Slot Liners And Spacers Patents (Class 174/138E)
  • Patent number: 6140591
    Abstract: A plunger stand-off assembly for securing a circuit board to a computer chassis without the need for tools. The plunger stand-off assembly includes an inner component, an outer component, and a spring for causing relative movement between the inner and outer components. The relative movement between the inner and outer components securely fastens the circuit board to the computer chassis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2000
    Assignee: Unitrend, Inc.
    Inventors: Jon Richard Osborne, Conrad A. H. Jelinger
  • Patent number: 5952761
    Abstract: An inverter-driven motor which is driven by an inverter power source and includes an insulating member for insulating a winding wire and an iron core of the inverter-driven motor from each other at a groove. The insulating member is formed by not less than two insulating films and at least one of the insulating films is formed with a plurality of bores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1999
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Itoh, Hirokazu Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 5633477
    Abstract: A resin-rich electrically conductive felt material is described. The described conductive felt can be used to suppress corona discharge in high voltage generator coils. The conductive felt is prepared by treatment with electrically conducting polymers, such as polyaniline and polypyrrole, and resistivity values ranging from 4,000 to 100,000 ohms may be obtained. This treated felt can be readily impregnated with thermoset resins, such as epoxies, to provide flexible prepregs suitable for coil bonding applications in turbine generators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1997
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corporation
    Inventors: James D. B. Smith, Karl F. Schoch, Jr., Franklin T. Emery
  • Patent number: 5315068
    Abstract: An extender or cover is provided for fitting over partition walls between adjacent sets of terminal points or connectors on an electrical terminal block. When installed, the extender serves as a mechanical barrier against inadvertent connection of terminals of different electrical polarity or potential. The extender also serves as a visible cautionary indicator, alerting the service crew to be aware of the risk of misconnection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1994
    Assignee: Houston Industries Incorporated
    Inventors: Mary A. Barron, Danny R. Williams
  • Patent number: 5255159
    Abstract: A solder spacer device and method for use in positioning a grid pin array having a plurality of pins over a circuit board having a plurality of pin holes respectively receiving the pins. The spacer is pulled through a central opening in the circuit board after the pins are soldered in the holes to the circuit board. The spacer has a cylindrical body which is positioned in the central opening and has a plurality of radial legs having respective flexure portions for separating the pin grid array from the circuit board during soldering and for folding into the central opening during extraction through the central opening after the soldering is finished.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1993
    Assignee: Honeywell Inc.
    Inventor: Douglas A. Seyk
  • Patent number: 5214569
    Abstract: A mother board for a computer provided with a plurality of keyhole shaped fitting holes with protective elements extending around and downwardly from the peripheral edges of the large elliptical portions for preventing the annular slots of posts used in securing a PC board to the mother board from seizing the edges of the large elliptical portions during removal of the PC board. An interface rack is integrally formed with the mother board and provided with a plurality of main slots for receiving interfaces therein, each main slot terminating in an insertion slot formed between a positioning plate and the bottom of the interface rack for guiding and securing the interface to the rack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1993
    Inventor: Lin C. Hsiang
  • Patent number: 5204803
    Abstract: An insulated neutral bus has a base, top and conductive bus therebetween. Ribs extend from the base and frictionally engage ribs extending from the top. A recess is preferably provided in the bus so that the bus may fit behind a removable panelboard interior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1993
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.
    Inventor: Louis L. Runge
  • Patent number: 5126196
    Abstract: A protective device for a hermetic motor-driven compressor comprises a protective device main body and an insulating layer made of a heat-resisting insulating material having a heat-resisting temperature of 155.degree. C. or higher, wherein the insulating layer surrounds the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1992
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidehiko Yamada, Shigeru Muramatsu
  • Patent number: 5093543
    Abstract: A motor phase insulation device having folding legs that can be easily manufactured with minimum material wasted. The legs are formed from slits in the device material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1992
    Assignee: Electrical Insulation Suppliers, Inc.
    Inventors: William T. Patton, Will T. Patton, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4880944
    Abstract: A bar for electric induction devices is in the form of a lengthwise rolled-up strip of an insulating material, having at least one layer, the figure obtained in the cross-section of this rolled-up strip being a polygon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 14, 1989
    Assignee: Nauchno-Issledovatelsky, Proektno-Konstruktorsky I Tekhnologichesky Institut Transformatorostroeniya
    Inventors: Viktor L. Kanaljuk, Anatoly M. Surakov, Vasily M. Chornogotsky, Lazar N. Shifrin
  • Patent number: 4761629
    Abstract: A toroidal transformer insulation tube includes first and second identical, molded plastic U-channel halves. The halves each have an arcuate bottom and generally semi-cylindrical sides which extend upwardly from the bottom and terminate in inner and outer edges. The edges have symmetrically arranged alternating lapped sections, radially offset from adjacent lapped sections, so that when one U-channel half is mounted to another U-channel half with their edges aligned, the lapped sections overlap to restrict relative radial and rotary motion between the U-channel halves. Thickened flanges are formed at the ends of the halves for strength and for keeping the electrical windings on the insulation tube. The flanges have lead slots, facing in opposite axial directions, formed therein for receipt of transformer leads so that the leads in opposed slots of opposed tubes are spaced apart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1988
    Assignee: Kuhlman Corporation
    Inventors: Richard W. Martin, Herbert J. Macemon, William R. Fortenberry
  • Patent number: 4551700
    Abstract: A toroidal power transformer having improved insulation between the primary and secondary windings. The insulation includes an insulator sleeve fitted to the primary winding and having the primary winding lead wires positioned therein such that the lead wires extend radially outward from the primary winding. This insulator sleeve is fitted to the primary windings by way of an insulator flange formed as an integral part of the insulator sleeve which insures good insulation between the primary and secondary windings and high creepage distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 5, 1985
    Assignee: Toroid Transformator AB
    Inventor: Anders Waldemar
  • Patent number: 4533587
    Abstract: Connection insulators having a plurality of insulating compartments for electrically isolating electrical connections formed from strips of insulating material of indeterminate length. In one embodiment, a first strip of insulating material is supplied to a securing station at a predetermined average rate of supply and a second strip of insulating material is supplied to a forming station at a predetermined average rate of supply greater than the predetermined average rate of supply of the first strip with the pliability of the second strip being enhanced by heating the strip for aiding the deformability characteristics of the second strip. The second strip of insulating material is deformed into predetermined patterns at the forming station and then moved into position adjacent to the first strip of insulating material at the securing station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1985
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Eldon E. Moodie, Richard D. Burns
  • Patent number: 4533580
    Abstract: A composite insulating material for the coils of large rotating electric plant comprises a central layer of resinous mica paper between outer layers of high temperature textile material, such, for example, as stitch bonded high temperature nylon fibres. The material may be provided in the form of a channel section which, with a complementary such section, fits over a straight slot-fitting section of the coil in the form of a sleeve, which may be consolidated on the coil by a coil pressing operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1985
    Inventor: Malcolm Otty
  • Patent number: 4436585
    Abstract: Connection insulators having a plurality of insulating compartments for electrically isolating electrical connections formed from strips of insulating material of indeterminate length. In one embodiment, a first strip of insulating material is supplied to a securing station at a predetermined average rate of supply and a second strip of insulating material is supplied to a forming station at a predetermined average rate of supply greater than the predetermined average rate of supply of the first strip with the pliability of the second strip being enhanced by heating the strip for aiding the deformability characteristics of the second strip. The second strip of insulating material is deformed into predetermined patterns at the forming station and then moved into position adjacent to the first strip of insulating material at the securing station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 13, 1984
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Eldon E. Moodie, Richard D. Burns
  • Patent number: 4297606
    Abstract: Method of bracing winding end turns of an electric machine includes wrapping a first binding tape transversely around a pair of winding bars forming the end turns and disposed spaced from and substantially parallel to one another, wrapping a second binding tape transversely about the wrapped first binding tape in the space between the pair of winding bars so that the wrapped first and second binding tapes and the mutually opposing surfaces of the parallel winding bars define an inner space within, and injecting a flowable, cold hardenable cement mass into the inner space, and introducing into the space between the winding bars at the location of the inner space subsequently defined by the wrapped first and second binding tapes and the winding bars, and before injecting the cement mass into the inner space, a spacer member defining and predetermining the spacing between the pair of winding bars and having a shape that affords penetration of the cement mass from a given point of injection to all of the spaces a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1978
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1981
    Assignee: Kraftwerk Union Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Arnold Wichmann
  • Patent number: 4263475
    Abstract: Electrical insulators are formed from insulative strip material by providing a substantially continuous ultrasonically welded seam. In one embodiment a tubular insulator for covering stator winding connections is formed by continuously moving the strip and a strip of dissimilar material about a cylindrical former having its axix in generally the same direction as the direction of elongation and motion of the strips to thereby form a multiple layer sleeve with a seam being ultrasonically formed to include the two edges of the strip of polyester material. In a second embodiment two or more parallel elongated narrow flat strips are moved in their direction of elongation with a plurality of flat sheets of polyester material being ultrasonically bonded thereto along a substantially continuous seam on the individual sheets with the individual sheets occurring at uniform intervals along the strips to thereby form a ladder-like strip of insulators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1978
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1981
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Walter P. McNeal
  • Patent number: 3999157
    Abstract: A plurality of conductors are surrounded by a continuous, flexible belt which is doubled over to provide loops at each end thereof. Non-metallic rods are disposed through the loops for providing surfaces to which a non-metallic buckle or strap is connected for securing the belt. The belt consists of a plurality of glass fiber cords which are surrounded by a cured elastomeric material. The cords are formed from glass fiber strands which are twisted sufficiently to provide the desired amount of belt strength and flexibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1975
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1976
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Harold M. Philofsky, Robert L. Kolek