Patents Assigned to ABB Service S.r.l.
  • Patent number: 8110762
    Abstract: A single-pole or multi-pole device for low-voltage systems, in particular a circuit breaker or a disconnector, which comprises: an outer casing containing for each pole at least one fixed contact and at least one mobile contact that can be coupled to/uncoupled from one another; a rotating element, defined by a shaped body comprising at least one seat for each pole of said switch, said seat being designed to house at least one mobile contact of a corresponding pole; a control mechanism operatively connected to said rotating element for enabling movement thereof; reinforcement elements positioned in said at least one seat of said mobile contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: ABB Service S.r.l.
    Inventors: Stefano Besana, Alessio Bergamini
  • Patent number: 7388169
    Abstract: An electrical device for low-voltage applications that comprises at least one fixed contact designed to connect to a corresponding mobile contact; the electrical device also comprises at least one module, on which said fixed contact is housed, and the module is operatively connected to a structural part of the device and is at least partially separable from said structural part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Assignee: ABB Service S.r.l.
    Inventors: Lucio Azzola, Stefano Besana
  • Patent number: 7368834
    Abstract: Described herein is an electronic protection device for automatic circuit-breakers comprising: a control unit; a warning interface; a supply system comprising a main supply system and a first back-up supply system; an interface for connection between said supply system and said control unit, said connection interface comprising an automatic device for passage from the main supply to the back-up supply in the event of interruption of said main supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2008
    Assignee: ABB Service S.r.l.
    Inventors: Francesco Viaro, Marco Stucchi
  • Publication number: 20080060410
    Abstract: Described herein is a device for detecting a physical variable for a process fluid via differential measurement, comprising a pressure transmitter having a main body, provided with a pressure sensor and a first pressure-sensitive element and a second pressure-sensitive element operatively connected to the pressure sensor. The device moreover comprises a first remote separator, designed to be positioned in a first detection position, and a second remote separator, designed to be positioned in a second detection position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2007
    Publication date: March 13, 2008
    Applicant: ABB Service S.r.l
    Inventor: Rossano Marchesi
  • Patent number: 7326853
    Abstract: A terminal box for electrotechnical uses and the like includes a base designed to be fixed to a supporting surface and a closing lid that can be coupled to the base. The base is formed by a shaped metal body so as to define a housing cavity without joins at least along the development of the surfaces constituting its perimetric walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignee: ABB Service S.r.l.
    Inventors: Rodolfo Fontana, Giuseppe Morini
  • Patent number: 7283338
    Abstract: A power supply device for low-voltage electronic residual current circuit breakers includes an electronic rectifier stage suitable to receive in input a mains voltage and to generate a first unipolar voltage whose value depends on the value of the mains voltage, and an electronic adjustment stage, suitable to receive in input the first unipolar voltage and a current and to generate in output a second unipolar voltage of adjustable value. The electronic adjustment stage performs an active adjustment of the current input to the electronic adjustment stage so as to keep the second unipolar voltage at a predefined constant value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: ABB Service S.r.l.
    Inventor: Brandonisio Salvatore
  • Patent number: 7253375
    Abstract: A method for joining components of thermostatic systems and thermal relays for low-voltage circuit breakers, the components being constituted by at least one bimetallic element constituted by a lamina with a first face and a second face and at least one connection element that has a substantially flat end part with a third face and a fourth face, its particularity consisting of the fact that it comprises the steps that consist in:—overlapping and coupling the end part of the first face of the bimetallic element with respect to the third face of the end part of the connection element;—subjecting the end part of the second face of the bimetallic element to the welding action of laser means to provide a weld between the bimetallic element and the connection element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2007
    Assignee: ABB Service S.r.l.
    Inventors: Massimo Maura, Federico Gamba
  • Patent number: 7227347
    Abstract: A device and method for current measurement in a conductor and, in particular, a method to feed the devices of the invention in order to interpret the information provided. The method is based on the exploitation of discrete sampling of the information provided from the devices of the invention and allows the feeding of these devices to be modulated in order to activate the devices only when necessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2007
    Assignee: ABB Services S.r.l.
    Inventors: Francesco Viaro, Francesco Casalinuovo
  • Patent number: 7208852
    Abstract: An electronic tripping device for low-voltage circuit-breakers comprises means for detection and calculation of a ground-fault current operatively connected to tripping means of said circuit-breaker. The means for detection and calculation comprise: current-sensor means, which supply, for each pole, a signal proportional to the current; means for detection of the sign of the current, which, for each pole, supply a signal representing the sign of the current; current-rectifying means, which, for each pole, supply a rectified signal proportional to the current circulating in said pole; and first numerical-processing means, which supply a value with sign representing a ground fault by means of a numerical-processing operation comprising the multiplication of the signal representing the sign by the corresponding rectified signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: ABB Service S.r.l.
    Inventors: Severino Colombo, Antonio Maria Gabello
  • Patent number: 7170733
    Abstract: An electric pole (1) for a low-voltage automatic power circuit breaker, comprising: a fixed contact (2) and a movable contact (3) that can be coupled/uncoupled with respect to each other, said fixed contact being electrically connected to a phase conductor, and a sensing unit that comprises a first section suitable to accommodate a current sensor associated with the phase conductor, the current sensor generating sensing signals that are indicative of the intensity of the electrical current that flows through the phase conductor, the sensing unit being electrically connected to a protection unit of the automatic power circuit breaker, the protection unit being suitable to receive the sensing signals and to generate control signals for actuation means operatively connected to said movable contact, and comprising at least one input section (14) provided with one or more electrical input terminals (141); whose particularity consists of the fact that the sensing unit comprises a second section (20), which is rigid
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: ABB Services S.r.l.
    Inventors: Severino Colombo, Osvaldo Carrara
  • Patent number: 7145421
    Abstract: A supply device (1) for an electronic protection device to be used in a low-voltage circuit breaker. The supply device basically comprises a primary conductor (11), a secondary winding (12), a first magnetic circuit (10), and at least one second magnetic circuit (20). The first magnetic circuit (10) is such as to surround said primary conductor (11), which is related to a phase protected by the protection device; at the same time, the first magnetic circuit (10) constitutes the core of said secondary winding (12) that is used for supply of the protection device. The second magnetic circuit (20) is structurally separated from the first magnetic circuit (10), but is operatively connected thereto for subtracting part of the first magnetic flux generated within it by the current circulating in the primary conductor (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2006
    Assignee: ABB Service S.R.L.
    Inventors: Federico Gamba, Severino Colombo, Francesco Casalinuovo
  • Publication number: 20060255792
    Abstract: A device for detecting the position occupied by a mobile element operatively associated therewith in relation to a reference position, comprising at least one container containing a fluid and a detector device operatively connected to said container, said detector device being configured so as to provide a signal to indicate the actual position of said mobile element as a function of at least one parameter recorded thereby and indicative of an operative condition of the fluid, or of a condition of operative interaction between the fluid and the detector device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2006
    Publication date: November 16, 2006
    Applicant: ABB Service S.r.l.
    Inventors: Andrea Moroni, Rossano Marchesi, Massimo Civetta
  • Patent number: 7128620
    Abstract: A junction between a flexible conductor and a connection terminal is disclosed. The junction includes a connection terminal that is shaped substantially like a parallelepiped and has an upper face and a lower face, a pair of side faces and an end face. The connection terminal includes, on the end face, one or more slots shaped substantially like a parallelepiped, which run through the entire thickness of the connection terminal. The junction further includes at least one flexible conductor, in which one end part is shaped so as to mate substantially with the inner walls of the slots. The end part of the flexible conductor is inserted in the slots and cold coined, and the flexible conductor protrudes substantially at right angles from one of the upper, lower or end faces. At least one laser welding bead runs across the two slots along two of the faces from which the flexible conductor does not protrude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignee: ABB Service S.r.l.
    Inventors: Massimo Maura, Federico Gamba
  • Patent number: 7121856
    Abstract: A device for connection of a plurality of busbars to at least one apparatus of an electrical switchboard. The device comprises mechanical-coupling means to the busbars. The mechanical-coupling means further comprise at least one first element made of insulating material having a shaped body, on which there are defined housing seats, designed to couple each with corresponding busbars insulating them from one another. In addition the device further comprises connection means, operatively coupled to the at least one first element so as to enable direct electrical connection between the busbars and the at least one apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Assignee: ABB Service S.R.L.
    Inventors: Rodolfo Fontana, Giuseppe Morini
  • Patent number: D535626
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2007
    Assignee: ABB Services S.r.l.
    Inventors: Lucio Azzola, Giovanni Frassineti
  • Patent number: D547729
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: ABB Service S.r.l.
    Inventors: Lucio Azzola, Giovanni Frassineti
  • Patent number: D547730
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: ABB Service S.r.l.
    Inventors: Lucio Azzola, Giovanni Frassineti
  • Patent number: D551629
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2007
    Assignee: ABB Service S.r.L.
    Inventors: Lucio Azzola, Giovanni Frassineti
  • Patent number: D562777
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2008
    Assignee: ABB Service S.R.L.
    Inventors: Lucio Azzola, Giovanni Frassineti
  • Patent number: D948459
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: ABB Service S.R.L
    Inventors: Lucio Azzola, Giovanni Frassineti