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  • Radially Uniform Spring-Biased Intra-Pole Plug Connector and Transformer Outside the Trunk Configuration for Electric Artificial Tree
    Publication number: 20140349517
    Abstract: A radially uniform spring-biased intra-pole plug connector and transformer outside the trunk configuration for an electric artificial tree is described. The radially uniform plug comprises a springed-tip and a prong, and allows the tree trunk segments to be connected at any point along their 360 degree circumference. The plug connector resembles the structure of a car cigarette lighter. A mold is used to sandwich the plug within the trunk. A plug portion of the plug connector is housed in one trunk segment, and a receptacle portion is housed in a different trunk segment, such that when the trunk segments are assembled, the plug is connected, illuminating the tree. The plug allows the electrical wiring to be hidden and housed within the trunk, providing safety, convenience to the user and giving the tree a cleaner appearance. The transformer outside the trunk configuration makes the trunk safer, more lightweight and less bulky.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: Evergreen Tree Limited
    Inventor: Cheng-che Tsai
  • RADIALLY UNIFORM SPRING-BIASED INTRA-POLE PLUG CONNECTOR AND TRANSFORMER OUTSIDE THE TRUNK CONFIGURATION FOR ELECTRIC ARTIFICIAL TREE
    Publication number: 20140179159
    Abstract: A radially uniform spring-biased intra-pole plug connector and transformer outside the trunk configuration for an electric artificial tree is described. The radially uniform plug comprises a springed-tip and a prong, and allows the tree trunk segments to be connected at any point along their 360 degree circumference. The plug connector resembles the structure of a car cigarette lighter. A mold is used to sandwich the plug within the trunk. A plug portion of the plug connector is housed in one trunk segment, and a receptacle portion is housed in a different trunk segment, such that when the trunk segments are assembled, the plug is connected, illuminating the tree. The plug allows the electrical wiring to be hidden and housed within the trunk, providing safety, convenience to the user and giving the tree a cleaner appearance. The transformer outside the trunk configuration makes the trunk safer, more lightweight and less bulky.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: EVERGREEN TREE LIMITED
    Inventor: Cheng-che Tsai
  • Radially uniform spring-biased intra-pole plug connector and transformer outside the trunk configuration for electric artificial tree
    Patent number: 8956183
    Abstract: A radially uniform spring-biased intra-pole plug connector and transformer outside the trunk configuration for an electric artificial tree is described. The radially uniform plug comprises a springed-tip and a prong, and allows the tree trunk segments to be connected at any point along their 360 degree circumference. The plug connector resembles the structure of a car cigarette lighter. A mold is used to sandwich the plug within the trunk. A plug portion of the plug connector is housed in one trunk segment, and a receptacle portion is housed in a different trunk segment, such that when the trunk segments are assembled, the plug is connected, illuminating the tree. The plug allows the electrical wiring to be hidden and housed within the trunk, providing safety, convenience to the user and giving the tree a cleaner appearance. The transformer outside the trunk configuration makes the trunk safer, more lightweight and less bulky.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Evergreen Tree Limited
    Inventor: Cheng-che Tsai
  • Radially uniform spring-biased intra-pole plug connector and transformer outside the trunk configuration for electric artificial tree
    Patent number: 8753152
    Abstract: A radially uniform spring-biased intra-pole plug connector and transformer outside the trunk configuration for an electric artificial tree is described. The radially uniform plug comprises a springed-tip and a prong, and allows the tree trunk segments to be connected at any point along their 360 degree circumference. The plug connector resembles the structure of a car cigarette lighter. A mold is used to sandwich the plug within the trunk. A plug portion of the plug connector is housed in one trunk segment, and a receptacle portion is housed in a different trunk segment, such that when the trunk segments are assembled, the plug is connected, illuminating the tree. The plug allows the electrical wiring to be hidden and housed within the trunk, providing safety, convenience to the user and giving the tree a cleaner appearance. The transformer outside the trunk configuration makes the trunk safer, more lightweight and less bulky.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Evergreen Tree Limited
    Inventor: Cheng-che Tsai
  • Polyolefin series resin composition for water-tree retardant electric insulation
    Patent number: 4282333
    Abstract: A polyolefin series resin composition for water-tree retardant electric insulation which comprises a polyolefin series resin and an organic isocyanate compound having at least one isocyanate radical in the molecule, or said polyolefin series resin, said organic isocyanate compound and an organic peroxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1980
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1981
    Assignee: The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shin-ichi Irie, Kenji Uesugi, Hitoshi Kimura
  • Christmas tree electric connecting trunk device
    Patent number: 9577376
    Abstract: A Christmas tree electric connecting trunk device has at least one first tube assembly and at least one second tube assembly. Each first tube assembly has a first connecting tube, a first rotating alignment element, a guiding element and a male connector. The at least one second tube assembly corresponds to and is connected detachably to the at least one first tube assembly. Each of the at least one second tube assembly has a second connecting tube, a second rotating alignment element and a female connector. A resilient pressing portion is formed between the male and female connectors to perform tight engagement therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Inventor: George Tsai
  • Rotatable electric mounting base and artificial tree using electric mounting base
    Patent number: 11641968
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a rotatable electric mounting base and an artificial tree applying the electric mounting base. The rotatable electric mounting base includes a base main body and a mounting shaft. The mounting shaft is inserted into the main body mounting hole of the base main body. An electric device is mounted on the periphery of the mounting shaft in a sleeving mode. The electric device includes an upper joint component and a lower joint component. The rotatable electric mounting base has a novel structural design, good stability and reliability, and convenience in mounting and connecting. The artificial tree includes an artificial tree main body, a decorative light string, and the abovementioned rotatable electric mounting base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Inventors: Xinjiang Zou, Lingong Wang
  • Subsurface Safety Valve for Electric Subsea Tree
    Publication number: 20090038804
    Abstract: An all electric subsea tree can be coupled with a hydraulic pressure unit that is fed off electrical and control lines that are in the umbilical from the surface. In that way hydraulic lines do not need to be separately run from the surface to the tree. Alternatively hydraulic pressure can be generated at a downhole tool using power and control lines running from the tree to the downhole equipment. As another alternative, the downhole equipment can be run by electric motor located downhole adjacent the downhole equipment and powered and controlled by lines running from the tree to the downhole location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2007
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Inventor: Walter S. Going, III
  • Artificial electric christmas tree
    Patent number: 6457839
    Abstract: An artificial electric christmas tree for making the holiday season safer and more enjoyable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Inventor: Jean J. Grandoit
  • ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM TREE DISPLAY SYSTEM AND ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM TREE DISPLAY METHOD
    Publication number: 20150005972
    Abstract: An electric power system tree display system includes: a specification information storing unit for storing specification information of the mounted parts; a tree information creating unit that reads out the specification information corresponding to design information input from the outside, from the specification information storing unit to prepare system tree information of the mounted parts connected by the electric power paths and determines electric power to be supplied to the mounted parts for each of the electric power paths, based on the read out specification information to prepare characteristic value information on the electric power paths; and a display unit for displaying the characteristic value information superposed on the system tree information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisashi Ishida, Risato Ohhira
  • Artificial christmas tree with electric separable segments
    Patent number: 5550720
    Abstract: An artificial Christmas tree with electric separable segments comprising a trunk fabricated of a plurality of separable sections including a lowermost section, an uppermost section and intermediate sections therebetween, the section coupling with respect to each other by sliding the lower section of the next higher adjacent section into the upper extent of the next lower adjacent section, a plurality of branches, each with a pivot pin coupled to an adjacent portion of an associated trunk section to allow movement between a raised inoperative storage position parallel with the trunk sections a deployed operative position wherein the branches form an acute angle with its associated trunk section, each of the branches having artificial needles extending therefrom in a generally radial direction, a base adapted to be positioned on the recipient surface such as a floor, the base having an upper central section adapted to removably receive the lower extent of the lowermost trunk section, electrical components in ea
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1996
    Inventor: Grant A. Carroll
  • PURE ELECTRIC MODULAR SUBSEA TEST TREE
    Publication number: 20240003473
    Abstract: A pure electric modular subsea test tree is provided, which includes a connect-disconnect device, wherein the first channel is formed in the connect-disconnect device; the connect-disconnect device is provided with a locking assembly and a connection drive mechanism for driving the locking assembly, and the first electrical connection plug is embedded in the connect-disconnect device, and the connection drive mechanism is electrically connected with the first electrical connection plug; a shear-seal assembly, wherein a second channel communicated with the first channel is formed in the shear-seal assembly; the shear-seal assembly includes at least one shear-seal device capable of plugging the second channel; a connection part is formed on the shear-seal assembly; a heating device is arranged at one end of the shear-seal device far from the connection part. The disclosure relates to a pure electric modular subsea test tree, which has fast response speed and high operation safety.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Yang TANG, Yulin ZHANG, Guorong WANG, Yufa HE, Jianfei WEI, Jinhai ZHAO, Zeliang LI, Jinzhong WANG, Wang LI, Wujun TONG, Jie WANG
  • Method of Operating a Subsea Production System, a Subsea Tree and an Electric Downhole Safety Valve
    Publication number: 20220275703
    Abstract: A method of operating a subsea production system (1), the system comprising a subsea tree (2) connected to a subsea well (3), a production tubing (4) in the well (3), and an electrically operable electric downhole safety valve (5), wherein the method comprises, in case of malfunction in operation of the electric downhole safety valve (5), the steps of installing a hydraulically operable insert hydraulic downhole safety valve (6) within the production tubing (4); connecting the insert hydraulic downhole safety valve (6) to the fluid line (10) at a point of setting (7) in the subsea well (3); operating the insert hydraulic downhole safety valve (6) by using the fluid line (10) which extends from an input port (11) at a position outside of the subsea tree (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Sigurd Moe, John A. Johansen
  • Method of operating a subsea production system, a subsea tree and an electric downhole safety valve
    Patent number: 11920427
    Abstract: A method of operating a subsea production system (1), the system comprising a subsea tree (2) connected to a subsea well (3), a production tubing (4) in the well (3), and an electrically operable electric downhole safety valve (5), wherein the method comprises, in case of malfunction in operation of the electric downhole safety valve (5), the steps of installing a hydraulically operable insert hydraulic downhole safety valve (6) within the production tubing (4); connecting the insert hydraulic downhole safety valve (6) to the fluid line (10) at a point of setting (7) in the subsea well (3); operating the insert hydraulic downhole safety valve (6) by using the fluid line (10) which extends from an input port (11) at a position outside of the subsea tree (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Inventors: Sigurd Moe, John A. Johansen
  • Christmas tree
    Patent number: 4331720
    Abstract: A collapsible, artificial Christmas tree which folds away into a relatively thin box which serves as a stand for the tree when erected, the tree including a generally spiral coil of steel wire which is axially stretched between opposite ends of an assembled pole so to form a conical structure resembling a tree, the wire being coated with artificial pine covering and carrying Christmas tree electric lamps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1982
    Inventors: James Vin Dick, George Spector
  • INTERNAL ABNORMALITY DIAGNOSIS METHOD, INTERNAL ABNORMALITY DIAGNOSIS SYSTEM, AND DECISION TREE GENERATION METHOD FOR INTERNAL ABNORMALITY DIAGNOSIS OF OIL-FILLED ELECTRIC APPARATUS UTILIZING GAS CONCENTRATION IN OIL
    Publication number: 20130204827
    Abstract: An object is to provide an internal abnormality diagnosis method, an internal abnormality diagnosis system and a decision tree generation method for internal abnormality diagnosis of an oil-filled electric apparatus utilizing gas concentration in oil and having a diagnostic accuracy equal to or higher than that of a diagnostic specialist having reached a certain level. The present invention provides a method for generating a decision tree for determining the type of an internal abnormality of an oil-filled electric apparatus using a computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2010
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: KANDEN ENGINEERING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumio Kawachi, Masanori Yamakoshi, Makoto Kasaoka
  • Internal abnormality diagnosis method, internal abnormality diagnosis system, and decision tree generation method for internal abnormality diagnosis of oil-filled electric apparatus utilizing gas concentration in oil
    Patent number: 9135557
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for generating a decision tree for determining the type of an internal abnormality of an oil-filled electric apparatus using a computer. In the decision tree generation method, the computer generates a standardized data group by converting concentrations of a plurality of gas species dissolved in an insulating oil in an oil-filled electric apparatus into ratios for each abnormality case, generates a discretized data group by converting the ratios of the concentrations of the gas species, the ratios constituting the standardized data group, into a plurality of discretized attributes using predetermined thresholds which are set for the respective gas species, and generates a decision tree for determining the type of an internal abnormality of the oil-filled electric apparatus by analysis using specific formulae on the basis of the discretized data group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: KANDEN ENGINEERING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumio Kawachi, Masanori Yamakoshi, Makoto Kasaoka
  • Method Of Modeling A Component Fault Tree For An Electric Circuit
    Publication number: 20220058320
    Abstract: Various embodiments include modeling a component fault tree for a circuit with an input-side and an output-side component. These include using a fault tree corresponding to a hazard for each respective component, obtaining information about the components of the circuit and a connection between components, and connecting the respective fault trees based on the circuit description. Each fault tree includes an input fault mode or a basic event and an output fault mode. The output fault mode and the input fault mode are each assigned to a component terminal. An output fault mode of the input-side component tree is connected to an input fault mode of the output-side component tree if: there is a connection between the assigned terminal of the input-side component and the output-side component and the output fault mode of the input-side component correlates to an input fault mode of the output-side component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Marc Zeller, Jean-Pascal Schwinn, Thomas Waschulzik
  • Method of modeling a component fault tree for an electric circuit
    Patent number: 11900034
    Abstract: Various embodiments include modeling a component fault tree for a circuit with an input-side and an output-side component. These include using a fault tree corresponding to a hazard for each respective component, obtaining information about the components of the circuit and a connection between components, and connecting the respective fault trees based on the circuit description. Each fault tree includes an input fault mode or a basic event and an output fault mode. The output fault mode and the input fault mode are each assigned to a component terminal. An output fault mode of the input-side component tree is connected to an input fault mode of the output-side component tree if: there is a connection between the assigned terminal of the input-side component and the output-side component and the output fault mode of the input-side component correlates to an input fault mode of the output-side component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Marc Zeller, Jean-Pascal Schwinn, Thomas Waschulzik
  • Dual-voltage lighted artificial tree
    Patent number: 10036542
    Abstract: An artificial tree having a first tree section including a trunk and a trunk electrical connector, the trunk electrical connector including a first pair of electric terminals and a second pair of electrical terminals; and a second tree section including a trunk, a trunk electrical connector, and a light string, the trunk electrical connector in electrical connection with the light string and including a first pair of electric terminals and a second pair of electrical terminals. The first tree section is configured to electrically connect to the second tree section, such that the first pairs of electrical terminals of the first and second tree sections conduct power of a first type and the second pairs of electrical connectors of the first and second tree sections conduct power of a second type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Willis Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Johnny Chen
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