Electricity: circuit makers and breakers inventions 09/08

20080230364 - Joystick control device: A joystick control device is disclosed for use in a cab of a spreader for the snow and ice control industry. The control device includes a multi-axis joystick which disposed within the cab. The joystick has a proximal and a distal end, the proximal end of the joystick being secured... Agent: David J. Archer

20080230355 - Anti-intrusion device primarily for an electronic payment terminal: The anti-intrusion device according to the invention makes it possible to detect any attempts to open a housing. It comprises at least one spring (3), the spring being arranged in such a way as to be under pressure and to act electrically on an electronic circuit (2) when the housing... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080230356 - Miniature rotary switch: A single pole, double throw, self-canceling rotary switch for selectively coupling a first circuit to a second or a third circuit by rotating a rotary element to couple or decouple electrical contacts. The rotary switch includes first and second pawls pivotally attached to the rotary element and coupled to one... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080230357 - Gold-metal oxide thin films for wear-resistant microelectromechanical systems (\"mems\"): Provided herein are new methods for the fabrication of gold (Au) alloys and films containing metal or semimetal oxides such as oxides of vanadium (V), for example, Au—V2O5 for use in electrical, mechanical, and microelectromechanical systems (“MEMS”). An example embodiment provides a thin film of an alloy comprising Au—V2O5 in... Agent: Saul Ewing LLP (harrisburg) Attn: Patent Docket Clerk

20080230358 - Command switch, in particular an emergency stop switch: A command switch or and emergency stop switch is disclosed, which includes an actuator and a contact sensor which is separated therefrom. The actuator includes housing and a tappet, which is guided therein and which has a rest position and an actuation position. The contact sensor includes an open switch... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080230359 - Electrically insulated conductor connection assemblies and associated method: An electrically insulated conductor connection assembly and a method for providing the same are provided. The electrically insulated conductor connection assembly includes first and second electrical conductors each comprising a body portion and an end portion. A fastening mechanism electrically and mechanically connects the end portions of the first electrical... Agent: Martin J. Moran Eaton Electrical, Inc.

20080230360 - Rocking switch unit: A rocking switch unit includes a base section, a switch knob, a pair of tactile switches, a middle rocking section, and a pair of switch-pressing portions. The switch knob and the middle rocking section are coupled with the base section to be rockable. The switch-pressing portions are located between a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080230363 - Electronic device and method of using the same: An electronic device which includes a resilient piece, base plate and electronic source. The upper conductor is located on the resilient piece; the base plate is connected to the resilient piece, with a space between the two. The lower conductor is located on the base plate, and there is a... Agent: The Harris Firm

20080230362 - Membrane switch: A membrane switch including a first film, a second film and an insulating layer is provided. The first film has a first circuit, a first outlet cable and a second outlet cable. The first circuit is electrically connected with the first outlet cable, and the second outlet cable is disposed... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080230361 - Reinforced foil-type switching element: A foil-type switching element comprises a first carrier foil and a second carrier foil arranged at a certain distance from each other by means of a spacer, said spacer comprising at least one recess defining an active area of the switching element. At least two electrodes are arranged in the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080223706 - Input device: A flat-type input unit capable of outputting information regarding a position where a finger touches as coordinate data is provided in a casing of an input device. A main-switch unit and sub-switch units operated by the flat-type input unit are also provided in the casing. When ON output signals are... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080223707 - Method and apparatus to improve tactile feel for keyboards and button assemblies: A keyboard for an electronic device that incorporates a flexible carrier for the keys. The flexible carrier has cutouts or slots that aid in decoupling the actions of one from its neighbors. Moreover, in addition to or instead of cutouts or slots, the flexible carrier optionally has cutouts around its... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20080223705 - Touch-sensing device and sensing method for electrical apparatus: The invention discloses a touch-sensing device for an electrical apparatus. The touch-sensing device, according to the invention, includes a sensing panel, a detector, and a controller. The sensing panel includes an inner sensing region and an outer sensing region. The inner sensing region, disposed on the sensing panel, is substantially... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080223698 - Safety switch: A safety switch that includes a housing, a first switch, and a second switch. The switch has a two part rod that is axially moveable within the housing. The parts of the rod are co-operable with respect to one another and independently operable to activate one of the first and... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./bf

20080223709 - Fluid level switch: The present invention provides a float level switch featuring a housing; an actuator shaft arranged in the housing; and a low force shaft seal assembly arranged between the actuator shaft and the housing, having a combination of disks or seals, one being made of a semi-rigid lubricious material, for maintaining... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080223700 - Electrostatic actuator: An actuator comprising a movable electrode and a static electrode is disclosed. An exemplary actuator is actuateable using an electrical potential difference that is applied between the movable electrode and the static electrode. The actuator comprises static bridge contacts with conductive surfaces, and a contact area with a conductive surface... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080223699 - Mems actuators and switches: Microelectromechanical (MEMS) structures and switches employing movable actuators wherein particular ones of which move perpendicular to an underlying substrate and particular others move in a direction substantially parallel to the underlying substrate thereby providing more positive actuation.... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20080223701 - Push-button testing system: A push-button switch test device having a flexible tab fixedly attached to a pushing member. The flexible tab is made of a flexible material and includes a deformation sensitive resistor mounted on a surface. The push-button switch test device may be used to test a push-button by imposing a known... Agent: The Eclipse Group

20080223702 - Keypad assembly: A compact keypad structure includes keypad panel with smooth face, matted face or patterned layer. The keypad structure includes a flexible printed circuit board, an illumination layer, a resilient layer and a keypad layer in bottom-up order. The illumination layer includes an illumination plate to illuminate the bottom of the... Agent: Hdsl

20080223703 - Multifunctional operating element: The haptic feedback of a tilt is resource-intensive to produce for conventional operating elements. Consequently, the invention provides an operating element whose tilt haptics are easy and economical to produce. This is achieved by the means that a ball can be moved against an elastic element in the direction of... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20080223704 - Gear-type key switches of keyboard device: A gear-type key switch of a keyboard device of the present invention includes a key top, a holder member, four gears, a spring member, a film circuit board and a supporting plate. The spring member and the holder member are located above the supporting plate and below the key top.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080223708 - Cover for a mobile device and mobile device having same: A cover for a mobile device is provided. The cover includes a support member having an upper surface, and a touch sensitive portion located on the upper surface of the support member, the touch sensitive portion being configured to generate a signal when touched to control the mobile device. A... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080217145 - Energy switch concept: The Energy Switch works similar to a light switch. It is on the wall of a room for example, and the electricity that supplies outlets with energy, can be switched off when appliances are not being used so that energy won't be wasted unnecessarily.... Agent: Anne Kanno

20080217146 - Electrical contact with redundant paths: Angled spring contacts and switches made with contactors containing angled spring contacts are disclosed. The housing for the angled spring contacts has a generally cylindrical shape. The contacts are contained within the housing with their ends extending from the housing on either side. The contacts are formed by making bullet-shaped... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080217148 - Circuit interrupter assembly and method of making the same: A circuit interrupting device is manufacturable in a number of different configurations providing current path options, conductor connectivity options and sensing options. The device may include a configurable solid insulation housing into which various operable components are installed. The device may include a core element including a sensor assembly and... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (s & C)

20080217147 - Multistage switch: Conventional operating elements are relatively expensive to manufacture. For this reason, the invention provides an operating element that is easy and economical to manufacture. This is achieved in that an interior formed by the housing is designed in the shape of a spherical segment on whose walls are arranged contacts,... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, Pllc

20080217152 - High-voltage circuit breaker and switch arrangement: The disclosure relates to an electrical switching device, e.g., a high-voltage switch, with a mantle-side electrical connection. According to the disclosure, an encapsulated angle disconnector is fitted between the mantle-side electrical connection and the outdoor bushing or an outgoing cable, by means of which angle disconnector the electrical connection is... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080217154 - Contact arrangement with a limiting element, which limits the deflection of the moveable contact piece: A contact assembly for a grounding switch or circuit breaker includes a first and second contact piece. The two contact pieces can be displaced in relation to one another. At least one of the contact pieces is allocated to a limiting element, which restricts a deflection of the contact piece... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080217153 - Insulating body for a medium-voltage switchgear assembly: An insulating element for a medium-voltage switchgear has a terminal at the busbar end and an outgoing cable. A circuit-breaker is embedded in the insulating element. The insulating element supports a first contact point that is connected to the circuit-breaker and is used as a bearing point for a movable... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080217144 - Impact sensing switch: An impact switch includes a housing having a wall including at least two electrically conductive contact elements spaced apart from one another. The switch includes an inertial body having a conductive surface disposed in a tapered aperture and electrically connecting the contact elements to one another in a switch closed... Agent: Tessera Lerner David Et Al.

20080217149 - Integrated arrangement and method for production: An integrated arrangement with a circuit and a MEMS switch element is provided, in which the circuit has a plurality of semiconductor components that are connected to form the circuit by metallic traces in several metallization levels located one over the other, in which the metallization levels are located between... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, Pllc

20080217150 - Safety switch control mechanism of exerciser: A safety switch control mechanism includes a linkage and a safety control key. The linkage has a bracket mounted to an instrument panel of an exerciser and a wheel thereof rotatably mounted to the bracket. The instrument panel includes a keyhole located at an opposite side thereof to the bracket.... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080217151 - Automatic discharging apparatus for closing spring in air circuit breaker and air circuit breaker having the same: Provided are an air circuit breaker capable of allowing a closing spring to be automatically discharged at a pulled-out position in a pull-out type air circuit breaker and an automatic discharging apparatus for the closing spring in the air circuit breaker, the automatic discharging apparatus for the closing spring comprising... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080217155 - Electrical switch having a variable return force: An electrical switch system may include a contact-bearing support configured to delimit a recess in a substantially horizontal bottom, wherein at least two fixed electrical contacts are positioned in the recess. Additionally, the electrical switch system may include at least one dome-shaped first triggering device configured to be elastically deformable... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20080217156 - Switch device: A switch device includes a wiring board having a cutout provided therein, a land provided on an upper surface of the wiring board around the cutout, and a switch. The switch includes a lever, a switch contact activated upon the lever being moved in a predetermined direction, and a case... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080210530 - Automatic transmission switch: An automatic transmission switch includes a fixed member provided with a fixed-side contact, and a movable member provided with a movable-side contact. The movable-side contact includes an intermittent contact portion with respect to the fixed-side contact. The contact portion extends along a moving direction of the movable member. The movable... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080210531 - Micro-switching device and manufacturing method for the same: A micro-switching device includes a base substrate, a fixing member on the substrate, a movable part having an end fixed to the fixing member and extending along the substrate, a movable contact electrode provided on the movable part and facing away from the substrate, a pair of stationary contact electrodes... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20080210532 - Switch adaptable to different operating configurations and improved axial support: The present invention relates to a single-pole or multi-pole switch to be used preferably in low-voltage systems. The switch (1) comprises an outer casing (2) containing for each pole at least one fixed contact (10) and one mobile contact (20) that can be coupled to/uncoupled from one another. The mobile... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080210533 - Connecting element, connection and method for producing a connection between service switching devices: The invention relates to a connector element for two installation breakers, adjacently attached with the broad faces thereof in contact, in particular, power breakers or residual current breakers, the housings of which are each formed from two dished housing pieces. The connector element comprises an approximately cylindrical base body with... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080210534 - Movable contact, sheet having movable contact, and switch apparatus using the same: The invention relates to a movable contact used for a sheet having a movable contact for example used for an electronic device such as a mobile phone and provides a movable contact that realizes, even when having a smaller size, a required pressing force and a favorable click touch response.... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080210535 - Push switch: An operating body being made of a metal plate and being overlaid with polyamide resin layer, a side of the operating body having an operating part protruding from a front side of a switch case, and an other side having a driving part in an arm shape and a sliding... Agent: Ratnerprestia