Electricity: conductors and insulators inventions 04/08

20080093098 - Electrical stringer outlet box: An electrical stringer box for enclosing electrical junctions, the stringer box including a base plate and housing providing lowered cable positioning and secure cable retention through cable collars defining ribbed recesses at a lower edge of the stringer box housing. Screw guides at the corners of the housing provide for... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20080093097 - Electrical power transmission device having a phase conductor and an encasing conductor: An electrical power transmission device has a phase conductor and an encasing conductor. The phase conductor is used for transmission of an electrical power flow. The encasing conductor is divided into a plurality of sections, and the sections are connected by way of at least one assembly with a variable... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080093099 - Electrical box ring and method for manufacturing the same: A two-part multiple gang electrical box ring taught for use in an electrical box assembly. The electrical box ring includes a plate portion and a box ring portion having at least one side wall. The plate portion is affixed to the box ring portion by mechanical engaging means so that... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080093100 - Power monitoring and control system and method: A system includes first and second controllers coupled together with a communication channel. The first controller provides a first signal to the second controller and the second controller provides a second signal to the first controller in response. The second signal includes information about an electrical load. At least one... Agent: Schmeiser Olsen & Watts

20080093101 - Multimedia patching box: A multimedia patching box including a generally rectangular housing. The housing includes a first wall positioned opposite from a second wall. The housing also includes opposing third and fourth walls that extend between the first and second walls. A panel is mounted adjacent the front of the housing. The panel... Agent: Attention Of Karen A. Fitzsimmons Merchant & Gould P.C.

20080093102 - Cable protection system: A cable protection system includes at least one cable protector having at least one channel extending between its opposing ends for receiving at least one cable. The cable protector may include a cover structure pivotally attached to a base member by a hinge rod inserted through hinge members formed in... Agent: Holland & Hart LLP

20080093104 - Cable with thermoplastic insulation: Insulation layer for cables comprising a heterophasic polymer composition having superior mechanical and electrical properties and being environmentally friendly. The heterophasic polymer composition comprises a polymer matrix and dispersed therein a propylene copolymer having a weight average particle size of less than 1 μm.... Agent: Roberts, Mlotkowski & Hobbes

20080093105 - Cable-equipped connector: To improve connector installation density and utilize space effectively, a cable-equipped connector capable of coupling separation-prevention lock screws at any position around the other connector. The cable-equipped connector includes a connector body, a cable connected to a rear of the connector body, an insulating synthetic resin housing that covers a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080093103 - Low voltage power cable with insulation layer comprising polyolefin having polar groups, hydrolysable silane groups and which includes silanol condensation: The present invention relates to a low voltage power cable comprising an insulation layer with a density below 1100 kg/m3 which comprises a polyolefin comprising 0.02 to 4 mol % of a compound having polar groups and further comprises a compound having hydrolysable silane groups and include 0.0001 to 3... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20080093106 - Reduced alien crosstalk electrical cable with filler element: An electrical cable includes a cable jacket defining a central longitudinal axis and a plurality of twisted pairs of insulated conductors oriented longitudinally within the cable jacket. Each of the twisted pairs of insulated conductors has a width. A filler element is disposed in the cable jacket and is located... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20080093107 - Fire resistant cable: The present invention relates to a cable comprising at least one conductor element extending inside at least one insulating covering. The invention is remarkable in that at least one insulating covering is made from a fire-resistant composition comprising a polymer and a fibrous phyllosilicate.... Agent: Sofer & Haroun LLP.

20080093108 - Layered metal structure for interconnect element: A layered metal structure is provided in accordance with an aspect of the invention. The structure can be used, for example, to fabricate a conductive interconnect element for conductively interconnecting one or more microelectronic elements. The layered structure includes first and second metal layers each of which may include one... Agent: Tessera Lerner David Et Al.

20080093109 - Substrate with surface finished structure and method for making the same: A substrate with surface finished structure and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The method comprises: forming a circuit layer and a solder mask on the surface of the substrate in sequence, wherein a plurality of openings are formed in the solder mask to expose the portion of... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080093110 - Rigid/flexible circuit board: A printed circuit board has a first elongated face and a second elongated face opposite the first face. The printed circuit board has at least one first, second and third rigid region in addition to at least one first and second flexible region. The flexible regions are perpendicular to the... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080093111 - Multilayer wiring board and method of manufacturing the same: The invention provides a multilayer wiring board including wiring patterns formed with a multilayer structure with at least one electrical insulating layer interposed therebetween, the wiring patterns being electrically connected with each other through at least one via formed in the insulating layer(s). The multilayer wiring board includes at least... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080093113 - Complementary mirror image embedded planar resistor architecture: A complementary mirror image embedded planar resistor architecture is provided. In the architecture, a complementary hollow structure is formed on a ground plane or an electrode plane to minimize the parasitic resistance, so as to efficiently enhance the application frequency. In addition, in some cases, some signal transmission lines pass... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080093114 - Circuit board: A circuit board according to the invention includes a glass substrate, an insulating layer, a plurality of protrusions and a first circuit layer. The insulating layer is disposed on the substrate and has a plurality of protrusion-positioning regions. The protrusion-positioning region is an opening or a concave. Each of the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080093112 - Composite via structures and filters in multilayer printed circuit boards: A composite via structure in a multilayer printed circuit board (PCB) and also compact and shielded filters formed by the use of composite via structures as building blocks are provided. The composite via structure consists of two functional parts. The first functional part is designed to form an interconnected circuit... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080093115 - Interposer, electrical package, and contact structure and fabricating method thereof: A contact structure on a substrate which has at least one contact is provided. The contact structure includes a compliant layer, at least one solder pad, at least one conductive via, and at least one conductive arm. The compliant layer is disposed on the substrate and covers the contact. The... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080093116 - Semiconductor substrate for transmitting differential pair: A semiconductor substrate for transmitting a differential pair is provided. The semiconductor substrate includes a substrate body and at least one via. The via has an opening on a surface layer of the substrate body and includes a first conductive element, a second conductive element and a ground element therein.... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080093117 - Multilayer circuit board and manufacturing method thereof: A multilayer circuit board includes a laminate having a plurality of ceramic layers, and a wiring pattern disposed in the laminate, wherein a ceramic layer includes, as the wiring pattern, a fully penetrating via-hole conductor that vertically passes through the ceramic layers, and a serial partially penetrating via-hole conductor that... Agent: Murata Manufacturing Company, Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20080093118 - Flex-rigid wiring board and method of manufacturing the same: A flex-rigid wiring board includes a flexible board including a flexible substrate and a conductor pattern formed over the flexible substrate, a non-flexible substrate disposed adjacent to the flexible board, an insulating layer covering the flexible board and the non-flexible substrate and exposing one or more portions of the flexible... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080093119 - Rf shielding cover for rf radiating applicator: A disposable cover for electromagnetic treatment applicators prevents undesired exposure to potentially harmful radiation. The cover is a pouch-like structure having a back surface constructed from RF shielding material, such as metallized polyethylene, which back surface faces opposite, or away from, the treatment area. A portion of the cover which... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080093120 - Cable holder unit and electronic device: A cable holder unit is mounted in an electronic device mounting a plurality of units connected with cables. The cable holder unit has a cable holder assembly having cable holders and a support section for supporting the cable holders and a mounting section for mounting the cable holder assembly. The... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080093121 - Installation bracket for electrical box, electrical box assembly, and method of use: Installation brackets facilitate securing of electrical boxes during building construction, for example within an internal cavity of a partition. Disclosed herein are installation brackets to which can be mounted electrical boxes of various sizes or depths, as well as electrical box assemblies including such installation brackets.... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080093122 - Cable duct: The invention relates to a cable duct (10), comprising a base body (12), which may be operationally connected to a wall opening, for example, in a switch cabinet, at least one strain reliever (14, 16) with at least one opening (18, 20) for operational housing of at least one cable.... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP 111 E. Wayne Street

20080087452 - Electrical receptacle and box apparatus: An electrical receptacle and junction box apparatus including a stud mounted electrical junction box with stud-attaching screw shoulders having wire apertures with retaining screws and retaining screw fittings for each wire aperture for receiving electrical wiring without wrapping the wiring around screws, a ground strip, a slide-in receptacle or slide-in... Agent: Juan J. Lizarraga

20080087464 - Electrified ceiling framework: An electrified ceiling framework system having a plurality of grid elements forming a grid network arranged in a substantially planar arrangement. A conductive material is disposed on a surface of at least one of the plurality of grid elements. The conductive material is electrically connected to a low voltage power... Agent: Armstrong World Industries, Inc. Legal Department

20080087465 - Removable harness for disentangling wires: A wire harness for quickly disentangling wires, made of rigid low friction material comprising a top bar equipped in its center with a first vertical cylindrical opening; a bottom bar equipped in its center with a second vertical cylindrical opening co-axial with the first vertical opening; an axle traversing the... Agent: George S. Levy

20080087466 - Splice for down hole electrical submersible pump cable: A splicing system that establishes an electrical union between two segments of power cable having internal conductor wires. The splicing system is resistant to electrical failures and the harsh environment existing in subterranean environments during all phases of the hydrocarbon extraction process. The splicing arrangements comprise a protective housing, insulating... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20080087453 - Flexible electrical cable: A highly flexible, screened electrical line for high-frequency data transmission in swiveling display screens provides that the twisted and/or bundled single wires of the line are held by an aluminized nonwoven, and the nonwoven covering is finally surrounded by an outer sheath of silicone rubber.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080087454 - Foaming resin composition, foam using the same and coaxial insulated cable: A foaming composition can be provided which is a fluororesin composition comprising a fluororesin and an electrical insulating whisker and which is foamed by being mixed with a foaming agent to reduce a diameter of cells. Thus, the diameter of cells of the foam obtained by foaming can be reduced.... Agent: Collen Ip

20080087455 - Wired circuit board: A wired circuit board has a plurality of insulating layers, a conductive layer having a signal wiring extending in a longitudinal direction which is covered with the insulating layers, and a signal connecting terminal provided on a longitudinal end of the signal wiring and exposed from the insulating layers, and... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080087456 - Circuit board assemblies with combined fluid-containing heatspreader-ground plane and methods therefor: Circuit board assemblies and methods that employ integrated heatspreaders to cool the assemblies and serve as electrical ground planes for the assemblies. Such a circuit board assembly includes a substrate having at least one circuit device on at least a first surface thereof and an electrical ground plane. The circuit... Agent: Hartman & Hartman, P.C.

20080087457 - Ceramic package in which far end noise is reduced using capacitive cancellation by offset wiring: A mechanism for reducing the vertical cross-talk interference experienced in signal lines due to the inductive affects from signal lines in other signal planes of a multi-layer ceramic package is provided. With the apparatus and method, one or more vias in the multi-layer ceramic package may be removed from the... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080087458 - Control board and control apparatus: A control board has a pattern for a low-voltage circuit including a ground pattern connectable to a ground and a pattern for a high-voltage circuit including a ground pattern. The patterns for the low-voltage and high-voltage circuits each have one or more ground-connection lands configured to connect the ground patterns... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080087459 - Circuitized substrate with internal resistor, method of making said circuitized substrate, and electrical assembly utilizing said circuitized substrate: A circuitized substrate which utilizes at least one internal (embedded) resistor as part thereof, the resistor comprised of a material including resin and a quantity of powders of nano-particle and/or micro-particle sizes. The resistor serves to decrease the capacitance in the formed circuit while only slightly increasing the high frequency... Agent: Lawrence R. Fraley Hinman, Howard & Kattell, LLP

20080087460 - Apparatus and method for a printed circuit board that reduces capacitance loading of through-holes: An apparatus and method for a printed circuit board (PCB) for reducing capacitance loading of through-holes. The PCB includes a first electrically conductive via for connecting to the PCB a pin from a connector through a top layer of the PCB. The PCB comprises multiple layers that are electrically isolated... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080087461 - Combination impedance/back drill coupon: A test coupon on a printed circuit board used for verifying that vias in the printed circuit board are back drilled to a proper predetermined depth. Use of the coupon involves correlating a via on the board to a via of a test coupon drilling the board via and the... Agent: Andrea E. Tran Pramudji Wendt & Tran, LLP

20080087462 - Poke-through floor device with heat-isolation feature: A poke-through device for installation in a hole in a floor structure. The floor structure defined by a floor in a first working environment and a ceiling in a second working environment. The poke-through device includes a basket, thermal barrier, lower plate and at least one coupling member. The basket... Agent: Hoffman & Baron, LLP

20080087463 - Sealing a controller: A housing (1) with at least one electrical connection (7) through a housing wall (4) can be manufactured especially economically and can facilitate an especially economical lacing of electronic components (2, 13) present on the interior and on the exterior of the housing (1). The electrical connection (7) is enclosed... Agent: Davis Bujold & Daniels, P.l.l.c.

20080083549 - Electrical junction box: An electrical junction box includes a casing body and a lower cover to be attached to the casing body. Slant portions are provided on lower and upper end edges of opposite side walls of the casing body and lower cover. The slant portions extending downward from a first side to... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080083547 - Junction box assembly: The embodiments described herein include a junction box assembly configured to enclose an electrical assembly. The junction box assembly includes a junction box cover and a base member. The junction box cover and base member are configured to enable optimal sealing, securing, and positioning of the electrical assembly within the... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.c. / Lear Corporation

20080083548 - Structure for housing electrical junction box in housing box: Provided is a structure for housing an electrical junction box in a housing box by inserting the electrical junction box into the housing box from above and also for fixing the electrical junction box to the housing box so as to prevent slipping-off thereof by engagement between engagement parts provided... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080083550 - Quick clip assembly for strap element of electrical receptacle: A quick clip assembly for a strap element of an electrical receptacle is provided that expedites mounting of a wall plate to an electrical receptacle. The strap element is connected to an electrical receptacle and has an opening therein to receive a fastener. A resilient member is connected to the... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.l.p.

20080083551 - Electrical switch box: This invention relates to electrical switch boxes. In particular, the invention relates to a device having an extension portion connected with a series of electrical switch boxes. In preferred embodiments, the extension portion of the device permits, for example, attachment of the device to a wall stud without flush positioning... Agent: Medlen & Carroll, LLP

20080083553 - Current conductor: The invention relates to a current conductor, in particular for motor vehicles, to which at least one electrically conductive connector element can be fastened to make an electrical contact, with the current conductor having a recess which includes a wall section which is pierced by at least one plug opening... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080083563 - Non-polarizd outdoor cord made to bridge the gap between decorating items: The purpose of this invention is to eliminate unsafe, unattractive and frustrating decorating practices. No cord can connect a set of light strings to another set of light strings. All decorating lights are non-polarized. This non-polarized outdoor cord when used in conjunction with string lights (also known as end-to-end) resolves... Agent: Marilyn Elko

20080083546 - System having a superconductive cable: A superconductive cable includes a superconductive conductor (2), a dielectric (3) enclosing the latter and a superconductive screen (4) arranged over the dielectric acting as a spacer. The cable is enclosed with the inclusion of an air gap by a cryostat (7) which consists of a metal inner tube (8),... Agent: Sofer & Haroun LLP.

20080083552 - Dual-sided mounting bracket for electrical junction boxes: In a dual-sided mounting bracket for electrical junction boxes, wherein the mounting bracket comprises first and second stud coupling members and first and second junction box receiving members adjacent the respective stud coupling members, and an offset portion interposed between the first and second junction box receiving sections, and wherein... Agent: Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer

20080083554 - Hybrid bonded flex circuit: A flexible circuit for bonding to another circuit includes a film having a first conductor layer fabricated upon a topside of the film and a second conductor layer fabricated on an underside of the film, the first conductor layer being insulated by a first insulator layer fabricated thereover, the second... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Ibm Tuscon Division

20080083555 - Electrical power line insulator with end clamp: An electrical power line insulator has an end clamp with a saddle for supporting an electrical wire, a track provided on a front surface of the saddle, a keeper for compressing and supporting an electrical wire seated in the saddle, a bolt and a nut for fastening the keeper to... Agent: Gowling, Lafleur Henderson LLP

20080083556 - Dynamoelectric machine grommet: Disclosed herein relates to a dynamoelectric machine grommet. The grommet comprising, a body portion of the grommet sealably engagable with an opening in a housing of a dynamoelectric machine, and at least one projection extending from the body portion and receptive to a conductor and providing electrical insulation thereto.... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080083557 - Wire holder: A wire fixing portion (17) is so formed with a slit (24) as to minimize a tightening diameter at the wire fixing portion (17) by narrowing the slit (24). Thus, there is no likelihood of displacing a fixing band (25) fastened to a middle part of the wire fixing portion... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080083558 - Multilayer wiring board and method for manufacturing the same: Disclosed are a multilayer wiring board, which has a high degree of freedom of wiring design and can realize high-density wiring, and a method which can simply manufacture the multilayer wiring board. The multilayer wiring board comprises a core substrate and two or more wiring layers provided on the core... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080083559 - Flexible printed circuit board: A flexible printed circuit board wherein the insulative substrate 34 having a plurality of conductive layers 36b covered with a protective layer 38 is encircled by a mesh-cloth member 32.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080083560 - Wiring board: A wiring board having a favorable electrical reliability and in which a crack is unlikely to occur at a connection interface of via conductors even though the number of via conductors in series, which constitutes the stacked via, becomes larger than that of a conventional wiring board.... Agent: Kusner & Jaffe Highland Place Suite 310

20080083561 - Thin printed circuit board for manufacturing chip scale package: Provided is a thin printed circuit board (PCB) for manufacturing a chip scale package (CSP). The thin printed circuit board includes a plurality of unit printed circuit boards, each of which is comprised of a circuit pattern, to which a semiconductor chip is adhered, and a substrate surrounding the circuit... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.c.

20080083562 - Integrated emc gasket for electrical enclosure: An integrated EMC gasket for an electrical enclosure includes an electrical housing substrate molded of a thermoplastic having a conductive network of fibers above a percolation limit of the fibers, and an EMC gasket insert molded into the electrical housing substrate, the gasket including a silicone foam core with a... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Ibm Rochester Division

20080078566 - Electrical apparatus cubicle with removable internal side panels: On embodiment of the disclosed invention provides an electrical equipment cubicle having at least one removable side panel. The removable side panel is not fixed to the electrical equipment cubicle. Instead, the removable side panel is removably coupled to the frame assembly by an easily separable coupling device such as,... Agent: Martin J. Moran Eaton Electrical, Inc.

20080078577 - Apparatus for providing windings in an electromagnetic device and method for making the apparatus: An apparatus includes an electrically conductive generally planar strip having a thickness, having a width greater than the thickness and having a length greater than the width. The strip is arranged in alternating length segments. Each adjacent pair of length segments are oriented about divergent axes and are joined by... Agent: Law Office Of Donald D. Mondul

20080078578 - Transmission system and integrated transmission cable thereof: An integrated transmission cable includes a multi-core cable, a universal serial bus (USB) connector, a network connector and a common connector. The multi-core cable has a first core group and a second core group. The USB connector is electrically connected with a first end of the first core group. The... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080078579 - Sterilization and washing protector for cable connectors: A double- (or dual-) ended cap is attached at one end of a cable that allows connectors at both ends of the cable to connect to respective ends of the cap during washing and/or sterilization. A flexible attachment means connects the cap to one end of said electrical cable. When... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20080078567 - Antenna cable: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a cable assembly that is adapted to be connected to an antenna and a base unit. The cable assembly may be relatively flat with shielding and structures to reduce ground currents or other interference. Embodiments of the cable assembly include at least... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20080078568 - Transmission cable: A transmission cable includes a plurality of transmission wires, an inner covering layer, at least one grounding wire, a conducting layer, and an outer covering layer. The plurality of transmission wires are traverse disposed in parallel to form at least one transmission wire layer. The inner covering layer wraps around... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080078569 - Electric conductor and circuit unit using the same: A bus bar as electric conductor is formed to a shape which follows a predetermined circuit path including bent portions, by bending a metal-made plate-like member spreading in a single plane. The plate-like member is made as a single integral member and comprises a first elongate portion formed linearly and... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080078570 - Halogen-free circuitized substrate with reduced thermal expansion, method of making same, multilayered substrate structure utilizing same, and information handling system utilizing: A circuitized substrate including a composite layer comprising a first dielectric sub-layer comprised of a halogen-free resin and fibers dispersed therein and a second dielectric sub-layer without fibers but also including a halogen-free resin with inorganic particulates therein. A method of making such a substrate is also provided, as is... Agent: Lawrence R. Fraley Hinman, Howard & Kattell, LLP

20080078571 - Device mounting board and semiconductor module: A device mounting board includes: a wiring layer; opposing signal wires formed on respective conductive layers, being arranged in parallel with each other; a pair of pad electrodes formed on the top of the wiring layer; a pair of pad electrodes formed on the bottom of the wiring layer; conductor... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080078573 - Wired circuit board and electronic device: A wired circuit board has an insulating layer extending in a longitudinal direction, a conductive layer having a plurality of signal wirings covered with the insulating layer and arranged in mutually spaced-apart and parallel relation in a perpendicular direction to the longitudinal direction and a thickness direction of the insulating... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080078572 - Circuit board and method of manufacturing the same: A circuit board and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The circuit board includes: a multilayer board in which a plurality of conductive layers with desired patterns formed therein, and a plurality of insulating layers are stacked; a plurality of through holes penetrating the multilayer board; cylindrical recesses... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080078574 - Gasket and display apparatus having the same: A gasket is interposed between a circuit board that generates electromagnetic waves and a conductive member, and includes an elastic member separating the circuit board from the conductive member. The gasket is electrically connected with the circuit board by a conductive layer to receive the electromagnetic waves from the circuit... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080078575 - Electronic device reducing influence of system noise on sensitivity of atenna: An electronic device including a first housing, a second housing, a signal cable, an insulating layer and an antenna is provided. The second housing is connected to the first housing and has a housing shielding layer on its inner surface. The signal cable extends from inside the first housing into... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080078576 - Carbon foam emi shield: An EMI shield having an EMI shielding effectiveness of greater than about 40 dB in the range of about 400 MHz to about 18 GHz is described. In some embodiments the EMI shield may exhibit a shielding effectiveness of at least about 60 db, and in other embodiment at least... Agent: Philip D. Lane