Electricity: conductors and insulators – Boxes and housings – With electrical device
Reexamination Certificate
2007-06-19
2007-06-19
Patel, Dhiru R. (Department: 2831)
Electricity: conductors and insulators
Boxes and housings
With electrical device
C174S050000, C174S053000, C220S004020
Reexamination Certificate
active
11299532
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed herein is a junction box having a housing and a plurality of straps. The housing includes a plurality of ribs with posts extending therefrom. Each one of the straps has a plurality of receiving areas defined by a contiguous radial surface, such as a countersink surface. The posts extend through the receiving areas and securingly retain the straps against the housing. In an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the posts are substantially frustoconical prior to assembly and may be characterized as deformed frustrums after assembly.
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Sections 12.3.1-12.3.3 of the Underwriters Laboratories (UL) Standards, NMX-J-023/1-ANCE, CSA C22.2 No. 18.1-04, UL 514A, pp. 44, 67 Table 8, and 75 Figure 12 (Feb. 16, 2004).
Photograph of a Junction Box (Commercialized Circa Oct. 1972).
Mulberry Metal Products, Inc. Catalog No. B0803 (Aug. 2003).
McCarter & English LLP
Mulberry Metal Products, Inc.
Patel Dhiru R.
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