Abstract: An inductor component comprising a first magnetic layer and a second magnetic layer containing a resin, a substrate of a sintered body having a first principal surface in close contact with the first magnetic layer and a second principal surface above which the second magnetic layer is disposed, and a spiral wiring disposed between the second magnetic layer and the substrate.

Abstract: A switchgear assembly includes an indicator assembly to indicate whether a movable contact is in an open or a closed position. The indicator assembly includes an indicator body having first and second sections. The indicator body is rotatable to display the first section in the open position and the second section in the closed position. The indicator assembly also includes a drive gear having a first helical spline and coupled to an actuator of the switchgear assembly such that operation of the actuator moves the drive gear, and an elongated driven gear having a second helical spline extending along a length of the driven gear and engaged with the first helical spline of the drive gear such that movement of the drive gear rotates the driven gear. The driven gear is coupled to the indicator body such that rotation of the driven gear causes rotation of the indicator body.

Abstract: A resonant coil with integrated capacitance includes at least one separation dielectric layer and a plurality of conductor layers stacked in an alternating manner. Each of the plurality of conductor layers includes a first conductor sublayer and second conductor sublayer having common orientation and a sublayer dielectric layer separating the first and second conductor sublayers, each conductor layer having multiple discontinuities.

Abstract: A film structure includes a substrate (11) which is a silicon substrate including an upper surface (11a) composed of a (100) plane, an alignment film (12) which is formed on the upper surface (11a) and includes a zirconium oxide film which has a cubic crystal structure and is (100)-oriented, and a conductive film (13) which is formed on the alignment film (12) and includes a platinum film which has a cubic crystal structure and is (100)-oriented. An average interface roughness of an interface (IF1) between the alignment film (12) and the conductive film (13) is greater than an average interface roughness of an interface (IF2) between the substrate (11) and the alignment film (12).

Abstract: A solenoid actuator includes a housing assembly, a bobbin assembly, a coil, an armature, an actuation rod, a guide ring, a lower spring guide, an upper spring guide, and a spring. The actuation rod is fixedly coupled to the armature, and the guide ring, the lower spring guide, the upper spring guide, and the anti-rotation structure all comprise a non-metallic material.

Abstract: A solenoid includes a coil, a cylindrical sliding core, a columnar plunger, a bottomed cylindrical yoke including a cylindrical portion and a bottom portion that is connected to the cylindrical portion and faces a base end surface of the plunger, and the bottomed cylindrical yoke configured to accommodate the coil, the sliding core, and the plunger, a magnetic attraction core arranged to face a distal end surface of the plunger, and a magnetic flux transfer member that transfers magnetic flux between the sliding core and the yoke. When the plunger is closest to the magnetic attraction core, a position of the base end surface of the plunger along an axial direction is the same as position of the end of the sliding core along the axial direction, or is closer to the bottom portion side of the sliding core along the axial direction than the end of the sliding core.

Abstract: An electromagnetic relay includes a case, a first fixed terminal including a first fixed contact, a second fixed terminal including a second fixed contact, a movable contact piece including first and second movable contacts, a first magnet, a gas flow path, and a partition member. The case includes an accommodation space and a side wall covering the accommodation space in a first direction. The accommodation space includes a first space where the first fixed contact is disposed and a second space where the second fixed contact is disposed. The first magnet configured to extend a first arc generated between the first fixed contact and the first movable contact in the first direction. The gas flow path is disposed between the side wall and the movable contact piece. The gas flow path includes an inlet communicating with the first space and an outlet communicating with the second space.

Abstract: A control module for a reversing contactor includes a housing configured to mount to forward and reverse contactors. The control module is configured to receive command signals for the forward and reverse contactors and provide the command signals to an interlock circuit included within the housing of the control module. The interlock circuit is configured to use the forward and reverse commands as well as feedback signals corresponding to the current status of the contactors to prevent both the forward and reverse contactors from being closed in tandem. The control module is also configured to mount to contactors having different physical sizes. The housing may be configured as a telescoping housing, where one portion of the housing is fixed and a second portion of the housing slides with respect to the fixed portion of the housing to adjust the width of the control module.

Abstract: A stationary contact spring for a relay includes a base section fixed in a housing of the relay, a contact area opposite the base section adapted to perform an electric switching with a contact force, a spring section extending between the base section and the contact area, and an abutting latch abutting the housing with a biasing force directed against the contact force.

Abstract: A superconducting joint arrangement for superconducting magnets, having an elongate joint arranged between superconducting filaments of superconducting wires of one or more superconducting coils, and excess wire provided between the elongate joint and the one or more superconducting coils.

Abstract: An inner-rotor motor including: an armature assembly including a rotating shaft, an armature unit coupled to the rotating shaft and a pressing unit; a frame assembly including a frame housing the armature unit, a first bearing unit located on one side with respect to the armature unit in an axial direction, and a second bearing unit located on another side with respect to the armature unit in the axial direction; and an urging structure that urges the rotating shaft in a direction away from the second bearing unit and that presses the pressing unit toward the first bearing unit.

Abstract: A magnetic and electrical circuit element including magnetic-flux-conducting posts, and a multi-layer structure formed with an electrically-conductive material. The multi-layer structure includes multiple layers forming a stack of layers along a length of the posts, said multi-layer structure configured as primary and secondary windings of a transformer. The primary winding is embedded in the multi-layer structure and wound around the magnetic-flux-conducting posts in such a way that a magnetic field induced in each of the magnetic-flux-conducting posts has a magnetic field polarity opposite to a polarity of the respective magnetic field of the magnetic-flux-conducting post adjacent the respective magnetic-flux-conducting post. Around each of the magnetic-flux-conducting posts, there is a respective one of the secondary windings connected to a semiconductor device.

Abstract: A coil component may include a body having one surface and the other surface facing each other; a wound coil embedded in the body; a first lead frame and a second lead frame, embedded in the body and each having one surface exposed to the one surface of the body to be spaced apart from each other; and a connection portion connecting at least one of the first and second lead frames and at least one end portion of the wound coil.

Abstract: An electrical power system includes an electrical machine having one or more windings and an AC-DC power electronics converter including a commutation cell having a power circuit and a gate driver circuit. The power circuit includes a plurality of power semiconductor switching elements and a capacitor. The gate driver circuit is electrically connected to and configured to provide switching signals to a gate terminal of each power semiconductor switching element. A peak rated power output of the electrical machine and the AC-DC power electronics converter is greater than 25 kW, a maximum efficiency of the AC-DC power electronics converter is greater than 97%, and a value of parameter ? is greater than or equal to 0.3 PV/s2, where ? is a product of a maximum switching frequency of the switching signals and a maximum rate of change of a source-drain voltage of the plurality of power semiconductor switching elements.

Abstract: A magnetic field control system according to an embodiment of the present invention may comprise: a structure forming part for forming a three-dimensional structure having an inner space; a magnetic field generating part for generating a magnetic field, the magnetic field generating part being formed to extend from a predetermined position of the structure forming part and being disposed to face a target region defined in the inner space; and a power source part for supplying electric power to the magnetic field generating part.

Abstract: An electronic component including an element body having a magnetic body; an internal electrode embedded in the element body and whose end portion is exposed from an end surface of the element body; and an external electrode on an outer surface of the element body. The external electrode has a bottom surface portion on a bottom surface of the element body, and an end surface portion extending to an end surface of the element body that intersects perpendicularly with the bottom surface. The end surface portion is connected to the internal electrode exposed from the end surface. The bottom surface portion includes a first bottom surface portion arranged on the element body side, and a second bottom surface portion arranged on an outer side of the first bottom surface portion. The first bottom surface portion is a resin electrode containing a resin and a conductive filler.

Abstract: In an embodiment a switching device includes a first fixed contact element, a second fixed contact element, a movable contact bridge, a movable shaft configured to move the contact bridge, wherein the contact bridge is arranged at an end of the shaft, wherein the shaft is movable to a first position at which the contact bridge contacts the first and second contact elements, and wherein the shaft is movable to a second position at which the contact bridge is arranged at a distance from the first and second contact elements and a setting device configured to set the distance between the contact bridge and the first and second contact elements in the second position, wherein the setting device is arranged at the end of the shaft, and wherein the switching device is configured to switch an electrical load.

Abstract: The disclosed flexible vibrotactile devices may include a dielectric support material, at least one flexible electroactive element coupled to the dielectric support material, a first conductive electrode material, and a second conductive electrode material. The dielectric support material may include at least one hole therethrough for securing the flexible vibrotactile device to a textile by threading at least one fiber through the at least one hole. Various other related methods and systems are also disclosed.

Abstract: A novel transformer includes a first coil, at least one secondary coil magnetically coupled with the first coil and an electrically insulating holder. The first coil and the at least one secondary coil face each other with the holder therebetween. The holder has at least one through hole at a portion sandwiched between the first coil and the at least one second coil. The transformer also includes at least one electric insulating heat radiation member disposed in the at least one through hole in contact with the first coil and the at least one second coil. The heat radiation member has a higher heat conductivity than the holder.

Abstract: A method for producing a layer of composition AA?BO3, wherein A consists of at least one element selected from the group consisting of: Li, Na, K, Ca, Mg, Ba, Sr, Pb, La, Bi, Y, Dy, Gd, Tb, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Ho, Zr, Sc, Ag and Tl, and B consists of at least one element selected from the group consisting of: Nb, Ta, Sb, Ti, Zr, Sn, Ru, Fe, V, Sc, C, Ga, Al, Si, Mn, Zr and Tl, is described. The method includes providing a donor substrate of composition ABO3, forming a layer of composition ABO3 by thinning the donor substrate, and exposing the layer of composition ABO3 to a medium containing ions of an element A? belonging to the same list of elements as A, A? being different from A, such that the ions penetrate into the layer of composition ABO3 to form the layer of composition AA?BO3.