Technology Leadership
For more than 40 years, Eaton has worked closely with customers to meet their requirements for innovative, end-to-end power protection and management solutions. That’s why thousands of customers around the world put their confidence in Eaton's comprehensive power quality solutions to protect their mission-critical systems.Eaton strives for continued success in leveraging technical innovation to develop next-generation products that fulfill specific customer requirements. Over the years, Eaton has been awarded with many notable honors from various organizations. Numerous awards have validated Eaton’s customer-centric approach including being named Power Quality Company of the Year (2004, 2005 & 2008) by Frost & Sullivan.
Tradition of Technical Innovation
From patenting the first AC inverter in 1962 to submitting eight new patents for the Eaton 9390 UPS, Eaton has a continuing history of technical innovation. With more than 120 active patents and another 98 patents pending, we maintain a long tradition of using our technical expertise to provide customers with what they need most in a power management solution:| 2007 | Eaton introduces a quantum leap in large, three-phase UPS technology, the Powerware 9395, which incorporates a modular and upgradeable design with internal redundancy for maximum reliability |
| 2006 | Eaton introduces the high power density and high efficiency Powerware BladeUPS rackmount UPS, a 12 kVA modular UPS featuring N+1 parallel redundant systems up to 60 kVA with modular distribution |
| 2005 | First UPS featuring full power processing to verify internal converter operation and site commissioning tests without external load banks |
| 2005 | First UPS with full power battery discharge independent of attached load for battery integrity testing |
| 2004 | Modular transformer-free UPS up to 160 kVA, integrating a unmatched combination of power performance, battery management, scalable architecture, flexibility, and service |
| 2003 | First 6 kVA UPS in 3U for high-density rack applications increases power density by 33% |
| 2003 | First 3kW DC power rectifier module with power density greater than 10W/cu in. |
| 2003 | Second-generation wireless paralleling for high-frequency power inverters |
| 2002 | First dual source UPS for rackmount applications |
| 2002 | First DC power system with cell phone (SMS) text message alarm and status capability |
| 2002 | Monitoring deployment for over 225,000 data points with FORESEER proactive enterprise facility monitoring solution |
| 2002 | First full 100Mbps switch hub integrated on a network card |
| 2001 | First HFSM DC power system design designed specifically for IT applications including “Power-over-LAN” |
| 2001 | First DC power system with integrated, networkable monitoring and control for auxiliary equipment |
| 2001 | UPS with 3 kVA increases power density by 40% |
| 1998 | First DC power system with battery runtime prediction |
| 1997 | First DC power rectifier module with Active Voltage Control (AVC) to maintain bus voltage to within ±0.01V |
| 1997 | First DC power rectifier module with greater than 92% efficiency at typical loads |
| 1996 | First UPS with wireless paralleling |
| 1993 | First UPS to offer load segmentation |
| 1993 | First UPS with ABM technology to extend battery life |
| 1992 | First DC power rectifier module with power density greater than 5W/cu in. |
| 1991 | First microprocessor based DC power system controller |
| 1989 | First high-frequency transformer-free UPS |
| 1987 | First high-frequency switch mode rack power systems specifically designed for telecommunications |
| 1987 | First UPS with advanced pulse-width modulated (PWM) technology and microprocessor-based diagnostics |
| 1986 | First commercially available 200W high-frequency switch mode DC power systems for telecommunications applications |
| 1986 | First UPS over 100 kVA for computer rooms |
| 1982 | First UPS suitable for computer rooms |
| 1982 | First UPS suitable specifically designed for offices |
| 1976 | First UPS for emergency lighting HID lamps |
| 1972 | First fault-tolerant and parallel UPS |
| 1972 | First all digitally-controlled UPS |
| 1968 | First commercial UPS combining battery chargers and inverters |
| 1962 | First AC power inverter |
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