Patents Examined by Tuyen T. Nguyen
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Patent number: 11978582Abstract: A coil component having a structure that can easily realize a desired positional relationship between a cover member and a bobbin portion is provided. The coil component includes a bobbin portion, a magnetic core inserted through the bobbin portion, and a coil wound around the bobbin portion, and a cover member covering the bobbin portion by being externally fitted to the bobbin portion. In the coil component, the cover member and the bobbin portion abut each other, and at least one of the cover member and the bobbin portion elastically biases the other in a first direction parallel to a mounting surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: SUMIDA CORPORATIONInventors: Sho Maesawa, Takashi Haga
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Patent number: 11972888Abstract: An inductor for a converter of an electric machine includes a core defining a channel configured to receive transmission fluid on an outer surface of the core. Coils made of windings are wrapped on the core. The windings enclose an open side of the channel to define an oil flow passage, wherein oil flowing through the oil flow passage is in direct contact with both the windings and the core to absorb heat from the windings and the core.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Moon Young Lee, Baoming Ge, Fan Wang, Lihua Chen
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Patent number: 11961659Abstract: Vibration of an iron core is reduced to reduce transformer noise. An iron core for a transformer comprises a plurality of grain-oriented electrical steel sheets stacked together, wherein at least one of the plurality of grain-oriented electrical steel sheets: (1) has a region in which closure domains are formed in a direction crossing a rolling direction and a region in which no closure domains are formed; and (2) has an area ratio R of 0.10% to 30%, the area ratio R being an area ratio, to the whole grain-oriented electrical steel sheet, of a region in which a shrinkage amount at a maximum displacement point when excited in the rolling direction at a maximum magnetic flux density of 1.7 T and a frequency of 50 Hz is at least 2×10?7 less than a shrinkage amount in the region in which no closure domains are formed.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Omura, Hirotaka Inoue, Seiji Okabe
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Patent number: 11961658Abstract: The present disclosure provides a three-phase inductor and a power module. A current flowing through each inductor of the three-phase inductor comprises a power-frequency current component and a high-frequency current component. The three-phase inductor includes a magnetic core and a winding. The magnetic core includes a first cover plate, a second cover plate and a magnetic pillar unit; the winding wound on the first magnetic pillar and the second magnetic pillar of the corresponding magnetic pillar unit, and a current flowing through the winding surrounds said first magnetic pillar and said second magnetic pillar in an opposite direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Delta Electronics (Shanghai) CO., LTDInventors: Zengyi Lu, Tianding Hong
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Patent number: 11961650Abstract: A coil arrangement with reduced losses and a stabilized coupling factor. For this purpose, the arrangement has a coil core and a first winding, the turns of which are distributed over several sections which are spaced apart from one another.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: TDK Electronics AGInventor: Thomas Lohmann
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Patent number: 11955268Abstract: Stacked magnetic cores that can achieve high density with a small footprint are provided. A stacked magnetic core can include a plurality of magnetic films with an adhesive film between each magnetic film and the adjacent magnetic film(s). That is, the magnetic films and adhesive films can be disposed in an alternating fashion. Each adhesive film can be a dielectric/insulating film such that each magnetic film is electrically insulated from every other magnetic film.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: THE FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEESInventors: Carlos Riera Cercado, Markondeyaraj Pulugurtha, Juan Camilo Gomez, Veeru Jaiswal
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Patent number: 11948720Abstract: An inductor includes a wire having a generally circular shape in cross section, and the magnetic layer covering the wire, wherein the wire includes a conductive wire and an insulating layer covering the conductive wire, the magnetic layer contains anisotropic magnetic particles and a binder, and includes in a surrounding region of the wire within 1.5 times the radius of the wire, a first region in which the anisotropic magnetic particles are oriented along the circumferential direction of the wire, and a second region in which the anisotropic magnetic particles are oriented along the crossing direction that crosses the circumferential direction, or in which the anisotropic magnetic particles are not oriented.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiro Furukawa, Keisuke Okumura
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Patent number: 11948728Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus includes an array of transformers and common mode chokes each comprising a magnetic core and windings wound around the magnetic core at opposing locations on the magnetic core, and a retaining groove on each of the magnetic cores to maintain the windings in their opposing locations on the magnetic core. The transformers and common mode chokes are positioned in the array with the windings on each of the magnetic cores located offset to the windings of adjacent magnetic cores in the array to reduce crosstalk and improve common mode noise rejection.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Jianquan Lou, Xiaoxia Zhou, Hailong Zhang, Yingchun Shu, Alpesh U. Bhobe
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Patent number: 11948716Abstract: The disclosure relates to power modules that include elevated inductors with capacitors disposed under the inductors. In one aspect, a power module includes a first circuit board having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. One or more inductors are mounted on the first surface. Each of the one or more inductors includes a top surface and a bottom surface opposite the top surface and that faces the first surface of the first circuit board. Each inductor is elevated above the first surface of the first circuit board such that at least a portion of the bottom surface of the inductor does not contact the first surface of the first circuit board. The first circuit board includes capacitors arranged in an area below the portion of the bottom surface of the inductor that does not contact the first surface of the first circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Houle Gan, Shuai Jiang, Gregory Sizikov, Xin Li, Chee Yee Chung
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Patent number: 11948727Abstract: An inductor component and a method for manufacturing an inductor component that enables miniaturization of the inductor component. An inductor component includes an annular core; and a coil including a plurality of pin members and wound on the core with neighboring pin members connected to each other. A first pin member and a second pin member both adjacent to each other have a welded part in which an end face of an end part of the first pin member and a peripheral surface of an end part of the second pin member are welded to each other. The welded part is not provided on an outer side edge of the second pin member as viewed from a direction orthogonal to a first plane containing a center line of the end part of the first pin member and a center line of the end part of the second pin member.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shin Hasegawa, Tatsuya Sasaki, Shinya Hirai, Ikuno Sugiyama, Toshimitsu Tamura
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Patent number: 11942254Abstract: A three-phase transformer including a transformer housing, a shell-form five-limb transformer core wherein main limbs include two outer main limbs and a middle main limb, three coil arrangements including two outer coil arrangements each arranged around a respective one of the outer main limbs, and a middle coil arrangement arranged around the middle main limb. The outer coil arrangements have an inter-coil insulation configured to electrically insulate the coil arrangements from the transformer housing and from the respective other ones of the coil arrangements, and wherein no inter-coil insulation is provided to the middle coil arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: HITACHI ENERGY LTDInventors: Robert Daszkiewicz, Pawel Klys, Alberto Prieto
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Patent number: 11935914Abstract: Various magnetic thin film inductor structures are disclosed that include one or more magnetic thin film (MTF) materials. During operation, an electric field passes through one or more conductive windings which, in turn, generates a magnetic field for storing energy within these magnetic thin film inductor structures. The magnetic thin film (MTF) materials within these magnetic thin film inductor structures effectively attract magnetic flux lines of this magnetic field. As a result, any magnetic leakage resulting from the magnetic field generated by these magnetic thin film inductor structures onto nearby electrical, mechanical, and/or electro-mechanical devices is lessened when compared to magnetic leakage resulting from the magnetic field generated by other inductor structures not having the one or more MTF materials.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Alan Roth, Eric Soenen, Paul Rannuci
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Patent number: 11929197Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices are provided for producing and using a low-value inductor which is stable at high frequencies, the inductor including a plurality of radial spokes extending between two concentric rings. The inductance of the inductor is controlled by the number and dimensions of the plurality of spokes, as well as the materials of the inductor. In some cases, the inductor is used as a low value inductance standard for directly measuring a low value electrical inductance.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, LLCInventors: David Kautz, Marcus Kautz, David Allendorfer, Jeremy Sims
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Patent number: 11923122Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for an inverter which receives a direct current (DC) input, and outputs an alternating current (AC) output. A high AC voltage is achieved by serially connecting AC outputs from inversion modules included in the inverter. Multiple inversion stages are serially connected in order to form the AC output. Windings around a common core of the inverter may cause ripple currents to be shared by the inversion modules. Utilizing a common core enables reducing low frequency ripple currents.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Solaredge Technologies Ltd.Inventors: Nikolay Tal, Tzachi Glovinsky
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Patent number: 11923127Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a tank of a high-voltage generator including a tank body and a tank lid. There is an opening in the tank lid. The opening is connected to the bellows so as to counteract the volume change of the transformer oil and avoid generation of bubbles. The tank includes a positive transformer, a negative transformer, a bellows, and other components. The high-voltage winding is embedded in the PCBs. The outer insulating bushing is covered by the PCBs so as to improve the insulativity between the turns of the high-voltage winding. In addition, oil barriers may be placed between the positive and the negative transformers, or between the transformers and the ground so as to eliminate the bridge breakdown effect and make the electric field uniform. By means of said measures, the present disclosure improves the stability of the high-voltage generator.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.Inventors: Yunhua Zhang, Jieyong Meng, Qingchang Chen, Yihong Liu, Shilin Shen
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Patent number: 11915856Abstract: An electromagnetic induction device comprising a magnetic core having a limb and at least one winding wound around the limb is presented. The winding comprises: an electrical conductor forming a plurality of radially overlapping layers around an axis; an electrically insulating material positioned between the radially overlapping layers of the electrical conductor; at least one magnetic material end-fill positioned at at least one axial end of the winding in electrical in contact with the layers of the electrical conductor so to be at the same electrical potential with the latter.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2019Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: HITACHI ENERGY LTDInventors: Gianluca Bustreo, Roberto Zannol, Rina Bortoli
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Patent number: 11908615Abstract: The present disclosure provides a common or differential mode inductor for connection to a printed circuit board. The inductor includes a core, a first coil including a first insulated wire wound with a number of turns around the core, and a supporting device for supporting the core and the first coil. The supporting device includes a base element having a PCB contacting surface, and a first alignment element having a proximal end connected to the base element and a distal end provided at a distance from the PCB contacting surface, wherein the distal end is defining an alignment plane. The core has a first end plane facing the alignment plane and a second end plane, wherein the first end plane is facing the alignment plane. The second end plane is facing the base element.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Delta Electronics (Norway) ASInventors: Christine Amer, Håkon Hafnor, Jan Tore Brastad, Kjetil Hagen
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Patent number: 11908602Abstract: Provided is a static electric induction arrangement including: a static electric induction device arranged in a static electric induction device tank; an accessory tank including at least one opening configured to receive an accessory therein; the static electric induction device tank and the accessory tank are intended to be filled with dielectric fluid and are connected via a fluid connection, an upper portion of a cross section of the fluid connection, is located at a first height, the arrangement comprises a heat exchanger connected to the device tank, the device tank includes an outlet that is arranged to lead the dielectric fluid to the heat exchanger and an inlet that is arranged to return the dielectric fluid from the heat exchanger.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: HITACHI ENERGY LTDInventors: Nils Lavesson, Tor Laneryd, Jan Czyzewski, Johan Dahlgren, Sebastian Seier
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Patent number: 11894195Abstract: An electronic component includes an element body, an external electrode, and a resin film having electrical insulation properties. The element body includes a principal surface and a side surface adjacent to the principal surface. The external electrode includes a first electrode portion disposed on the principal surface and a second electrode portion disposed on the side surface. The resin film is disposed on the principal surface and is in contact with the principal surface. Each of the first electrode portion and the second electrode portion includes a conductive resin layer disposed on the element body. A conductive resin layer included in the first electrode portion is disposed on the resin film and is in contact with the resin film.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Yoji Tozawa, Masashi Shimoyasu, Makoto Yoshino, Takuo Abe, Akihiko Oide, Tsutomu Ono, Shinichi Sato, Makoto Morita, Shinichi Sato, Hidekazu Sato
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Patent number: 11875928Abstract: A reactor includes a coil, a magnetic core, and a holding member holding an end face of the wound part in an axial direction and an outer core part of the magnetic core. The holding member is a frame-shaped body having a through hole into which an end portion of the inner core part is inserted. The outer core part has an inward surface opposing the inner core part, an outward surface on an opposite side to the inward surface, and a plurality of peripheral surfaces joining between the inward surface and the outward surface. The reactor includes a core coupling member, coupling the outer core part and the inner core part, having a supporting piece supporting the outward surface of the outer core part, and an engaging leg piece having a distal end engaging a peripheral surface engaging part formed on a peripheral surface of the inner core part.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2019Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Misaki, Kohei Yoshikawa