Patents Assigned to SCHNEIDER ELETRIC USA, INC.
  • MOTOR ON-DELAY TIMER
    Publication number: 20170179854
    Abstract: A load starting system in which an upstream controller determines the sequence and timing for starting a group of loads in the most efficient and timely manner. The sequence and timing is determined by one or more real-time operational characteristics, device rating characteristics, customer/user characteristics or learned/historic characteristics or by a combination of the one or more real-time, device rating, customer/user or learned/historic characteristic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: SCHNEIDER ELETRIC USA, INC.
    Inventors: Alan E. Freeman, Kevin M. Jefferies, Benjamin W. Edwards, Matthew L. White, Konstantin Alexander Filippenko, Richard Karl Weiler
  • ARC ENERGY REDUCTION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTI-PHASE SWITCHING DEVICES
    Publication number: 20170178847
    Abstract: A three phase switching device and method for reducing arc energy and contact erosion during the opening and closing of electrical contacts, the device having one electromagnet and one armature. The device and method permits the closing of all three phases at calculated target points immediately prior to their current zero crossing by controlling the velocity at which the armature travels during the opening and closing process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: SCHNEIDER ELETRIC USA, INC.
    Inventors: Kevin M. Jefferies, Benjamin W. Edwards, Matthew L. White, Alan Freeman, Richard Karl Weiler