Abstract: Power distribution circuitry for battery-powered apparatus having multiple energy-consuming loads, such as a camera having an electronic strobe flash unit and a film drive motor, enables the loads to be actuated independently without drawing battery current simultaneously. This limits peak battery current which can extend the useful life of the battery.

Abstract: One of several corona dischargers used in an electrophotographic apparatus is connected to a power source transformer so as to selectively operate these corona dischargers. The power source transformer is provided with a tertiary winding, to which a switching device is connected. When the switching device is turned on, a secondary output from the transformer becomes lower than a corona discharging limit voltage, whereby the corona discharging stops.

Abstract: A variable leakage transformer having a closed main magnetic path and a closed submagnetic path having a leg common with said main magnetic path. A primary winding is wound on said common leg, and a secondary winding is wound on said main magnetic path. The magnetic flux in the common leg is controlled by other control windings which are connected to a control DC power source. The primary winding has two portions, and one of them is closely coupled magnetically with the secondary winding in order to improve the output waveform. By controlling the magnetic flux in the sub-magnetic path, the leakage of the flux induced by the primary winding from the main magnetic path to the sub-magnetic path can be controlled; thus the coupling between the primary and the secondary winding, and conduction period in each cycle of the AC output voltage are controlled. The control of the conduction period in each cycle provides control of the power transmitted from the primary winding to the secondary winding.

Abstract: A current mode data or power bus which provides communication between two or more terminal devices over a common, single-channel medium. The data bus comprises a pair of wires, twisted to form a succession of loops and short-circuited at both ends, together with an arbitrary number of bus couplers, one for each terminal. The bus couplers are formed by separate, disengageable core elements. Each bus coupler is inductively coupled to the twisted wire pair by inserting one or more core legs of the bus coupler through adjacent loops in the twisted wire pair; each wire loop around a core leg then constituting a one-turn transformer winding of the coupler. In this manner, separate terminals can be readily coupled to or decoupled from the current mode data communication bus without the need for making spliced, galvanic connections. This bus configuration is readily adaptable to single or multiphase power transmission.

Abstract: A variable phase-shifting transformer network including at least one pair of multi-phase transformers, wherein the network transformation ratio and phase shift is step wise adjustable as a result of the provision of plural auxiliary windings located on the core of a preselected secondary winding, each auxiliary winding having plural taps, which are not initially interconnected. Each transformer phase includes an AC semiconductor switch connected across selected tappings of the respective auxiliary windings via selected watt-less isolating switches. The voltage vector appearing across a selected secondary winding is varied by connecting an non-ignited semiconductor switch, via the isolating switches associated therewith, to desired tappings of the respective auxiliary windings while the rectifier is non-current conducting. Thereupon this AC semiconductor switch is ignited and ignition pulses are removed from the previously conducting semiconductor switch.

Abstract: A device for connecting a tuned power transmission line to an a.c. network includes the following units that are serially interconnected in any combination: a phase transposition unit for phase shifting the voltage through an angle which is a multiple of the natural shift of voltages of opposite phases; a coupling transformer with a switchable group of connections of its windings, which matches the voltages of the tuned power transmission line and the a.c. network and effects a voltage phase shift which is a multiple of 180.degree.; and a transverse voltage regulation transformer which makes it possible to smoothly change the voltage phase shift under load.

Abstract: A highly efficient, energy saving ballasting and transfer circuit, utilizing a single high frequency inverter ballast unit, capable of powering multiple lamp loads from any direct or alternating electric power source, comprises a current feedback inverter in combination with a leakage transformer, which operates to permit coupling of the single inverter unit to any number of lamps, particularly the gas discharge type. The leakage transformer can power any number of lamps from a single source which, because of its linear transfer function, achieves controlled light output of the lamps proportional to the power input. Thus, an excellent dimming capability is achieved. It is important to note that this leakage transformer is a special case of a certain type of multi-path leakage transformer, where only one secondary coil is used to achieve the same dimming capabilities of multiple secondary embodiments.

Abstract: A synchronized power supply for use with display systems and data processing equipment in general in which information is displayed on a screen such as a cathode ray tube in which the power supply is synchronized to the display such that internal synchronization is maintained regardless of variation in external synchronization. A unique converter arrangement transfers regulated power to the loads at high efficiency such that both improved power supply and display operation result.

Abstract: High-voltage high-power, multiphase electrical installation comprising, for each phase, at least two circuit fields that include, in each circuit field, a circuit breaker arranged between two current transformers, each of them discharging into the same load as the homologous current transformers of the other circuit fields having the same phase; isolating switches placed at the ends; earth isolators placed between the isolating switches and the current transformers. The magnetic circuit of the current transformers is crossed simultaneously by the conductor of the phase of the circuit field and by an auxiliary conductor connected; on the one hand, to a ground isolator and, on the other hand, to a ground point.

Abstract: A highly efficient, energy saving ballasting and transfer circuit, utilizing a single high frequency inverter ballast unit, capable of powering multiple lamp loads from any direct or alternating electric power source, comprises a current feedback inverter in combination with a unique multi-path, independently controlled leakage transformer, which operates to permit coupling of the single inverter unit to any number of lamps, particularly the gas discharge type. The multi-path leakage transformer provides multiple and independent magnetic circuits to power any number of lamps from a single source which, because of its linear transfer function, achieves controlled light output of the lamps proportional to the power input.

Abstract: A total underground residential electrical distribution system having a high voltage supply and low voltage distribution to residents connected to the system is characterized in that at least one of the transformers used in the system for stepping down the high voltage supply to the low voltages for distribution is constructed as a cable having a magnetic core, and has a high voltage primary winding extending substantially over the full length of the cable, and a number of low voltage secondary windings which together extend over substantially the full length of the cable.

Abstract: A supervisory control system for an electric power system comprises a synchronized encoder for producing digital signals from voltage and/or current data detected by at least one of a number of detecting devices for such data coupled to the power system at various points. Inherently stationary data detected by similar detecting devices are converted into digital signals by asynchronous encoders. Responsive to such digital signals, data processing means produces address signals representative of the addresses of the detecting devices and processes the digital signals in compliance with programs for various supervisory control and with reference to the address signals to produce control signals, which are sent to circuit breakers, voltage regulators, and the like to protect the power system against troubles.

Abstract: Discloses a power system in which three single phase transformers have their primary windings connected in delta to a 3-phase isolated phase bus. Switching means is provided for connecting a spare transformer to said bus as a replacement for any one of said single phase transformers. Special interlocking means assures that the spare transformer is connected to the bus in the same manner as the transformer it replaces. .Iadd.