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4547831 Surge arrester  
A surge arrester includes an elongated insulating housing comprising one or more stacks of electrically series-connected metal oxide varistor blocks arranged between a top terminal and a bottom...
4484247 Nonfragmenting station arrester  
A lightning arrester of the station class is equipped with a ceramic housing protective heat shield liner formed of an ablative material capable of giving off a gas when subjected to a fault...
4476513 Surge arrester  
A surge arrester comprises two or more surge arrester units which are electrically series-connected between a top terminal and a bottom terminal. Each surge arrester unit comprises a stack of metal...
4471402 Disconnector for surge arrester  
A disconnector for a surge arrester explosively separates an electrical lead wire, normally a ground lead wire, from the arrester to prevent a permanent fault and to provide an indication of a...
4463405 Fail safe surge arrester  
A surge arrester including an outer porcelain housing and an ablative heat shield liner is disclosed herein along with a number of techniques for making the surge arrester break resistant. In...
4463404 Surge voltage arrester with shielding bodies enclosing a column of arrester elements  
A surge voltage arrester, with a column of arrester elements arranged in a housing and several shielding bodies enclosing the column, includes voltage controlling elements arranged between the...
4424547 Surge suppressor construction  
This surge suppressor comprises a tubular insulating housing having a metal end cap at one end and an integral end wall at its opposite end. A metal terminal extends through the end wall and has a...
4396865 Therminoic fault current limiter and method of current limiting  
A thermionic fault current limiter utilizes either a vacuum or plasma environment for a plurality of spaced conduction electrodes. The electrode can be supported by insulative spacers with the...
4385338 Power connector with overvoltage protection  
A power connector for providing overload protection for an electrical operating station connected to a power mains, composed of at least one overvoltage arrester of a first type which is capable of...
4367431 Multistage spark gap with delay cables  
The spark gap device disclosed herein comprises at least two sets of electrodes enclosed within a common chamber. A delay line is connected between successive sets of electrodes. An arc which...
4363069 Overvoltage arrester with arrester elements in a frame comprising columns  
Disclosed are overvoltage arresters comprising a columnar arrangement of arrester elements, insulating elements and conducting elements. The elements are arranged to provide a current flow in at...
4356527 Valve arrester  
A valve arrester comprises a serial arrangement which includes at least one nonlinear resistor and spark gaps implemented as arcing horns which are housed in slit-type arc extinction chambers whose...
4340924 Grading means for high voltage metal enclosed gas insulated surge arresters  
Capacitance grading is provided within gas insulated lightning arresters containing stacked zinc oxide varistors by means of a grading ring electrically connected to the line terminal or, for...
4326232 Lightning arrester  
A lightning arrestor comprising at least two stacks of resistor disks juxtaposed within a housing and electrically connected in parallel. The stacks include the same number of disks, at least 35,...
4306267 Arrester  
An arrester comprises a plurality of blocks connected in parallel between first and second connecting metal plates and each comprised of a plurality of stacked nonlinear resistor elements, at least...
4240124 Surge arrester having coaxial shunt gap  
A surge arrester of compact construction includes a housing formed preferably of elastomeric material through which a pair of spaced terminals protrude and between which a stack of metal oxide...
4234902 Enclosed lightning arrester  
A lightning arrester enclosed in a grounded metal enclosure filled with SF 6 includes six nonlinear resistors of sintered ZnO serially interconnected in superposed relationship between a high...
4232351 High-voltage crowbar circuit with cascade-triggered series ignitrons  
A series string of ignitrons for switching a large current at high voltage to ground. Switching is initiated by means of a negative trigger pulse applied to the cathode of the lowest voltage level...
4228478 Overvoltage arrester  
An overvoltage arrester wherein the arrester comprises an insulating housing which encloses a body of cast resin in which is embedded a voltage dependent resistor and a first connecting device, a...
4223366 Gapless surge arrester  
A gapless surge arrester is disclosed herein and includes a porcelain outer casing and a stack of zinc oxide discs located within the casing for passing surge currents therethrough. Silicon...
4188561 Station protector spark gap applique  
An applique or attachment for a station protector spark gap device includes an insulated enclosure housing a gas tube spark gap device together with fail safe shorting means located...
4174530 Voltage surge arrester device  
Voltage surge arrester devices having predetermined shunt gap sparkover voltages are provided by the series combination of high- and low-exponent varistors. In one embodiment the high-exponent...
4159510 High-intensity lamp having high pulse repetition rate and narrow pulse-width  
A high intensity light source having high repetition rate and narrow pulse-width. The light source comprises a metal casing having coaxially mounted arcing electrodes therein which utilize the...
4158872 Surge diverter  
A surge diverter connected between a conductor and ground comprising several spark-quenching gaps, voltage-controlled shunting resistors connected in series with these gaps and voltage controlled...
4136299 Lightning arrester device  
A grounded cylindrical metallic housing is hermetically closed at one end and an electric insulation hermetically extends through the other closed end of the housing to form in the housing a space...
4134146 Surge arrester gap assembly  
Surge arrester spark gap assemblies for use within surge voltage arrester devices employ the gap electrode structure to direct the arc current flow.
4132915 Spark gap protector  
A spark gap protector includes a gas tube spark gap device received in a supporting base. A failsafe device for permanently shorting the spark gap protector to ground after an extended discharge...
4107567 Surge protector  
A surge protector or arrester for providing surge protection for relatively low voltage or secondary equipment, circuits and systems includes a vertically stacked, parallel arrangement of two,...
4100588 Electrical overvoltage surge arrester with varistor heat transfer and sinking means  
The arrester comprises an insulating housing with end terminals and a plurality of varistors inside the housing electrically connected between the terminals. The varistors are provided individually...
4092694 Overvoltage surge arrester having laterally biased internal components  
Flat internal components of an arrester are stacked longitudinally inside the insulating housing cylinder with a perimeter portion contacting the inside wall of the housing. Each component has a...
4072996 Method and arrangement for arc quenching in arresters  
An electrical arrester includes one or more pairs of electrodes disposed within quenching chambers which form current-limiting quenched spark gaps connected in series with an associated blow-out...
4052639 Spark gap for achieving arc elongation and compression without the use of supplementary magnetic means  
A current limiting spark gap for use in a valve type lightning or surge arrester includes a plurality of identical, mirror-image insulating gap plates assembled together to define arc elongation...
4029997 Surge voltage arrester arrangement  
An improved surge voltage arrester made up of a plurality of series arrays of magnetically blasted spark gaps arranged between two potentials with the gaps surrounded by a gas which increases their...
4017767 Laser lightning rod system  
A system utilizing ionization produced by beams from laser and laser-like devices to pre-determine the course of stepped leader and lightning channel development, thereby affording protection of...
3967160 Electrical overvoltage surge arrester with a long time constant valve section and series gap section  
The arrester includes a valve section made up of high current-voltage characteristic exponent metal oxide varistor valve blocks having a relatively high capacitance and a series gap section made up...
3963965 Surge arrester construction  
An arrester is provided in a staggered stack of two columns of elements alternately disposed at substantially 90° with respect to each other in successive levels of the columns. Plates of...
3912965 Spark gap device for lightning arrester  
A spark gap device for a lightning arrester comprising a first spark gap having a uniform electric field characteristic and a second spark gap connected in parallel with the first spark gap and...
3889148 TRANSIT TIME AMPLIFIER TUBE HAVING AN ATTENUATED DELAY LINE  
A transit time tube, in particular a traveling wave amplifier tube has a delay line consisting of a hollow tube of circular inner cross-section which is divided by successive transverse elements...
3883774 Lightning arrester spark gap  
A lightning arrester spark gap comprising an arc interrupting chamber with at least two electrodes the working surfaces whereof extend in the direction of stretching the arc. The gap also comprises...
3863105 COAXIAL MARX-BANK DRIVER CIRCUIT FOR PULSE LASERS  
A flashlamp pumped laser system having a laser medium requiring optical ping pulses of short duration, fast risetime, and high peak power which uniquely incorporates a low inductance, coaxially...
3859569 OVERVOLTAGE SURGE ARRESTER WITH IMPROVED VOLTAGE GRADING CIRCUIT  
An overvoltage surge arrester for relatively high voltage applications is provided with a voltage grading circuit comprising a relatively low exponent resistor in parallel with a relatively high...
3852635 TRANSIT-TIME AMPLIFIER TUBE WITH STABILIZED DELAY  
A transit-time amplifier tube with a delay line arranged between an input wave guide and an output wave guide and with adjustable wave reflectors for adjusting the frequency-dependent gain employs...
3848174 HIGH VOLTAGE SOLID-STATE RECTIFIER SYSTEM  
A high voltage solid-state rectifier includes multiple series connected ac-compensated diodes and series buffer resistors in a stepped spiral stack. The stack is encased in a sectionalized faraday...
3848156 SURGE ARRESTOR FOR HIGH VOLTAGE ELECTRIC POWER APPLICATIONS  
A surge arrestor for high voltage electric power applications comprises series-coupled uncontrolled discharge devices each of which is shunted through resistors by a string of avalanche diodes...
3845345 FREQUENCY SENSITIVE PREIONIZER  
This frequency sensitive preionizer uses integrated circuitry in providing a resistance, a capacitance, and a preionizing spark gap deposited on an insulating base. The capacitance is connected in...
3842318 SHIELDED METAL ENCLOSED ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT  
A high voltage electrical device, such as a lightning arrester, enclosed in a grounded metal enclosure filled with a pressurized dielectric gas. The device is provided with an asymmetrical shield...
3819987 SPARKOVER STABILIZING MEANS FOR AN UNGRADED SURGE VOLTAGE ARRESTER  
An ungraded surge voltage arrester having a plurality of series connected sparkgaps is provided with sparkover stabilizing means that are effective to raise the minimum power frequency sparkover...
3811070 LASER INITIATED THREE ELECTRODE TYPE TRIGGERED VACUUM GAP DEVICE  
A three electrode triggered vacuum gap device with the triggering mechanism being laser initiated. The triggering mechanism comprises a gas-saturated portion, which when heated by a triggering...
3811064 SPARK-GAP DEVICE  
A miniature three-element spark-gap device comprises a ceramic enclosure supporting aligned end electrodes extending therewithin, and a solid disc center electrode establishing first and second...
3798505 LOW VOLTAGE SURGE ARRESTER  
A secondary surge voltage arrester having a high impact resistant molded housing that is provided with supporting struts for mounting a sparkgap assembly in a desired, predetermined spaced...
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