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...that Charles Goodyear performed some of his experiments on rubber while in debtor's prison? He was there so often he referred to it as his "hotel". Chronically in debt because of poor business sense and ill health, Goodyear depended on the generosity of friends and family. Even after he unlocked the secret to vulcanizing rubber, he was unable to improve his financial situation. When he died, his estate was $200,000 in debt.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8172623 | Compression connector having contacting ends with co-used deforming section A compression connector includes a housing and a plurality of terminals assembled to the housing. The insulative housing having a first mating surface and a second mating surface opposite to the first mating surface. Each terminal cavity disposed between and running... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8142234 | Terminal block and method of assembling it A terminal block (10) has a housing (20), a busbar mounting portion (23) formed in the housing (20), nut accommodating recesses (27) formed in the busbar mounting portion (23) for holding nuts (N) mounted in a first directio... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8128439 | Connecting device for connecting an electrical conductor to a solar module and method for the production thereof, together with a solar module with such a connecting device A connecting device that connects to at least one external electrical conductor of a photovoltaic solar module. The connecting device includes a plurality of busbars, a support element, a housing, a diode and a contact. The plurality of busbars are arranged next to ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8118620 | Connector assembly with reduced unshielded area A connector assembly according to embodiments of the present disclosure is advantageously configured to allow a sensor connector to straightforwardly and efficiently join with and detach from a patient cable connector. Further, embodiments of the connector assembly ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8105118 | Torque resistant terminal block element A screw terminal and a terminal block incorporating the same provides a mechanically a screw terminal frame with a closed perimeter that resists deformation of the terminal frame when a captured nut is being clamped against a wire within the terminal frame, allowing... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8062076 | Terminal block having a connector A terminal block is disclosed which includes at least one or more connectors for electrical conductors or plugs and a plurality of busbars connecting the conductor or plug connections to one another in an electrically conductive fashion. A freely configurable, plugg... | 11/22/2011 |
| 7955141 | Inverter connection terminal with cables attached to parts of the terminal projecting from upper and lower surfaces of a plate The present invention provides an inverter connection terminal assembly for an electric compressor. The inverter connection terminal assembly includes a connection terminal, in which upper and lower terminal projections project from the upper and lower surfaces of a... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7942706 | Configurable power distribution block A configurable distribution block assembly includes a base member, a plurality of input terminals mounted to the base assembly, a plurality of output terminals mounted to the base assembly, and an insert, wherein the insert serves as an electrical bridge between at ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7927156 | Electrical connector element An electrical connector element for connection of a conductor to a circuit board, having a housing, at least one clamp connector for the conductor and at least two connector pins for preferably soldered connection to the circuit board, is disclosed. The housing has ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7901254 | Connector block The invention relates to a connector block (11) for separating insulated conductors of a first data cable (82) and a second data cable (86), said connector block containing: first and second groups (12A, 14A) of a plurality of slit... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7901255 | Overvoltage protection magazine An overvoltage protection magazine includes a plastic housing, electric contacts, overvoltage protection elements, and at least one contact edge. The electric contacts are disposed in the plastic housing and have an insertion region and a contact region. The electri... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7892046 | Telecommunications module, combination of a telecommunications module and at least one splitter circuit, and assembly of at least two telecommunications modules A telecommunications module (10) has contacts (12, 14, 16) for connecting wires therewith, the contacts (12, 14, 16) being arranged in a number of substantially parallel rows, which is three or a multiple of three, at least one row of contacts (... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7878868 | Multipurpose cable connector A cable connector assembly comprising an insulating block defining a plurality of cable receiving channels therein. Each cable receiving channel has an entrance at a periphery of the insulating block. A plurality of ground connectors are coupled to the insulating bl... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7867041 | System and method for a terminal assembly The present disclosure provides a mounting base, a buss bar with slots and a slotted extension therebetween, and a terminal lug coupled to the buss bar, the terminal lug being adapted to couple directly a conductor to the buss bar at the slotted extension without in... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7862388 | Connector block with cable manager The invention relates to a connector block for separating a plurality of insulated conductors of an electronic data cable, said connector block containing: a plurality of slits arranged in a row along a common side of the connector block; a plurality of insulation d... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7837517 | Test terminal connector A test terminal connector for use in selectively interconnecting electrical leads of a railway circuit is provided and includes a mounting block; a first and a second terminal supported in and extending from the mounting block; a test strap supported on and extendin... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7762853 | Injection molded terminal block A terminal block for a telecommunication cable, which includes a substrate, an insulated electrical contact and a housing, which surrounds the substrate. The substrate has a front side and a back side, and includes a plurality of openings extending from the front si... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7753739 | Electrical terminal block An electrical terminal block, especially for locking onto a mounting rail, has a plurality of adjacent base terminals and connectors. Each base terminal has a terminal housing, with at least one conductor terminal element and at least one receptacle electrically con... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7628658 | Plug connector A plug connector includes an insulating housing and a plurality of contacts received in the insulating housing. The insulating housing has a base body and a tongue portion extending rearward from the base body. The tongue portion has a top portion and a bottom porti... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7628659 | Enhanced cable for field data distribution system An enhanced cable assembly for field data distribution system includes a cable member formed by a plurality of twisted conductor pairs bundled within a conductive shield and an insulative sheath. The cable assembly is terminated by a pair of multi-contact cable conn... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7625248 | Field data distribution system with fiber optic converter A field data distribution system with a fiber optic converter includes a weatherproof housing with a hinged lid, a panel positioned in the housing and having a plurality of pairs of insulation displacement connector units mounted thereon, and a pair of multi-termina... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7625249 | Quad field data distribution system with fiber optic converter A quad field data distribution system with a fiber optic converter includes a weatherproof housing with a hinged lid and a panel positioned in the housing and having a plurality of interconnection groups of connector elements mounted on the panel. Each interconnecti... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7604516 | Power feeding module Disclosed is a power feeding module including screw-clamping terminals for delivering power and push-lock terminals. The power feeding module is particularly easy to assemble and wire with a power distribution system to which several consumer branches can be connect... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7591690 | Connecting device for solar panel A connecting device for solar panel includes an enclosure; a plurality of connecting units arranged in the enclosure and each having a sleeve portion and an angled portion with clamping elements arranged on the angled portion; a plurality of holding-down members eac... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7572155 | Electrical connector with plug tether assembly and related methods An electrical connector for a plurality of electrical cables may include an electrically conductive body having a plurality of spaced apart cable-receiving passageways for receiving electrical cable ends therein. The electrically conductive body may also have at lea... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7566249 | Electric junction box An electric junction box having an aperture on one side of a case that houses conductive material, the aperture receiving a subsequently installed component when the electric junction box is assembled. The conductive material mounted in the case is exposed at the ap... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7544103 | Terminal block for connecting electrical conductors A terminal block for connecting electrical conductors has a first clamping spring element (20) and a second clamping spring element (30) for clamping the electrical conductor. The first and second clamping spring elements (20, 30) are vertically... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7534148 | Power terminal block A terminal block for use in an uninterruptible power supply comprises a first portion that includes a plurality of stalls, each of the plurality of stalls having an aperture, and at least one socket positioned in the aperture, the at least one socket arranged to acc... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7534149 | Plugless normally-open connector module A connector module, which permits termination of cross-connect wires on one surface and cable wires on an opposite surface, has an internal switch configuration which is normally open, such that the cross-connect wires are normally not connected to the cable wires. ... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7517257 | Connection device for an electrical machine The aim of the invention is to reduce the logistical and assembly expenses during the connection of electrical machines. To this end, a connection device is provided with a base body (7) that can be mounted in a terminal box socket (1) of the electrica... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7479045 | Power distribution adaptable to different power supplies Power distribution systems and methods for adaptation of the power distribution to computer systems to varying electrical loads and/or varying power supply inputs are disclosed. The power distribution system generally includes power connectors and power distribution... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7462076 | Terminal block for connecting electrical conductors This invention concerns a terminal block for connecting electrical conductors with a first clamping spring element (20) and a second clamping spring element (30) for clamping the electrical conductors, with the first and the second clamping spring elem... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7458860 | Internal power bus and power output assembly The present invention relates to a power distribution unit with output power terminals and electrical leads with mating portions connected to extensions of the terminals, with adjacent mating portions and connected extensions offset from one another. Alternatively, ... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7445519 | Semiconductor device A screw block terminal is formed to have a block body, a nut, an electrode and an overhang portion, and the block body has first, second, third and fourth side surface portions, an upper surface portion and a lower surface portion. The overhang portion is extended f... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7445520 | Field communication and computer data distribution system A field communication and computer data distribution system includes a weatherproof housing with a hinged lid, a panel positioned in the housing and having a plurality of pairs of insulation displacement connector units mounted thereon, and a pair of multi-terminal ... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7438604 | Distributor block A distributor block exhibits multi-connectors at its front side in the manner of block terminals and at least one additional connector for each pole at its rear side, whereby a contact area is provided for each pole where terminal points are arranged in one common c... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7438603 | Test terminal connector A test terminal connector for use in selectively interconnecting electrical leads of a railway circuit is provided and includes a mounting block; a first and a second terminal supported in and extending from the mounting block; a test strap supported on and extendin... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7425149 | Connection system for connecting a flat block of components to an apparatus A connection system that couples a contact of a flat block of components to an apparatus is provided. The connection system comprises a conductive connecting element electrically coupled to the contact of the flat block of components, and a clamping device electrica... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7413487 | Signal line connector A signal line connector for electrically connecting two signal lines is provided. The signal line connector includes a base, a conductive element, and two pressing elements. The base has two sockets, allowing terminals of the signal lines to be inserted into the bas... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7412052 | System and method of delivering DSL services A system and method for delivering digital subscriber line (DSL) service to a subscriber from a remote terminal of a telephone network. Included is a first route for delivering a telephone signal to the subscriber, and a second route for passing the telephone signal... | 08/12/2008 |
