25th week of 2019 patent applcation highlights part 72 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20190190157 | ANTENNA STRUCTURE AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE USING THE SAME - An antenna structure includes a housing, a feed source, a connecting portion and a coupling portion. The housing defines a slot. The slot divides the housing into a radiating portion and a grounding portion. The grounding portion is grounded. The feed source is electrically connected to the radiating portion for supplying current to the radiating portion. The connecting portion has one end electrically connected to the radiating portion and another end electrically connected to the grounding portion for grounding the radiating portion. The coupling portion has one end electrically connected to the grounding portion and another end spaced apart from the radiating portion. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190158 | GUIDED-WAVE TRANSMISSION DEVICE WITH NON-FUNDAMENTAL MODE PROPAGATION AND METHODS FOR USE THEREWITH - Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a transmission device that includes a transmitter that generates a first electromagnetic wave to convey data. A coupler couples the first electromagnetic wave to a single wire transmission medium having an outer surface, to forming a second electromagnetic wave that is guided to propagate along the outer surface of the single wire transmission medium via at least one guided wave mode that includes an asymmetric or non-fundamental mode having a lower cutoff frequency. A carrier frequency of the second electromagnetic wave is selected to be within a limited range of the lower cutoff frequency, so that a majority of the electric field is concentrated within a distance from the outer surface that is less than half the largest cross sectional dimension of the single wire transmission medium, and/or to reduce propagation loss. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190159 | ANTENNA ASSEMBLY FOR LONG-RANGE HIGH-SPEED WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS - Various embodiments of antenna assemblies are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the antenna assembly includes a reflector comprising a center opening, a feed-antenna subassembly situated in front of the reflector, a rear housing situated behind the reflector, and a pole-mounting bracket comprising a base plate situated between the reflector and the rear housing. The feed-antenna subassembly comprises a feed tube that houses at least one of: a transmitter circuit and a receiver circuit. The rear housing is coupled to a front side of the reflector via the center opening. The rear housing comprises a center cavity, and a back end of the feed tube is inserted in and coupled to the center cavity. The base plate is coupled to the reflector and the rear housing in such a way that decoupling between the base plate and the reflector requires a prior decoupling between the feed-antenna subassembly and the rear housing and a prior decoupling between the rear housing and the reflector. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190160 | INTEGRATED LINEARLY POLARIZED TRACKING ANTENNA ARRAY - A combiner network is provided. A combiner network may include a corporate combiner. The corporate combiner may include a first plurality of radiation elements. The corporate combiner may include a first H-plane combiner connected to the first plurality of radiation elements and connected by a U-bend to a first E-plane combiner. The corporate combiner may include a second H-plane combiner connected to the first E-plane combiner. The corporate combiner may further include a first port. A plurality of corporate combiners may be assembled together as a combiner network. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190161 | INTEGRATED TRACKING ANTENNA ARRAY - An antenna array is provided that includes a plurality of radiating elements and one or more combiners. The plurality of radiating elements and the combiners are formed as a single indivisible metal element by use of additive manufacturing processes. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190162 | SCANNED ANTENNA - Disclosed is a liquid crystal panel of a scanning antenna including a transmission and/or reception region in which a plurality of antenna units are arrayed, and a non-transmission and/or reception region, the liquid crystal panel including: a TFT substrate provided with a first dielectric substrate, a TFT supported by the first dielectric substrate, a gate bus line, a source bus line, and a patch electrode; a slot substrate provided with a second dielectric substrate, and a slot electrode formed on a first main surface of the second dielectric substrate and including a slot arranged so as to correspond to the patch electrode; a liquid crystal layer provided between the TFT substrate and the slot substrate and including a plurality of liquid crystal regions; and a plurality of sealing portions that respectively surround the plurality of liquid crystal regions and bond the TFT substrate and the slot substrate together. Each of the plurality of antenna units includes one of the plurality of liquid crystal regions. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190163 | HIGH-EFFICIENCY DUAL-BAND CIRCULARLY-POLARIZED ANTENNA FOR HARSH ENVIORNMENT FOR TELECOMMUNICATION - An antenna for dual-band or wide-band communication link. The antenna includes a patch array, arranged above a top ground plane, that includes one or more panels, each panel included one or more patch subarrays, and each patch subarray includes single patch elements made from metal. Each patch element includes: a flat rectangular radiation surface element into which a rectangular cutout is formed; an RF power feed point having a cylindrical shape that makes contact to the bottom side of the radiation surface element and feeds through a hole formed in the top ground plane for connection to the RF power; and a structural post having a cylindrical shape that contacts, at one end, the bottom side of the radiation surface element at a region of the radiation surface element where electric surface current is substantially smaller than any other region, and contacts the top ground plane at a second end. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190164 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A wireless communication device includes: flow-rate measuring unit connected to fluid pipe; and first antenna element that transmits and receives a radio wave. First antenna element has a longer side orthogonal to an axis of fluid pipe. According to this configuration, a direction of a plane of polarization of a radio wave radiated from first antenna element is orthogonal to fluid pipe. Thus, the radio wave is not reflected by fluid pipe but propagates in a direction toward fluid pipe, namely, in a rear surface direction of a meter including the wireless communication device. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190165 | HIGH PERFORMANCE FLAT PANEL ANTENNAS FOR DUAL BAND, WIDE BAND AND DUAL POLARITY OPERATION - A flat panel antenna is provided. The flat panel antenna may include a plurality of flat panel arrays (FPAs) that are arranged adjacent one another. Ones of the plurality of FPAs are configured to radiate in a plurality of different respective frequency bands and/or at different respective polarizations. The flat panel antenna includes an enclosure that defines an internal cavity that includes the plurality of FPAs. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190166 | INTEGRATED BASE STATION ANTENNA - The present invention discloses an integrated base station antenna. The integrated base station antenna comprises a macro-station antenna and a massive multiple-input multiple-output antenna which are integrally mounted in an antenna housing. The integrated base station antenna can perform hybrid network layout, thereby the network capacity can be effectively expanded and the network efficiency can be improved. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190167 | FUNCTIONAL CONTACTOR - A functional contactor is provided. The functional contactor according to one embodiment of the present invention includes: a conductive elastic portion configured to be in electrical contact with a conductor of an electronic device and have elasticity; and a functional device including a first electrode electrically connected to a circuit board or the conductor of the electronic device and a second electrode on which the conductive elastic portion is laminated through solder. Here, the second electrode includes a stopper in which no electrode is formed to prevent the solder from being introduced into a periphery of a lamination region on which the conductive elastic portion is laminated. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190168 | SPRING-LOADED CLAMPING CONNECTION - A spring-loaded clamping connection for clamping an electrical conductor, having an insulating-material housing, a bus bar and a clamping spring. The clamping spring has a contact limb, a spring bow, a clamping limb and an operating section. The clamping limb has a clamping edge. The clamping edge forms, with the busbar, a clamping point for clamping the electrical conductor between the clamping edge and the busbar. An operating element is movably mounted in the insulating-material housing and designed to apply force to the operating section. The operating element is mounted in the insulating-material housing in a linearly displaceable manner and extends from the operating section of the clamping spring beyond a plane which is spanned by the bearing surface of the contact limb on the bus bar or on the insulating-material housing. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190169 | ELECTRICAL COAXIAL CONNECTOR - An electrical coaxial connector comprising a connector body including a signal contact member, a grounding contact member and a housing member for supporting the signal contact member and the grounding contact member, and a locking component made to be separate from the connector body for engaging detachably with the grounding contact member, wherein the locking component is provided thereon with a displaceable engaging portion which is operative to lock an annular engaging portion of the grounding contact member from the outside of the same at a position for closing partially a slit provided on the annular engaging portion when the locking component is caused to engagement with the grounding contact member, so that the annular engaging portion of the grounding contact member is prevented from being subjected to expanding deformation to widen the slit. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190170 | THREAD TO COMPRESS CONNECTOR - A cable connector connects a coaxial cable to an interface port by an outer conductor engager, a body and a coupler. The coupler draws the body over a plurality of resilient fingers of the outer conductor engager to urge the fingers into electrical contact with a peripheral outer surface of a stripped/prepared end of a coaxial cable. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190171 | CAM DRIVEN, SPRING LOADED GROUNDING CLAMP - A grounding clamp ( | 2019-06-20 |
20190190172 | Connector Housing and Electrical Connector - A connector housing comprises a body, an outside surface of the body having a pair of opposite mounting surfaces, a first contact surface, and a second contact surface, and a mounting portion disposed on each of the mounting surfaces. The mounting surfaces, the first contact surface and the second contact surface are perpendicular to each other. A distance between the mounting portion and the first contact surface is equal to a distance between the mounting portion and the second contact surface. The connector housing is interchangeably mounted with the first contact surface on a circuit board or with the second contact surface on the circuit board by a same mounting mechanism engaging the mounting portion. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190173 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR HOUSING WITH HYBRID STRUCTURE VIA DUAL-MOLDING - An electrical for connecting an electronic package to a printed circuit board, includes a housing and a plurality of contacts therein. The contacts include grounding contacts and signal contacts mixed with each other. The housing includes an insulative plastic body and a conductive plastic body wherein the insulative plastic body includes a main plate and a plurality of columns extending downwardly from the main plate. Each column forms an insulative retaining passageway for receiving the signal contact. The conductive plastic body includes a block with two opposite top and bottom surfaces, and plurality of conductive retaining passageways for receiving the grounding contacts, and a plurality of receiving cavities for receiving the columns are commonly formed in the conductive plastic body in a mixed manner. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190174 | ELEMENT, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RETAINING A COMPONENT TO A SURFACE - The invention relates to a system for retaining a component to a surface which includes a surface; a component; and at least two elements. Each element has a base connected to the surface, the at least two elements provide means for retaining the component to the surface, wherein a first means is biased to a first position in which the first means extend beyond an edge of a first base such that when the component is placed on the surface the first means are configured to move to a second position in order to retain the component in its position relative to the surface. The component provides at least one cavity defined by at least two inner faces, and wherein upon placement of the component on the surface, the base of each element is situated solely within the at least one cavity of the component. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190175 | Printed circuit board mounted contactors - A printed circuit board (PCB)-mounted contactor including a PCB with planar surface, source and load terminals fixed to the PCB, and a contact. The contact is supported by the PCB and is movable between open and closed positions. Movement of the contact is parallel to the planar surface. Electrical assemblies having PCB-mounted contactors and methods of controlling current flow in electrical systems with PCB-mounted contactors are also described. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190176 | CARD EDGE CONNECTION UNIT - Even when a connection board has a large thickness tolerance, a stable connection is achieved by absorbing the tolerance so as to stabilize a contact pressure between the connection board and contacts. In a unit in which electrode groups of a connection board are in pressure contact with elastic contacts formed integrally with an inner housing to connect thereto, the inner housing is provided inside an outer case of a card edge connector through an elastic member to be freely movable forward and backward in a thickness direction of the connection board. The positions of the elastic contacts are adjusted by forward or backward moving the inner housing in accordance with the thickness of the connection board inserted into board insertion slots, so a pressure contact force with the elastic contacts is substantially equalized, irrespective of the size of the thickness of the connection board. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190177 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR HOUSING WITH BLIND CAVITIES - An electrical connector has an insulative elongated housing retaining a plurality of contacts therein. The housing includes an upper wall, a lower wall and a rear wall to commonly form a receiving slot. The upper wall forms a plurality of upper passageways and the lower wall forms a plurality of lower passageways to receiving the corresponding upper contacts and lower contacts therein. Each contact includes a mating section extending into the mating space and a mounting leg extending outside of the housing. The housing forms a plurality of cavities in the upper wall, the lower wall and the rear wall to relative evenly adjust the thickness of the different positions in the cross-section of the housing so as to evenly molding the housing without improper deformation/warpage when the housing is solidified after molding. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190178 | ELECTRICAL TERMINAL ASSEMBLY WITH LOCKED SPRING MEMBER AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLING THE ELECTRICAL TERMINAL ASSEMBLY - An electrical terminal assembly includes a contact member. The contact member includes a contact base. A plurality of contact arms extend from the contact base in an arm direction. The contact arms are arranged on opposed sides of a terminal plane. The electrical terminal assembly also includes a spring member. The spring member is supported on the contact member. The spring member includes a spring base. A plurality of spring arms extend from the spring base in the arm direction. The spring arms include respective spring contacts where the spring arms engage one of the contact arms. The spring arms include respective spring deflections between the spring base and the spring contact. Each spring deflection extends into a spring space between adjacent ones of the contact arms. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190179 | ELECTRICAL TERMINAL HOUSING WITH RELEASABLE TERMINAL LOCKS - An electrical terminal housing includes a housing body. The housing body defines a terminal cavity. An insertion opening in the housing body opens into the terminal cavity. A mate opening in the housing body also opens into the terminal cavity. A terminal lock extends from the housing body and is located in the terminal cavity. The terminal lock is adapted to engage an electrical terminal to retain the electrical terminal in the terminal cavity. The terminal lock is offset from the center of a side of the terminal cavity and is located closer to one side wall of the terminal cavity. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190180 | CONNECTOR AND TERMINAL CONNECTION STRUCTURE - A connector includes a male terminal, a housing having a housing portion that houses the male terminal, and a pressing member arranged in the housing portion. A female terminal having a proximal portion and a contact segment formed in a cantilever-like shape and extending from the proximal portion, is inserted into the housing portion. The pressing member holds the contact segment of the female terminal that is inserted into the housing portion between the pressing member and the male terminals, elastically deforms the contact segment, and presses the contact segment toward the male terminal. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190181 | ELECTRICAL PLUG CONNECTOR - An electrical plug connector for a coaxial or triaxial cable, wherein the cable includes an internal conductor, a first shielding conductor surrounding the internal conductor and extending coaxially with it, and optionally a second shielding conductor surrounding the first shielding conductor. The plug connector has a connector body, which includes an internal conductor contact element designed as a plug, socket, or coupling, for contacting with the internal conductor, an internal shield contact element provided for contacting with the first shielding conductor, and optionally an external shield contact element provided for contacting with the second shielding conductor. The connector body is configured such that the contact elements in the mounted condition of the plug connector are arranged on the cable such that a maximum diameter of the connector body is less than or equal to the outer diameter of the cable or only slightly larger than the outer diameter of the cable. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190182 | Zero Insertion Force Power Connector - The invention teaches a zero-insertion force socket connector that allows mating with a standard pin connector with zero insertion force. An actuation mechanism built into the socket connector is actuated after mating to create a high level of contact force necessary to establish a good electrical contact. The novel method for socket actuation is designed such that the socket contact does not exert any compression force on its mating pin contact—as is the case for a typical pin & socket joint. This helps eliminate buckling of slender contact pins when large contact force is required. The novel socket design allows it to work with a standard pin contact, which could be defined as a standard required connector provided on—for example, on every electric vehicle. Thus, the invention allows connecting to an existing or standard electric vehicle without any modification, yet it allows for zero insertion force, delivers the high contact force and preserves the long-term integrity of the connector pins by eliminating pin buckling. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190183 | CONNECTION TERMINAL AND CONNECTOR - A connection terminal includes a terminal metal fitting that has first and second electric connection parts each having facing wall surfaces disposed facing each other at an interval and formed in a flat plate shape, and that is electrically connected to an electric connection part of a counterpart connection terminal inserted between first end parts of the first and the second electric connection parts. The terminal metal fitting has a joining part that couples first side end parts of respective second end parts of the first and the second electric connection parts, and an opening restriction part that keeps an interval between the facing wall surfaces of the respective second end parts of the first and the second electric connection parts between second side end parts of the respective second end parts of the first and the second electric connection parts. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190184 | CONTACT - A contact includes a base portion fixable to a first member, a contact portion configured to make contact with a second member, and a spring portion configured to displaceably support the contact portion. The base portion, the contact portion, and the spring portion are integrally formed with a thin plate made of metal. The contact portion includes a flat plate portion extending in a flat plate shape from one end of a bent portion, and a protrusion protruding toward the second member is provided on the flat plate portion. The protrusion is provided at a location separated from a boundary between the contact portion and the spring portion by greater than or equal to 0.9 mm toward the contact portion. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190185 | CONNECTOR AND ELECTRIC WIRE WITH CONNECTOR - A connector includes a second housing member having a terminal housing chamber that accommodates an electrical connecting part in an accommodation space, a terminal holding part that holds a held part of a terminal fitting so as to prevent the electrical connecting part from coming off the terminal housing chamber, a terminal insertion port through which a mating terminal is inserted into the terminal housing chamber, and a contact prevention part that stops fingers to prevent them from coming into contact with the electrical connecting part through the terminal insertion port. The contact prevention part is disposed to cover at least part of an end surface of the electrical connecting part disposed facing the terminal insertion port from the terminal insertion port side in the tube axial direction. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190186 | CONNECTOR STRUCTURE - A connector structure may include a case and a connector. The case may include a case body accommodating an electronic substrate arranged therein and a cover structured to close an opening of the case body. The connector may include a terminal part supporting a plurality of terminals and a housing including a tubular part surrounding a plurality of tip end sides of the plurality of terminals. The terminal part may be structured as a separate component from the housing. The terminal part may be fixed on the electronic substrate. The housing may be integrally coupled to the cover. The terminal part and the housing may respectively include a plurality of positioning parts positioning the terminal part and the housing relative to each other. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190187 | Connector Assembly - A connector assembly comprises a first subassembly having a male contact and a first inner housing accommodating the male contact, a second subassembly having a female contact configured to be mated with the male contact and a second inner housing accommodating the female contact, a first connector, and a second connector matable with the first connector. The first connector has a first outer housing accommodating one of the first subassembly and the second subassembly and capable of accommodating both the first subassembly and the second subassembly. The second connector has a second outer housing accommodating the other of the first subassembly and the second subassembly and capable of accommodating both the first subassembly and the second subassembly. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190188 | WATERPROOF STRUCTURE FOR CONNECTOR - A waterproof structure for a connector includes a housing retaining terminals and having an opening, a cover closing the opening, and a packing mounted on the cover and sealing between the housing and the cover at the opening. The cover has through holes and projections projecting from an outer surface of the cover. The packing has a body sandwiched between the housing and the cover and locked portions continuous to the body. The locked portion projects from the through hole to an exterior space of the cover toward a direction in which the projection projects, and the locked portion is locked by the projection at least in a direction perpendicular to the direction of projection of the projection. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190189 | PORT FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A port for an electronic device that is water and dust resistant is provided herein. The port includes a housing having a holding hole and an elastic member in the housing. The housing contains a holding hole, and the elastic member is disposed in the housing. The elastic member can snugly block the holding hole in a memory shape, and is configured to deform upon a plug entering the holding hole to thereby expose, and to allow an electrical connection of the plug to, at least one conducting end inside the housing; and is also configured to return to the memory shape to thereby snugly block the holding hole upon the plug exiting the holding hole. An electronic device having one or more of the ports is further provided in the disclosure. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190190 | CABLE JOINT ARTICULATED EXTENSION PIECE FOR A CONNECTOR INTENDED TO BE LINKED TO AT LEAST ONE CABLE - The present application relates to a connector extension piece with a cable joint at the end thereof distanced from the cable, the extension piece being articulated using at least one ball joint inside which the cable is protected mechanically and against the conditions of the outside environment. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190191 | COMMUNICATIONS PLUG WITH IMPROVED CABLE MANAGER - A communications plug is described. The communications plug includes a plug housing and a cable manager partially enclosed within the plug housing. The cable manager has a first cable management section and a second cable management section connected to opposing ends of a bridge section. The first and second cable management sections are configured to fold together along at least one longitudinal axis of the cable manager around a portion of the cable before the cable manager is inserted into the plug housing. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190192 | CONNECTOR AND ELECTRIC WIRE WITH CONNECTOR - A connector includes: an electrical connection part to be electrically connected to a counterpart terminal and an electric wire connection part to be electrically connected to a terminal of an electric wire; a housing body that is insulative, houses the electrical connection part in an inward housing space and causes the electric wire connection part to project outward; a first shielding member that is conductive and includes a main shield body that covers the housing body from the outside, and a sub-shield body having a tubular shape that covers the electric wire connection part and the terminal of the electric wire We from the outside for each terminal metal fitting; and a second shielding member having a tubular shape, electrical conductivity, and elasticity that covers, from the outside, an end part on an opening side of the sub-shield body together with the electric wire pulled out from the opening. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190193 | MODULAR ELECTRONIC BUILDING SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME - In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a first connector that includes a housing that defines a receptacle between a top surface and the bottom surface. The receptacle has a first end open at the top surface and a closed second end opposite the first end, and a magnet is disposed within the receptacle. A circuit board is permanently coupled to the first connector such that a bottom surface of the circuit board contacts the top surface of the housing and the circuit board covers the first end of the receptacle preventing the magnet from being removed from the receptacle. The first connector can be removably coupled to a second connector such that a front surface of the housing of the first connector engages a front surface of a housing of the second connector and the magnet of the first connector magnetically couples to a magnet of the second connector. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190194 | MAGNETIC CONNECTOR SYSTEM - A magnetic connector system includes a connector receptacle having a connector pin in coaxial arrangement with a magnetic ground return and a connector insert having a power contact in coaxial arrangement with a magnetic sleeve. A power and/or data connection is formed between the power contact and the connector pin when an end face of the magnetic ground return is magnetically latched to an end face of the magnetic sleeve. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190195 | MAGNETIC CONNECTOR - A magnetic connector includes a connector insert having a magnetic sleeve and a power contact received in a central opening of the magnetic sleeve. The magnetic sleeve has an end face to magnetically latch onto a magnetic ground return of a connector receptacle. The power contact has a spring contact end to contact a connector pin of the connector receptacle when the end face of the magnetic sleeve is magnetically latched onto the magnetic ground return of the connector receptacle. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190196 | MODULAR ELECTRONIC BUILDING SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME - In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a first connector including a first housing portion having top and bottom surfaces and a second connector including a second housing portion having top and bottom surfaces. The second housing portion has a form factor substantially corresponding to a form factor of the first housing portion. A circuit board having top and bottom surfaces is permanently coupled to the first housing portion and to the second housing portion such that a first portion of the bottom surface of the circuit board contacts at least a portion of the top surface of the first housing portion and a second portion of the bottom surface of the circuit board contacts at least a portion of the top surface of the second housing portion. A contact assembly is coupled to the first housing portion and electrically and directly engages a portion of the bottom surface of the circuit board. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190197 | POWER CONNECTOR AND POWER CONNECTOR DEVICE - Provided is a power connector comprising: a housing; a power supply terminal; a regulatory protruding portion; and a locking portion, wherein the housing includes, therein, an insertion space configured in such a manner that at least part of a counterpart housing of a counterpart connector is inserted thereinto, the insertion space communicates with an insertion port, the power supply terminal includes an exposed portion provided in a state of being exposed from the housing toward the insertion space, and a contact portion being at least part of the power supply terminal, the contact portion being configured to come into contact with a counterpart-side power supply terminal provided to the counterpart housing upon at least part of the counterpart housing being inserted through the insertion port, the regulatory protruding portion is placed on a side closer to the insertion port than to the exposed portion in a direction of the insertion of at least part of the counterpart housing, in the insertion space, the regulatory protruding portion protruding from the housing toward the insertion space, and the locking portion is provided in the insertion space, and is configured to lock a locking portion provided to the counterpart housing upon at least part of the counterpart housing being inserted. The contact portion may have a flat plate shape. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190198 | CABLE END FITTING AND CABLE ABUTMENT AND METHOD OF SECUREMENT - A cable conduit end for securing a cable to a cable abutment of a latch is provided. The cable conduit end including: a housing; an alignment feature incorporated into a surface of the housing; a pair of flexible retention features integrally formed with the housing of the conduit end, wherein the flexible retention features are spring biased into a first position. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190199 | NETWORK SYSTEM OF NARROW WIDTH CONNECTORS AND RECEIVER DEVICES - Various embodiments disclosed herein are directed to a Network system including: a connector comprising a housing comprising a groove running widthwise on a surface of the housing; and a push-pull tab comprising a complementary groove, wherein the push-pull tab is detachably connected to the housing; and a receiver device comprising one or more ports for receiving the connector, the one or more ports having an interchangeable anchor device including a first portion and a second portion; wherein the groove is configured to receive the first portion of the interchangeable anchor device when the connector is inserted into the receiving element, and wherein the complimentary groove is configured to receive the second portion of the interchangeable anchor device when the connector is inserted into the receiving element, the push-pull tab being configured to disengage the second portion of the interchangeable anchor device from the complementary groove when the push-pull tab is moved in a direction away from the connector, thereby disengaging the first portion of the interchangeable anchor device from the grove of the connector. Other aspects are described and claimed. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190200 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY - An electrical connector assembly includes a first connector and a second connector inserted to a front of the first connector. The second connector has a casing. A latch portion is protrudingly provided above the casing. The first connector includes a shell. A locking arm is pivoted to the shell by a pivoting portion, and is provided with a buckling portion for buckling the latch portion. The locking arm includes at least one first position limiting portion and a second position limiting portion in front of the buckling portion. In a separation process of the first and second connectors, the locking arm is actuated, the buckling portion is detached from the latch portion and moves backward, and the latch portion firstly stops the first position limiting portion. After the latch portion is detached from the first position limiting portion, the latch portion stops the second position limiting portion from moving backward. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190201 | CONNECTOR AND CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY - Provided is a connector comprising: a connector body; a terminal attached to the connector body; and a slider attached to the connector body, wherein the connector body includes mating-guide parts formed on two ends, in the longitudinal direction, of the connector body; the mating guide parts mate with counterpart mating-guide parts formed on the two ends, in the longitudinal direction, of a counterpart connector body of a counterpart connector; the slider includes a front-side locking part and a rear-side locking part, and is slidable, in the longitudinal direction of the connector body, between a locked position and an unlocked position; and once the connector body mates with the counterpart connector body, and the slider slides and thus reaches the locked position, the front-side locking part and the rear-side locking part engage with a right-and-left pair of to-be-locked parts of the counterpart locking member attached to each of the counterpart mating-guide part. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190202 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR - A electrical connector includes an insulative housing having a mating face and a loading face opposite to each other. A plurality of partitions are formed in the housing with corresponding passageways in which a plurality of contacts are received. The partition includes a main body and a protrusion extending on the loading face. The protrusion includes a pair of chamfers with a recess in one side to receive the possible burrs due to the injection molding so as to allow the sealing plate intimately cover the loading face with superior waterproofing effect. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190203 | CONNECTOR STRUCTURE AND POWER STORAGE DEVICE - A connector structure has a first connector unit including a first connector and a first terminal, and a second connector unit including a second connector and a second terminal. The second connector unit has a locating pin and an insertion hole into which the locating pin is inserted. In the connector structure, the first connector and the first terminal, and the second connector and the second terminal are brought into a connectible state when the locating pin is inserted into the insertion hole. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190204 | POWER CORD RETENTION DEVICE - A retention apparatus is provided for securing a cable into a receptacle of an electronic device. The retention apparatus includes a body with two distal ends. A buckle is located at one distal end while a housing is located at the opposite distal end. The buckle includes at least one tooth. The housing includes a receiver configured to secure the buckle and a handle portion. The receiver includes a securing element and guide. The securing element includes at least one notch to interconnect with the at least one tooth of the buckle. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190205 | CONNECTOR PORT ASSEMBLY FOR AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - In an example, a connector port assembly for use in an electronic device is disclosed. The connector port assembly may include a connector port, a fastener assembly and a flexible ring. The fastener assembly may fasten the connector port to a casing of the electronic device through at least one resilient member. The flexible ring may be disposed around an outer surface of the connector port. The fastener assembly and flexible ring may provide bend angle for the connector port. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190206 | Connector Assembly And Method Of Manufacturing Socket For Connector Assembly - A connector assembly comprises a housing assembly including a housing shell and a center pin disposed on an inner side of the housing shell, and a head assembly including a head shell detachable from the housing shell, a head body fixed to an inner side of the head shell, and a socket mounted on the head body. The socket includes at least four contact members disposed around a central axis of the head body in a circumferential direction. Each of the contact members has a shape bent toward the central axis of the head body. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190207 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR - An electrical connector mounted on a circuit board and used to be electrically connected to an electrical module includes an insulating body, and multiple terminals provided on the insulating body. At least one of the terminals has: a connecting portion; an elastic arm, bending and extending upward from the connecting portion for being electrically connected to the electrical module; two extending arms, extending from the connecting portion, each of the two extending arms having a free tail end; and an electrical connecting portion, located at one of the free tail ends of the two extending arms for electrically connecting the two extending arms, and for increasing the volume and surface area of the terminal, so as to reduce impedance and improve high frequency thereof. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190208 | ELECTRIC CONNECTOR - A shell member that is ground-connected to a connected object is constituted by a first shell that faces the connected object and entirely covers a contact member and a second shell that faces the first shell in a part between a connecting object and the connected object. Each of the first and second shells is provided with ground contact points with a ground conducting path of the connecting object and a ground conducting path of the connected object, with a signal transmission path sandwiched between ground paths by the first and second shells and configured to achieve satisfactory electromagnetic shielding of the signal transmission path. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190209 | CONNECTOR - Provided is a connector having a reduced profile that is capable of facilitating confirmation of the mounting on a circuit board and, simultaneously, demonstrating a satisfactory noise-shielding effect. A connector ( | 2019-06-20 |
20190190210 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR WITH ADDITIONAL SHIELDING - A electrical connector includes an insulative elongated housing and first and second metallic shells covering the housing. The housing includes a top surface, a bottom surface, two sides surfaces and a middle surface between the top surface and the bottom surface so as to form a step structure thereof. The primary shell covers the top surface, the bottom surface and two side surfaces, and the secondary shell covers the middle surface and the rear surface which is roughly joined with the middle surface, and further the primary shell on the bottom surface in an overlapped manner so as to avoid any electrical leaking along the front-to-back direction between the primary shell and the secondary shell. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190211 | CONNECTOR AND ELECTRIC WIRE WITH CONNECTOR - A connector includes a terminal fitting, an insulating housing, and a conductive shield shell. The terminal fitting includes an electrical connecting part electrically connected to a mating terminal of a mating connector and an electric wire connecting part electrically connected to a terminal of an electric wire. The housing accommodates the electrical connecting part in an inward accommodation space and causes the electric wire connecting part to protrude outward. The shield shell accommodates a space from the housing to the terminal of the electric wire inward and covers the space from outside. The shield shell includes a main shield that covers the housing from outside and a tubular sub-shield that covers the electric wire connecting part and the terminal of the electric wire from outside and is provided for each of the terminal fitting. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190212 | CARD EDGE CONNECTOR WITH IMPROVWED GROUNDING BARS - A card edge connector includes an insulating housing defining a mating slot, two rows of terminals and a grounding member. Each row of terminals includes grounding terminals and signal terminals. The grounding member includes a first grounding bar and a second grounding bar each defining an upper edge and a lower edge. A plurality of elastic tabs extends from the upper edge and contacting with corresponding grounding terminals. The first and second grounding sides are disposed vertically in a bottom and at an outer side of corresponding row of terminals, and extends along the longitudinal direction of the housing under a condition that the upper edges of the grounding sides are disposed below the inner bottom face of the mating slot. The upper edges are located below the inner bottom face of the mating slot. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190213 | CABLE CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY - A cable connector assembly includes an outer housing, an inner housing received in the outer housing, and a circuit board received in the inner housing. The inner housing includes an insulative member. The circuit board includes a mating portion extending beyond the insulative member that is mated with a mating connector, and a body portion connected with the mating portion. The insulative member holds and supports the circuit board and is mated with the inner housing. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190214 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING A CONNECTOR RECEPTACLE HAVING A ROTATIONALLY SYMMETRIC CONTACT PLANE - An electronic device includes an electronic device housing and a connector receptacle coupled to the electronic device housing for power and/or data connection. The connector receptacle includes a connector pin and a magnetic ground return in coaxial arrangement with the connector pin. An inner wall of the magnetic ground return is radially opposed to and spaced apart from an outer wall of the connector pin by an annular gap. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190215 | DISTAL CONNECTOR ASSEMBLIES FOR MEDICAL LEAD EXTENSIONS - Distal connector assemblies that are on the distal end of medical lead extensions provide increased rigidity by including a rigid holder that contains the electrical connectors. The electrical connectors are separated within the rigid holder by insulative spacers that may be individual items or may be formed from a compliant carrier that the electrical connectors may reside within where the carrier is positioned within the rigid holder. The rigid holder may also contain a set screw block defining set screw bore or the rigid holder may include an integral portion that defines a set screw bore. The integral portion may include a slot to allow a molding pin loaded with the electrical connectors and other components to be dropped into a cavity of the rigid holder. An overmold may be present to surround the rigid body containing the electrical connectors and insulative spacers. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190216 | CABLE CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY - A cable connector assembly includes an electrical connector and a cable, the electrical connector comprising a plug mated with a mating connector, a circuit board connected between the plug and the cable, and a housing disposed outside the circuit board, the cable comprising a number of core wires and a shielding layer covering the core wires, the housing electrically connected to the shielding layer, wherein the housing is grounded to the circuit board. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190217 | POWER OVER ETHERNET SYSTEM, DEVICE, AND METHOD - The present disclosure relates to a converter. The converter may include a first connector configured to transmit one or more signals, a second connector configured to receive the one or more signals, a first cable with a first impedance, a second cable with a second impedance, and an impedance module. The first connector may be connected to the impedance module via the first cable. The second connector may be connected to the impedance module via the second cable. The impedance module may be configured to convert the first impedance of the first cable to the second impedance of the second cable such that the one or more signals are transmitted from the first connector to the second connector via the first cable and the second cable. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190218 | CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY WITH GROUNDING - A connector assembly ( | 2019-06-20 |
20190190219 | ELECTRICAL FAULT DETECTION FOR A MODULAR BUSWAY - A busway for power distribution to equipment positioned in information technology racks includes a plurality of locations in the busway suitably being configured to receive a plurality of detachably engageable taps. The busway, which are external to the information technology racks, includes a plurality of segments, each of which are detachably engaged with one another and including at least one of the plurality of locations. The busway provides power to the information technology racks by respective taps, where each of the taps includes a respective electrical sensor that senses at least one of a voltage level and a current level. Each of the electrical sensors providers an output signal to a computing device. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190220 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF POWERING AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING A REMOVABLE POWER SUPPLY - An electronic device lacking an internal power supply comprises electronic circuitry, an external power adapter having an input connector for receiving AC power from a conventional AC power outlet and for providing a low-voltage output signal to an output connector, and a first port electronically coupled to the electronic circuitry for receiving the low-voltage output signal from the output connector of the power adapter and for providing the low-voltage output signal to the electronic circuitry. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190221 | VIBRATION ABSORBING DEVICE FOR SLIP-RING BRUSHES - A sliding brush assembly for a slipring includes a sliding brush and an absorbing device containing absorbing material attached to the sliding brush, such that the at least one sliding brush is enclosed by the absorbing material. The absorbing device includes a housing with two (optionally identical) housing parts (each having an elongated base with a snap arm at one side and at the opposing side an opening, into which the snap-arm fits). The housing may easily be closed around a sliding brush by snapping two housing parts together. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190222 | Insertion Tool for Right-Angled RF Connectors - An apparatus includes a shaft, a slide lock, and a pin. The shaft includes a first end, a second end opposite the first end and a middle portion between the first end and the second end. The first end includes an enclosure. The middle portion includes a tapered hole. The tapered hole is tapered in a direction from the first end to the second end. The slide lock is disposed over the shaft. The pin is disposed through the tapered hole and coupled to the slide lock. The movement of the slide lock is coupled to movement of the pin within the tapered hole of the shaft. The position of the pin within the tapered hole corresponds to an amount of opening of the enclosure. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190223 | Device for Generating Linearly Polarized Ultra-Short Terahertz Wave - Provided is a linearly polarized ultra-short terahertz wave generating device which has a parabolic barrel mirror installed at one side of a multiple thin film, to generate an ultra-short terahertz wave having single linear-polarized light and uniformly formed output distribution. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190224 | UTILIZATION OF TIME AND SPATIAL DIVISION MULTIPLEXING IN HIGH POWER ULTRAFAST OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS - In an example amplifier system, an input pulse train is passed through an optical stage that splits each pulse into two or more pulses. These divided pulses are then injected into at least two amplifiers for amplification. The amplified pulses are subsequently passed back through the same optical stage in order to combine the pulses back into one high energy pulse. The amplifier system can use time division multiplexing (TDM) and/or spatial division multiplexing (SDM) to produce, e.g., four pulses in conjunction with two amplifiers and propagation through two optical beam splitters, which are coherently combined into a single output pulse after amplification. The amplifiers can comprise fiber amplifiers or bulk amplifiers. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190225 | AM/FM SEED FOR NONLINEAR SPECTRALLY COMPRESSED FIBER AMPLIFIER - A fiber amplifier system including an optical source providing an optical seed beam and an FM electro-optic modulator (EOM) that frequency modulates the seed beam to broaden its spectral linewidth. The system also includes an AM EOM that modulates the seed beam to provide an amplitude modulated seed beam that is synchronized with the frequency modulated seed beam. The system also includes a non-linear fiber amplifier receiving the AM and FM modulated seed beam, wherein the amplitude modulated seed beam causes self-phase modulation in the fiber amplifier that phase modulates the seed beam as it is being amplified by the fiber amplifier that acts to cancel the spectral linewidth broadening caused by the frequency modulation. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190226 | FREQUENCY-DOUBLED LASER AND METHOD OF GENERATING HARMONIC LASER - A frequency-doubled laser, including: a first reflecting mirror, a second reflecting mirror, a gain medium, a telescope module, a polarizing element, and a nonlinear crystal; the first reflecting mirror and the second reflecting mirror are spaced apart to form a resonator of the frequency-doubled laser; the polarizing element, the gain medium, the telescope module, and the nonlinear crystal are located in the resonator, and the telescope module is located between the gain medium and the nonlinear crystal. The present disclosure further provides a method of generating harmonic laser. The frequency-doubled laser and the method of generating harmonic laser make the position of nonlinear crystal more flexible, and the possibility of damage to the nonlinear crystal is reduced. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190227 | Laser Machining Device And Laser Oscillator - To prevent an output decrease of laser light due to impurities formed in a Q switch. A laser machining device includes a Q-switch housing section configured by housing a Q switch and a first mirror and a wavelength converting section including a housing in which a transmission window section capable of transmitting a fundamental wave is formed, the wavelength converting section being configured by airtightly housing, with an internal space surrounded by the housing, at least a first wavelength conversion element, a second wavelength conversion element, and a second mirror. A resonator forming a resonant optical path passing through the transmission window section is configured by the first mirror in the Q-switch housing section and the second mirror in the wavelength converting section. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190228 | Laser Machining Device And Laser Machining Method - To appropriately change an output of laser light without deteriorating laser characteristics. A control section of a laser machining device controls, when a target output is larger than a predetermined threshold, an output of laser light by changing a driving current supplied to an excitation light source and, on the other hand, controls, when the target output is equal to or smaller than the threshold, the output of the laser light by changing a duty ratio of a Q switch while keeping the driving current supplied to the excitation light source substantially fixed. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190229 | GAS OPTIMIZATION IN A GAS DISCHARGE LIGHT SOURCE - In a method, energy is supplied to a first gas discharge chamber of a first stage until a pulsed amplified light beam is output from the first stage and directed toward a second stage. While the energy is supplied to the first gas discharge chamber: a value of an operating parameter of the first gas discharge chamber is measured; it is determined whether to adjust an operating characteristic of the first gas discharge chamber based on the measured value; and, the operating characteristic of the first gas discharge chamber is adjusted if it is determined that the operating characteristic of the first gas discharge chamber should be adjusted. After it is determined that the operating characteristic of the first gas discharge chamber no longer should be adjusted, then an adjustment procedure is applied to an operating characteristic of a second gas discharge chamber of the second stage. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190230 | LASER SYSTEM WITH MECHANICALLY-ROBUST MONOLITHIC FUSED PLANAR WAVEGUIDE (PWG) STRUCTURE - An apparatus includes a PWG having a core region and a cladding layer. The amplifier is configured to receive pump light. The core region is configured to amplify an input beam using energy from the pump light to generate an amplified output beam. The apparatus also includes a cooling fluid configured to cool the core region. The cooling fluid has a lower refractive index than the core region and the cladding layer in order to support guiding of the input beam and pump light within the amplifier. The amplifier also includes first and second endcaps attached to opposite faces of the core region and cladding layer. The core region, cladding layer, and endcaps collectively form a monolithic fused structure. Each endcap has a major outer surface that is larger in area than a combined area of the faces of the core region and cladding layer to which the endcap is attached. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190231 | AMPLIFIED OPTICAL LINK HAVING A FAULT-PROTECTION CAPABILITY - An amplified optical link having a fault-protection capability that is based, at least in part, on the ability to selectively and independently power up and down different groups of optical amplifiers within the link. In an example embodiment, the optical link is implemented using an optical fiber cable having an electrical power line and arrays of optical amplifiers connected between successive optical fiber segments to form a plurality of disjoint groups of parallel optical paths between the ends of the optical fiber cable. The electrical power line is operable to selectively power, as a group, the optical amplifiers of at least some of the disjoint groups. In various embodiments, different optical paths can be implemented using different respective strands of a single-core optical fiber, different respective cores of a multi-core optical fiber, and/or different respective sets of spatial modes of a multimode optical fiber. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190232 | DIAMOND-COATED COMPOSITE HEAT SINKS FOR HIGH-POWER LASER SYSTEMS - In various embodiments, laser systems feature beam emitters thermally coupled to heat sinks comprising, consisting essentially of, or consisting of a metal-matrix composite of a thermally conductive metal and a refractory metal. At least a portion of the surface of the heat sink is treated to form a depleted region, and a diamond coating is deposited within and/or over the depleted region. The depleted region is substantially free of the thermally conductive metal or contains the thermally conductive metal at a concentration less than that of the body of the heat sink. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190233 | INDEPENDENT CONTROL OF EMISSION WAVELENGTH AND OUTPUT POWER OF A SEMICONDUCTOR LASER - Methods for driving a tunable laser with integrated tuning elements are disclosed. The methods can include modulating the tuning current and laser injection current such that the laser emission wavelength and output power are independently controllable. In some examples, the tuning current and laser injection current are modulated simultaneously and a wider tuning range can result. In some examples, one or both of these currents is sinusoidally modulated. In some examples, a constant output power can be achieved while tuning the emission wavelength. In some examples, the output power and tuning can follow a linear relationship. In some examples, injection current and tuning element drive waveforms necessary to achieve targeted output power and tuning waveforms can be achieved through optimization based on goodness of fit values between the targeted and actual output power and tuning waveforms. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190234 | DIGITALLY INTEGRATED SELF-TRAINED PRE-DISTORTION CURVE FINDER FOR LINEARLY FREQUENCY SWEPT SEMICONDUCTOR LASER SYSTEMS - The present disclosure provides a unique digitally integrated, self-trained pre-distortion curve generation method and apparatus for semiconductor lasers (SCLs) to generate linearly swept optical signals that are applicable to a wide range of sweep velocities and semiconductor laser types. The method requires no prior knowledge of the frequency response of the laser and is highly accurate. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190235 | HYBRID VERTICAL CURRENT INJECTION ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE WITH REFRACTIVE-INDEX-MATCHED CURRENT BLOCKING LAYER - The invention is directed to a hybrid, vertical current injection electro-optical device, comprising an active region and one or more current blocking layers. The active region includes a stack of III-V semiconductor gain materials designed for optical amplification. The gain materials of the stack are stacked along a stacking direction z, which is perpendicular to a main plane of the stack. The one or more current blocking layers extend perpendicularly to the stacking direction z and laterally on opposite sides of the active region. The one or more current blocking layers each have an effective refractive index n | 2019-06-20 |
20190190236 | LENS FOR FREE AIR OPTICAL INTERCONNECT - An apparatus comprises a substrate; a laser emitter arranged on the substrate; a photodiode arranged on the substrate; resin encapsulating the laser emitter and the photodiode, wherein the resin includes a top surface above the laser emitter and photodiode; and a lens arranged on the top surface of the resin. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190237 | OPTICAL FREE AIR BUS INTERCONNECT - An apparatus comprises a plurality of laser emitters each having a different center frequency; a plurality of photodiodes arranged to receive laser energy from the laser emitters via an air space; and a plurality of laser bandpass filters arranged between the plurality of laser emitters and the plurality of photodiodes, wherein each one of the photodiodes is arranged to receive laser energy respectively via one of the laser bandpass filters, and wherein each laser bandpass filter has one of the different center frequencies included in a passband of the laser bandpass filter and has the other of the different center frequencies excluded from the passband. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190238 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR AN IGNITION SYSTEM - Various embodiments of the present technology comprise a method and apparatus for an ignition system. In various embodiments, the ignition system activates a soft shutdown of an ignition coil in the event of an over dwell condition. The apparatus comprises a first counter and a second counter that are selectively activated at predetermined events. An output of the second counter controls the value of a reference current that decreases linearly over time and wherein a rate of change of the reference current may be adjusted according to a frequency of a clock signal. In various embodiments, the soft shutdown operates independent of the supply voltage and temperature. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190239 | ENCLOSURE FOR ELECTRICAL NETWORK PROTECTION ELEMENT - The disclosure generally relates to an exemplary enclosure that can house an electrical network protection element and provide protection to the electrical network protection element against damage in various environments such as when the enclosure is placed in an underground vault that may be flooded during rain, or when a liquid (oil, for example) comes in contact with the enclosure. The enclosure includes a flange attached to the housing and two doors that are hingeably attached to the flange. A wedge projection is provided along the perimeter of the flange and a gasket is provided on three outer edges of each door. The gasket sealingly receives the wedge projection of the flange when the doors are closed. The first door further includes a beveled inner edge that sealingly mates with a gasket in a complementary beveled inner edge of the second door when the doors are closed. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190240 | MOTOR CONTROL CENTER (MCC) UNITS WITH RETRACTABLE POWER CONNECTOR AND INTERLOCKS INCLUDING A POWER CONNECTOR POSITION INTERLOCK - Motor control centers have units or buckets with an extendable/retractable power connection (stab) assembly and one or more operating lever interlocks that include a unit latch to latch to a cabinet and a power connection position interlock that blocks the handle of the units or buckets based on position of the power connection assembly, optionally also including a shutter cam that slides a shutter right and left. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190241 | ENCLOSURE FOR ELECTRICAL NETWORK PROTECTION ELEMENT - The disclosure generally relates to an exemplary enclosure that protects an electrical network protection element in various environments such as when the enclosure is submerged in water or when the enclosure is placed in an underground vault that may be flooded during rain. The enclosure has a gasket that includes a first portion having a sloping surface which provides a continuously incremental amount of sealing in cooperation with a beveled edge of a door of the enclosure and a second portion having a flat surface which is compressed by a wedge projection in the door and provides water tight sealing as well. The enclosure includes a locking bar having a tapered portion, which moves into an opening in a flange of the enclosure and automatically creates a continuously incremental amount of pushing force upon the door against the gasket when a pivotable handle is operated for closing the door. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190242 | REJUVENATION OF SUBSEA ELECTRICAL CABLE INSULATION - Described is a cable rejuvenation apparatus for a cable used in a subsea environment. The apparatus applies a bias signal to a conducting element of the cable, the bias signal being selected to improve the insulation properties of the cable. The bias signal is generated by a bias signal generator. The bias signal can be a voltage which promotes an electrochemical reaction between the conducting element and the salt containing liquid of the subsea environment resulting in the formation of a barrier material at the fault location restricting further leakage current flow and enhancing the insulation resistance of the cable. The bias signal is selected such that the electrochemical reaction promoted by the bias signal maintains the presence of the barrier material at the fault location. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190243 | SHROUDED IN-USE COVER FOR A JUNCTION BOX - An in-use cover for an electrical junction box, where the cover cap is selectively attachable to and removable from the base plate through sliding engagement of channels on the perimeter of the base plate and ledges on the perimeter of the cover cap. The cover cap defines a hollow interior that overlays one or more component ports in the base plate when attached to the base plate. The cover cap has a bottom cut-out configured to accommodate plugs or other electrical components connected to the electrical junction box. The base plate has a bottom ledge configured to engage the bottom cut-out. When the cover cap is fully engaged in the base plate, the hollow interior and any electrical components contained therein are effectively sealed from intrusion of most moisture. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190244 | HARNESS BRACKET WITH CABLE TIE RETENTION FEATURES - A wire harness retention system includes a harness bracket having a cable tie retention feature and a spring clip attached to the harness bracket. A cable tie is wrapped around the spring clip. The cable tie is held in place with the cable tie retention feature on the harness bracket. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190245 | Joint, Termination Or Cross-Connection Arrangement For A Cable And Method For Providing A Joint, Termination Or Cross-Connection Arrangement - The disclosure relates to a joint, termination or cross-connection arrangement for a cable. The arrangement includes a first cable and a protective casing. The arrangement further includes a transition sleeve. The transition sleeve is welded to the metallic sheath of the first cable. The transition sleeve is furthermore welded to the protective casing. Thereby, a water tight connection between the metallic sheath of the first cable and the protective casing is achieved without the need for used of lead containing materials. The disclosure further relates to a method of providing such an arrangement. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190246 | CIRCUIT PROTECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A DC and/or an AC power transmission circuit protection system is for protection of a cabling medium. The circuit protection system includes a power supply, a powered device and a circuit protection module that includes an over-current and/or over-voltage circuit module and/or a heat circuit protector. The protection system is disposed between the power supply and the powered device, and interrupts an electrical current that flows through the cabling medium when the over-current and/or over-voltage circuit module and/or the circuit protector exceeds a predetermined level. There is also provided a method to dispose the circuit protection system and the circuit protection module within the circuit and to interrupt the circuit when over-current and/or over-voltage circuit module and/or heat circuit protector exceeds a predetermined level. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190247 | DIFFERENTIAL PROTECTION TEST METHOD, DIFFERENTIAL PROTECTION DEVICE AND ELECTRICAL UNIT INCLUDING SUCH A DEVICE - A method that tests a differential protection device having a first and a second differential protection chain includes: a step of controlling the flow of a test signal for a duration smaller than a no-trip time, and steps of determining the state of the two differential protection chains after the flow of a test signal, of monitoring the conformity of the evolution of the protection chains, and of determining the state of the test. The differential protection device includes two differential protection chains and controls the flow of a test current for a duration smaller than a no-trip time. It includes modules for monitoring the evolution of the protection chains and determining the state of the test in order to control the opening of an electrical unit if the test is good. The device can be included in the electrical unit. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190248 | SQUIB CIRCUIT HIGH SIDE BATTERY SHORT PROTECTION - A squib driver circuit for deployment of an active safety restraint in a vehicle. The squib driver circuit may include a high side protection circuit. The high side protection circuit may include a comparator circuit to compare the input voltage to a reference voltage and activate a timer in response to the input voltage exceeding the reference voltage, the timer generating a disable signal to disable the high side driver after a predetermined period of time The high side protection circuit may disable the high side driver after a short is detected and elapse of the predetermined period of time. The squib driver circuit may be formed on a single chip. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190249 | VOLTAGE REGULATOR - A squib driver circuit for deployment of a deployable restraint in a vehicle. The safety restraint may have a minimum firing voltage. The voltage regulator may regulate the input voltage to be the minimum firing voltage at the input terminal. The squib driver circuit may be formed on a single chip. The squib driver circuit may include a high side driver and a low side driver. An input terminal for receiving an input voltage used to fire the deployable restraint. The high side driver may supply current from the input terminal to the deployable restraint. The low side driver may supply current from deployable restraint to the electrical ground. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190250 | SQUIB CIRCUIT LOW SIDE BATTERY SHORT PROTECTION - A squib driver circuit for deployment of an active safety restraint in a vehicle. The squib driver circuit may include a low side protection circuit. The low side protection circuit may include a comparator circuit to compare a voltage at a low side return terminal to a reference voltage and activate a timer in response to the voltage at the low side return terminal exceeding the reference voltage, the timer generating a disable signal to disable the low side driver after a predetermined period of time. The low side protection circuit may disable the low side driver after the short is detected and elapse of the predetermined period of time. The squib driver circuit may be formed on a single chip. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190251 | Circuit Breaker for DC Circuits Using Coupled Induction - An improved DC circuit breaker is provided for automatically detecting and isolating a fault between a source and a ground. The DC circuit breaker comprises at least one switch, in electrical series with a first inductor between the source and a load, and a second inductor magnetically coupled to the first inductor wherein a first side of the second inductor is electrically connected to the load and a second side of the second inductor is grounded through a capacitor. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190252 | Method and Apparatus for Reverse Current Protection - A circuit and method for protecting from reverse current is disclosed. A reverse current protection circuit is coupled to a pass transistor of power circuitry (e.g., a power switch or voltage regulator), the pass transistor being coupled between first and second voltage nodes, the first voltage node being coupled to a power supply circuit. The reverse current protection circuit includes a sensing circuit that is configured to sense an amount of reverse current flowing through the pass transistor (from the second voltage node to the first voltage node). Responsive to the amount of reverse current exceeding a threshold value, the reverse current sensing circuit activates a shunt circuit, which redirects at least some of the reverse current to a reference node (e.g., ground). | 2019-06-20 |
20190190253 | DYNAMIC MOTOR CURRENT PHASE UNBALANCE PROTECTION - In accordance with an example embodiment of the invention, in an overload relay for a three-phase motor, an adjusted threshold for detected current phase unbalance is dynamically determined at which the relay will be tripped. The adjusted threshold is a function of a ratio of an average of currents in the three-phases to the rated full load current of the motor, i.e., motor load. As the motor load decreases, the adjusted current phase unbalance threshold is increased, causing the resulting trip time to increase, thereby increasing motor run time and reducing downtime. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190254 | A METHOD FOR PHASE CONTROLLED ENERGIZING OF POWER TRANSFORMER - In aspects, the present invention provides a method for phase controlled energizing of a power transformer ( | 2019-06-20 |
20190190255 | Electronic Switching and Protection Circuit with Wakeup Function - An embodiment electronic circuit includes an electronic switch comprising a load path, and a control circuit configured to drive the electronic switch. The control circuit is configured to operate in one of a first operation mode and a second operation mode based at least on a level of a load current of the electronic switch. In the first operation mode the control circuit is configured to generate a first protection signal based on a current-time-characteristic of the load current and drive the electronic switch based on the first protection signal. The control circuit is configured to generate a status signal such that the status signal has a wakeup pulse when the operation mode changes from the second operation mode to the first operation mode and, after the wakeup pulse, a signal level representing a level of the load current. | 2019-06-20 |
20190190256 | FULL SWING POSITIVE TO NEGATIVE MOSFET SUPPLY CLAMP FOR ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE (ESD) PROTECTION - Electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection is provided in using a supply clamp circuit including a trigger actuated MOSFET device. Triggering of the MOSFET device is made in response to detection of either a positive ESD event or a negative ESD event. | 2019-06-20 |