Gary Cain Bethurum from Overland Park, KS, age 79

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Company / Classification

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Gary C. Bethurum
President

Shamrock International Electronics Incorporated

75 Argonaut, Laguna Beach, CA 92656

Gary Bethurum
Principal

Engineered Solutions
Engineering Services

30335 Conn Crk Cir, Murrieta, CA 92563

Us Patents

Releasable Wire Connector
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US Patent:

7281942, Oct 16, 2007
Filed:

Nov 17, 2006
Appl. No.:

11/561135
Inventors:

Benjamin D. Swedberg - Sycamore IL, US
Gary C. Bethurum - Murrieta CA, US
Assignee:

IDEAL Industries, Inc. - Sycamore IL
International Classification:

H01R 4/24
US Classification:

439441
Abstract:

A releasable wire connector has a housing and a cap slidably engaging one another and enclosing an electrical contact. The contact has inner and outer flexible fingers disposed opposite wire ports in the housing and cap. The fingers engage conductors inserted into the connector to retain the connectors therein and electrically connect them. The cap carries a release block which will engage some of the fingers and urge them out of engagement with the conductors to allow disengagement of a wire from the connector. One of the fingers may be split into sacrificial and main tines which are arranged so that the sacrificial tine will always be the first to make and the last to break contact with a conductor. Any arcing that may occur will then always be on the sacrificial tine so the main tine will not be degraded by arcing.

Twist-On Wire Connector Applicator
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US Patent:

7356914, Apr 15, 2008
Filed:

Nov 4, 2004
Appl. No.:

10/982133
Inventors:

Sushil Keswani - Sycamore IL, US
Gary Bethurum - Murrieta CA, US
Assignee:

IDEAL Industries, Inc. - Sycamore IL
International Classification:

B23P 19/00
H01R 43/00
US Classification:

29748, 29747, 29758
Abstract:

A wire connector applicator is capable of holding a clip of interconnected twist-on wire connectors in a tube which can be rotated by an electric motor. The connectors rotate with the tube for installation on the ends of stripped electrical wires. The invention is also directed to an interlocking twist-on wire connector which prevents axial separation and relative rotation of similarly configured group or clip of interlocked connectors.

Electrical Disconnect With Push-In Connectors
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US Patent:

7527509, May 5, 2009
Filed:

Oct 22, 2007
Appl. No.:

11/876438
Inventors:

Gary C. Bethurum - Murrieta CA, US
Benjamin D. Swedberg - Sycamore IL, US
Robert W. Sutter - De Kalb IL, US
Assignee:

IDEAL Industries, Inc. - Sycamore IL
International Classification:

H01R 13/62
US Classification:

439153, 439752
Abstract:

An electrical disconnect has first and second female contacts mounted in a power connector housing and first and second male contacts in a load connector housing. The male contacts each have a male blade contact finger. The female contacts each have a socket for removably receiving a male blade contact finger. At the rear ends of both the male and female contacts there are integrally formed push-in connector elements for receiving a conductor or wire. The disconnect is particularly suited for use in connecting power wires to a load device in a circuit, such as a fluorescent light ballast.

Electrical Disconnect With Adjacent Wire Receptacle Boxes
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US Patent:

7727002, Jun 1, 2010
Filed:

Jul 9, 2007
Appl. No.:

11/774883
Inventors:

Gary C. Bethurum - Murrieta CA, US
Mark B. Higgins - Sycamore IL, US
Assignee:

IDEAL Industries, Inc. - Sycamore IL
International Classification:

H01R 4/24
US Classification:

439441, 439858
Abstract:

An electrical disconnect has a pair of selectably engageable enclosures each including a housing and one or more terminals supported therein. The terminals each have a spring finger at an outer end opposite wire ports in the cap to receive a stripped end of a wire in a push-in engagement. The terminals are releasably engageable in overlapping relation in an engagement zone. The housings have wire receiving receptacles therein which reside in the engagement zone when the enclosures are joined.

Electrical Disconnect With Push-In Connectors
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US Patent:

7753718, Jul 13, 2010
Filed:

Sep 24, 2008
Appl. No.:

12/237021
Inventors:

Gary C. Bethurum - Murrieta CA, US
Benjamin D. Swedberg - Sycamore IL, US
Assignee:

IDEAL Industries, Inc. - Sycamore IL
International Classification:

H01R 4/24
US Classification:

439441, 439293
Abstract:

A wire connector has an enclosure including a housing and a cap and one or more contacts supported in the enclosure. The contacts each have outer ends opposite wire ports in the cap to receive a stripped end of a wire in a push-in engagement. One set of contacts has a male blade and the other set of contacts has a female socket at the inner or forward ends thereof. The housings are arranged so that two housings are releasably engagable with one another. When two housings are engaged the male contacts electrically engages the female contacts of the other housing. The female contacts include a sacrificial tine that is always first to make and last to break engagement with the male contact so that any degradation due to arcing always occurs at the sacrificial tine.

Electrical Disconnect With Push-In Connectors
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US Patent:

7771217, Aug 10, 2010
Filed:

May 1, 2009
Appl. No.:

12/434291
Inventors:

Gary Bethurum - Murrieta CA, US
Benjamin Swedberg - Sycamore IL, US
Robert Sutter - DeKalb IL, US
Assignee:

IDEAL Industries, Inc. - Sycamore IL
International Classification:

H01R 13/62
US Classification:

439153, 439752
Abstract:

An electrical disconnect has first and second female contacts mounted in a power connector housing and first and second male contacts in a load connector housing. The male contacts each have a male blade contact finger. The female contacts each have a socket for removably receiving a male blade contact finger. At the rear ends of both the male and female contacts there are integrally formed push-in connector elements for receiving a conductor or wire. The disconnect is particularly suited for use in connecting power wires to a load device in a circuit, such as a fluorescent light ballast.

Electrical Disconnect With Push-In Connectors
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US Patent:

7887353, Feb 15, 2011
Filed:

Mar 26, 2009
Appl. No.:

12/411920
Inventors:

Gary Bethurum - Murrieta CA, US
Benjamin Swedberg - Sycamore IL, US
Robert Sutter - DeKalb IL, US
Assignee:

IDEAL Industries, Inc. - Sycamore IL
International Classification:

H01R 25/00
US Classification:

439295, 439595, 439352
Abstract:

An electrical disconnect has first and second female contacts mounted in a power connector housing and first and second male contacts in a load connector housing. The male contacts each have a male blade contact finger. The female contacts each have a socket for removably receiving a male blade contact finger. At the rear ends of both the male and female contacts there are integrally formed push-in connector elements for receiving a conductor or wire. The disconnect is particularly suited for use in connecting power wires to a load device in a circuit, such as a fluorescent light ballast.

Electrical Disconnect With Push-In Connectors
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US Patent:

7988481, Aug 2, 2011
Filed:

Jun 21, 2006
Appl. No.:

11/425440
Inventors:

Gary C. Bethurum - Murrieta CA, US
Benjamin D. Swedberg - Sycamore IL, US
Assignee:

IDEAL Industries, Inc. - Sycamore IL
International Classification:

H01R 13/627
US Classification:

439353, 439293
Abstract:

A wire connector has an enclosure including a housing and a cap and one or more contacts supported in the enclosure. The contacts each have outer ends opposite wire ports in the cap to receive a stripped end of a wire in a push-in engagement. One set of contacts has a male blade and the other set of contacts has a female socket at the inner or forward ends thereof. The housings are arranged so that two housings are releasably engagable with one another. When two housings are engaged the male contacts electrically engages the female contacts of the other housing. The female contacts include a sacrificial tine that is always first to make and last to break engagement with the male contact so that any degradation due to arcing always occurs at the sacrificial tine.