Electricity: circuit makers and breakers inventions 04/08

20080093202 - Electrical contact with double-knife coupling, particularly for disconnectors, switches or the like: Electrical contact with double-knife coupling, particularly for disconnectors, switches or the like comprising: two knives, which face each other and can move toward or away from each other; a spacer, which delimits the maximum mutual approach of the knives; elastic elements, which contrast elastically the mutual spacing of the knives;... Agent: Modiano & Associati

20080093203 - Safety trigger guard: Method and device are provided where a barrier is formed at or around the trigger of a device with a rest area for the index finger so that the finger can remain (extended) off the trigger when the device is not in use. Position and/or size of the rest area... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080093204 - Disconnector for a very high voltage electrical substation: The present invention is mainly directed to a disconnector for an electrical substation for very high voltage in excess of 1100 kV, of the horizontal displacement type comprising a first moving part (2) and a second moving part (4), the said first moving part (2) and second moving part (4)... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080093205 - Buckle switching device for safety belts: Buckle switching device for a buckle for safety belts for the purpose of electrically detecting whether a belt tongue is locked in the buckle, where the buckle switching device is at least partly enveloped by a housing, and the buckle switching device has a conductor arrangement and a first detection... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080093206 - Key cap structure: A key cap structure is disclosed, which comprises: a key cap, a connection structure, and a reinforcement element, wherein, the reinforcement element is arranged beneath the bottom of the key cap by the connection structure. Preferably, the key cap and the reinforcement element are separately formed so that the manufacturing... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080093207 - Energy accumulator: The invention relates to a novel energy accumulator for a load step switch for rapid, continuous switching between various winding tappings. Said energy accumulator comprises a lifting carriage and a jumping carriage, which follow the movement of the jumping carriage in a jumping manner. Both of the carriages are guided... Agent: K.f. Ross P.C.

20080093208 - Button apparatus and mobile appliance having the same: A button apparatus and a mobile appliance having the same are provided. A button cover plate having button areas forms an external portion of a case of the appliance. The button areas may be flat on the surface of the button cover plate 36, and include compression bosses on a... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080087537 - Electrical switching apparatus, and carrier assembly and independent pivot assembly therefor: A pivot assembly is provided for an electrical switching apparatus, such as a circuit breaker, including a housing having a molded cover and a molded base, a stationary contact assembly with stationary electrical contacts, and a movable contact assembly. The movable contact assembly includes at least one carrier assembly with... Agent: Martin J. Moran Eaton Electrical, Inc.

20080087528 - Rotary encoder switch: A rotary encoder switch includes a plurality of switch positions for parameter setting, in particular for low-voltage circuit breakers, in the form of a binary code, having two rotary switch elements, which interact with one another and of which one is designed to set the desired switch position with respect... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080087529 - Rotary type pulse switch: A rotary type pulse switch includes a movable electrode 57 having a plurality of contacting portions 57A formed in positions of the same radius from its rotation center, and a fixed electrode 50 disposed face to face with the movable electrode 57 and having a plurality of contacted portions 60... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20080087530 - Contact electrode for microdevices and etch method of manufacture: A contact electrode for a device is made using an etching process to etch the surface of the contact electrode to form a corrugated contact surface wherein the outer edges of at least one grain is recessed from the outer edges of adjacent grains and is recessed by at least... Agent: Jaquelin K. Spong

20080087531 - Contact electrode for microdevices and etch method of manufacture: A flexible conductive element is provided for the conductor assembly of an electrical switching apparatus. The conductor assembly includes a load conductor, a movable contact assembly including a number of movable contact arms, movable electrical contacts mounted on the movable contact arms, and a plurality of flexible conductive elements. Each... Agent: Martin J. Moran Eaton Electrical, Inc.

20080087532 - Low-voltage device with rotating element with high electrodynamic strength: A single-pole or multi-pole device for low-voltage systems, in particular a circuit breaker or a disconnector, which comprises: an outer casing containing for each pole at least one fixed contact and at least one mobile contact that can be coupled to/uncoupled from one another; a rotating element that comprises a... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080087533 - Keypad assembly for electronic equipment and method thereof: A keypad assembly of electronic equipment includes a plurality of light emitting units, a light guide plate guiding light emitted from the light emitting units, a plurality of key buttons formed on a top surface of the light guide plate and including numeral and character key plates, a plurality of... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080087534 - Air circuit breaker: Disclosed is an air circuit breaker including a switching mechanism formed of a plurality of links so as to compress a closing spring by converting a rotating operation of the rotational shaft and to generate a driving force derived from an elastic restoring force of the closing spring; and a... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080087535 - Electrical switching apparatus, and housing and integral pole shaft bearing assembly therefor: A bearing assembly is provided for an electrical switching apparatus including a housing having at least one parting line and an exterior side, a stationary contact assembly disposed on one side of the parting line, a movable contact assembly, and an operating mechanism with a pole shaft for moving the... Agent: Eaton Electrical, Inc. Technology & Quality Center

20080087536 - Low-voltage device with reinforced rotating element: A single-pole or multi-pole device for low-voltage systems, in particular a circuit breaker or a disconnector, which comprises: an outer casing containing for each pole at least one fixed contact and at least one mobile contact that can be coupled to/uncoupled from one another; a rotating element, defined by a... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080083603 - Matrix switch: A matrix switch is provided with a plurality of input-terminals, a plurality of output-terminals, a plurality of connector switch elements connecting the plurality of input-terminals with the plurality of output-terminals, a plurality of input-terminal shunts associated with the plurality of input-terminals, and a plurality of output-terminal shunts associated with the... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080083599 - Mems safety and arming devices having launch and rotation interlocks and method of manufacturing the same: A device, a Micro-Electrical-Mechanical-Switch (MEMS) safety and arming (S&A) device and a method of manufacturing the MEMS S&A. In one embodiment, the device includes a body and a MEMS shuttle movably coupled to the body. In this embodiment, the shuttle is configured to close a switch in response to being... Agent: Hitt Gaines, Pc Alcatel-lucent

20080083600 - Arresting device for a drive train: An arresting device is disclosed for a drive train which, in order to close a movable contact of an electric switch, can be moved from an OFF position into an ON position. In at least one embodiment, the arresting device includes an arresting including a pivot axis which extends outside... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080083601 - Modular power hand tool: A power handle module encloses rechargeable batteries which can be used to power a number of modular special-purpose tools which may be mounted to the power handle module. The power handle module includes a hand grip, a trigger switch operated by a trigger and a first connector for engagement with... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080083602 - Tensioned touch panel and method of making same: A tensioned touch panel includes a support structure having a substrate with a generally planer conductive surface disposed thereon and an insulating spacer generally about the periphery of the substrate. A pretensioned conductive member overlies the support structure. The spacer separates the conductive membrane and the conductive surface thereby to... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080078661 - Portable information device: A first predetermined operation is performed when a contact detector detects contact with an operation knob. A time length of the contact thus detected by the contact detector is measured and it is determined whether the time length of the contact is longer or shorter than a predetermined value. When... Agent: Gallagher & Lathrop, A Professional Corporation

20080078658 - Safety switch: There is provided a safety switch having a housing configured to receive a removable key, and a mechanism arranged to be operated when the key is moved from an engaged position to a partially disengaged position, the mechanism being arranged to cause a signal to pass to a separate apparatus,... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./bf

20080078668 - Actuating the oppositely-moving contacts of an interrupting chamber by a cylindrical cam: In order to reduce the breaking energy of a high-voltage or medium-voltage circuit-breaker, the interrupting chamber (10) contains two contacts (12, 14) mounted to move in opposite directions, actuated via a single device (20, 30). The two contacts (12, 14) are driven in opposite directions by a cylindrical cam (22)... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080078659 - Compact integral rotational drawout stop device with linear permissive: A stop device for an electrical device cell includes a generally flat, rectangular stop member and a generally flat, elongated permissive member. The stop member is, preferably, part of a stop member assembly that includes a biasing device. The cell includes a pair of rails upon which a drawout electrical... Agent: Martin J. Moran Eaton Electrical, Inc.

20080078660 - Rolling-ball switch: A rolling-ball switch includes an insulative housing having a tubular wall that has an axial hole and two opposite open-end portions, and two lead terminals covering respectively the open-end portions. Each open-end portion has an end face and a retaining portion. Each lead terminal is a one-piece conductive body, and... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080078662 - Electromechanical switch: An electromechanical filter of the present invention is an electromechanical switch formed on a substrate. The switch has a fixed electrode which is to become a signal transmission line, and a movable electrode formed in a levitating manner while being spaced from the fixed electrode with a gap therebetween. An... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080078663 - Signal generating module: A signal generating module is provided. The signal generating module includes a processor, an arcuate elastomer, a first fixed contact, a second fixed contact, a first pin, and a second pin. The processor is disposed on the circuit board of an electronic apparatus. The arcuate elastomer is disposed in the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080078664 - Dielectric housing having a ventilation shaft: An insulating material housing has a holding section, which is designed for holding a switching tube and which is fitted with an input connecting piece, and a drive section, which connects to the holding section in a longitudinal direction, has a drive opening for introducing a drive movement into the... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080078665 - Rocker key with led window: A rocker key with a LED window has a lower perimeter rim with a rectangular section, a cover that is fitted on top of the key and is left with its lower edge resting totally on a flat upper surface of the perimeter rim, while a vertical outer surface of... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20080078666 - Switchgear and switchgear operating mechanism: A switchgear operating mechanism for reciprocatively driving a movable contact of a switchgear so as to shift the switchgear between an open state and a closed state. In the closed state, a roller pushes a leading end of a latch in the direction substantially toward the rotation center of the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080078667 - Contact mating angle of an electrical switch: An electrical switch having a housing with a support member, a rocker arm pivotally coupled to the support member for movement about an axis A, a first terminal coupled to the housing, and a lever pivotally coupled to the housing for pivotal movement about an axis B. The rocker arm... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080078669 - Providing maintenance access via an external connector: This invention relates to a method, an apparatus, an electronic device, a system, and a computer program product for selecting at least one component out of at least one maintenance component and at least one non-maintenance component, wherein said at least one maintenance component and said at least one non-maintenance... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP