Electrical transmission or interconnection systems inventions 01/06

20060017324 - Communications network using installed electrical power lines: The present invention relates to a system for networking electrical devices to provide interactive communication therebetween utilizing the existing power distribution network installed in a building or structure. Each device utilizes employs an RF transmitter/receiver, a power line coupler and circuitry to regulate the 120v, 60 Hz power being distributed...

20060017325 - Permanent control device for the grounding of an electric public transport vehicle running on tyres and which is self-guided: The device is characterized by units of pairs of two friction or sliding shoes (28) and (29), running on a metal guide rail (2), each fixed to a self-guidance unit (16), by way of rollers (26) and (27), running along the guide rail. The shoes (28) and (29) from an...

20060017326 - Vehicular accessory control panel: An apparatus in an instrument panel of a vehicle includes a first accessory control unit disposed in the instrument panel and a second accessory control unit disposed in the instrument panel. The second accessory control unit is juxtaposed with the first accessory control unit. A moveable switch panel is deployable...

20060017327 - Sequentially-controlled solar array power system with maximum power tracking: A power and control architecture employing circuitry that sequentially regulate power flows from independent solar-array sources or a mixture of power sources providing power to a common load. The device may be used on a satellite with solar-array sources; however it may also be used on ground based systems. Stiff...

20060017328 - Control system for distributed power generation, conversion, and storage system: A distributed power generating system enables very rapid and reliable start-up of an engine used to generate back-up power, thereby substantially reducing the need for stored power. More particularly, the distributed power generating system comprises a power bus electrically coupled to commercial power and to a load, an engine comprising...

20060017329 - Inverter and bi-directional converter: The present invention concerns a device that combines the functionality of an inverter and a bi-directional converter. The device provides, on a number of identical channels, transformation of a DC voltage source of a given level to a filtered DC voltage of another level. The inverter and bi-directional converter of...

20060012248 - Electric power control device for watercraft: An electric power control device can have multiple fuel cells, loading devices driven by the electric power supplied by the multiple fuel cells, and a control device for operating the fuel cells in response to the electric power load required by the loading devices. The control device can have an...

20060012249 - Power supply device: A power supply device has a pulse width control circuit for controlling voltage converting operation of a voltage converting circuit by changing a pulse width. A momentary interruption detecting circuit detects a change in an output voltage when the output voltage suffers a momentary interruption over a short period of...

20060012250 - Enhanced processing circuit for spectrometry system and spectrometry system using same: The invention concerns a spectrometry system processing circuit comprising a particulate radiation detector (21), including a charge preamplifying stage (20) receiving a current (I1) from the sensor representing an amount of charges emitted by a particle which has interacted with the detector, and an integrator stage (26). A shunt stage...

20060006738 - Device and method for the redundant voltage supply of safety-relevant systems: The present invention discloses a device and a method for the redundant voltage supply of safety-relevant systems, in particular in motor vehicles. Both a failure of a voltage supply to safety-relevant systems is detected and a switchover to another voltage supply is initiated in response to this, and it is...

20060006740 - Backup time endorsed power supply apparatus: Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to address and resolve such and other problems and provide a new and novel power supply apparatus. Such a new and novel power supply apparatus employs a backup battery that supplies a load with a voltage in place of a main battery...

20060006739 - Uninterruptible power supplies: Uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs) are generally discussed herein with particular discussions extended to fuel-cell-based UPSs used in conjunction with DC power supplies for improved operating efficiencies. With a wide voltage DC power supply, a DC-AC inverter may be omitted from the UPS and power from a back up power source,...

20060006741 - Ac power supply apparatus, methods and computer program products using pwm synchronization: Paralleled uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs) including respective pulse-width modulation (PWM) power converter circuits coupled in common to an AC load bus have PWM cycles that are synchronized. In particular, sampling of control inputs of the PWM power converter circuits may be synchronized, such that, for example, sampling of control inputs...

20060006742 - Source phase sensitive transfer method and apparatus: A method and apparatus for transferring AC electrical power to a load from a first power source to a second power source provides for a time delay in the transfer to avoid problems associated with differences in the phases between the power sources. The phase of the voltage waveform from...

20060001318 - Auxiliary bus method: Certain exemplary embodiments can comprise a system comprising an electric drive system for a machine. The system can comprise a rectifier adapted to convert AC power from an alternator to DC power. The system can comprise an inverter adapted to receive DC power from the rectifier and provide power to...

20060001319 - Auxiliary bus system: Certain exemplary embodiments can comprise a system comprising an electric drive system for a machine. The system can comprise a rectifier adapted to convert AC power from an alternator to DC power. The system can comprise an inverter adapted to receive DC power from the rectifier and provide power to...

20060001317 - Vehicle anti-thief system: A vehicle anti-thief system is disclosed to include an anti-thief controller that controls on-vehicle electronic components of the vehicle to execute a corresponding abnormal operation, for example, repeatedly locking and unlocking the central lock, repeatedly moving the electric power seat forwards and backwards, driving the fuel pump to pump fuel...

20060001320 - Power supply trouble detecting apparatus and electronic circuit: The object of the present invention is to provide a power source trouble detecting apparatus having provided an OR-circuit which can take logical addition of trouble detecting signals and generate an alarm signal when the trouble detecting signal is sent out from at least one of the power source modules....

20060001321 - Voltage supply circuit and method for generating a supply voltage: A voltage supply circuit has a first supply voltage input connected to a first comparator and to a first voltage regulator, the first comparator controlling the first voltage regulator. A second supply voltage input is connected to a second comparator and to a second voltage regulator, the second comparator controlling...