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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120104872 | System and Apparatus for Interconnecting and Array of Power Generating Assemblies A system and apparatus for interconnecting an array of power generating assemblies includes a cable assembly having a plurality of continuous conductors and a plurality of cable connectors electrically coupled to the continuous conductors. The continuous conductors are ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120080958 | RELIABLE CONTACT AND SAFE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING POWER TO AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE An electronic system which includes a power delivery surface that delivers electrical power to an electrical or electronic device. The power delivery surface may be powered by any electrical power source, including, but not limited to: wall electrical outlet, solar powe... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120005828 | POWER AND CONTROL SYSTEM FOR BED Embodiments of a power and signal distribution assembly for a bed having at least one power input port, at least one controller port, and at least one output port are described. The power input port receives a first DC voltage from a power supply and the power supply re... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110298304 | BI-VENTRICULAR PERCUTANEOUS CABLE A percutaneous cable includes a cable body having a first end and second end, the cable body including a sheath adapted to traverse a patient's skin. The cable includes a plurality of conductors disposed within the cable body configured to transmit power and control dat... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110254367 | Redundant Power Delivery Redundant power delivery including a power cable comprising a first plug including contacts for hot, neutral, and ground and a plurality of power lines, each power line electrically connected independently to the hot, neutral, and ground contacts of the first plug at a ... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110163614 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REARRANGING SOUND CONDUCTORS IN PARALLEL LINES IN POWER TRANSMISSION A method and a system for rearranging sound conductors included in parallel lines in power transmission are provided. The parallel lines include at least a first line (L1) and a second line (L2) each of which includes N conductors (1A, 1B, an... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20100308667 | ARRANGEMENT OF POWER SUPPLY CELLS WITHIN CELL-BASE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT A semiconductor device is provided with a first power supply cell, first cells and second cells. The first power supply cell and the first cells are continuously arrayed in a row direction in a first row. The second cells are continuously arrayed in the row direction in... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100258905 | SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE TO REMOVE POWER NOISE USING GROUND IMPEDANCE A semiconductor package removes power noise by using a ground impedance. The semiconductor package includes an analog circuit block, a digital circuit block, an analog ground impedance structure, a digital ground impedance structure, and an integrated ground. The integr... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100253155 | STRUCTURE FOR TRANSMISSION IN POWER SUPPLY A structure for transmission in a power supply, particularly to a power structure for transmission for bearing large DC current, wherein the power supply includes a power input port for connecting to DC input power and a DC/DC conversion circuit for converting the DC in... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100181194 | MICROELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH POWER LINES AND SIGNAL LINES The invention relates to a microelectronic device for manipulating a sample, the device comprising an array of actuator units (AU) and an array of sensitive units (SU). The actuator units (AU) may particularly exert dielectrophoretic forces on a sample (1) in an ... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100181847 | METHOD FOR REDUCING SUPPLY VOLTAGE DROP IN DIGITAL CIRCUIT BLOCK AND RELATED LAYOUT ARCHITECTURE A method for reducing a supply voltage drop in a digital circuit block, where the digital circuit block includes a first conducting segment coupled to a first supply voltage, a second conducting segment coupled to a second supply voltage, and a digital logic coupled bet... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100144293 | POWER SUPPLY DEVICE, POWER CABLE, AND RECEPTION DEVICE A power supply device includes: a power supply unit configured to output the power of a mainframe; and a power transmission cable configured to supply the power output from the power supply unit to the mainframe via a connector; with the power transmission cable includi... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100081572 | FLUIDLESSLY COOLED SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSMISSION LINES AND REMOTE NUCLEAR POWERSYSTEMS THEREFROM A superconducting transmission line includes a superconducting article including at least one HTS wire, a cooling system including at least in part one or more thermoelectric or thermionic coolers thermally coupled to the HTS wire. The thermoelectric coolers are powered... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100066166 | LOAD DRIVING DEVICE In a hybrid vehicle, rocker outer reinforcements serving as vehicle side frame members in a vehicle width direction extend in a vehicle front-rear direction. An electric power cable is provided such that a portion thereof along the vehicle front-rear direction is placed... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20090320950 | UNIFIED CONDUIT ARRAY A conduit array configured to route in-floor tubing includes a plurality of elbow conduits. A webbing is positioned between each of the elbow conduits in the plurality of elbow conduits to connect the plurality of elbow conduits. The webbing is configured to allow for s... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090289505 | Assembly for Supplying a Consumer with Electric Power An arrangement for supplying a load with electrical energy from a power source comprises a textile, woven floor covering (101) with longitudinally running warp threads and transversely running weft threads, three or more current conductors (106) that are s... | 11/26/2009 |
| 20090243401 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE USING A PLURALITY OF HIGH-POTENTIAL-SIDE REFERENCE VOLTAGES A plurality of third fixed potential lines are wired in parallel. A group of high-potential-side fixed potential lines containing a first fixed potential line and a second fixed potential line are wired in a plurality at predetermined intervals in a direction perpendicu... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090230782 | Apparatus for phase rotation for a three-phase AC circuit An apparatus for providing phase rotation for a three-phase AC circuit. The apparatus comprises three phase input terminals and three phase output terminals, where a first phase input terminal is coupled with a third phase output terminal; a second phase input terminal ... | 09/17/2009 |
| 20090195083 | Live conductor stringing and splicing method and apparatus A method and apparatus for handling and/or stringing energized conductor for a high voltage power line conductor for a high voltage power line is provided. The method includes bringing components and workers to the same electrical potential and transferring power from o... | 08/06/2009 |
| 20090140580 | AC voltage conditioner An AC voltage conditioner to be connected between a source of AC line voltage or non-linear voltage and one or more AC-powered devices (e.g., audio/video, medical and scientific equipment) to improve the performance of the devices by reducing the effects of interference... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090115260 | POWER LINE ARRANGEMENT A power line arrangement includes a first power line and a second power line which crosses the first power line at least once. The first and second power lines are connected to a same power supply, and current in the first power line flows in a different direction from ... | 05/07/2009 |
| 20090115257 | SWITCHBOARD APPARATUS AND METHOD A switchboard apparatus and method are provided including a switchboard bus with conductors secured to the switchboard apparatus; a power quality meter operatively connected to the switchboard bus to obtain bus voltage and current. The apparatus also includes a capacito... | 05/07/2009 |
| 20090098750 | Reliable contact and safe system and method for providing power to an electronic device An electronic system which includes a power delivery surface that delivers electrical power to an electrical or electronic device. The power delivery surface may be powered by any electrical power source, including, but not limited to: wall electrical outlet, solar powe... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090079274 | Electromagnetic Morphing Apparatus for Hot Pluggable Architected Systems In electronic devices with signal traces positioned between a ground layer and a voltage reference layer, systems and methods are provided for connecting a hot pluggable device to the electronic device in a manner that diminishes signal degradation due to parasitic effe... | 03/26/2009 |
| 20090066167 | ELECTRIC POWER-FEEDING STRUCTURE An electric power-feeding structure for feeding electric power to a moving body which is driven to be raised or lowered, includes: an arm having a distal end connected to the moving body movably in a direction perpendicular to a raising or lowering direction of the movi... | 03/12/2009 |
| 20090042513 | Networked Communications System and Segment Addressable Communications Assembly Box, Cable and Controller A communication systems providing a fault-tolerant communications path for narrow and broad band communication comprising one or more self-powered satellite units each providing signal information to at least one command console through a segmented cable assembly system... | 02/12/2009 |
| 20080290739 | Encapsulating Housing for an Electrical Power Transmission Device Having a Particle Trap A particle trap has a cover cap which dielectrically shields a shielding area by way of a shielding surface. The shielding surface has a concave curvature. Transversely to the concave curvature, the shielding surface has surface regions which are inclined transversely t... | 11/27/2008 |
| 20080211319 | Systems and methods for electrical power supply The present invention relates to systems and methods for providing an electrical power supply system that may be used in various environments including those that are prone to liquid spills, debris buildup, and accidental contact (by a human or animal such as a pet) and... | 09/04/2008 |
| 20080191561 | PARALLEL CONNECTED HTS UTILITY DEVICE AND METHOD OF USING SAME A superconducting electrical cable system is configured to be included within a utility power grid. The superconducting electrical cable system includes a superconducting electrical path interconnected between a first and a second node within the utility power grid. A n... | 08/14/2008 |
| 20080179969 | ASSEMBLY FOR TRANSMITTING N-PHASE CURRENT An assembly and method for providing at multiphase current signals in which a plurality of conductors is arranged with conductors carrying dissimilar phases adjacent one another, and preferably in a balanced arrangement, such that the induced magnetic fields are subtrac... | 07/31/2008 |
| 20080142239 | Transposition device for a prefabricated electrical canalization The present invention relates to a transposition device for a prefabricated electrical canalization, said canalization comprising a certain number of conducting bars distributing different phases including or not the neutral, said bars extending substantially parallel t... | 06/19/2008 |
| 20080106153 | Power Supply Method for Circuit Block of Radio-Use Semiconductor Apparatus and Radio-Use Semiconductor Apparatus The purpose of the present invention is to reduce the noise of an analog circuit of a radio-use semiconductor apparatus. A power supply voltage is supplied to a low-noise amplifier 12 and a partial circuit of a stereo demodulation circuit 16 from an analog... | 05/08/2008 |
| 20080063092 | PRINTED WIRING BOARD AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT A printed wiring board, comprising a signal plane having a baseband block for processing a baseband signal and a high-frequency block for processing a high-frequency signal which is obtained by converting the baseband signal, and a ground plane opposing to the signal pl... | 03/13/2008 |
| 20070284949 | Distance Extender A distance extender (100, 200) for increasing a distance between a first device (145) and a second device (150) in electrical communication with the first device includes an electrical cable (130, 230) electrically coupled between the first d... | 12/13/2007 |
| 20070267919 | Power line conditioner An electrical power conditioning apparatus in accordance with the present invention generally includes an electrical input for receiving power from the power source, a surge suppression circuit and a plurality of electrical outlets. A plurality of parallel channels conn... | 11/22/2007 |
| 20070252443 | Electrical Power Transmission Device Having a phase Conductor and an Encasing Conductor An electrical power transmission device has a phase conductor and an encasing conductor. The phase conductor is used for transmission of an electrical power flow. The encasing conductor can be divided by way of a switching device. ... | 11/01/2007 |
| 20070120425 | Multi-layer printed circuit board with through hole, electronic device, and method for manufacturing multi-layer printed circuit board with through hole The invention provides a multi-layer printed circuit board with a through hole having a connection formed by filling conductive paste in the through hole, wherein the voltage of a circuit having constant current flow is stabilized. The circuit board comprises a closed c... | 05/31/2007 |
| 20070075591 | Semiconductor integrated circuit A semiconductor integrated circuit has a bias generation circuit. The bias generation circuit is placed between a power supply voltage node and ground voltage node which are at a far end from a power supply voltage supply terminal and ground voltage supply terminal. Ref... | 04/05/2007 |
| 20060290210 | Configurable power control system Configurable power control systems, devices, and methods are described, along with subsystem components and interconnection approaches. Means are provided for controlling and reconfiguring power outlets and lighting at an intermediate level, with greater control and fle... | 12/28/2006 |
| 20060274561 | Tri-level inverter A tri-level inverter power module has an architecture employing a high degree of modularity that allows a base power module to be quickly, easily, and cost effectively configured to address a large variety of applications. ... | 12/07/2006 |
