US Patent Issued to HITACHI ENERGY on Feb. 17 for "Transformer coil block design for seismic application" (Chinese, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,718, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to HITACHI ENERGY LTD (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Transformer coil block design for seismic application" was invented by Luigi De Mercato (Varese, Italy) and Boris-QingJun Sun (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a coil block for supporting at least one coil winding in an electrical transformer, wherein the at least one coil winding is arranged concentrically about a longitudinal axis, the coil block including: a first element having at least one supporting surface for contacting the at least one coil winding and a first clamping surface; and a second element havi...