Electricity: magnetically operated switches, magnets, and electromagnets inventions 09/07

20070222543 - Apparatus for remotely actuating a manual actuator of a circuit breaker: An apparatus for remotely actuating a circuit breaker with two stable positions corresponding to a switch-on position and a switch-off position, has a drive mechanism with an electric motor. The apparatus further has first and second switches for switching the motor on and off, a transmission, a coupling mechanism for... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070222544 - Lock mechanism for stage apparatus: A lock mechanism for a stage apparatus, includes a stationary support board; a movable stage; a leaf spring supported by the stationary support board; a press portion and a pressed portion provided on the leaf spring and the movable stage, respectively, a frictional contacting member being fixed to at least... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070222545 - Apparatus for shimming a magnetic field: An apparatus for shimming the magnetic field generated by a magnet arrangement of a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system has a number of discrete shim units; at least some of the discrete shim units exhibiting differing ferromagnetic characteristics, a channel incorporated in the magnet arrangement and disposed to receive a... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070216502 - Relay: A forcibly guided relay is disclosed, with a housing, whose height is smaller than its width and whose width is smaller than its length. With this, the relay comprises an electromagnetic drive filling the length or the width of the relay, with a clapper-type contactor which comprises a drive arm... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070216503 - Dampening apparatus and circuit interrupter including the same: A dampening apparatus has a housing with a plurality of first guide members and a plurality of second guide members coupled together. A first biasing member is located in an area proximate to the first guide members and within the housing. A first planar member is provided having a plurality... Agent: Martin J. Moran, Esq. Eaton Electrical, Inc.,

20070216504 - Bi-stable magnetic latch assembly: A bi-stable magnetic switch assembly comprises a stator having an axis and first and second magnetic portions angularly disposed there around, and a rotor having at least one magnetic region attracted to the first and second portions. The rotor is configured for rotation about the axis between (1) a first... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070216505 - Magnetic encoder: A magnetic encoder for use in a vehicle axle for generating pulse code by magnetic force. A magnetic ring is attached with an adhesive to a reinforcing ring fixed on the vehicle axle and then S and N poles are alternately magnetized thereon in a circumferential manner. Further the edge... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070216506 - Superconducting electromagnet: A superconducting electromagnet is provided with a magnetic shield for protecting, from a leakage magnetic flux of the superconducting electromagnet, a motor for driving a cryocooler for cooling a cooling medium in a coil vessel, in which the superconducting coil is housed with the cooling medium. The magnetic shield includes... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070210884 - Split florida-helix magnet: An electromagnet having at least one access port oriented perpendicularly to the electromagnet's central axis. The magnet has a conventional helical winding along its central axis. However, at some point along the length of the axis, the pitch of the helical winding is greatly increased in order to create a... Agent: Pennington, Moore, Wilkinson, Bell & Dunbar, P.A.

20070210885 - Circuit breaker: A circuit breaker for a double-break mechanism includes a current interrupting section having a contact mechanism. The contact mechanism includes first and second fixed contactors arranged in parallel and having fixed contacts, and a bridging movable contactor having an arm with movable contacts opposing the fixed contacts. A magnetic plate... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20070210886 - Apparatus and method for processing material in a magnetic vortex: An apparatus and method in which three or more permanent or electromagnets are mounted in a support structure on rotatable axes in spaced relationship to each other such that the magnetic lines of force of the same magnetic polarity continuously repel each other to generate a field in “opolarity.” The... Agent: Jack Gerber

20070205852 - Magnetic trip mechanism including a plunger member engaging a support structure, and circuit breaker including the same: A circuit breaker includes separable contacts, an operating mechanism structured to open and close the separable contacts, and a magnetic trip mechanism cooperating with the operating mechanism to trip open the separable contacts. The magnetic trip mechanism includes a support structure including a slotted support portion therein, and a plunger... Agent: Martin J. Moran, Esq. Eaton Electrical, Inc.

20070205853 - Design of membrane actuator based on ferromagnetic shape memory alloy composite for sythentic jet actuator: A membrane actuator includes a magnetically actuatable membrane and a magnetic trigger. The membrane includes a shape memory alloy (SMA), and the magnetic trigger is configured to induce a martensitic transformation in the SMA, to produce a larger force than would be achievable with non-SMA-based materials. Such a membrane actuator... Agent: Law Offices Of Ronald M Anderson

20070205854 - Permanent magnetic male and female levitation supports: A permanent magnetic male and female levitation support has a first part with a cavity and a plurality of retainment mechanisms incorporated therein, and a plurality of first permanent magnets evenly distributed around the perimeter of the cavity and held in place by the retainment mechanisms, wherein the first permanent... Agent: Kelly Lowry & Kelley, LLP