Liquid Insulating Medium Patents (Class 336/58)
  • Patent number: 4556511
    Abstract: A flame resistant oil comprising a fluorine-type oil having a number average molecular weight of from about 300 to about 900 and a silicone oil having a number average molecular weight of from about 160 to about 57,000, wherein the fluorine-type oil and the silicone oil are combined and dissolved to each other with a combination of the respective molecular weights selected from the following combinations I to IV:______________________________________ I 300 .ltoreq. X .ltoreq. 900 160 .ltoreq. Y < 400 II 300 .ltoreq. X .ltoreq. 700 + 0.02Z.sup.2 400 .ltoreq. Y < 2,000 III 300 .ltoreq. X .ltoreq. 600 + 0.02Z.sup.2 2,000 .ltoreq. Y < 4,000 IV 300 .ltoreq. X .ltoreq. 500 + 0.02Z.sup.2 4,000 .ltoreq. Y .ltoreq. 57,000 ______________________________________where X is the number average molecular weight of the fluorine-type oil, Y is the number average molecular weight of the silicone oil, and Z is the % by volume of the silicone oil in the flame resistant oil and 10.ltoreq.Z.ltoreq.90.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1985
    Assignees: Asahi Glass Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Haruo Nishigaki, Koji Watanabe, Shiroh Fukui, Kiyoshi Kanematsu
  • Patent number: 4543446
    Abstract: Molecular sieve material is placed in the main condensate return in vaporization-cooled transformers. The sieve material can be removed and replenished without de-energizing the transformer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 24, 1985
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Stephen D. Foss, Giovanni Colantuoni
  • Patent number: 4502032
    Abstract: An ebullition cooled transformer has a housing, a core and coil assembly disposed on the lower portion of the housing to be immersed into a condensible electrically insulating refrigerant, a cooler unit located above the core and coil assembly within the housing, and a communicating tube disposed at the top of the housing to communicate with the outside air and provided with a porous filter permitting the air to permeate it but preventing a vapor of the refrigerant from permeating it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 26, 1985
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Minoru Kimura, Hisamitsu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 4488134
    Abstract: Transformer, including an iron core, high voltage and low voltage windings, at least one cast resin body completely embedding, holding and insulating the windings, the cast resin body having cooling channels formed therein and having additional channels formed therein being separated from the cooling channels, and insulating gas filling the additional channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1984
    Assignee: Transformatoren Union Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Richard Pfeiffer
  • Patent number: 4484169
    Abstract: This invention relates to improvements in a transformer apparatus in which a transformer unit insulated with insulating oil and a switch unit insulated with insulating gas are combined. The transformer unit is accommodated in a transformer tank filled with the insulating oil. The switch unit is accommodated in a switch tank filled with the insulating gas. The switch tank is disposed on the top of the transformer unit and made integral therewith such that these tanks are communicated with each other in the interior of the communicated tanks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1982
    Date of Patent: November 20, 1984
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akira Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 4482879
    Abstract: A transformer having a laminated core and a coil enclosing a leg portion of the core, has a thin plastic frame means interleaved between an adjacent pair of core laminations in liquid-tight relation therewith to form, with the pair of core laminations, a completely enclosed internal passageway in the core for the circulation therethrough of a liquid cooling medium for cooling the core during transformer operation. The frame means has inlet and outlet connections projecting outwardly of the core for connection to a supply of a liquid cooling medium, and they communicate with the opposite ends of the internal cooling liquid passageway in the core through slot-shaped openings extending edgewise through the frame side walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1983
    Date of Patent: November 13, 1984
    Assignee: Park-Ohio Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Stanley E. Jackowicz
  • Patent number: 4472700
    Abstract: Transformer, including copper windings, electrical insulation for the windings, the electrical insulation being formed of sections of solid and liquid insulating material, the liquid insulating material serving as a cooling liquid containing a chemical compound from the class of N,N'-dihydrazides as a copper deactivator in a cooling liquid flow, and a supply depot disposed in the cooling liquid flow containing the copper deactivator as a solid material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1982
    Date of Patent: September 18, 1984
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang von Gentzkow, Hubert Deml, Karl Soldner
  • Patent number: 4471332
    Abstract: A static induction apparatus has a coil inductively disposed on an iron core and cooled by a condensible refrigerant, the coil including a plurality of pancake coil sections stacked in axially spaced relationship on one another by having a plurality of spacers having a predetermined common height and radially inserted in predetermined equal angular intervals into a gap formed between each said of adjacent coil sections, and a plurality of guide members radially disposed in spaced relationship on the surface of each coil section to alternate the spacers so that the guide members alternately and radially protrude beyond outer and inner peripheral surfaces of the coil sections to receive and introduce the refrigerant into the mating gaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1983
    Date of Patent: September 11, 1984
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kiyoshik Tamura
  • Patent number: 4467306
    Abstract: A current transformer including a tubular electrically conducting member of a circular cross section connected to one end of a primary winding in the form of a tubular electrically conducting coil having a single turn, a cruciform conducting member coaxially disposed within the tubular member to be connected to the other end of the coil, and a hollow cylindrical dielectric member coaxially disposed within the tubular member to form an incoming and an outgoing flow path between the tubular and dielectric members and between the dielectric and cruciform members, respectively. The tubular coil and the tubular member are wrapped in an insulating member and a secondary winding is wound around the primary winding through the insulating member. The transformer is immersed in a dielectric fluid a part of which fills the two flow paths and the interior of the primary winding communicating with them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 21, 1984
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hikozo Morishita
  • Patent number: 4467305
    Abstract: A gas/vapor electromagnetic induction machine comprises an annular coil container including two coaxial electrically insulating cylinders connected at lower ends to an annular bottom plate and coaxially disposed around an iron core within an enclosed tank charged with a non-condensable electrically insulating gas and a condensable cooling gas. A dripping pan receives a condensate of the cooling gas located on the lower portion of the tank through the operation of a pump and drops the condensate into the annular coil container and onto the iron core assembly located within the annular coil container. Thus a coil is always partially or entirely immersed in the condensate collected in the annular coil container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 21, 1984
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Nobuyoshi Ando
  • Patent number: 4456899
    Abstract: Method and device of utilizing, through heat exchanger or heat pump provided in addition to a normal cooling system, heat due to energy loss in a coil device, such as a transformer or a choke coil having a liquid-cooled interior, which includes throttling the normal cooling system so as to set a difference between the temperature of the interior liquid coolant, at a location under a casing cover of the coil device, and a maximum permissible temperature for a normal useful life of insulation for the coil winding so that the temperature of the inner coolant is lower when the coil device is under full load than when it is under partial load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 26, 1984
    Assignee: Transformatoren Union AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Matthes, Heinz Ubl
  • Patent number: 4440971
    Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus which is resistant to electrical breakdown consisting of a chamber containing electrodes separated by dielectric gas supersaturated with the vapor from a dielectric liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 3, 1984
    Assignee: Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventor: Ronald T. Harrold
  • Patent number: 4437082
    Abstract: Electrical inductive apparatus having a tank, an insulating and cooling liquid in the tank and an electrical winding structure immersed in the liquid, the liquid having a low vapor pressure and containing contaminants derived from various sources within the tank. Filter means associated with the liquid including a liquid recirculating device for degassing, demoisturizing, and filtering insoluble particles out of the liquid, whereby the liquid is decontaminated and upgraded in a continual process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 13, 1984
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.
    Inventors: Edward J. Walsh, Robert A. Kurz
  • Patent number: 4424502
    Abstract: A transformer with a controlled flow of cooling liquid has a pressure chamber (10) which, via a hydraulic connecting member (14), is connected to a circulating pump which is included in a cooling circuit arranged outside a transformer tank (1). The connecting member (14) has a cavity (19), which is substantially formed as a rotational paraboloid, whereby an inlet tube (21), arranged at one end of said cavity and tangentially thereto, is connected to the circulating pump. One end of the member (14) is directly connected to the pressure chamber (10), whereas the other end of said member is connected to a cooling liquid collecting chamber (13) positioned outside the pressure chamber and defined by the transformer tank. (FIG. 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1984
    Assignee: ASEA Aktiebolag
    Inventors: Kenneth Kullinger, Mats Mattsson
  • Patent number: 4424147
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of inhibiting the attack by perchloroethylene on copper and organic polymers subject to said attack, such as parylene, by adding to perchloroethylene about 20 to about 1000 ppm of a stabilizer having the general formula ##STR1## The preferred concentration of the stabilizer is about 40 to about 500 ppm. Also disclosed is an electrical apparatus containing copper or organic polymer subject to attack by perchloroethylene and perchloroethylene containing the stabilizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1984
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.
    Inventors: Robert A. Kurz, Anthony J. Palumbo
  • Patent number: 4413674
    Abstract: A transformer cooling structure characterized by a plurality of coolant fluid cooling panels extending outwardly from the transformer tank wall, and the panels being comprised of a pair of sheet-like sides formed to a corrugated configuration through which the fluid flows in heat exchange with ambient air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1983
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1983
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.
    Inventors: Randall N. Avery, Charles A. Clayton, Levon R. Floyd, Douglas B. Mackintosh, Willie A. Powell, Michael W. Atkins
  • Patent number: 4350838
    Abstract: A vapor-cooled power transformer characterized by a transformer within a sealed housing, and means for applying ultrasonic vibrations to a dielectric liquid within the housing in order to vaporize the fluid and to apply it to the exposed surfaces of the transformer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1982
    Assignee: Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventor: Ronald T. Harrold
  • Patent number: 4330033
    Abstract: A constant pressure type ebullient cooling equipment has a liquid receiver at a position higher than a condenser. The liquid receiver is connected with a vaporizer containing a liquid refrigerant by a coupling pipe. A valve and a device for opening or shutting the valve are disposed at an upper part of the liquid receiver. When refrigerant vapor produced in the vaporizer is introduced into the condenser, refrigerant liquid in the vaporizer moves to the liquid receiver. The condenser and the liquid receiver are connected by a deaerating pipe. Non-condensable gases such as air contained in the cooling equipment and the refrigerant enter the liquid receiver, and are emitted through the valve. As a result, the interior of the cooling equipment is held under a substantially constant pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1982
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sadayuki Okada, Hisao Sonobe
  • Patent number: 4293030
    Abstract: The passive cooling of a shelter containing a heat source is achieved by utilizing a thermal liquid in an accumulator, a first heat transfer loop for thermosiphonically transferring heat from the interior of the shelter to the liquid in the accumulator when the liquid is cooler than the interior of the shelter, and a second heat transfer loop for thermosiphonically transferring heat from the liquid in the accumulator to the environment when the latter is cooler than the liquid in the accumulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1978
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1981
    Assignee: Ormat Turbines, Ltd.
    Inventor: Claude Rambach
  • Patent number: 4288772
    Abstract: A flame retardant dielectric coolant for power transformers used in restricted environments consisting of a mixture of an electronegative gas dissolved in silicone fluid for providing improved 60 hertz breakdown voltage resistance to the fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1981
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Ian H. MacBeth
  • Patent number: 4285027
    Abstract: The invention is concerned with a cooling system for cooling telecommunication equipment at an unattended microwave relay station or the like located in desert or like regions where there is a large difference between the maximum daytime temperature and minimum nighttime temperature. The cooling system includes an outdoor heat exchanger disposed outside and above a shelter accommodating the telecommunication equipment, an indoor heat exchanger disposed in the shelter and a heat storage means disposed at an intermediate level between these heat exchangers. These heat exchangers and the heat storage means are connected with one another by conduit means charged with a condenseable refrigerant, such that the refrigerant is naturally circulated in said conduit means by gravity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1979
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1981
    Assignees: Daikin Kogyo Co., Ltd., Nippon Electric Company Limited
    Inventors: Shigeru Mori, Katsumi Sakitani
  • Patent number: 4276530
    Abstract: A water collector for vapor-cooled electrical apparatus which is hermetically sealed to the atmosphere. The flow of vapor through the water collector is generated by the condensation of the vapor into a liquid and is continuous during operation of the apparatus. A storage chamber may be sized to contain all of the water collected during the lifetime of the apparatus or the water may be periodically eliminated from the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1981
    Assignee: Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Frank W. Benke, Curtis L. Moore
  • Patent number: 4263963
    Abstract: The invention concerns a shelter device in the form of a box-like structure for the protection of electronic apparatuses against atmospheric agents.The shelter comprises walls of insulating material forming a thermal resistance, as well as an amount of material(s) having a high specific heat operating inside the structure and forming a thermal capacity, the thermal resistance and capacity being able to maintain a shelter inner temperature that is constant and is correlated to the outer mean temperature over a time period of at least 24 hours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1978
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1981
    Assignee: D. S. D. P. S.p.A.
    Inventor: Alberto Ghiraldi
  • Patent number: 4253518
    Abstract: (a) A cooling installation working through a change in Phase.(b) An installation wherein the chamber is connected to an expansion vessel through a valve calibrated at a determined opening pressure depending on the nature of the heat-carrier fluid and on the maximal temperature desired within the chamber and/or on the element to be cooled, said expansion vessel carrying a means for draining off the contents of the expansion vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1979
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1981
    Assignee: Matra
    Inventor: Didier Minesi
  • Patent number: 4219791
    Abstract: Electrical inductive apparatus including an electrically insulated electrical winding, an insulating dielectric surrounding the winding, and an insulating member associated with the winding which projects into the insulating dielectric. The insulating member includes a solid adhesive binder, and a filler of microspheres. The binder and microspheres are selected such that the dielectric constant of the insulating member is less than about 3.5 times the dielectric constant of the insulating dielectric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1978
    Date of Patent: August 26, 1980
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.
    Inventors: Curtis L. Moore, Martin P. Seidel
  • Patent number: 4205289
    Abstract: Electrical inductive apparatus cooled by a two-phase dielectric fluid which vaporizes within the normal operating temperature range of the apparatus. The electrical inductive apparatus consists of a sealed enclosure surrounding a magnetic core and electrical winding assembly. A non-condensable gas fills a major portion of the enclosure at no-load conditions to provide adequate dielectric strength around the apparatus and is substantially removed to a storage tank when the apparatus reaches normal operating conditions. The required volume of the storage reservoir is proportional to the free volume of the enclosure and the volume of liquid dielectric disposed therein. The bottom surface of the enclosure includes a recessed channel portion configured to closely surround the lower yoke of the magnetic core and which serves to reduce the amount of liquid dielectric utilized and the free volume of the enclosure thereby minimizing the required volume of the storage reservoir for the non-condensable gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1978
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1980
    Assignee: Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas W. Stubblefield
  • Patent number: 4199742
    Abstract: A bubble deflector for a vapor-cooled transformer comprises an insulating member, such as pressboard, which is placed under the upper yoke member of the transformer core to deflect vapor bubbles away from the bottom area of the upper yoke member of such core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 1979
    Date of Patent: April 22, 1980
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Robert E. Gearhart
  • Patent number: 4177156
    Abstract: Liquid, non-flammable dielectric compositions especially adapted as insulators/coolants for transformers are comprised of [1] a mixture of polychlorobenzenes, including a major amount of an at least trichlorinated benzene and a minor amount of ortho-dichlorobenzene, and [2] an alkylaromatic hydrocarbon or a partially hydrogenated bi- or terphenyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1979
    Assignee: Rhone-Poulenc Industries
    Inventors: Pierre Jay, Pierre Bonhomme
  • Patent number: 4173996
    Abstract: A one way flow and return system for vapor cooled transformer heat exchangers employs an inlet coupled with an entrance manifold and an outlet coupled with a return manifold. The incoming vaporized coolant enters the entrance manifold in a first direction of flow and the condensed vapor droplets leave the exit manifold in an opposite flow direction. The arrangement of separate entrance and exit manifolds prevents interference between the incoming vaporized coolant and the returning condensed coolant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 1978
    Date of Patent: November 13, 1979
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Linden W. Pierce
  • Patent number: 4149134
    Abstract: A heat storage system provides overload capacity for a vaporization-cooled electrical apparatus. An external housing, containing a heat storage fluid, is disposed around a fluid conductor connecting a non-condensable gas storage reservoir and the radiator of a vaporization-cooled electrical apparatus. At normal loads, the non-condensable gas is contained within the fluid conductor and the storage reservoir thereby thermally isolating the storage fluid from the hot vapors contained within a radiator which keeps the storage fluid at ambient temperatures. A pressure increase, caused by an overload, compresses the non-condensable gas into the storage reservoir and allows the hot vapors to flow into a portion of the fluid conductor surrounded by the external housing whereby heat is dissipated from the hot vapors to the storage fluid contained within the external housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1977
    Date of Patent: April 10, 1979
    Assignee: Elect Power Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard E. Kothmann, Donald K. Whirlow
  • Patent number: 4145679
    Abstract: Electrical inductive apparatus cooled and electrically insulated by a vaporizable liquid dielectric having a boiling point within the normal operating temperature range of the apparatus. When the electrical inductive apparatus is at ambient temperature, the liquid dielectric completely fills the enclosure providing electrical insulation for the electrical members. As the temperature of the apparatus increases towards its normal operating range, the liquid dielectric is gradually withdrawn into a reservoir until, at the normal operating temperature, only a quantity of liquid dielectric sufficient to completely cover the electrical inductive apparatus remains in the enclosure. In response to a temperature decrease, the liquid stored in the reservoir is gradually returned to the enclosure thereby maintaining a constant level of dielectric strength between the electrical members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 1978
    Date of Patent: March 20, 1979
    Assignee: Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventor: George F. Mitchell, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4129845
    Abstract: A fluid distribution manifold for a vaporization cooled electrical apparatus. The manifold includes a flexible conduit of predetermined shape having a plurality of longitudinal and circumferential spaced apertures therein which distribute a vaporizable dielectric fluid uniformly and economically over the electrical apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1977
    Date of Patent: December 12, 1978
    Assignee: Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventor: Frank W. Benke
  • Patent number: 4124834
    Abstract: Electrical inductive apparatus having a tank, an insulating and cooling liquid in the tank, and an electrical winding structure immersed in the liquid. The insulating liquid includes an inorganic constituent in its formulation. The insulating liquid also includes a toxic organic contaminant which continuously leaches into the insulating liquid from the electrical winding structure. An adsorbent material is in fluid flow communication with the insulating liquid to remove the contaminant on a continuous basis by contact adsorption, to maintain the degree of contamination of the insulating liquid below a predetermined level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1977
    Date of Patent: November 7, 1978
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.
    Inventor: Edward J. Walsh
  • Patent number: 4095204
    Abstract: A transformer having a forced air cooling system is disclosed. The transformer includes an insulating oil which is forcibly moved in the transformer and an insulating sheet which is partially covered with particles, fibers or other forms of an inorganic material for producing a static charge of opposite polarity to the charge produced by the base material of the insulating sheet caused by relative motion due to forced flow of the insulating oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 13, 1978
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Teruo Miyamoto, Toshiji Ishii, Yoshikazu Miura, Tohei Nitta
  • Patent number: 4082866
    Abstract: The unique, relatively nonflammable, environmentally safe, insulating oil comprises a saturated hydrocarbon oil having a molecular weight of about 500 to about 700, and a fire point above 200.degree. C. The electrical equipment comprises an oil-sealed tank, a unique insulating oil filling said tank, and an electrical component such as a conductive coil immersed in said insulating oil. A method of filling the oil-sealed tank of an electrical apparatus with the unique insulating oil also is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1978
    Assignee: RTE Corporation
    Inventor: Edwin A. Link
  • Patent number: 4046193
    Abstract: A cabinet for electrical equipment to be protected from an hostile environment comprising a sealed top section consisting of a vaporization chamber containing trichlorotrifuoroethane, or other suitable working fluid, with the upper surface having a generally recessed polyhedral shape to promote return of condensate at the roof of the vaporization chamber to replenish the liquid in the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1977
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Michael L. Dougherty
  • Patent number: 4027728
    Abstract: A semiconductor device is immersed into a cooling medium in its liquid phase disposed in a vessel. The cooling medium changes to its vapor phase due to heat from the semiconductor device to enter a condenser located above the vessel. The cooling medium condensed in the condenser passes through a conduit connected to the lower portion of the vessel to be directly mixed with the liquid cooling medium within the vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1975
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1977
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Gai Kobayashi, Yoshiro Shikano, Masao Yano
  • Patent number: 4019572
    Abstract: A radiator assembly having several radiator sections connected together by integral flanges which are telescoped together. Each radiator section is constructed of two metal panels which are identical and which are mated together and welded. Corrugated surfaces on each panel define ducts through which the fluid flows. The corrugation ridges on one panel are aligned with the corrugation furrows on its mating panel. The ridges on the panels are also aligned with the furrows on the facing panels of the adjacent radiator sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1977
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Larry R. Harlan, Patrick L. Thiel
  • Patent number: 4009418
    Abstract: An electrical apparatus, such as a distribution transformer, provided with heat pipes for cooling. The apparatus is provided with attachment wells, either extending into the cooling fluid of the apparatus or secured along the outside wall of the apparatus. Heat pipes are provided which fit into the attachment wells, with the evaporator section of the heat pipe mounted in the wells. The condenser section of the heat pipe extends away from the apparatus. Thermally conductive grease is placed in the wells to minimize the temperature drop from the wells to the evaporator section of the heat pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1975
    Date of Patent: February 22, 1977
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Ronald E. Bennett
  • Patent number: 3996543
    Abstract: A high voltage current transformer, and method of constructing same, including a primary winding having concentric leads, and a secondary winding on a magnetic core which is inductively linked with the primary winding. The magnetic core is a wound, two part core, with the two core parts being joined by stepped-lap joints. The secondary winding is a distributed winding having turns which are uniformly distributed about the complete magnetic circuit of the magnetic core. The conductor of the secondary winding is severed and the associated ends electrically re-connected, each time the conductor passes a stepped-lap joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1976
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Edmond E. Conner, James E. Smith
  • Patent number: 3979552
    Abstract: A coolant displacement material for a liquid cooled transformer consisting of a plurality of glass spheres having one or more closed voids to provide a specific gravity which is greater than oil so that the glass spheres remain submerged without need for securing devices and is substantially less than the specific gravity of solid glass material so as to not unnecessarily contribute to the weight and consequent shipping cost of the coolant displacement material and the completed transformer assembly. The spheres provide venturi-like flow passages which enhance thermal transfer between the transformer and the coolant by increasing the flow velocity of the coolant to break down surface-effect thermal barriers. The glass spheres are sufficiently small in size to conform to a substantial portion of the space between the transformer and tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1974
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1976
    Assignee: Kuhlman Corporation
    Inventor: John L. Fisher