Patents Assigned to Eaton
  • Patent number: 11923161
    Abstract: A Shunt Trip Circuit Interrupter is to be installed within an electrical panel and includes a number of sets of separable contacts, a housing, an operating mechanism structured to move each set of separable contacts between at least an ON condition and an OFF condition, and a tripping mechanism situated within an interior of the housing and including an electronic circuit, a solenoid electrically connected with the electronic circuit, and a wire electrically connected with the electronic circuit and extending between the electronic circuit and an exterior of the housing, the wire being structured to be electrically connected with a switch system having at least one of a manual switch and an electronic switch that, when actuated, actuates the solenoid that engages the operating mechanism which moves each set of separable contacts from the ON condition to the OFF condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: Ruben Gamaliel Herrera Ortiz, Evelyn Patricia Baez Lorenzo, Ramon Alexander Perez Suarez, Glennys Johanny De Jesus Reyes, Luis Jose Ynfante Peña
  • Patent number: 11923668
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a cable tray assembly comprising a cable tray splice, first cable tray section, and second cable tray section adjacent the first cable tray section with both sections having a bottom wall. The cable tray splice couples to the bottom walls. The cable tray splice may include at least two fasteners and a splice body configured to engage adjacent cable tray sections. The fasteners are configured to couple the splice body to the adjacent cable tray sections and include a spring producing a biasing force against the splice body. The disclosure provides a method to form a cable tray assembly including positioning the two cable tray sections end-to-end, positioning a splice body on bottom walls of the two cable tray sections, inserting a fastener through aligned openings in the splice body and the bottom walls, and applying a spring biasing force to the splice body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: Jayram Shivajirao Desai, Lalit Subhash Khairnar
  • Publication number: 20240068657
    Abstract: A system or appliance for universal mounting of an audio/visual alert system, with a surface interface, having a mounting body mountable on either of a vertical surface or a horizontal surface and one or more electrical terminals. Further having a notification module with a lens configured to throw light 180 degrees vertically and 180 degrees horizontally at greater than 15 cd and a speaker. Further having an appliance cover with a cover body, a letterplate having a first side with a text in a first orientation and a second side with the text in a second orientation, wherein the letterplate is fully separable from the rest of the system; and a grill having a flat outer face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Eaton Intelligent Power Limited
    Inventors: Pratik Narendra PAWAR, Bhavesh Jitendra DESAI, Scott Edward CASE, Pushpak Paris YABRER
  • Patent number: 11914000
    Abstract: A leakage detector is used with a cable tray run configured to support one or more electrical cables. The leakage detector includes an electrical conductor extending around the cable tray run generally transverse to a length of the cable tray run. A magnetic sensor is coupled to the electrical conductor. In use the leakage detector is configured to sense magnetic flux generated by current flowing through the one or more electrical conductors adjacent the leakage detector. More than one leakage detector can be used in a leakage detection system. The leakage detection system may further include a central computing device to determine if there is leakage current from the one or more electrical conductor in the cable tray run based on signals received from the leakage detectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: Anish Haridass, Guruprasad Narayan Solapurkar, Hemraj Keda Thorat
  • Patent number: 11916388
    Abstract: An electrical power distribution control system configured to issue a demand response signal to cut power to a plurality of electrical power consuming loads within an electrical power distribution network to reduce a peak power demand within an electrical power grid during a peak power demand. Unlike conventional demand response systems, the controller in each consumer residence includes both a distributed control based on the ability to track individual 24 hour usage patterns and selectively delay the demand response signal on individual resistive heating loads based on usage patterns for the purpose of reducing a likelihood of consumers experiencing effects of the reduced peak power demand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power Limited
    Inventors: Roger W. Rognli, Jesse Walter, Karl Slingsby, Ryan F. Brager
  • Patent number: 11915896
    Abstract: A pressure switch includes an actuation unit disposed within a body of the pressure switch and biased in a first direction by a spring arrangement and accessible at a fitting end of the pressure switch to be movable in a second direction against the bias of the spring by fluid at the fitting end. The actuation unit includes a limiter trapped in a pocket to limit the range of travel of the actuation unit, thereby safeguarding the electrical switch element from sustaining damage due to excessive travel. The pocket may be formed by the cooperation of two separate pieces. The spring arrangement may be biased by another piece disposed within a body of the pressure switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: Pooja Kshirsagar, Robert Schiesser
  • Patent number: 11916362
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a cable tray fitting with tray connector and a flexible membrane with opposite longitudinal ends. The tray connectors are secured to the opposite longitudinal with each being secured to one of a pair of adjacent cable tray sections. The flexible membrane allows relative movement between the cable tray sections. The disclosure provides a cable tray assembly including first and second cable tray sections each with a longitudinal end. The cable tray assembly includes a cable tray fitting secured to and disposed between the longitudinal ends of the first and second cable tray sections. The disclosure provides a method of assembling a cable tray assembly by securing a cable tray fitting to opposing and adjacent longitudinal ends of first and second cable tray sections and allowing the cable tray sections to move in three dimensions relative to one another by virtue of the flexible membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: Jacob L. Johnson, Todd Brasher, Brandon M. Tally
  • Publication number: 20240062956
    Abstract: An assembly for manufacturing the insulation layer of a Thomson coil includes a base plate, a coil housing, and a cover plate. The base plate securely seats the coil housing, and the coil housing securely seats a Thomson coil and the cover plate. The cover plate has several ribs that hold multiple turns of a Thomson coil in place while epoxy is applied to the coil, thus ensuring that the epoxy is evenly distributed on the coil surface and that the coil windings remain level. The cover plate and coil housing are structured to either receive a high-pressure epoxy injection or to be used in an epoxy potting process, during which all exposed areas of the Thomson coil are coated by liquid epoxy. After the epoxy has solidified, the Thomson coil is coupled to the coil housing, and the housed and insulated Thomson coil is removed from the assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: Xin Zhou, Santhosh Kumar Chamarajanagar Govinda Nayaka, Robert Michael Slepian, Zhixi Deng
  • Publication number: 20240059163
    Abstract: Embodiments of an electric vehicle (EV) charging system for implementation in structures that house electric vehicles, such as warehouses or parking structures, are disclosed. The EV charging system can be overhead mounted from a building's ceiling, using cable tray for electrical power distribution and an integrated EV charger mounting system, thus eliminating the risk of EV cables and charging handles being dropped on floor areas. The disclosed ceiling mountable system is especially advantageous for electric vehicle fleet charging applications and multi-level parking lot applications, as the disclosed system enables simplification and lowest-total-installed-cost in comparison to traditional ground-mounted EV charging systems and related electrical infrastructure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventor: ROBERT J. REESE
  • Patent number: 11905860
    Abstract: A latch assembly comprises a latch pin and a cage. The latch pin comprises a latch nose and a pin body. The pin body comprises an outer surface and an inner compartment. The inner compartment comprises a first inner wall segmented by a first slot and a second inner wall segmented by a second slot. The first slot and the second slot vent out of the inner compartment. The cage comprises a stepped base and a shaft extending from the stepped base into the inner compartment. The shaft comprises a first exterior flat adjoining the first inner wall and a second exterior flat adjoining the second inner wall. A spring can be biased against the latch pin and the cage. The latch assembly can be used in a latching device of a valvetrain such as a switching roller finger follower or other rocker arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: Jeffrey R. Brown, Matthew A. Vance
  • Patent number: 11905949
    Abstract: A groove is applied to one or more contact surfaces of a journal bearing of a pump to increase a force applied to the contact surface(s). Each groove has an end exposed to discharge pressure of the pump so that the groove communicates the discharge pressure across the contact surface. The groove reduces an area of the contact surface over which fluid leakage results in a pressure differential, thereby increasing a net force applied to the contact surface. Applying the groove to the axial end face of the journal bearing enhances an axial force applied to the journal bearing whereas applying the groove to a radially facing land reduces friction between the journal bearing and the outer housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: Adrian Ciobota, Martin Augustine Clements
  • Patent number: 11905859
    Abstract: A castellation assembly comprises a lost motion spring assembly, an upper castellation piece, and a lower castellation piece. A spring hat comprises a crown, a pin hole through the crown, and a brim. A lost motion spring is seated against the spring hat. Upper castellation piece comprises a tubular body, an upper inner rim adjoining the brim, and upper castellation teeth. Lower castellation piece comprises a spring post extending up from a castellation body, the spring post passing through the lost motion spring, and through the pin hole. Lower castellation teeth extend from the castellation body. The lost motion spring is biased against the castellation body to lift the upper inner rim by the brim. A lash screw can house the spring post so that the spring post terminates inside the lash screw. A rocker arm is an example of a castellation assembly installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power Limited
    Inventors: Andrei D. Radulescu, Ramy Rezkalla, Daniel Nelson, James Sheren, Michele Angelo Cecchi, Marco Ravoni, Maria Letizia Ciardullo
  • Patent number: 11906146
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an LED explosion-proof lamp. The LED explosion-proof lamp includes a lighting portion having a first engagement structure and a first positioning hole, a connecting portion detachably connected to the lighting portion and having a second engagement structure, a second positioning hole, and an opening suitable for accommodating the support rod of the LED explosion-proof lamp, a positioning member detachably inserted into the first positioning hole and the second positioning hole, wherein one of the first engagement structure and the second engagement structure is configured as a sliding groove, and the other of the first engagement structure and the second engagement structure is configured as a protrusion adapted to be inserted into the sliding groove and movable along the sliding groove. The LED explosion-proof lamp has the advantages of simple structure, easy processing and assembly, and high structural strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power Limited
    Inventors: Yang Yang, Peihuan Liu, Yuru Li
  • Patent number: 11908649
    Abstract: An actuator, which is a part of a combination that includes a pair of circuit interrupters, advantageously employs a plurality of Thomson coils that are electrically connected in parallel and that interact with a corresponding set of Thomson plates of a rotatable armature in order to perform useful work in a rapid fashion. In one embodiment, the useful work is to commutate current from one circuit interrupter to the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: Jayaraman Muniyappan, Andrew L. Gottschalk, Robert Michael Slepian
  • Patent number: 11909196
    Abstract: A circuit interrupter including a current sensor having a normal sensor output and an over current detection output, a solid state switch module structured to have a closed state to allow current to flow through the circuit interrupter and an open state to interrupt current flowing through the circuit interrupter, a gate driver structured to control the solid state switch module including a desaturation function output, wherein the gate driver is structured to cause the solid state switch module to interrupt current flowing through the circuit interrupter when the DESAT function output changes to the on state, and an electronic trip circuit structured to output a trip signal to the gate driver when the normal sensor output reaches a first threshold level or the overcurrent detection output changes to the on state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: Xin Zhou, Brian E. Carlson, Yanjun Feng, Jianyang Liu, Michael Slepian, Andrew L. Gottschalk, Santhosh Kumar Chamarajanagar Govinda Nayaka
  • Patent number: 11906036
    Abstract: A transmission capable of being assembled as a coolerless transmission and a transmission having an oil cooler includes a housing and a lubrication system. The oil passage system includes an oil passage having an oil outlet opening extending out of the housing and an oil inlet opening extending into the housing. A bypass flow passage is disposed in the housing in communication with the oil outlet opening and the oil inlet opening. In a coolerless configuration a pair of plugs are inserted in the oil outlet opening and the oil inlet opening, respectively, to close off the oil outlet opening and the oil inlet opening so that oil flows from the oil outlet opening to the oil inlet opening through the bypass flow passage. In a transmission configuration having an oil cooler, an exterior oil cooler is connected to the oil outlet opening and the oil inlet opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Eaton Cummins Automated Transmission Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Adam Christopher Maurer, Graeme Andrew Jackson
  • Patent number: 11898470
    Abstract: A rocker assembly for a type III center pivot valvetrain comprises a rocker arm having a cam end, a center pivot bore, and a valve end which includes a first actuator bore and a second actuator bore. The rocker assembly further comprises a cylinder deactivation actuator arranged in the first actuator bore. The cylinder deactivation actuator comprises a hydraulically actuated latch assembly configured to selectively switch between a latched configuration and an unlatched configuration and a mechanical lash-setting sleeve distanced from a travel stop defined within the first actuator bore. The cylinder deactivation actuator further comprises a latch step disposed below the mechanical lash-setting sleeve and extending into the first actuator bore. The hydraulically actuated latch assembly is configured to selectively travel between the travel stop and the latch step when the hydraulically actuated latch assembly is in the latched configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power Limited
    Inventors: Pritam Gopal Edke, Nikhil Saggam, Nicola Andrisani
  • Patent number: 11898735
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a “clocking” mechanism that give customers the flexibility to adjust light output distribution of luminaires to a desired level. The “clocking” mechanism gives the flexibility to adjust a position of a retainer ring of a LED system with respect to a mounting module that includes a heat sink adapter housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power Limited
    Inventors: Poonam Arun Chavan, Timothy Michael Burns, Daniel James Broe
  • Patent number: 11901835
    Abstract: An apparatus, such as a power converter, includes first, second and third core bus plates arranged in parallel. The apparatus also includes a first bus extension plate joined to the first core bus plate and extending therefrom at a first angle and a second bus extension plate joined to the second core bus plate and extending therefrom at a second angle. The apparatus further includes a third bus extension plated joined with the third core bus plate and disposed parallel to the first bus extension plate and a fourth bus extension plate joined with the third core bus plate and disposed parallel to the second bus extension plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power Limited
    Inventor: Geraldo Nojima
  • Patent number: D1016361
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: Christopher Ring, Christopher G. Henley, Arkadiusz Oskar Doroz, Virginia Merriam, Gangadhar Mestri