"Rail travel at high speeds is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia."
Dionysius Lardner, Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy at University College, London ; 1830
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7813105 | Multi-layer capacitor An electronic component and method for manufacture thereof is disclosed. A plurality of electrodes are positioned in stacked relation to form an electrode stack. The stack may include as few as two electrodes, but more may be used depending on the number of subcompo... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7197800 | Method of making a high impedance surface A high impedance surface and a method of making same. The surface includes a molded structure having a repeating pattern of holes therein and a repeating pattern of sidewall surfaces, the holes penetrating the structure between first and second major surfaces thereo... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7041930 | Bellows for use in vacuum capacitor A vacuum capacitor includes a vacuum vessel, stationary and movable electrodes arranged in the vacuum vessel, and a bellows which follows the movable electrode to maintain the hermeticity of the inside of the vacuum vessel and which serves as a current path, wherein... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6775124 | Micro-gap gas filled dielectric capacitor The gas dielectric capacitor for high frequency applications. The capacitor has first and second planner electrodes separated by an adhesive having solid particles, which establish the distance between electrodes. An adhesive is formed along peripheral edges of the ... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6646859 | Power supply arrangement A power supply arrangement, especially in connection with a conductor (5) of a medium-voltage overhead line, which arrangement comprises a power supply (2) and a first and second element (3, 4) made of an electrically conductive material, which are connec... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6587328 | Bellows with a uniform electric conductive layer for a vacuum capacitor The invention relates to a bellows in a vacuum capacitor, whose bellows structure (1) comprises a carrier material (2) and at least one electrically conductive layer (5, 6), whereby the latter has a uniform thickness over the entire bellows structure. The... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6129429 | Rack serviceable computer chassis assembly A rack serviceable computer chassis for housing multiple computer modules. A rectilinear housing receives at least one module containing electrical components associated with a computer system which includes a planar right panel, a planar left panel, a pl... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6060791 | Ultra-compact Marx-type high-voltage generator An ultra-compact Marx-type high-voltage generator includes individual high-performance components that are closely coupled and integrated into an extremely compact assembly. In one embodiment, a repetitively-switched, ultra-compact Marx generator includes... | 05/09/2000 |
| 5973909 | Capacitor and method with extraneous plate surface area A capacitor and method in which there is provided additional extraneous plate surface area, beyond the paired plate surface area normally provided to furnish capacitance. This additional extraneous plate surface area is located outside the intraplate inte... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5786071 | Method of preparation of polyquinolines New polyquinoline polymers are provided, as well as new methods for preparing the polyquinoline polymers using a novel combination of monomers. The polyquinoline polymers comprise repeat units comprising at least one quinoline nucleus and at least one eth... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5731948 | High energy density capacitor A high energy density, high power density capacitor having an energy density of at least about 0.5 J/cm3 is provided. The capacitor comprises a plurality of interleaved metal electrode layers separated by a polymer layer. The interleaved metal ... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5648448 | Method of preparation of polyquinolines New polyquinoline polymers are provided, as well as new methods for preparing the polyquinoline polymers using a novel combination of monomers. The polyquinoline polymers comprise repeat units comprising at least one quinoline nucleus and at least one eth... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5606486 | Capacitor employing plural materials for dielectric A capacitor employing plural dielectric materials between oppositely facing, distinctly electrically connected plates, or employing interspersed plural dielectric materials outside the space between oppositely facing, distinctly electrically connected pla... | 02/25/1997 |
| 5589298 | Electrochemical devices comprising lithium nitride-metal compounds in at least one of a pair of electrodes Electrochemical devices comprise at least a pair of electrodes and a lithium ion conductive electrolyte provided between the pair of electrodes. At least one of the electrodes comprises a lithium nitride-metal compound having a one-dimensional chain struc... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5581437 | Power capacitor A power capacitor including at least one capacitive winding, of self-healing type, located in a case made of plastic material and coated in a polymerizable resin cast directly into the case. The capacitor includes a breaking device sensitive to an overpre... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5459633 | Interdigital capacitor and method for making the same The present invention relates to an interdigital capacitor and to a method for producing an interdigital capacitor having a finger structure of a coplanar stub line covered by an air bridge pocket for increasing the capacitance of the coplanar line. The a... | 10/17/1995 |
| 5444599 | Capacitor having high stability with temperature A capacitor having high stability with temperature comprising a cylindrical metal body, a cylindrical high tension electrode coaxial with the body and placed inside it, and at least two low tension electrodes constrained to remain in contact against the i... | 08/22/1995 |
| 5384683 | Intelligent power device module In a semiconductor device module of this invention, on a metal base is formed a metal layer, on which an insulating substrate is formed. On the insulating substrate is formed conducting film patterns, to which a power device and a control device for contr... | 01/24/1995 |
| 5297720 | Method of assembling a mechanical part including a sensitive element on a support to define a variable capacitor, a mechanical part, and a tool for implementing the method A method of assembling a mechanical part on a support includes making a projecting thickening situated substantially over a connection face of an anchor block of the part; depositing a layer of one of the components of a eutectic on at least one fixing zo... | 03/29/1994 |
| 4914543 | Variable capacitance A variable area capacitance transducer for measurement of length and displacement is disclosed. The preferred embodiment uses three concentric cylinders. The innermost cylinder acts as a working electrode, the middle cylinder acts as a common electrode, a... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4755908 | Capacitor A capacitor comprising a sealed hollow glass container, inductor means, a portion of which is mounted within said sealed glass container, two or more layers of material deposited on the exposed surfaces contained within the sealed glass container and a ga... | 07/05/1988 |
| 4408254 | Thin film capacitors A capacitor is formed by placing between two electodes a thin film of amorphous titanate which has been ion implanted with noble gas ions.... | 10/04/1983 |
| 4362897 | High-voltage bushing with layers of preshrunk embossed insulating foils A high voltage insulator bushing is formed of wound insulating foils and is provided with conductive parts which are at different electric potentials and with a wound insulator body arranged between the conductive parts. The wound insulator body contains ... | 12/07/1982 |
| 4342066 | Electrical condenser with a dielectric of gas under pressure The present invention relates to a condenser for high power and with a gas shaped dielectric and preferably intended for tank circuits in high frequency generators and radio transmitters. The electrodes of the condenser consists of two metal tubes (1 and ... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4327395 | Metallized polypropylene film capacitor A container contains a metallized polypropylene capacitor that has electronegative gas occupying a majority of the space between its plates. The electronegative gas is not combined with a liquid. The remaining space in the container is occupied by coolant... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4306272 | Tubular capacitor An electron beam processor with an energy storage line and matched field emission diode that define a high energy electron beam generator. A transport system positions a specimen to be thermally processed in a processing station. Energy stored on the line... | 12/15/1981 |
| 4144893 | Neuromuscular therapy device The invention contemplates an electroneuromuscular stimulator or therapy device wherein muscles may be stimulated through application of sufficiently characterized electrical pulses to a living body, via nerve endings related to the desired muscles to be ... | 03/20/1979 |
| 4007406 | High pressure, gas filled, variable electrical parameter device A sealed variable capacitor assembly including a generally cylindrical metallic enclosure in which fixed and movable interleaving capacitor plate sets are contained, the movable set being varied by axial translation thereof by means of a leadscrew arrange... | 02/08/1977 |
| 4002957 | Trimmable fixed hermetically sealed capacitor A "fixed" vacuum capacitor assembly in which first and second sets of interleaved, substantially concentric, capacitor plates are held between opposing end-bell assemblies. A trimmer capacitor including third and fourth sets of capacitor plates, an axial ... | 01/11/1977 |
| 3988684 | Voltage transformer for an insulated high-voltage switching installation containing several conductors A voltage transformer for a fully insulated high-voltage installation containing several conductors includes a plurality of electrodes corresponding to respective ones of the conductors. The electrodes are disposed outside of the arrangement of the conduc... | 10/26/1976 |