49th week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 74 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150349416 | WIRELESS MODULE WITH PLURAL IN-PLANE TERMINALS - The wireless module according to the present invention includes a wireless IC chip for processing transmission/reception signals, a substrate on which the wireless IC chip is mounted, an antenna provided on the substrate, and a plurality of terminals extending off from the substrate in an in-plane direction of the substrate. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349417 | ANTENNA POSITIONING SYSTEM WITH AUTOMATED SKEWED POSITIONING - A method of receiving a satellite signal using a satellite dish connected to a receiver, the method includes a peak identification stage including automatically sweeping the satellite dish to identify peaks of satellite signals received by the receiver having a center frequency matching the center frequency of the satellite signal, a peak evaluation stage including automatically evaluating one or more said peaks by determining the bandwidth thereof and choosing the peak having a bandwidth matching the bandwidth of the satellite signal, and a signal strength maximizing stage including automatically sweeping the satellite dish until the signal strength of a satellite signal having said bandwidth is maximized. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349418 | WIDE BAND RECONFIGURABLE PLANAR ANTENNA WITH OMNIDIRECTIONAL AND DIRECTIONAL RADIATION PATTERNS - A planar reconfigurable antenna that is capable of generating omnidirectional and directional radiation patterns over a wide frequency band or over multiple frequency bands includes a substrate, one or more pairs of conductive elements on at least one side of the substrate, a common RF feed point, and respective switches that selectively connects one or all of the conductive elements to the common RF feed point. An omni-directional radiation pattern is generated when all of the conductive elements are connected to the common RF feed point, while a directional radiation pattern is generated when only a pair of conductive elements on opposite sides of the substrate are connected to the common RF feed point. In the directional radiation mode, the conductive elements that are not connected to the common RF feed point act as a reflector for other conductive elements that are connected to the common RF feed point. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349419 | PLANAR NEAR-FIELD CALIBRATION OF DIGITAL ARRAYS USING ELEMENT PLANE WAVE SPECTRA - A calibration method, applicable to element-level digital arrays operating in the receive mode, which utilizes the individual element plane wave spectra obtained from a single planar near-field scan. The method generates highly accurate near-field measurement derived amplitude and phase calibration of both large and small digital arrays as a function of array scan. The present disclosure provides digital array calibration methods and their potential uses in satellites and directional arrays. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349420 | PLANAR NEAR-FIELD CALIBRATION OF DIGITAL ARRAYS USING ELEMENT PLANE WAVE SPECTRA - A calibration method, applicable to element-level digital arrays operating in the receive mode, which utilizes the individual element plane wave spectra obtained from a single planar near-field scan. The method generates highly accurate near-field measurement derived amplitude and phase calibration of both large and small digital arrays as a function of array scan. The present disclosure provides digital array calibration methods and their potential uses in satellites and directional arrays. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349421 | MILLIMETER (MM) WAVE SWITCHED BEAM ANTENNA SYSTEM - A mm-wave antenna apparatus with beam steering function that includes: a Butler Matrix feeding network; a plurality of power combiners, each power combiner having one input and N outputs, configured to apply equal phase and power to a phase distributed output signal generated by the Butler Matrix feeding network and to generate N processed signals; and a plurality of millimeter wave switched beam planar antenna arrays having at least 1.5 GHz of bandwidth and located on a top low loss dielectric substrate, each antenna array of N elements, configured to obtain direct and narrow width beams from the N processed signals combined by each power combiner. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349422 | System and Method for Simple 2D Phase-Mode Enabled Beam-Steering - A method for operating a beam-steering system includes receiving a signal to be tracked, generating a first phase-mode signal, a second phase-mode signal and a third phase-mode signal from the received signal, and generating a first intermediate auxiliary signal, a second intermediate auxiliary signal, and a first intermediate main signal in accordance with the phase-mode signals. The method also includes deriving a first steering signal proportional to a circumferential steering angle of the received signal from the first intermediate main signal and the first auxiliary signal, and deriving a second steering signal proportional to a radial steering angle of the received signal from the second intermediate auxiliary signal and the first intermediate main signal. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349423 | ANTENNA DEVICE AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - An antenna device includes a first coil and a second coil whose winding axes are parallel or substantially parallel, are disposed so as to be insulated from each other, and that magnetically couple with each other; a first capacitance that is connected in parallel to the first coil and defines a first resonance circuit with the first coil; a second capacitance that is connected in parallel to the second coil and defines a second resonance circuit with the second coil; a third capacitance connected between at least one set of ends of the first coil and the second coil; and a power supply terminal connected to the first coil. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349424 | FERRITE GREEN SHEET, SINTERED FERRITE SHEET, FERRITE COMPOSITE SHEET COMPRISING THE SAME, AND CONDUCTIVE LOOP ANTENNA MODULE - Disclosed are a ferrite green sheet comprising a pattern formed in a top surface of the ferrite green sheet, a sintered ferrite sheet, a ferrite composite sheet comprising the same, and a conductive loop antenna module. The pattern comprises a plurality of grooves, each groove has a width W and a rounded shape bottom having a radius of curvature of R, wherein a ratio of W to R (W:R) is in the range of 1:0.1 to 1:0.5. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349425 | PATCH ANTENNA ELEMENT - An antenna element for transmission and/or reception of signals within a frequency band comprises a ground plane ( | 2015-12-03 |
20150349426 | SMOOTH-WALLED FEEDHORN - A device for at least one of receiving and transmitting electromagnetic radiation includes a feedhorn having a substantially smooth, electrically conducting inner surface extending from an open end to a feed end, the inner surface being substantially rotationally symmetrical about a longitudinal axis, wherein an orthogonal distance from a point on the longitudinal axis to the substantially smooth, electrically conducting inner surface increases monotonically as the point on the longitudinal axis is selected at successively greater distances from the feed end of the feedhorn towards the open end of the feedhorn such that a profile of the substantially smooth, electrically conducting inner surface of the feedhorn is monotonically increasing. The feedhorn has an operating bandwidth and the feedhorn provides a maximum of −30 dB cross polarization response over at least 15% of the operating bandwidth. A method of producing a feedhorn for receiving or transmitting electromagnetic radiation includes determining a profile of an inner surface of the feedhorn based on constraints required to achieve a plurality of operating parameters, providing a pre-machined feedhorn having an initial inner surface, and machining the initial inner surface of the pre-machined feedhorn to substantially match the profile determined to achieve the plurality of operating parameters for the feedhorn. The determining the profile includes a constraint for the profile to be a monotonically increasing profile relative to a rotational symmetry axis of the inner surface of the feedhorn going from a narrow end to a wide end of the feedhorn. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349427 | WIRELESS CONTROL DEVICE - A wall-mountable wireless control device may include an antenna (e.g., a slot antenna or a hybrid slot-patch antenna) for transmitting and/or receiving radio-frequency signals, and may have a conductive material on a large amount (e.g., greater than or equal to approximately 85%) of a front surface of the control device. The wireless control device may operate consistently when installed with different types of faceplate assemblies (e.g., faceplate assemblies having metal and/or plastic components) and when installed with different types of electrical wallboxes (e.g., metal and plastic wallboxes). A faceplate comprising a conductive element may be installed on the wireless control device, such that the conductive element operates as a radiating element of the antenna. The wireless control device may comprise a conductive member (e.g., a conductive label or a conductive strap) extending around a rear enclosure of the wireless control device between opposite sides of a conductive yoke. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349428 | ANTENNA DEVICE - An antenna device includes a dielectric substrate, a conductor plate that is placed on one surface of the dielectric substrate, that includes a first slot element, a second slot element, and one or more slits, and a ground conductor that is placed at a specified distance from the conductor plate in a first direction. A center of the first slot element is placed between a center of the second slot element and a center of each of slits, in a second direction. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349429 | DUAL REFLECTOR ANTENNA WITH HYBRID SUBREFLECTOR - The present invention relates to a dual reflector antenna with a hybrid subreflector, and more particularly, to a dual reflector antenna with a subreflector having a structure in which an ellipse and a hyperbola are combined. An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a dual reflector antenna including: a main reflector; and a hybrid subreflector which faces the main reflector and has a first structure and a second structure which are combined therein. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349430 | Radio Frequency Antenna Structure with a Low Passive Intermodulation Design - A low passive intermodulation antenna structure having a flexible antenna reflector with a plurality of reflector gores and with capacitively coupled RF joints between adjacent reflector gores. The coupling is accomplished by overlapping adjacent gores so a dielectric material between the conductive layers of the overlapping gores forms a capacitor, allowing RF currents to flow from one gore to another with very little disturbance. The structure can be a deployable parabolic multicarrier reflector system for a satellite antenna. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349431 | POLARIZATION ROTATOR - A polarization rotator including a plurality of polarizer layers that are stacked along a general direction of radiation propagation. Each polarizer layers implements a wired grid pattern associated with respective extinction axis for extinction of radiation components that are polarized therealong. The extinction axes of consecutive polarizer layers are orientated differently so that polarization of radiation interacting therewith is rotated. The relative orientations of the polarizer layers are selected such that a tiling of a plurality of substantially identical polarization rotation unit cells is defined within the polarization rotator, where the unit cells are arranged with predetermined spatial periods A and B along two lateral axes. The polarization rotator may be coupled to an array of elements (e.g. antennas) arranged parallel to the tiling of unit cells, with respective spatial periodicities A′ and B′ that are integer multiples of the predetermined spatial periods A and B of the unit cells. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349432 | WAVELENGTH COMPRESSED ANTENNAS - Devices and methods for wavelength compression antennas and for arrays composed thereof are disclosed. Composed of individual wavelength compressing antennas, such arrays are of reduced size but avoid the mounting constraints and cost of containerized arrays. They also provide wider bandwidth for jammer cancellation, direction finding, beam steering and other array applications. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349433 | IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO ANTENNAS - An optical signal transmission apparatus ( | 2015-12-03 |
20150349434 | ARRAY ANTENNA FOR SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS AND ANTENNA - An array antenna for satellite communications includes a first sub-array and a second sub-array, each including a plurality of antenna elements arrayed in a matrix with a regular pitch, the first sub-array and the second sub-array being shifted relative to each other in a satellite orbital direction. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349435 | CIRCULARLY POLARIZED ANTENNA - A circularly polarized antenna exhibiting a high performance characteristic can be produced by utilizing a ground plane, a half-loop, and an electric dipole in a predetermined configuration. The circularly polarized antenna can provide benefits, such as wide axial ratio bandwidth, high gain, and simple structure, over other unidirectional circularly polarized antennas. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349436 | ELECTRICAL TERMINAL ASSEMBLY - According to one embodiment, an electrical terminal assembly includes an internal contact at one end portion, the internal contact being connected to a connector terminal, an external contact at the other end portion, and a fixing portion between the internal contact and the external contact, the fixing portion fixing a wire. The external contact is outside a connector when the electrical terminal assembly is inserted into the connector. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349437 | CONDUCTOR TERMINAL - A conductor connection clamp ( | 2015-12-03 |
20150349438 | MAGNETIC COUPLING SYSTEMS - This patent pertains to magnetic coupling systems. One implementation includes magnetic jumper cables, which include magnetic couplers and elongate, insulated, electrically-isolated electric conductors. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349439 | Peg Press-Fitting Structure for Connector - A peg press-fitting structure for a connector includes a peg which is made from a metal plate to fix a housing of the connector to a circuit board, and which is attached to the housing by being press-fitted from the distal end of the peg into a peg attaching slot of the housing of the connector. The housing is provided with an end wall where an entrance of the peg attaching slot opens. A press-fitting position regulating projection, which regulates the press-fitting position of the peg by abutting against the end wall of the housing where the entrance of the peg attaching slot opens, is provided closer to the base end of the peg than a press-fitted portion of the peg that is press-fitted into the peg attaching slot. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349440 | SEMICONDUCTOR MODULE SOCKET AND CONNECTION STRUCTURE OF THE SAME - A semiconductor module socket includes an internal body including a slot therein, a lower end portion of a semiconductor module being inserted in the slot, and the semiconductor module including a printed circuit board with a semiconductor device thereon, an external body coupled to an outside of the internal body, and a plurality of socket pins on opposite surfaces of the slot, the plurality of socket pins facing each other, and top portions of the plurality of socket pins being arranged at different levels. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349441 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY - An electrical connector assembly, comprises a first connector, and a second connector mounted onto the first connector, a frame surrounding the connectors, a locking member, an actuator, a first lever assemble the locking member to the frame, and a second lever assemble the actuator to the frame. The locking member locks the second lever, a user must firstly press the first lever to make the locking member release the second lever, and next press the second lever to bring the actuator rotate, and then the actuator upwardly push the second connector to apart the second connector from the first connector. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349442 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY WITH LOCKING MEMBER - An electrical connector assembly comprises a first connector, and a second connector mounted onto the first connector, a frame surrounding the connectors, a locking member, and a lever assemble the locking member to the frame. The locking member has a main body pivoting to the frame, a supporting portion being seated by the lever and a pushing portion. The main body locks the second connector, a user can press the lever to make the locking member to rotate, then to release the second connector, and upwardly push the second connector to apart the second connector from the first connector. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349443 | Connector Device - A connector device includes an electric wire side connector to which a shielded electric wire is connected, and a board side connector that is connected to a circuit board. The electric wire side connector is engaged with the board side connector. The electric wire side connector includes an electric wire side housing and an electric wire clamping member. The board side connector includes a board side housing and a fixing metal fitting. A bus bar plate electrically contacts the fixing metal fittings when the board side connector is engaged with the electric wire side connector. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349444 | Multiple-in-One Receptacle Connector - A multiple-in-one receptacle connector used for an audio equipment includes an insulating housing, receptacle connectors, and sealants. The insulating housing has a top surface having cavities disposed thereon and a bottom surface. Each cavity has a bottom having through holes disposed thereon and penetrating through the bottom surface. Each receptacle connector accommodated in the corresponding cavity includes terminals. Each terminal has a soldering section extending backward out of the corresponding receptacle connector. The soldering sections of each receptacle connector pass through the through holes disposed on the bottom of the corresponding cavity, respectively, to be out of the bottom surface. Each sealant disposed on the bottom surface seals gaps formed between the soldering sections of each receptacle connector and the through holes disposed on the bottom of the corresponding cavity. The present invention may prevent sounds from leaking from gaps by the sealants sealing the gaps. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349445 | CONNECTOR - A connector reduced in inspection cost by making it possible to visually check a state of connection between contact portions of contacts and terminal portions of an object to be connected. A male-side holding member includes a plurality of belt-like holding portions that hold linking portions of a plurality of male-side contacts, a holding member-side linking portion that links the plurality of holding portions arranged in parallel to each other, and a plurality of visually checking portions for visually checking a state of connection between contact portions of the male-side contacts and terminal portions of an electronic component from the other surface side of the male-side holding member. The visually checking portions are adjacent to the holding portions. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349446 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR FOR USE WITH PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS - An electrical connector has one or more body portions in which is disposed an electrical terminal having at least one contact pad interface for coupling to a contact pad of at least one printed circuit board (PCB). The body has an associated fastening device which is used to mechanically and electrically couple the electrical connector to the at least one PCB. The electrical connector may be provided with a full or partial hourglass-like shape, when viewed from the side and/or from above, to facilitate its use with a PCB that carries a source of light, such as an LED. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349447 | CONTACT STRIP STRUCTURE - A contact strip structure includes a fixing portion, a plurality of first terminals, a plurality of second terminals and a strip. The first terminals and the second terminals are fixed to the fixing portion. Two ends of the strip respectively extend in parallel from outsides of the first terminals and the second terminals for a distance, and then vertically extend and mutually contact with the first terminals and the second terminals to form at least one bridge. The first terminals and the second terminals are synchronously fixed to the fixing portion by insert molding. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349448 | CONNECTOR - A connector in which a large contact pressure between male and female terminals is obtained. The female terminal has an elastic wall portion that is outwardly pressed by the displaced elastic contact piece to be displaced. The elastic lance is disposed on the side of the elastic wall portion of the socket portion so as to be outwardly pressed by the displaced elastic wall portion to be displaced. The displaced elastic contact piece is pressed by the displaced elastic wall portion and the elastic lance, thereby increasing the contact pressure of the elastic contact piece. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349449 | Connector Housing and Connector - A connector is provided and includes a housing and a terminal position assurance article. The housing has a body and a terminal receiving portion extending rearward from the body. The terminal position assurance article is wholly received into a rear end of the housing and corresponds with the terminal receiving portion. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349450 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING CONNECTIONS IN AN INDUSTRIAL ENCLOSURE - The subject matter disclosed herein describes a system for connecting devices mounted to and within an industrial enclosure. The conductors for a device having multiple electrical conductors are bundled together. A first color coded element, such as a sleeve, is slid over the bundle providing a first identifier. The ends of the conductors are terminated at a single plug for insertion into a receptacle. A second color coded element, such as a label, which corresponds to the first color coded element, identifies into which receptacle each plug is to be inserted. In addition, each pole of the plug and/or receptacle includes a key or a corresponding space to receive a key. Various combinations of keys and spaces are defined such that each plug may be inserted into a single receptacle. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349451 | PLUG-IN CONNECTOR ARRANGEMENT - A plug-in connector arrangement includes two plug-in connector parts which can be plugged into each another and which each have a housing part, the housing parts being adapted to each another, and a plug contact provided therein, the plug contacts being adapted to each another, wherein the two housing parts have detent elements for detachably connecting the two housing parts to each other. The detent elements include at least one detent tongue that has a detent lug and is arranged in a tongue-receiving pocket in the first housing part, the detent lug engaging in an opening provided therefor in a housing wall of the second housing part, and the tongue-receiving pocket in the first housing part is in the form of a groove that has a substantially U-shaped cross-section, the two lateral limbs of the U projecting beyond the detent tongue. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349452 | RECEPTACLE FOR CONNECTING MODULAR ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENTS - A receptacle is provided to connect modular electronic instruments to each other. A box-shaped case has a front face having an opening for inserting a single modular electronic instrument into the box-shaped case. A first connector is disposed inside the box-shaped case to connect the single modular electronic instrument to the receptacle. A second connector is disposed on a first side face of the receptacle for connecting the receptacle to a first receptacle on the side of the first side face. A third connector is disposed on a second side face of the receptacle for connecting the receptacle to a second receptacle on the side of the second side face. A lock secures the connection with one of the first and second receptacles. A leg is disposed on the bottom face. The position of the leg is deviated only to one of the first or second side faces. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349453 | DEVICE FOR DIVIDING A BUNDLE OF INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONDUCTORS - A device for dividing at least one bundle of insulated electrical conductors is provided, where in the housing, is arranged a contact part, consisting of metal, which protrudes outwardly beyond the profile of the housing and has at its end projecting out of the housing at least one throughhole and at its end located in the housing a connecting element for electrically conductively connecting a conductor. In the assembly position at least one electrical individual line extends through one of the openings into the housing. The line has at least two conductors, wherein one of the conductors is electrically conductively connected to the contact part, while the other conductor of the individual line projects through one of the openings out of the housing. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349454 | AIRTIGHT COAXIAL CONNECTOR - There is provided a coaxial connector that can ensure high airtightness without using a costly hermetic sealing component. An airtight coaxial connector includes: a resin filling space portion formed more to a coaxial cable connection side than to an insulator in an outer shell; a resin inlet that is open more to a target connector connection side than to the insulator in the outer shell and communicates with the resin filling space portion; and an airtightness resin that is filled in the resin filling space portion through the resin inlet and seals between a central conductor and the outer shell and between a dielectric of a coaxial cable and the outer shell. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349455 | CABLE ASSEMBLY BACKSHELL - Provided is a cable assembly backshell capable of three angular configurations: straight, 45°, and 90°. The backshell is designed to rotate at two joints that allow it to assume these three angular configurations. A locking mechanism is associated with the backshell which prevents unintended reconfigurations. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349456 | MULTICORE CABLE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A cable includes an electric line having a plurality of cores with contacts being attached to ends of the cores. A plug connector has a contact carrier which accommodates the contacts in such a manner that the contacts are disposed in the contact carrier with a directional component that is oriented in parallel to a first direction. A collar is integrally formed on the contact carrier. The collar fixes the electrical line in position and bends the cores such that the cores have a directional component that is oriented in parallel to a second direction. The first direction is orthogonal to the second direction. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349457 | DATA AND POWER CONNECTOR - Embodiments are disclosed for a power and data connector comprising a magnet, a film adhered to a surface of the magnet, and a stage extending away from the film. The power and data connector further comprises a plurality of electrical contacts disposed on the stage, the plurality of electrical contacts having a mirrored signal pin-out. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349458 | CONNECTOR - A connector includes a first housing ( | 2015-12-03 |
20150349459 | INTERFACE CONNECTOR - A connector system includes an interface connector having a housing having a main body holding a contact array therein. The housing extends between a front end and a back end along a mating axis. The housing includes a cavity therein open to the front end and open to the back end. The cavity is situated proximate to a side of the housing. The cavity has a receiving channel open to the side of the housing. The receiving channel has mounting shoulders at least partially extending therein. The interface connector also includes a fastener having a retention surface. The fastener is configured to be side-loaded into the receiving channel through the side of the housing. The mounting shoulders engage the fastener within the cavity to limit transaxial movement of the fastener along the mating axis. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349460 | CONNECTOR - An upper face plate constituting a box part of a female terminal is flared outward in a free state before the female terminal is inserted in the cavity, and is formed as a spring plate that is bent and deflected inward by being pressed inward from the outside while accumulating a spring force. A stabilizer is disposed on the free end of the upper face plate. A cavity of a connector housing includes a stabilizer guide that presses back the upper face plate to the regular position by sliding on the stabilizer while the female terminal is being inserted. Accordingly, rattling of the terminal is prevented after the terminal is inserted in the cavity of the connector housing while suppressing enlargement of the outside dimensions of the terminal. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349461 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE UNIT - In an electronic device unit, each of the contact terminals includes a first member coupled to a press-fitting and fixing portion through intermediation of an elastically deformable portion, and a second member being coupled to the first member through intermediation of a folding portion and including a pressure bending portion formed at a terminal end of the second member. An end surface covering resin formed on the circuit board presses a pressure bending portion so that a conductive contact portion formed at the folding portion of the first member is pressed against the board-side terminal substantially in a right-angle direction. Thus, sliding contact between the conductive contact portion and the board-side terminal is diminished. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349462 | TRANSCEIVER MODULE RELEASE MECHANISM - A transceiver module release system is disclosed. The system may be used to release a transceiver module housed in a cage that is permanently mounted on a printed circuit board. The release system may include a bail that rotates a slide-block through a slot to urge the bail forward in a slide-block path on the transceiver module. The bail has a hook shaped structure adapted to be connected with a detachable pull tab. As the bail begins to move forward from the locked position, wedge elements at the end of a pair of slide-block arms extending rearward from the bail may contact locking tabs on the cage, forcing the locking tabs outward. As the locking tabs are forced outward, the shoulders of the transceiver module are released, and the transceiver module is free to slide-block out of the cage as the operator pulls on the bail. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349463 | COMMUNICATION JACK HAVING AN INSULATING ELEMENT AND A SPRING ELEMENT - A communication jack which includes a housing with an aperture for receiving a communication plug, and a circuit board at least partially within the housing. The circuit board includes crosstalk compensation elements. A plurality of plug interface contacts are connected to the circuit board. At least one of the plurality of plug interface contacts includes a contact element layered with at least one spring element. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349464 | REUSE OF PLUG DETECTION CONTACTS TO REDUCE CROSSTALK - An audio jack may include two contacts to electrically connect to a ground contact of an audio plug in order to detect that a metallic audio plug is inserted into the audio jack. A first of these two contacts may be grounded to form a current return path that generates a ground voltage at the ground contact of the audio plug. The second of these two contacts may be repurposed after the detection to sense the ground voltage. The sensed ground voltage may be added to right and left audio signals. The net voltages provided to the audio plug may be right and left audio signals that include the sensed ground voltage minus the actual ground voltage at the ground contact of the audio plug. This may remove the ground voltage from the net audio output signals, which may reduce crosstalk. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349465 | CONNECTOR SYSTEM IMPEDANCE MATCHING - Connector inserts and receptacles that provide signal paths having desired impedance characteristics. One example may provide a connector system having a connector insert and a connector receptacle. Contacts in the connector insert may form signal paths with corresponding contacts in the connector receptacle. Additional traces in the connector insert and receptacle may be part of these signal paths. The signal paths may have a target or a desired impedance along their lengths such that the power paths electrically appear as transmission lines. Constraints on physical dimensions of the connector insert and connector receptacle contacts may result in variations in impedance along the signal paths. Accordingly, embodiments of the present invention may provide structures to reduce these variations, to compensate for these variations, or a combination thereof. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349466 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR - Electrical connector includes an insulative body, first and second terminals, shielding housing, and adhesive. The insulative body has a tongue piece and a base having first and second positioning grooves. Each of the first terminals has a first positioning part received in the insulative body, a first electrical contact part exposed from the tongue piece, and a first bonding part accommodated in a corresponding one of the first positioning grooves and protruding from the base. Each of the second terminals has a second positioning part received in the base, a second electrical contact part exposed from the tongue piece, and a second bonding part accommodated in a corresponding one of the second positioning grooves and protruding from the base. Adhesive is injected into the first and second positioning grooves to encapsulate the first bonding parts in the first positioning grooves and the second bonding parts in the second positioning grooves. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349467 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR - An electrical connector is provided, including a main body, first terminals installed at a seat of the main body, second terminals embedded in the seat, and a housing. The housing has a bottom wall, two side walls, and a top wall, and defines an accommodating space having a first opening and a second opening. A plurality of first spring plates are disposed on the top wall and bottom wall. A second spring plate is disposed near the second opening of the top wall. Third spring plates are disposed near the second opening of the bottom wall. When a connector plug is plugged into the electrically connector, the first, second and third spring plates make contact with an iron housing of the connector plug to increase the contact area between the connector plug and the electrical connector, and reduce electromagnetic interference to peripheral devices. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349468 | SPRING CLIP FOR SHIELDING OF ELECTRICAL CONNECTORS - Grounding finger for shielding at an electrical connection between a plug connector and a mating plug connector of an electrical line, having a sleeve-like support element which has a first outer edge and a second outer edge, axial connecting webs being provided between the outer edges, and having a plurality of spring limbs which act radially outward and, at least at one end, are connected to one of the edges in order to generate a spring-loaded contact force to the outer plug connector, with some of the connecting webs being interrupted and being formed in each case with at least one contact lug which faces radially inward. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349469 | CARD EDGE CONNECTOR - A card edge connector includes a harness-side connector (H) in which a plurality of terminal fittings ( | 2015-12-03 |
20150349470 | CONNECTOR - A detector ( | 2015-12-03 |
20150349471 | VEHICLE HARNESS STRUCTURE AND ADDITIONAL CONNECTION MEMBER - A vehicle harness structure and an additional connection member are provided, according to which part numbers of wire harnesses are reduced and superfluous attachment in the wire harness is avoided. The vehicle harness structure includes a basic harness for interconnecting a plurality of main devices to be mounted in common on target vehicles, an additional connection member having one end connected in a branched manner to a communication line or a signal line of the basic harness and another end connected to at least one auxiliary device to be optionally post-mounted on the target vehicles, and a control function section provided in the additional connection member to control the operation of the auxiliary device. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349472 | INSERTION-TYPE CONNECTOR - An insertion-type connector having a housing and at least two contact elements fixed within the housing, which are designed for connection to two cores of a twisted-pair cable, wherein the housing forms a guide by which the cores are fixed in a twist which continues the twist of the twisted-pair cable. A system having such an insertion-type connector and a twisted-pair cable is taught, and a method of producing the same. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349473 | TRANSITION DEVICE FOR COAXIAL CABLES - A cable transition device comprises a support sleeve configured to be inserted between a structural overwrap and a compliant outer jacket of a coaxial cable. The compliant outer jacket surrounds the signal-carrying conductors and extends beyond a terminal end of a stepped transition. The cable transition device includes a compression device configured to urge the structural overwrap against the support sleeve to establish an environmental seal therebetween and produce a load path from the overwrap to the support structure through one of the support sleeve and the compression device. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349474 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR - An electrical connector having impedance necessary for high-speed signal transmission. A first plated film and a second plated film are located on an outer surface of an insulating shaft. A terminal section of the first plated film encircles the outer surface of the shaft near the tip of the shaft. A first circular conductor ring is forced onto the shaft from the tip and contacts the terminal section of the first plated film. A terminal section of the second plated film encircles the outer surface of the shaft with a gap from the terminal section of the first plated film that is closer to the base end than to the terminal section of the first plated film. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349475 | MULTIPOLE JACK, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A multipole jack includes a main body and a case. The substantially cylindrical main body includes terminal bases which make contact with electrodes of a multipole plug. Connecting ends of the terminal bases are led out from the main body. The main body is attached to the substantially bottomed cylindrical resin case through an opening of the case. Inner ends of extension terminals which protrude from side walls of the case and are insert-molded are electrically connected to the connecting ends of the corresponding terminal bases. Therefore, it is possible to further increase a battery size of an electronic device in which a multipole jack is provided by decreasing an entire length of the multipole jack, and to meet the demand for reducing the size of a multipole jack by reducing the length of terminals. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349476 | MULTIPORT TERMINAL WITH CURRENT BARS - The invention relates to a multiport chamber ( | 2015-12-03 |
20150349477 | SLIDING CONTACT ARRANGEMENT FOR TRANSMITTING ELECTRICAL SIGNALS AND ALSO A METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SLIDING CONTACT ARRANGEMENT - The invention is a sliding contact and also a method for the production thereof. The sliding contact arrangement has two parts mounted to rotate relatively to one another. The first part has a metallic carrier ring with radial inner and outer sides, which is monolithically connected to at least one spring arm, which ends freely on one side on the inner side or outer side. The spring arm extends longitudinally relative to the inner or outer side at least in certain sections. The spring arm ends at a spring arm head having a contact surface facing away from the carrier ring, which is in sliding contact with a contact surface of the second part. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349478 | CRIMPING TOOL AND CRIMPING DIE - A hand operated crimping tool with at least three crimping dies, the crimping surfaces of which together enclose a crimp opening arranged to receive a workpiece to be crimped. The crimping dies have movable pivot points that move when the handles of the tool are moved relative to each other. Each of the crimping dies is arranged between two guide elements on the body of the crimping tool and further has a respective cam surface and a respective stop surface, the respective cam surface being arranged to cooperate with a guide surface on one of the guide elements and the respective stop surface being arranged to cooperate with a guide surface on the other one of the guide elements, thus guiding the movement of the respective crimping die when the pivot points for the crimping dies are moved relative to the body of the crimping tool. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349479 | DIFFRACTION GRATING FOR LASER PULSE COMPRESSION AND LASER DEVICE - A pulse compressor for compressing a laser pulse in a laser device using a chirped pulse amplification method includes two identically shaped diffraction gratings arranged parallel to each other with their respective grating surfaces facing each other and a total reflection mirror for receiving a laser pulse through the diffraction grating and returning it back to the same gratings. Each diffraction grating is a reflective blazed diffraction grating having grooves with a sawtooth-shaped section covered with a reflective Au coating on their surface, with the blaze angle determined so that, at the wavelength of the laser pulse to be used, the incident angle of a laser pulse entering the pulse compressor and first order diffracted light form a relationship of mirror reflection with the groove slope and so that a predetermined level of diffraction efficiency is obtained. Since the laser pulse impinges on the grating at substantially right angles to the groove slope, a high level of damage threshold is obtained and a high-power laser pulse can be generated. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349480 | LASER WAVEGUIDE DEVICE AND LASER WAVEGUIDE SYSTEM - A laser light waveguide device includes laser light provision units that oscillate and cause laser light to exit; a laser light waveguide path formed of an optical fiber capable of guiding the laser light; and a control unit that controls the laser light provision units. The control unit detects an illumination spot (output of the visible laser light) based on a captured image, captured by an image capturing unit, of a laser light illumination area and an area close thereto illuminated with the laser light, and controls exit of the infrared laser light by the infrared laser light provision unit based on a result of detection of the illumination spot (output of the visible laser light). | 2015-12-03 |
20150349481 | Scalable High Power Fiber Laser - A modular and scalable high-power fiber laser system is configurable to generate 1 kW or more of laser output, and includes one or more separable pump modules separately disposed from each other, each pump module including a plurality of fiber-coupled component pump sources optically combined by one or more fiber-based pump module pump combiners, each pump module providing one or more pump module fiber outputs, and a gain module separately disposed from the one or more separable pump modules and including one or more gain module pump fiber inputs optically coupled to corresponding ones of the pump module fiber outputs, and including a gain fiber optically coupled to the one or more gain module pump fiber inputs, the gain fiber configured to generate a gain module fiber output power scalable in relation to the number and power of said pump module fiber outputs coupled to the gain fiber. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349482 | PLANAR WAVEGUIDE LASER DEVICE - A laser medium | 2015-12-03 |
20150349483 | POWERFUL PULSED SELF-SEEDING CO2 LASER - The present disclosure discloses a CO | 2015-12-03 |
20150349484 | LASER DEVICE AND METHOD - A laser beam combining and power scaling device and method. A first highly reflective mirror residing perpendicular to the first optical axis reflecting radiation emitted from the first laser head. A first Q-switch in alignment with the first optical axis interposed between the first highly reflective mirror and the first laser head. A second highly reflective mirror residing perpendicular to the second optical axis reflecting radiation emitted from the second laser head. The second Q-switch in alignment with the second optical axis is interposed between the second highly reflective mirror and the first laser head. A third optical axis is coincident with the first optical axis. A third highly reflective mirror residing perpendicular to the third optical axis in alignment therewith. The third optical axis may include a third diode pumped laser head and Q-switch. A beam splitter resides at the intersection of the axes. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349485 | System and Method to Compensate for Frequency Distortions and Polarization Induced Effects in Optical Systems - The invention provides a system and a method for wavelength referencing and polarization mitigation. An optical wavelength tunable laser source is swept in a number of contiguous, overlapping sweep segments. A coarse reference wavelength section produces a reference signal that defines at least one absolute wavelength within a sweep segment. A fine wavelength reference section produces a periodic wavelength reference signal that defines a plurality of equidistant wavelengths within each sweep segment with an indeterminate offset relative to the absolute wavelength(s) of the coarse reference wavelength section. The free spectral range of the fine wavelength reference section is smaller than the spacing between subsequent absolute reference wavelengths of the coarse reference wavelength section. This arrangement allows reducing the minimum required overlap between contiguous sweep segments. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349486 | NARROW LINE-WIDTH LASER CHARACTERIZATION BASED ON BI-DIRECTIONAL PUMPED BRILLOUIN RANDOM FIBER LASER - A method and apparatus for launching optical pump signals into a disordered gain medium at two points thereby producing a narrow line-width random fiber laser within the disordered gain medium. The optical pump signals are propagated in a direction through the disordered gain medium towards one another. The apparatus may comprise an optical gain fiber having a first end configured to receive a first fiber pump signal and a second end configured to receive a second fiber pump signal such that the first fiber pump signal and the second fiber pump signal propagate within the optical gain fiber in a direction towards one another. An optical loss device is coupled to the optical gain fiber, wherein the optical loss device isolates a narrow line-width random fiber laser signal from a signal generated within the optical gain fiber. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349487 | Method For Producing Semiconductor Laser Elements And Semi-Conductor Laser Element - Method for producing semiconductor laser elements ( | 2015-12-03 |
20150349488 | SEMICONDUCTOR LASER MODULE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A semiconductor laser module | 2015-12-03 |
20150349489 | Jig for Can-Package Semiconductor Laser - A jig for handling a CAN-package semiconductor laser having a semiconductor laser mounted on a pedestal, a cap which is put on one surface of the pedestal and covers the semiconductor laser, and a lead pin which is electrically connected to the semiconductor laser and protrudes from the other surface of the pedestal includes: a base part provided with a recessed part to which the pedestal is fitted; a terminal pad provided on a recessed-part bottom surface and being in contact with the lead pin; and a terminal pin electrically connected to the terminal pad and protruding from the base part. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349490 | SEMICONDUCTOR LASER DIODE - A semiconductor laser diode is disclosed. The semiconductor laser diode including a primary surface constituted by two short sides and two long sides, comprises: an active layer; an electrode provided above the active layer; a first pad connected to the electrode; a second pad connected to the first pad; an inner interconnection configured to connect the electrode to the first pad electrically, the inner interconnection being provided along the long sides; and an outer interconnection configured to connect the first pad to the second pad electrically, the outer interconnection being provided along the long sides, the outer interconnection having a width along the short sides narrower than a width of the first pad along the short sides and a width of the second pad along the short sides. The active layer, the first pad, and the second pad are arranged along the long sides. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349491 | DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTOR RIDGE LASER DIODE AND FABRICATING METHOD THEREOF - Provided herein is a distributed bragg reflector ridge laser diode that is capable of easily embodying a diffraction grating and that minimizes an optical absorption effect on a DBR area, and a fabricating method thereof, the distributed bragg reflector ridge laser diode including a lower clad layer formed on top of a substrate; an active core zone formed on top of the lower clad layer; a plurality of ridge wave guides formed on top of the active core zone such that they are spaced from one another and extend in an axial direction; and a diffraction grating formed on top of the active core zone and between the plurality of ridge wave guides. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349492 | EXTERNAL RESONATOR LASER - To provide a tunable external resonator laser with mode-hop-free for broadband. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349493 | SEMICONDUCTOR LASER WITH EXTERNAL CAVITY HAVING NON-STRAIGHT WAVEGUIDE - The present invention relates to a semiconductor laser with an external cavity having a non-straight waveguide, in which a semiconductor laser diode used as an optical gain medium has a nonreflective coated side, light emitted from the laser diode chip is collected to a waveguide type of waveguide-selective filter and light having a wavelength selected by a grating on the waveguide is fed back to the laser diode chip, and the wavelength of emitted light is changed by electrically or thermally changing the properties of the waveguide. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349494 | LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A light-emitting element includes a mesa structure in which a first compound semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, an active layer, and a second compound semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type are disposed in that order, wherein at least one of the first compound semiconductor layer and the second compound semiconductor layer has a current constriction region surrounded by an insulation region extending inward from a sidewall portion of the mesa structure; a wall structure disposed so as to surround the mesa structure; at least one bridge structure connecting the mesa structure and the wall structure, the wall structure and the bridge structure each having the same layer structure as the portion of the mesa structure in which the insulation region is provided; a first electrode; and a second electrode disposed on a top face of the wall structure. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349495 | SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL ELEMENT, SEMICONDUCTOR LASER ELEMENT, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL ELEMENT AND SEMICONDUCTOR LASER ELEMENT, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR LASER MODULE AND SEMICONDUCTOR ELEMENT - A semiconductor optical element includes a semiconductor layer portion that includes an optical waveguide layer. The semiconductor layer portion contains a first impurity having a function of suppressing atomic vacancy diffusion and a second impurity having a function of promoting atomic vacancy diffusion, between a topmost surface of the semiconductor layer portion and the optical waveguide layer. The semiconductor layer portion includes two or more regions that extend in a deposition direction with different contents of at least one of the impurities. At least one of the two or more regions contains both the first impurity and the second impurity. The two or more regions have different degrees of disordering in the optical waveguide layer achieved through atomic vacancy diffusion and different band gap energies of the optical waveguide layer. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349496 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - To provide a semiconductor laser that suppresses end face destruction due to catastrophic optical damage (COD) to a light emission end face and has high output characteristics. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349497 | CO-AXIAL COMMUTATION SPARK GAP - Disclosed is a commutation spark gap ( | 2015-12-03 |
20150349498 | SPARK PLUG - A spark plug including an insulator having an axial hole, a center electrode held at one end side and a terminal electrode held at the other end side of the axial hole, an electrical connection portion electrically connecting the center electrode and the terminal electrode inside the axial hole, wherein the electrical connection portion includes a conductor including a ceramic phase and a metal wire having a spiral structure portion, wherein the metal wire has a wire diameter of 0.1 mm or greater and 0.5 mm or smaller, and wherein the spiral structure portion of the metal wire is configured such that an outer diameter thereof is 1.0 mm or greater and 3 mm or smaller, a pitch thereof is 0.3 mm or greater and 1 mm or smaller, and a height thereof is 8 mm or greater and 30 mm or smaller. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349499 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONNECTING AN RF GENERATOR TO A COAXIAL CONDUCTOR - The present disclosure presents a device and method for connecting an RF generator to a coaxial conductor. The device includes a substrate, a radio frequency generator on the substrate, and a coaxial conductor coupled to a first surface of the substrate. The coaxial conductor includes a conductive core and a conductive shield around the conductive core and is configured to transmit the radio frequency signal to a radiation device. The device includes a cap coupled to the substrate and extending from a second surface of the substrate opposite the first surface. The cap includes an outer wall and a center post. The outer wall is electrically connected to the conductive shield of the coaxial conductor and the center post is electrically connected to the conductive core of the coaxial conductor. An output pad of the radio frequency generator is electrically connected to the conductive core. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349500 | POLARIZED RESIN FILM AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SAME - An object of the present invention is to provide a polarized vinylidene fluoride/tetrafluoroethylene copolymer resin film that can significantly reduce, when used as an optical film, the deterioration of the quality of video or still images formed by display elements. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349501 | CONCENTRIC ELECTRICAL DISCHARGE AEROSOL CHARGER - The invention concerns an aerosol charger having electrical discharge comprising: •—a body ( | 2015-12-03 |
20150349502 | SWITCHGEAR INCLUDING A WITHDRAWABLE SWITCHGEAR UNIT HAVING A BLOCKING MECHANISM - A switchgear includes a housing having first and second side walls and at least one shelf member. The at least one shelf member includes a guide element. A withdrawable switchgear unit is slidingly supported on the at least one shelf member. A blocking mechanism is mounted to the withdrawable switchgear unit. The blocking mechanism includes a guide pin arranged in the guide element and a blocking pin operatively connected to the guide pin. The blocking pin selectively restricts movement of the withdrawable switchgear unit between at least two operational positions. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349503 | ELECTRICAL JUNCTION BOX - An electrical junction box includes a bolt fixation portion made of resin, the bolt fixation portion having a bolt insertion hole through which a bolt is inserted to fix the electrical junction box to a vehicle. The bolt fixation portion includes a protrusion extending in an axial direction of the bolt in a state in which the bolt is inserted through the bolt insertion hole. The protrusion is configured to limit a rotationally movable range of an operating portion of a tool that is used in a state in which the operating portion extends in a direction intersecting the axial direction of the bolt. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349504 | Faceplate and hanging device - The faceplate and hanging hook device includes at least one hanging hook integrally formed on a front surface portion of the plate. The plate is mountable to an electrical device securely mounted to a wall-mounted connection box which is securely mounted to a stud of a building. The device serves both as a faceplate for covering the electrical connection box as well as a secure hanging means located at a desirable convenient location in the building. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349505 | WIRE FIXTURE - A wire fixture for fixing an electric wire in a wire mounting hole formed in a panel includes: a fixing member to be wound and fixed around the electric wire; a first cable bushing including a first main body portion to be attached to the electric wire from one side in a radial direction; and a second cable bushing including a second main body portion to be attached to the electric wire from the other side in the radial direction. The first and second cable bushings each include a locking member that extends in one direction from each of the first and second main body portions in a longitudinal direction of the electric wire to lock the fixing member. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349506 | CONSTRUCTION KIT FOR PRODUCING COVERINGS - A construction kit for producing coverings, particularly floor coverings, including components laid with their edges adjoining one another. According to the invention, the construction kit has components with at least one channel, particularly a groove open toward the support surface of the component, for receiving electric cables, and comprises a passage, connected to the channel and open toward the visible surface of the component, for laying the cables. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349507 | CONTAINER BASED BY-PASS MODULE FOR ELECTRIC POWER LINES - A by-pass module for power lines includes a container having a housing space, three reels rotatable around rotation axes and housed into the housing space, single phase link for each reel having a first end termination and a second end termination, each single phase link being wound on a respective reel for being unwound from the first end termination, a driving unit for each reel designed for rotating the reel in an unwinding direction allowing the relevant single phase link to be unwound from the reel, and in a winding direction allowing the relevant single phase link to be wound on the reel. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349508 | PROTECTING ELECTRONIC DEVICES FROM ELECTRICAL SUPPLY DISTURBANCES - Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for monitoring electrical disturbance (e.g., surges, outages, etc.) possibilities, and then automatically isolating electronic devices (also referred to herein as electronics) for the duration of the disturbance (or threat thereof). In a typical embodiment, a probability of an electrical disturbance occurring at a specified location will be determined. Then, a set of device protection profiles will be accessed. The set of device protection profiles comprises a set of thresholds and a corresponding set of device topologies associated with a set of electronic devices positioned. The set of thresholds in the set of device protection profiles will then be compared to the probability to identify a matching device topology from the set of device topologies. According to the matching device topology, at least one electronic device will be isolated from an electrical power source. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349509 | BATTERY ISOLATION CIRCUIT - Various embodiments relating to a battery isolation circuit for disconnecting a battery from a load are disclosed. In one embodiment, a battery isolation circuit includes a power switch, a protection circuit module (PCM), and a drive diverter. The power switch may be operatively intermediate a battery and a load. The PCM may be operatively connected to the power switch. The PCM may be configured to selectively drive the power switch to electrically connect the battery to the load. The drive diverter may be configured to interrupt the PCM from driving the power switch in order to electrically disconnect the battery from the load in response to activation of a user-operable switch. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349510 | REVERSE BLOCKING APPARATUS FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND SWITCH APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - Reverse blocking apparatus for electronic devices and switch apparatus including the same. In some embodiments, a blocking system for an electronic device can include a determining unit configured to generate an indication signal indicative of a condition associated with an undesirable current in the electronic device. Such an undesirable current can be a reverse current which can damage electronic devices such as transistors. The blocking system can further include a blocking unit in communication with the determining unit. The blocking unit can be configured to be coupled to a terminal of the electronic device. The blocking unit can be further configured to inhibit or reduce passage of the undesirable current in the electronic device based on the indication signal. Examples of applications of such a blocking system and related methods are disclosed. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349511 | POWER TRANSFORMER INRUSH CURRENT DETECTOR - Techniques for detecting an inrush current in a power transformer in are disclosed. For example, the presence of an inrush current on a current path in a power transformer may be determined by receiving a signal from a Rogowski coil positioned on a current path of a power transformer, the signal corresponding to a current flowing in the current path; sampling the received signal to produce samples of the received signal; and analyzing the samples of the received signal relative to at least two criteria to determine whether an inrush current is present. When an inrush current is present, operation of a protective relay is blocked. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349512 | LEAKAGE CURRENT DETECTION INTERRUPTER WITH SELF-TESTING FUNCTION AND OVER-TEMPERATURE PROTECTION FUNCTION - A leakage current detection interrupter (LCDI) with self-testing function, which includes: a leakage current detection unit, including multiple current-carrying wires and at least one leakage current detection wire for detecting a leakage current of the current-carrying wires; a phase protection unit, coupled to at least one current-carrying wire on the input side of the multiple current-carrying wires, and coupled to at least one current-carrying wire on the output side of the multiple current-carrying wires via the leakage current detection unit, to form a current loop; wherein the phase protection unit can generate a control signal to disconnect the electrical coupling between the LCDI and the power source. By using a temperature controlled module, the leakage current detection unit and the phase protection unit, an LCDI with self-testing function is achieved. When there is a leakage current in the current-carrying wires, or the current-carrying wire is open, or the temperature of the electrical appliance exceeds a predefined range, or the leakage current detection wire is broken, the LCDI can disconnect its electrical coupling with the power source, ensuring the safety of the appliance and enhancing the quality of the electrical grid. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349513 | CIRCUIT BREAKER - A circuit breaker according to the present invention includes a terminal switching unit mounted in an enclosure thereof, and the terminal switching unit accommodates, in a base as an outer casing thereof, a fixed contactor and a movable contactor contactable with and separated from each other, a sliding unit rotatably supporting the movable contactor, and a detection mechanism to detect a fault current. Radiators are provided at side portions of at least one of a contact portion where the movable contactor comes in contact with the fixed contactor, the sliding unit and the detection mechanism, each radiator radiating heat to the outside of the base. This may prevent an increase in temperature of the circuit breaker within a limited space without an increase in costs. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349514 | MULTIFUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL POWER OUTPUT PROTECTION DEVICE - A multifunctional electrical power output protection device includes a protection device having a circuit board. The circuit board is mounted in a receiving space of the protection device and includes an input port, an output port, a switching element, a detection element, and a manually-operating overriding device. The manually-operating overriding device is electrically connected to an end of the detection element. The switching element has an end electrically connected to the input port and an opposite end electrically connected to the output port. The detection element has an end electrically connected to the input port and an opposite end electrically connected to the output port. The switching element and the detection element that are connectable to an external power supply respectively provide an effect of preventing backward charging induced by a reverse electrical current and effects of over-loading interruption and current-limiting protection. | 2015-12-03 |
20150349515 | Electrically Insulated Tethers for Transmission Line Arresters - An electrical transmission system is described herein. The electrical transmission system can include at least one first phase high-voltage conductor. The electrical transmission system can also include an arrester coupled to the at least one first phase high-voltage conductor, where the arrester includes an arrester body and an isolator, where the arrester body includes a top end and a bottom end, where the top end of the arrester is coupled to the at least one first phase high-voltage conductor, and where the bottom end of the arrester body is coupled to the isolator. The electrical transmission system can further include a ground conductor coupled to a bottom end of the isolator of the arrester. The electrical transmission system can also include a tether coupled to the ground conductor, where the tether comprises a distal end, where the distal end of the tether is coupled to the arrester above the isolator. | 2015-12-03 |