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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2020
Leviton Manufacturing Co., Inc., Melville, NY (US);
James Shurte, New Orleans, LA (US);
Ronald J. Gumina, Mandeville, LA (US);
Aaron Ard, Ponchatoula, LA (US);
Carlos Salazar, North Babylon, NY (US);
Ryan L. Arbour, New Orleans, LA (US);
Jason Gillard, Mandeville, LA (US);
Leviton Manufacturing Co., Inc., Melville, NY (US);
Abstract
A wall-plate system having a wall-plate adapted to accommodate a printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) coupled with the wall-plate and may comprise a mounting bracket. The PCBA may include one or more chip packages and/or other components that extend into cavities in the mounting bracket after installation, the cavities located on the mounting bracket to accommodate chip packages and/or other components. The wall-plate may include snaps to couple with the mounting bracket, the snaps extending from an interior surface of the wall-plate, the snaps located away from edges of the wall-plate towards a center of the wall-plate. The mounting bracket may comprise openings to couple with a device in a junction box and/or with the junction box. The wall-plate may comprise, e.g., one or more battery mounts and the mounting bracket may have a shape to accommodate extension by the battery mounts into a plane of the mounting bracket.