCTOR - A bushing of an electrical conductor through a wall which separates two regions from one another, wherein the conductor extends through a passage in the wall, at a distance from said wall, characterized in that a sleeve, which is electrically insulated from the passage and is hermetically sealed, preferably extends approximately coaxially through the passage, and in that the electrical conductor extends through the sleeve and is incorporated in the sleeve in a hermetically sealed, preferably integral, manner. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130140060 | GROMMET WITH SERVICE PORT HAVING TWO CLOSED ENDS - A grommet includes a body having a first wall and a second wall. A passageway extends from the first wall to the second wall, and a service port extends from a first end adjacent to the first wall to a second end adjacent to the second wall. A first cap is integral with the first wall and covers the first end of the service port. Similarly, a second cap is integral with the second wall and covers the second end of the service port. | 06-06-2013 |
| 20130180759 | ACCORDION-STYLE GROMMET WITH SHAPE-INFLUENCING STIFFENERS - A grommet for housing electrical wires constructed in accordance with the teachings of the present disclosure includes a mounting structure, a tube, and a plurality of stiffeners. The mounting structure is configured to mount to a panel of a vehicle, the mounting structure defining a first passage extending therethrough. The tube extends from the mounting structure and defines a second passage in communication with the first passage. The tube includes a corrugated portion having a plurality of ridges and a plurality of grooves interposed between the plurality of ridges. The stiffeners are interposed between those of the plurality of ridges that are disposed within a zone of the corrugated portion. The stiffeners extend partially around a circumference of the tube. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130199823 | GROMMET - A grommet has an engagement tube with an elliptical cross-section and is provided continuous with and bent from a leading end of a narrow tube through which the wire harness passes while coming into close contact therewith. An annular vehicle body engagement recess is provided in an outer circumferential surface of the engagement tube. Arc-side reinforcements protrude radially inward at connecting positions between a circumferential wall of the narrow tube and arc-shaped circumferential walls of the engagement tube that face each other in a major axis direction. The thickness of the arc-side reinforcements is greater than the thickness of connecting positions between the circumferential wall of the narrow tube and respective linear circumferential walls that face each other in a minor axis direction. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130292158 | GROMMET AND METHOD OF MOUNTING THEREOF - A grommet ( | 11-07-2013 |
| 20140014397 | Sleeve for Protecting Wire or Cable - A sleeve is provided for protecting wire or cable which is run through an aperture in a stud. The sleeve comprises a slit which runs longitudinally along the length of the sleeve for receiving a wire or cable and an opening at each end to allow for entrance and exit of the wire or cable. Extended portions of the sleeve on each end further protect the enclosed wire or cable. A weakened bend line which runs longitudinally along the length of the sleeve and opposite the slit in the sleeve allows the sleeve to be easily bent by hand compression along the bend line so that the sleeve can be easily installed around the wire or cable without the use of any hand tools. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140020930 | GROMMET - In a grommet | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140041899 | HARNESS COVERS FOR VEHICLE DOORS - A harness cover covering a wiring harness between a vehicle body and a door and having a cylindrical shape that is configured to accommodate the wiring harness on an inner circumferential side thereof may include a door-side grommet attached to one end thereof and capable of being connected to a grommet hole formed in the door, a body-side grommet attached to the other end thereof and capable of being connected to a grommet hole formed in vehicle body, and a bellows-shaped portion positioned between the body-side grommet and the door-side grommet. A set number of and a height of angled portions of the bellows-shaped portion are determined such that when the bellows-shaped portion is extended to a maximum at a time when the door is opened, a spread angle of each angled portion creates an acute angle. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140054064 | GROMMET ASSEMBLY - A grommet assembly that has a retainer and a grommet that is coupled to the retainer. The retainer includes first and second body portions that are connected via a hinge that permits the first and second body portions to be spread apart into an open condition to receive a wire harness. The retainer also includes a latch that permits the first and second body portions to be held in a closed position. The grommet is coupled to the retainer and is configured to form a seal about the retainer. The grommet can have seal members that sealingly engage one another when the retainer is latched in the closed position. Additionally or alternatively, the retainer can have a channel that is configured to support a wire harness and the grommet can have a resilient tubular portion that can be stretched over the channel and the wire harness. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140166341 | DUST TIGHT AND WATER TIGHT SEAL FOR CONDUIT/JUNCTION BOX CONNECTION - A gasket system is described for use with a conduit and junction box dust-tight seal assembly. The seal assembly includes a two-piece split clamp, each clamp having a shaft portion, a flange portion, a locknut cavity portion and lip portion. The gasket system includes one or more of a shaft gasket, a flange gasket, and a lip gasket that are mounted on and are used in conjunction with the overall seal assembly. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140196931 | GROMMET - A grommet includes a resin inner assembled to a grommet main body composed of a rubber or elastomer, a seal lip provided in the grommet main body to press against an outer surface of a body panel, and an engagement tab provided in the resin inner to engage with a periphery of a through-hole in the body panel. A base portion of the seal lip projects from a resin inner holder of the grommet main body: An inclined portion projects outward from the base portion. The inclined portion has a seal projection. A plurality of deformation prevention ribs are provided in a circumferential direction with intervals therebetween to connect the front end side of the inclined portion and the resin inner holder. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20150144378 | GROMMET - A grommet to be inserted into a mounting hole of a panel includes a grommet inner and a grommet outer assembled to the grommet inner so as to cover the grommet inner. The grommet outer includes: electrical cable insertion tubes each through which an electrical cable is inserted; a flange integrally formed with the electrical cable insertion tubes and positioned facing the opening edge of the mounting hole; and an annular lip extending from the flange and positioned in close abutment against the opening edge. The annular lip is provided with a pressing part for pressing the annular lip against the opening edge of the mounting hole, when the grommet inner and the grommet outer in the assembled state have been inserted into the mounting hole and the flange and the annular lip are urged into abutment. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20160123002 | Through-Penetration Device, Method for Manufacturing a Through-Penetration Device, and Method for Installing a Through-Penetration Device - A through-penetration device has a molded body consisting essentially of an intumescent foam material and having at least one penetration opening for one line. An outer contour of the molded body has protrusions extending radially outward for anchoring within a cast building component, which protrusions form undercuts in building component as the building component is being cast. In addition, a mounting plate that can be axially pushed onto the through-penetration device, sealing the penetration openings, is provided. As the through-penetration device is produced, a liquid coating material is applied to a surface of a foaming mold, and then a foam mass containing a predetermined percentage of intumescent material is introduced into the foaming mold. After a foaming process, the coating material forms a water-impermeable skin on the foamed molded body. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160148727 | ELECTRIC BUSHINGS HAVING INSULATION MEDUIUM RETENTION SEALS - Systems and methods for providing electrical bushings for maintaining a seal during severe incidents are provided. The bushings provide for relatively large gap formations and seal spacings by using one or more self-modulating seals. In certain configurations, the bushings provide for relatively large gap formations and seal spacings by using a wider or narrow top portion adjacent to a relatively narrower middle portion. The systems and methods can be also applied to other apparatus when deemed proper. | 05-26-2016 |
| 174153000 | Opposed wall engaging means | 22 |
| 20080302557 | Attachment Device for an Electrical Connection Terminal for Attachment to a Housing Wall - An attachment device for electrical connection terminals to pass through a housing wall includes a terminal housing including an insulating material. The terminal housing is attachable in an opening in the housing wall. The attachment device includes an attachment insert detachably affixable in the terminal housing. The attachment insert is configured to attach the terminal housing in the opening of the housing wall. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20100243294 | SUPPORT DEVICE FOR AN ELECTRICAL HARNESS PASSING THROUGH A STRUCTURE - A support device for supporting at least one electric harness where it passes through a through hole in a composite material structure, said structure presenting two faces into which said hole opens out, said device comprising a first element made of dielectric material presenting a first bearing surface designed to be applied against one of the faces of the structure and a sleeve having a first end secured to said first bearing surface and having outside dimensions that are smaller than those of said hole so as to be capable of being inserted therein, and a second element made of dielectric material presenting at least one second bearing surface suitable for being applied against the other face of the structure, said first and second elements being fastened together in the thickness of said sleeve by using at least one clip tab secured to one of said first and second elements and at least one clip notch provided in the other element. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20140000937 | METHOD FOR PASSING AN ELECTRICAL CABLE THROUGH A HOLE AND DEVICE FOR SAME | 01-02-2014 |
| 20080230257 | GROMMET AND ASSEMBLING METHOD THEREFOR | 09-25-2008 |
| 20090014203 | VEHICLE GROMMET - A grommet is attached between a body panel and a trunk lid at a location spaced from a hinge structure that movably supports the trunk lid. The grommet forms a wiring passageway between an opening in the body panel and an opening in the trunk lid. The grommet includes a body mounting end, a closure panel mounting end, a first flexible section, a second flexible section and a middle flexible section. The first flexible section extends from the body mounting end and the second flexible section extends from the closure panel mounting end. The middle flexible section extends between the first and second flexible sections in a free floating configuration with respect to the hinge structure, with the first and second flexible sections having a more bendable configuration than the middle flexible section. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090084580 | GROMMET FOR CABLES - A cable grommet system for installation in data centers, offices and the like, for sealing cable openings in raised flooring, wall or ceiling panels, server cabinets, etc. to facilitate the installation and revision of wiring and cabling to server installations while minimizing losses of any provided conditioned air. A wide variety of grommet configurations is possible with a limited number of component parts. An advantageous acute angle mounting of sealing brushes enhances the sealing effectiveness thereof, particularly for smaller sizes of cable openings. In some embodiments, a novel arrangement of electrical conductors is incorporated into the grommet structures for dissipation of electrostatic charges, enabling the basic frame components to be formed of a flame retardant material. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090151983 | GROMMET FOR CABLES - A cable grommet system for installation in data centers, offices and the like, for sealing cable openings in raised flooring, wall or ceiling panels, server cabinets, etc. to facilitate the installation and revision of wiring and cabling to server installations while minimizing losses of any provided conditioned air. A wide variety of grommet configurations is possible with a limited number of component parts. An advantageous acute angle mounting of sealing brushes enhances the sealing effectiveness thereof, particularly for smaller sizes of cable openings. In some embodiments, a novel arrangement of electrical conductors is incorporated into the grommet structures for dissipation of electrostatic charges, enabling the basic frame components to be formed of a flame retardant material. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090242235 | FASTENING DEVICE FOR A LINE - A fastening device for a line, in particular for an electric cable ( | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090314518 | CABLE INSERTION STRUCTURE FOR OUTBOARD MOTOR - In a cable insertion structure for an outboard motor, a pawl section and a supporting section of a resinous cap are inserted from the inside of a cowling into a communicating hole of a rubber grommet, and the pawl section is fitted into a recess. Then, the communicating section of the rubber grommet is sandwiched between the pawl section and the pressing section, and thus the resinous cap is fixed to the rubber grommet. In the above-described state, a cable is inserted from an insertion hole of the resinous cap into a cable housing section of the rubber grommet. A clip band is fastened to a groove of the cable housing section to fix the cable housing section to the cable. The cable insertion structure for an outboard motor prevents a rubber grommet from coming off even when an external force that pulls the cable is applied. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20100025077 | GROMMET - A grommet that sheathes a wire harness for a motor vehicle comprising a smaller diameter tubular section provided at one end of the grommet and capable of being inserted into a through-hole in the motor vehicle, a tapered tubular section including a slant wall extending from the smaller diameter tubular section and the slant wall includes a pair of opposed longer sides, a pair of opposed shorter sides, and corner slant sides provided between the longer sides and the shorter sides, and a larger diameter tubular section extending through a vehicle body locking recess to a larger end part of the tapered tubular section and the larger diameter tubular section includes a pair of opposed longer sides, a pair of opposed shorter sides, and four round corners, the tapered tubular section is capable of deformation inward such that the vehicle body locking recess is engaged with the through-hole. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100147557 | Grommet - The present invention provides a grommet, made of an elastic body, which is externally mounted on a group of electric wires to be spanned between a car-body panel and a movable body consisting of a door or a trunk lid coupled to the car-body panel through a hinge member. The grommet has large-diameter cylindrical parts which are disposed on one and other ends thereof in a longitudinal direction thereof and have an annular locking groove respectively to be inserted into and locked to a through-hole formed through the car-body panel and a through-hole formed through the trunk lid respectively; small-diameter cylindrical parts continuous with the large-diameter cylindrical parts respectively; and a bellows-like cylindrical part provided between the small-diameter cylindrical parts with the bellows-like cylindrical part continuous with the small-diameter cylindrical parts. The bellows-like cylindrical part is bent in the shape of U, when the movable body is closed. The bellows-like cylindrical part has large-diameter mountain portions and small-diameter valley portions formed over a whole length thereof at regular intervals with the mountain portions continuous and alternating with the valley portions. In a state in which the bellows-like cylindrical part is bent in the shape of U, a thickness of a thick region including an apex of a bent portion therein is set larger than that of other region so that a curvature of the bent portion is large. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20110061897 | GROMMET - To provide a grommet of which a vehicle body latch recess is not deformed, thereby maintaining a good sealing function, even if a wire harness that passes the grommet is bent sharply. The grommet includes: an inner tube for passing electrical cables in the wire harness in a close contact manner; an annular coupling section protruding from an outer peripheral surface of the inner tube; and an outer tube contiguous with an outer peripheral surface of the annular coupling section and disposed coaxially with the inner tube. The outer tube is adapted to couple the annular coupling section to a larger thickness portion of the outer tube and to couple a reducing diameter slant wall section to the larger thickness portion. The outer tube is provided on an outer peripheral surface at a boundary area between the larger thickness portion and the slant wall section with a vehicle body latch recess in an annular manner. The annular coupling section is formed into a smaller thickness. The annular coupling section is bent in a V-shaped configuration from an inner peripheral end coupled to the outer peripheral surface of the inner tube to an outer peripheral end coupled to an inner peripheral surface of the outer tube. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110198110 | GROMMET FOR WIRE HARNESS - In a grommet fitted around a wire harness wired in a vehicle, and mounted in a through hole of a vehicle body panel, a radially outward extending portion is provided on an outer peripheral surface at an end of a small diameter cylinder portion, in which the wire harness is tightly inserted. A large diameter cylinder portion is connected to an outer peripheral end of the radially outward extending portion. An annular vehicle body engaging recessed portion is provided in an outer peripheral surface of the large diameter cylinder portion. An annular stretchable portion is provided at a portion connecting the small diameter cylinder portion to the radially outward extending portion. The stretchable portion extends in a direction same as a direction that the large diameter cylinder portion extends and is then folded backward, to form a U-shape. A step is provided on an inner peripheral surface at a boundary position between the small diameter cylinder portion and the stretchable portion, such that a thickness of the stretchable portion is thinner than a thickness of the small diameter cylinder portion. An annular rib is provided on an outer peripheral surface of the boundary position. Radially extending restoring ribs are provided on a convex side surface of the stretchable portion circumferentially spaced in-between. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110203833 | GROMMET - A grommet includes an outer body and an inner body. The outer body, is formed with a wire insertion hole through which a wire is inserted, and has a panel fitting portion at a circumferential portion thereof. The panel fitting portion fits in a first panel hole having a first diameter. The inner body, is attached to the outer body, and has a locking fitting portion at a circumferential portion thereof. The locking fitting portion fits in a second panel hole having a second diameter smaller than the first diameter and locks an inner edge portion of the second panel hole. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20120217041 | GROMMET - First and second grommets are each positioned in contact with vehicle body panel surfaces through which a wire harness through-hole has been bored. The first and second grommets are each integrally formed from rubber or an elastomer with a small diameter tubular portion, to which a wire harness is adhered, then inserted and fixated by tape-winding, and with a large diameter tubular portion extending from one end of the small diameter tubular portion. One portion of a stud bolt fixatedly inserted into a bolt hole bored in the peripheral rim of the wire harness through-hole on the vehicle body panel and protruding from both surfaces of the vehicle body panel passes through a bolt hole provided on the first grommet and is fixated by a nut, while another portion of the stud bolt passes through a bolt press-fitting hole provided on the second grommet. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120325521 | GROMMET - A grommet is fit on a pipe harness formed by inserting a wire harness into a metallic pipe. The grommet has a small-diameter tube configured to allow insertion of the pipe harness therethrough in a tight manner. The small-diameter tube has an inner diameter B obtained by adding an allowable tolerance dimension α to an outer diameter A of the pipe. Two annular ribs project from an outer peripheral surface of the small-diameter tube on the side of a distal end opening and a band winding portion is interposed between the annular ribs. An annular sealing lip projects from an inner peripheral surface of the small-diameter tube at an inner position displaced from a position corresponding to the band winding portion. The sealing lip has an inner diameter C obtained by subtracting the allowable tolerance dimension a from the outer diameter A of the pipe. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20130153265 | INSULATIVE WIRE-CLIPPING BUSHING - An insulative wire-clipping bushing includes a main body, support frames and a pair of clip bodies. The main body has a first surface and a second surface, and the support frames are installed and extended from symmetric edges of the first surface, and ends of the support frames are bent inwardly to form a half-hood structure, and the pair of clip bodies are installed and extended from the first surface and disposed between the support frames, and the pair of clip bodies are installed symmetrically, and ends of the pair of clip bodies are bent inwardly to form a tapered hook structure, and a wiring space is formed between the ends of the clip bodies, so that the bushing can be passed into a through hole of an electricity distribution box to pass and install at least one wire and provide a clipping force required for clamping the wire. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20140116752 | LOWER FIREWALL PLATE GROMMET - A grommet for an aircraft fire seal has multiple grommet layers. Each of the grommet layers includes a thickness and a complex geometrical face normal to the thickness. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140151087 | WATER STOP STRUCTURE FOR WIRE HARNESS AND WIRE HARNESS - A water stop structure for a wire harness includes a cylindrical shield shell which is disposed at an intermediate portion of a shield member in a longitudinal direction, an outer water stop mechanism which is disposed on a side of an outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical shield shell, and an inner water stop mechanism which is disposed on a side of an inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical shield shell. The inner water stop mechanism has an elastic water stop plug member. A shell-side seal portion which is in watertight contact with the inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical shield shell and one or plural conducting path-side seal portions which are in watertight contact with outer peripheral surfaces of covers of the conducting paths are formed on the water stop plug member. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140190725 | DUAL WALL SLIT-LESS DASHBOARD GROMMET FOR VEHICLES - A grommet mounted on an opening through an interface within a vehicle. The interface separates a source side compartment from a receiving side compartment of the vehicle. The grommet has a first portion mounted in the surface of the interface facing the receiving side compartment. The first portion has a hollow channel that projects towards the receiving side compartment and delivers a bunch of wires to the receiving side compartment. The channel has an end that communicates with the source side compartment. A second portion of the grommet is mounted in a surface of the interface facing the source side compartment. The second portion has a pliable tubular member communicating with and leading into the channel of the first portion. The tubular member receives the bunch of wires from the source side compartment and delivers the bunch to the receiving side compartment. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20160180988 | GROMMETS FOR SUPPORTING HARNESSES AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS INCLUDING THE SAME | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160254079 | Conductor Grommet Assembly | 09-01-2016 |
| 174153000 | Grommets | 19 |
| 20080302557 | Attachment Device for an Electrical Connection Terminal for Attachment to a Housing Wall - An attachment device for electrical connection terminals to pass through a housing wall includes a terminal housing including an insulating material. The terminal housing is attachable in an opening in the housing wall. The attachment device includes an attachment insert detachably affixable in the terminal housing. The attachment insert is configured to attach the terminal housing in the opening of the housing wall. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20100243294 | SUPPORT DEVICE FOR AN ELECTRICAL HARNESS PASSING THROUGH A STRUCTURE - A support device for supporting at least one electric harness where it passes through a through hole in a composite material structure, said structure presenting two faces into which said hole opens out, said device comprising a first element made of dielectric material presenting a first bearing surface designed to be applied against one of the faces of the structure and a sleeve having a first end secured to said first bearing surface and having outside dimensions that are smaller than those of said hole so as to be capable of being inserted therein, and a second element made of dielectric material presenting at least one second bearing surface suitable for being applied against the other face of the structure, said first and second elements being fastened together in the thickness of said sleeve by using at least one clip tab secured to one of said first and second elements and at least one clip notch provided in the other element. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20140000937 | METHOD FOR PASSING AN ELECTRICAL CABLE THROUGH A HOLE AND DEVICE FOR SAME | 01-02-2014 |
| 20080230257 | GROMMET AND ASSEMBLING METHOD THEREFOR | 09-25-2008 |
| 20090014203 | VEHICLE GROMMET - A grommet is attached between a body panel and a trunk lid at a location spaced from a hinge structure that movably supports the trunk lid. The grommet forms a wiring passageway between an opening in the body panel and an opening in the trunk lid. The grommet includes a body mounting end, a closure panel mounting end, a first flexible section, a second flexible section and a middle flexible section. The first flexible section extends from the body mounting end and the second flexible section extends from the closure panel mounting end. The middle flexible section extends between the first and second flexible sections in a free floating configuration with respect to the hinge structure, with the first and second flexible sections having a more bendable configuration than the middle flexible section. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090084580 | GROMMET FOR CABLES - A cable grommet system for installation in data centers, offices and the like, for sealing cable openings in raised flooring, wall or ceiling panels, server cabinets, etc. to facilitate the installation and revision of wiring and cabling to server installations while minimizing losses of any provided conditioned air. A wide variety of grommet configurations is possible with a limited number of component parts. An advantageous acute angle mounting of sealing brushes enhances the sealing effectiveness thereof, particularly for smaller sizes of cable openings. In some embodiments, a novel arrangement of electrical conductors is incorporated into the grommet structures for dissipation of electrostatic charges, enabling the basic frame components to be formed of a flame retardant material. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090151983 | GROMMET FOR CABLES - A cable grommet system for installation in data centers, offices and the like, for sealing cable openings in raised flooring, wall or ceiling panels, server cabinets, etc. to facilitate the installation and revision of wiring and cabling to server installations while minimizing losses of any provided conditioned air. A wide variety of grommet configurations is possible with a limited number of component parts. An advantageous acute angle mounting of sealing brushes enhances the sealing effectiveness thereof, particularly for smaller sizes of cable openings. In some embodiments, a novel arrangement of electrical conductors is incorporated into the grommet structures for dissipation of electrostatic charges, enabling the basic frame components to be formed of a flame retardant material. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090242235 | FASTENING DEVICE FOR A LINE - A fastening device for a line, in particular for an electric cable ( | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090314518 | CABLE INSERTION STRUCTURE FOR OUTBOARD MOTOR - In a cable insertion structure for an outboard motor, a pawl section and a supporting section of a resinous cap are inserted from the inside of a cowling into a communicating hole of a rubber grommet, and the pawl section is fitted into a recess. Then, the communicating section of the rubber grommet is sandwiched between the pawl section and the pressing section, and thus the resinous cap is fixed to the rubber grommet. In the above-described state, a cable is inserted from an insertion hole of the resinous cap into a cable housing section of the rubber grommet. A clip band is fastened to a groove of the cable housing section to fix the cable housing section to the cable. The cable insertion structure for an outboard motor prevents a rubber grommet from coming off even when an external force that pulls the cable is applied. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20100025077 | GROMMET - A grommet that sheathes a wire harness for a motor vehicle comprising a smaller diameter tubular section provided at one end of the grommet and capable of being inserted into a through-hole in the motor vehicle, a tapered tubular section including a slant wall extending from the smaller diameter tubular section and the slant wall includes a pair of opposed longer sides, a pair of opposed shorter sides, and corner slant sides provided between the longer sides and the shorter sides, and a larger diameter tubular section extending through a vehicle body locking recess to a larger end part of the tapered tubular section and the larger diameter tubular section includes a pair of opposed longer sides, a pair of opposed shorter sides, and four round corners, the tapered tubular section is capable of deformation inward such that the vehicle body locking recess is engaged with the through-hole. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100147557 | Grommet - The present invention provides a grommet, made of an elastic body, which is externally mounted on a group of electric wires to be spanned between a car-body panel and a movable body consisting of a door or a trunk lid coupled to the car-body panel through a hinge member. The grommet has large-diameter cylindrical parts which are disposed on one and other ends thereof in a longitudinal direction thereof and have an annular locking groove respectively to be inserted into and locked to a through-hole formed through the car-body panel and a through-hole formed through the trunk lid respectively; small-diameter cylindrical parts continuous with the large-diameter cylindrical parts respectively; and a bellows-like cylindrical part provided between the small-diameter cylindrical parts with the bellows-like cylindrical part continuous with the small-diameter cylindrical parts. The bellows-like cylindrical part is bent in the shape of U, when the movable body is closed. The bellows-like cylindrical part has large-diameter mountain portions and small-diameter valley portions formed over a whole length thereof at regular intervals with the mountain portions continuous and alternating with the valley portions. In a state in which the bellows-like cylindrical part is bent in the shape of U, a thickness of a thick region including an apex of a bent portion therein is set larger than that of other region so that a curvature of the bent portion is large. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20110061897 | GROMMET - To provide a grommet of which a vehicle body latch recess is not deformed, thereby maintaining a good sealing function, even if a wire harness that passes the grommet is bent sharply. The grommet includes: an inner tube for passing electrical cables in the wire harness in a close contact manner; an annular coupling section protruding from an outer peripheral surface of the inner tube; and an outer tube contiguous with an outer peripheral surface of the annular coupling section and disposed coaxially with the inner tube. The outer tube is adapted to couple the annular coupling section to a larger thickness portion of the outer tube and to couple a reducing diameter slant wall section to the larger thickness portion. The outer tube is provided on an outer peripheral surface at a boundary area between the larger thickness portion and the slant wall section with a vehicle body latch recess in an annular manner. The annular coupling section is formed into a smaller thickness. The annular coupling section is bent in a V-shaped configuration from an inner peripheral end coupled to the outer peripheral surface of the inner tube to an outer peripheral end coupled to an inner peripheral surface of the outer tube. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110198110 | GROMMET FOR WIRE HARNESS - In a grommet fitted around a wire harness wired in a vehicle, and mounted in a through hole of a vehicle body panel, a radially outward extending portion is provided on an outer peripheral surface at an end of a small diameter cylinder portion, in which the wire harness is tightly inserted. A large diameter cylinder portion is connected to an outer peripheral end of the radially outward extending portion. An annular vehicle body engaging recessed portion is provided in an outer peripheral surface of the large diameter cylinder portion. An annular stretchable portion is provided at a portion connecting the small diameter cylinder portion to the radially outward extending portion. The stretchable portion extends in a direction same as a direction that the large diameter cylinder portion extends and is then folded backward, to form a U-shape. A step is provided on an inner peripheral surface at a boundary position between the small diameter cylinder portion and the stretchable portion, such that a thickness of the stretchable portion is thinner than a thickness of the small diameter cylinder portion. An annular rib is provided on an outer peripheral surface of the boundary position. Radially extending restoring ribs are provided on a convex side surface of the stretchable portion circumferentially spaced in-between. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110203833 | GROMMET - A grommet includes an outer body and an inner body. The outer body, is formed with a wire insertion hole through which a wire is inserted, and has a panel fitting portion at a circumferential portion thereof. The panel fitting portion fits in a first panel hole having a first diameter. The inner body, is attached to the outer body, and has a locking fitting portion at a circumferential portion thereof. The locking fitting portion fits in a second panel hole having a second diameter smaller than the first diameter and locks an inner edge portion of the second panel hole. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20120217041 | GROMMET - First and second grommets are each positioned in contact with vehicle body panel surfaces through which a wire harness through-hole has been bored. The first and second grommets are each integrally formed from rubber or an elastomer with a small diameter tubular portion, to which a wire harness is adhered, then inserted and fixated by tape-winding, and with a large diameter tubular portion extending from one end of the small diameter tubular portion. One portion of a stud bolt fixatedly inserted into a bolt hole bored in the peripheral rim of the wire harness through-hole on the vehicle body panel and protruding from both surfaces of the vehicle body panel passes through a bolt hole provided on the first grommet and is fixated by a nut, while another portion of the stud bolt passes through a bolt press-fitting hole provided on the second grommet. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120325521 | GROMMET - A grommet is fit on a pipe harness formed by inserting a wire harness into a metallic pipe. The grommet has a small-diameter tube configured to allow insertion of the pipe harness therethrough in a tight manner. The small-diameter tube has an inner diameter B obtained by adding an allowable tolerance dimension α to an outer diameter A of the pipe. Two annular ribs project from an outer peripheral surface of the small-diameter tube on the side of a distal end opening and a band winding portion is interposed between the annular ribs. An annular sealing lip projects from an inner peripheral surface of the small-diameter tube at an inner position displaced from a position corresponding to the band winding portion. The sealing lip has an inner diameter C obtained by subtracting the allowable tolerance dimension a from the outer diameter A of the pipe. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20130153265 | INSULATIVE WIRE-CLIPPING BUSHING - An insulative wire-clipping bushing includes a main body, support frames and a pair of clip bodies. The main body has a first surface and a second surface, and the support frames are installed and extended from symmetric edges of the first surface, and ends of the support frames are bent inwardly to form a half-hood structure, and the pair of clip bodies are installed and extended from the first surface and disposed between the support frames, and the pair of clip bodies are installed symmetrically, and ends of the pair of clip bodies are bent inwardly to form a tapered hook structure, and a wiring space is formed between the ends of the clip bodies, so that the bushing can be passed into a through hole of an electricity distribution box to pass and install at least one wire and provide a clipping force required for clamping the wire. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20140116752 | LOWER FIREWALL PLATE GROMMET - A grommet for an aircraft fire seal has multiple grommet layers. Each of the grommet layers includes a thickness and a complex geometrical face normal to the thickness. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140151087 | WATER STOP STRUCTURE FOR WIRE HARNESS AND WIRE HARNESS - A water stop structure for a wire harness includes a cylindrical shield shell which is disposed at an intermediate portion of a shield member in a longitudinal direction, an outer water stop mechanism which is disposed on a side of an outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical shield shell, and an inner water stop mechanism which is disposed on a side of an inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical shield shell. The inner water stop mechanism has an elastic water stop plug member. A shell-side seal portion which is in watertight contact with the inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical shield shell and one or plural conducting path-side seal portions which are in watertight contact with outer peripheral surfaces of covers of the conducting paths are formed on the water stop plug member. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140190725 | DUAL WALL SLIT-LESS DASHBOARD GROMMET FOR VEHICLES - A grommet mounted on an opening through an interface within a vehicle. The interface separates a source side compartment from a receiving side compartment of the vehicle. The grommet has a first portion mounted in the surface of the interface facing the receiving side compartment. The first portion has a hollow channel that projects towards the receiving side compartment and delivers a bunch of wires to the receiving side compartment. The channel has an end that communicates with the source side compartment. A second portion of the grommet is mounted in a surface of the interface facing the source side compartment. The second portion has a pliable tubular member communicating with and leading into the channel of the first portion. The tubular member receives the bunch of wires from the source side compartment and delivers the bunch to the receiving side compartment. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20160180988 | GROMMETS FOR SUPPORTING HARNESSES AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS INCLUDING THE SAME | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160254079 | Conductor Grommet Assembly | 09-01-2016 |
| 174152000 | Grommets or tubes | 33 |
| 20080314616 | HIGH PRESSURE, HIGH VOLTAGE PENETRATOR ASSEMBLY FOR SUBSEA USE - The invention relates to a high pressure, high voltage penetrator assembly for subsea use, wherein the assembly is upright attachable to a wet gas, subsea gas compressor, and wherein the assembly comprises a penetrator unit for feed-through of electric power to a compressor motor; a funnel shaped housing with a housing chamber, the penetrator unit being located at an upper end of the chamber; a grid located inside the chamber transversely of a longitudinal axis of the chamber, the penetrator unit being located above the grid, a filter located in the chamber below the grid and above an inlet to a housing of the compressor motor, and a sensor unit extending into the chamber from the penetrator unit and towards, but spaced from the grid. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20090032283 | Electric bushing and a method of manufacturing an electric bushing - A bushing for electrical current and/or voltage through a grounded plane. A substantially rotationally symmetrical insulating body surrounds a central electrical conductor. The bushing includes a sealing member for gas/liquid sealing between the conductor and the insulator body. The bushing includes a compressible sealing element, which forms a gas /liquid seal, integrated with the insulating body, between the conductor and the insulating body. A method of manufacturing a bushing. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090050351 | Hermetic electrical feedthrough assembly for a compressor and method for making the same - An electrical feedthrough assembly for providing connection to components of a compressor. The electrical feedthrough assembly includes a housing having an inner surface defining a channel. A sealed wire assembly is provided in the channel. The sealed wire assembly includes a body having an outer surface defining a groove and a plurality of wires sealingly passing through the body. An o-ring fits in the groove to provide a hermetic seal between the body and the inner surface of the housing. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090084579 | Electrical Power Feed Thru for Aircraft Fuselages - An electrical power feed thru for thin-walled vessels such as aircraft fuselages is disclosed which allows high electrical current power lines, and their associated high operating temperatures, to transition from the inside to the outside of the aircraft. The feed thru includes sealing surfaces, anti-rotation features and safety covers. This low-profile configuration permits the attached cables to run close to the fuselage walls, permitting easier routing and clamping. The feed thru has a variable geometry which permits alternate spacing of the end terminations in reference to the fuselage while maintaining the same parts. Installation is simplified through a single fuselage wall mounting hole design that can be done with a standard punch. The feed thru exceeds the shock and vibration environments of various aircraft such as a military aircraft. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20100018753 | HIGH VOLTAGE DEVICE, HIGH VOLTAGE BUSHING AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLING SAID DEVICE - A high voltage device comprises multi contacts as interfaces between internal components and bushings. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100163280 | FEED-THROUGH AND BUSHING - A feed-through for feeding electric power to a submerged pump installed in a tank for cryogenic liquefied gases such as LNG and LPG. In the feed-through, a bushing made of an insulating material is inserted in the bushing insertion hole of a flange, and a conductor is inserted in the hollow part of the bushing. A gap between the flange and each end of the bushing insertion hole and a gap between each end of the bushing and the conductor are sealed airtight by seal members. A through-hole is formed in the wall of the bushing, and a space part communicating with the through-hole is formed in the flange. The pressure in the space part of the flange is detected by a pressure detector. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20110061896 | Electrical power connection device - A power connection device, in particular for power connections of safety containers, is provided. To improve the operational safety, the power connection device includes two cascaded current feedthroughs, whereby the electrical connections between the conductors of the feedthrough are arranged in conduits of reduced volume so that the interstices between the conductors are at least partially filled. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20120055696 | HIGH VOLTAGE BUSHING - A high voltage bushing assembly includes an insulator shell adapted to enclose an electrical conductor. An annular flange is slidably received over the insulator shell, the annular sleeve formed with a radially outwardly directed flange at an upper end and a radially inwardly directed flange at a lower end, with a sleeve portion extending axially therebetween. The insulator shell has an outside diameter and the sleeve portion has an inside diameter sized to create an annular, radial gap therebetween filled with a high thermal endurance fiberglass-reinforced epoxy resin. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120285729 | ELECTRICAL WIRE HOLDING DEVICE - An electrical wire holding device includes a seal retention member having an insertion hole configured to allow an electrical wire to be inserted therethrough, and housed in a mounting hole formed in a mounted member, an outer periphery seal member retained on an outer peripheral surface of the seal retention member, and sealing a gap between an inner surface of the mounting hole and seal retention member, and an electrical wire holding member juxtaposed with the seal retention member along the electrical wire, and having a fixing part configured to retain the electrical wire and fixing the electrical wire to the mounted member. The seal retention member is configured to be relatively movable to the electrical wire holding member. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20130056242 | ARM ATTACHMENT BUSHING ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF USING SAME - A bushing assembly including a first bushing element, a second bushing element, and a locking subsystem. The first bushing element has a first end, a second end, a first outer surface with a first outer diameter, a first inner surface defining a first channel, and a first flange positioned proximate the first. The second bushing element has a first end, a second end, a second inner surface having a second inner diameter greater than the first outer diameter, a second outer surface, and a second flange positioned proximate the second end. The second inner surface defines a second channel that receives a portion of the first bushing element. The locking subsystem is proximate the first end of the first bushing element and secures the first bushing element to the second bushing element. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20140000936 | High Voltage Bushing With Support For The Conductor | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140166342 | SEALING DEVICE FOR FEEDING THROUGH FILAMENTS - Sealing device ( | 06-19-2014 |
| 20150129281 | WIRE HOLDER - A wire holder which is configured to hold an electric wire that is to be passed through a housing, includes: a resin-made holder body which is inserted into the housing, and in which a wire passing hole through which the electric wire is to be passed is formed; and annular rubber packings which are attached to an outer surface of the holder body and an inner surface of the wire passing hole, respectively, and which are formed by insert molding in which the holder body is set in a molding die. | 05-14-2015 |
| 20090229858 | INSULATOR FOR FEEDTHROUGH - A hermetically sealed microelectromechanical system (MEMS) package for an implantable medical device is presented. The MEMS comprises a first substrate that includes an aperture. A feedthrough assembly is coupled to the aperture; the feedthrough assembly comprises a conductive element housed in a glass insulating member. A second substrate is coupled to the first substrate. | 09-17-2009 |
| 20110048770 | INJECTION MOLDED FERRULE FOR COFIRED FEEDTHROUGHS - Feedthrough assemblies and methods of manufacturing feedthrough assemblies are provided. Methods include molding a ferrule comprising titanium using metal injection molding and positioning the ferrule about at least a portion of an insulator, the insulator comprising alumina. Methods also include overmolding a ferrule about at least a portion of an insulator using metal injection molding, the ferrule comprising titanium and the insulator comprising alumina. Sintering densifies the ferrule and provides a hermetic seal between the ferrule and insulator. The insulator may be fired or unfired prior to sintering of the ferrule. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110056731 | SOLID CORE GLASS BEAD SEAL WITH STIFFENING RIB - A hermetic feed-through includes a housing body defining a hollow space, a plurality of conductive pins and a seal structure. The plurality of conductive pins extend through the hollow space. The seal structure is provided in the hollow space and includes a single-piece glass component. The single-piece glass component hermetically seals at least two conductive pins to the housing body and electrically insulates the at least two conductive pins from the housing body. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20120193125 | CERMET-CONTAINING BUSHING FOR AN IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE HAVING A CONNECTING LAYER - One aspect relates to an electrical bushing for use in a housing of an implantable medical device. The electrical bushing includes at least one electrically insulating base body and at least one electrical conducting element. The conducting element establishes, through the base body, at least one electrically conductive connection between an internal space of the housing and an external space. The conducting element is hermetically sealed with respect to the base body. The at least one conducting element includes at least one cermet. The at least one conducting element includes at least one electrically conductive connecting layer. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20130284496 | Solid Core Glass Bead Seal With Stiffening Rib - A hermetic feed-through includes a housing body defining a hollow space, a plurality of conductive pins and a seal structure. The plurality of conductive pins extend through the hollow space. The seal structure is provided in the hollow space and includes a single-piece glass component. The single-piece glass component hermetically seals at least two conductive pins to the housing body and electrically insulates the at least two conductive pins from the housing body. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20090065235 | GROMMET - In a grommet ( | 03-12-2009 |
| 20100000764 | GROMMET - The present invention provides a grommet configured of an elastic body, which is externally mounted on a group of electric wires spanned between a vehicle-body panel and a movable body coupled to the vehicle-body panel with a hinge. The grommet includes short large-diameter tubular sections having annular locking grooves inserted into and locked to through-holes respectively provided in the vehicle-body panel and the movable body at both ends in the lengthwise direction; long small-diameter tubular sections that are continuous with the large-diameter tubular sections; and a corrugated tubular section continuously provided between the small-diameter tubular sections at the both ends, the corrugated tubular section being bent into a U shape when the movable body is closed. The small diameter tubular section at the locking side for the vehicle-body panel and a portion of the corrugated tubular section that is continuous with the small diameter tubular section are projectively provided with a rib that is continuous in a lengthwise direction, on outer peripheries thereof. The rib projects out of the outer peripheries of ridge and valley portions alternately provided on the corrugated tubular section, and the rigidity of the rib restrains the corrugated tubular section from curving outward. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100065305 | Electrical lead-through for safety tanks - An improved electrical lead-through, particularly for safety tanks, is provided that includes at least one electrical conductor which is guided through a rigid insulation material, wherein a silicone insulation is introduced over at least one segment of the conductor projecting on one side of the insulation material. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100071934 | Grommet Installation Tools and Methods - A grommet and corresponding installation system includes a grommet body with an outer surface and a cord that is attached to and extends outwardly from the grommet body, along with a grommet installation tool having a cord-engaging end removably attached to the cord such that the tool can be manipulated to tighten the cord which radially compresses the grommet body, whereby the tool can be used to pull the grommet through a panel hole when the grommet body is in such radially compressed state. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100181097 | GROMMET - A grommet includes a small tubular section, an enlarging tubular section continued from an end of the smaller tubular section, and an annular recess on an outer surface at a large diameter end of the enlarging tubular section. The small tubular section is inserted into a through-hole from one side of a vehicle body panel so that the annular recess engages the vehicle body panel. Stepped projections extend axially from the small tubular section to the annular recess. Each stepped projection has an angle rib that protrudes from a connecting end of the small tubular section to a position where the angle rib contacts a peripheral edge around the through-hole. Slopes of the angle ribs at upper positions contact a peripheral edge around the through-hole at a position where the slopes at the upper positions do not pass the annular recess. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100307794 | Grommet - A grommet providing triple sealing feature when mounted in an opening of a panel is disclosed. When the panel into which the grommet is mounted is between a compartment exposed to ambient conditions and a passenger compartment, a seal minimizes water, fumes, dust, and noise from entering into the passenger compartment. The triple seal, according to an embodiment, provides higher sealing forces than shown previously. The disclosed grommet can be engaged with a flat, non-flanged panel as well as a panel having a flange near the opening. The disclosed grommet has multiple longitudinal slits sawed through a tubular portion of the grommet through which the wiring harness is threaded. The cuts allow a subset of wires to be splayed out from the grommet at a different routing than the remainder of the wires in the wiring harness bundle. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20100314158 | GROMMET - A grommet includes a smaller diameter tubular section, an increasing diameter tubular section, and a larger diameter tubular section. The smaller diameter tubular section is connected through the increasing diameter tubular section to the larger diameter tubular section in an axial direction. A U-shape folded portion is provided on a connecting portion (a middle diameter tubular section) between the smaller diameter tubular section and the increasing diameter tubular section. A flap section that spreads conically toward the increasing diameter tubular section is provided on an outer periphery of the smaller diameter tubular section or an outer periphery of the folded portion. The folded portion is stretched straightly when the grommet is inserted into a through-hole. When a vehicle body latching recess is engaged with a peripheral edge around the through-hole, the folded portion returns to the original shape, and a distal end peripheral edge of the flap section contacts with a vehicle body panel at a passenger room side to define a sound absorbing closed space. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20110011625 | GROMMET - A grommet includes a small diameter tubular section and a large diameter tubular section contiguous with the small diameter tubular section. Both of the sections are attached to a wire harness for a motor vehicle by threading the wire harness through both of the sections. The small diameter tubular section is inserted into a through-hole in a vehicle body panel. The large diameter tubular section is provided on an outer peripheral surface with a vehicle body engagement annular recess. The recess is adapted to be engaged with the vehicle body panel. The large diameter tubular section is provided on the outer peripheral surface with a plurality of projecting portions that extend from a connecting part between both of the sections to a side wall of the vehicle body engagement annular recess in an axial direction of the large diameter tubular section and are separated apart from one another in a peripheral direction of the large diameter tubular section. Each of the projecting portions includes a contact point that initially contacts with an inner peripheral surface around the through-hole upon inserting the grommet into the hole, a bending point above the contact point, a distal end point at a side of the vehicle body engagement annular recess, and a proximal end point at the connecting part. Each of the projecting portions includes an increasing diameter directing slant portion that extends from the proximal end point through the contact point to the bending point in parallel to the outer peripheral surface of the large diameter tubular section, and a reducing diameter directing slant portion that extends from the bending point to the distal end point and inclines in a reversed slant direction. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110042123 | Sealing Grommet - A sealing grommet, particularly for data centers and the like, formed of one or a pair of U-shaped frame sections, each co-molded with a thermoplastic elastomeric seal of corrugated wave form, with corrugated edges of the seals exposed at the open sides of the U-shaped frames. A pair of such grommet sections joined together, with the corrugated edges arranged to be in contact and in phase, provides a uniquely efficient seal to hold back air under pressure while allowing various pass-through elements, such as cables, hoses, etc., to be extended through the grommet and while enabling the pass-through elements to be easily added, removed, or rearranged as may be necessary to accommodate the dynamic changes experienced in the operation of a data center. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110056730 | WIRING HARNESS INSTALLATION STRUCTURE FOR VEHICLE - A wiring harness installation structure is provided which can reduce the installing cost of a wiring harness by omitting an operation of injecting a water stop agent into an interior of a grommet. A grommet | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110073350 | GROMMET - Even if a wire harness that passes a grommet is bent sharply, a vehicle body latch recess of the grommet is not deformed, thereby enhancing a sealing function. A grommet includes: an inner tube having a smaller diameter and passing electrical cables in a wire harness in a close contact manner; an annular coupling section protruding from an outer peripheral surface of an intermediate part between both ends of the inner tube at a pushing-in side and a drawing-out side in a longitudinal direction; and an outer tube having a larger diameter, contiguous with an outer peripheral surface of the annular coupling section, and coaxially disposed around the inner tube through a space. The outer tube is provided with a slant wall section that reduces a diameter from a larger thickness portion at a coupling position with the annular coupling section to the drawing-out side. The outer tube is provided with a vehicle body latch recess between the larger thickness portion and the slant wall section in an annular manner. An inner peripheral surface at a smaller diameter end side of the slant wall section is spaced through a given clearance apart from an outer peripheral surface of the inner tube. Both ends of the inner tube protrude outward from the outer tube at the pushing-in side and drawing-out side. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110073351 | GROMMET - Even if a wire harness that passes a grommet is bent sharply, a vehicle body latch recess of the grommet is not deformed, thereby enhancing a sealing function. A grommet includes an inner tube through which electrical cables in a wire harness pass in a close contact manner, and an outer tube coupled through an annular coupling section to the inner tube and provided with a slant wall section. The slant wall section of the outer tube is provided with a curved portion at a position having an outer diameter equal to an inner diameter of a through-hole in a vehicle body panel. The curved portion has a different inclination angle from the slant wall section. An inclination angle of the slant wall section at a larger diameter side with respect to the curved portion is set to be smaller than an inclination angle at a smaller diameter side with respect to the curved portion. A larger thickness portion is contiguous with a larger diameter end of the slant wall in parallel to an axial direction. A vehicle body latch recess is provided in an outer peripheral surface of the slant wall section between the larger diameter end of the slant wall and the larger thickness portion in an annular manner. The slant section is provided with a plurality of stepped projecting ribs that extend from a smaller diameter end of the slant wall section to the larger diameter end and are spaced apart from one another in a peripheral direction. The slant wall section is provided on an inner peripheral surface at the smaller diameter side with a bending stress absorbing portion of which an inner surface is recessed annularly to be a smaller thickness. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110079417 | GROMMET - Even if a wire harness that passes a grommet is bent sharply, a vehicle body latch recess of the grommet is not deformed, thereby enhancing a sealing function. A grommet includes: an inner tube for passing electrical cables in said wire harness in a close contact manner; and an outer tube contiguous with an outer peripheral surface of said inner tube and provided with a slant wall section. The slant wall section of the outer tube is provided with a curved portion at an outer diametrical position having an outer diameter corresponding to an inner diameter of the through-hole. The curved portion has a different inclination angle from the slant wall section. An inclination angle of an outer peripheral surface of the slant wall section at a larger diameter side with respect to the curved portion is set to be smaller than an inclination angle at a smaller diameter side with respect to the curved portion. A larger thickness portion is contiguous with a larger diameter end of the slant wall in parallel to an axial direction of the inner tube. A vehicle body latch recess is provided in an annular manner in an outer peripheral surface of a boundary area between the larger diameter end of the slant wall section and the larger thickness portion. A part from an inner peripheral surface of the larger thickness portion to an inner peripheral surface corresponding to the curved portion of the slant wall section extends in parallel to the axial direction of the inner tube. The part has a larger thickness. The slant wall section is provided on an outer peripheral surface with a plurality of stepped projecting ribs that extend from a smaller diameter end of the slant wall section to the larger diameter end and are spaced apart from one another in a peripheral direction. The slant wall section is provided in an inner peripheral surface of each stepped projecting rib with a recess that extends along a whole longitudinal length of the each stepped projecting rib. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20120211262 | GROMMET WITH SILENCER - A grommet includes a small diameter tubular portion to which a wire harness is tightly fitted and inserted therethrough, and a large diameter tubular portion continuous to one end of the small diameter tubular portion. A silencer made of rubber is fitted within the large diameter tubular portion. The silencer includes a flat circular piece blocking a central cavity of the large diameter tubular portion. A wire harness insertion hole is provided on the flat circular piece communicating with the small diameter tubular portion of the grommet. A slit is provided from the wire harness insertion hole to an outer peripheral surface of the flat circular piece in order to insert the wire harness into the wire harness insertion hole with sideways insertion. The slit is provided with an irregularly shaped line portion to inhibit separation, configured with a keyhole-shaped or a dovetail groove-shaped line between both ends. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120285727 | GROMMET - A grommet includes a wire passage supporting a wire harness, a pinch-grip, and a connector. The pinch-grip is fixable to a vehicle body panel by pinching a peripheral edge of the panel surrounding a through-hole. The connector has an annular shape having a curved portion recessed to an inner periphery, the recessed portion extending in a peripheral direction. One end of the connector is joined to the wire passage and the other end is joined to the pinch-grip. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120285728 | CORRUGATED TUBE PROTECTOR - 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. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20130008693 | GROMMET FOR WIRE HARNESS - A grommet is fit externally to a wire harness to be wired in a vehicle and mounted in a through hole of a vehicle-body panel. The grommet has a small-diameter cylindrical portion molded of elastomer and through which the wire harness is tightly inserted. A radial projection in the form of bellows projects radially out from an outer peripheral position of an intermediate longitudinal part of the small-diameter portion. An outer peripheral portion is connected to the outer peripheral end of the radial projection. The outer peripheral portion has a conical tubular shape and is connected at an intermediate longitudinal position to the radial projection. An annular vehicle-body locking recess is provided on the outer peripheral surface of a large-diameter side of the outer peripheral portion. A small-diameter side is thicker than the radial projection portion. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130043059 | GROMMET - When a grommet provided with a wire insertion tubular portion is mounted in a through-hole of a vehicle body panel by engaging a vehicle body engagement recess on an outer periphery of the grommet with a peripheral edge of the through-hole, the present invention prevents the wire insertion tubular portion from being caught by the peripheral edge of the through-hole, bending toward the vehicle body engagement recess side, and being wedged in between the peripheral edge of the through-hole and the vehicle body engagement recess, and thus enables the grommet to be securely mounted in the through-hole. A rib is provided between an outer peripheral surface on a central axis line side of a wire insertion tubular portion and a peripheral wall of a central tubular portion in order to reinforce a base on the central axis line side of the wire insertion tubular portion. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130068502 | DRY DOOR GROMMET - A protective wiring grommet that prevents water or debris from entering the grommet. The grommet includes a lower member, an intermediate member coupled to the lower member; and an upper member coupled to the intermediate member. The lower member, the intermediate member, and the upper member collectively define a wiring trough, a wiring conduit in communication with the trough that extends substantially orthogonal to the wiring trough in a first direction, and a wiring feed tube in communication with the wiring conduit that extends substantially orthogonal to the wiring conduit in a second direction. Such a configuration assists in routing wiring within the vehicle and through the grommet, to reduce manufacturing costs and efforts, as well as maintenance costs and efforts. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130075133 | BUSHING OF AN ELECTRICAL CONDUCTOR - A bushing of an electrical conductor through a wall which separates two regions from one another, wherein the conductor extends through a passage in the wall, at a distance from said wall, characterized in that a sleeve, which is electrically insulated from the passage and is hermetically sealed, preferably extends approximately coaxially through the passage, and in that the electrical conductor extends through the sleeve and is incorporated in the sleeve in a hermetically sealed, preferably integral, manner. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130140060 | GROMMET WITH SERVICE PORT HAVING TWO CLOSED ENDS - A grommet includes a body having a first wall and a second wall. A passageway extends from the first wall to the second wall, and a service port extends from a first end adjacent to the first wall to a second end adjacent to the second wall. A first cap is integral with the first wall and covers the first end of the service port. Similarly, a second cap is integral with the second wall and covers the second end of the service port. | 06-06-2013 |
| 20130180759 | ACCORDION-STYLE GROMMET WITH SHAPE-INFLUENCING STIFFENERS - A grommet for housing electrical wires constructed in accordance with the teachings of the present disclosure includes a mounting structure, a tube, and a plurality of stiffeners. The mounting structure is configured to mount to a panel of a vehicle, the mounting structure defining a first passage extending therethrough. The tube extends from the mounting structure and defines a second passage in communication with the first passage. The tube includes a corrugated portion having a plurality of ridges and a plurality of grooves interposed between the plurality of ridges. The stiffeners are interposed between those of the plurality of ridges that are disposed within a zone of the corrugated portion. The stiffeners extend partially around a circumference of the tube. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130199823 | GROMMET - A grommet has an engagement tube with an elliptical cross-section and is provided continuous with and bent from a leading end of a narrow tube through which the wire harness passes while coming into close contact therewith. An annular vehicle body engagement recess is provided in an outer circumferential surface of the engagement tube. Arc-side reinforcements protrude radially inward at connecting positions between a circumferential wall of the narrow tube and arc-shaped circumferential walls of the engagement tube that face each other in a major axis direction. The thickness of the arc-side reinforcements is greater than the thickness of connecting positions between the circumferential wall of the narrow tube and respective linear circumferential walls that face each other in a minor axis direction. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130292158 | GROMMET AND METHOD OF MOUNTING THEREOF - A grommet ( | 11-07-2013 |
| 20140014397 | Sleeve for Protecting Wire or Cable - A sleeve is provided for protecting wire or cable which is run through an aperture in a stud. The sleeve comprises a slit which runs longitudinally along the length of the sleeve for receiving a wire or cable and an opening at each end to allow for entrance and exit of the wire or cable. Extended portions of the sleeve on each end further protect the enclosed wire or cable. A weakened bend line which runs longitudinally along the length of the sleeve and opposite the slit in the sleeve allows the sleeve to be easily bent by hand compression along the bend line so that the sleeve can be easily installed around the wire or cable without the use of any hand tools. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140020930 | GROMMET - In a grommet | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140041899 | HARNESS COVERS FOR VEHICLE DOORS - A harness cover covering a wiring harness between a vehicle body and a door and having a cylindrical shape that is configured to accommodate the wiring harness on an inner circumferential side thereof may include a door-side grommet attached to one end thereof and capable of being connected to a grommet hole formed in the door, a body-side grommet attached to the other end thereof and capable of being connected to a grommet hole formed in vehicle body, and a bellows-shaped portion positioned between the body-side grommet and the door-side grommet. A set number of and a height of angled portions of the bellows-shaped portion are determined such that when the bellows-shaped portion is extended to a maximum at a time when the door is opened, a spread angle of each angled portion creates an acute angle. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140054064 | GROMMET ASSEMBLY - A grommet assembly that has a retainer and a grommet that is coupled to the retainer. The retainer includes first and second body portions that are connected via a hinge that permits the first and second body portions to be spread apart into an open condition to receive a wire harness. The retainer also includes a latch that permits the first and second body portions to be held in a closed position. The grommet is coupled to the retainer and is configured to form a seal about the retainer. The grommet can have seal members that sealingly engage one another when the retainer is latched in the closed position. Additionally or alternatively, the retainer can have a channel that is configured to support a wire harness and the grommet can have a resilient tubular portion that can be stretched over the channel and the wire harness. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140166341 | DUST TIGHT AND WATER TIGHT SEAL FOR CONDUIT/JUNCTION BOX CONNECTION - A gasket system is described for use with a conduit and junction box dust-tight seal assembly. The seal assembly includes a two-piece split clamp, each clamp having a shaft portion, a flange portion, a locknut cavity portion and lip portion. The gasket system includes one or more of a shaft gasket, a flange gasket, and a lip gasket that are mounted on and are used in conjunction with the overall seal assembly. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140196931 | GROMMET - A grommet includes a resin inner assembled to a grommet main body composed of a rubber or elastomer, a seal lip provided in the grommet main body to press against an outer surface of a body panel, and an engagement tab provided in the resin inner to engage with a periphery of a through-hole in the body panel. A base portion of the seal lip projects from a resin inner holder of the grommet main body: An inclined portion projects outward from the base portion. The inclined portion has a seal projection. A plurality of deformation prevention ribs are provided in a circumferential direction with intervals therebetween to connect the front end side of the inclined portion and the resin inner holder. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20150144378 | GROMMET - A grommet to be inserted into a mounting hole of a panel includes a grommet inner and a grommet outer assembled to the grommet inner so as to cover the grommet inner. The grommet outer includes: electrical cable insertion tubes each through which an electrical cable is inserted; a flange integrally formed with the electrical cable insertion tubes and positioned facing the opening edge of the mounting hole; and an annular lip extending from the flange and positioned in close abutment against the opening edge. The annular lip is provided with a pressing part for pressing the annular lip against the opening edge of the mounting hole, when the grommet inner and the grommet outer in the assembled state have been inserted into the mounting hole and the flange and the annular lip are urged into abutment. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20160123002 | Through-Penetration Device, Method for Manufacturing a Through-Penetration Device, and Method for Installing a Through-Penetration Device - A through-penetration device has a molded body consisting essentially of an intumescent foam material and having at least one penetration opening for one line. An outer contour of the molded body has protrusions extending radially outward for anchoring within a cast building component, which protrusions form undercuts in building component as the building component is being cast. In addition, a mounting plate that can be axially pushed onto the through-penetration device, sealing the penetration openings, is provided. As the through-penetration device is produced, a liquid coating material is applied to a surface of a foaming mold, and then a foam mass containing a predetermined percentage of intumescent material is introduced into the foaming mold. After a foaming process, the coating material forms a water-impermeable skin on the foamed molded body. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160148727 | ELECTRIC BUSHINGS HAVING INSULATION MEDUIUM RETENTION SEALS - Systems and methods for providing electrical bushings for maintaining a seal during severe incidents are provided. The bushings provide for relatively large gap formations and seal spacings by using one or more self-modulating seals. In certain configurations, the bushings provide for relatively large gap formations and seal spacings by using a wider or narrow top portion adjacent to a relatively narrower middle portion. The systems and methods can be also applied to other apparatus when deemed proper. | 05-26-2016 |
| 174152000 | Glass-to-metal seal | 5 |
| 20080314616 | HIGH PRESSURE, HIGH VOLTAGE PENETRATOR ASSEMBLY FOR SUBSEA USE - The invention relates to a high pressure, high voltage penetrator assembly for subsea use, wherein the assembly is upright attachable to a wet gas, subsea gas compressor, and wherein the assembly comprises a penetrator unit for feed-through of electric power to a compressor motor; a funnel shaped housing with a housing chamber, the penetrator unit being located at an upper end of the chamber; a grid located inside the chamber transversely of a longitudinal axis of the chamber, the penetrator unit being located above the grid, a filter located in the chamber below the grid and above an inlet to a housing of the compressor motor, and a sensor unit extending into the chamber from the penetrator unit and towards, but spaced from the grid. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20090032283 | Electric bushing and a method of manufacturing an electric bushing - A bushing for electrical current and/or voltage through a grounded plane. A substantially rotationally symmetrical insulating body surrounds a central electrical conductor. The bushing includes a sealing member for gas/liquid sealing between the conductor and the insulator body. The bushing includes a compressible sealing element, which forms a gas /liquid seal, integrated with the insulating body, between the conductor and the insulating body. A method of manufacturing a bushing. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090050351 | Hermetic electrical feedthrough assembly for a compressor and method for making the same - An electrical feedthrough assembly for providing connection to components of a compressor. The electrical feedthrough assembly includes a housing having an inner surface defining a channel. A sealed wire assembly is provided in the channel. The sealed wire assembly includes a body having an outer surface defining a groove and a plurality of wires sealingly passing through the body. An o-ring fits in the groove to provide a hermetic seal between the body and the inner surface of the housing. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090084579 | Electrical Power Feed Thru for Aircraft Fuselages - An electrical power feed thru for thin-walled vessels such as aircraft fuselages is disclosed which allows high electrical current power lines, and their associated high operating temperatures, to transition from the inside to the outside of the aircraft. The feed thru includes sealing surfaces, anti-rotation features and safety covers. This low-profile configuration permits the attached cables to run close to the fuselage walls, permitting easier routing and clamping. The feed thru has a variable geometry which permits alternate spacing of the end terminations in reference to the fuselage while maintaining the same parts. Installation is simplified through a single fuselage wall mounting hole design that can be done with a standard punch. The feed thru exceeds the shock and vibration environments of various aircraft such as a military aircraft. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20100018753 | HIGH VOLTAGE DEVICE, HIGH VOLTAGE BUSHING AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLING SAID DEVICE - A high voltage device comprises multi contacts as interfaces between internal components and bushings. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100163280 | FEED-THROUGH AND BUSHING - A feed-through for feeding electric power to a submerged pump installed in a tank for cryogenic liquefied gases such as LNG and LPG. In the feed-through, a bushing made of an insulating material is inserted in the bushing insertion hole of a flange, and a conductor is inserted in the hollow part of the bushing. A gap between the flange and each end of the bushing insertion hole and a gap between each end of the bushing and the conductor are sealed airtight by seal members. A through-hole is formed in the wall of the bushing, and a space part communicating with the through-hole is formed in the flange. The pressure in the space part of the flange is detected by a pressure detector. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20110061896 | Electrical power connection device - A power connection device, in particular for power connections of safety containers, is provided. To improve the operational safety, the power connection device includes two cascaded current feedthroughs, whereby the electrical connections between the conductors of the feedthrough are arranged in conduits of reduced volume so that the interstices between the conductors are at least partially filled. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20120055696 | HIGH VOLTAGE BUSHING - A high voltage bushing assembly includes an insulator shell adapted to enclose an electrical conductor. An annular flange is slidably received over the insulator shell, the annular sleeve formed with a radially outwardly directed flange at an upper end and a radially inwardly directed flange at a lower end, with a sleeve portion extending axially therebetween. The insulator shell has an outside diameter and the sleeve portion has an inside diameter sized to create an annular, radial gap therebetween filled with a high thermal endurance fiberglass-reinforced epoxy resin. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120285729 | ELECTRICAL WIRE HOLDING DEVICE - An electrical wire holding device includes a seal retention member having an insertion hole configured to allow an electrical wire to be inserted therethrough, and housed in a mounting hole formed in a mounted member, an outer periphery seal member retained on an outer peripheral surface of the seal retention member, and sealing a gap between an inner surface of the mounting hole and seal retention member, and an electrical wire holding member juxtaposed with the seal retention member along the electrical wire, and having a fixing part configured to retain the electrical wire and fixing the electrical wire to the mounted member. The seal retention member is configured to be relatively movable to the electrical wire holding member. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20130056242 | ARM ATTACHMENT BUSHING ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF USING SAME - A bushing assembly including a first bushing element, a second bushing element, and a locking subsystem. The first bushing element has a first end, a second end, a first outer surface with a first outer diameter, a first inner surface defining a first channel, and a first flange positioned proximate the first. The second bushing element has a first end, a second end, a second inner surface having a second inner diameter greater than the first outer diameter, a second outer surface, and a second flange positioned proximate the second end. The second inner surface defines a second channel that receives a portion of the first bushing element. The locking subsystem is proximate the first end of the first bushing element and secures the first bushing element to the second bushing element. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20140000936 | High Voltage Bushing With Support For The Conductor | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140166342 | SEALING DEVICE FOR FEEDING THROUGH FILAMENTS - Sealing device ( | 06-19-2014 |
| 20150129281 | WIRE HOLDER - A wire holder which is configured to hold an electric wire that is to be passed through a housing, includes: a resin-made holder body which is inserted into the housing, and in which a wire passing hole through which the electric wire is to be passed is formed; and annular rubber packings which are attached to an outer surface of the holder body and an inner surface of the wire passing hole, respectively, and which are formed by insert molding in which the holder body is set in a molding die. | 05-14-2015 |
| 20090229858 | INSULATOR FOR FEEDTHROUGH - A hermetically sealed microelectromechanical system (MEMS) package for an implantable medical device is presented. The MEMS comprises a first substrate that includes an aperture. A feedthrough assembly is coupled to the aperture; the feedthrough assembly comprises a conductive element housed in a glass insulating member. A second substrate is coupled to the first substrate. | 09-17-2009 |
| 20110048770 | INJECTION MOLDED FERRULE FOR COFIRED FEEDTHROUGHS - Feedthrough assemblies and methods of manufacturing feedthrough assemblies are provided. Methods include molding a ferrule comprising titanium using metal injection molding and positioning the ferrule about at least a portion of an insulator, the insulator comprising alumina. Methods also include overmolding a ferrule about at least a portion of an insulator using metal injection molding, the ferrule comprising titanium and the insulator comprising alumina. Sintering densifies the ferrule and provides a hermetic seal between the ferrule and insulator. The insulator may be fired or unfired prior to sintering of the ferrule. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110056731 | SOLID CORE GLASS BEAD SEAL WITH STIFFENING RIB - A hermetic feed-through includes a housing body defining a hollow space, a plurality of conductive pins and a seal structure. The plurality of conductive pins extend through the hollow space. The seal structure is provided in the hollow space and includes a single-piece glass component. The single-piece glass component hermetically seals at least two conductive pins to the housing body and electrically insulates the at least two conductive pins from the housing body. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20120193125 | CERMET-CONTAINING BUSHING FOR AN IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE HAVING A CONNECTING LAYER - One aspect relates to an electrical bushing for use in a housing of an implantable medical device. The electrical bushing includes at least one electrically insulating base body and at least one electrical conducting element. The conducting element establishes, through the base body, at least one electrically conductive connection between an internal space of the housing and an external space. The conducting element is hermetically sealed with respect to the base body. The at least one conducting element includes at least one cermet. The at least one conducting element includes at least one electrically conductive connecting layer. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20130284496 | Solid Core Glass Bead Seal With Stiffening Rib - A hermetic feed-through includes a housing body defining a hollow space, a plurality of conductive pins and a seal structure. The plurality of conductive pins extend through the hollow space. The seal structure is provided in the hollow space and includes a single-piece glass component. The single-piece glass component hermetically seals at least two conductive pins to the housing body and electrically insulates the at least two conductive pins from the housing body. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20090065235 | GROMMET - In a grommet ( | 03-12-2009 |
| 20100000764 | GROMMET - The present invention provides a grommet configured of an elastic body, which is externally mounted on a group of electric wires spanned between a vehicle-body panel and a movable body coupled to the vehicle-body panel with a hinge. The grommet includes short large-diameter tubular sections having annular locking grooves inserted into and locked to through-holes respectively provided in the vehicle-body panel and the movable body at both ends in the lengthwise direction; long small-diameter tubular sections that are continuous with the large-diameter tubular sections; and a corrugated tubular section continuously provided between the small-diameter tubular sections at the both ends, the corrugated tubular section being bent into a U shape when the movable body is closed. The small diameter tubular section at the locking side for the vehicle-body panel and a portion of the corrugated tubular section that is continuous with the small diameter tubular section are projectively provided with a rib that is continuous in a lengthwise direction, on outer peripheries thereof. The rib projects out of the outer peripheries of ridge and valley portions alternately provided on the corrugated tubular section, and the rigidity of the rib restrains the corrugated tubular section from curving outward. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100065305 | Electrical lead-through for safety tanks - An improved electrical lead-through, particularly for safety tanks, is provided that includes at least one electrical conductor which is guided through a rigid insulation material, wherein a silicone insulation is introduced over at least one segment of the conductor projecting on one side of the insulation material. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100071934 | Grommet Installation Tools and Methods - A grommet and corresponding installation system includes a grommet body with an outer surface and a cord that is attached to and extends outwardly from the grommet body, along with a grommet installation tool having a cord-engaging end removably attached to the cord such that the tool can be manipulated to tighten the cord which radially compresses the grommet body, whereby the tool can be used to pull the grommet through a panel hole when the grommet body is in such radially compressed state. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100181097 | GROMMET - A grommet includes a small tubular section, an enlarging tubular section continued from an end of the smaller tubular section, and an annular recess on an outer surface at a large diameter end of the enlarging tubular section. The small tubular section is inserted into a through-hole from one side of a vehicle body panel so that the annular recess engages the vehicle body panel. Stepped projections extend axially from the small tubular section to the annular recess. Each stepped projection has an angle rib that protrudes from a connecting end of the small tubular section to a position where the angle rib contacts a peripheral edge around the through-hole. Slopes of the angle ribs at upper positions contact a peripheral edge around the through-hole at a position where the slopes at the upper positions do not pass the annular recess. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100307794 | Grommet - A grommet providing triple sealing feature when mounted in an opening of a panel is disclosed. When the panel into which the grommet is mounted is between a compartment exposed to ambient conditions and a passenger compartment, a seal minimizes water, fumes, dust, and noise from entering into the passenger compartment. The triple seal, according to an embodiment, provides higher sealing forces than shown previously. The disclosed grommet can be engaged with a flat, non-flanged panel as well as a panel having a flange near the opening. The disclosed grommet has multiple longitudinal slits sawed through a tubular portion of the grommet through which the wiring harness is threaded. The cuts allow a subset of wires to be splayed out from the grommet at a different routing than the remainder of the wires in the wiring harness bundle. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20100314158 | GROMMET - A grommet includes a smaller diameter tubular section, an increasing diameter tubular section, and a larger diameter tubular section. The smaller diameter tubular section is connected through the increasing diameter tubular section to the larger diameter tubular section in an axial direction. A U-shape folded portion is provided on a connecting portion (a middle diameter tubular section) between the smaller diameter tubular section and the increasing diameter tubular section. A flap section that spreads conically toward the increasing diameter tubular section is provided on an outer periphery of the smaller diameter tubular section or an outer periphery of the folded portion. The folded portion is stretched straightly when the grommet is inserted into a through-hole. When a vehicle body latching recess is engaged with a peripheral edge around the through-hole, the folded portion returns to the original shape, and a distal end peripheral edge of the flap section contacts with a vehicle body panel at a passenger room side to define a sound absorbing closed space. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20110011625 | GROMMET - A grommet includes a small diameter tubular section and a large diameter tubular section contiguous with the small diameter tubular section. Both of the sections are attached to a wire harness for a motor vehicle by threading the wire harness through both of the sections. The small diameter tubular section is inserted into a through-hole in a vehicle body panel. The large diameter tubular section is provided on an outer peripheral surface with a vehicle body engagement annular recess. The recess is adapted to be engaged with the vehicle body panel. The large diameter tubular section is provided on the outer peripheral surface with a plurality of projecting portions that extend from a connecting part between both of the sections to a side wall of the vehicle body engagement annular recess in an axial direction of the large diameter tubular section and are separated apart from one another in a peripheral direction of the large diameter tubular section. Each of the projecting portions includes a contact point that initially contacts with an inner peripheral surface around the through-hole upon inserting the grommet into the hole, a bending point above the contact point, a distal end point at a side of the vehicle body engagement annular recess, and a proximal end point at the connecting part. Each of the projecting portions includes an increasing diameter directing slant portion that extends from the proximal end point through the contact point to the bending point in parallel to the outer peripheral surface of the large diameter tubular section, and a reducing diameter directing slant portion that extends from the bending point to the distal end point and inclines in a reversed slant direction. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110042123 | Sealing Grommet - A sealing grommet, particularly for data centers and the like, formed of one or a pair of U-shaped frame sections, each co-molded with a thermoplastic elastomeric seal of corrugated wave form, with corrugated edges of the seals exposed at the open sides of the U-shaped frames. A pair of such grommet sections joined together, with the corrugated edges arranged to be in contact and in phase, provides a uniquely efficient seal to hold back air under pressure while allowing various pass-through elements, such as cables, hoses, etc., to be extended through the grommet and while enabling the pass-through elements to be easily added, removed, or rearranged as may be necessary to accommodate the dynamic changes experienced in the operation of a data center. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110056730 | WIRING HARNESS INSTALLATION STRUCTURE FOR VEHICLE - A wiring harness installation structure is provided which can reduce the installing cost of a wiring harness by omitting an operation of injecting a water stop agent into an interior of a grommet. A grommet | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110073350 | GROMMET - Even if a wire harness that passes a grommet is bent sharply, a vehicle body latch recess of the grommet is not deformed, thereby enhancing a sealing function. A grommet includes: an inner tube having a smaller diameter and passing electrical cables in a wire harness in a close contact manner; an annular coupling section protruding from an outer peripheral surface of an intermediate part between both ends of the inner tube at a pushing-in side and a drawing-out side in a longitudinal direction; and an outer tube having a larger diameter, contiguous with an outer peripheral surface of the annular coupling section, and coaxially disposed around the inner tube through a space. The outer tube is provided with a slant wall section that reduces a diameter from a larger thickness portion at a coupling position with the annular coupling section to the drawing-out side. The outer tube is provided with a vehicle body latch recess between the larger thickness portion and the slant wall section in an annular manner. An inner peripheral surface at a smaller diameter end side of the slant wall section is spaced through a given clearance apart from an outer peripheral surface of the inner tube. Both ends of the inner tube protrude outward from the outer tube at the pushing-in side and drawing-out side. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110073351 | GROMMET - Even if a wire harness that passes a grommet is bent sharply, a vehicle body latch recess of the grommet is not deformed, thereby enhancing a sealing function. A grommet includes an inner tube through which electrical cables in a wire harness pass in a close contact manner, and an outer tube coupled through an annular coupling section to the inner tube and provided with a slant wall section. The slant wall section of the outer tube is provided with a curved portion at a position having an outer diameter equal to an inner diameter of a through-hole in a vehicle body panel. The curved portion has a different inclination angle from the slant wall section. An inclination angle of the slant wall section at a larger diameter side with respect to the curved portion is set to be smaller than an inclination angle at a smaller diameter side with respect to the curved portion. A larger thickness portion is contiguous with a larger diameter end of the slant wall in parallel to an axial direction. A vehicle body latch recess is provided in an outer peripheral surface of the slant wall section between the larger diameter end of the slant wall and the larger thickness portion in an annular manner. The slant section is provided with a plurality of stepped projecting ribs that extend from a smaller diameter end of the slant wall section to the larger diameter end and are spaced apart from one another in a peripheral direction. The slant wall section is provided on an inner peripheral surface at the smaller diameter side with a bending stress absorbing portion of which an inner surface is recessed annularly to be a smaller thickness. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110079417 | GROMMET - Even if a wire harness that passes a grommet is bent sharply, a vehicle body latch recess of the grommet is not deformed, thereby enhancing a sealing function. A grommet includes: an inner tube for passing electrical cables in said wire harness in a close contact manner; and an outer tube contiguous with an outer peripheral surface of said inner tube and provided with a slant wall section. The slant wall section of the outer tube is provided with a curved portion at an outer diametrical position having an outer diameter corresponding to an inner diameter of the through-hole. The curved portion has a different inclination angle from the slant wall section. An inclination angle of an outer peripheral surface of the slant wall section at a larger diameter side with respect to the curved portion is set to be smaller than an inclination angle at a smaller diameter side with respect to the curved portion. A larger thickness portion is contiguous with a larger diameter end of the slant wall in parallel to an axial direction of the inner tube. A vehicle body latch recess is provided in an annular manner in an outer peripheral surface of a boundary area between the larger diameter end of the slant wall section and the larger thickness portion. A part from an inner peripheral surface of the larger thickness portion to an inner peripheral surface corresponding to the curved portion of the slant wall section extends in parallel to the axial direction of the inner tube. The part has a larger thickness. The slant wall section is provided on an outer peripheral surface with a plurality of stepped projecting ribs that extend from a smaller diameter end of the slant wall section to the larger diameter end and are spaced apart from one another in a peripheral direction. The slant wall section is provided in an inner peripheral surface of each stepped projecting rib with a recess that extends along a whole longitudinal length of the each stepped projecting rib. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20120211262 | GROMMET WITH SILENCER - A grommet includes a small diameter tubular portion to which a wire harness is tightly fitted and inserted therethrough, and a large diameter tubular portion continuous to one end of the small diameter tubular portion. A silencer made of rubber is fitted within the large diameter tubular portion. The silencer includes a flat circular piece blocking a central cavity of the large diameter tubular portion. A wire harness insertion hole is provided on the flat circular piece communicating with the small diameter tubular portion of the grommet. A slit is provided from the wire harness insertion hole to an outer peripheral surface of the flat circular piece in order to insert the wire harness into the wire harness insertion hole with sideways insertion. The slit is provided with an irregularly shaped line portion to inhibit separation, configured with a keyhole-shaped or a dovetail groove-shaped line between both ends. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120285727 | GROMMET - A grommet includes a wire passage supporting a wire harness, a pinch-grip, and a connector. The pinch-grip is fixable to a vehicle body panel by pinching a peripheral edge of the panel surrounding a through-hole. The connector has an annular shape having a curved portion recessed to an inner periphery, the recessed portion extending in a peripheral direction. One end of the connector is joined to the wire passage and the other end is joined to the pinch-grip. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120285728 | CORRUGATED TUBE PROTECTOR - 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. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20130008693 | GROMMET FOR WIRE HARNESS - A grommet is fit externally to a wire harness to be wired in a vehicle and mounted in a through hole of a vehicle-body panel. The grommet has a small-diameter cylindrical portion molded of elastomer and through which the wire harness is tightly inserted. A radial projection in the form of bellows projects radially out from an outer peripheral position of an intermediate longitudinal part of the small-diameter portion. An outer peripheral portion is connected to the outer peripheral end of the radial projection. The outer peripheral portion has a conical tubular shape and is connected at an intermediate longitudinal position to the radial projection. An annular vehicle-body locking recess is provided on the outer peripheral surface of a large-diameter side of the outer peripheral portion. A small-diameter side is thicker than the radial projection portion. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130043059 | GROMMET - When a grommet provided with a wire insertion tubular portion is mounted in a through-hole of a vehicle body panel by engaging a vehicle body engagement recess on an outer periphery of the grommet with a peripheral edge of the through-hole, the present invention prevents the wire insertion tubular portion from being caught by the peripheral edge of the through-hole, bending toward the vehicle body engagement recess side, and being wedged in between the peripheral edge of the through-hole and the vehicle body engagement recess, and thus enables the grommet to be securely mounted in the through-hole. A rib is provided between an outer peripheral surface on a central axis line side of a wire insertion tubular portion and a peripheral wall of a central tubular portion in order to reinforce a base on the central axis line side of the wire insertion tubular portion. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130068502 | DRY DOOR GROMMET - A protective wiring grommet that prevents water or debris from entering the grommet. The grommet includes a lower member, an intermediate member coupled to the lower member; and an upper member coupled to the intermediate member. The lower member, the intermediate member, and the upper member collectively define a wiring trough, a wiring conduit in communication with the trough that extends substantially orthogonal to the wiring trough in a first direction, and a wiring feed tube in communication with the wiring conduit that extends substantially orthogonal to the wiring conduit in a second direction. Such a configuration assists in routing wiring within the vehicle and through the grommet, to reduce manufacturing costs and efforts, as well as maintenance costs and efforts. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130075133 | BUSHING OF AN ELECTRICAL CONDUCTOR - A bushing of an electrical conductor through a wall which separates two regions from one another, wherein the conductor extends through a passage in the wall, at a distance from said wall, characterized in that a sleeve, which is electrically insulated from the passage and is hermetically sealed, preferably extends approximately coaxially through the passage, and in that the electrical conductor extends through the sleeve and is incorporated in the sleeve in a hermetically sealed, preferably integral, manner. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130140060 | GROMMET WITH SERVICE PORT HAVING TWO CLOSED ENDS - A grommet includes a body having a first wall and a second wall. A passageway extends from the first wall to the second wall, and a service port extends from a first end adjacent to the first wall to a second end adjacent to the second wall. A first cap is integral with the first wall and covers the first end of the service port. Similarly, a second cap is integral with the second wall and covers the second end of the service port. | 06-06-2013 |
| 20130180759 | ACCORDION-STYLE GROMMET WITH SHAPE-INFLUENCING STIFFENERS - A grommet for housing electrical wires constructed in accordance with the teachings of the present disclosure includes a mounting structure, a tube, and a plurality of stiffeners. The mounting structure is configured to mount to a panel of a vehicle, the mounting structure defining a first passage extending therethrough. The tube extends from the mounting structure and defines a second passage in communication with the first passage. The tube includes a corrugated portion having a plurality of ridges and a plurality of grooves interposed between the plurality of ridges. The stiffeners are interposed between those of the plurality of ridges that are disposed within a zone of the corrugated portion. The stiffeners extend partially around a circumference of the tube. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130199823 | GROMMET - A grommet has an engagement tube with an elliptical cross-section and is provided continuous with and bent from a leading end of a narrow tube through which the wire harness passes while coming into close contact therewith. An annular vehicle body engagement recess is provided in an outer circumferential surface of the engagement tube. Arc-side reinforcements protrude radially inward at connecting positions between a circumferential wall of the narrow tube and arc-shaped circumferential walls of the engagement tube that face each other in a major axis direction. The thickness of the arc-side reinforcements is greater than the thickness of connecting positions between the circumferential wall of the narrow tube and respective linear circumferential walls that face each other in a minor axis direction. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130292158 | GROMMET AND METHOD OF MOUNTING THEREOF - A grommet ( | 11-07-2013 |
| 20140014397 | Sleeve for Protecting Wire or Cable - A sleeve is provided for protecting wire or cable which is run through an aperture in a stud. The sleeve comprises a slit which runs longitudinally along the length of the sleeve for receiving a wire or cable and an opening at each end to allow for entrance and exit of the wire or cable. Extended portions of the sleeve on each end further protect the enclosed wire or cable. A weakened bend line which runs longitudinally along the length of the sleeve and opposite the slit in the sleeve allows the sleeve to be easily bent by hand compression along the bend line so that the sleeve can be easily installed around the wire or cable without the use of any hand tools. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140020930 | GROMMET - In a grommet | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140041899 | HARNESS COVERS FOR VEHICLE DOORS - A harness cover covering a wiring harness between a vehicle body and a door and having a cylindrical shape that is configured to accommodate the wiring harness on an inner circumferential side thereof may include a door-side grommet attached to one end thereof and capable of being connected to a grommet hole formed in the door, a body-side grommet attached to the other end thereof and capable of being connected to a grommet hole formed in vehicle body, and a bellows-shaped portion positioned between the body-side grommet and the door-side grommet. A set number of and a height of angled portions of the bellows-shaped portion are determined such that when the bellows-shaped portion is extended to a maximum at a time when the door is opened, a spread angle of each angled portion creates an acute angle. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140054064 | GROMMET ASSEMBLY - A grommet assembly that has a retainer and a grommet that is coupled to the retainer. The retainer includes first and second body portions that are connected via a hinge that permits the first and second body portions to be spread apart into an open condition to receive a wire harness. The retainer also includes a latch that permits the first and second body portions to be held in a closed position. The grommet is coupled to the retainer and is configured to form a seal about the retainer. The grommet can have seal members that sealingly engage one another when the retainer is latched in the closed position. Additionally or alternatively, the retainer can have a channel that is configured to support a wire harness and the grommet can have a resilient tubular portion that can be stretched over the channel and the wire harness. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140166341 | DUST TIGHT AND WATER TIGHT SEAL FOR CONDUIT/JUNCTION BOX CONNECTION - A gasket system is described for use with a conduit and junction box dust-tight seal assembly. The seal assembly includes a two-piece split clamp, each clamp having a shaft portion, a flange portion, a locknut cavity portion and lip portion. The gasket system includes one or more of a shaft gasket, a flange gasket, and a lip gasket that are mounted on and are used in conjunction with the overall seal assembly. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140196931 | GROMMET - A grommet includes a resin inner assembled to a grommet main body composed of a rubber or elastomer, a seal lip provided in the grommet main body to press against an outer surface of a body panel, and an engagement tab provided in the resin inner to engage with a periphery of a through-hole in the body panel. A base portion of the seal lip projects from a resin inner holder of the grommet main body: An inclined portion projects outward from the base portion. The inclined portion has a seal projection. A plurality of deformation prevention ribs are provided in a circumferential direction with intervals therebetween to connect the front end side of the inclined portion and the resin inner holder. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20150144378 | GROMMET - A grommet to be inserted into a mounting hole of a panel includes a grommet inner and a grommet outer assembled to the grommet inner so as to cover the grommet inner. The grommet outer includes: electrical cable insertion tubes each through which an electrical cable is inserted; a flange integrally formed with the electrical cable insertion tubes and positioned facing the opening edge of the mounting hole; and an annular lip extending from the flange and positioned in close abutment against the opening edge. The annular lip is provided with a pressing part for pressing the annular lip against the opening edge of the mounting hole, when the grommet inner and the grommet outer in the assembled state have been inserted into the mounting hole and the flange and the annular lip are urged into abutment. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20160123002 | Through-Penetration Device, Method for Manufacturing a Through-Penetration Device, and Method for Installing a Through-Penetration Device - A through-penetration device has a molded body consisting essentially of an intumescent foam material and having at least one penetration opening for one line. An outer contour of the molded body has protrusions extending radially outward for anchoring within a cast building component, which protrusions form undercuts in building component as the building component is being cast. In addition, a mounting plate that can be axially pushed onto the through-penetration device, sealing the penetration openings, is provided. As the through-penetration device is produced, a liquid coating material is applied to a surface of a foaming mold, and then a foam mass containing a predetermined percentage of intumescent material is introduced into the foaming mold. After a foaming process, the coating material forms a water-impermeable skin on the foamed molded body. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160148727 | ELECTRIC BUSHINGS HAVING INSULATION MEDUIUM RETENTION SEALS - Systems and methods for providing electrical bushings for maintaining a seal during severe incidents are provided. The bushings provide for relatively large gap formations and seal spacings by using one or more self-modulating seals. In certain configurations, the bushings provide for relatively large gap formations and seal spacings by using a wider or narrow top portion adjacent to a relatively narrower middle portion. The systems and methods can be also applied to other apparatus when deemed proper. | 05-26-2016 |
