Particular Shape Or Structure Of The Contact Patents (Class 200/275)
  • Patent number: 9530579
    Abstract: Provided is a bypass switch with the closing time shortened. A bypass switch using a vacuum valve having a fixed contact and a movable contact includes: an insulating rod having one end side connected to the movable contact; a closing spring fitted to the other end side of the insulating rod, and having a closing function to close the contacts and a contact-pressing function to apply pressure to the contacts; and an operation unit having a latch function to keep a contact-opened state, and connected to the other end side of the insulating rod, wherein the insulating rod, the closing spring, and the operation unit are arranged in series along the axial direction of the vacuum valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeru Inaba, Nobumoto Tohya, Minoru Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9530589
    Abstract: A key board of mobile phone applied in key circuit of mobile phone is provided. A first electrode, a second electrode and a third electrode are disposed on a printed circuit board (PCB), the second electrode is disposed around the first electrode in circular form, tooth profile structures disposed matched with the third electrode are extended from an outer side of the second electrode, the third electrode is connected with the first electrode, the setting can be applied to various types of keys. The key board of the mobile phone can not only be applied to the dome keys, but also the carbon granule keys. If customers need different designs of keys, the new keys are needed to be redesign, and a new main board is not necessary to design, which greatly saves development time and lowers the cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Huizhou TCL Mobile Communication Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: Wei Chen
  • Patent number: 9514900
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided including: a housing having a button hole formed therein: a button disposed in the button hole; a switch having a touch part; and a pressing element interposed between the button and the switch, the pressing element including a first end part contacting a first wall of the housing, a second end part contacting the button, and a pressing projection disposed adjacently to the switch; wherein when the button is actuated, the pressing element pivots upon the second end part in a first direction, while the pressing projection actuates the switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hae Sung Park
  • Patent number: 9506949
    Abstract: A spring probe includes a spring sleeve and a needle having a body located inside the spring sleeve and a head protruded out of a lower non-spring section of the spring sleeve and having a stopping block. The lower non-spring section is abutted against and fixed to the stopping block, facilitating assembly of the spring probe. A method for manufacturing the spring probe is disclosed including the steps of forming a spring sleeve having a lower non-spring section with a slot and a guiding sheet adjacent to the slot by photolithography technique, manufacturing a needle having a stopping block with a bonding pad and an engagement rib by MEMS manufacturing process, sleeving the spring sleeve onto the needle to engage the engagement rib into the slot, and fixing the guiding sheet and the needle together by reflow soldering the bonding pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: MPI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yi-Lung Lee, Horng-Kuang Fan
  • Patent number: 9472355
    Abstract: An oscillator-type switch includes a base, an elastic member mounted on the base and flexible in an up-down direction, an oscillation member having a base portion mounted on the elastic member and a driving section connected from the base portion in a first horizontal direction along an upper surface of the base, a key top set on the oscillation member, a reversal spring applying a reaction force to a downward movement of the driving section, and a pressure-sensitive switch sheet detecting the downward movement of the driving section. The elastic member is arranged for a center line in the first horizontal direction within a range in which the elastic member is mounted on the oscillation member to be positioned outside a projection area of the operation unit in the first horizontal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: ALPS ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kunio Hosono, Masahiro Takata, Takahiro Murakami
  • Patent number: 9443666
    Abstract: An electrical contact device of the contact finger type for high nominal current between a first part that is conductive and a conductive surface of a second part comprising a flexible rod connected to a first connection element for mechanical and electrical connection to the first part, a contact portion applied on the conductive surface of the second part, and at least one metal contact blade placed at a first end between a first end of the flexible rod and the first part. The flexible rod is conductive, and the at least one metal blade is connected at its second end to the second end of the flexible rod by a second mechanical and electrical connection element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Alstom Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: Didier Rodrigues, Denis Frigiere, Jean Marc Willieme, Frank Jacquier
  • Patent number: 9395863
    Abstract: A touch panel and a display device are disclosed. Either a cell or a cell, which is formed by the intersections of silver fine wires which form either first electrodes or second electrodes, forms parallelogram shapes (preferably rhomboids), having opposite angles wherein intersection angles are obtuse angles and intersection angles are acute angles. The first electrodes and/or the second electrodes have an adhesive (OCA) deployed thereupon, which has a loss coefficient (tan ?) of 0.13 or more at 140° C. and 1 Hz, and a reserve elasticity of 8.9×104 Pa or less at 25° C. and 1 Hz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Masaya Nakayama, Kazuhiro Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20150034464
    Abstract: The present invention is the field of electrical elements, related to the technology for improving the connection performance of the static contact device for strong current in high voltage switches, especially for a type of static contact device for strong current in high voltage earthing switches. It includes a base, with two Contact Pieces standing face-to-face on it and vertical to its upper end surface. Outside each of the two Contact Pieces, there is a supporting plate, the lower end of which is firmly fixed on the base. Two groups of coaxially stacking Belleville springs are set between each supporting plate and the contact piece on the same side. By way of setting two groups of Belleville springs on one side, the present invention enlarges the contact surface between the Contact Piece and the moving contact blade, effectively reinforcing the gripping for each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventor: Chunwei Jiang
  • Publication number: 20150021149
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a contact structure for electromechanical switch. The contact structure is using the design including a PCB and a moving contact to allow the actuations and have great switch characteristics whose range is from DC to high frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventor: Richard Loon SUN
  • Publication number: 20140326588
    Abstract: A contact has a flat surface and a side surface that is parallel to the flat surface. At least a part of the side surface is curved so as to swell. At least a part of the contact is able to be elastically deformed in parallel to the flat surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuro Okazumi, Kazumasa Seki
  • Patent number: 8872046
    Abstract: A method of creating a switch to be disposed along a longitudinal axis of a device, comprising providing a hollow body defining an interior cavity, disposing a switching element movably within the interior cavity, the switching element defining a switch-making position and a switch-breaking position and having a biasing element, coupling an electrically-conductive contact to the switching element to define a switch-making state when the switching element is in the switch-making position and a switch-braking state when the switching element is in the switch-braking position, and imparting a variable longitudinal bias to the switching element with the biasing element to place the switching element in one of the switch-making position and the switch-braking position until an external force imparted to the switching element along the switching axis exceeds the longitudinal bias thereby causing the switching element to move to the other one of the switch-making position and the switch-braking position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin W. Smith
  • Publication number: 20140174895
    Abstract: A contact arrangement has a symmetry axis (z) and includes at least a first elongated contact and at least a second elongated contact. At least one of the contacts is movable linearly along the axis (z) relative to the other contact and contacts it electrically and mechanically at a front face of each contact. The first and/or the second contact is at least partially hollow, thereby forming a hollow space in its interior. A diameter, with regard to the axis (z), of the hollow space of the first and/or the second contact varies along at least a section of the hollow space and the hollow space has an opening on the front face of the first and/or the second contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: ABB Technology AG
    Inventors: Helmut HEIERMEIER, Carl KURINKO, Florian BRANDL, Juerg BRYNER
  • Patent number: 8742272
    Abstract: According to various aspects, exemplary embodiments are provided of electrical contacts, which may be used for establishing an electrical pathway between first and second electrically conductive surfaces. In an exemplary embodiment, an electrical contact may include an electrically conductive base member and at least one resilient contact member. The at least one resilient contact member may have a configuration at least partially defined by a laser cut in or into the electrically conductive base member. The at least one resilient contact member may also be formed so as to protrude outwardly from the electrically conductive base member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Laird Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gerald Robert English, Joseph C. Boetto
  • Publication number: 20140090969
    Abstract: A stationary contact for a rotary switch is provided. The stationary contact includes a connection portion for connecting to a conductor and a first portion being a contact portion for connecting the stationary contact to a rotary contact. The stationary contact also includes a second portion being a support portion for supporting the stationary contact to a switch body. The contact portion and support portion extend in the same angle from the connection portion. A method of mounting a rotary switch is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: ABB Oy
    Inventors: Oskari UITTO, Aki Suutarinen, Rainer Kolmonen
  • Publication number: 20140041999
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a touch panel including a transparent substrate, an electrode formed to have a mesh pattern on the transparent substrate, and a wiring formed to have a zigzag pattern on the transparent substrate, having first and second peaks alternately continued in a length direction, and connected to the electrode. Since the electrode and the wiring are formed to have a uniform pattern overall, the electrode and the wiring can be disposed in an active region of the touch panel, and thus, a bezel region can be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung Ryoul Yim, Sang Su Hong, In Hyun Jang, Seul Gi Kim, Kyu Sang Lee, Chung Mo Yang
  • Publication number: 20140034465
    Abstract: A switch and a relay include a contact with a smooth contacting surface. A side surface of a fixed contact faces a side surface of a movable contact. The fixed contact has an insulating layer and a base layer stacked on a fixed contact substrate, and a first conductive layer formed thereon through electrolytic plating. The side surface of the first conductive layer that faces the movable contact becomes the fixed contact (contacting surface). The movable contact has an insulating layer and a base layer stacked on the movable contact substrate, and a movable contact formed thereon through electrolytic plating. A side surface of a second conductive layer that faces the fixed contact becomes the movable contact (contacting surface). The fixed contact and the movable contact have surfaces that contact the side surfaces of the mold portion when growing the first and second conductive layers through electrolytic plating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Masuda, Naoki Yoshitake, Kenichi Hinuma, Junya Yamamoto, Takashi Fujisawa, Takeshi Fujiwara
  • Publication number: 20140001017
    Abstract: Disclosed is a touch panel. The touch panel includes an insulating layer, first sensing electrode patterns provided on one surface of the insulating layer, and second sensing electrode patterns provided on another surface opposite to the one surface of the insulating layer such that the second sensing electrode patterns are insulated from the first sensing electrode patterns. A bridge electrode is prevented from being viewed by the eyes of a user by removing the bridge electrode from the touch panel. The touch panel is constructed in a simpler structure, so that the production cost of the touch panel is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Inventors: Doo Sun CHOI, Hyun Min NAH
  • Publication number: 20140001018
    Abstract: Disclosed is a touch window. The touch window includes a cover window, a first sensing electrode layer formed on a view area (V/A) of the cover window and including a first electrode pattern including a first unit cell electrode pattern, and a second sensing electrode layer formed on the view area and including a second electrode pattern which crosses the first electrode pattern and includes a second unit cell electrode pattern. A ratio of an area of the space part between a first unit cell electrode pattern and a second unit cell electrode pattern adjacent to the first unit cell electrode pattern with respect to an area of the first unit cell electrode pattern of the first electrode pattern or the second unit cell electrode pattern of the second electrode pattern is in the range of 10% to 20%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Inventor: Keun Sik LEE
  • Patent number: 8592700
    Abstract: A switch of a device having a longitudinal axis, and comprising a switching element parallel to the longitudinal axis of the device, a hollow body defining an interior cavity in which the switching element is movably disposed to define a switch-making position at a first longitudinal position and a switch-breaking position at a second longitudinal position, a biasing element imparting a variable longitudinal bias to the switching element to place the switching element in one of the switch-making position and the switch-breaking position until an external force imparted to the switching element exceeds the longitudinal bias causing the switching element to move to the other of the switch-making position and the switch-breaking position, and an electrically-conductive contact coupled to the switching element and defining a switch-making state when the switching element is in the switch-making position and a switch-breaking state when the switching element is in the switch-breaking position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin W. Smith
  • Publication number: 20130300691
    Abstract: A touch panel includes a substrate, first and second electrode units, and an auxiliary electrode unit. The substrate has first and second touch areas. The first electrode unit includes a plurality of first electrodes arranged spacedly in one of rows and columns, and disposed on the substrate to span the first and second touch areas. The second electrode unit includes a plurality of second electrodes arranged spacedly in the other of rows and columns to intersect without contacting the first electrodes. The auxiliary electrode unit is disposed proximate to and without contacting the second electrode unit such that the second electrode unit is able to detect a signal passing through the auxiliary electrode unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yin-Hsiu HUANG, Chun-Hung HUANG, Chia-Yuan WU
  • Publication number: 20130256105
    Abstract: A touch panel according to the embodiment includes a substrate including an effective area and a dummy area surrounding the effective area; and an outer dummy layer in the dummy area; a planar layer on the substrate; and a transparent electrode disposed on the substrate to detect a position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun Seok LIM, Hyung Min SOHN, Young Sun YOU, Jong Wook LIM
  • Publication number: 20130213779
    Abstract: An electrical switch is disclosed, including a switch housing and a busbar routed through a housing opening in the switch housing. In at least one embodiment, a contact element is present for making electrical contact with the busbar, the contact element being clamped in between the busbar and the switch housing in the housing opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2013
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
  • Patent number: 8500347
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a keyboard. The keyboard includes a number of buttons set on a pedestal. The pedestal includes a number of resisting members and a number of returning members. Each of the resisting members is arranged between two of the buttons, the inclined sidewalls of each of the resisting members is capable of respectively engaging with the buttons adjacent to the resisting member, each of the returning members corresponding to one of the resisting members returns the corresponding resisting member to its original state after the movement. When a button is pressed, the depressed button drives the adjacent resisting members to the point under the adjacent buttons to stop the adjacent buttons being depressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignees: Fu Tai Hua Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shuai Zhang
  • Patent number: 8410381
    Abstract: A high waterproof compact push-on switch includes a first contact plate, a spacer, and a second contact plate laminated in this order. The first contact plate is substantially rectangular, and made of highly conductive flat sheet metal. The spacer is flat, rectangular, made of LCP resin, and has a circular center hole at its center. The second contact plate is substantially rectangular, made of highly conductive flat sheet metal, and has a circular central opening at its center. The spacer is thermocompression-bonded to the surfaces of the first and second contact plates so as to integrate them. On the second contact plate is provided a dome-shaped movable contact, which is covered with an adhesive protective sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori Yanai, Yoshikazu Yagi, Takashi Tomago, Akira Ishigame
  • Patent number: 8398413
    Abstract: An electrical contact device, configured for electrical signals to be transmitted therethrough and for movable contact with an electrically conductive track, includes a composite carbon fiber material including plural carbon fiber elements aligned in substantially the same direction. At least a portion of the plural carbon fiber elements is bonded together in a semi-conductive (low-resistance) synthetic resin compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Micro Contacts, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Tucci, Philip Uruburu, Stephen Veselaski
  • Publication number: 20130062170
    Abstract: A push switch includes a switch contact part for carrying out electrical connection by pressing, a case having a wall part on a periphery thereof and accommodating the switch contact part in a concave portion surrounded by the wall part, and a protective sheet covering the concave portion. The protective sheet and at least a part of an upper surface of the wall part of the case are welded together as a first welding place.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: MASATSUGU TAKEUCHI, YUTARO NAKAGAWA
  • Patent number: 8367953
    Abstract: An electrical contact device for controlling operation of an aluminum processing bath includes an electrically insulating body and a first bore having a first diameter. The first bore opens into a through second bore having a second diameter smaller than the first diameter. The second bore opens into a third bore having a third diameter greater than the first and second diameters. A fastener received in the body includes a shank having a male threaded portion and a male threaded head. A conductive biasing element has a connecting end engaged with the male threaded head. The connecting end and the male threaded head are slidably received in the first bore, and the shank is slidably received in the second bore. The male threaded portion extends into the third bore. A nut positioned in the third bore engages the male threaded portion coupling the fastener and tubular body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: MAC Valves, Inc.
    Inventor: Gilles Beaulieu
  • Patent number: 8319134
    Abstract: Formation of an assemblage of electrically conductive components for a new electrosurgical pencil is disclosed, and assembly of those components in a method for automating the manufacture and combination of current carrying metal circuitry and operable switching components in “electrosurgical pencils” which supply current to an active terminal, for application of high frequency or high power electrical current to a surgical site, and control of such current through coaction of the elements of the switch. In manufacture, the design of the switch components allows start-to-finish automated assembly of the switch, whereby an array of identical multiple metal “frames” may be formed from a reel, then each frame separated and enclosed within molded plastic, and the resulting cabinet joined with a housing to create an inexpensive hand piece, for use with a high quality, reusable cable and plug assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: E Surgical, LLC
    Inventor: Michael Blomeyer
  • Publication number: 20120255843
    Abstract: A switching arrangement having a plurality of electrical contacts configured for high speed electromechanical power switching applications such as transfer switches and circuit breakers. Contacts that contact one another when closed can include snubber portions or parallel snubber contacts that vary in resistance during sliding contact travel. One snubbering switching arrangement includes a first pair of snubbing contacts in parallel with a first pair of electrical contacts where the snubbing contacts make sliding contact before the electrical contacts when the load is being connected to one power source and a second pair of snubbing contacts in parallel with a second pair of electrical contact where the snubbing contacts make contact before the electrical contacts when the load is being connected to a second power source. One such switching arrangement includes the snubber or snubbing contact formed of a brush of electrically conductive bristles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Inventor: Elliot Brooks
  • Patent number: 8164013
    Abstract: A contactor comprises, for each phase, a pair of contact devices which comprise a connection strip and at least two conductors provided with a stationary contact, and a movable contact bridge able to close the two stationary contacts or not. According to the invention, the contact device is formed from superposition of a number of pieces equal to the number of conductors, each piece comprising one of the conductors and a connection part corresponding to the connection strip but of smaller thickness. Each of the pieces can be made from folded metal. The connection parts are coupled to one another to form the connection strip by means of holes at the same time as the sets of bars are secured thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Schneider Electric Industries SAS
    Inventors: Patrick Larcher, Julien Guibert, Joël Reboulet
  • Patent number: 8134429
    Abstract: An electrical appliance designed according to the principle of a fork connection, and into which a contact element is insertable between two contact clips. In the event of high currents, such as those which can occur in the event of short circuits in a load which is connected to the fork connection, magnetic forces counteract current constriction forces, thus allowing higher currents to be carried through the connection without the contact clips being bent apart from one another in the process. This is achieved in that a magnetic field caused by a current is concentrated in a particularly advantageous manner for production of forces which draw the two clip contacts together with the aid of a part at least partially composed of a ferromagnetic material, one of which in at least one embodiment, is arranged between the contact clips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Oliver Harling
  • Patent number: 8124896
    Abstract: An electrical sliding contact switch having a housing in which a common contact body and at least one selective contact body having a contact surface are arranged. A sliding area including electrically insulating material is arranged adjacent to the contact area of the selective contact body. A contactor that is in continuous electrically conducting connection with the common contact body and has at least one sliding contact is either in electrically conducting connection with the selective contact body or touches the sliding area. An actuating member is furthermore arranged in the housing such that upon actuation, it slidingly moves the at least one sliding contact of the contactor on a sliding path from the contact surface of the selective contact body into the sliding area and/or out of the sliding area to the contact surface of the selective contact body. Furthermore, embodied in the sliding path, are zones that are not touched by the sliding contacts during transit of the sliding area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen, AG
    Inventor: Eduard Ruff
  • Publication number: 20110319892
    Abstract: Formation of an assemblage of electrically conductive components for a new electrosurgical pencil is disclosed, and assembly of those components in a method for automating the manufacture and combination of current carrying metal circuitry and operable switching components in “electrosurgical pencils” which supply current to an active terminal, for application of high frequency or high power electrical current to a surgical site, and control of such current through coaction of the elements of the switch. In manufacture, the design of the switch components allows start-to-finish automated assembly of the switch, whereby an array of identical multiple metal “frames” may be formed from a reel, then each frame separated and enclosed within molded plastic, and the resulting cabinet joined with a housing to create an inexpensive hand piece, for use with a high quality, reusable cable and plug assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Inventor: Michael Blomeyer
  • Publication number: 20110266121
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a moving element for a low voltage switching device and to a switching device comprising this moving element. The moving element according to the invention comprises for each pole a housing unit suitable to receive an elastic element which interacts with an electrical contact. This latter comprises a first contact portion susceptible to contact a further electrical contact and a second portion connectable to a conductive element of the switching device. The electrical contact comprises a pin shaped portion positioned rotating in a seat defined on the housing unit so as to configure a mutual rotation axis of the electrical contact with respect to the housing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2009
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Applicant: ABB S.p.A.
    Inventors: Luigi Bonetti, Michele Ferrari
  • Patent number: 8029296
    Abstract: A nonmetallic electrical contact or wiper composed of a composite carbon fiber material through which an electrical signal is terminated. The carbon fibers are arranged in and bonded into a multi-layer structure used to conduct a primary electrical signal. A nonwoven carbon fiber mat is used as one or more of the layers structure, which also includes one or layers of carbon fiber, aligned substantially in the same direction, and encapsulated within a matrix of electrometric material. This mat also improves an off-axis conductivity of the material and provides increased mechanical stability required for the fabrication of electrical contacts or wipers produced using this material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Micro Contacts, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Tucci, Philip Uruburu, Stephen Veselaski
  • Patent number: 8022327
    Abstract: Formation of an assemblage of electrically conductive components for a new electrosurgical pencil is disclosed, and assembly of those components in a method for automating the manufacture and combination of current carrying metal circuitry and operable switching components in “electrosurgical pencils” which supply current to an active terminal, for application of high frequency or high power electrical current to a surgical site, and control of such current through coaction of the elements of the switch. In manufacture, the design of the switch components allows start-to-finish automated assembly of the switch, in an industry which knows only partially automated assembly, and partial assembly by hand, to create an improved tool for surgical cutting, coagulation, and cauterizing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Inventor: Michael Blomeyer
  • Publication number: 20110209971
    Abstract: A switch has a base, a housing, a support terminal that is assembled in the base, a moving contact piece that is made of a band-shaped material having a section being formed into a substantial J-shape, a moving contact being provided in one end portion of the moving contact piece, an intermediate portion of the moving contact piece being turnably supported by a turning bracket of the support terminal, a plunger that is accommodated in an internal space while being vertically movable, wherein the internal space is formed by fitting the housing in the base, and a coil spring that is turnably supported by the plunger. The plunger is vertically moved such that one end portion of the coil spring is slid while brought into press-contact with an edge of the other end portion of the moving contact piece, whereby the moving contact piece is inverted to bring and separate the moving contact into contact with and from a fixed contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2010
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Applicant: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Kiyono, Toshihiro Naruo
  • Publication number: 20110198204
    Abstract: A light guide sheet has a light-transmissive film-shaped base material, and a convex first light emitting section formed on the base material. In the first light emitting section, a fluorescent pigment and a dyeing pigment are dispersed. The light guide sheet of the present invention emits light of a pure and vivid color by using the fluorescent pigment and the dyeing pigment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2011
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: NAOKI TATEHATA, HIROTOSHI WATANABE
  • Patent number: 7999202
    Abstract: A contact includes a first conductor that has a fitting hole formed therein; a second conductor that has a shaft that can be inserted into the fitting hole and an annular groove formed on an outer circumference of the shaft; and an inclined coil spring that has a ring inserted into a coil, is circularly formed by the ring to be provided inside the annular groove, and is in contact with the annular groove and the fitting hole to electrically connect the first and second conductors. The inclined coil spring is helically wound in a shape of an ellipse and is provided inside the annular groove so that a long axis of the ellipse is directed to an axial direction of the shaft and a short axis is directed to a radial direction of the shaft. Axial-direction both ends of the ring are in contact with a long-axis inner circumference of the inclined coil spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Fujita, Hitoshi Sadakuni, Hiroyuki Nakagawa, Hideaki Shimazu
  • Publication number: 20110120844
    Abstract: A switch for switching an electrical load comprises a contact chamber in which a first contact member, a second contact member and a movable contact bridge are arranged. The contact chamber is arranged in a mounting support. The contact chamber comprises a ceramic material and the mounting support comprises a plastics material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Applicant: Tyco Electronics Amp GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Hoffmann, Matthias Kroeker, Udo Gabel
  • Publication number: 20110089004
    Abstract: A high waterproof compact push-on switch includes a first contact plate, a spacer, and a second contact plate laminated in this order. The first contact plate is substantially rectangular, and made of highly conductive flat sheet metal. The spacer is flat, rectangular, made of LCP resin, and has a circular center hole at its center. The second contact plate is substantially rectangular, made of highly conductive flat sheet metal, and has a circular central opening at its center. The spacer is thermocompression-bonded to the surfaces of the first and second contact plates so as to integrate them. On the second contact plate is provided a dome-shaped movable contact, which is covered with an adhesive protective sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2010
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori Yanai, Yoshikazu Yagi, Takashi Tomago, Akira Ishigame
  • Publication number: 20110083947
    Abstract: In an electrical switch, in particular an electrical microswitch, has at least one electrical contact designed as a hollow-shape section of a component of an electrically conducting material. In this electrical switch, the occurrence of vibrations with the introduction onto an opposing contact is prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Inventors: Rolf Bertram, Martin Koepsell, Bruno Stenzel
  • Patent number: 7915550
    Abstract: An electrical circuit operating system for controlling operating of an aluminum processing bath includes an electrical contact device. The electrical contact device includes a tubular body of an electrically insulating material, the body including at least one circumferential slot receiving a seal member. A fastener is disposed in the tubular body. A conductive biasing element has a compressed connecting end engaged with the fastener, and an extending portion axially protracting from the compressed connecting end. A piston forms a portion of an electrical circuit. The electrical circuit is closed when the conductive biasing element is contacted by the piston. A piston rod is connected to the piston and is displaceable with the piston, the piston rod operable to break a crust of the aluminum processing bath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: MAC Valves, Inc.
    Inventor: Gilles Beaulieu
  • Publication number: 20110062003
    Abstract: A device for controlling the flow of electric current is provided. The device comprises a first conductor as thin film form; a second conductor switchably coupled to the first conductor to alternate between an electrically connected state with the first conductor and an electrically disconnected state with the first conductor. At least one conductor further comprises an electrical contact, the electrical contact comprising a solid matrix comprising a plurality of pores; and a filler material disposed within at least a portion of the plurality of pores. The filler material has a melting point of less than about 575 K. A method to make an electrical contact is provided. The method includes the steps of: providing a substrate; providing a plurality of pores on the substrate; and disposing a filler material within at least a portion of the plurality of pores. The filler material has a melting point of less than about 575 K.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2010
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Duraiswamy Srinivasan, Reed Roeder Corderman, Christopher Fred Keimel, Somasundaram Gunasekaran, Sudhakar Eddula Reddy, Arun Virupaksha Gowda, Kanakasabapathi Subramanian, Om Prakash
  • Publication number: 20110042189
    Abstract: A multi-directional switch device includes: an operation member; an actuator which is applied with an operation force from the operation member; a plurality of rubber contacts which is pressed down by the actuator; and a plurality of fixed contacts to or from which the rubber contacts are respectively movable close or away, wherein the multi-directional switch device performs a switching operation in such a manner that a combination of a pair of two rubber contacts is selected from the plurality of rubber contacts in response to an operation direction, and both of the two rubber contacts are pressed down so as to respectively come into contact with the corresponding fixed contacts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2010
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Inventors: Satoru Konno, Mikio Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20100320067
    Abstract: Formation of an assemblage of electrically conductive components for a new electrosurgical pencil is disclosed, and assembly of those components in a method for automating the manufacture and combination of current carrying metal circuitry and operable switching components in “electrosurgical pencils” which supply current to an active terminal, for application of high frequency or high power electrical current to a surgical site, and control of such current through coaction of the elements of the switch. In manufacture, the design of the switch components allows start-to-finish automated assembly of the switch, in an industry which knows only partially automated assembly, and partial assembly by hand, to create an improved tool for surgical cutting, coagulation, and cauterizing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2009
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Inventor: Michael Blomeyer
  • Publication number: 20100323751
    Abstract: A light guide sheet is adapted to be used with a light emitter. The light guide sheet includes a light-transmissive base, a light inlet section having bonded to a lower surface of the base, and an illumination section for diffusing the light entering into the base. The light inlet section has an upper surface and an edge surface connected to the upper surface. The upper surface of the light inlet section is bonded to the lower surface of the base. Light emitted from the light emitter enters into the edge surface the light inlet section. The light inlet section causes the entering light to enter into the base. The light inlet section has a refractive index lower than a refractive index of the base. The light guide sheet provides a movable contact assembly capable of reliably illumination inexpensively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: NAOKI TATEHATA, YOUSUKE CHIKAHISA
  • Publication number: 20100294635
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device (50) and a method for short-circuiting a specified electrolysis in a row of electrolysis cells intended for the production of aluminium. This device includes a bridging member (60) including at least two opposite contact arms and at least one bridging conductor electrically that electrically connects the contact arms. The contact arms are shaped like a wedge. The device further includes a clasping member (70) including a frame and a least two opposite thrust members. The clasping member (70) is fit to embrace the bridging member (60) so that each thrust member bears on each contact arm and so that, upon moving the contact arms with respect to the clasping member, each thrust member urges the corresponding contact arm towards the conductors (201, 202) inserted between the contact arms, so as to create and secure a short-circuit. The invention makes it possible to short-circuit electrolysis cells with increased amperages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2009
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicant: ALCAN INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Serge Despinasse, Yves Rochet, Olivier Martin
  • Patent number: 7777601
    Abstract: A movable contacting device in a circuit breaker comprises: a crossbar linked with the opening/closing mechanism and carried so as to pivot cooperatively with the opening/closing mechanism; a movable contact arm engaged, so as to cooperational with the crossbar, with a shaft fitted into a mutually opposing recesses in the crossbar; and a movable contact arm support fixed to the case accomodating the opening/closing mechanism and having mutually opposing through-holes through which the shaft is passed; and the movable contact being configured so that the movable contact slides between surfaces of movable contact arm support having the mutually opposing through-holes; and the construction of a single-pole portion of the movable contact arm is constituted by arranging in parallel two movable contact arm members each having a movable contact at one end, and in a shaft-supporting portion at the other end, an elastic member is sandwiched between the two movable contact arm members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kakisako, Hitoshi Ito, Kozo Maeta, Masanori Kawamura, Shigeki Koumoto
  • Patent number: 7767921
    Abstract: The invention relates to a circuit breaker for electric supply lines, in particular energy lines or battery cables of motor vehicles. Said circuit breaker comprises a first connection element (2) and a second connection element (4), the current path running between the first connection element (2) and the second connection element (4), when the circuit breaker (6) is in a conductive state. The aim of the invention is to provide a cost-effective, fail-safe circuit breaker. To achieve this, the first connection element (2) comprises a cavity (8) and the second connection element (4) is configured from an electrically conductive flat part and the second connection element (4) has a projection (10) that corresponds to the shape of the cavity (8), in such a way that in the conductive state of the circuit breaker (1), the projection (10) rests in the cavity (8) in a non-positive fit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Auto Kabel Managementgesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Martin Schloms, Franz-Josef Lietz, Uwe Glasenapp