Electrical transmission or interconnection systems inventions 04/06

20060087177 - Moving body starting system: A moving body starting system includes: a moving-body-mounted unit mounted in a moving body moved by an engine; a portable unit carried by a user performing radio communication with the mounted unit; an operation switch provided on a moving body side and outputting an operation signal to the mounted unit...

20060087178 - Electric fence energiser: An energiser for an electric fence. The energiser includes, at least, one energy storage capacitor (14), a charging circuit (13) to enable the or each storage capacitor (14) to be charged from an energy source (10), semiconductor switching means (16), and control circuit means (15) to facilitate controlled turning -on...

20060082219 - Broadband coupler technique for electrical connection to power lines: Disclosed is a power line broadband communication system having broadband coupler devices capable of direct electrical connection to an energized power line. The coupler includes a conductive portion movable by an adjustable member from a non-conducting retracted position spaced apart from the power transmission line to a forward conducting position...

20060082220 - Inline power-based common mode communications in a wired data telecommunications network: Communications over a wired data telecommunications network between and among power sourcing equipment (PSE), powered devices (PDs), and the like, take place over the wired medium by modulating an inline power signal. Any suitable communications protocol may be used and any suitable modulation scheme can be used. Examples of information...

20060082221 - Vehicle sidelight control system: A vehicle sidelight control system is provided that automatically illuminates right or left sidelights inautomatic response to turning of a steering wheel or motorcycle handlebar, or in response to a vehicle movement that will operate a gravity-effective switch, such as the leaning of a motorcycle in a turn. In one...

20060082222 - Rack level power management: A system for rack level power management, the system comprising: at least one power source; a management module; and a plurality of power managed modules in communication with the management module and connected to draw power from the at least one power source, each of the plurality of power managed...

20060082223 - Christmas light string with single zener shunts: A string set of series-connected incandescent bulbs in which substantially all of the bulb filaments in the set are individually provided with a shunt circuit which includes a voltage responsive switch which is inoperative during normal operation of the string set when connected to a source of operating potential and...

20060082224 - Segmented programmable capacitor array for improved density and reduced leakege: A capacitor circuit and method to reduce layout area, leakage current, and to improve yield is disclosed. The circuit includes an output terminal (100), a plurality of circuit elements (322, 326, 330), and a plurality of transistors (320, 324, 328). Each transistor has a control terminal (314, 316, 318) and...

20060076830 - Communication and ac power system: A system for bidirectional data and power transmission is shown and described. In an embodiment, a network power controller provides power to a node and communicates bidirectionally with the node. In an embodiment, the network power controller is coupled to an AC power source and provides both AC and DC...

20060076832 - Electromotive power steering controller: An objective is to provide a specific realization means for easily determining malfunction of a system in an electromotive power steering controller. The electromotive power steering controller includes: a voltage controller for controlling voltage applying to a motor based on a d-axis current command value and a q-axis current command...

20060076834 - Engine start control system for vehicle: An engine start control system includes a key transponder, a steering lock, a driver authorizer, an engine starting switch, a pre-driving operation detector, a first and second steering lock controllers and an engine start controller. The key transponder stores a slave ID code and transmits the slave ID code at...

20060076833 - Power supply apparatus for vehicle: In a path along which lines extend between an engine room and a trunk room, the distance between the line 34 and the line 36 is made smaller than the distance between the line 32 and the line 34. Further, the distance between the line 36 and the line 38...

20060076831 - Power system including lithium-metal-polymer batteries: The present invention is an energy generating system which uses Lithium Metal Polymer (LMP) batteries in conjunction with a microturbine, a fuel cell, and commercial electrical power. The LMPs provide uninterruptible power when one or more of the other power systems fail....

20060076835 - Shore power access system: A shore power access system (10) for directing shore power to a power distribution center (34) of a boat (12) includes at least two shore power inlets (30) mountable onboard the boat. The shore power inlets (30) are connectable with a source (40) of shore power located off-board the boat...

20060076836 - Electric or hybrid vehicle with a spare electric motor power source: A secondary electric power source (19) for a motor vehicle having one or more electric motors (12) for driving respective wheels (10a) of the motor vehicle and having a main electric power source (14) for providing power to electric motors (12) driving the wheels (10a), and a selector (17) for...

20060076837 - Rectifier circuit: Disclosed is a rectifier circuit that realizes a low threshold voltage without using a process step to enable reduction in cost and in variation of devices. An NMOS transistor has a threshold voltage. In the transistor, a voltage to be rectified is inputted to a second node, and a rectified...

20060076838 - Self-powered power bus sensor employing wireless communication: A sensor apparatus for a power bus including a current and a temperature includes a housing and one or more sensors. Each of the sensors is adapted to sense one of the current or the temperature of the power bus. A radio transceiver circuit is adapted to transmit a first...

20060071552 - Systems and methods for direct current system digital carried message conveyance: The systems and methods of the present invention provide for conductive emissions communication without requiring dedicated communications wires. The systems and methods have the capability to send digital messages over the same wires that are used to power DC systems. Hardware filter circuits are combined with advanced algorithms in a...

20060071557 - Car power source apparatus: The car power source apparatus switches a pair of contactors (driving battery relays) connected to positive and negative output sides of a driving battery via a switching circuit with an auxiliary battery as power supply. The switching circuit is provided with a voltage detection circuit to detect auxiliary battery voltage,...

20060071556 - Electric steering lock device and method thereof: An electric steering lock device is configured with a control unit to operate a steering column lock between a steering locked state and a steering unlocked state. The electric steering lock device has a locking limit switch that turns on when a locking member reaches the locking stop position, and...

20060071554 - Electrical power distribution system and method thereof: A system for providing auxiliary electrical power is provided. The system includes a plurality of loads and a plurality of power sources, each providing electrical power to one or more of the plurality of loads. At least one generator is electrically connected to the plurality of loads. Also, a plurality...

20060071553 - Lift gate power control system: A lift gate (12) is raised and lowered on a motor vehicle by a prime mover. An electrical system of the vehicle has at least one D.C. storage battery (22) for raising and lowering the lift gate when the vehicle engine is not running. A disconnect, such as a mag...

20060071555 - Method for operation of a vehicle and corresponding device: An engine (9) of a vehicle (1) is started by first inserting an ignition key (3) into an ignition lock (2) of the vehicle (1). The vehicle (1) can be started by merely pressing the inserted ignition key, whereby said ignition key (3) is further inserted into the ignition lock...

20060071558 - Programmable power adaptor: Methods and systems for programmable power adaptors that can be programmed to adapt electrical power for one or more electronic devices. A programmable power adaptor optionally includes a user interface and/or other user input mechanism(s), which allows users to preset voltage requirements for one or more electronic devices. The pre-settings...

20060071559 - Individually and redundantly addressable solid-state power controllers on multiple modules in a power distribution assembly: An improved communication and control architecture for a secondary power distribution assembly that comprises common dual serial data buses that connect corresponding control processor modules directly to associated solid-state power controllers in a plurality of power modules....