Patents by Inventor Patrick Larcher
Patrick Larcher 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).
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Patent number: 12165822Abstract: A modular contactor. The modular contactor includes a driving module (1), an intermediate connection module (2), a breaking module (3), an upper application interface module (4), and a lower application interface module (5); the driving module (1) is detachably connected to a first side of the intermediate connection module (2); the breaking module (3) is detachably connected to a second side of the intermediate connection module (2); the upper application interface module (4) is detachably connected to the top of the breaking module (3) so as to be electrically connected to upper static contacts of the multiple breaking units; the lower application interface module (5) is detachably connected to the bottom of the breaking module (3) so as to be electrically connected to lower static contacts of the multiple breaking units.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2020Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: Schneider Electric Industries SASInventors: Haifeng Tian, Min Xu, Xu Han, Chuanwu Li, Zhibao Wang, Xuedong Xia, Patrick Larcher, Vincent Geffroy, Daniel Sinthomez
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Patent number: 11710607Abstract: A mobile contact-holder for a cutout includes a support in which there is formed a housing, a mobile element made of electrically conductive material mounted to slide, in a longitudinal axis of the support, in the housing of the support, an upstream electrical contact pad and a downstream electrical contact pad borne by the mobile element and a spring which exerts a return force on the mobile element. The support includes two oblong holes emerging in the housing and extending along its longitudinal axis. The mobile contact-holder also includes a guiding shaft which is fixed in translation with respect to the mobile element, which extends along an axis parallel to a transverse axis of the support and which is engaged in the oblong holes of the support. The guiding shaft engaged in the oblong holes guides the translation of the mobile element in the housing.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Schneider Electric Industries SASInventor: Patrick Larcher
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Publication number: 20230037032Abstract: A modular contactor. The modular contactor includes a driving module (1), an intermediate connection module (2), a breaking module (3), an upper application interface module (4), and a lower application interface module (5); the driving module (1) is detachably connected to a first side of the intermediate connection module (2); the breaking module (3) is detachably connected to a second side of the intermediate connection module (2) ; the upper application interface module (4) is detachably connected to the top of the breaking module (3) so as to be electrically connected to upper static contacts of the multiple breaking units; the lower application interface module (5) is detachably connected to the bottom of the breaking module (3) so as to be electrically connected to lower static contacts of the multiple breaking units.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2020Publication date: February 2, 2023Applicant: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES SASInventors: Haifeng TIAN, Min XU, Xu HAN, Chuanwu LI, Zhibao WANG, Xuedong XIA, Patrick LARCHER, Vincent GEFFROY, Daniel SINTHOMEZ
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Publication number: 20220139642Abstract: A mobile contact-holder for a cutout includes a support in which there is formed a housing, a mobile element made of electrically conductive material mounted to slide, in a longitudinal axis of the support, in the housing of the support, an upstream electrical contact pad and a downstream electrical contact pad borne by the mobile element and a spring which exerts a return force on the mobile element. The support includes two oblong holes emerging in the housing and extending along its longitudinal axis. The mobile contact-holder also includes a guiding shaft which is fixed in translation with respect to the mobile element, which extends along an axis parallel to a transverse axis of the support and which is engaged in the oblong holes of the support. The guiding shaft engaged in the oblong holes guides the translation of the mobile element in the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2021Publication date: May 5, 2022Applicant: Schneider Electric Industries SASInventor: Patrick Larcher
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Patent number: 11081296Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a stationary contact assembly and a corresponding switch contact. The stationary contact assembly comprises: a stationary contact body (21); a stationary contact point (23) placed on the stationary contact body (21); and an arc-guiding member (25) fixed on the stationary contact body (21) and including an arc guiding portion (251), the arc guiding portion (251) comprising a first end (A) and a second end (B) that are opposite to each other, the first end (A) being close to the stationary contact point (23), a direction form the first end (A) to the second end (B) defining a main movement direction (F) of arc.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES SASInventors: Haifeng Tian, Patrick Larcher
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Patent number: 10872738Abstract: A device for switching an electric current, including a switching block including a mobile electrical contact and a linking unit, integral, as well as an actuation block including an actuator and a mobile pallet. The device includes an improved connection interface, including a pivoting shaft, including an eccentric fastener element, delimiting an internal housing able to accommodate a head of the linking unit. The connection interface can be switched, by rotating the shaft, between a locked state wherein the head of the linking unit is held in the internal housing of the eccentric fastener unit so as to hold the mobile pallet integral in translation with the linking unit, and an unlocked state, wherein the head of the linking unit can move freely in translation with respect to the eccentric fastener element so as to uncouple the mobile pallet from the linking unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2019Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: Schneider Electric Industries SASInventors: Patrick Comtois, Patrick Larcher
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Patent number: 10732205Abstract: A device for measuring electric currents includes multiple current sensors of Rogowski type, each suitable for measuring an electric current flowing through an electrical conductor, these current sensors being in adjacent pairs and each including coils for measuring the current and a central aperture for receiving the corresponding electrical conductor. Each current sensor includes two of the coils, which coils are positioned in parallel and facing one another on opposite edges of the central aperture and two ferromagnetic bars extending between ends of the coils, perpendicularly to a longitudinal axis of the coils.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2017Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES SASInventors: Pascal Houbre, Patrick Larcher
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Publication number: 20200126736Abstract: A device for switching an electric current, including a switching block including a mobile electrical contact and a linking unit, integral, as well as an actuation block including an actuator and a mobile pallet. The device includes an improved connection interface, including a pivoting shaft, including an eccentric fastener element, delimiting an internal housing able to accommodate a head of the linking unit. The connection interface can be switched, by rotating the shaft, between a locked state wherein the head of the linking unit is held in the internal housing of the eccentric fastener unit so as to hold the mobile pallet integral in translation with the linking unit, and an unlocked state, wherein the head of the linking unit can move freely in translation with respect to the eccentric fastener element so as to uncouple the mobile pallet from the linking unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2019Publication date: April 23, 2020Applicant: Schneider Electric Industries SASInventors: Patrick COMTOIS, Patrick LARCHER
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Patent number: 10510497Abstract: A removable electric current switching element includes a housing including a first bottom plate and a second bottom plate opposite to one another. The housing includes insulating walls which extend around electrically mobile contacts from the second bottom plate and in a direction perpendicular to the second bottom plate. The housing also includes protection walls which at least partially cover internal faces of the insulating walls, these protection walls being formed of a single piece with the second bottom plate.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Schneider Electric Industries SASInventors: Patrick Larcher, Patrick Comtois
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Patent number: 10475614Abstract: A module for the interconnection between an electrical circuit breaker and an electrical contactor includes a housing and multiple high-power electrical conductors that are housed inside the housing, each of the high-power electrical conductors being suitable for electrically connecting an electrical output of a circuit breaker to an electrical input of a contactor, in order to allow a supply electric current to flow from the circuit breaker to the contactor. This interconnection module additionally includes a voltage sensor, which sensor is suitable for detecting the presence of a voltage between at least two of the high-power electrical conductors.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2017Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES SASInventors: Pascal Houbre, Patrick Larcher
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Publication number: 20190333721Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a stationary contact assembly and a corresponding switch contact. The stationary contact assembly comprises: a stationary contact body (21); a stationary contact point (23) placed on the stationary contact body (21); and an arc-guiding member (25) fixed on the stationary contact body (21) and including an arc guiding portion (251), the arc guiding portion (251) comprising a first end (A) and a second end (B) that are opposite to each other, the first end (A) being close to the stationary contact point (23), a direction form the first end (A) to the second end (B) defining a main movement direction (F) of arc.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2019Publication date: October 31, 2019Applicant: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES SASInventors: Haifeng TIAN, Patrick LARCHER
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Patent number: 10431964Abstract: A removable electric current switching element includes first and second housing parts fitted to the other and that can be moved between an assembled configuration and a partially disassembled configuration. The first housing part includes side walls provided with through inspection windows, the second housing part includes insulating walls which each delimit a volume in the second housing part around a corresponding mobile conductor. The first and second housing parts are arranged relative to one another in such a way that, in the assembled configuration the insulating walls mask the inspection windows and that, in the intermediate configuration the insulating walls are away from the inspection windows to free access to the inspection windows.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2018Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES SASInventors: Patrick Larcher, Patrick Comtois
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Patent number: 10199194Abstract: A disconnecting electrical apparatus includes a disconnecting block, including elements for disconnecting an electric current each able to be actuated with a coupling member, to switch this disconnecting element to a blocking state or a state allowing the electric current to pass, an actuator block, provided with a controllable electromagnet suitable for generating an electromagnetic force, a mobile container provided with a magnetic plate, which displaces the coupling members, under the effect of the electromagnetic force, so as to switch the disconnecting elements. The apparatus also includes a connection interface inserted between the disconnecting block and the actuator block, the mobile container being housed inside the connection interface.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2017Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES SASInventors: Patrick Comtois, Patrick Larcher
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Publication number: 20180337007Abstract: A removable electric current switching element includes a housing including a first bottom plate and a second bottom plate opposite to one another. The housing includes insulating walls which extend around electrically mobile contacts from the second bottom plate and in a direction perpendicular to the second bottom plate. The housing also includes protection walls which at least partially cover internal faces of the insulating walls, these protection walls being formed of a single piece with the second bottom plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2018Publication date: November 22, 2018Applicant: Schneider Electric Industries SASInventors: Patrick LARCHER, Patrick Comtois
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Publication number: 20180337519Abstract: A removable electric current switching element includes first and second housing parts fitted to the other and that can be moved between an assembled configuration and a partially disassembled configuration. The first housing part includes side walls provided with through inspection windows, the second housing part includes insulating walls which each delimit a volume in the second housing part around a corresponding mobile conductor. The first and second housing parts are arranged relative to one another in such a way that, in the assembled configuration the insulating walls mask the inspection windows and that, in the intermediate configuration the insulating walls are away from the inspection windows to free access to the inspection windows.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2018Publication date: November 22, 2018Applicant: Schneider Electric Industries SASInventors: Patrick LARCHER, Patrick COMTOIS
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Patent number: 10115536Abstract: An electromagnetic actuator of an electrical contact includes: a stationary portion including at least one coil generating a magnetic field centered on a longitudinal axis; at least one core concentrating magnetic flux, installed within the coil, and including a plate spreading the magnetic flux and defining an active surface perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, and at least one element returning magnetic flux; an armature translationally movable along the longitudinal axis and relative to the stationary portion between first and second positions, by a force induced by the magnetic field; and at least one device returning the armature elastically to a predetermined position of the first position or second position. The spreading plate includes at least one rib closing magnetic field lines between the spreading plate and the armature, protruding relative to the active surface on the armature side and housed on one edge of the spreading plate.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2015Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES SASInventors: Patrick Larcher, Vincent Geffroy
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Publication number: 20180166243Abstract: A disconnecting electrical apparatus includes a disconnecting block, including elements for disconnecting an electric current each able to be actuated with a coupling member, to switch this disconnecting element to a blocking state or a state allowing the electric current to pass, an actuator block, provided with a controllable electromagnet suitable for generating an electromagnetic force, a mobile container provided with a magnetic plate, which displaces the coupling members, under the effect of the electromagnetic force, so as to switch the disconnecting elements. The apparatus also includes a connection interface inserted between the disconnecting block and the actuator block, the mobile container being housed inside the connection interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2017Publication date: June 14, 2018Applicant: Schneider Electric Industries SASInventors: Patrick COMTOIS, Patrick Larcher
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Publication number: 20180011129Abstract: A device for measuring electric currents includes multiple current sensors of Rogowski type, each suitable for measuring an electric current flowing through an electrical conductor, these current sensors being in adjacent pairs and each including coils for measuring the current and a central aperture for receiving the corresponding electrical conductor. Each current sensor includes two of the coils, which coils are positioned in parallel and facing one another on opposite edges of the central aperture and two ferromagnetic bars extending between ends of the coils, perpendicularly to a longitudinal axis of the coils.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2017Publication date: January 11, 2018Applicant: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES SASInventors: Pascal HOUBRE, Patrick Larcher
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Publication number: 20180012719Abstract: A module for the interconnection between an electrical circuit breaker and an electrical contactor includes a housing and multiple high-power electrical conductors that are housed inside the housing, each of the high-power electrical conductors being suitable for electrically connecting an electrical output of a circuit breaker to an electrical input of a contactor, in order to allow a supply electric current to flow from the circuit breaker to the contactor. This interconnection module additionally includes a voltage sensor, which sensor is suitable for detecting the presence of a voltage between at least two of the high-power electrical conductors.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2017Publication date: January 11, 2018Applicant: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES SASInventors: Pascal HOUBRE, Patrick LARCHER
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Publication number: 20170271095Abstract: An electromagnetic actuator of an electrical contact includes: a stationary portion including at least one coil generating a magnetic field centered on a longitudinal axis; at least one core concentrating magnetic flux, installed within the coil, and including a plate spreading the magnetic flux and defining an active surface perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, and at least one element returning magnetic flux; an armature translationally movable along the longitudinal axis and relative to the stationary portion between first and second positions, by a force induced by the magnetic field; and at least one device returning the armature elastically to a predetermined position of the first position or second position. The spreading plate includes at least one rib closing magnetic field lines between the spreading plate and the armature, protruding relative to the active surface on the armature side and housed on one edge of the spreading plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2015Publication date: September 21, 2017Applicant: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES SASInventors: Patrick LARCHER, Vincent GEFFROY