Electricity: circuit makers and breakers inventions

20080099313 - Illuminated cable: A power cable has LEDs embedded the connectors at both ends. Switches at both ends are used to selectively energize the LEDs. Actuating a switch on one end of the cable will light up an identifying LED on the other end of that same cable and optionally at both ends... Agent: Roberts, Mardula & Wertheim, LLC

20080099314 - Appliance lock using a motor driven linear actuator with helical spring drive: An electrical linear actuator employs a reversible motor driving a helical wire spring. The coils of the spring engage a follower that moves along the axis of the spring with rotation of the motor to provide linear motion. This actuator may be used as a linear drive in an appliance... Agent: Boyle Fredrickson S.c.

20080099315 - Watertight switch: A watertight switch comprises a cover and a base assembled together to form an accommodating space for mounting a switching module therein. The cover and the base, at the combination interface therebetween, respectively have a first junction interface and a second junction interface, which are inwardly shrunk to form a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080099316 - Electrical switch: An electrical switch includes a dielectric casing, first and second terminal units, and an actuating unit. The dielectric casing includes a cover and a, mounting seat. The mounting seat is disposed in and attached to the cover. Each of front and rear ends of the mounting seat is formed with... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080099317 - Service switching device and connection terminal for a service switching device: A service switching device is disclosed which includes a housing. The housing includes a face side, a fastening side and a narrow side lying therebetween. A connection terminal is held in a terminal accommodating area of the housing which is located in the vicinity of the narrow side. The connection... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080099318 - Circuit breaker operator: Apparatus for providing an accelerated linear motion to a circuit breaker operating handle during ON or OFF operation of the circuit breaker. The accelerated linear motion being applied to the operating handle at a particular point during its movement such that the moveable contacts of the circuit breaker are not... Agent: Schneider Electric / Square D Company Legal Dept. - I.p. Group

20080099319 - Sensory perception type power switch for a vehicle: The present invention relates to a sensory perception type power switch for a vehicle perceiving the amount of change according to the respective operational state tactilely rather than visually for operating equipment such as various lamps, an air-conditioner or, a lumbar support installed in a seat back.... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (sf)

20080099320 - Switch: A low-cost switch includes a base, an operation lever, a movable contact piece, and a coil spring. In the base, fixed contact terminals are insert-molded, and fixed contact portions of the fixed contact terminals are exposed in a concentric manner to an upper surface. The operation lever is turnably supported... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20080099321 - Switch: A long-life switch includes a base in which fixed contact portions are exposed in a concentric manner in an upper surface thereof; an operation lever whose turning shaft center is disposed on a shaft center of a lever portion, and turnably supported along the upper surface of the base; a... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20080099322 - Capacitive proximity and/or touch-sensitive switch: A capacitive and/or touch-sensitive switch has an electroconductive body which is disposed between an electrically insulating covering plate and a carrier plate disposed at a distance from the covering plate, and can be elastically deformed in the spacing direction. The electroconductive body is applied to the lower side of the... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

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