| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 335177000 | Plural magnets or flux sources | 27 |
| 20120218063 | ELECTROMAGNETIC SWITCH WITH TWO ELECTROMAGNETS - There is an electromagnetic switch for a starter includes a first and second electromagnet and a frame and a cover. The first and second electromagnets are set alongside in the frame. The first and second electromagnets are configured to change a position with respect to the cover by rotating about the axis with respect to the frame. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20130057370 | ELECTROMAGNETIC RELAY - An electromagnetic relay includes an electromagnet part, an actuating part, a contact part and a base for holding the electromagnet part, the actuating part and the contact part. The contact part includes a pair of fixed plates having one end fixed to the base and the other end to which a fixed contact is attached, a pair of movable springs having one end fixed to the base and the other end to which a movable contact is attached, and a connecting portion extending between the movable springs and electrically connecting the movable contacts to each other. The actuating part is actuated so as to press only a part of the movable springs inside an area defined between longitudinal axes extending between one end and the other end of the movable springs through the movable contact, when the contact part closes. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20120188033 | INTEGRATED ELECTROMECHANICAL RELAYS - Electromechanical relays and semiconductor structures and microelectromechanical systems including at least part of an electromechanical relay are presented. For example, an electromechanical relay includes an electrically conductive terminal within a printed circuit board, one or more electrically conductive contacts, and one or more magnetic actuators. The one or more magnetic actuators are respectively associated with the one or more electrically conductive contacts and each magnetic actuator includes (i) a magnetic core within at least one via extending through one or more layers of the printed circuit board, and (ii) an electrical coil around at least a portion of the magnetic core and within one or more layers of the printed circuit board. Activation of the one or more actuators causes electrical contact between the terminal and an associated one of the one or more electrically conductive contacts. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20090273420 | ELECTROMAGNETIC SWITCH - An electromechanical switch may be actuated in a plurality of modes. A base portion of the electromechanical switch includes first and second electrical ports adapted to be electrically coupled in a plurality of modes. A first electromagnetic coil defines a longitudinal axis and is adapted to receive a first energizing current. A second electromagnetic coil extends along the longitudinal axis in spaced apart relationship with the first electromagnetic coil. The second electromagnetic coil is adapted to receive a second energizing current. The first and second ports are selectively coupled in any one of open-terminated mode, attenuation mode, and a short circuit mode based on the energy state of the first and second electromagnetic coils. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20110084786 | ELECTROMAGNETIC SWITCHING DEVICE - A first coil constitutes a first coil unit by placing an iron core plate between the first coil and an auxiliary yokes and engaging stopping parts provided in two holding members to an end surface in an axial direction of the auxiliary yoke. A second coil constitutes a second coil unit by forming magnetic path members by insertion to a resin member provided in a second bobbin unitarily, and fixing two terminals to the resin member. The first and the second coil units are united by connecting one terminal lead line of the first coil taken out from holding members to the first terminal, and connecting another terminal lead line to a surface of the magnetic path member. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20120206222 | Bi-stable electromagnetic relay with x-drive motor - An electromagnetic relay assembly comprises a rotatable electromagnetic coil assembly, first and second pairs of opposed permanent magnets, and a switch assembly. The coil assembly comprises a coil, a core, and a rotatable coil housing. The coil is wound around the core. The core comprises opposed core termini, and the coil housing has an axis of rotation orthogonal to the coil axis. The magnet pairs fixedly positioned adjacent the core termini such that the core termini are respectively displacable intermediate the magnet pairs. The coil operates to create a magnetic field directable through the core for imparting coil housing rotation about the axis of rotation via attraction to the positioned/anchored magnets. The core termini displace linkage arms, and the linkage arms actuate contact-spring assemblies of the switch assembly intermediate open and closed positions. | 08-16-2012 |
| 20090134961 | Apparatus for Monitoring the State of a Protective Device of a Machine - The invention relates to an apparatus ( | 05-28-2009 |
| 20120025934 | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD EMBEDDED RELAY - According to one exemplary embodiment, an electromechanical relay may be described. The relay can be constructed using printed circuit board (PCB) construction, and can have at least a pair of coils, for example one on the top of or above the PCB, the other on the bottom of or below the PCB, at least two ferromagnetic cores, one of which can be set at the center of each coil, at least a set of contacts which can be on the surface of the printed circuit board, a spacer which can be set between the coils, and a magnet which can be set within the spacer. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120256713 | ELECTROMAGNETIC RELAY - In an electromagnetic relay, length from a movable contact to an end portion of a movable element on a first end side is set greater than length from the movable contact to another end portion of the movable element on a second end side opposite to the first end side. A direction of a Lorentz force acting on a portion of the movable element from the movable contact to the end portion of the movable element on the first end side is conformed to a direction for bringing fixed contacts and movable contacts into contact with each other. Thus, separation between the movable contacts and the fixed contacts due to an electromagnetic repulsive force can be inhibited. | 10-11-2012 |
| 335179000 | Of diverse magnetic characteristics (e.g., permanent plus electromagnet) | 10 |
| 20110193663 | SECURE NON-CONTACT SWITCH - A redundant non-contact switch reports a status as closed or open for a first member and a second member that move relative to each other between an open state and a closed state. In some embodiments, the redundant non-contact switch includes a wireless authentication (WA) pair and a magnetic pair. The WA pair may include a WA responder attached to one of the first member and the second member, and a WA interrogator attached to the other of the first member and the second member. The WA pair may be configured to register a WA status of closed or open, depending on a WA authentication between the WA responder and the WA interrogator. The magnetic pair may include a magnet attached to one of the first member and the second member, and a magnet sensor attached to the other of the first member and the second member. The magnetic pair may be configured to register a magnetic status of closed or open, depending on whether a magnet distance between the magnet and magnet sensor is beyond a threshold magnet distance. In some instances, the redundant non-contact switch reports the status as closed only if both the WA status is registered as closed and the magnetic status is registered as closed. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20130033344 | ELECTROMAGNETIC RELAY - An electromagnetic relay includes an electromagnet that generates a magnetic field when electric current is supplied thereto, an actuator that is actuated in response to the generated magnetic field, a contact that opens and closes in response to the actuation of the actuator, the contact including a first contact and a second contact that contacts with the first contact when the contact closes, and a housing including a first housing that includes walls defining a recess that accommodates the electromagnet, the actuator and the contact therein, and a second housing that is fixed to the first housing and covers the recess of the first housing. The electromagnetic relay also includes a permanent magnet provided on an outer surface of the housing at a position corresponding to a position of the contact. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20090167471 | MAGNETICALLY LATCHED MINIATURE SWITCH - A magnetic latch for switches is provided. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090231070 | RELAY - A relay includes a permanent magnet and a magnetic circuit. The permanent magnet is disposed between a pair of electromagnets. The pair of the electromagnets is formed by winding coils around body portions of spools. Each spool has flanges integrally formed on both upper and lower end portions thereof. The magnetic circuit is formed by a yoke spanning the spools and the permanent magnet. The permanent magnet is held by the upper and lower flanges of a pair of the spools that are juxtaposed. | 09-17-2009 |
| 20120200377 | MEMS Relay and Method of Forming the MEMS Relay - A micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) relay includes a switch with a first contact region and a second contact region that are vertically separated from each other by a gap. The MEMS relay requires a small vertical movement to close the gap and therefore is mechanically robust. In addition, the MEMS relay has a small footprint and, therefore, can be formed on top of small integrated circuits. | 08-09-2012 |
| 20120306601 | ELECTROMAGNETIC MECHANISM AND MANUAL SWITCHGEAR OF ELECTROMAGNETIC MECHANISM - With a switchgear provided with an electromagnetic mechanism of the invention, a bolt rod is disposed for an opening spring whose load acts over an entire movable range of a moving core so as to receive a load of the opening spring in an expanding direction by the bolt rod. A load of the opening spring in the expanding direction is thus received by the bolt rod. The opening spring is compressed and expanded by rotating the bolt rod to be moved by the screw structure. Hence, in a case where maintenance is performed while maintaining a contact at an intermediate position between an opening position and a closing position, it becomes possible to perform a manual opening and closing operation at a lower speed than a de-energization operation while holding the contact at the intermediate position between the opening position and the closing position. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120169441 | ELECTROMAGNET DEVICE AND SWITCH DEVICE USING ELECTROMAGNET DEVICE - In a switch device in which the main circuit contact sections of the switch device, an insulating rod, a driving rod, a contact pressure spring, an open spring, and an electromagnet are all coaxially arranged, a problem exists in that the axial dimension of the switch device becomes large. The present invention has been made to solve the aforementioned problem. An object is to obtain an electromagnet device and a switch device using the electromagnet device, in which shortening the axial dimension of the switch device is achieved by arranging the main circuit contact sections of the switch device, the insulating rod, the driving rod, the contact pressure spring, the open spring, and a part of the electromagnet in the same axial range. Particularly, the open spring and the electromagnet are arranged in the same axial region. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120182099 | ELECTROMECHANICAL RELAY AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME - A relay comprises a movable body placed in a cavity which is formed on a substrate and surrounded by an enclosing side wall and sealed by a cover layer. The movable body comprises a first magnet which is permanently magnetized and has at least a first end. The enclosing side wall formed by ceramic layers, wherein a coil being formed by providing conductor traces on the ceramic layers and stacking the ceramic layers such that the conductor traces on adjacent ceramic layers are connected head to tail to form a continuous conduction path. When the coil is energized, a magnetic torque is generated on the first magnet to force the first magnet and the movable body to rotate. | 07-19-2012 |
| 20120262257 | APPARATUS FOR MONITORING THE STATE OF A PROTECTIVE DEVICE OF A MACHINE - An apparatus ( | 10-18-2012 |
| 20100231333 | ELECTROMECHANICAL RELAY AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME - A double-pole-double-throw (DPDT) electromechanical relay employing a movable first magnet and a nearby third electromagnet is disclosed. The movable first magnet is permanently magnetized with a magnetic moment and has at least a first end and a second end. The third electromagnet, when energized, produces a third magnetic field which is primarily perpendicular to the magnetization direction of the first movable magnet and exerts a magnetic torque on the first magnet to force the first magnet to rotate and closes electrical conduction paths at the first end. Changing the direction of the electrical current in the third electromagnet changes the direction of the third magnetic field and thus the direction of the magnetic torque on the first magnet, and causes the first magnet to rotate in an opposite direction and opens the electrical conduction path at the first end and closes the electrical conduction paths at the second end. Latching, non-latching types, and various forms (normally open or closed, etc.) of relays can be formed by appropriately adjusting various force magnitudes. | 09-16-2010 |
| 335180000 | With common core or single armature | 5 |
| 20110043306 | MAGNETIC CHAMBER FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC LOW VOLTAGE SWITCHGEAR, AND ELECTROMAGNETIC LOW VOLTAGE SWITCHGEAR - A magnetic chamber is disclosed for electromagnetic low voltage switchgear, especially a compact reversing starter, including two magnetic drives which are each actuated by a main slide. The magnetic chamber is designed, in at least one embodiment, to receive both magnetic drives of the electromagnetic low voltage switchgear, and a mechanical reversing locking device held in a mobile manner for the alternating mechanical locking of the two magnetic drives is arranged in the magnetic chamber, the mechanical locking device acting on the two main slides. An electromagnetic low voltage switchgear is disclosed, especially a compact reversing starter, including two magnetic drives which are each actuated by a main slide, both magnetic drives being arranged in a magnetic chamber. The mechanical reversing locking device held in a mobile manner, in at least one embodiment, engages with the main slide of one of the magnetic drives, according to the position of the locking device, in order to fix said magnetic drive. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20120242430 | RELAY WITH MULTIPLE COILS - A relay with multiple coils includes a base which has two fixed contacts, a coil assembly which has a U-shaped armature, a U-shaped iron core, two tubular bobbins received between the U-shaped armature and the U-shaped iron core, two coils respectively wound around the tubular bobbins. A spring member is movable above the coil assembly. The spring member has two moving contacts corresponding to the fixed contacts. A coil spring is disposed between the spring member and the coil assembly. When each coil induces a magnetic field by supplying electric current, the coil spring is compressed such that the moving contacts connect with the fixed contacts; when no electric current is supplied, the coil spring provides the restoring force to draw the spring member backward. Therefore, the relay acts as a switch for adapting to open/close a circuit connected to the relay. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20100060393 | ELECTROMAGNETIC LINEAR ACTUATOR - An electromagnetic linear actuator is disclosed that is capable of providing a large driving force adequately used for a high-voltage circuit breaker due to simplified structure and reduced manufacturing cost, the actuator comprising: stators each facing the other about an axle; a mover disposed with a moving core and a moving coil wrapping the moving core to magnetize the moving core during conduction, and capable of linearly and axially moving an interior of the stator; and permanent magnets, one facing the other, and fixedly mounted on both inner walls of the stator for providing a Lorentz force and reluctance force to the moving coil for movement when a current flows in the moving coil of the mover, and for providing a holding force to the mover for holding a position when the electric conduction to the moving coil of the mover is interrupted. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100171577 | Integrated Microminiature Relay - A micro-relay that overcomes some of the limitations and drawbacks of the prior art is disclosed. The micro-relay comprising: (1) a first substrate comprising one or more monolithically integrated planar coils for generating a magnetic field; and (2) a second substrate comprising a magnetically actuated switch having a moving contact that selectively moves in a plane parallel to its substrate. The first and second substrate are aligned and bonded to collectively provide a closed magnetic circuit that efficiently channels the generated magnetic field through the switch. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20120235775 | ELECTROMAGNETIC RELAY - In an electromagnetic relay, length from a movable contact to an end portion of a movable element on a first end side is set greater than length from the movable contact to another end portion of the movable element on a second end side opposite to the first end side. A direction of a Lorentz force acting on a portion of the movable element from the movable contact to the end portion of the movable element on the first end side is conformed to a direction for bringing fixed contacts and movable contacts into contact with each other. Thus, separation between the movable contacts and the fixed contacts due to an electromagnetic repulsive force can be inhibited. | 09-20-2012 |
| 335183000 | Magnetic fields or torques acting alternately in opposite directions | 2 |
| 20090212889 | EDDY CURRENT INDUCTIVE DRIVE ELECTROMECHANICAL LINEAR ACTUATOR AND SWITCHING ARRANGEMENT - The present invention is directed to an inductively driven electromagnetic linear actuator arrangement employing eddy currents induced by a fixed drive coil to drive its armature. Eddy current focusing fields are employed to direct the eddy currents using Lorentz forces to maximize armature speed. The armature includes a shorted driven coil in a DC magnetic field. This can be supplied by a permanent magnet. When current is applied, a force is felt by the coil in a direction perpendicular to the magnetic field. Such an actuator is well suited for electrical switching applications including transfer switching applications, circuit breaker applications, and ground fault interrupter applications. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20100283561 | MAGNETIC LATCHING ACTUATOR - A magnetic latching actuator operable to control the movement of at least a first contact and second contact between a closed position in which the contacts physically engage each other and an open position in which the contacts are spaced from each other. The magnetic latching actuator includes first and second stationary permanent magnets oriented such that the first magnetic field created by the first magnet and the second magnetic field created by the second magnet are in opposite directions. An actuation coil surrounds both the first and second magnets. Current is supplied to the actuation coil in a first direction to create a first magnetic field or a second direction to create a second actuation magnetic field opposite the first actuation magnetic field. A yoke is movable relative to the first and second magnets to cause the first and second contacts to move between the open and closed positions. | 11-11-2010 |
| 335184000 | With plural reciprocating armatures aligned or rigidly connected | 1 |
| 20110095852 | ELECTROMAGNETIC SWITCHING DEVICE - In an electromagnetic switch device, a direction where a first plunger moves at the time a solenoid for pinion extrusion operates and a direction where a second plunger moves at the time a solenoid for motor energization operates are constituted in the same direction. A concave portion having a predetermined depth D is formed in a first fixed iron core used for the solenoid for pinion extrusion and a stopper member that controls a returning position of the second plunger is arranged therein. A part of the second plunger overlaps to the first fixed iron core in the axial direction. | 04-28-2011 |
