US 12,191,093 B2
Insulator with asymmetric sheds
Tsvetan Rusev, Morton Grove, IL (US); Adam Gardner, Hendersonville, TN (US); and Xiaoguang Qi, Northbrook, IL (US)
Assigned to S&C Electric Company, Chicago, IL (US)
Filed by S&C Electric Company, Chicago, IL (US)
Filed on Dec. 6, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/075,860.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/301,827, filed on Jan. 21, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0238202 A1, Jul. 27, 2023
Int. Cl. H01H 33/662 (2006.01); H01H 33/664 (2006.01); H01H 33/666 (2006.01)
CPC H01H 33/664 (2013.01) [H01H 33/66207 (2013.01); H01H 33/6662 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An insulator comprising:
a body having a top portion and a bottom portion; and
a plurality of ring-shaped sheds extending from the body between the top portion and the bottom portion, the sheds being asymmetric in an axial direction such that an axial dimension of the sheds at one side is shorter than an axial dimension of the sheds at an opposite side.