US 12,392,480 B2
Electrical appliance with housing having an illuminated cable bushing
Jochen Mahlein, Karlsruhe (DE); Harald Wolf, Ubstadt-Weiher (DE); Alexander Heier, Karlsdorf-Neuthard (DE); Detlev Schroeder, Lustadt (DE); Adam Miles, Greer, SC (US); and Will Francis, Roanoke, IN (US)
Assigned to SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG, Bruchsal (DE)
Appl. No. 18/701,639
Filed by SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG, Bruchsal (DE)
PCT Filed Sep. 28, 2022, PCT No. PCT/EP2022/025449
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 16, 2024,
PCT Pub. No. WO2023/066513, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 27, 2023.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/257,650, filed on Oct. 20, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 102021005949.2 (DE), filed on Dec. 1, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0410558 A1, Dec. 12, 2024
Int. Cl. H01B 17/58 (2006.01); F21V 19/00 (2006.01); F21V 23/00 (2015.01); F21Y 115/10 (2016.01)
CPC F21V 23/002 (2013.01) [F21V 19/003 (2013.01); H01B 17/583 (2013.01); F21Y 2115/10 (2016.08)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electrical appliance, comprising:
a housing;
a printed circuit board including an illumination device surrounded by the housing;
a cable bushing projecting through a recess in the housing and formed of a transparent material; and
a cable passing through the cable bushing;
wherein the cable bushing is elastically deformed such that a material of the cable bushing presses and/or seals towards the housing, and the cable bushing is elastically deformed such that the material of the cable bushing presses and/or seals towards the cable.