Abstract: An underground vehicle sensing system extends below a vehicle travel surface to detect the presence of a vehicle. A conduit extends substantially horizontally underground from an access hole placed at the side of the vehicle travel surface. A plurality of sensors are spaced apart in the conduit to detect localized changes in the magnetic field. A plurality of sections house the probes and wiring to orient and position the probes. Sections detachably clip together to form a lightweight support structure and may be added one by one through the access hole. Lightweight extension members are utilized in some configurations between the support sections for positioning and supporting the probes.

Abstract: A wire protecting shield including an oblongated sheet metal plate having an upper surface, a lower surface, a right side, a left side, a right edge, a left edge, a first end, a second end, and having a midline axis; the right and left sides of the sheet metal plate being under-folded so that the right and left edges of the sheet metal plate are positioned substantially parallel with the midline axis, and respectively below and to the right and left of the midline axis, the sheet metal plate forming a wire protecting channel having a pair of sidewalls and a ceiling, the sidewalls including the right and left edges of the sheet metal plate, and the ceiling including the lower surface of the sheet metal plate.

Abstract: A process for insulating high voltage conducting media by insulating such media with a silicone rubber composition capable of being converted to a rubbery elastomer superior in high voltage electrical insulating characteristics is provided. The composition comprises the following components (a) to (e) and not containing a platinum catalayst:(a) 100 parts by weight of an organopolysiloxane gum;(b) 10-100 parts by weight of a finely divided silica filler;(c) 15-300 parts by weight of aluminum hydroxide;(d) 1-20 parts by weight of a OH terminated organosilane or organosiloxane oligomer; and(e) 0.05-6 parts by weight of an organic peroxide.

Abstract: A busbar is provided for current distribution systems such as busbar trunking systems, switchgear and the like. The busbar has a C-shaped cross section and walls which are not uniform in thickness. The walls which lie closest to one another in adjacently mounted busbars have a thickness which is greater than the thickness of the walls which lie parallel to the mounting surface onto which the busbars are mounted.

Abstract: A compliant, synthetic material of predetermined thickness is inserted into the space between cables and the inner surface of a pedestal enclosure which houses the cables. The compliant material prevents moisture, rodents, and insects from entering the upper portion of the enclosure. Drainage slots are provided. A wire mesh pad or steel wool may be used instead of the compliant, synthetic material. A plurality of embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: A connector for attaching a downhole tool to the end of a tubing string insertable in a wellbore includes a frangible coupling portion having a pin with a predetermined cross sectional area which will fail in tension to separate the connector from the tool if the tool becomes stuck in the wellbore. The pin is disposed in a body member of the connector and interconnected therewith by spring washers to absorb transient shock or impact loads on the tool. The connector includes passages for extending electrical conductors through the coupling portion whereby electrical signals may be transmitted through the tubing string to the downhole tool.

Abstract: A particle trap is provided for gas insulated transmission lines having a central high voltage conductor supported within an outer coaxial conductive sheath by a dielectric support member. A cavity between the inner conductor and outer sheath is filled with a dielectric insulating gas. A cone-like particle deflector, mounted to the inner conductor, deflects moving particles away from the support member, to radially outer portions of the cavity. A conductive shield is disposed adjacent the outer sheath to form a field-free region in radially outer portions of the cavity, between the shield and the sheath. Particles traveling along the cavity are deflected by the cone-like deflector into the field-free region where they are held immobile. In a vertical embodiment, particles enter the field-free region through an upper end of a gap formed between shield and sheath members. In a horizontal embodiment, the deflector cone has a base which is terminated radially internally of the shield.

Abstract: Gas insulated electrical apparatus having first and second conductors separated by an insulating support within an insulating gas environment, and particle traps disposed along the surface of the high potential conductor for trapping and inactivating foreign particles which may be present within the insulating gas medium. Several embodiments of the invention were developed which are particularly suited for vertically aligned gas insulated transmission lines. The particle traps are grooves or cavities formed into the walls of the tubular inner conductor, without extending into the hollow portion of the conductor. In other embodiments, the traps are appendages or insert flanges extending from the inner conductor, with the insulator supports contacting the appendages instead of the inner conductor.

Abstract: Vertical bus bars conducting high amperage electric current extend inside a bus way in tall buildings, and feeder connections are on each floor to a local circuit. The improvement is that the feeder connections are entirely outside the bus way. Each feeder connection includes individual insulated lugs conductively and permanently secured to the respective bus bars and extending through slots in an insulating plate into a switch or circuit breaker and fuse box entirely outside the bus way. All connections to local circuits are made in the switch box or circuit breaker box outside the bus way thereby avoiding shorting in the bus way.

Abstract: A conduit is provided for transmitting both electrical power and pressured hydraulic fluid from the surface to a point in a subterranean well. The conduit comprises an outer housing formed of steel or other high tensile strength material and one or more insulated wires of copper or similar low tensile strength, highly conductive metal which are run through the outer housing. Supports are provided between the external surfaces of the insulated wires and the internal wall of the housing to frictionally anchor the insulated wires to the housing. The supports also define fluid passages therethrough so that pressured fluid may be transmitted through the bore of the housing. So that the wires are gravitationally stabilized within the outer housing, the average density of the supports and the pressured fluid is approximately equal to the average density of the insulated wires.

Abstract: A grounded hollow cylindrical housing filled with SF.sub.6 encircles coaxially a rod-shaped electric conductor through a plurality of spaced, electrically insulating spacers. With the housing disposed horizontally, two spaced, hollow frustoconical dielectric members are connected to the inner surface of the housing adjacent to either surface of each spacer to overlap the latter. With the housing disposed vertically, a disc-shaped dielectric member fixedly extends through the conductor to be adjacent and overlap each spacer. Further, an annular dielectric member may be connected to the inner surface of the housing between the disc-shaped dielectric member and the spacer. The dielectric member is preferably of a poly-tetrafluoroethylene.

Abstract: A vertically aligned gas insulated transmission line includes an elongated cylindrical outer sheath with an elongated cylindrical inner conductor disposed within the outer sheath. An insulating gas is disposed within the outer sheath and support means are utilized for supporting and centering the inner conductor within the outer sheath. In one embodiment, the support means comprises a central member with a bore therethrough having a leg member which extends radially outwardly therefrom which is secured to the outer sheath. The inner conductor extends through the bore, and the leg member has an aspect ratio greater than 1. A second embodiment utilizes for support means a conically shaped insulator which, with the inner conductor, forms an angle therebetween which is less than 26.5.degree..

Abstract: In an electrical substation, the use of separate towers or poles to terminate overhead lines is obviated by using bus duct for this purpose. Isolated phase or metal-clad bus duct is erected to provide not only the electrically conductive path between the overhead lines and the associated electrical equipment, but also the mechanical strength necessary in order to eliminate the towers and poles of the prior art.