Electrical transmission or interconnection systems inventions

20080106146 - Management system for in-house power quantity consumed: The present invention relates to a management system for in-house power consumption, more particularly to a management system for in-house power consumption efficiently performing in-house power consumption by means of estimating power consumption of each operation of in-house electric devices. The present invention provides a management system for in-house power... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080106147 - Apparatus and system for measurement and control of electrical power consumption: A measurement and control apparatus is disclosed having power input terminals configured to connect with a power source, power output terminals configured to connect with a load, the output terminals being switchably connected to the input terminals, and an actuator configured to switchably connect and disconnect the output terminals to... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080106149 - Multipurpose radio: A multipurpose radio is disclosed to include a power control unit, which uses a rechargeable battery to provide the necessary working voltage to a LED lamp for illumination, a hand-driven dynamo to generate electricity for recharging the rechargeable battery, a power adapter for charging the rechargeable battery with city power... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080106148 - Power saver controller: A power supply control device for supplying power to a number of electrical devices from a single mains supply electrical outlet switch means adapted to connect an electrical supply from the supply electrical outlet to each of the controlled electrical outlets in response to the state of a master electrical... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20080106150 - Time limit circuit for a hold-up battery: A circuit (100) is provided that is connectable between input lines (150, 152, 154) and output lines (160, 162). The circuit is comprised of a primary battery (103) and a hold-up battery (101). The hold-up battery is connected in parallel with the primary battery. The circuit is further comprised of... Agent: Harris Corporation C/o Darby & Darby PC

20080106151 - Pulse power generator using semiconductor switch: The present invention provides a pulse power generator using a semiconductor switch, which enables its lifespan to be significantly improved, allows for its miniaturization, and makes it possible to diversely control a high-voltage pulse output finally. According to the pulse power generator, it is possible to address and solve a... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080106152 - Solid state power controller with lightning protection: A method of controlling a solid state power controller includes determining whether a voltage across a switch of the solid state power controller is within a predetermined voltage threshold. If the voltage is outside of the predetermined voltage threshold, the current is limited to a non-zero current. As result of... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20080106153 - Power supply method for circuit block of radio-use semiconductor apparatus and radio-use semiconductor apparatus: The purpose of the present invention is to reduce the noise of an analog circuit of a radio-use semiconductor apparatus. A power supply voltage is supplied to a low-noise amplifier 12 and a partial circuit of a stereo demodulation circuit 16 from an analog-use power supply. A power supply voltage... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080106154 - Electromagnetic energy collector: An improved reception of electromagnetic waves and transforming the energy the electromagnetic wave into electrical energy.... Agent: Troutman Sanders LLP

20080100135 - Aerospace electrical power dc subsystem configuration using multi-functional dc/dc converter: An apparatus for regulating voltage and aerospace electrical power systems are implemented. A multi-functional apparatus for regulating voltage, according to one embodiment, comprises: a DC to DC converter (315), wherein the DC to DC converter (315) is controlled to operate in a first direction to receive a DC voltage from... Agent: Oral Caglar Honeywell International Inc.

20080100137 - Intelligent wiper control system for vehicle: Disclosed herein is an intelligent wiper control system for a vehicle. A rain sensor unit controls the speed of wipers based on the amount of rain. An electronic control unit analyzes the input signal of the input unit. An output unit controls the output integrated circuits, and adjusts and controls... Agent: Ipla P.A.

20080100138 - System of smart key for automobile: A smart-key-start-up device for an automobile includes a control module configured to receive signals about an operation state of the automobile; a lock-preventing circuit controlled by the control module; a knob housing; a user-operable start-up knob disposed in the knob housing; and a slidable projection on the start-up knob, controlled... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (sf)

20080100139 - Illumination control device for vehicle: An illumination control unit includes an automatic control function for automatically controlling the turning on and off of vehicle head lights depending on brightness of an environment around a vehicle. A sensitivity adjuster is installed on a lever extending from a steering column in a vehicle compartment. The sensitivity to... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080100141 - Redundant power supply for power-over-ethernet: Techniques for providing a redundant power supply for an Ethernet device are provided. A first flyback switching regulator draws power from a first Ethernet port. A second flyback switching regulator draws power from a second Ethernet port. Drawn power is regulated by each regulator and sent to a power combiner.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080100142 - Electric appliance with constant power supplied-bus: An electric appliance with constant power supplied-bus includes a power supply and a motherboard. A power transformation system of the power supply defines a main power system, which is electrically connected to an external power source for converting thereof as the electric appliance is under operation, and a standby power... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080100143 - Power management system with charger/boost controller: A power management system comprises a power conversion stage and a controller. The power conversion stage has two terminals. The first terminal is coupled to a first power source which provides a first voltage. The second terminal is selectively coupled to a second power source which provides a second voltage.... Agent: Patent Prosecution O2mirco , Inc.

20080100136 - Power supply system and method on board an aircraft: p

20080100140 - Remote power management and monitoring system for solid state circuit breaker control with manual bypass: A power management and monitoring system for controlling an electrical device powered by a power supply is disclosed. The system may include a circuit breaker enclosure box structured to monitor and manage power to the electrical device via a centralized data bus and centralized power bus. The circuit breaker enclosure... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080100144 - Automatic power-off method for an electronic device: A method for an electronic device with pressing keys can automatically turn off power when an undesired operation occurs. A time threshold such as 3 or 5 seconds is set by a user in the electronic device. The method keeps detecting the operations of the keys. A pressing operation will... Agent: Hdsl

20080100145 - Grid interconnection device, grid interconnection system and transfer trip system: A grid interconnection device includes a relay controller configured to control separation or interconnection of a relay; a receiver configured to receive, from a predetermined transmission path, power failure information containing at least local area information indicating an area in which a power failure occurs; a determination unit configured to... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20080100146 - Contact verification method for a transfer switch mechanism: An algorithm for verifying the state of switches (such as in a transfer switch mechanism) and for controlling the switches. The control algorithm controls automatic actuation of the switches. The verification algorithm measures the instantaneous voltage on the source and load sides of one or both switches and calculates the... Agent: Schneider Electric / Square D Company Legal Dept. - I.p. Group (np)

20080100147 - Power semiconductor device: The power semiconductor device of the present invention is provided with a conductive board 3, a switching element 1 mounted on the conductive board 3 and electrically connected thereto and an integrated circuit 4 mounted on the conductive board 3 at a distance from the switching element 1 and electrically... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080100148 - Electret device and electrostatic operating apparatus: An electret device includes an electret film capable of storing charges and a charge outflow inhibition film formed on an upper surface of a region having a high charge density in the electret film and inhibiting the charges stored in the electret film from flowing out... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20080093924 - Power supply control device for on-vehicle electrical loads: A power supply control device for on-vehicle electric loads is proposed, the control device being capable of detecting breakages at a plurality of electrical loads, a positive side wiring thereof, a negative side wiring thereof, and a commutation circuit. Energization of electrical loads from driving power supply is controlled using... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080093923 - System and method for controlling cycling of a vehicle contactor: A system and method for controlling cycling of high voltage contactors is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes generating a first contactor command and activating the contactor in response to the first contactor command. A timer is initiated upon generation of the first contactor command. The method also includes... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C./fgtl

20080093926 - Power device and power device power supply method: A power device of the present invention makes a plurality of DC/DC converters redundant, and supplies power individually to a plurality of disk drives. Each first DC/DC converter is respectively made correspondent to a subgroup. One first DC/DC converter is connected to the disk drives respectively inside one subgroup, and... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080093928 - Power outlet control device with usb controller(s): A Power Outlet Control Device with Serial Bus(es). It is a power socket that detects the working state of Electronic Device(s) through the Serial Bus and turns on or cuts off the power of the Electronic Device(s) according to the working state. The Power Control Socket Device with Serial Bus(es)... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080093929 - Power system for a telecommunications site: A reliable power supply solution for a telecommunications site provides a combined primary and backup source of electrical power. One system of the power supply solution includes one or more microturbine generators operable to produce AC electrical power as well as one or more rectifiers operable convert the AC electrical... Agent: Sprint Communications Company L.p.

20080093930 - Uninterruptible power supply device: An uninterruptible power supply device is proposed, which is designed for use in conjunction with an electronic system, such as a network server or a desktop computer, for providing an uninterruptible power supply to the electronic system. The proposed uninterruptible power supply device is characterized by the provision of a... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080093931 - Power supply voltage generating circuit and semiconductor integrated circuit device: Required minimum power supply voltage for a load circuit is maintained. Power supply voltage generating circuit 10 comprises a power supply circuit 11 that steps down a voltage of an external power supply VCC based on a reference voltage VREF and supplies it to a power supply VINT of a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080093922 - Armored flat cable signalling and instrument power acquisition: Measurement and/or control units located within a borehole are inductively coupled to a flat three phase power cable segment without piercing the armor around the cable. For drawing power from the cable, C-shaped, L-shaped or straight core(s) with winding(s) around at least a portion thereof are positioned proximate to one... Agent: Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

20080093925 - Passenger detection apparatus for detecting breakage on shield line without being affected by peripheral shield cables: A passenger detection apparatus includes sensors arranged on a seat in a vehicle; shield cables corresponding to the sensors, wherein one end the core wire is connected to the corresponding one of the sensors; a measurement signal output device for outputting a measurement AC signal; a device for detecting a... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080093927 - Modular power distribution unit system: Embodiments of a power distribution system for distributing power to one or more electronic components, such as electronic components mounted within an electronic equipment rack, can include a dedicated controller mountable within a power distribution rack and at least one power distribution unit electrically coupleable to the controller and mountable... Agent: Holland & Hart, LLP

20080093932 - Arc flash enclosure: An enclosure assembly includes a first enclosure unit including a first door, a second enclosure unit, and a handle coupled to the second enclosure unit, the handle being operative so as to turn on or turn off power to the first enclosure unit, and wherein the first enclosure unit and... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080093933 - Systems and methods for providing redundant voltage regulation: Systems and methods for providing redundant voltage regulation are provided. A representative method incorporates: providing a first voltage regulator and a second voltage regulator, the second voltage regulator having output rectifiers; electrically connecting the first voltage regulator to a load such that the first voltage regulator independently powers the load;... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080093935 - Semiconductor device: An object of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor device which can obtain the high potential necessary for writing data to a memory, using a small circuit area. In the present invention, by using as input voltage of a booster circuit not the conventionally used output VDD of... Agent: Eric Robinson

20080093934 - Wireless chip: The size of a wireless chip is often determined according to an antenna circuit thereof. Power source voltage or power supplied to the wireless chip can be more easily received with a larger antenna. On the other hand, there has been an increasing demand for a compact wireless chip, and... Agent: Eric Robinson

20080088178 - Self-excitation system: A self-excitation system includes a first transformer, a second transformer, a first self-excitation switching circuit and a second self-excitation switching circuit. The first transformer is electrically connected to the first self-excitation switching circuit and has a first resonance winding, a switching-control winding, a first synchronous switching-control winding and a first... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080088180 - Method of load shedding to reduce the total power consumption of a load control system: A lighting control system is operable to control the amount of power delivered to a plurality of electrical loads. The lighting control system includes load control devices (such as digital electronic dimming ballasts), motorized window treatments, controllers, processors, and personal computers. The personal computer is preferably executing a graphical user... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080088182 - Transfer switch with multiple power source disconnect: A transfer switch provides electric power to a load. The transfer switch includes a power switching device provided with electric power from a first power source and a second power source. During a disconnect mode, the transfer switch disconnects both the first and second power sources by causing a service... Agent: Martin J. Moran Eaton Electrical, Inc.

20080088184 - Power supply apparatus: A power supply apparatus is disclosed. The power supply apparatus comprises a determining device, an identifier, a multi-power-output selecting mechanism and a transmission mechanism, for selecting power in the form of varying voltage for outputting therefrom. Wherein the multi-power-output selecting mechanism is electrically connected to the determining device and the... Agent: G. Link Co., Ltd

20080088177 - Intelligent direct current power supplies: A power supply including a power supplying connector, a direct current (DC) connector, an information extractor, power adaptor electronics, and variable voltage electronics. The information extractor being configured to extract digitally encoded data from a carrier wave. The digitally encoded data can specify power requirements of the DC power receiving... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080088179 - Switching power supply and electronic apparatus employing the same: In a switching power supply apparatus, an input voltage Vin applied to an input terminal is output from a first output terminal and a second output terminal after boosting or inverting of the voltage Vin. When a first and a fourth switches are turned on, a flying capacitor is charged.... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080088181 - Handheld programmer for lighting control system: The invention regards a system and method for using a handheld programming device to configure a lighting control system wirelessly. In one embodiment, at least one device configured with a processing section is installed in the lighting control system. A communications receiver that is operable to receive a signal from... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080088183 - Integrated closed loop control method and apparatus for combined uninterruptible power supply and generator system: The present invention provides a method, computer program product, and apparatus and control system and method for providing substantially uninterrupted power to a load. The apparatus includes a control system coupled with an electrical power storage subsystem and a electrical power generator. The control system is configured to provide a... Agent: Trego, Hines & Ladenheim, PLLC

20080088185 - Auxiliary lighting system for vehicles: A vehicle lighting system has primary and auxiliary systems, which operate exclusively depending upon the selected operational mode. The problem addressed is availability of civilian vehicles for alternative operations including military operations, where the conventional lighting system cannot be used. The control arrangement mimics contemporary military systems, while meeting all... Agent: International Truck Intellectual Property Company,

20080088186 - Integrated power cell bypass assembly and power supply including same: A bypass assembly. The bypass assembly includes a plurality of movable terminals configured to mate with fixed terminals of a power cell of a power supply. At least one of the movable terminals and its corresponding fixed terminal collectively form a contact when the at least one of the movable... Agent: Elsa Keller