Patents Examined by Joselito Baisa
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Patent number: 9741490Abstract: Disclosed herein are a power inductor in which aspect ratios of the innermost pattern and the outermost pattern are similar with those of the intermediate pattern and a manufacturing method thereof. The power inductor includes coil patterns formed on one surface or both surfaces of a core insulating layer; insulating patterns bonded to at least one of an innermost pattern and an outermost pattern of the coil patterns; metal layers plated on surfaces of the coil patterns; and an insulator covering the coil patterns including the metal layers.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2014Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Hye Yeon Cha, Young Do Kweon, Young Seuck Yoo, Hwan Soo Lee, Woon Chul Choi
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Patent number: 9728319Abstract: There is to provide a coil part capable of reducing the number of fastening means such as screws and so on required when attaching it to a substrate. A coil part includes a transformer unit and a reactor unit, wherein the transformer unit includes: a primary winding part formed by winding a flat wire around a primary side hollow part; secondary winding parts, the secondary winding part being formed by winding a flat wire around a secondary side hollow part communicating with the primary side hollow part, arranged in pairs in a state of facing one side and another side of the primary winding part respectively; and a first core inserted into the primary side hollow part and the secondary side hollow part, and the reactor unit includes: a reactor winding part formed by extending one terminal side of the flat wire constituting the secondary winding part and winding the flat wire around a reactor side hollow part; and a second core inserted into the reactor side hollow part.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2014Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: SUMIDA CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Kawashima, Jun Muto, Takahiro Hirano
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Patent number: 9691544Abstract: An electrostatically tunable magnetoelectric inductor including: a substrate; a piezoelectric layer; and a magnetoelectric structure comprising a first electrically conductive layer, a magnetic film layer, a second electrically conductive layer, and recesses formed so as to create at least one electrically conductive coil around the magnetic film layer; with a portion of the substrate removed so as to enhance deformation of the piezoelectric layer. Also disclosed is a method of making the same. This inductor displays a tunable inductance range of >5:1 while consuming less than 0.5 mJ of power in the process of tuning, does not require continual current to maintain tuning, and does not require complex mechanical components such as actuators or switches.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2012Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: Winchester Technologies, LLCInventor: Nian-Xiang Sun
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Patent number: 9672972Abstract: A winding component includes a core that surrounds an outer circumference of a coil and end surfaces of flanges to form a closed magnetic circuit, in which notches through which end portions of the coil are drawn outward are so formed in the flanges that each of the notches extends radially inward from an outer circumferential edge of the corresponding flange, a wall that surrounds each of the notches such that the wall stands axially outward on the flange, a thick portion in a winding part in correspondence with the notches and thicker than other portions of the winding part, and a lid formed of a sidewall between an outer circumferential surface of the wall and the core and covers the outer circumferential surface of the wall and a top plate at an axially outer end of the sidewall and covers an opening in the wall.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2014Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: FDK CorporationInventors: Takashi Takiguchi, Masami Miyamoto
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Patent number: 9659701Abstract: A common mode filter includes first and second wires wound around a winding core portion by the same number of turns. Each of the first and second wires is wound by a number m1 of turns in a first winding area and wound by a number m2 of turns in a second winding area. A distance D1 between an n1th turn (1?n1?m1?1) of the second wire and an n1+1th turn of the first wire is shorter than a distance D2 between an n1th turn of the first wire and an n1+1th turn of the second wire in the winding area. A distance D3 between an n2th (m1+1?n2?m1+m2?1) turn of the first wire and an n2+1th turn of the second wire is shorter than a distance D4 between an n2th turn of the second wire and an n2+1th turn of the first wire in the winding area.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2013Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Toshio Tomonari, Tsutomu Kobayashi, Kazunori Arimitsu, Yuma Komaya
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Patent number: 9646761Abstract: A power transmission transformer (1) includes a transformer body (11). Each of two upper pipings (3) is connected between the transformer body (11) and one of two heat dissipators (2, 21) outside of the transformer body (11). Each of two lower pipings (4) is connected between the transformer body (11) and one of the heat dissipators (2, 21). A sound absorbing device (6, 61) is mounted between and spaced from one of two sidewalls of the transformer body (11) and one of the heat dissipators (2, 21). The sound absorbing device (6, 61) is fixed to one of the upper pipings (3) and one of the lower pipings (4). An outer wallboard (63) and a sound absorbing material (64) are respectively mounted to two sides of at least one fixing frame (62) of the sound absorbing device (6, 61).Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2015Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Fortune Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chia-Ching Lin, Ching-Min Chen
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Patent number: 9640315Abstract: A transformer includes a magnetic core, a first winding assembly, and a second winding assembly. The magnetic core includes a plurality of legs, including a first winding leg. The first winding assembly includes a first conductive conduit helically wound around the first winding leg a first number of turns. The first winding assembly has a first magnetic length. The second winding assembly includes a second conductive conduit wound around one of the plurality of legs a second number of turns. The second winding assembly is inductively coupled to the first winding assembly, and has a second magnetic length substantially equal to said first magnetic length.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2013Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Juan José Gutiérrez Estrada
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Patent number: 9627118Abstract: A gapped core leg for a shunt reactor, comprising magnetic core elements separated by spacers cast directly between the core elements. Accordingly, a rigid core leg construction is achieved.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2011Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: ABB Research Ltd.Inventors: Jan Anger, Julia Forslin, Uno Gafvert
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Patent number: 9613745Abstract: In some embodiments, the instant invention can provide an electrical system that at least includes the following: a three-phase inductor, having: a core, having: at least one first core segment, having a first shape; at least one second core segment, having a second shape; at least one third core segment, having a third shape; where the at least one first core segment, the at least one second core segment, and the at least one third core segment are configured to be: separate from each other and adjustable relative to each other; and where the core is configured so that differential mode inductance flux paths during the operation of the three-phase inductor depend on the first shape of the at least one first core segment, the second shape of the at least one second core segment, and the third shape of the at least one third core segment.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2014Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignee: MTE CorporationInventor: Todd Shudarek
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Patent number: 9607758Abstract: A three-phase transformer including a primary portion and a secondary portion, the primary portion including a first body made of ferromagnetic material and primary coils, the secondary portion including a second body made of ferromagnetic material and secondary coils, the first body defining a first annular slot of axis A and a second annular slot of axis A. The primary coils include a first toroidal coil of axis A in the first slot, a second toroidal coil of axis A in the first slot, a third toroidal coil of axis A in the second slot, and a fourth toroidal coil of axis A in the second slot, the second coil and the third coil being connected in series.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2013Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: LABINAL POWER SYSTEMSInventor: Cedric Duval
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Patent number: 9577023Abstract: A method including forming a first metal wire in a first dielectric layer, the first metal wire including a first vertical side opposite from a second vertical side; and forming a second metal wire in a second dielectric layer above the first dielectric layer, the second metal wire including a third vertical side opposite from a fourth vertical side, where the first vertical side is laterally offset from the third vertical side by a first predetermined distance, and the second vertical side is laterally offset from the fourth vertical side by a second predetermined distance, where the first metal wire and the second metal wire are in direct contact with one another.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2013Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.Inventors: Edward C. Cooney, III, Dinh Dang, David A. DeMuynck, Sarah A. McTaggart, Gary L. Milo, Melissa J. Roma, Jeffrey L. Thompson, Thomas W. Weeks
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Patent number: 9576717Abstract: A multi-layered printed circuit board, PCB, includes first windings for a first side of a planar magnetic transformer and second windings for a second side of the planar magnetic transformer. The PCB further includes conductive layers configured as the first windings, conductive layers configured as the second windings, and layers of an isolation material. Each layer of the isolation material is arranged between two conductive layers to provide electrical isolation between the two conductive layers. A group of two or more adjacent conductive layers are all conductive layers of the first windings and are all arranged between two conductive layers of the second windings. The thickness of the isolation material between the group of adjacent conductive layers of the first windings is less than the thickness of the isolation material between a conductive layer of the second windings and a conductive layer of the first windings.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2012Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Oscar Persson, Magnus Karlsson
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Patent number: 9576722Abstract: A coil component 1 includes a thin-film coil layer including spiral conductors and bump electrodes 12a to 12d formed on a surface of the thin-film coil layer. The thin-film coil layer includes internal terminal electrodes 24a to 24d connected respectively to corresponding one ends of the spiral conductors, and a fourth insulating layer 15d covering the internal terminal electrode 24a to 24d and having openings ha to hd. Both a top surface TS and a side surface SS of each of the internal terminal electrodes 24a to 24d are exposed through the corresponding opening. The bump electrodes 12a to 12d are each brought into contact with both the top surface TS and side surface SS of each of the internal terminal electrodes 24a to 24d in the corresponding opening.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2014Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Fumio Watanabe, Naozumi Ishikawa, Hiroshi Kamiyama
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Patent number: 9543068Abstract: The present disclosure relates to composite inductor structures for use in integrated circuits. There is provided a composite inductor structure comprising a first inductor coil and a second inductor coil. The second inductor coil comprises a multi-turn loop that surrounds the first inductor coil. The first inductor coil comprises two multi-turn loops which are connected in a figure-of-eight configuration about a central terminal so as to cause a current flowing in a first loop of the multi-turn loops to circulate around the first loop in a first rotational direction, and a current flowing in a second loop of the multi-turn loops to circulate around the second loop in a second rotational direction opposite the rotational direction of current flow in the first loop, said direction of current flow in the first and second loops being mirror images of each other.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2014Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: QUALCOMM TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL, LTD.Inventors: Zaid Aboush, Adem Aktas, Jeff Koeller
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Patent number: 9520223Abstract: The present invention relates to an inductor. An inductor in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: an insulating layer having a hole; a conductive pattern disposed on both surfaces of the insulating layer and having a structure in which portions disposed on the both surfaces are electrically connected to each other through the hole; and a magnetic layer disposed on the insulating layer to cover the conductive pattern, wherein the conductive pattern has a plating pattern formed by performing a plating process.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2014Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Young Seuck Yoo, Kang Heon Hur, Jin Hyuck Yang, Sung Kwon Wi, Jong Yun Lee, Young Do Kweon
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Patent number: 9514875Abstract: An integrated inductor comprising a multi-winding inductor having a transformer winding (L1) and a resonant inductor (L2). Sections (I), (2) of the magnetic circuit of the transformer winding (L1) are incorporated into magnetic circuits of at least two parts (L2A), (L2B) of a resonant inductor (L2) so as to form common parts of magnetic circuit of the multi-winding inductor (L1) and at least two-part (L2A), (L2B) resonant inductor (L2), wherein the transformer winding (L1) of the multi-winding inductor is wound around a column (II), which has at least one air gap (G) having a width adapted so that the magnetic induction produced by the at least two-part (L2A), (L2B) resonant inductor (L2) does not exceed 25% of the magnetic induction produced by the transformer winding (L1) of the multi winding inductor.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2012Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: AKADEMIA GORNICZO-HUTNICZA IM. STANISLAWA STASZICA W KRAKOWIEInventors: Cezary Worek, Slawomir Ligenza
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Patent number: 9512361Abstract: The present invention provides a high-voltage coil superior in insulating properties and rigidity at high temperatures, which comprises a bobbin, a conducting wire wound around the bobbin, and an encapsulant encapsulating the conducting wire, wherein the encapsulant comprises a liquid crystalline polyester having a repeating unit represented by defined formula (1), —O—Ar1—CO—, a repeating unit represented by defined formula (2), —CO—Ar2—CO—, and a repeating unit represented by defined formula (3), —X—Ar3—Y—, as a forming material.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2012Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, LimitedInventors: Hideaki Nezu, Mitsuo Maeda
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Patent number: 9490056Abstract: A coil component may include: a base board having an accommodation portion disposed therein and having conductive patterns disposed within the accommodation portion; an annular core disposed in the accommodation portion; and a laminated board laminated on the base board and having conductive patterns disposed on one surface thereof. The conductive patterns of the laminated board are connected to the conductive patterns of the base board to form a coil.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2014Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: SOLUM CO., LTDInventors: Young Min Lee, Geun Young Park, Sang Yun Lee, Jae Sun Won, Suk Hyeon Cho, Tae Won Heo
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Patent number: 9478343Abstract: A printed wiring board includes a first core substrate having an opening portion, an inductor component accommodated in the opening portion of the first core substrate, a first buildup layer formed on a first surface of the first core substrate and the inductor component, and a second buildup layer formed on a second surface of the first core substrate and the inductor component on the opposite side with respect to the first surface of the first core substrate. The inductor component has a second core substrate, a buildup layer formed on a surface of the second core substrate and a coil layer formed on the buildup layer, and the second buildup layer has a coil layer and a via conductor connecting the coil layer in the second buildup layer and the coil layer formed on the buildup layer in the inductor component.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2014Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: IBIDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Haruhiko Morita, Yasuhiko Mano, Kazuhiro Yoshikawa
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Patent number: 9472337Abstract: An electrostatic shield for controlling the electrostatic field between a high voltage conductor and a low voltage conductor in an instrument transformer is provided. The instrument transformer has a current transformer and a voltage transformer. The current transformer has a split core which includes a first core segment and a second core segment. When the first core segment adjoins the second core segment, a current transformer is formed, having a core formed from the first and second core segments. The high voltage conductor runs between the first and second core segments of the current transformer. The first core segment is encapsulated in a polymer resin and when encapsulated, forms a first encasement. The second core segment has a low voltage winding mounted thereon. The electrostatic shield is disposed between the low voltage winding and the high voltage conductor. A second encasement is formed by encapsulating the electrostatic shield, low voltage winding and second core segment in a polymer resin.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2012Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: ABB Schweiz AGInventors: Steven A. Shaw, Jashbhai S. Patel