Westinghouse Electric Corporation

Satcon Technology Corporation

Phillip A Sanger

Frank A Lindberg

David Jonathan Hall

Lyon Mandelcorn

Thomas Kupiszewski

Timothy K Deis

Leban E Lesster

A low-voltage, low-inductance device for storing electrical charge in a snubber circuit and a method of minimizing inductance in the snubber circuit using the device, wherein the device includes a plurality of extended electrodes, in parallel or series, that are joined to a positive conductor terminal at one end spray and at a negative conductor terminal at the other end spray so that end sprays of adjacent extended electrodes are alternately joined to the positive and negative conductor terminals. Accordingly, current flowing though adjacent extended electrodes is of substantially equal intensity but different in direction. As a result, inductance produced effectively cancels out that of adjacent extended electrodes.

Low-inductance capacitor and a method for minimizing inductance in a snubber circuit

A superconducting energy storage inductor having two D-shaped coils with their flat sides being adjacent and facing one another. The coils are restrained from moving relative to one another and are immersed in a cryogenic fluid. The coils are connected in series and when provided with current, the resulting magnetic fields of the coils oppose one another.

Energy storage inductor apparatus

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Monroeville, PA, United States of America

Phillip A Sanger