Patents by Inventor Gregory DEDINA

Gregory DEDINA 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).

  • Patent number: 10463897
    Abstract: An anti-fire protection device for a starter-controller device of an electrical installation is able to be connected to an electrical power conductor and includes thermal monitoring of the electrical power conductor to detect a temperature rise of greater than a predetermined threshold. This anti-fire protection device can be fixed mechanically to the starter-controller device via at least one mechanical linking member. The thermal monitoring includes at least one temperature sensor and a cartridge including a fire extinguishing agent and at least one injection element, situated on the same face of the protection device as the temperature sensor, the cartridge being situated inside the protection device and connected to the temperature sensor, the injection element being able to inject the fire extinguishing agent towards the electrical power conductors subsequent to a detection, by the temperature sensor, of a temperature of greater than the predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Schneider Electric Industries SAS
    Inventors: Gregory Dedina, Bernard Loiacono
  • Patent number: 9911548
    Abstract: An electric switching apparatus including fixed contacts respectively supported by an upstream support and a downstream support and electrically connected to an upstream power line and to a downstream power line, respectively, the fixed contacts cooperating with respective upstream and downstream mobile contacts, each of the mobile contacts being supported by a support, the supports movable simultaneously in translation by a contact carrier controlled by an actuator. This apparatus includes a device for transforming, during a device opening operation in the presence of a microweld between one of the mobile contacts and the associated fixed contact, the movement in translation of the support associated with the mobile contact in a combined movement in translation and rotation of the mobile contact so as to exert at the points of contact between the mobile contact and the fixed contact a shear force capable of breaking the aforementioned microweld.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES SAS
    Inventor: Gregory Dedina
  • Publication number: 20170178826
    Abstract: An electric switching apparatus including fixed contacts respectively supported by an upstream support and a downstream support and electrically connected to an upstream power line and to a downstream power line, respectively, the fixed contacts cooperating with respective upstream and downstream mobile contacts, each of the mobile contacts being supported by a support, the supports movable simultaneously in translation by a contact carrier controlled by an actuator. This apparatus includes a device for transforming, during a device opening operation in the presence of a microweld between one of the mobile contacts and the associated fixed contact, the movement in translation of the support associated with the mobile contact in a combined movement in translation and rotation of the mobile contact so as to exert at the points of contact between the mobile contact and the fixed contact a shear force capable of breaking the aforementioned microweld.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: Schneider Electric Industries SAS
    Inventor: Gregory DEDINA
  • Patent number: 9526929
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fire protection device (10) for a starter-controller device (2) of an electrical installation, the starter-controller device (2) comprising at least one connection terminal, each connection terminal being adapted to be connected to an electrical conductor, the protection device (10) comprising thermal monitoring means for the or each electrical conductor adapted to detect a temperature increase, at each connection terminal, above a predetermined threshold. This protection device is suitable for being mechanically fastened to the starter-controller device (2) via at least one mechanical connection member (16). The thermal monitoring means comprise at least one temperature sensor (36a, 36b, 36c) able to sense a temperature in a first hollow housing (8a, 8b, 8c) of the starter-controller device (2) situated near a connection terminal of a conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES SAS
    Inventors: Gregory Dedina, Bernard Loiacono
  • Publication number: 20160101305
    Abstract: An anti-fire protection device for a starter-controller device of an electrical installation is able to be connected to an electrical power conductor and includes thermal monitoring of the electrical power conductor to detect a temperature rise of greater than a predetermined threshold. This anti-fire protection device can be fixed mechanically to the starter-controller device via at least one mechanical linking member. The thermal monitoring includes at least one temperature sensor and a cartridge including a fire extinguishing agent and at least one injection element, situated on the same face of the protection device as the temperature sensor, the cartridge being situated inside the protection device and connected to the temperature sensor, the injection element being able to inject the fire extinguishing agent towards the electrical power conductors subsequent to a detection, by the temperature sensor, of a temperature of greater than the predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Applicant: Schneider Electric Industries SAS
    Inventors: Gregory DEDINA, Bernard Loiacono
  • Patent number: 9287064
    Abstract: This switching device comprises at least one pair of fixed contacts and, for each pair of fixed contacts, a movable contact that is movable between a closed position and an open position. A contact holder capable of holding in place each movable contact is also provided. The contact holder is movable along a vertical direction between a first position corresponding to the closed position of each movable contact and a second position corresponding to the open position of the or each movable contact. The device also includes a plate capable of applying a force on the movable contact holder so as to move it between its first and second positions. The plate is movable relative to the movable contact holder. The device includes a sensor capable of measuring the movement of the movable plate relative to the movable contact holder, during the actuation of the movement of the plate in order to drive the movement of the contact holder from its first position to its second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES SAS
    Inventor: Gregory Dedina
  • Publication number: 20150151148
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fire protection device (10) for a starter-controller device (2) of an electrical installation, the starter-controller device (2) comprising at least one connection terminal, each connection terminal being adapted to be connected to an electrical conductor, the protection device (10) comprising thermal monitoring means for the or each electrical conductor adapted to detect a temperature increase, at each connection terminal, above a predetermined threshold. This protection device is suitable for being mechanically fastened to the starter-controller device (2) via at least one mechanical connection member (16). The thermal monitoring means comprise at least one temperature sensor (36a, 36b, 36c) able to sense a temperature in a first hollow housing (8a, 8b, 8c) of the starter-controller device (2) situated near a connection terminal of a conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2014
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicant: Schneider Electric Industries SAS
    Inventors: Gregory DEDINA, Bernard LOIACONO
  • Publication number: 20150096874
    Abstract: This switching device (10) comprises at least one pair of fixed contacts (18) and, for the or each pair of fixed contacts (18), a movable contact (20) that is movable between a closed position and an open position; and a contact holder (26) capable of holding in place the or each movable contact (20). The contact holder (26) is movable along a vertical direction (Z) between a first position corresponding to the closed position of the or each movable contact (20) and a second position corresponding to the open position of the or each movable contact (20). The device (10) also includes a plate (44) capable of applying a force on the movable contact holder (26) so as to move it between its first and second positions. The plate (44) is movable relative to the movable contact holder (26).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Applicant: Schneider Electric Industries SAS
    Inventor: Gregory DEDINA