For Cable, Conductor Or Joint Patents (Class 174/15.6)
  • Patent number: 11698425
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance device having a main magnet unit with a cylindrical patient aperture. A gradient connection plate for a gradient coil arrangement surrounds the patient aperture. A cladding arrangement with at least one cladding part outwardly delimits the main magnet unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventor: Stephan Biber
  • Patent number: 11646555
    Abstract: A cable line includes a conduit having a tubular body, the wall of which is made of polymeric material, and an electrical cable provided with an outer sheath made of polymeric material and laid inside the conduit's body along its entire length. Herewith, the body wall is made with the provision of its electrically conductive properties, causing the possibility of current flow through the wall in the direction from its inner surface to the outer surface, furthermore the ratio of the diameter of the inner surface of the body wall to the diameter of the outer sheath of the cable is not less than 1.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: OBSHCHESTVO S OGRANICHENNOJ OTVETSTVENNOSTYU “ENERGOTEK”
    Inventors: Mikhail Viktorovich Dmitriev, Dmitry Vladimirovich Kuleshov, Alexandr Evgenievich Shabanov
  • Patent number: 11619212
    Abstract: Provided is an electric cable for a wind turbine, wherein the electric cable includes at least one cooling element) to cool the electric cable, wherein the cooling element protrudes from the surface of the electric cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY A/S
    Inventor: Mahsa RafieeArashtnab
  • Patent number: 11456640
    Abstract: A rotor includes: a tubular retaining ring opened on an outer side thereof in an axial direction and covering a coil end portion of each of coils; and rotor baffles and insulation baffles alternately connected in a circumferential direction and partitioning a space in the retaining ring into a first space and a second space, the first space is formed over an entire circumference around a shaft, each rotor baffle includes, at a part thereof on a radially outer side of which a jumper portion is present, a first tapered shape part tilted so as to be more apart from the jumper portion toward a center side in the axial direction of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kiyonori Koga
  • Patent number: 11349286
    Abstract: An electric power transmission carrier and a manufacturing method of the electric power transmission carrier and an enclosure are provided. The electric power transmission carrier includes an enclosure and an electric power transmission cable mounted on the enclosure. The electric power transmission cable is in direct or indirect surface contact with an inner wall of the enclosure, and the enclosure functions as a heat sink of the electric power transmission cable. In the present application, the electric power transmission cable or the conductor is mounted on the enclosure such as a tower barrel or a high tower, to perform electric power transmission and take the enclosure as a heat sink. The electric power transmission component takes the enclosure, the “heat sink” having a huge thermal capacity, as a “cold source”.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING GOLDWIND SCIENCE & CREATION WINDPOWER EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shengjun Ma, Wanshun Ma
  • Patent number: 11270812
    Abstract: The invention concerns a subsea umbilical comprising an electrical conductor (2) and/or a fluid pipe, and an outer sheath (7) surrounding the electrical conductor (2) and/or the fluid pipe. The umbilical (1, 20, 21, 25, 30, 40, 51, 60) further comprising a plurality of deformable rods (3a, 3b, 15, 23a, 23b, 26a, 27a, 26b) evenly distributed between the electrical conductor (2) and/or the fluid pipe, and the outer sheath (7) for radial load protection of said electrical conductor (2) or fluid pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Aker Solutions AS
    Inventor: Mehrdad Karimpour
  • Patent number: 11187359
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an assembly including an end-fitting for terminating an unbonded flexible pipe and an unbonded flexible pipe. The unbonded flexible pipe includes a first and a second armour layer co-axially arranged, and an electric heating system. The end-fitting includes means for mechanically anchoring the first armour layer to the end-fitting and includes electrical connections for connecting the first armour layer to a power-source. The end-fitting also includes means for mechanically anchoring the second armour layer to the end-fitting. The first and the second armour layers are electrically insulated from each other by at least one electrically insulating layer in the end-fitting and the end-fitting includes a local volume in the end-fitting adjacent to the electrically insulating layer adapted for injection of a functional fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: National Oilwell Varco Denmark l/S
    Inventor: Kristian Glejbol
  • Patent number: 11108309
    Abstract: A squirrel cage rotor, is made up of a shaft, a rotor laminated core with rotor bars which are arranged in the interior, and short-circuiting rings with clearances through which the bar ends of the rotor bars extend out of the rotor laminated core. The rotor bars, on their surface, at least partially have an electrical insulation layer, wherein the electrical insulation layer is cohesively connected only to the surface of the rotor bars. The squirrel cage rotor is intended, in particular, for use in an asynchronous machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: WIELAND-WERKE AG
    Inventors: Gerhard Thumm, Volker Voggeser, Michael Wolf, Christoph Kästle, Michael Lieble
  • Patent number: 11093012
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes delivering power, data, and cooling from a central network device to a plurality of remote communications devices over cables connecting the central network device to the remote communications devices, each of the cables carrying said power, data, and cooling, and receiving at the central network device, power and thermal data from the remote communications devices based on monitoring of power and cooling at the remote communications devices. The remote communications devices are powered by the power and cooled by the cooling delivered from the central network device. An apparatus is also disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Joel Richard Goergen, Charles Calvin Byers, Robert Gregory Twiss, D. Brice Achkir
  • Patent number: 10998790
    Abstract: An electric generator including: a main generator, including a rotating portion having main field windings; a stationary portion having generator armature windings; and a woven insulator at least partially enclosing the main field windings of the rotating portion, the woven insulator being included of strips or fibers of a material woven together, wherein the woven insulator is permeable to a coolant in a liquid form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kris H. Campbell
  • Patent number: 10964450
    Abstract: A power cable includes an electric conductor; an electrical insulation layer surrounding the electrical conductor; a cooling system including a cooling duct substantially parallel to the electrical conductor along a power cable longitudinal axis and configured to flow a cooling fluid; a carbon allotrope layer in direct contact with the electrical conductor, where the carbon allotrope layer is provided between the electric conductor and the cooling duct; and a cable jacket enclosing the electric conductor, the electrical insulation layer, and the cooling system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: PRYSMIAN S.P.A.
    Inventors: Luca Giorgio Maria De Rai, Michelangelo Graziano
  • Patent number: 10867723
    Abstract: A liquid-cooled tangle-resistant charging cable may include a sheath defining a cavity, the sheath having a width dimension, a height dimension, a thickness dimension and a length dimension; wherein the width dimension is larger than the height dimension, and the length dimension is larger than both the height dimension and the width dimension; a first conductor disposed in the cavity, the first conductor having at least one substantially flat side; a hose disposed in the cavity and configured to carry a cooling liquid, the cross-sectional profile of the hose being non-circular and having at least one flat side. In some embodiments, the sheath's cross-sectional height dimension may be between 2% and 95% of the sheath's cross sectional width dimension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: FARADAY & FUTURE INC.
    Inventors: Chi Hung Cao, Mike de Jung
  • Patent number: 10755872
    Abstract: A generator switch including an encapsulation lying at ground potential and an electrical conductor arranged in an insulated fashion inside the encapsulation and at high-voltage potential, as well as a gravity-driven cooling device having an evaporator and a condenser arranged above the evaporator and a coolant. The cooling device is formed as a closed loop-type coolant circuit. During operation of the generator switch, a level of the liquid coolant in the line system in a static cooling device is at least as high as the upper end of the insulating section in the insulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: ABB Power Grids Switzerland AG
    Inventors: Andreas Hiller, Philipp Ganter, Jean-Claude Mauroux
  • Patent number: 10703496
    Abstract: A propulsion system for an aircraft includes an electric power source and an electric propulsion assembly having an electric motor and a propulsor, the propulsor powered by the electric motor. The propulsion system also includes an electric power bus electrically connecting the electric power source to the electric propulsion assembly. The electric power source is configured to provide electrical power to the electric power bus, and the electric power bus is configured to transfer the electric power to the electric propulsion assembly at a voltage exceeding 800 volts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Randy M. Vondrell, Anthony Austin Bouvette, Glenn David Crabtree
  • Patent number: 10672533
    Abstract: An example cable assembly includes: a plurality of conductors in a Litz cable arrangement; a layer of magnet wire insulation over the Litz cable arrangement; an inner silicone dielectric jacket over the layer of magnet wire insulation; and an outer silicone jacket over the inner silicone dielectric jacket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventor: Paul Verhagen
  • Patent number: 10485145
    Abstract: This invention concerns a cryo-cooled electrical conduction network. The conduction network has an electrical network divided into two or more conductive sections, each section comprising electrical equipment (24, 28). The conductive network also has a coolant network for maintaining the temperature of a coolant in each section. The electrical equipment (24, 28) and a corresponding portion of the coolant network of each section is housed in a section enclosure (10, 12, 14). The coolant network includes a coolant interface (40) located between each section, wherein the coolant interface (40) is housed in an intermediate enclosure (16, 18, 20, 22) that is isolatable from the section enclosures (10, 12, 14) in the electrical conduction network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventor: John J A Cullen
  • Patent number: 10415759
    Abstract: A cryostat for a superconducting magnet system is provided. The cryostat may include an outer vessel and an inner vessel suspended within the outer vessel. A space may be defined by the outer vessel and the inner vessel. The cryostat may include multiple first support elements and one or more second support elements. The strength of the first supporting element may be larger than that of the second support elements. The inner vessel and the outer vessel may be connected by two opposite ends of a first support element and two opposite ends of a second support element, respectively. The number of the first support elements in the lower part of the space is different from the number of the first support elements in the upper part of the space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Lijun Zou
  • Patent number: 10377264
    Abstract: A vehicle conductive charge port is configured to conductively transfer charging current from an external source to the vehicle for charging a traction battery of the vehicle. A cooling system is configured to cool the charge port depending on a temperature of the charge port. The cooling system may use coolant and/or air to cool the charge port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Juan Lopez, Nondo G. Basoukeas
  • Patent number: 10377084
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for joining parts. A plurality of conformable induction coils embedded in a number of elastomeric sheets is positioned relative to a first composite part of the parts and a second composite part of the parts. A magnetic field is generated with the plurality of conformable induction coils. The magnetic field is configured to generate heat in a magnetically permeable material at a joint location. The heat joins the first composite part and the second composite part to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Marc Rollo Matsen, Robert James Miller
  • Patent number: 10340983
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a surveying system operable to receive a plurality of electromagnetic waves via a guided wave transceiver that include environmental data collected via a plurality of sensors at a plurality of remote sites. Weather pattern data is generated based on the environmental data. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ken Liu, Robert Bennett, Pamela A. M. Bogdan, Farhad Barzegar, Donald J. Barnickel, Irwin Gerszberg
  • Patent number: 10284039
    Abstract: In order to improve cooling performance of a rotor of a rotary electric machine, attention is paid to the relation between the secondary flow of a cooling gas generated inside ventilation holes for the cooling gas provided in a rotor winding formed by stacking a conductor and an interlayer insulating layer and the main flow of the cooling gas during the rotary motion of the rotor, and the secondary flow of the cooling gas is suppressed by changing the shape of bulges appearing in a linear shape in the stacked direction on an inner wall surface of each rotor winding ventilation hole on a negative pressure side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tetsuya Nagayasu
  • Patent number: 10222267
    Abstract: The detection device comprises a cold finger which performs the thermal connection between a detector and a cooling system. The cold finger comprises at least one side wall at least partially formed by an area made from the amorphous metal alloy. Advantageously, the whole of the cold finger is made from the amorphous metal alloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignees: SOCIÉTÉ FRANÇAISE DE DÉTECTEURS INFRAROUGES—SOFRADIR, UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE APLES
    Inventors: Pierre Cassaigne, Alexis Lenain, Sébastien Gravier, Georges Kapelski
  • Patent number: 9935434
    Abstract: A cooling device for cooling a cable assembly, containing an outer pipe, which is designed to accommodate the cable assembly in such a way that an intermediate space for accommodating a cooling water layer remains between the outer pipe and the cable assembly, a connecting element for creating a water-tight connection between the outer pipe and the cable assembly, and a pressure controller for controlling the water pressure in the cooling water layer, is provided. A cable device is also provided, including an electric cable assembly, and a cooling device. A wind farm is also provided, including a number of cable assemblies for transmitting electrical power from wind turbines and including a number of cooling devices for cooling the cable assemblies A method for providing a cooling device for a cable assembly is further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Johnny Soerensen
  • Patent number: 9920739
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for securing a lightning protection cable (e.g. a conductor) of a lightning protection system within a wind turbine rotor blade. The lightning protection system includes a plurality of lightning receptors configured along either or both of the pressure or suction sides of the rotor blade. The lightning receptors are connected via the conductor so as to form a conductive circuit. Further, a cover assembly defining a passageway therethrough is configured to receive at least a portion of the conductor along a length thereof. Thus, the cover assembly can be secured to an inner surface of the internal cavity so as to maintain a location of the conductor. Accordingly, the conductor is free to move within the cover assembly since the wire is not directly attached to the rotor blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Afroz Akhtar, Venkateswara Rao Kavala, Parnasree Maiti
  • Patent number: 9667048
    Abstract: A shunt module for use in an impressed current cathodic protection system includes a rail mounting mechanism, an electrically insulating strip carrier mounted to the rail mounting mechanism, and a shunt. The shunt includes a conductive strip or wire having contacts at opposing ends. The shunt is coupled to the strip carrier and electrically isolated from the mounting mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Accurate Corrosion Control, Inc.
    Inventors: Bryan Reed, Justin Duhamell
  • Patent number: 9368257
    Abstract: A power cable (30, 130, 230, 330, 430, 530) includes an outer sheath (32), at least one conductor element (20, 22, 24, 220, 320, 420, 520) arranged within the outer sheath and one or more filler elements (10, 210, 310,410, 510) arranged within the outer sheath. At least one of the filler elements is hollow such that a cooling fluid can be passed through the filler element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Nexans
    Inventors: Jan Erik Karlsen, Raymond Alexander Badowski, Jon-Arne Hall
  • Patent number: 9306382
    Abstract: A method of jointing two high voltage impregnated cables may include exposing an impregnated cable insulation layer of cable ends by removing at least one protecting layer and an outer semiconducting layer; exposing a terminal length of conductors of the cable ends by cutting a portion of the impregnated cable insulation layer and by removing an inner semiconducting layer; mechanically and electrically connecting the conductors; filling at least in part a space left by the removed impregnated cable insulation layer with a conductive insert; providing an intermediate semiconducting layer to surround the conductive insert and abutting on portions of cable insulation layers adjacent to the conductive insert; applying a stratified insulation, impregnated with a second viscous compound, overlapping the exposed impregnated cable insulation layer of the cable ends and covering the intermediate semiconducting layer; electrically screening the conductors; and tightly containing the first and/or second viscous compound
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: PRYSMIAN S.P.A.
    Inventors: Pierluigi Ladié, Mario Ravasio
  • Publication number: 20150041171
    Abstract: A power cable (C1), or power umbilical, comprising a number of electric high power cables (10) for transfer of large amounts of electric power/energy; filler material (2, 3, 4, 5, 6) in the form of stiff elongate plastic elements; the number of electric high power cables (10) and stiff elongate plastic elements (2, 3, 4, 5, 6) being gathered in a twisted bundle by means of a laying operation; a protective sheath (1) that encompasses the electric cables and the filler material; and at least one longitudinally extending channel (6) is provided for forced flow transportation of a cooling agent through said power cable/umbilical in order to cool down the electric high power cables (10) and their insulation material from a critical temperature value of about 90° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventor: Ole A. Heggdal
  • Publication number: 20140332247
    Abstract: A power cable (30, 130, 230, 330, 430, 530) includes an outer sheath (32), at least one conductor element (20, 22, 24, 220, 320, 420, 520) arranged within the outer sheath and one or more filler elements (10, 210, 310,410, 510) arranged within the outer sheath. At least one of the filler elements is hollow such that a cooling fluid can be passed through the filler element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Inventors: Jan Erik Karlsen, Raymond Alexander Badowski, Jon-Arne Hall
  • Patent number: 8853532
    Abstract: A conducting path includes a plurality of cables, and a cable clamp for clamping the plurality of cables together. The cable clamp includes a single metal plate molded along a perimeter of the plurality of cables, an attachment flange formed by overlapping both ends of the metal plate, and a cable supporting member for supporting the plurality of cables between the cable supporting member and the metal plate. The cable supporting member includes a coolant passage formed therein for passing a coolant to cool the plurality of cables in a longitudinal direction of the plurality of cables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirotaka Eshima, Fumihito Oka
  • Patent number: 8847069
    Abstract: A high voltage electric cable including a cable core, a cooling pipe for cooling the cable core including a polymer and adapted for carrying a cooling fluid, and a cable covering enclosing the cable core and the cooling pipe. The electric cable further includes a heat conducting element surrounding the cable core, and being arranged in thermal contact with the cable core and the cooling pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: ABB Technology AG
    Inventor: Robert Emme
  • Patent number: 8760855
    Abstract: A high power drive stack system is provided which includes a cabinet having a vaporizable dielectric fluid cooling system and a plurality of receivers for accepting a plurality of modules containing power electronics. The modules are removably attachable to the receivers by at least two non-latching, dry-break connectors. Each of the at least two connectors providing both a fluid connection and an electrical connection between the cabinet and the module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Parker Hannifin Corporation
    Inventors: Jeremy Charles Howes, David Levett
  • Patent number: 8699210
    Abstract: A system for cooling a multi-cell power supply, the system including a water pump, a water-to-air heat exchanger in fluid communication with the water pump, and a supply water manifold in fluid connection with the water-to-air-heat exchanger. The system further includes a plurality of power cells in fluid communication with the supply water manifold via one or more water hoses, and a multi-winding device in fluid communication with the plurality of power cells via at least one water-cooled bus, wherein the at least one water cooled bus electrically connects the power cells to secondary windings of the multi-winding device. The water-cooled buses provide both electrical current as well as cooling fluid to each winding of the multi-winding device, thereby eliminating a need for separate cooling and power connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Industry, Inc.
    Inventors: Marc F. Aiello, Peter Willard Hammond, Edward Alan Cheesman, Wayne Sheldon Jordan, Jonathan Kunkle
  • Patent number: 8669489
    Abstract: The invention provides a high flow power cable for a welding system designed for effective cooling of the power cable while maintaining maneuverability of the cable. Provided is a power cable having two segments, the first segment being larger in diameter than the second segment. The first segment is generally coupled to the power source and the second segment is coupled to the welding torch. The first segment includes a thicker wire, which has less resistance and dissipates less heat while the second segment includes a thinner wire, allowing for easier handling. Additionally, cooling fluid is conducted through the first segment and the second segment, further cooling the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventor: Derek Yu-Fung Hung
  • Publication number: 20140060873
    Abstract: An umbilical comprises an outer sheath defining an interior void; one or more power cores; and one or more forced convection cooling circuits disposed within the interior void proximate the power cores, typically at least one forced convection cooling circuit paired with each power core. The forced convection cooling circuit comprises a heat exchange delivery fluid conduit and a heat exchange return fluid conduit in fluid communication with the heat exchange delivery fluid conduit, where at least one of the fluid conduits is disposed either proximate to the other conduit or disposed within the other conduit. The forced convection cooling circuit has a length which has been determined to be sufficient to achieve a desired heat exchange that results in a desired efficient evacuation of heat energy from the power cores along a predetermined length of the umbilical.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: OCEANEERING INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventor: Andre Joseph Chartier
  • Patent number: 8650888
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a cryostat having a service neck for access to a superconducting magnet. In many cryogenic applications components, e.g. superconducting coils for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), superconducting transformers, generators, electronics, are cooled by keeping them in contact with a volume of liquefied, the whole cryogenic assembly being known as a cryostat. In order to operate a superconducting magnet, it must be kept at a temperature below its superconducting transition temperature. A cryostat must provide access to the vessel containing the liquefied helium for the initial cooling of the magnet to its low operating temperature, for periodic refilling of systems where there is a loss of helium, and provide sufficient access whereby to enable operation and maintenance of the magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Plc
    Inventors: Florian Steinmeyer, Keith White
  • Patent number: 8581101
    Abstract: A shielding device is provided for protecting wires, cables and the like from rays, heat and the like, in a wire harness manufacturing assembly. The shielding device comprises at least one wire-covering member, such as a tube through which the wire extends. The tube is adapted to be displaced between a wire-revealing position and a wire-concealing position, wherein in the former position, the tube allows the wire to be exposed to the rays, whereas in the latter position, the tube is in a ray-exposure area and at least partly shields the wire from the rays. Typically there are two aligned tubes slidably displaceable towards and away from each other so as to respectively assume the wire-concealing and wire-revealing positions. A compressed air source, in fluid communication with an inside of the tubes, cools the wire when in the wire-concealing position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Inventors: Marc Brosseau, Maxime Pouliot, Claude Rivet
  • Publication number: 20130269966
    Abstract: A high voltage electric cable including a cable core, a cooling pipe for cooling the cable core including a polymer and adapted for carrying a cooling fluid, and a cable covering enclosing the cable core and the cooling pipe. The electric cable further includes a heat conducting element surrounding the cable core, and being arranged in thermal contact with the cable core and the cooling pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Inventor: Robert Emme
  • Patent number: 8525023
    Abstract: A cooled current lead for conducting electrical current into a cooled vessel. The current lead comprises an electrical conductor (22) comprising a region (29) which, in use, is heated by electrical current flowing through it; a cooled component (31) situated above a the region (29) and which is provided with a path for removal of heat; and a thermo-siphon comprising a cavity (35) in thermal contact with both the region of the electrical conductor and the cooled component, said cavity containing a fluid (35).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens plc
    Inventors: Neil Charles Tigwell, Stephen Paul Trowell
  • Patent number: 8471661
    Abstract: A coil includes electrically conductive winding wire wound in turns around a core in one or more layers. The surface of the winding wire is provided with at least one groove in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the winding wire, and at least one cooling tube which enables coolant circulation is positioned in the groove of the winding wire, being at least partly embedded therein. The groove is formed on the surface of the winding wire of an outermost winding wire layer relative to the core and opens away from the core The cooling tube in the groove is placed around the outermost winding wire layer and covers the outermost winding wire layer at least partly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: ABB Oy
    Inventors: Pertti Sevakivi, Markku Talja
  • Publication number: 20120280189
    Abstract: A gaseous dielectric comprising a perfluoroketone of the formula Rf1—CO—Rf2, wherein each of Rf1 and Rf2 are perfluoroaliphatic groups, and use thereof in electrical devices, is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Inventors: Karl J. Warren, Phillip E. Tuma, John G. Owens, Richard M. Minday
  • Publication number: 20120186845
    Abstract: A conducting path includes a plurality of cables, and a cable clamp for clamping the plurality of cables together. The cable clamp includes a single metal plate molded along a perimeter of the plurality of cables, an attachment flange formed by overlapping both ends of the metal plate, and a cable supporting member for supporting the plurality of cables between the cable supporting member and the metal plate. The cable supporting member includes a coolant passage formed therein for passing a coolant to cool the plurality of cables in a longitudinal direction of the plurality of cables.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: Hitachi Cable, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirotaka Eshima, Fumihito Oka
  • Patent number: 8193450
    Abstract: The disclosed subject matter comprises a wire bridge that can dissipate heat from power wires of an electrically powered system to facilitate improving the lifetime of wires, reducing interference between wires, and reduce negative impaction of the electrically powered system. The wire bridge can be formed of a thermally conductive material to facilitate dissipating heat from associated wires, and can include a base component and a bridge component that is raised up from the base component wherein a subset of wires can be placed across and in contact with the bridge component. Optionally another subset of wires can be placed in an open gap created between the base component and bridge component; channels can be formed in the wire bridge wherein wires can be inserted; multiple bridge levels can be formed; or fasteners can be employed to fasten wires to the wire bridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Pascal Kam
  • Publication number: 20110247851
    Abstract: An apparatus for curing thin films is disclosed. The apparatus includes a computer control system, a conveyance system, a flashlamp controller, and a flashlamp. The curing apparatus also includes a high average power, low-inductance cable connected between the flashlamp controller and the flashlamp. The low-inductance cable is smaller in diameter and is more flexible than the prior art and includes at least one liquid cooling line and multiple forward and return path wires interleaved in a regular hexagonal closed packed configuration such that every wire is adjacent to at least one cooling line and at least one wire of opposite polarity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2011
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: NCC NANO, LLC
    Inventors: DOUGLAS K. JACKSON, KURT A. SCHRODER, STEVEN C. McCOOL
  • Publication number: 20110174513
    Abstract: A shielding device is provided for protecting wires, cables and the like from rays, heat and the like, in a wire harness manufacturing assembly. The shielding device comprises at least one wire-covering member, such as a tube through which the wire extends. The tube is adapted to be displaced between a wire-revealing position and a wire-concealing position, wherein in the former position, the tube allows the wire to be exposed to the rays, whereas in the latter position, the tube is in a ray-exposure area and at least partly shields the wire from the rays. Typically there are two aligned tubes slidably displaceable towards and away from each other so as to respectively assume the wire-concealing and wire-revealing positions. A compressed air source, in fluid communication with an inside of the tubes, cools the wire when in the wire-concealing position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2010
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Applicant: B3CG INTERCONNECT INC.
    Inventors: Marc Brosseau, Maxime Pouliot, Claude Rivet
  • Publication number: 20110132631
    Abstract: A cryogenically-cooled HTS cable is configured to be included within a utility power grid having a maximum fault current that would occur in the absence of the cryogenically-cooled HTS cable. The cryogenically-cooled HTS cable includes a continuous liquid cryogen coolant path for circulating a liquid cryogen. A continuously flexible arrangement of HTS wires has an impedance characteristic that attenuates the maximum fault current by at least 10%. The continuously flexible arrangement of HTS wires is configured to allow the cryogenically-cooled HTS cable to operate, during the occurrence of a maximum fault condition, with a maximum temperature rise within the HTS wires that is low enough to prevent the formation of gas bubbles within the liquid cryogen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: American Superconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas C. Folts, James Maguire, Jie Yuan, Alexis P. Malozemoff
  • Patent number: 7939753
    Abstract: A compact cable head for assembly in a conduit of a water-cooled, high current cable includes a cable side end to receive conductors; a first circumferential section with saw tooth ribbing to be engaged by clips on the conduit; and a second circumferential region adjacent thereto and configured with a knurled circumferential face to be engaged by clips on the conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Inventor: Arndt Dung
  • Patent number: 7819345
    Abstract: The system contains a plurality of conduit segments and at least one electrically-powered pump. At least one conduit connector joins the conduit segments and the electrically-powered pumps, thereby mating at least one fluid path. A plurality of electric power wires are coupled with the conduit segments and connected to the electrically-powered electric pumps. At least one electrical connector, within said conduit connectors, mates corresponding electric power wires between the conduit segments. An electric power source electrically connected to the electrically-powered pump via the electric power wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Inventor: Stephen D. Shoap
  • Publication number: 20100193213
    Abstract: Assembly of the conduit of a water-cooled, high current cable including the compact cable head is disclosed. To achieve a longer service life for the assembly of the conduit (31) of a water-cooled, high current cable including the compact cable head (11), there is provided the combination of a knurled region (113) on the circumferential face of the cable head with a region (114) with saw tooth ribbing, thereby reducing adverse effects in routine operation that can be traced back to both axial stresses and torsional stresses that affect the assembly of the conduit (31) with the cable head (11), thereby improving the service life.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2008
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Inventor: Arndt Dung
  • Patent number: 7754965
    Abstract: A device and method for reducing the risk of a streamer initiated flashover across a high voltage insulator under normal operating voltages. The device includes a support structure adapted to be grounded and mounted in proximity to the high voltage insulator; and space charge producing conductors wound around the support structure and forming coils for producing space charge in a proximity of an insulator to be protected, and inhibiting a formation of positive streamers, each conductor having a diameter not exceeding 0.1 mm for reducing a corona inception voltage of the support structure upon which each conductor is wound, in both dry and wet conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Inventors: Farouk A. M. Rizk, Amr Rizk