A cord reel cable including a polymeric sheath with a conductive EMI drain and a method of manufacture therefor. The cord reel includes a cable comprising power and data conductors, as wells as a single drain wire which is grounded to a cord reel housing or spool or the like. The drain wire contacts an outer ETFE layer surrounding the cable in order to provide EMI shielding to the cable.

A cable retraction system for use with a cable. The system includes a slider configured to slide in a vertical plane within a channel; and a spring having a first segment connected to the slider and a second segment with a bent tip that traverses a groove and ramp segment with a movement of the slider. In an initial state, the cable does not retract and the bent tip is located at a lowest position of the groove and ramp segment in the vertical plane; and after the cable is pulled, the slider slides upwards in the channel and the bent tip of the second spring traverses a ramp of the groove and ramp segment.

An apparatus is described herein that may generally include an air pump, a rotatable drum, a flexible hose, and first and second housings. The drum may draw in and let out the flexible hose. The pump may be connected to the flexible hose. The first housing may enclose in inner portion of the drum, and may include a first air intake. The pump may be disposed within the first housing. The second housing may surround the drum and may include a second air intake. The flexible hose may pass through the second air intake. The first intake may be aligned perpendicular to the second air intake. Alternatively, the first intake may be aligned parallel to the second air intake on a side of the drum opposite the second air intake. Sound emitted from the pump may pass over, and be absorbed by, the flexible hose within the second housing.

A bag for transporting tools and building supplies includes a body, a first spool, a second spool, an electrical plug coupled to a first electrical cord, and an electrical connector coupled to a second electrical cord and defining an electrical outlet. The body includes a side panel coupled to and extending from a base member. The base member and the side panel cooperate to define an internal volume. The first spool and the second spool are each rotatable relative to the body and positioned within the internal volume. The first and second electrical cords wrap around the first and second spools, respectively, and extend outside of the body. The electrical plug is electrically coupled to the electrical connector. The electrical plug is interfaces with an external power source such that the electrical outlet receives electrical power from the external power source.

A cord reel cable including a polymeric sheath with a conductive EMI drain and a method of manufacture therefor. The cord reel includes a cable comprising power and data conductors, as wells as a single drain wire which is grounded to a cord reel housing or spool or the like. The drain wire contacts an outer ETFE layer surrounding the cable in order to provide EMI shielding to the cable.

A retractable cord reel assembly comprises a reel rotatably supported within a frame or housing for rotation about an axis; a biasing spring engaged with the reel; and a single unitary electrically conductive cord having a distal end portion affixed to the housing, and a movable proximal end, wherein the cord is wound about the reel in a plurality of contiguous segments. The cord reel comprises separate coaxial cord-take-up and cord-storage compartments, having, in an initial cord configuration, a fixed-length segment of cord wound in a spiral around a hub in the cord-take-up compartment, and a segment comprising helical windings of the cord in the cord-storage compartment. The cord reel assembly described herein can be used in modern electronic data and power transmission applications without the significant losses of signal integrity or power, commonly associated with conventional cord reel assemblies.

A portable receptacle with an integrated lanyard reel includes a portable receptacle. The receptacle includes a reel attached to the portable receptacle. The receptacle includes a lanyard wound on the reel, the lanyard having a distal end, the lanyard movable between a retracted position in which the distal end is a first distance from the reel and an extended position in which the distal end is a second distance from the reel, the second distance greater than the first distance.

An automatic rewinding apparatus with an abrasion-resistant rotation axis includes: a main base lower housing including a cylindrical fixing axis at a center; a PCB substrate penetrated by the fixing axis and combined with the main base lower housing; a contact terminal coupling plate; a middle base coil housing including: a sub-base lower housing, a cylindrical winding bobbin, a sub-base upper housing, and an abrasion-resistance improving insert disposed on internal circumferential surfaces of punctured centers of the sub-base lower housing, the winding bobbin and the sub-base upper housing; a rolling elastic member with elasticity; grease cover plates on both sides of the rolling elastic member; a cap for covering the opening of the sub-base upper housing and combination with the sub-base upper housing; a stopper ball; and a main base upper housing combined with the main base lower housing and covering a second side where the track of the cap.

An automatic winding module of a wire for Bluetooth headset with an improved wear resistance function of a rotation axis, which firmly maintains a rotation axis without twist of the rotation axis even in case of using it for a long time, thereby preventing breakaway between a terminal and a PCB pattern, to prevent a short circuit from occurring.

A wire-winding device comprising: an upper cover; a spiral spring; a rotary base having a groove to accommodate the spiral spring on the bottom surface thereof; a transmission line winding around the rotary base; a lower cover assembled with the upper cover; and a pillar, an outlet, and a wire casing formed on one side of the groove, and two spacers surrounding the peripheral edge of the groove, the pillar having a first end portion which shifts outward to the edge of rotary base, the wire casing having a smooth curved surface formed on the bottom surface thereof near the outlet to enlarge the accommodating space near the outlet and reduce the friction between the transmission line and the spacers.