Cooper Industries, Inc.

Shure Brothers Incorporated

Buckeye International, Inc.

Other

Cooper Technologies Company

Cherry Corporation

Suncom, Incorporated

Beacons, LLC

Lawrence R Happ

Conrad Alfaro

David R Marach

Jacek Michael Korczynski

Scott Michael Criswell

Mark Hirte

Casey B Stahl

Alan C Lesesky

Conrad F Alfaro

William R Bailey

Marino Cecchi

James J Wellwood

Gregory J Borucki

Allen R Groh

Stephen M Drensky

Kerri E Hanis

Gerald A Stark

Bruce B Grossmann

Mark Hanis

Frank J Karlov

Willaim R Bailey

Carl R Anderson

A soap dispensing assembly includes a soap container and a universal dispenser. The soap container is capable of having a liquid pump or a foaming pump attached to it. The universal dispenser is adapted to house and dispense soap from the soap container regardless of whether the container has a liquid pump or a foaming pump. Using this assembly, a manufacturer may sell the universal dispenser and offer to sell the consumer liquid and foamable soap for use with the same dispenser.

Soap dispenser including actuator with spring arm

Liquid and foamed soap dispensing

A pump head assembly for a soap container. The pump head including a drip guard member which applies a vacuum to an internal passageway of the pump head assembly following dispensing of soap in order to draw an residual soap out of the internal passageway and thus prevent dripping.

Soap dispensing pump head with vacuum applying drip guard member

A portable, automated illumination device is provided that is capable of illuminating an item stored on or near the device, such items may include eyeglasses, drinking cups, or other household articles. In one embodiment, the device includes a top section platform that has a sloped, nearly vertical edge to retain items and a sensor that instantly illuminates a light in response to motion adjacent to the device. In certain embodiments, the light provides illumination of the surrounding area to allow a user to find an item stored in or near the device, or to locate a more significant light source. Preferably, the light is illuminated for a certain period of time, after which the device resets to be triggered by subsequent motion, heat, or other stimuli detectable by the sensor.

Portable, automated illumination device

A vehicle electric power distribution apparatus is provided which includes a plurality of vertically stacked conductive circuit layers, each layer including an array of contact pads, a layer of electrically insulating plastic material between each of the conductive circuit layers, at least some of the contact pads are electrically connected to selected other contact pads of the same conductive circuit layer via integrally formed conductive traces. In addition to the stacked circuit layers the apparatus includes a plurality of conductive pins providing electrical contact between selected contact pads of different selected conductive circuit layers.

Vehicle electric power distribution system

A bimetallic reed for a circuit protecting device includes an integral fusible portion as a failsafe interrupting mechanism. The bimetallic reed includes a body of electrical conductive materials and having a first end mountable to a terminal and a second end forming an interruptible contact portion. The body is shaped to deform at a central portion of the body when the body is heated to a predetermined temperature. The body includes a plurality of apertures adjacent to the contact portion defining a plurality of electrical conductive pathways connecting the central portion and the contact portion, wherein the plurality of conductive pathways is fusibly responsive to a predetermine electrical load condition to form a fusible link.

Failsafe bimetallic reed having bimetal with fusible link for a circuit

An fuse orientation device for an alarm indicating type fuse includes an orientation ring removably positionable on a cylindrical fuse body adjacent to a selected end having an axially extendable alarm indicator pin, and a fuse element holder having fuse mounting clips, a shoulder and receiving gap in the fuse holder allowing a fuse carrying the ring to be mounted in a particular orientation so that the indicator pin will cooperate with an alarm indicating circuit in the event the fuse element interrupts the circuit.

Fuse orientation device

A vehicle electric power distribution system having a plurality of conductive plates, wherein each conductive plate includes an arrangement of contact pads that are electrically connected to other contact pads via integrally formed conductive traces. These conductive plates can be vertically stacked, with electrical contact between selected contact pads on different conductive plates being provided by conductive pins. Each conductive plate is selectively coated with an insulating layer to obviate unwanted electrical contact.

A fused disconnect switch including a plurality of maintenance and installation enhancing features is disclosed. For example, a bipolar LED is provided as an alarm indicator so that the fused disconnect switch will function in power distribution systems which operate on both positive and negative voltages. Additionally, a manual test tab is provided for checking the alarm circuitry and a viewing window is provided so that the presence or absence of a fuse in the fused disconnect device can be ascertained without removing the fuse holder.

Fused disconnect switch

Fused electrical power disconnect

A fused disconnect device constructed according to the present invention comprises a housing, a line side terminal, a load side terminal, a protection fuse holder assembly removably installed in a cavity of said housing, and a separate alarm fuse removably installed in said housing. The alarm fuse may remain installed in the housing regardless of the presence of the protection fuse holder assembly, so that an alarm will be generated whenever the inventive device has interrupted power to the load. In a first embodiment of the invention, the disconnect device is adapted for front-access mounting in a power distribution panel. In a second embodiment of the invention, the disconnect device is adapted for rear-access mounting in a power distribution panel. A third embodiment is adapted for use in higher-current applications.

Fused disconnect

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Mundelein, IL, United States of America

Lawrence R Happ