Electricity: magnetically operated switches, magnets, and electromagnets inventions 07/08

20080180195 - Earth leakage circuit breaker: A circuit breaker for overcurrent protection and earth leakage protection includes a main housing, a circuit board, a zero-phase current transformer, an earth leakage detection circuit, a trip coil, a sensitivity current-switch, an action time switch, and an earth leakage test switch. The earth leakage detection circuit, the sensitivity current-switch,... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20080180196 - Electronic trip unit for circuit breakers: An electronic trip unit for a circuit breaker is disclosed. The electronic trip unit has a processing circuit, and a real time clock circuit that is operational in the absence of current in the circuit breaker. The processing circuit is responsive to input signals representative of a current in the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080180197 - Polarized electromagnetic relay and coil assembly: A polarized electromagnetic relay including an electromagnet assembly, a contact section insulated from the electromagnet assembly, and a force transfer member disposed between the electromagnetic assembly and the contact section. The electromagnet assembly includes an electromagnet, an armature driven by the electromagnet, and a permanent magnet carried on the armature.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080180198 - Electromagnetic relay: An electromagnetic relay is provided which enables a coating process with a coating agent even after being mounted on a printed circuit board having undergone reflow heating by preventing invasion of water while maintaining air permeability. A main body making up the electromagnetic relay includes an electrical contact portion, electromagnetic... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20080180199 - Radiation-crosslinked thermoplastics in an electrical installation switching device: The disclosure relates to an electrical installation device, e.g., a circuit-breaker, motor protecting switch, and similar, comprising a housing that is formed from shell-type housing parts, an electromagnetic trigger, a thermal trigger, a breaker mechanism with a latching point, a slide which transmits the movements of the thermal trigger and... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080180200 - Double acting electro-magnetic actor: The invention refers to a double acting electromagnetic actor, in particular for hydraulic and pneumatic applications, with a coil, an armature arranged in the coil with at least two permanent magnets magnetised in axial direction, and a central disc between the permanent magnets, wherein between the armature and the coil... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20080180201 - Magnetic circuit: A magnetic circuit is provided which includes: a bottom yoke; a center pole disposed at the center of the front of the bottom yoke; a main magnet having a ring shape and disposed at the front of the bottom yoke; a top plate having a ring shape and disposed at... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080180202 - High-current, compact flexible conductors containing high temperature superconducting tapes: High-current, compact, flexible conductors containing high temperature superconducting (HTS) tapes and methods for making the same are described. The HTS tapes are arranged into a stack, a plurality of stacks are arranged to form a superstructure, and the superstructure is twisted about the cable axis to obtain a HTS cable.... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080180203 - Permanent magnet bulk degausser: One or more pairs of magnet assemblages (14 and 16) are provided with magnetized segments (21-30) arranged in a Halbach-like array. The magnet assemblages (14 and 16) define a gap (18) through which magnetic data storage media (12) pass in a direction (20) across the segments (21-30). The magnetized sides... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080174391 - Contactor with connector module for control of the solenoid mechanism: A contactor includes a housing lower section housing a solenoid mechanism, a main contact and a housing upper section, for housing main terminals and a connector module including control terminals which may be connected to the solenoid coil of the solenoid mechanism. The housing upper section includes a recessed step... Agent: Darby & Darby P.c.

20080174392 - Magnetic levitation sliding structure: A low friction and stable sliding structure for an electronic device. The sliding structure includes a first sliding member comprising at least one guide portion, a second sliding member including a receiving portion receiving the guide portion so as to slide along the first sliding member, a first magnet portion... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20080169889 - Emergency run-down unit for superconducting magnets: In an emergency run down unit for a superconductive magnet assembly, a quench in the magnet is induced by the release of stored mechanical energy or by direct manual actuation.... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080169890 - Electromagnetically actuated bistable magnetic latching pin lock: A pin lock is movably mounted for linear movement along a longitudinal axis. A magnet, preferably a permanent magnet, is mounted for limited rotation between the pin extended and pin retracted positions. An electromagnet provides a controllable electromagnetic field which encompasses at least a portion of the permanent magnet. A... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080169891 - Actuator: A first virtual axis orthogonally intersects with a second virtual axis, and a third axis (axis passing a support center point) vertical to the first and second virtual axes is permitted to be a reference axis. A magnetic drive mechanism is provided with first magnetic drive sections for applying a... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP

20080169892 - Permanent magnet magnetizing apparatus and permanent magnet magnetizing method: A permanent magnet magnetizing apparatus includes a heating section 10, a magnetizing section 12 axially disposed as a discrete structure from the heating section 10, and a holding member 22 for holding magnetization object 20 and movable relative to the heating section and the magnetizing section. The magnetization object heated... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080169893 - Low ac resistant foil winding for magnetic coils on gapped: A system and method reduces AC losses in a magnetic coil with a magnetic core with one or more gaps. A foil winding is formed with one or more cavities and is positioned about the magnetic core such that the cavities are adjacent to the gaps.... Agent: Lathrop & Gage Lc

20080164961 - System with circuitry for suppressing arc formation in micro-electromechanical system based switch: A system that includes micro-electromechanical system switching circuitry is provided. The system may include a first over-current protection circuitry connected in a parallel circuit with the micro-electromechanical system switching circuitry for suppressing a voltage level across contacts of the micro-electromechanical system switching circuitry during a first switching event, such as... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20080164962 - Switchgear control apparatus: A switchgear control apparatus includes main contacts for first to third phases, operating mechanisms for activating the main contacts for the respective phases, voltage sensors for detecting phase voltages of a three-phase power source, and a contact closing control circuit. The contact closing control circuit first outputs a contact closing... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080164963 - Magnetic actuator: SOLUTION So that an attenuation effect owing to an electromotive force may be obtained in the magnetic actuator when a moveable part (coil support member and lens holder) supported by sheet springs is displaced, an electric resonance circuit is formed by connecting an accessory coil 26 in parallel to a... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080164964 - Latching linear solenoid: A linear solenoid includes a pair of soft iron pole members, which are in a spaced-apart linear arrangement. A permanent magnet is attached to the end of a plunger, which rides between the pole members. When a first of two electro-magnet coils is energized, the plunger which is latched to... Agent: Charles E. Baxley, Esq.

20080164965 - Adjustable solenoid: Embodiments of the present invention provide solenoid plungers, solenoid actuators, and solenoid-actuated mechanisms, that provide for an adjustable stroke, adjustable rated force, and adjustable plunger extension that overcome the problems and issues associated with non-adjustable solenoid actuators. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, an adjustable solenoid plunger... Agent: Paul J. Fordenbacher Silicon Forest Patent Group

20080157904 - Activation for switching apparatus: A circuit breaker is disclosed. The circuit breaker has a single pole module housing having a 1 W width with a first conduction path and a second conduction path disposed within the single pole module housing. The first and second conduction paths are electrically isolated from each other via an... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080157905 - Power relay: A first aspect of the invention includes a power relay assembly having a motor assembly and actuator assembly disposed in a housing. The actuator assembly includes at least one bridge assembly having one or more contacts arranged to provide selective electrical connections. The actuator assembly is attached to an armature... Agent: Tyco Technology Resources

20080157906 - Terminal module assembly for molded case circuit breaker and molded case circuit breaker having the same: In a terminal of a standard, plug-in or box type molded case circuit breaker, a terminal module assembly for a molded case circuit breaker capable of being removable by easily selecting the terminal type, and a molded case circuit breaker having the terminal module assembly, the terminal module assembly comprising... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080157907 - Permanent magnet having improved field quality and apparatus employing the same: A ring magnet assembly has a generally cylindrical magnet body defining an air gap having an upper end and a lower end. Upper and lower face plates dispose respectively at an upper portion of the ring magnet and lower portion of the ring magnet. The face plates preferably have a... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott