Electricity: magnetically operated switches, magnets, and electromagnets inventions 05/07

20070120630 - Cold mass cryogenic cooling circuit inlet path avoidance of direct conductive thermal engagement with substantially conductive coupler for superconducting magnet: A cold mass for a superconducting magnet system in one example comprises a superconducting magnet, a cryogenic cooling circuit, and a magnet and cooling circuit support. The magnet and cooling circuit support comprises a substantially conductive coupler that serves to couple the superconducting magnet and the cryogenic cooling circuit. The... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20070120631 - Transportable magnetic resonance imaging (mri) system: A portable MRI or NMR imaging system comprising a cryogen vessel housing cooled equipment, said system being housed within a transportable container, said container being divided into at least three sections. A first section provides accommodation for an operator and access to equipment as required to operate the cooled equipment.... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070120632 - Electromagnetic switch of starter: An electromagnetic switch has a magnetic core having a base member and a disc member. The disc member is made of plates laminated along a pulling direction and has an inner hole. The base member has both a first portion and a second portion having a groove on its outer... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070120633 - Solenoid actuator and biaxial actuator: A solenoid actuator includes a pair of coils and a core body. The pair of the coils are coupled electrically to each other in series. The core body has a pair of magnets and a holding member, and moves with respect to the coils when the pair of the coils... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070115082 - Mems switch contact system: A MEMS switch has 1) a first contact, and 2) a second contact that is movable relative to the first contact. At least one of the contacts is electrically conductive and has a platinum-series based material.... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20070115083 - Low-voltage circuit-breaker with an electronic overload trip and trip magnets: A low voltage circuit breaker includes an electronic trip and trip magnets. A trip magnet is controlled by an overload trip and a further trip magnet, such as a low voltage trip or a working current trip. The trip magnets are mounted on a rear face, facing away from the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070109082 - Power drive unit electromagnetic latch: A no-back device for a power drive unit is configured such that, during operation of the power drive unit, the no-back device does not supply magnetic or frictional force against power drive unit rotation. The no-back device is implemented either redundantly or no-redundantly, and includes a latch rotor and an... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070109083 - Housing cover for switching solenoid housing: A housing cover for a solenoid housing operable for accommodating solenoids for switching hydraulic directional valves is disclosed. A housing cover box has a plurality of side walls, a top side, and an open bottom side, with first and second actuating guides for guiding first and second solenoid control push... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP

20070109084 - Magnetic switch arrangement: Magnetic switch arrangement including a first magnetic system (24), a second magnetic system (25) and a magnetic switching element (18). The first magnetic system (24) is arranged for biasing the magnetic switching element (18) and the second magnetic system (25) is arranged to interact with the biasing magnetic field from... Agent: Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP (volvo Prosecution)

20070103262 - Machining apparatus: A sliding member having an attached tool reciprocates along a guide member. Permanent magnets are placed at both ends of the reciprocating motion path of the sliding member and permanent magnets are also placed in positions on the guide member that correspond to stroke ends of the sliding member. At... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070103264 - Method and structure for an out-of-plane compliant micro actuator: This present invention relates generally to manufacturing objects. More particularly, the invention relates to a method and structure for fabricating an out-of-plane compliant micro actuator. The compliant actuator has large actuation range in both vertical and horizontal planes without physical contact to the substrate. Due to fringe field actuation, the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070103263 - Snap ring for holding solenoid in housing: A snap ring to hold a solenoid in a sensor or actuator housing has a body configured in a circular shape with opposed first and second ends that are spaced from and that face each other. First and second ears at each end extend away from the plane defined by... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070103265 - Electromagnetic switch of starter: An electromagnetic switch has a solenoid and an electric contact section set to a closed state in response to an attraction force of the solenoid. The contact section is covered with a contact cover fixed to the solenoid, and a terminal electrically connected with the solenoid is placed within the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070103266 - Auto-aligning and connecting structure between electronic device and accessory: An auto-aligning and connecting structure used to connect and align an electronic device and an accessory, wherein a plurality of first magnetic bodies are disposed on a first surface of the electrical device and a plurality of second magnetic bodies are disposed on a second surface of the accessory. The... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20070096853 - Indirect power-linking device: The invention relates to an indirect power-linking device, which are disposed respectively the magnets at the locations where correspond to a power-driving device and a power-driven device that mutually attract. The magnets shall have at least one N pole and one pole. Therefore, when the power-driving device rotates, the magnetic... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070096854 - Head for thermal assisted magnetic recording device, and thermal assisted magnetic recording device: The aim of the present invention is to apply an intense magnetic field to a portion where an optical near-field is generated by a thermal assisted magnetic recording head with a scatterer having conductivity as an optical near-field generating element. To this end, a scatterer for generating an optical near-field... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070096855 - Electromagnetic driver: In an electromagnetic driver according to the invention, electromagnetic units are arranged in the axial direction of a shaft, and a power supply change-over device is so formed that, when an attractive magnetic field arises between the coil unit and the magnetic unit of the one of the electromagnetic units,... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070096856 - Magnetic safety closure for a movable protection device: The invention relates to a magnetic safety closure for a protection device moveable with respect to a fixed part, comprising: a housing attachable to the protection device and provided with a handle for opening and closing the protection device; the housing further comprising a sensor housing attachable to the fixed... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070096857 - Helmholtz coil system: An improved Helmholtz coil system is disclosed, which allows testing of components in a uniform DC or AC magnetic field with precise and repeatable positioning and orientation over 360 degrees of angular displacement about each of the x, y and z planes. For example, a 3-gimbaled Helmholtz coil system is... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.