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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8076572 | Water stopping configuration of linear members and method of water stopping the linear members A water stopping configuration of linear members, includes a liquid water stopping material which is cured after the liquid water stopping material is penetrated into interstices between the linear members bundled together. The water stopping material is a magnetic ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 7952020 | Water stopping structure and water stopping method A water stopping structure includes a water stopping member that has an outer peripheral face which is inclined with respect to an axis direction of a shielded wire, and that is adapted to contract a diameter thereof and attached on an outer face of the shielded wir... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7358216 | Lubricant compositions and methods A process is disclosed for manufacturing a lubricant composition comprising combining a superabsorbent polymer with a material for decreasing friction between moving surfaces. The superabsorbent polymer absorbs from about 25 to greater than 100 times its weight in w... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7338926 | Lubricant compositions and methods A process is disclosed for manufacturing a lubricant composition comprising combining a superabsorbent polymer with a material for decreasing friction between moving surfaces. The superabsorbent polymer absorbs from about 25 to greater than 100 times its weight in w... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7327839 | Cables, systems and methods for wiring a structure for telephone service A method for wiring an architectural structure for telephone service includes providing a cable. The cable includes a sheath and first and second pairs of conductor members. The sheath includes first and second longitudinally extending sheath passages and a partitio... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7300611 | Capacitance controlling process Process for controlling the capacitance value (C1) of a tubular sheath (1) formed by extrusion of an insulation compound (2) on an electrical cable (3) in an extrusion head (4), a foaming agent (FA) being introduced in... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7291786 | Differential signal transmission cable A differential signal transmission cable has four stranded cores, each formed of an inner conductor covered with an insulation of fluorocarbon resin; an outer conductor being spirally wrapped around the four stranded cores in the opposite direction to a stranding di... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7225534 | Telecommunications cable jacket adapted for post-extrusion insertion of optical fiber and methods for manufacturing the same The present disclosure relates to a telecommunications cable having a jacket including a feature for allowing post-extrusion insertion of an optical fiber or other signal-transmitting member. The present disclosure also relates to a method for making a telecommunica... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7198686 | Foamable coupling for lamp assembly and methods for using the coupling A foamable copolymer based coupling is provided for securely affixing a light emitting glass lamp in a metal base to form a lamp assembly. The copolymer is preferably selected from ethylene vinyl acetate, ethylene methyl acrylate, and combinations thereof. The foama... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7188415 | Cable harness breakout assembly method A cable assembly comprises a plurality of electrical or fiber-optic cables, a spacer, and a collar. The cables are arranged lengthwise in a bundle, which includes a segment having a cross-sectional arrangement organized into a plurality of columnar sections of conti... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7166805 | Cable harness breakout and method for its assembly A cable assembly includes a plurality of electrical or fiber-optic cables, a spacer, and a collar. The cables are arranged lengthwise in a bundle, which includes a segment having a cross-sectional arrangement organized into a plurality of columnar sections of contig... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7164078 | Abrasion-resistant jacket An abrasion-resistant jacket for a flexible cable with a cable core and a jacket made of an abrasion-resistant thermoplastic material surrounding the cable core, particularly for a drag chain cable or a robot cable. The jacket includes an inner extruded plastic laye... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7157645 | Coaxial cables having improved smoke performance A coaxial cable includes an elongate inner conductor. A dielectric layer surrounds the inner conductor. A first outer conductor surrounds the dielectric layer and has perforations defined therein. A second outer conductor surrounds the first outer conductor. A polym... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7108058 | Packing assembly for rotary drilling swivels and pumps having rotating shafts A packing assembly for use with a rotary drilling swivel having a cylindrical wash pipe comprising a housing assembly including a packing gland forming a sealing assembly chamber around the wash pipe, the packing gland including an injection port in open communicati... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7087842 | Electric cable resistant to water penetration Electric cable (20), in particular for power transmission or distribution at medium or high voltage, comprising a metallic screen (5) and a water swellable layer (21) capable of forming a barrier to the water penetration provided in a position r... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7084348 | Plenum communication cables comprising polyolefin insulation A plenum cable for transmitting various communication signals is described. The cable contains a plurality of twisted pairs of insulated conductors with an insulation that contains substantially no FEP or fluoropolymers. Rather, the insulation contains one or more l... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7084343 | Corrosion protected coaxial cable A corrosion-resistant radio-frequency coaxial cable includes an inner conductor, a layer of dielectric material surrounding the inner conductor and an outer conductor comprising a laminate surrounded by at least one braided aluminum wire sheath. The laminate include... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7052048 | Through flange A through-flange for attaching a pipe to the curved sidewall of a vessel. A flange portion of the through-flange is contoured to match the curvature of the sidewall and thus can be glued directly to the sidewall. A retaining ring also being contoured to match the si... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6918320 | Conduit seal packing tools A packing tool or set of tools having a handle and one packing end that is formed to perform various tasks involved with packing fiber into conduits without damaging insulation on wires in the conduits. The tools are made of a non-conductive material that has a smoo... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6914193 | Self-sealing electrical cable having a finned or ribbed structure between protective layers An electrical cable and a method for manufacturing the electrical cable are provided in which a plurality of insulated conductors have an inner protective layer extruded thereabout. A plurality of longitudinally extending ribs or fins or exterior ribbed or finned su... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6852922 | Apparatus and method for sealing a conduit An apparatus and method for sealing a conduit is provided. The apparatus includes a cylindrical housing having an inner chamber and two free running hubs disposed on opposite ends of the cylinder. The free running hubs couple to opposing ends of the conduit. A pair ... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6596393 | Corrosion-protected coaxial cable, method of making same and corrosion-inhibiting composition The present invention is a corrosion-protected cable, a method of making a corrosion-inhibiting cable, and a corrosion-inhibiting composition. The corrosion-inhibiting composition includes a water-insoluble corrosion-inhibiting compound dispersed in an oi... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6500541 | Water-blocked telecommunications cables, and water-blocking yarns usefully employed in same Synthetic polymeric filaments containing SAP particles adhered to the filament surfaces by an nylon binder which is soluble in alcohols (e.g., lower C1-C3 aliphatic alcohols). Such SAP-coated filaments may then be incorporated into telecommunications cabl... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6455769 | Electrical cable having a semiconductive water-blocking expanded layer Electrical cable, in particular for medium- or high-voltage power transmission or distribution, having a metal shield and a semiconductive water-blocking expanded layer. This layer exerts three main functions, the first one is to elastically and uniformly... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6431215 | Plug for use with a conduit having cables received in the conduit A conduit plug has a securing element, a retainer, an enclosing element, an elastomer, a pusher and trapezoidal stops. The retainer has an outer threading corresponding to the inner threading of the securing element and extensions each extension having a ... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6383634 | DIELECTRIC GELLING COMPOSITION, THE USE OF SUCH DIELECTRIC GELLING COMPOSITION, AN INSULATED ELECTRIC DC-CABLE COMPRISING SUCH GELLING COMPOSITION, AND A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING AN INSULATED ELECTRIC DC-CABLE COMPRISING SUCH GELLING COMPOSITION Disclosed is a dielectric gelling composition, exhibiting a thermo-reversible liquid-gel transition at a transition temperature, Tt, wherein the gel comprises an oil and a combined gelator system having molecules of a polymer compound together ... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6308732 | Connector and method of sealing electrical wire against fluid leakage To seal an electrical wire and prevent fluid flow therethrough, individual strands of the wire are deformed and bonded together to provide a short segment of essentially solid wire without any gaps or flow paths through this segment. Desirably, the solid ... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6195487 | Composite cable for access networks A composite cable for distributing electrical power to components in an optical fiber network and for transmitting optical signals between optical fiber network components includes at least one layer of insulated electrical conductors arranged in side-by-... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6066798 | Slotted core telecommunications cable A slotted core telecommunications cable includes a spacer made of plastic having a melt flow index equal to or greater than 0.65 g/10 min. Each spacer rib has a longitudinally extending base between adjacent groove corners whose thickness does not exceed ... | 05/23/2000 |
| 5949018 | Water blocked shielded coaxial cable The present invention provides a fully water blocked coaxial cable. In one preferred embodiment, the cable includes at least one metallic inner conductor and a dielectric material surrounding the inner conductor or conductors. A first metallic shield tape... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5766761 | Telephone cables A cable construction comprising the following components: (i) a plurality of insulated electrical conductors having interstices therebetween, said insulation comprising (a) one or more polyolefins selected from the group consisting of polyethylene, polypr... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5714715 | Cable end seal for oil-filled cables A cable end seal for a multiple-conductor oil filled cable includes an inner sealing boot adjacent the cable and filled with an oil restraint material for the temporary restraint of cable oil and an outer boot and cylindrical mold filled with hardenable m... | 02/03/1998 |
| 5641942 | Waterproof construction of wiring harness A waterproof construction of a wiring harness passes through a position in a motor vehicle which is a location for readily collecting water in the motor vehicle and includes a branch portion at this position so as to extend upwardly through a predetermine... | 06/24/1997 |
| 5536904 | Waterproof construction of wire A waterproof construction of a wire for a motor vehicle, which wire has one or more strands and an insulating coating surrounding the strands and is connected to a nonwatertight terminal including a terminal fixed directly to a body of the motor vehicle a... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5486648 | Power cable with longitudinal waterblock elements An electric power cable is provided having concentric neutral wires (CN wires) applied helically over the cable core construction to serve as a metallic ground shield and having a protective polymeric jacket over the CN wires. The cable is characterized i... | 01/23/1996 |
| 5474847 | Telephone cables An article of manufacture comprising, as a first component, a plurality of electrical conductors, each surrounded by one or more layers of a mixture comprising one or more polyolefins and the reaction product of a compound containing a sterically hindered... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5461195 | Filled telecommunications cable having temperature stable mutual capacitance A cable having a thixotropic filling compound therein, the filling compound being a gel composition including a water absorbent hydrocarbon polymer with pendent anionic groups. The composition eliminates shorts caused by moisture contact with such wires. ... | 10/24/1995 |
| 5457285 | Naval electrical power cable and method of installing the same Naval power cable comprises a plurality of insulated electrical conductors, at least a pair of strip cords, a water blocking layer, and a jacket layer. Each electrical conductor has a longitudinal extent and is helically intertwined with the other electri... | 10/10/1995 |
| 5453322 | Telephone cables An article of manufacture comprising (i) a plurality of electrical conductors having interstices therebetween, each conductor being surrounded by one or more layers of a composition comprising (a) one or more polyolefins and, blended therewith, (b) a mixt... | 09/26/1995 |
| 5451718 | Mechanically bonded metal sheath for power cable A power cable for use in high moisture and chemically corrosive environments has a longitudinally-folded sheath for encapsulating one or more electrical conductors. A plurality of overlapping folds at the longitudinal edges of the sheathing material creat... | 09/19/1995 |
