Electricity: conductors and insulators inventions 07/08

20080179070 - Triaxial superconducting cable and termination therefor: In order to provide a flexible oxide superconducting cable which is reduced in AC loss, tape-shaped superconducting wires covered with a stabilizing metal are wound on a flexible former. The superconducting wires are preferably laid on the former at a bending strain of not more than 0.2%. In laying on... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20080179071 - Snap fit screw plug: An electrical outlet box includes fastening hardware to secure the box to a wall structure. A cover overlies the fastening hardware. The box has a flange with mounting apertures therethrough to receive the fastening hardware. The apertures may be formed in a recess in the flange. The cover may be... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20080179073 - Universal water-resistant cover assembly for an electrical outlet box: A water-resistant cover assembly for an electrical outlet box includes a gasket sized to substantially cover the open side of the electrical outlet box, an adapter plate and a cover adapted to engage the mounting screw of the electrical fixture for mounting the cover to the outlet box. The adapter... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20080179072 - Universal water-resistant hinged-lid cover for an electrical outlet box: A water-resistant cover for an electrical outlet box generally includes a base and a lid hingedly coupled to the base. The base has a ridge surrounding a substantial periphery of the base, wherein the ridge includes a top wall, an outer side wall extending downwardly from the top wall and... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20080179088 - Power distribution system and a method for assembling the power distribution system: A power distribution system and a method for assembling the power distribution system are provided. The power distribution system is configured to be mounted on a wall and to hold a plurality of devices thereon. Further, the power distribution system is configured to supply either an AC voltage or a... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080179089 - Splice plate for a wire cable tray: The invention relates to a splice plate which is used to connect two cable tray sections, whereby each section comprises longitudinal warp wires and transverse weft wires. The inventive splice plate comprises: an elongated base; a lateral flange, known as the upper flange, which extends essentially perpendicularly to the base... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080179074 - Copper conductor with anodized aluminum dielectric layer: An electrically insulated conductor for carrying signals or current includes a solid or stranded copper core of various geometries with only a single electrically insulating and thermally conductive layer of anodized aluminum (aluminum oxide). The device is made by forming a uniform thickness thin sheet or foil of aluminum to... Agent: Bir Law, PLC/fgtl

20080179075 - Flat raw cable transmitting signal and power: A flat raw cable (1) transmitting signal and power comprises a pair of signal transmitting conductors (10), two insulating layer (15) each enclosing corresponding signal conductor, a braided tinned copper shield (13) encloses the signal transmitting conductor pair and the insulating layer applied around the pair, a pair of power... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080179076 - Method for preventing siphoning effect in terminal and terminal manufactured using the same: The invention relates to a method for preventing siphoning effect in a terminal. The terminal of the invention comprises a conductive portion connected to an external component by a solder and a connecting portion extended to form the conductive portion. An exposed and easily oxidized copper is attached on the... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20080179077 - High-voltage bushing: The bushing has a conductor and a core surrounding the conductor. The core comprises a sheet-like spacer, wherein the spacer contains filler particles. The bushing can be a resin-impregnated graded bushing impregnated with an electrically insulating matrix material. The spacer may comprise paper, in particular creped paper. The filler particles... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080179078 - Remote diodes in a cordless tool: A diode assembly for a wire harness includes a printed circuit board (PCB), a diode connected to the PCB, and a plurality of diode lead wires extending from the PCB for external connections. The diode assembly includes a diode wire trap interfacing with the diode, and a heat sink in... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080179080 - Junction structure of flexible substrate: A junction structure of a flexible substrate includes a flexible substrate provided with junction terminals. An opposing substrate is placed opposite to the flexible substrate, and provided with junction terminals corresponding to the junction terminals. A thermosetting resin adhesive is interposed between the flexible substrate and opposing substrate, and used... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080179079 - Printed-wiring board, bending processing method for printed-wiring board, and electronic equipment: According to one embodiment, there is provided a printed-wiring board in which a composite board is formed to have rigid portions and a bending portion, wherein the bending portion includes linear protrusions each formed with solder resist having a bending resistance property.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080179081 - Direct applied monolithic printed circuit technology: An electronic circuit board is provided. The electronic circuit board includes a substrate and a conductive adhesive adhered to the substrate in a trace pattern. The conductive adhesive mechanically supports and electrically connects an electronic component.... Agent: Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren P.C.

20080179082 - Wiring board, stacked battery device, and vehicle having stacked battery device: A wiring board to be inserted between collector foils of each unit cell in a stacked battery includes a comb-shaped insulating substrate and a wiring layer. The insulating substrate has a plurality of teeth and a rod, and the wiring layer is formed on the insulating substrate and includes a... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080179083 - Electrical terminal footprints for a printed circuit board: In one implementation, a PCB having an array of vias and electrical terminals disposed on the side of the PCB opposite the side configured to receive a grid array package are disclosed herein. The array of vias have pads and forms a pattern of repetitive rows and columns. A substantially... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20080179085 - Printed circuit board and display panel assembly having the same: A printed circuit board (“PCB”) includes a base substrate, circuit lines and an input pad portion. The input pad portion is formed on a surface of the base substrate on which the circuit lines are formed to receive an externally provided signal. The input pad portion includes a first input... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080179084 - Wiring structure and wiring designing method: A designing method of a semiconductor device having a first wire and a second wire with a plurality of vias includes determining a first life time change rate of the semiconductor device in response to a change in a number of via column, a second life time change rate of... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080179086 - Electromagnetic interference shielding apparatus and methods of making the same: According to various aspects of the present disclosure, exemplary embodiments are provided of shielding apparatus that are suitable for use in providing electromagnetic interference shielding for one or more electrical components on a substrate. The shielding apparatus may have partially drawn and partially formed corner sections for improved rigidity. In... Agent: Harness, Dickey, & Pierce, P.l.c

20080179087 - Support frame for wall mounting an electrical apparatus: Support frame (1) for wall mounting at least one electrical apparatus (20, 21, 22, 23), the frame (1) comprising: a surround casing (4) for wall fixing, enclosing an opening (5) that defines a assembly housing adapted to accepting and retaining said at least one electrical apparatus (20, 21, 22 and... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20080173461 - Method of using grounding system: A method for using a segmented grounding system, including a bit including a coupling portion at a first end, and a generally tapered second end, a shaft with a first end configured to couple to the coupling portion of the bit, and a second end comprising a receiving structure, and... Agent: Cislo & Thomas LLP

20080173467 - Acid-catalyzed dielectric enhancement fluid and cable restoration method employing same: A dielectric enhancement fluid composition having at least one organoalkoxysilane and an acid catalyst having a pKA less than about 2.1 and a method for using the composition to enhance the dielectric properties of an electrical cable having a central stranded conductor encased in a polymeric insulation and having an... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20080173462 - Spacer and spacer damper: A spacer and/or spacer damper that provides for uniform spacing of horizontally bundled sub-conductors as well as enhanced heat dissipation is disclosed. More particularly, when applied to electrical transmission lines, the configuration of the spacer and/or spacer damper can include formed-wire outer rods which increase the conductor surface area thereby... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080173463 - Extendable cable or extendable connecting member: A cable includes an elastic member extendable and compressible in a first direction and a first conductor having a meandering portion embedded in the elastic member. The meandering portion meanders within the elastic member and extends in the first direction. It is preferable that a plurality of coating members are... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20080173478 - Power supply device: The afore-mentioned object can be achieved by a power supply device in accordance with the present invention comprising a guide rail having two concave arch sections, and an convex arch section in continuation with each of the concave arch sections in its both ends, a movable slider guided along the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080173479 - Modular method and system for insulated bus bar cable harness termination concept: A bridge and cable harness assembly to protect bus bar apparatuses from foreign object exposure and further, electrical shorts. The assembly provides an apparatus that is configured based on the specific arrangement of the bus bar. The user determined how many bridge assemblies are necessary to protect the bus bars.... Agent: Tyco Technology Resources

20080173465 - Shielded flat pair cable architecture: A novel flat-wire-pair and cable architecture are disclosed. The invention implements flattened conducting wires coated with insulation that are bonded to each other, providing approximately rectangular cross-sections and flat surfaces for the transport of charge through the wires. Flat wire pairs are then placed within a cable assembly such that... Agent: Rajendran Nair Comlsi Inc.

20080173464 - Shielded flat pair cable with integrated resonant filter compensation: A novel flat-wire-pair cable and resonant filter termination employing active interconnect principles is disclosed. The invention implements flattened conducting wires coated with insulation that are bonded to each other, providing approximately rectangular cross-sections and flat surfaces for the transport of charge through the wires. The flat wire pair may then... Agent: Rajendran Nair Comlsi Inc.

20080173466 - Encapsulating permanent wire connector: An encapsulating permanent wire connector is comprised of a housing provided with a first port and a second port. At least one division wall extends coaxially in a portion of the housing to a side of a straight central axis of the housing and defines an electrically isolating cavity in... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20080173468 - Wiring substrate, method for manufacturing the same, and electronic apparatus: A wiring substrate comprises: a flexible substrate having a first region and a second region; a wiring line formed on the flexible substrate; and an electronic element that is disposed on the flexible substrate in the first region and electrically coupled to the wiring line. Flexibility of the first region... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080173469 - Multilayer wiring board: A multilayer wiring board having a structure in which wiring layers 12A to 12D and insulating layers 11A to 11C are alternately arranged, and in which one or plural kinds of wirings selected from a group of a signal wiring 25 having a signal electrode 15, a power supply wiring... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080173470 - Combined solderable multi-purpose surface finishes on circuit boards and method of manufacture of such boards: A circuit board, in one embodiment a printed wiring board (PWB); in a second embodiment a substrate for an ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) or Chip Carrier; and a method of manufacturing the same. In one embodiment, the PWB, ASIC or Chip Carrier includes: (1) a substrate having a conductive... Agent: Donna R. Fawcett

20080173471 - Element substrate and method of manufacturing the same: An element substrate including a substrate and a metal layer formed on the substrate by electroless plating and including a linear portion having a width of 10 nm to 100 nm.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080173472 - Printed circuit board and electronic apparatus: According to one embodiment, a printed circuit board includes a printed wiring board including a through hole part, an electronic component including a component body and a lead member inserted into the through hole part to be electrically connected thereto, a metal member disposed around and separated from the through... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080173473 - Multilayered printed circuit board and manufacturing method thereof: An opening is formed in resin 20 by a laser beam so that a via hole is formed. At this time, copper foil 22, the thickness of which is reduced (to 3 μm) by performing etching to lower the thermal conductivity is used as a conformal mask. Therefore, an opening... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080173474 - Universal systems printed circuit board for interconnections: In Electronics, there exists three distinctive areas namely, discrete components or devices, circuits, and systems. A circuit is built from devices and a system is built from circuits. This invention aims at reducing the implementation of electronic systems down to just three steps namely, systems design, printed-circuit-board planar assembly, and... Agent: Sang Henry Ta

20080173475 - Electromagnetic shielding gasket and electronic device provided therewith: An electromagnetic shielding gasket is provided, which is capable of reducing the amount of projection from the inner surface of a first opposing wall having gasket holding holes and is less likely to come off through the gasket holding holes in the direction from the inner surface side toward the... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.l.p.

20080173476 - Embedded waveguide and embedded electromagnetic shielding: Construction of printed circuit boards (PCBs) containing electromagnetic shielding and conductive tubes forming signal lines and/or waveguides. The method of construction calls for forming of grooves through layers of the PCB and coating the interior surfaces of these grooves with conductive material. These conductor-coated groove walls serve as conductive surfaces... Agent: Dunlap Codding & Rogers, P.c.

20080173477 - Circuit board and method for manufacturing the same and semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same: A circuit board includes a film substrate, a plurality of wiring layers arranged in order on the film substrate, and bumps formed on the wiring layers, respectively. Each of the bumps is provided across a longitudinal direction of a corresponding one of the wiring layers so as to extend over... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.c.

20080169115 - Electrical box guard: A flexible insert or guard has an elongated plastic body having a length to cover an opening of an electrical box and having two prongs or posts extending outwardly from the body for insertion into spaced apart mounting holes of the electrical box. The elongated plastic body flares outwardly at... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20080169127 - Power supply device: The afore-mentioned object can be achieved by a power supply device, which includes a protector for receiving a wiring harness and extending the floating wiring harness through an elongated opening therein, a harness winding section free to bend the wiring harness to regulate a minimum radius of curvature of the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080169116 - Cable enclosure assemblies and methods for using the same: According to embodiments of the present invention, a cable sealing assembly for providing an environmental seal about a cable includes a housing, a flowable cable sealant and a compression feature. The housing includes first and second housing parts. The first housing part defines a cable passage to receive a cable... Agent: Marguerite E. Gerstner Tyco Electronics Corporation

20080169117 - Bonding pad structure for back illuminated optoelectronic device and fabricating method thereof: A bonding pad structure for an optoelectronic device. The bonding pad structure comprises a carrier substrate having a bonding pad region and an optoelectronic device region. An insulating layer is disposed on the carrier substrate, having an opening corresponding to the bonding pad region. A bonding pad is embedded in... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20080169118 - Wire structure and semiconductor device comprising the the wire structure: Provided are a wire structure and a semiconductor device having the wire structure. The wire structure includes a first wire that has a first region having a width of several to tens of nanometers and a second region having a width wider than that of the first region.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080169119 - Method and device for repair of a contact pad of a printed circuit board: Methods and devices are provided for repairing a damaged contact pad that is located on a first surface of a printed circuit board and connected to a via that passes through the circuit board. According to the method, a countersink hole is created in the first surface of the printed... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20080169120 - Printed circuit board and method of manufacturing printed ciruit board: A chip capacitor 20 is provided in a core substrate 30 of a printed circuit board 10. This makes it possible to shorten a distance between an IC chip 90 and the chip capacitor 20 and to reduce loop inductance. Since the core substrate 30 id constituted by provided a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080169121 - Printed wiring board unit for method of detecting rising level of electrically-conductive body in bore: A through bore penetrates through a substrate. The through bore defines a space surrounded by an insulating wall surface. A lead terminal of an electronic component is received in the through bore. An electrically-conductive body is placed in the through bore to extend to an exposed portion at the surface... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080169122 - Electrically conductive ink, electrically conductive circuit, and non-contact-type medium: This invention provides an electrically conductive ink comprising an electrically conductive material and a vinyl chloride/vinyl acetate/hydroxyalkyl (meth)acrylate copolymer resin. There is also provided a noncontact-type medium comprising a base material and, provided on the base material, an electrically conductive circuit formed using the electrically conductive ink, and an IC... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080169123 - Semiconductor element, method of manufacturing semiconductor element, multi-layer printed circuit board, and method of manufacturing multi-layer printed circuit board: An intermediate layer 38 is provided on a die pad 22 of an IC chip 20 and integrated into a multilayer printed circuit board 10. Due to this, it is possible to electrically connect the IC chip 20 to the multilayer printed circuit board 10 without using lead members and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080169124 - Padless via and method for making same: One disclosed embodiment comprises formation of a padless via in a substrate. The padless via includes a hole through a metal layer blanketing the substrate, as well as the underlying substrate. An inner wall of the padless via hole receives a seed layer of a conductive material. Electrolytic differential plating... Agent: Farjami & Farjami LLP

20080169125 - Novel interconnection structure for improving signal integrity: The embodiment of the invention is about a novel interconnection structure which can be incorporated into a variety of connectors, as well as other types of interconnections in order to reduce crosstalk, to improve signal integrity and to achieve EM emission compliance. A 4-via (2 signal vias, 1 power via,... Agent: Hsiuan-ju Hsu

20080169126 - Electrical component mounting block and electrical junction box: An electrical junction box includes an accommodation box having an accommodation box body having an accommodation space penetrating trough the accommodation box body up and down and an electrical component mounting block inserted into the accommodation space from either upside thereof or the underside and fixed in the accommodation space.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080164046 - Grounding and energy dispersion system: A surge protector which has a metal grounding plate having holes and tubular sleeve guides, standard UL-approved ground rods that are inserted through the sleeve guides and are affixed to the sleeve guides using a durable exothermic weld, and leads attached at one end to the grounding plate also using... Agent: Williams Mullen

20080164047 - Electrical grounding strip: An electrical grounding strip has a first link and a second link, wherein the second link is connected directly to the first link, and each of the first and second links has a portion lying substantially in a plane and has at least one electrically conductive spike attached to the... Agent: HowardIPLaw Group

20080164048 - Superconducting cable: A superconducting cable having a smaller outside diameter and a DC power transmission method utilizing this superconducting cable. The superconducting cable (1) comprises two stranded cable cores (2) each having a superconductor layer (4) of a superconducting material and an external superconducting layer (6) and contained in a heat insulating... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080164061 - Non-boring support system for transmission line structures: A support system for transmission lines includes a base plate, a securing assembly, and a supporting arm. The base plate is secured to the transmission line pole with the securing assembly. The supporting arm can include an insulating apparatus; the insulator apparatus of the supporting arm is adapted to provide... Agent: Troutman Sanders LLP

20080164049 - High performance telecommunications cable: A telecommunications cable comprising four twisted pairs of conductors and a separator spline comprised of a principal dividing strip and a first subsidiary dividing strip attached longitudinally along a first side of the principal dividing strip and a second dividing strip attached longitudinally along a second side of the principal... Agent: Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis, LLP

20080164050 - Regular square insulating cable, application of such regular square insulating cable and method for manufacturing such regular square insulating cable: A first insulating layer 1 is formed by electrodeposition coating on the surface of an outer circumference of a linear conductor m wherein the cross sectional shape thereof is substantially square, and further thereon, a second insulating layer 2 is formed by dipping. In the formation of the first insulating... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080164051 - Fiber reinforced plastic wire for strength member of overhead transmission cable, method for manufacturing the same, and overhead transmission cable using the same: Disclosed is a fiber reinforced plastic wire used as the overhead transmission cable. The fiber reinforced plastic wire for a strength member of an overhead transmission cable according to the present invention includes a wire having a predetermined diameter and composed of thermoset matrix resin; and a plurality of high... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20080164052 - Power cable tension control device: The present invention includes a power cable tension control device having at one end an adapter capable of insertion into a computer port and at the opposing end a cable retaining structure for retaining a power cable, such as an AC power cable. The adapter does not electrically communicate with... Agent: Biotech Beach Law Group , PC

20080164053 - Ceramic electronic component and method for manufacturing the same: A ceramic electronic component achieves a sufficient drop resistance strength even when terminal electrodes are formed with a higher density. The ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic laminate including ceramic laminates which are laminated to each other, first terminal electrodes disposed in a peripheral portion of a bottom surface of... Agent: Murata Manufacturing Company, Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20080164054 - Printed circuit board capable of void control during surface mounting process: Example embodiments of the present invention include a printed circuit board (PCB) capable of controlling the size and position of voids during a surface mounting process. To this end, the PCB includes: an insulating plate made of an insulating material; printed circuit patterns formed on the insulating plate; a plurality... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20080164056 - Compact display flex and driver sub-assemblies: Compact sub-assemblies of flexible circuits and drivers are provided. The sub-assemblies can occupy less space in an electronic device than conventional sub-assemblies. In one or more embodiments of the present invention, the flexible circuits can be attached to or wires can be disposed on portions of the substrate that previously... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080164055 - Grounded flexible circuits: Electronic devices may be provided with one or more electrical components that may be coupled to one or more circuit boards by flexible circuits that can have reduced ground lengths. Each flexible circuit can include at least one ground conductor that may run along its length and that may have... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080164058 - Multi-layer printed wiring board: A multi-layer printed circuit board for mounting memories, includes: laminated wiring layers on which wiring are arranged; and a plurality of interlayer connection components which electrically connect at least two of the wiring layers. At least one of the plurality of interlayer connection components is a blind via-hole.... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080164057 - Printed wiring board and method of manufacturing same: A printed wiring board has a via land, a glass epoxy resin layer, a via conductor, and a block layer. The via land is formed on a core layer. The glass epoxy resin layer is formed on the core layer and the via land. The via conductor is formed on... Agent: Ibm Microelectronics Intellectual Property Law

20080164059 - Method and system of feeding cable through an enclosure while maintaining electrognetic shielding: An exemplary embodiment disclosed herein relates to a method of feeding cable through a wall. The method includes, cutting an outer jacket of a cable, and pulling the outer jacket away from the cut thereby exposing an electromagnetic interference shielding layer. The method further includes, clamping a conductor around the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080164060 - Electrical-cable shielding: A bundle of electrical cables (20) are shielded from electromagnetic interference by an elongate tape (1) wrapped widthwise round the bundle with its longitudinal edges (8,11) overlapping one another. The tape (1) includes a woven mesh (2) of bare-metal strands (5) sandwiched between outer and inner layers (4,3) of sheet-plastics,... Agent: Davis Bujold & Daniels, P.l.l.c.

20080156508 - Cable connection assembly: A cable connection assembly for coupling a cable to an apparatus. The cable connection assembly may include a main body defining an inner cavity adapted to receive a pressurized fluid and receive at least a portion of the cable. The cable connection assembly may also include an attachment mechanism adapted... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, Pllc

20080156524 - Overhead electrical power transmission line: Dead-end-to-dead-end overhead electrical power transmission line with at least two different conductors, and method of selecting and installing the conductors.... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080156525 - Overhead electrical power transmission line: Dead-end-to-dead-end overhead electrical power transmission line with composite (e.g., aluminum matrix composite) core overhead electrical power transmission conductor tension subsection and another, different core overhead electrical power transmission conductor tension subsection.... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080156510 - Electrical junction box with a built-in fitting insert: This invention relates to an Electrical Junction Box with an external Built-in Fitting and clamp for securing armored metal cable to the Electrical Junction Box. The Built-in Fitting is extruded from a side wall of the Electrical Junction Box and has at least one pry-out for receiving an armored metal... Agent: Michael Olson

20080156509 - Electronic equipment enclosure and electronic equipment having the enclosure: Electronic equipment enclosure and electronic equipment having the enclosure are provided: the enclosure covers at least part of an electronic equipment main body. The enclosure includes a flat metal plate layer die cast on an inner surface; and a flat resin plate layer molded on an outer surface to almost... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080156511 - Control unit with flexible circuit board: A control unit for a vehicle component such as a transmission ideally has a reduced production cost. The aim is achieved by transferring parts from a rigid circuit board to a flexible circuit board. The flexible circuit board is guided through a housing that accommodates the rigid circuit board and... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080156512 - Tamper-resistant electrical wiring device system: A tamper-resistant electrical receptacle includes a cover defining a set of cover apertures; and a slider defining an aperture therein and being movable between a first position blocking the set of cover apertures and a second position not blocking the set of cover apertures, wherein when an object probes at... Agent: Leviton Manufacturing Company Incorporated (cdfs) C/o Carter, Deluca, Farrell & Schmidt, LLP

20080156513 - Electrical box mounting plate with adjustable ring: An electrical box assembly includes an adjustable electrical box cover. The cover includes a base having a central opening and a collar encircling the central opening. A sleeve slides through the collar and is adjusted by a plurality of adjustment screws. In one embodiment, the adjustment screws are positioned within... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.l.p.

20080156514 - Adjustable electrical box assembly: An electrical box assembly including a mounting plate having an opening defined therein, a subassembly including a box ring and an electrical box functionally connected to one another, the box ring being slidably received within the opening, and at least one adjustment member interconnecting the subassembly and the mounting plate... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080156515 - Sliding cover for electrical sockets: An electrical socket cover is disclosed which comprises a base plate having a plurality of apertures for exposing a plurality of electrical sockets, respectively, a cover plate when in a closed position substantially covers the plurality of electrical sockets, a sliding means that allows the cover plate to slidably engage... Agent: Peigen Jiang

20080156527 - Active cable restoration harness: A cable restoration harness is provided for splicing wires of an active cable for communicating a telecommunications service without causing an interruption in the service. The harness may include two splice modules connected by a set of harness wires. The harness may be connected to the cable to create a... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20080156528 - Cold shrink article and method of using cold shrink article: An article of manufacture includes a protective core having at least two end portions, a plurality of support cores, and at least one cold shrinkable material held in an expanded state over at least a portion of the protective core and at least a portion of each support core. One... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080156516 - Shield conductor and method of producing thereof: Since it is configured such that the gap between the pipe 20 and the electric wire 10 in the pipe 20 is filled with a filler 30 having a heat conductivity higher than that of air, the heat generated in the electric wire 10 is transferred to the filler 30,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080156529 - Attachment system for cables and support for cables used in aeronautic construction: n

20080156517 - Enhanced wellbore electrical cables: Wellbore electrical cables according to the invention include at least one insulated conductor, at least one layer of armor wires surrounding the insulated conductor, and a polymeric material disposed in the interstitial spaces formed between armor wires and interstitial spaces formed between the armor wire layer and insulated conductor which... Agent: Schlumberger Ipc Attn: David Cate

20080156518 - Alignment and cutting of microelectronic substrates: A substrate including plural microelectronic device carriers has metallic alignment elements. The alignment elements desirably are disposed in a predetermined positional relationship to terminals on the carriers. The alignment elements are engaged with a carrier frame and a cutting device is aligned with the carrier frame. The cutting device cuts... Agent: Tessera Lerner David Et Al.

20080156520 - Complex printed circuit board structure: A complex printed circuit board structure including a flexible printed wiring board and a heat-dissipating substrate bonded with the flexible printed wiring board. Parts of surface material of the flexible printed wiring board is removed to form depressions or through holes for laying electronic elements therein. The surfaces of the... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080156519 - Printed circuit boardc structure: A printed circuit board structure including a carrier face on which a conductive layer is for connecting with electronic elements and a heat pipe texture arranged inside and along the printed circuit board structure. The printed circuit board is made of a material with good thermal conductivity, whereby the heat... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080156521 - Printed wiring board, printed circuit board, and electronic device: According to one embodiment, a printed wiring board includes a plurality of pads to which bumps are to be bonded respectively. The pads are each formed with a plurality of conductors, the conductors are separate from each other and correspond to one of the bumps, and the plurality of conductors... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080156522 - Anisotropic electrically conductive structure: An anisotropic electrically conductive structure comprising: a dielectric matrix having a first surface and a second surface; a heat curable adhesive layer disposed on at least one or both of said first surface and said second surface; a plurality of passages at least extending from said first surface of said... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080156523 - Printed-wiring board: A printed-wiring board includes: a board made of insulator; a wiring pattern to transfer an electric signal which is made of patterned metallic conductor and formed on at least one of a main surface and a rear surface of the board; and an electric power layer formed on the rear... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080156526 - Click-fit connector for armored cables: A connector for an armored cable mountable to a wiring box has a body provided with two biasing components which are operative to engage opposite sides of the wall of the wiring box and operative to maintain the desired position of the connector upon mounting its body to the box.... Agent: Law Firm Of Yuri Kateshov