Did You Know...
...that the first rickshaw was invented in 1869 by an American Baptist minister, the Rev. E. Jonathan Scobie, to transport his invalid wife around the streets of Yokohama?
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8177569 | Heat sink for a thermally efficient busway joint pack A busway joint pack for joining busway conductor sections has a heat sink assembly with an interstitial heat sink portion sized to fit between its connector plates; an exterior heat sink portion projecting beyond the exterior surface of a side panel of the joint pac... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8033850 | Joint-pack integrated spacers A joint pack includes one or more phase members that utilize integrated standoff spacers that protrude and come into contact with opposing conductor plates to maintain a phase space between the phase members. The spacers are located along the insulating plates of th... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7862356 | Busway water resistant joint pack or plug-in unit joint An electrical busway system includes a joint assembly having a joint housing with an upper plate and a lower plate. The lower plate has a nut-receiving hole. A top mounted bolt secures a plurality of electrical conductors to the joint housing, the conductors being m... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7819681 | Thermally efficient busway joint pack A busway joint pack includes a pair of opposing phase connector plates, a first insulating sheet, a second insulating sheet, a first side panel, and a second side panel. The busway joint pack passively transfers thermal energy generated in its core to an exterior ho... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7722372 | Direct mounting connector A direct mounting connector includes: six independent busbars for connecting the apparatus to two auxiliary machines for three-phase alternating current; two U-pole first terminal parts, two V-pole first terminal parts and two W-pole first terminal parts The six fir... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7614895 | Electrical busway and coupling assembly therefor A coupling assembly is provided for an electrical busway having a first section and a second section. The coupling assembly includes at least one housing having first and second ends. A plurality of electrical conductors extend through such housing and electrically ... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7419386 | Electrical junction box An electrical junction box that prevents deformation of a casing and breakage of a printed board due to an inserting force of a connector or the like is provided. A printed board is contained in a lower casing member. A bus bar laminated element is contained in the ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7364449 | Joint connector block A joint connector block, which easily meets a demand of a complicated and highly dense joint circuit, is provided. It includes: a block body 2 having a plurality of connector-fitting chambers 7 arranged in a line on one side of the block body and a bus... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7336477 | Electrical switching apparatus and heat sink therefor A heat sink is for an integrally fused low-voltage power air circuit breaker including a line terminal and electrical bus work coupled to a current limiter. The line terminal, electrical bus work, and current limiter contribute to the formation of a thermal dam. The... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7334315 | Method of servicing a channel bus splice assembly For use in switchgear equipment having channel bus bars joined together at a bus joint, there is provided a method of servicing and maintaining a channel bus splice assembly and method. The channel bus splice assembly comprises switchgear or switchboard equipment ha... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7301249 | Battery connect/disconnect for an uninterruptible power supply An uninterruptible power supply (UPS) is provided that can alleviate difficulties in shipping electronic devices containing batteries, such as UPS devices by providing a battery connect/disconnect assembly that can connect and disconnect an internal battery from out... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7232348 | Electrical connection device for bushing which supplies filaments, such as glass filaments An electrical connection device for supplying power to a bushing that delivers filaments, especially glass filaments. The device includes a connection jaw clamp and an electrical connection piece with no protective sheath and including a flexible body, having one en... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7186125 | Conductive path and connector A conductive path includes a terminal metal piece; and a bus bar overlapped with the terminal metal piece. The terminal piece and the bus bar are bonded while the terminal piece and the bus bar are deformed to form a recess portion on a surface where the terminal me... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7173811 | Power circuit breakers with offset vertical quick disconnect adapters to allow plugging onto a line and a load bus in different planes An offset assembly for a circuit breaker includes at least one two plane member having a first plate and a second plate. The first and second plates are joined at an edge and extend generally perpendicular to each other. The second plate is structured to be coupled ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7156692 | Eye grounding controller A lifting and anti torque lifting means to be attached to a clamp or other end termination of a temporary conductor. In power distribution services the most common use of such a temporary conductor is a grounding set which is used to provide a conductive path betwee... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7115000 | Connection device for signal wire A connection device for a signal wire includes at least one electrically conducting plate, at least one first holding member mounted on a first side of the electrically conducting plate, at least one second holding member mounted on a second side of the electrically... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7075021 | Multiple-hole terminal lug, bussing assembly and electrical switching apparatus including the same A multiple-hole terminal lug is for a circuit breaker including a load terminal and a conductive terminal extension coupled thereto. The multiple-hole terminal lug includes a mounting portion and a receiving portion having a plurality of receptacles for electrically... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7035115 | Multi-axis motor control with high voltage backplane A backplane for a motor controller having a control module and one or more axis modules provides both low power and low powered signals and high power used to produce motor drive signals. ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7029316 | Eye grounding controller A lifting and anti torque bracket to-be-attached to a clamp or other end termination of a temporary conductor In power distribution services the most common use of such a temporary conductor is a grounding set which is used to provide a conductive path between power... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6930418 | Centralized power distribution unit having bus bars accommodated in holding grooves of insulating holders A centralized power distribution unit for a vehicular thin brushless motor includes a plurality of bus bars, an insulating holder that holds the bus bars to form a predetermined gap between the bus bars, and a resin insulating layer that covers the bus bars. Each of... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6921862 | Connector for conductor bars A connector for conductor bars, which are in-line or extend at a right angle with regard to one another and which rotate 90° around their longitudinal axes. The connector is comprised of a first contact piece and of a second contact piece of which the first contact... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6870103 | Bus joint cover assembly For use in switchgear equipment having bus bars joined together at a bus joint, there is provided a bus joint cover assembly and method. The bus joint cover assembly comprises a collar member having a snap slot. A cap member having a boss snap is configured to engag... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6786749 | Universal connector for securing bus bars to electrical equipment An electrical connector may be utilized to connect bus bars having a wide variety of configurations to a wide variety of electrical equipment, without modification to the bus bars, electrical equipment, or connector, with the exception of cutting the electrical conn... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6677532 | Isolated phase bus duct joint assembly An isolated phase bus duct joint assembly couples together first and second phase bus duct sections where each section has an interior bus conductor surrounded by an outer housing. The joint assembly couples end portions of the interior bus conductor and ... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6676424 | Apparatus and method for effecting electrical connection between a power source and equipment An apparatus for effecting electrical connection between a power source and equipment includes: (a) a first conductor having a first aperture; (b) a second conductor having a second aperture; (c) an insulator having a connecting bore coaxial with the firs... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6669496 | Device for connecting bus bars A device for connecting bus bars comprising a body made of conducting material which has three elements which lie along three substantially mutually perpendicular planes, of which: a first flat base element has a first outer side and a second outer side ... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6642457 | Insulator for an electrical busbar system, as well as an insulator system having such insulators An insulator is specified for an electrical busbar system having at least one rail (5), which is in the form of an integral axially symmetrical body (1) and has a hole (3) along the axis of symmetry (2), with a mounting surface (4), which is vertically at... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6549428 | Device for supporting and fixing bus-bars A device for supporting and fixing bus-bars in cabinets for switchboards, comprising: a first element, constituted by a body made of insulating material, which has a first side provided with means for direct engagement to a supporting frame and a second s... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6506068 | Kit for a bus bar system for connecting bus bars with connectors of an electric installation device A kit for a bus bar system for connecting bus bars with connectors of an electric installation device, which avoids the production of special connecting rails, depending on the position of the connecting planes of the bus bars and the connectors of the in... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6439907 | Generator junction assembly A junction assembly has at least one junction and at least one flexible connector. The junction has at least one channel sized and configured to accept and secure at least a portion of a flexible connector relative to the parallel rings and main lead, and... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6435888 | Captive splice assembly for electrical bus and method for using same A method and captive splice assembly for electrically and structurally connecting a pair of bus sections. The assembly includes a housing, which holds captive a set of splice bars. The housing has a set of captive nuts, which are engaged by a set of bolts... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6428335 | Bus bar with terminal insulator and connector guide therefor A laminated bus bar has thereon a male terminal formed either from only two electric strip conductors separated by a layer of insulation, or from two groups of conductors separated by a layer of insulation. When only two conductors are employed, one may b... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6402570 | Automotive lamp unit and method for manufacturing the same An automotive lamp unit includes a bus bar unit forming a circuit with a plurality of bus bars connected with each other via a bridge portion, the bus bar unit including terminals, for connection to switches and a power source, and a supporting member for... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6296498 | Busbar connector for plug-in busways A busbar connector for an electrical busway system is disclosed which includes shunt wires in an insulating housing and opposed spreader springs between the shunt wires that press contacts on the shunt wires against busbars in the busway when tapered scre... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6203343 | Cabling arrangement intended for motorized vehicle and similar The present invention relates to a cabling arrangement for motorized vehicles and similar comprising a system for electrical power supply and a system of data transmission via a busbar (1) to which components signals are addressed separately using a multi... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6176720 | Electrical distribution system having an improved bus coupler An electrical bus assembly, having pairs of bus conductors in communication with each other, housed in a housing, for use in an industrial setting. The pairs of bus conductors are themselves used to form a joint without the need of additional apparatus. A... | 01/23/2001 |
| 6176719 | Bolted electrical connecting device for multiple electrical conductors The present invention provides a device for electrically connecting electrical conductors of two adjacent sections of a multi-phase electrical distribution system. The connecting device includes a generally cylindrical body enclosing two ground connectors... | 01/23/2001 |
| 6146169 | Water resistant outdoor busway system Electrical power distribution busway joints include opposing plates of conductive and non-conductive materials for connecting between adjoining busway sections. The non-conductive plates comprise glass-filled epoxy laminate sheets having high thermal cond... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6097117 | Electrical connector structure including integral resistive element for operating a motor at two speeds A connector structure 10 is provided for powering an electric motor 19. The connector structure 10 includes a connector body 12; a low speed terminal 14 in the body; a high speed terminal 16 in the body; and a ground terminal 18 in the body. The ground te... | 08/01/2000 |
| 5941654 | Bus bar assembly, fastening system therefor, and method A bus bar panel system utilizes a quick acting and simplified fastening system for making connections. The bus bar is preferably pre-perforated along the edges, although holes may be drilled at the time of fastening. The fastening system uses a stud havin... | 08/24/1999 |
