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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7992441 | Pressure sensor for measuring pressure in a medium A pressure sensor module is disclosed. The pressure sensor module comprises a sensing element (1) mounted on a front side (3) of a support member (5). The support member (5) comprises a hole (7) through the support member (5... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7988500 | Socket and contact having anchors A socket apparatus comprises a base portion defining an array of contact cavities. A plurality of contacts are inserted into the array of contact cavities defined in the base portion. The base portion includes a top side and a bottom side and a plurality of ribs ext... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7939772 | Electrical switch system for use with vehicular transmissions A linear vehicle transmission switch (10) has first and second interfitting housing members (12, 14) each having an electrically conductive lead frame (12m) insert molded in electrically insulative material and formed with exposed segment... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7898781 | Arc fault detection apparatus employing a comparator with a continuously variable threshold An arc fault detection apparatus that provides for better discrimination of electrical arcing events from nuisance loads. The arc fault detection apparatus includes an arcing sense circuit having a comparator circuit with a variable threshold voltage that varies con... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7779701 | Pressure sensor apparatus A high pressure, miniature pressure sensor has a cup-shaped housing having an open end closed by a metal substrate. A raised stress isolation pedestal portion is formed on the substrate that receives a stress isolation glass pedestal element and in turn a silicon pr... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7762140 | Combined fluid pressure and temperature sensor apparatus A combined fluid pressure transducer and temperature sensor (10) has a housing (12) containing a variable capacitor (14) having a rigid substrate (14a) and attached flexible diaphragm (14b) in sealed, spaced apart rel... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7725268 | Sensing module and method for gas concentration measurement Method and sensing module for sensing pollution of outside air. The sensing module (1) comprises an electro chemical sensing element (3), and a processor (2). A sensing module output signal is provided based on the measurement signal and a basel... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7622835 | Motor protector attachment system A motor protector receiving bracket (10) is shown for use with a multiphase motor protector having at least two terminal pins (4 and 5). The bracket has a back wall formed with first (12e) and second (12h) slots for r... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7601008 | Socket adaptor apparatus A socket adaptor 10 made of an electrically insulating material has a main adaptor body 12 on which a plurality of through holes 14 containing an upper opening and a lower opening has been formed. In certain preferred embodiments a probe pin ... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7592819 | Microprocessor-based capacitance measurement An improved system and method of performing capacitance measurements that provides a fast digital response and a reduced output error. The capacitance measurement system includes a circuit configuration that has a variable capacitor and at least one reference capaci... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7578194 | Differential fluid pressure measurement apparatus A differential liquid pressure sensor (10) has an upper housing (12) that mounts a connector portion (12a) and receives in a recess a sense element module (14). The sense element module is a body in which a generally U-shaped oil f... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7467891 | Sensor arrangement for measuring a pressure and a temperature in a fluid A sensor arrangement (1) for measuring a pressure and a temperature in a fluid is disclosed. The sensor arrangement (1) comprises a temperature sensitive electrical element (3) and a pressure sensing electrical element (6), the temperatur... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7459667 | Active pixel image sensor with common gate amplifier mode A method and apparatus to operate a pixel circuit within an active pixel image sensor in a common gate amplifier mode. A bias voltage is applied to a row select transistor in a pixel circuit, and the row select transistor is operated in a common gate amplifier mode.... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7417678 | Precise CMOS imager transfer function control for expanded dynamic range imaging using variable-height multiple reset pulses A sense node voltage relating to light intensity incident upon a light-detecting element is measured. To realize this measurement, a first integration reset pulse is generated to enable a resetting of the sense node voltage to a voltage value substantially equal to ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7408750 | Methods of detecting arc faults characterized by consecutive periods of arcing An apparatus and method for detecting electrical arc faults that has reduced susceptibility to nuisance tripping. The apparatus includes a current sensor, an input sense circuit, an arcing sense circuit, a power supply, a tripping circuit, a processing unit, and an ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7405645 | Thermally activated circuit interrupter A thermally activated circuit interrupter (10) has a cantilever mounted, snap acting thermostatic disc (16) mounting a movable electric contact (18) that is adapted to move between a contacts engaged position and a tripped, contacts disengaged p... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7400481 | Low cost arc fault detection technique Low cost apparatus and methods of detecting arc faults for better discriminating electrical events. The arc fault detection apparatus includes a current sensor, a di/dt input sense circuit, a dv/dt input sense circuit, and a processing unit. The current sensor monit... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7397339 | Method for ambient temperature compensating thermostat metal actuated electrical devices having a plurality of current ratings A thermally actuated device, such as an electrical circuit breaker (10) is provided with an ambient temperature compensation thermostat metal member (38) selected so that it bends when subjected to changes in temperature and compensates for ambient tem... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7382223 | Thermal circuit breaker A switchable thermal circuit breaker (10) has an automatically resettable, current carrying thermostatic disc (14) cantilever mounted in a housing (12) and carries a movable contact (14b) into and out of electrical engagement with ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7349574 | System and method for processing non-linear image data from a digital imager A system and method process non-linear image data, still or video, from a digital imager. Noise generated by analog-to-digital converters is filtered from a pixel of digital image data. Moreover, the effects of single pixel defects in the imager are eliminated by cl... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7326887 | Modified reset motor protector A self-hold motor protector (10) has an open metallic housing (12) in which a thermostatic disc (14) carrying a movable electrical contact (18) is cantilever mounted. A heater seat plate (20) is mounted in the housing in electrical... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7323347 | Biosensor surface structures and methods A biosensor surface with a low density of ligand-carrying tether molecules on a base layer. Also, surface plasmon resonance (SPR) devices have the biosensor surface attached to a thin gold layer with backside angle-spread incident radiation for resonance excitation ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7318736 | Burn-in sockets for BGA IC devices having an integrated slider with full ball grid compatibility A slider 24 that integrates adaptor alignment and anti-stick features is shown for use in a socket for mounting BGA type IC devices for burn-in tests. Slider 24 has a top wall surface 14b formed with a plurality of apertures in a grid arr... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7304561 | Motor overload protector An enclosed motor protector has a housing formed by a base (10) and a cover (12) received on the base and enclosing a recess (10a) formed in the base. A first terminal (14) extends through an opening in the housing and mounts a sta... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7301434 | Thermally responsive electrical switch A motor protector (10) is shown having an elongated generally cup-shaped metallic housing (12) formed by a top wall (12a) and a side wall (12b) extending down from the perimeter of the top walls, the free end of which is wel... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7289149 | Operational transconductance amplifier for high-speed, low-power imaging applications A low power imaging array has a plurality of pixels wherein each pixel converts an intensity of incident light into electrical energy. An operational transconductance amplifier is utilized in conjunction with the imaging array to process the image signals from the l... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7277129 | Pixel design including in-pixel correlated double sampling circuit An image sensor having a plurality of pixels, each including a sense node; an output node; a first device, connected to the sense node, producing a signal at the sense node that is proportional to incident light intensity at the pixel; at least one select node to re... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7255015 | Occupant weight sensor for vehicular seats, method for making and system therefor An occupant weight sensor (1) for placement between a frame (7) fixed to the chassis of a vehicle and a second frame (8) supporting a vehicle seat has a sense element having a first body (12, 22, 28, 34, 50, 62, 64, 68) formed with a plan... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7245198 | Motor start relay and an electric compressor using same A motor start relay (100) comprises a positive temperature PTC thermistor, a PTC case 400 of heat resistant resin for receiving the PTC thermistor horizontally, first and second contact/terminals (500, 560) each having contacts electrically enga... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7242291 | Arc fault circuit interrupter test circuit and test board A tester for an arc fault circuit interrupter that can selectively simulate and apply electrical arc faults and nuisance loads to at least one device under test (DUT). The tester includes a power supply, a test controller, and test circuitry coupleable to a DUT. AC ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7240508 | Connecting package for refrigerator compressor Disclosed is a connecting package for a refrigerator compressor. The connecting package includes a base including an overload protector mounting section and a motor starter relay element mounting section and having first to third pin connecting ports connected to a ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7227729 | Arc fault detection technique An apparatus and a method of detecting arc faults that have reduced susceptibility to nuisance tripping. The apparatus includes a current sensor, a differential current input sense circuit, a differential current (di/dt) characteristics sense circuit, an absolute cu... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7217140 | Contact assembly and socket for use with semiconductor packages In a contact assembly, a first set of contacts (30-1 through 30-5) is arranged on a first surface and a second set of contacts (40-5 through 4-1) is arranged on a second surface with respective contacts of each... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7210970 | Circuit breaker with improved connector socket A shouldered connector pin socket (14) is shown having an open channel (14a) formed in the face surface of a wall member of a circuit breaker housing. An electrically conductive spring member (16, 16′) is received over the channel and i... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7197937 | Hermetic pressure sensing device A pressure sensing device (10, 40) is shown having a ceramic capacitive sensing element (12) received in a chamber formed in a hexport housing (16). The hexport housing has a fluid passageway (16c) communicating with a recessed cha... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7190562 | Method for detecting arc faults An apparatus and method for detecting arc faults that have reduced susceptibility to nuisance tripping. The apparatus includes a current sensor, an input sense circuit, an arcing sense circuit, a power supply, a tripping (firing) circuit, a processor, and an electro... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7190561 | Apparatus for detecting arc faults An apparatus and method for detecting arc faults that have reduced susceptibility to nuisance tripping. The apparatus includes a current sensor, an input sense circuit, an arcing sense circuit, a power supply, a tripping (firing) circuit, a processor, and an electro... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7112749 | Sensor mounting apparatus for minimizing parasitic stress A compliant interface (14,16) for vehicular seat weight sensors minimizes parasitic stresses affecting sensor output. In one embodiment, an integral compliant interface (14) has an annular flange (14a) attached to a post extending from th... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7109840 | Protector for electrical apparatus A protector (10) particularly useful for wye-connected three phase electrical motors has a header (12) mounting first and second terminal pins (14) to which L-shaped pin heaters (16) are mounted along with stationary electrical contacts (... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7102481 | Low current electric motor protector A low current motor protector (10, 10′) has an oblong metal housing (12) defining a switch chamber and formed with an open end. The housing has opposing flange portions extending transversely from the open end. Spaced apart lid portions (18... | 09/05/2006 |
