Panduit Corporation

Rodney G Rouleau

David J Sylvester

Charles F VanderVelde

Mateusz Kruzel

Shaun P Brouwer

Andrew C Crouse

Randall T Woods

Janina B Nebes

Surendra Chitti Babu

Robert W Kossak

James R Ward

Raymond M Hill

Richard H Kasal

James Banaszak

Kenneth A Christensen

Jack E Caveney

Samuel C Ramey

Balaji Kandasamy

Michael Mayo

Russell Kenneth Morrow

Scott K Benedict

Joseph D Cicero

Nicholas M Molenhouse

Brett J Putnam

Jeffrey K Groff

Mark D Campbell

Michael B Verbeek

Brian K Rohder

Bartolo A Nambo

Andrew W Booth

Sahar Ramahi

Adam W Hong

Craig A Zagorski

Mary G Santschi

Christopher Bentley

Andrew Crouse

Charles Vandervelde

A high voltage cable cleat that facilitates cable installation and secures cable configurations. The high voltage cable cleat includes a bottom cleat and a top cleat. The bottom cleat has an outer surface, a first end, a second end, and an inner surface. The inner surface has a cable support area with a plurality of pockets. Each pocket houses a ball transfer with a ball extending above the cable support area of the inner surface to guide cables positioned on the bottom cleat. The top cleat has an outer surface, a first end, a second end, and an inner surface. The top cleat is installed over the bottom cleat and secured to the bottom cleat by fasteners.

High voltage cable cleat

An assembly used to hang cable on a solar panel frame is disclosed. The assembly includes a wire hanger and a universal mount. The wire hanger has a first end with a hook, a main member, and a second end with a hook. The universal mount supports the wire hanger. The universal mount includes a first side that engages a mounting hole in the solar panel frame to connect the universal mount to the solar panel frame. The universal mount includes a second side that receives the wire hanger enabling the wire hanger and cable positioned therein to hang from the solar panel frame.

Universal mount for wire hanger for solar applications

A cleat binder is used to secure cables for short circuit protection. The cleat binder includes a yoke, a slotted hex head bolt, a nut, and a strap. The slotted hex head bolt has a head and a slot extending through the bolt. The yoke includes a bottom with a front, a back, a first side, and a second side. Side walls extend from the first and second side of the bottom of the yoke. The slotted hex head bolt extends through openings in the side walls of the yoke. The nut secures the slotted hex head bolt on the yoke. The strap is fed through the slot of the slotted hex head bolt, wrapped around cables, and tensioned to secure the cleat binder to the cables.

Slotted bolt cleat binder

A cable bundle hanger secures cables routed to solar panels. The cable bundle hanger includes an attachment section and a lower section. The attachment section engages a solar panel frame to secure the cable bundle hanger. The attachment section includes an attachment member and a pivot joint ring. The lower section is pivotally secured to the attachment section. The lower section has a swaged top member. The swaged top member pivots within the pivot joint ring thereby enabling the lower section to pivot with respect to the attachment section.

Cable bundle hanger with pivot joint

Two identical cradle halves joined together to form a cable clamp that secures at least one cable to a surface. Each cradle half has a front, a back, a top, a bottom, and sides. Each cradle half has at least one cradle portion with a compression insert and an attachment portion. The attachment portion has an adjustment latch with a post having a T-shaped head and a tapered adjustment slot. The cable clamp is formed by joining the two cradle halves with the top of one cradle half positioned on the top of a second cradle half. The cradle portion and the attachment portion of one cradle half is positioned over the cradle portion and the attachment portion of the second cradle half to form the cable clamp.

Cable clamp with adjustment latches

A metal locking cleat secures cable bundles while withstanding impulse forces and short circuit events. The metal locking cleat has a housing, a tie body, and a metal locking head. The housing has a top, a bottom, sides, a front, a back, an upper level, and a lower level. The tie body is positioned in the lower level of the housing and the metal locking head is positioned in the upper level of the housing. The tie body wraps around a cable bundle, through the lower level of the housing for multiple loops, through the upper level of the housing, and through the metal locking head to secure the metal locking cleat.

Bi-level metal locking cleat

A cable management system designed to support cables in solar applications. The cable management system includes a U-shaped bracket and at least one clamp half. The U-shaped bracket has a base with two arms with each arm including a securement slot. The clamp half has a top, a bottom, a front, a back, and sides with button pads extending from the sides. The clamp half is installed within the U-shaped bracket such that the button pads slide in the securement slots to position the clamp half in the U-shaped bracket. The clamp half separates and supports the cables installed in the U-shaped bracket.

Cable management system

A bracket secured to a support member. The bracket receives a locking strap cleat to secure a cable bundle to the support member. The bracket has a first tongue, a second tongue parallel to the first tongue, and a riser section connecting the first tongue and the second tongue. The first tongue and the second tongue include slots. The first tongue of the bracket receives one of the cable bundle or the support member and the second tongue of the bracket receives one of the cable bundle or the support member.

Dual tongue strap cleat bracket

A winged cable mount that secures a cable or a cable bundle positioned on the mount. The winged cable mount includes a round base and side supports extending from the base. Each side support includes a main member and a tab positioned at a distal end of the main member. The side supports wrap around the cable or cable bundle positioned on the mount. The round base includes aligned slots positioned opposite each other for receiving a cable tie to secure the cable or cable bundle positioned on the mount.

Winged cable mount

A cable management system configured to account for and accommodate physical movement of the cables being managed. The cable management system includes an elastic element, such as a spring, to accommodate for the anticipated expansion and/or contraction movements of the cables being managed. The cable management system may be applicable for vertical cable installation projects that are installed in outdoor applications.

Thermal expansion slide with cable clamp

An indicator clip for use with a retention mechanism. The indicator clip includes a body with a channel that is configured to accept a strap from the retention mechanism, and further including at least one extension that is configured to deflect when a force is applied to the retention mechanism. The indicator clip is configured to measure the force applied to the retention mechanism.

Indicator clip for determining the tension or pressure in a retention mechanism and method of use thereof

A cable management assembly that mounts cables to a ladder rack. The cable management assembly includes a thermal expansion block, a cable attachment beam, and a bracket. The thermal expansion block is positioned on a ladder rung of the ladder rack. The thermal expansion block has a top, a bottom, a first side, a second side, and ends. The first side and the second side of the thermal expansion block have an opening there through that receives the cable attachment beam. The bracket secures the thermal expansion block and attached cable attachment beam to the ladder rung.

Cable management assembly

A compliant hanger assembly is disclosed for installation onto a strut channel. With the installation of the compliant hanger assembly, the simple and effective use of a metal ball locking cable tie is made available to attach components (e.g., cables) onto the strut.

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Manhattan, IL, United States of America

Rodney G Rouleau