Electrical transmission or interconnection systems inventions 12/08

20080315682 - Powered device for power over ethernet system with increased cable length: A Powered Device (PD) in a Power Over Ethernet system that supports increased cable lengths of more than 100 m is provided herein. The proposed PD design requires no modifications at the PSE side. Embodiments include example modifications of IEEE 802.3af PD system rules, including example modifications of PD classification... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080315683 - Self-protective high-current low-loss bi-directional semiconductor switch module and method of operation: A high current, light weight, thermally stable, bidirectional semiconductor switch module in an electrical system uses MOSFET technology in a back-to-back parallel architecture. The device comprises a controller which permits it to operate in high electrical noise environments. The device is further controlled to operate in either or both directions... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael M. Ahmadshahi

20080315684 - Square-wave modulated voltage dip restorer: The present invention relates a dynamic voltage restorer (DVR) system and methods for addressing voltage dips. The instant DVR incorporates high frequency technology, such as a high frequency transformer, to generate a square wave voltage from a storage device, such square wave being modulated prior to being delivered to a... Agent: Eric Ka Wai Cheng

20080315685 - Energy converter system with reactive-power-management: A distributed generation system is connected to an AC power line that provides AC electrical power from a source to a load. The distributed generation system includes a DC electrical power source, a capacitor for storing DC electrical power, a converter for converting electrical power stored in the DC electrical... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20080315686 - System and method of detecting a battery fault: A method of controlling a multiple battery system in a vehicle electrical system is provided. The method steps include polling an at least one sensor in the multiple battery system monitoring the multiple battery system for an at least one reading and detecting an abnormal reading from said at least... Agent: Tangent Law Group

20080315687 - Power conditioning unit: A method and an apparatus, to provide controlled and regulated power supply to a power distribution board of a power conditioning unit (PCU), are disclosed. A line conditioner unit of the power conditioning unit may receive AC power supply from a mains input power panel and may generate regulated and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080315688 - Pulsed power supply: A pulsed power supply includes a DC power source, and a transformer and a switch which are connected in series with each other across the DC power source. The pulsed power supply operates to produce a plurality of high-voltage pulses in a repetition of cycles in each of which an... Agent: Burr & Brown

20080315689 - Ultra short high voltage pulse generator based on single or double spark gap: A method and system for the generation of high voltage, pulsed, periodic dielectric barrier or corona discharges is capable of being used in the presence of conductive liquid droplets and over contaminated or uneven surfaces. The method and system can be used, for example, in different devices for cleaning of... Agent: Porter Wright Morris & Arthur, LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080315690 - Initial circuits, full bridge switching circuits and half bridge switching circuits: An initial circuit is provided. The initial circuit receives a plurality of input signals and controls an initial status of a switching circuit with a plurality of switches. The initial circuit includes a judgment circuit for generating an enable signal according to one of the input signals, and a control... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080309158 - Transmission system for interchanging information data between an electrical load and an upstream converter: A transmission system for exchanging information data between an electric load having an emitter and a converter having a receiver is disclosed. The converter and the load are connected by a multi-phase supply cable which is connected to a sinus filter having in-line coils and filter capacitors connected across the... Agent: Henry M Feiereisen, LLC Henry M Feiereisen

20080309159 - Innovative architectures for systems for generation and distribution of energy on board motor vehicles: The system allows the generation and distribution of energy on board a motor vehicle provided with a propulsion unit, a tank for fuel at least one distribution network or line for electric energy, electrical energy generation devices connected to the at least one distribution network or line, and a plurality... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080309160 - Modular blade enclosure power subsystem disign: An apparatus for distributing power to computing modules in a multi module enclosure. The apparatus includes at least one power input module, a plurality of power input cables, a plurality of power conversion modules, and a plurality of computing modules. The at least one power input module is modularly arranged... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080309161 - Multi-output power supply device: A multi-output power supply device includes a first power switch, a first switch controller that controls the first power switch, a transformer that transforms a power supplied from the first power switch, first through Nth output circuits connected to a secondary side of the transformer, where N is a positive... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080309163 - In-vehicle mount electronic controller: In an in-vehicle mount electronic controller, a constant-voltage power supply generates a high-precision small-capacity 5V output voltage Vad, a low-precision large-capacity 5V output voltage Vif and a low-precision large-capacity 3.3V output voltage Vcp, and also generates at least one of a low-precision small-capacity 2.8V output voltage Vup and a high-precision... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080309162 - Synchronous rectifier circuit and multi-output power supply device using the same: A synchronous rectifier circuit and a multi-output power supply device using the same include a semiconductor switch to control a current flow of the synchronous rectifier circuit, and a switching controller to control the semiconductor switch according to a synchronous rectification control signal and an output control signal generated by... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080309164 - Power-controllable outlet receptacle: A multi-type power strip includes a main body having connecting sockets with surfaces indicated by priority of supplying electric power to the connecting sockets, operation lamps, and an electric circuit installed in the main body. The circuit interfaces with a remote controller through RF, and checks statuses of loads connected... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080309165 - Drive system and control method of the same: In response to a system-off instruction, the drive system control technique of the invention controls individual motors of an electric cooling water pump and an electric cooling fan to stop (step S100), waits for elapse of a preset reference time period since start of the control of stopping the motors... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080309166 - Method of controlling a plurality of ups units in an on-line ups system and on-line ups system having a plurality of ups units: Parallel-connected UPS units of an online UPS system, which are each connected on the input side via a choke coil to an AC mains, in disconnectable fashion, and on the output side to a common load bus and whose supplied powers are individually variable, are disconnected from the AC mains... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080309167 - Power-saving circuit and method thereof: The present invention discloses a power-saving circuit applied in a portable electronic device, which includes a voltage input module for outputting a first enable signal after receiving an external voltage, a power switch for being operated by a user to output a second enable signal and a start signal, a... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080309168 - Method and arrangement for harmonic-wave suppression for ac voltage-operated ptc heaters: The invention relates to a method and to an arrangement for harmonic-wave suppression in AC voltage-operated PTC heaters, especially in frequency-stable and frequency-variable alternating-voltage networks in aerospace applications. The problem of harmonic-wave suppression for AC voltage-operated PTC heaters, in which the harmonic waves are suppressed by superimposing a correction current,... Agent: Duane Morris LLP - Ny Patent Department

20080309169 - Touch sensitive actuator having a uniform actuation force and a maximum active area: A load control device for controlling the amount of power delivered to an electrical load from an AC power source comprises a touch sensitive device having a touch sensitive front surface responsive to a point actuation. The front surface is adapted to be provided in an opening of a faceplate... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080309170 - Vehicle accessory touch switch: A touch switch for controlling accessory equipment of a vehicle in such a manner that malfunctions caused by factors such as changes in atmospheric conditions, receipt of an electromagnetic impulse, or the like can be avoided. A vehicle accessory touch switch comprises a touch section having a sensor conductor plate... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20080303344 - Power line communications system: A power line communications system includes slave apparatuses individually connected to multiple electric power line wirings; a master apparatus connected to one of the multiple electric power line wirings; and couplers each connected between the master apparatus and the others of the multiple electric power line wirings. The master apparatus... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080303343 - Power line communications system and power line communications method: The power line communications system of the present invention comprises a power line L that has a plurality of branch lines LB1 to LBn branched at a branch point; communications devices T1 to Tn that are connected to the branch lines LB1 to LBn and perform sending and receiving of... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080303345 - Semiconductor device: A semiconductor device including a redundant circuit which can operate even when power source in a circuit in part of the redundant circuit is short-circuited. A power source circuit, a power source control circuit to which a power source potential is input from the power source circuit, and a first... Agent: Eric Robinson

20080303347 - Method and apparatus for maintaining uninterruptible power supplies: A system and method of isolating an uninterruptible power supply system is disclosed that comprises bypassing an inverter section of the power supply to couple primary power to a load bus; and, thereafter, isolating the power supply by simultaneously uncoupling the power supply from the load bus and coupling the... Agent: Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP Attn:IPDocketing

20080303346 - System and method for a power supply device: A power supply apparatus is disclosed herein. The power supply apparatus includes a power output, a first power source selectively connectable to the power output, and a second power source selectively connectable to the power output. A switch is configured to couple the first power source with the power output... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20080303348 - Integrated multiple fuel renewable energy system: A system for continuously generating baseload electrical energy entirely from renewable resources and transmitting the generated electrical energy to a transmission grid includes, in combination, a first energy generation device for continuously generating electrical energy output, which has a bio-mass fuel supply requirement for generating the electrical energy. One or... Agent: Edwin D. Schindler

20080303349 - Two-source inverter: Systems and methods are disclosed for a two-source inverter. The systems and methods combines operation of a first voltage source powering a conventional single source inverter with second voltage source powering a novel switch configuration to power a load. The switch configuration is controlled by a plurality of control signals... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080303350 - High voltage power supply: A high voltage power supply (HVPS) including first and second high voltage output controllers controlling output of a high voltage output signal; and a plurality of transformers transforming an output signal provided from the first and second high voltage output controller, disposed outside of the first and second high voltage... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080303351 - Coupling system: There is elucidated a device (10) comprising first and second magnetic cores (30, 40; 30a, 30b, 30c, 40a, 40b, 40c) forming a magnetic circuit. The circuit includes a first set of electrical windings (300, 310) for magnetically coupling a first electrical signal through the device (10) via a first magnetic... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080303352 - Automatic charging and power management device: An automatic charging and power management device includes a charging control unit and at least one power switching control unit. The charging control unit is connected to a rechargeable battery and an input power source to control the charging operation to the rechargeable battery. The input power source can be... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080303353 - Network-based aircraft secondary electric power distribution system: A system and method for control of an electric power distribution system is provided, which uses a communication network for centralized monitoring and control of the supply of electricity to a load. In one embodiment, the invention may use a wireless communication system connecting control nodes and master nodes to... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080296970 - Multiple prime power source locomotive control: The present invention is directed to a control strategy for operating a plurality of prune power sources (101-1 to 101-3) during propulsion, idling and braking and is applicable to large systems such as trucks, ships, cranes and locomotives utilizing diesel engines, gas turbine engines, other types of internal combustion engines,... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080296971 - Vehicle bus control system: A vehicle power bus control system is disclosed. The vehicle power bus includes at least one device having an issued, maximum, positive electrical limit value, and an issued, minimum, negative electrical limit each communicated to the at least one device from a control module coupled to the at least one... Agent: Honigman Miller Schwartz & Cohn LLP

20080296972 - Current balancing module: For having magnitudes of all currents for supplying for all passive elements in a same product be equal, a current balancing module, which has balancing transformers as more as approximately half an amount of all the passive elements, is provided for meeting such requirements. The provided current balancing module is... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080296973 - Grid interconnection device, grid interconnection system and power control system: The grid interconnection device connected to the bank where alternating-current power is transmitted and to the power supply device provided to a customer includes: a detector detecting start of the alternating-current power transmission based on a state of the alternating-current power; a receiver receiving a grid interconnection start instruction for... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20080296975 - Back-up power system: A substantially uninterruptible backup power system to provide power to common household appliances comprises a rechargeable battery, a trickle-charging circuit to keep the battery fully charged at all times from the receptacle power, a DC to AC inverter to supply standard AC line voltage from the battery to the lamp,... Agent: Valdivia-lafeir Law

20080296974 - Snmp management card capable of supplying power to network device attached thereto: A simple network management protocol (SNMP) management card includes a processor, a network interface card (NIC) chip, a network port connected to the processor via the NIC chip, a power sourcing equipment (PSE) chip, and a power port connected to the network port via the PSE chip. The network port... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080296976 - Power system with multiple generator units: A method of operating a power system is provided, the power system having power-system controls. The method may include automatically setting a priority ranking for a plurality of generator units of the power system with the power-system controls based at least in part on an operating parameter of each generator... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080296977 - Semiconductor device: A semiconductor device includes that a first power line supplied with first power supply voltage, a second power line supplied with second power supply voltage, a third power line electrically connected to a internal circuit; a first switch configured to electrically connect or disconnect the first power line and the... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080296979 - Contactless power transferring apparatus: A contactless power transferring apparatus includes a terminal loading portion, a primary coil, an up-down-direction pressing portion, a width direction pressing portion and a thickness direction pressing portion. The terminal loading portion has an opening through which a mobile terminal is inserted and loaded. The primary coil transfers power using... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080296978 - Controlled wireless charging of an accumulator in a chipcard: Method, apparatus and system for contactless charging of an energy storage unit of an energy sink (2) by an energy source (1). Data are transferred between the energy source and the energy sink via an alternating field in a first operating mode of the energy source. In a second operating... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080296980 - Method for protecting peripheral devices from surges: The present invention discloses methods for protecting a peripheral device in a computing system from electrical surge currents, the method including the steps of: providing a controller operationally connected to a host system; and reversibly conductively connecting, via the controller, wires of the device to the host system. Preferably, the... Agent: Mark M. Friedman

20080296981 - Remote structure utility control (rsuc): The Remote Structure Utility control (RSUC) is a devise that is placed in a home or business that allows the user to turn the power on and off to different outlets remotely. The power can be turned on and off by using a cell phone, a landline, or the internet.... Agent: David Yaakov

20080296982 - Remote electrical equipment power source: The present invention is a remote electrical equipment power source. The remote electrical equipment power source includes an electrical generator adapted to power remote electrical equipment and a repulsive force conversion drive. The repulsive force conversion drive includes at least two repulsive units to repulse each other. One unit is... Agent: John J. Elnitski, Jr.