Electrical transmission or interconnection systems inventions 02/08

20080048494 - Delayed power supply crossing automobile/motocycle engine ignition time: Automobile and motorcycle are not electrically stable during ignition process. This invention uses a simple delaying technique to allow delaying of the timing of secondary power supply for a prescribed time after crossing the unstable period of engine ignition period. In other words, delaying of supplying power could effectively increase... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080048495 - Transformer for balancing currents: The invention relates to a transformer (10) for balancing the current in an AC circuit, comprising a primary winding (12), a secondary winding (14) and a main inductance (16). The transformer is characterized in that a capacitive component is connected in parallel to the primary winding (12) or to the... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080048496 - Junction device with logic and expansion capability: A junction box receives a plurality of input signals. The input signals are combined in accordance with AND logic to provide an output signal when all input signals are present. Multiple junction boxes may be connected to one another to increase the number of input signals that are accepted.... Agent: Macmillan Sobanski & Todd, LLC

20080048501 - Wind park and method for the operation of a wind park: A wind park with a plurality of wind energy plants, which each have one plant control, which presets a desired value for the active power to its wind energy plant, and with a park control, which presets a desired value for the active power to be generated for each plant... Agent: Vidas, Arrett & Steinkraus, P.A.

20080048497 - Load-lifting apparatus and method of storing energy for the same: A load-lifting apparatus has one or more prime power sources, one or more energy storage systems and regenerative braking. Regenerative energy is recovered when the load-lifting apparatus lowers its load. The elements of the prime power sources, energy storage devices and electrical components may be distributed to provide stability for... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080048498 - Power delivery control and balancing between multiple loads: A plasma process machine includes at least two electrodes disposed in a processing chamber and in contact with targets, an alternating current source connected to supply power to the electrodes, and a power delivery controller adapted to control power delivered by the alternating current source to the electrodes. The power... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080048499 - Controlling a power converter: A load is powered by a power source and a capacitive element in series such that the voltage provided to the load is the sum of the voltages of the power source and the capacitive element. A power converter imposing a limit on a flow of current through at least... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080048500 - Switching device: A switching path 61 includes, between the input terminal 1 and output terminal 4 for a voltage source, a series connection of the source or drain electrodes of PMOS transistors 10a and 10b connected to their back-gate electrode. A driving circuit has an NMOS transistor 11a having a load resistor... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080048502 - Current-controlled converter and method for controlling said converter: The invention relates to a current-controlled converter and a method for controlling a converter of this type (U) comprising three phase outputs (R, S, T). The method comprises the following steps: a) application of a test current signal (ip) to a first (R) and a second (S) phase output of... Agent: Henry M Feiereisen, LLC

20080048503 - Touch sensor user interface with compressible material construction: An electronic switching unit for use with a product comprising and/or connected to a power source and at least one energy consuming load comprises a microchip, connected to a user interface switch structure. The microchip is configured to implement at least one function selected from the group consisting of an... Agent: Jones, Tullar & Cooper, P.C.

20080048504 - Paper-breaker touching safety protector: The present invention relates to a paper-breaker touching safety protector, of which the control circuit unit is connected with the paper-breaking machinery part via the motor driving circuit unit, the control circuit unit is connected with the conductive touch panel via the touch detecting circuit unit, the power unit is... Agent: Carstens & Cahoon, LLP

20080042492 - Electric power distribution and backup power supply system: This invention is a power distribution system and backup power supply that includes a distinctive arrangement of electrical charging and power distribution circuits and batteries in a compact housing that mounts on utility light and electric poles. The device provides backup power using AC power line feed, and comprises of... Agent: Patrick T. Gleason

20080042491 - Uninterruptible power supply: An uninterruptible power supply (UPS) system includes an AC power input configured to receive AC power from a single-phase AC power source or a multi-phase AC power source, a DC power source, an output circuit including a power output, a controllable switch configured to selectively couple at least one of... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20080042493 - Battery controller and method for controlling a battery: A battery controller for charging and discharging a plurality of batteries is disclosed. The battery controller has a plurality of direct current to direct current (DC to DC) converters connected to each other in series. Each battery of a plurality of batteries is electrically connectable to a respective DC to... Agent: Riches, Mckenzie & Herbert, LLP

20080042494 - Power-source outlet: Wobbling of a coil portion of a torsion spring for urging a rotor/cover to a “usage position” is prevented. An outlet cover of an outlet main body has plugholes for insertion of the plug-in terminals of an outlet plug. A rotor/cover is pivotally provided so that its position can be... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080036299 - Standby power supply apparatus: A standby power supply apparatus is provided in which a supply voltage of the standby power source, supplied before electronic apparatuses such as TVs or video players are switched on, is reduced by half to sharply reduce the consumption of the standby electric power. According to the standby power supply... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

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20080036298 - Backup electrical power system for solid-state aircraft power distribution systems: A system comprised of switches, fuses, microprocessor-based monitoring, and a pilot display that provides a method to bypass computer-controlled switching of aircraft power circuits. A backup circuit in addition to the computer-controlled switching circuit provides a method to guarantee power delivery in the case of a failure of the computer-controlled... Agent: V. Gerald Grafe, Esq.

20080036301 - Photon initiated marxed modulators: The features of this invention allow construction and operation of a variety of high voltage, high repetition rated pulse generators of the Marx type that are switched with photon initiated semiconductor switches. The Photon Initiated Switches can be constructed with bulk materials or in layered devices such as thyristors. Variations... Agent: Eleanor C. Mcdonald Kenneth F. Mcdonald

20080030075 - Powering a wireless system from preexisting power: A system is described for powering a wirelessly controlled electric system, such as a sound or security system, via a preexisting power source within an existing building structure. The wirelessly controlled electric system may receive power from the preexisting power source via an adaptor that may be inserted between the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080030076 - Power converter and related method capable of providing multiple output voltages: A power converter includes an inductor, first through fourth switches, and a control device. The first switch is coupled between a first end of the inductor and ground, the second switch is coupled between an input end and a second end of the inductor, the third switch is coupled between... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080030077 - Multi-stage power conversion and distribution: A multi-stage power converter is disclosed. The multi-stage power converter includes at least one power source and at least one intermediate down-converter, the at least one intermediate down-converter configured to down convert a voltage output from the at least one power source to an intermediate voltage. The multi-stage power converter... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080030078 - Data center uninterruptible power distribution architecture: Apparatus and associated method and computer program products involve a highly efficient uninterruptible power distribution architecture to support modular processing units. As an illustrative example, a modular processing unit includes an corresponding uninterruptible power system in which only one AC-to-DC rectification occurs between the utility AC grid and the processing... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080030079 - Systems and methods for improving the ability of a power delivery system to withstand multiple failure events: The invention is directed to systems and methods for enhancing the ability of a power delivery system to withstand the occurrence of multiple failure events. Specifically, the invention is directed to a power delivery system employing a web-type network topology for a generator bus where at least two power generating... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20080030080 - Chip-scale coils and isolators based thereon: Coil structures and isolators using them. A coil(s) is (are) used as a magnetic field-generating element(s) paired with another coil(s) or other magnetic field-receiving element(s). The coil(s) is(are) formed in or on a substrate which does not include some or all of the driver (i.e., input) or receiver (i.e., output)... Agent: Michael A. Diener Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP