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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2007
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2005
William A. Lynch, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Neal A. Sondergaard, Severna Park, MD (US);
William A. Lynch, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Neal A. Sondergaard, Severna Park, MD (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A dual-nature, uni-constructed device, suitable for conducting electricity between two objects in relative motion, comprises two compatible elements each having a straight section and a sinuous section. The two elements are combined to form a unified whole whereby the two straight sections are mutually servable as a brush component and the two sinuous sections are mutually servable as a spring component. The inventive device is associable with an electrical or electromechanical machine so that, during machine operation, the brush component slidingly contacts a first machine part, the spring component is affixed to a second machine part and exerts a bias against the brush component, and the inventive device conducts electrical current from one machine part to the other machine part. Each element includes an electrically conductive main layer (including one or more wire fabric sheets) and two elastomeric outside layers (on opposite sides of the sinuous section).