Patents by Inventor Eldridge R. Byron

Eldridge R. Byron has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20030116413
    Abstract: A medium voltage controller for electrical equipment, having cast fuse holders, a disconnect switch, a switch illuminator, low power current transformers, and an optical temperature measuring system. The fuse holder includes a cast housing with smooth rounded surfaces that reduce corona. The disconnect switch has cast components that provide terminal points, mounting surfaces, and contact surfaces. The switch illuminator provides illumination of the disconnect switch internals. The contactor assembly is mounted in a truck and moves on a rail system that includes a pull-down handle with rails. The truck rolls out of the cabinet on the extended rails for easy removal from the cabinet. The truck, and contactor assembly, is racked in by pushing the truck into the cabinet and then raising the handle, which forces the draw-out fingers to engage the contact stabs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2001
    Publication date: June 26, 2003
    Inventors: Antanas V. Narusevicius, Eldridge R. Byron, Eugenio Alvarez
  • Patent number: 6512669
    Abstract: A medium voltage controller for electrical equipment, such as motors, transformers, reactors, and capacitors, having an arc resistant cabinet, swaged internal electrical connections, a one-piece self-aligning withdrawable finger cluster, a pull-out instrument compartment, a load discharge device, cast fuse holders, disconnect switch, a switch illuminator, low power current transformers, and an optical temperature measuring system. The pull-out instrument compartment includes a sliding rack to which a hinged instrument mounting panel is attached. The mounting panel slides out of the compartment and swings away from the opening in the cabinet, allowing access to the cabinet internals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2003
    Assignee: Square D Company
    Inventors: Tommie Shane Goodwin, Robert R. Coil, Leon Daniels, Eldridge R. Byron
  • Patent number: 5767440
    Abstract: The present invention provides an enclosure for housing a circuit breaker therein which utilizes a flange system to prevent enclosure components from separating from each other when an electrical fault occurs therein. The flange system includes flanges, on enclosure walls and doors, which slide into corresponding channels and interlock therein to prevent the components from separating and hot gases from escaping the enclosure when an electrical fault occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1998
    Assignee: Square D Company
    Inventors: Eldridge R. Byron, Gregory O. Motley
  • Patent number: 5466902
    Abstract: Switch operator having an actuator, a drive mechanism coupled to the switch for actuating a switch in response to a rotational force applied to the drive mechanism, and a flexible shaft which couples the actuator to the drive mechanism and communicates the rotational motion of the actuator to the drive mechanism. An interlock mechanism prevents the actuation of a second switch as a function of a first switch and prevents the opening of a door as a function of the position of the first switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 14, 1995
    Assignee: ABB Power T&D Company Inc.
    Inventors: Leo E. Blom, Eldridge R. Byron