Spring Or Cushion-type Vibration Absorber Patents (Class 335/248)
  • Patent number: 9368294
    Abstract: A solenoid operated device includes: a fixed iron core formed of a horizontal iron core portion and vertical iron core portions; a movable iron core disposed in an axially displaceable manner with respect to the fixed iron core; a magnet coil disposed between the movable iron core and the vertical iron core portions of the fixed iron core; and a drive shaft installed at an axial center portion of the movable iron core and driving a switchgear to open and close a switch thereof. The solenoid operated device is provided with a stopper installed on the drive shaft in a shaft portion penetrating through the horizontal iron core portion of the fixed iron core and regulating an opening direction position of the movable iron core by abutting on the horizontal iron core portion of the fixed iron core during an opening operation of the switchgear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyoichi Ohtsuka, Taehyun Kim, Yohei Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9190234
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an electromagnetic actuator, such as for a medium-voltage switch, having a core having a coil applied to it, and a movable yoke. A method for producing such an actuator is also disclosed. A compact design can be achieved with, at the same time, a high level of actuator force, using a magnetic circuit of the actuator which has a rectangular magnet core and a round yoke which corresponds to the magnetic circuit of the magnetic core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: ABB TECHNOLOGY AG
    Inventor: Christian Reuber
  • Patent number: 8334742
    Abstract: An electromagnetic actuator (20) comprises a stator (22), a piston (24), and a key (26). The stator comprises a stator frame (30) having an axial direction (32), the stator frame in turn comprising a magnetic member (50) and a base (52). The base (52) is separated by a gap (56) in the axial direction from the magnetic member (50) and positioned so that magnetic flux extending through the magnetic member (50) also extends through the base (52). The piston (24) is configured to reciprocate within the stator frame (30) in the axial direction (32). The key (26) is configured and position both to locate the base (52) with respect to the stator frame (and thereby provide the gap) and to absorb energy when the piston (24) strikes the base. A flux transfer flange (60) is configured to concentrate magnetic flux extending through the magnetic member (50) in a radial direction into the base (52).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Saia-Burgess Inc.
    Inventor: James C. Irwin
  • Patent number: 8174345
    Abstract: A vibration generator 1 has an attachment structure of a spring by which the attachment error of the spring elastically supporting a mover composed of a magnet and a yoke does not become the error of the span of the spring to make it possible to improve the ease and yield of manufacture. The vibration generator 1 includes a mover which is composed of a magnet 5 and yokes 4, 7a and 7b, and a spring 6 which is composed of an integrally molded article made of an elastomeric material and elastically supports the mover to allow the mover to vibrate in the central axis direction C. The spring is arranged on the outside of a coil 3 in a radial direction thereof and extends along the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaharu Kagami, Kazutaka Sakaguchi, Yuki Takahashi, Shigenori Inamoto
  • Patent number: 6830231
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electromagnetically actuatable valve that has a magnet part, a moveable armature element, a spring element, and a valve part. The magnet part has at least one coil form with a magnetic coil wound on it, a flux concentrating element and a center pole. The valve part has a closing element that cooperates with the armature element and controls the opening and closing of the valve on a valve seat. The armature element is designed as a clapper-type armature and cooperates with the center pole by way of a damping element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2004
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Paessler, Bertram Bauer, Jens Schrader, Klaus Strassburger
  • Patent number: 5889455
    Abstract: In an electromagnet (1) in which a lead wire (21a) is extracted through a through hole (33) from an annular coil member (2) placed in an annular groove (32) of an annular core (3), a spacer (5) is provided to make the annular coil member have a first portion spaced from the through hole in an axial direction of the annular core. The through hole is formed to a closed bottom surface of the annular groove. A thermal fuse (4) is located at a second portion of the annular coil member on a surface facing opposite to the closed bottom surface of the annular groove. The electromagnet is for use in an electromagnetic clutch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Assignee: Sanden Corporation
    Inventor: Yuki Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 4710740
    Abstract: An electromagnetic operator for a contactor (2) having a housing (4,34) including an insulating upper part (4) and a snap-in lower part (34), a magnetic armature (24) movable in the upper part (4), and a magnetic core (30), molded coil (28), return spring (36) and shock pad (32) in the lower part (34). The molded coil (28) is clamped immovably by the lower part (34) against the upper part (4) of the housing. The shock pad (32) has a flat base (32a) with a thin spherical segment (32b) between the magnet core (30) and the lower part (34) and four tabs (32c-f) at its corners supporting the four legs (28c-d) of the molded coil (28) to press the latter securely against the upper part (4) of the housing, these legs (28c-d) having reduced sections (28e-f) that sink into those tabs (32c-f). The shock pad (32) also has two pairs of resilient strips (32g,h,j,k) that extend from the opposite edges of the base (32a) up and toward one another between the yoke portions (32c,d) of the magnetic core (30) and the coil (28).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1987
    Assignee: Eaton Corporation
    Inventor: William G. Dennison
  • Patent number: 4706037
    Abstract: A solenoid contactor arrangement facilitates soft contact between the movable and stationary contacts and provides for overtravel of an armature in a manner which ensures that good and consistent electrical contact is maintained between the movable and the stationary contacts. The movable contacts are carried on an axially reciprocable armature assembly and are afforded limited axial displacement relative thereto. The movable contacts are biased by a coil spring to a first position on the armature assembly in preparation for engagement with the stationary contacts. When that engagement occurs, the movable contacts stop, the spring yields, and further displacement of the armature assembly occurs until a stop on it firmly contacts and is stopped by a corresponding stop on the movable contacts. The spring is formed and positioned such that it does not dimensionally interfere with the firm contact between the movable contacts and the armature assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1987
    Assignee: Hamilton Standard Controls, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert E. Prouty, S. Michael Cunningham
  • Patent number: 4477789
    Abstract: A cushion element for a solenoid armature is an elongated unitary member formed of a resilient material having a head portion at one end and a tail portion extending therefrom, the tail portion being formed with a protuberance spaced from the head portion. The solenoid stop member is formed with a bore through which the tail portion of the cushion element is inserted, the length of the bore being substantially equal to the distance between the head portion and the protuberance so that the cushion is locked in place by the combination of the head portion and the protuberance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 16, 1984
    Assignee: The Singer Company
    Inventor: Basil Karlow
  • Patent number: 4456900
    Abstract: A high frequency coil including an inductance device formed by fitting a pair of electrode caps at both ends of a ferrite magnetic core wound by a winding on a peripheral surface of the core; a heat resistant electric insulating coated layer formed on the peripheral surface of the inductance device and a heat resistant electric insulating resilient tube fitted onto the peripheral surface of the coated inductance device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 26, 1984
    Assignees: TDK Electronics Co., Ltd., NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yohtaro Toyoshima, Yasuhiro Sasaki, Minoru Uchida
  • Patent number: 4215331
    Abstract: A solderless pressure contact between a cap or ferrule of a fuse and the end of a fusible element that has been bent around the rim of the casing of the fuse from the space inside the casing to the outer surface thereof. A normal ferrule is used, i.e. a ferrule having a planar end surface rather than one having an end surface projecting into the casing of the fuse. The side wall, or lateral wall, of the ferrule is provided with a tab being hingedly supported at the axially inner end thereof by the lateral wall of the ferrule. The aforementioned tab slants from its point of support by the lateral all of the ferrule, or from the axially inner end thereof, axially outwardly and radially inwardly into firm engagement with the end of the fusible element on the outer surface of the casing. This pressure contact requires the use of casings which are electically deformable according to Hooks law, or have a memory, i.e. tend to assume their original shape after having been deformed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 29, 1980
    Assignee: Gould Inc.
    Inventor: Frederick J. Kozacka
  • Patent number: 4205294
    Abstract: The invention is predicated on the use of synthetic resins as materials for fuse casings or fuse tubes because synthetic resins are relatively easily deformable. This invention is particularly applicable in connection with fuse tubes made of polyester resin and glass fibers. Such tubes lend themselves to making solderless fuse terminals, i.e. electrically conductive joints between the ferrules, or fuse caps, and the fusible element, or elements, inside the fuse tube. The fusible element is located inside the casing or fuse tube and bent over the rim thereof, and has a portion that engages the outer surface of the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1978
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1980
    Assignee: Gould Inc.
    Inventor: Philip C. Jacobs, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4072919
    Abstract: A solenoid having reduced noise and jarring characteristics which includes a small shock absorbing sphere of rubber or other elastomeric material freely mounted between the solenoid armature and a stationary core piece of the solenoid so as to be engaged and compressed by the armature at the end of its travel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1976
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1978
    Assignee: Addmaster Corporation
    Inventor: John G. Clary
  • Patent number: 3992687
    Abstract: A slotted resilient wedging sleeve is slideably mounted on one end of a solenoid plunger in position to wedgingly coact with an inwardly chamfered edge on the adjacent axial end of the solenoid bobbin when the plunger is drawn into the bore of the bobbin by current flow through the coil. A compression spring on the end of the plunger urges the sleeve into wedging engagement with the chamfered edge and causes the inner periphery of the sleeve to take up any play between the bobbin and plunger, thereby eliminating buzzing of the plunger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1976
    Assignee: Spencer C. Schantz
    Inventors: Spencer C. Schantz, Paul W. Wilberscheid