Electricity: magnetically operated switches, magnets, and electromagnets inventions 10/09

20090256656 - Method and device for line-switching of mems matrix and amdf: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and a device for line-switching in an automated main distribution frame (AMDF) which may solve the problem of contact point damage which may occur during hot switching of micro electromechanical system (MEMS) matrix, and further solve the corresponding problems which may occur... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20090256657 - breaker interlock system and method: Disclosed herein is a breaker interlock system. The system includes, a trip unit for a breaker, and a breaker receptive of the trip unit. The breaker is closable when the trip unit is assembled thereto and the breaker is non-closable when the trip unit is not assembled to the breaker.... Agent: General Electric Company Ge Global Patent Operation

20090256658 - Current path arrangement for a circuit breaker: An apparatus includes an enclosure, a plurality of circuit breaker sub poles, each enclosed within a chamber of the enclosure, and a plurality of arc chutes, each installed on one of the chambers enclosing the circuit breaker sub poles.... Agent: General Electric Company Ge Global Patent Operation

20090256659 - Circuit breaker with improved close and latch performance: An apparatus includes a plurality of contacts for interrupting current flow when an overcurrent condition occurs, each contact including a mating face displaced at an angle with respect to a pivot point of at least one of the contacts, where the displacement of the mating faces is configured to minimize... Agent: General Electric Company Ge Global Patent Operation

20090256660 - Readiness for closing indicator for circuit breakers: Disclosed is a visual and electrical indication on the status of “Readiness to close” (RTC) for circuit breakers. Exemplary embodiments include a circuit breaker apparatus, including a lay shaft coupled to circuit breaker contacts, a lay shaft cam profile coupled to the lay shaft, a trip free plate coupled to... Agent: General Electric Company Ge Global Patent Operation

20090256661 - Disconnect mechanism in a power receptacle with ground-fault circuit interruption functions: A disconnect mechanism for a power receptacle, which includes a disconnect block, a locking member slidably coupled to the disconnect block, and an electromagnetic device moveably coupled to the locking member. The disconnect block includes two side arms extending outwards. A pressing plate is disposed above the disconnect block, and... Agent: Ying Chen Chen Yoshimura LLP

20090256662 - Form c relay and package using same: The improved reed relay package provided a “pseudo” Form C relay that includes two Form A relays with at least one bridge filter element electrically interconnecting the signal outputs thereof to reduce stub capacitance and improve RF performance. As a result, the reed relay package can operate at very high... Agent: Barlow, Josephs & Holmes, Ltd.

20090256663 - Ferromagnetic frame magnet with superconducting coils: A magnetic resonance imaging magnet includes a ferromagnetic frame. A pair of generally toroidal superconducting coil units overlie interfaces of side walls incorporated in the frame. Each coil unit may include a vessel having hollow support extensions extending into recesses in the side walls. The coil units may further include... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090256664 - Solenoid switch and cover: A solenoid includes a support and an electrical winding located at the support. A plunger may be provided that is movable in response to energization of the electrical winding and an actuator may also be provided that is adjustable relative to the plunger and interconnected therewith. The solenoid may further... Agent: General Electric Company Ge Global Patent Operation

20090256665 - Vibration-proof holder applicable to communication/navigation devices for vehicle use: A vibration-proof holder applicable to a communications/navigation device for vehicle use is provided, characterized by the use of a gap-detecting unit to detect position variations of the communications/navigation device, and an electromagnetic control unit to adjust magnetic intensity of magnetic bodies fixedly installed in the vehicle, wherein first and second... Agent: Law Offices Of Mikio Ishimaru

20090251237 - Electromagnetic drive unit and an electromechanical switching device: An electromechanical switching device, especially a contactor or a multifunctional device including a contactor, includes at least one stationary contact piece, at least one movable contact piece movable to and from the at least one stationary contact piece for opening or closing a current path and an electromagnetic drive unit... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090251238 - System and method for affecting field emission properties of a field emission structure: An improved field emission system and method is provided that involves field emission structures having electric or magnetic field sources. The magnitudes, polarities, and positions of the magnetic or electric field sources are configured to have desirable correlation properties, which may be in accordance with a code. The correlation properties... Agent: Venable LLP

20090251241 - System and method for attachment of objects: An improved field emission system and method is provided that involves field emission structures having electric or magnetic field sources. The magnitudes, polarities, and positions of the magnetic or electric field sources are configured to have desirable correlation properties, which may be in accordance with a code. The correlation properties... Agent: Venable LLP

20090251239 - System and method for disabling a field emission structure: An improved field emission system and method is provided that involves field emission structures having electric or magnetic field sources. The magnitudes, polarities, and positions of the magnetic or electric field sources are configured to have desirable correlation properties, which may be in accordance with a code. The correlation properties... Agent: Venable LLP

20090251240 - System and method for protecting a field emission structure: An improved field emission system and method is provided that involves field emission structures having electric or magnetic field sources. The magnitudes, polarities, and positions of the magnetic or electric field sources are configured to have desirable correlation properties, which may be in accordance with a code. The correlation properties... Agent: Venable LLP

20090251242 - Field emission system and method: An improved field emission system and method is provided that involves field emission structures having electric or magnetic field sources. The magnitudes, polarities, and positions of the magnetic or electric field sources are configured to have desirable correlation properties, which may be in accordance with a code. The correlation properties... Agent: Venable LLP

20090251247 - Method and system for producing repeating spatial forces: An improved field emission system and method is provided that involves field emission structures having electric or magnetic field sources. The magnitudes, polarities, and positions of the magnetic or electric field sources are configured to have desirable correlation properties, which may be in accordance with a code. The correlation properties... Agent: Venable LLP

20090251244 - System and method for alignment of objects: An improved field emission system and method is provided that involves field emission structures having electric or magnetic field sources. The magnitudes, polarities, and positions of the magnetic or electric field sources are configured to have desirable correlation properties, which may be in accordance with a code. The correlation properties... Agent: Venable LLP

20090251243 - System and method for coding field emission structures: An improved field emission system and method is provided that involves field emission structures having electric or magnetic field sources. The magnitudes, polarities, and positions of the magnetic or electric field sources are configured to have desirable correlation properties, which may be in accordance with a code. The correlation properties... Agent: Venable LLP

20090251246 - System and method for controlling movement of an object: An improved field emission system and method is provided that involves field emission structures having electric or magnetic field sources. The magnitudes, polarities, and positions of the magnetic or electric field sources are configured to have desirable correlation properties, which may be in accordance with a code. The correlation properties... Agent: Venable LLP

20090251245 - System and method for providing a hold force to an object: An improved field emission system and method is provided that involves field emission structures having electric or magnetic field sources. The magnitudes, polarities, and positions of the magnetic or electric field sources are configured to have desirable correlation properties, which may be in accordance with a code. The correlation properties... Agent: Venable LLP

20090251248 - Field structure and method for producing a field structure: An improved field emission system and method is provided that involves field emission structures having electric or magnetic field sources. The magnitudes, polarities, and positions of the magnetic or electric field sources are configured to have desirable correlation properties, which may be in accordance with a code. The correlation properties... Agent: Venable LLP

20090251249 - System and method for manufacturing field emission structures using a ferromagnetic material: An improved field emission system and method is provided that involves field emission structures having electric or magnetic field sources. The magnitudes, polarities, and positions of the magnetic or electric field sources are configured to have desirable correlation properties, which may be in accordance with a code. The correlation properties... Agent: Venable LLP

20090251250 - Interlocking magnetic coupling members: A magnetic coupling member, method, and system including a housing and a first arrangement of a plurality of magnets housed within the housing is disclosed. The first arrangement of magnets is selectively arranged and disposed to provide alignment and detachable engagement with a second arrangement of a plurality of magnets.... Agent: Mcnees Wallace & Nurick LLC

20090251251 - System and method for causing an object to hover over a surface: An improved field emission system and method is provided that involves field emission structures having electric or magnetic field sources. The magnitudes, polarities, and positions of the magnetic or electric field sources are configured to have desirable correlation properties, which may be in accordance with a code. The correlation properties... Agent: Venable LLP

20090251252 - Electromagnetic work holding system: The present disclosure is directed to a work holding system. The work holding system may include a plurality of electromagnets connected to a support structure and configured to fix a magnetic workpiece to the support structure. Further the work holding system may include a controller configured to selectively adjust an... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20090251256 - Coded linear magnet arrays in two dimensions: Field emission structures comprising electric or magnetic field sources having magnitudes, polarities, and positions corresponding to a desired spatial force function where a spatial force is created based upon the relative alignment of the field emission structures The magnetic field sources may be arranged according to a code having a... Agent: James Richards

20090251255 - Magnetic force profile system using coded magnet structures: An improved field emission system and method. The invention pertains to field emission structures comprising electric or magnetic field sources having magnitudes, polarities, and positions corresponding to a desired spatial force function where a spatial force is created based upon the relative alignment of the field emission structures and the... Agent: James Richards

20090251253 - System and method for moving an object: An improved field emission system and method is provided that involves field emission structures having electric or magnetic field sources. The magnitudes, polarities, and positions of the magnetic or electric field sources are configured to have desirable correlation properties, which may be in accordance with a code. The correlation properties... Agent: Venable LLP

20090251254 - System and method for producing a hover surface: An improved field emission system and method is provided that involves field emission structures having electric or magnetic field sources. The magnitudes, polarities, and positions of the magnetic or electric field sources are configured to have desirable correlation properties, which may be in accordance with a code. The correlation properties... Agent: Venable LLP

20090251257 - Wiring assembly and method of forming a channel in a wiring assembly for receiving conductor and providing separate regions of conductor contact with the channel: A conductor assembly and method for constructing an assembly of the type which, when conducting current, generates a magnetic field or which, in the presence of a changing magnetic field, induces a voltage. In one embodiment the method provides a first insulative layer tubular in shape and including a surface... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P. A.

20090251265 - method for designing magnetic field emissions structures: An improved field emission system and method is provided that involves field emission structures having electric or magnetic field sources. The magnitudes, polarities, and positions of the magnetic or electric field sources are configured to have desirable correlation properties, which may be in accordance with a code. The correlation properties... Agent: Venable LLP

20090251258 - Magnetic helical screw drive: A system can comprise a screw and a nut, which are configured to move relative to each other. Each of the screw and the nut components can comprise one or more magnets configured to exert a repulsive force on one or more magnets of the other component as a result... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20090251263 - System and method for configuring a plurality of magnets: An improved field emission system and method is provided that involves field emission structures having electric or magnetic field sources. The magnitudes, polarities, and positions of the magnetic or electric field sources are configured to have desirable correlation properties, which may be in accordance with a code. The correlation properties... Agent: Venable LLP

20090251260 - System and method for controlling field emissions: An improved field emission system and method is provided that involves field emission structures having electric or magnetic field sources. The magnitudes, polarities, and positions of the magnetic or electric field sources are configured to have desirable correlation properties, which may be in accordance with a code. The correlation properties... Agent: Venable LLP

20090251259 - System and method for producing a slide lock mechanism: An improved field emission system and method is provided that involves field emission structures having electric or magnetic field sources. The magnitudes, polarities, and positions of the magnetic or electric field sources are configured to have desirable correlation properties, which may be in accordance with a code. The correlation properties... Agent: Venable LLP

20090251262 - System and method for producing a spatial force: An improved field emission system and method is provided that involves field emission structures having electric or magnetic field sources. The magnitudes, polarities, and positions of the magnetic or electric field sources are configured to have desirable correlation properties, which may be in accordance with a code. The correlation properties... Agent: Venable LLP

20090251264 - System and method for producing repeating spatial forces: An improved field emission system and method is provided that involves field emission structures having electric or magnetic field sources. The magnitudes, polarities, and positions of the magnetic or electric field sources are configured to have desirable correlation properties, which may be in accordance with a code. The correlation properties... Agent: Venable LLP

20090251261 - System and method for separating attached field emission structures: An improved field emission system and method is provided that involves field emission structures having electric or magnetic field sources. The magnitudes, polarities, and positions of the magnetic or electric field sources are configured to have desirable correlation properties, which may be in accordance with a code. The correlation properties... Agent: Venable LLP

20090243768 - Varistor: A first varistor section includes a first face of an element body, and a third face facing the first face. The first varistor section has a first varistor element body, a first varistor electrode electrically connected to a first external electrode, and a second varistor electrode electrically connected to a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090243769 - Movable contact holder of electrical apparatus and assembling method of the movable contact holder: A movable contact holder includes a movable contact holder base and a movable contact holder cover. One side of the movable contact holder base is opened to have a plurality of recesses each being formed for holding a contact pair, each contact pair include a bridge contact assembly and a... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090243770 - Electromagnetic drive and an electromechanical switching device: In one embodiment of the present invention, an electromagnetic drive unit including a coil, a yoke, and an armature is disclosed. The winding of the coil is partly wound in one direction and partly in the other direction. An electromechanical switching device includes at least one input terminal and a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090243771 - Electromagnetic switching device: This electromagnetic switching device comprises an electromagnetic device 1 in which a movable core 15 comes into contact with or separates from a fixed core 14 in response to energization of an excitation coil 11 wound around a coil bobbin 10, a contact device 2 with a fixed contact 21... Agent: Cheng Law Group, PLLC

20090243772 - Bistable magnetic nanoswitch: i

20090243773 - Field coil assembly of electromagnetic clutch for compressor: The present invention relates to a field coil assembly of an electromagnetic clutch for a compressor. The present invention comprises a core 210, and a coil 240 installed to the core 210 and formed by winding a unit wire 250. At this time, the unit wire 250 wound on the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090243774 - Magnetic field generator manufacturing method: The magnetic field generator (10) includes a pair of plate yokes (12a), (12b). The plate yokes (12a), (12b) are opposed to each other, with their opposing faces provided with permanent magnet assemblies (14a), (14b) respectively. The permanent magnet assemblies (14a), (14b) have faces opposing to each other, to which pole... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20090243775 - Magnetic having linear magnetic flux density: The present invention relates to a magnet having a linear magnetic flux density, which causes the magnetic flux density thereof to vary linearly and, more particularly, to a magnet having a linear magnetic flux density, in which the shape and magnetization pattern of the magnet are changed so that displacement... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000