General Electric Company

Harold Jay Patchen

Anil Raj Duggal

Evangelos Trifon Laskaris

Larry Neil Lewis

Mark Gilbert Benz

Gerald Burt Kliman

Lionel M Levinson

Bulent Aksel

Kathleen Melanie Amm

Israel S Jacobs

Juliana Chiang Shei

Liang Li

Paul Shadworth Thompson

David Arnold

Minyoung Lee

A method of making a permanent magnet body is provided. The method includes providing a first precursor body comprising a plurality of blocks and magnetizing the first precursor body to form a first permanent magnet body. A recoil magnetization pulse may be applied to the permanent magnet body after the magnetization. The precursor body may be heated during magnetization. A power supply containing a battery may be used to energize a pulsed magnet used to magnetize the precursor body.

Method and apparatus for magnetizing a permanent magnet

A fault current interrupter is provided by the parallel combination of a polymer current limiter and a voltage dependent resistor connected across a pair of separable contacts to permit the interruption of current without the occurrence of arcing between the contacts when the contacts first become separated. The polymer current limiter is selected to have a relatively low resistance at quiescent operating currents and a substantially higher resistance at short circuit overcurrents. This allows the current to transfer away from the contacts through the polymer current limiter until the voltage across the voltage dependent resistor causes the voltage dependent resistor to become conductive and thereby transfer the current away from the polymer current limiter.

Circuit breaker with improved arc interruption function

A current limiting device has an electrically conductive composite material, an inhomogeneous distribution of resistance structure comprises a conducting filler, and at least two electrodes. At least one of the electrodes is a flexible electrode to maintain contact between the electrode and the composite material, regardless of the consumption of the composite material during a high current condition.

Current limiting device with at least one flexible electrode

A current limiting device utilizing an electrically conductive composite material and an inhomogeneous distribution of resistance structure is disclosed. The inhomogeneous distribution is typically chosen so that at least one selected thin layer of the current limiting device has much higher resistance than the rest of the current limiting device. In the actual device, pressure is typically exerted on the composite material in a direction normal to the selected thin layer. During a short-circuit, it is believed that adiabatic resistive heating of this selected thin layer is followed by rapid thermal expansion which leads to either a partial or complete physical separation of the current limiting device at the selected thin layer which produces a higher over-all device resistance to electric current flow. Thus the current limiting device limits the flow of current through the short-circuited current path. When the short-circuit is cleared, the current limiting device regains its low resistance state allowing electrical current to flow normally. The current limiting of the present invention is reusable for many such short circuit conditions.

Current limiting device

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Burnt Hills, NY, United States of America

Harold Jay Patchen