Core Surrounding Linear Conductor Patents (Class 336/175)
  • Patent number: 11796607
    Abstract: A sensor includes a passage in a shield with a clear width of 25.2 to 32 mm, which provides a higher sensitivity to electrical differential current, and more particularly for determining the universal-current sensitive determination of an electric differential current. The sensor can be a part of a circuit breaker, a charging cable and a charging station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Magnetec GmbH
    Inventor: David Toth
  • Patent number: 11749449
    Abstract: An inductor component includes a bottom plate portion that includes a first main surface and a second main surface; an annular core that is disposed on the bottom plate portion; a coil that is wound around the core; and an electrode terminal that is attached to the bottom plate portion and electrically connected to the coil. The electrode terminal includes a mounting surface portion configured to connect to a mount substrate. The core is disposed on the first main surface of the bottom plate portion so that an axis of the core intersects the first main surface of the bottom plate portion. The mounting surface portion is exposed on the second main surface side of the bottom plate portion, and at least a part of the mounting surface portion overlaps the core when seen in a direction perpendicular to the first main surface of the bottom plate portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Sasaki, Shinya Hirai, Shin Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 11738651
    Abstract: A flying device includes a mechanical coupling that is designed to cooperate with a cable of an electrical distribution line in such a way that the flying device remains secured to the cable in a rest position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Bruno Beranger, Daniel Chatroux, Mathias Gerard
  • Patent number: 11735356
    Abstract: A current converter with fluid or oil paper insulation for high voltage, with a head housing through which a primary conductor passes. A measurement device through which the primary conductor passes is arranged in the head housing. The primary conductor includes two different primary conductor types, more specifically an outer tube primary conductor as the first type and one or more inner conductor primary conductors as the second type. The outer tube primary conductor surrounds an interior that is designed to receive the inner conductor primary conductor, and the inner conductor primary conductors can be inserted into the interior. The outer tube primary conductor is used to transmit power and creates an encasement for the inner conductors. Only the outer tube primary conductor needs to be sealed with respect to the head housing. Inner conductors therefore can be easily inserted or re-moved subsequently, without the need for sealing measures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: RITZ Instrument Transformers GmbH
    Inventor: Herbert Kipp
  • Patent number: 11270831
    Abstract: A three-phase reactor includes: a central iron core; an outer peripheral iron core surrounding the central iron core; and at least three connecting units that magnetically connect the central iron core and the outer peripheral iron core to each other, in which each of the connecting units includes at least one connecting iron core, at least one coil wound around the connecting iron core, and at least one gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Maeda, Masatomo Shirouzu
  • Patent number: 11119141
    Abstract: Activity sensing in the home has a variety of important applications, including healthcare, entertainment, home automation, energy monitoring and post-occupancy research studies. Many existing systems for detecting occupant activity require large numbers of sensors, invasive vision systems, or extensive installation procedures. Disclosed is an approach that uses a single plug-in sensor to detect a variety of electrical events throughout the home. This sensor detects the electrical noise on residential power tines created by the abrupt switching of electrical devices and the noise created by certain devices while in operation. Machine learning techniques are used to recognize electrically noisy events such as turning on or off a particular light switch, a television set, or an electric stove. The system has been tested to evaluate system performance over time and in different types of houses. Results indicate that various electrical events can be learned and classified with accuracies ranging from 85-90%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shwetak N. Patel, Thomas M. Robertson, Gregory D. Abowd, Matthew S. Reynolds
  • Patent number: 10989740
    Abstract: A closed-loop current transducer comprising a magnetic circuit core made of a material with a low magnetic reluctance to conduct magnetic flux and concentrate a magnetic field, a magnetic field detector positioned in a magnetic circuit gap of the magnetic circuit core, and a compensation coil assembly comprising a compensation coil and a compensation coil support comprising a coil support bobbin, the compensation coil being wound around the coil support bobbin. The magnetic circuit comprises a first longitudinal branch, a second longitudinal branch, and first and second end branches interconnecting the first and second longitudinal branches such that the branches surround a central opening configured to receive one or more primary conductors therethrough, the magnetic circuit being formed of first and second parts assembled together from opposed ends of the compensation coil support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: LEM International SA
    Inventors: Diego Neftali Gutierrez Hernandez, Steve Mouchet, Steve Moureaux
  • Patent number: 10923263
    Abstract: An aligned state of core sections is reliably maintained. A fixing structure for a cylindrical magnetic core including an insertion hole into which an electric wire is inserted with a plurality of core sections, which are divided in a circumferential direction, being coaxially aligned with each other, includes a clamping band to be wound around outer circumferential faces of the core sections to tighten the core sections. The magnetic core is accommodated in a holder, and the holder has a holder-side locking-receiving portion at which a remaining portion of the clamping band is locked. Meanwhile, an electric wire fixing portion that is fixed to the electric wire, which passes through the magnetic core, is formed in the holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshio Mizutani
  • Patent number: 10886722
    Abstract: An arc fault current detector for an electricity supply having at least two supply conductors (P1, P2) comprises a coil (L1) disposed adjacent to but not surrounding at least one of the conductors and inductively coupled thereto. A circuit (14) is connected to the coil for detecting a signal induced in the coil having frequency characteristics corresponding to an arc fault in the supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Shakira Limited
    Inventors: Patrick Ward, Donal O'Brien, Andrii Vikliuk
  • Patent number: 10878994
    Abstract: An apparatus for absorbing electrical noise on cables that includes a housing which contains two partial shells, each partial shell receiving one element which is composed of a material which decreases or absorbs noise. In a closed state, two end sides of the housing each have one opening for a cable to be routed through. The apparatus further includes at least one fixing means for securing the housing to the cable, with the fixing means being arranged on at least one end side of the housing in the region of the opening, and having at least two clips, the limbs of which face one another and can be deformed transverse to the cable and form a slot for receiving the cable in a clamping manner between them. The limbs of the two clips running parallel to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Würth Elektronik eiSos GmbH & Co, KG
    Inventors: Robert Weidinger, Simon Trebuch, Harald Schleich, Steffen Mütsch, Nils-Henning Fiebig
  • Patent number: 10748703
    Abstract: A three-phase reactor includes: an outer peripheral iron core; and at least three iron-core coils that come in contact with an inner surface of the outer peripheral iron core or are joined to the inner surface. The at least three iron-core coils include corresponding iron cores and corresponding coils wound around the iron cores, and gaps that can magnetically connect one iron-core coil of the at least three iron-core coils and an iron-core coil adjacent to the one iron-core coil to each other are formed between the one iron-core coil of the at least three iron-core coils and the iron-core coil adjacent to the one iron-core coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masatomo Shirouzu, Takuya Maeda
  • Patent number: 10718794
    Abstract: A current sensor integrated circuit including a magnetic field sensing element, a current conductor, an insulation structure, and a power calculation circuit is configured to meet safety isolation requirements. Isolation resistors allow for voltage from a high voltage side to be sensed at a low voltage side of the circuit. The insulation structure, current sensor package, and isolation resistors can achieve at least 500 Vrms isolation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Allegro Microsystems, LLC
    Inventors: Georges El Bacha, Evan Shorman, Cory Voisine, Alexander Latham, William P. Taylor
  • Patent number: 10580566
    Abstract: A winding-type inductor includes a body including a winding-type coil and first and second external electrodes disposed on external surfaces of the body. The body includes the winding-type coil, and first and second connection reinforcing portions are additionally arranged on first and second ends of the winding-type coil and directly connected to the first and second external electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ju Hwan Yang, Yong Sam Lee, Young Seuck Yoo
  • Patent number: 10530266
    Abstract: An apparatus for transforming alternating electrical energy supplied by alternating electrical energy supply means to appliances using alternating electrical energy through electrical transformation means operatively interposed between and electromagnetically coupled to said alternating electrical energy supply means and to said appliances using alternating electrical energy, said electrical transformer means being of the two-stage type and comprising a first electrical transformer assembly and a second electrical transformer assembly, at least one permanent magnet being associated with said first electrical transformer assembly and positioned with respect to said first electrical transformer assembly in such a way that, when said alternating electrical energy supply means are switched on, the permanent magnetic field produced by said at least one permanent magnet is added to and amplifies the alternating electromagnetic field produced by said electrical transformer means, thereby amplifying the electrical en
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Inventors: Massimo Veggian, Lorenzo Riva
  • Patent number: 10361028
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a wound coil which has a stable appearance configuration with improved shape accuracy of a coating resin formed on the wound coil. A wound coil element is pressed into a holding jig including an elastic holding hole, and held therein such that an upper end of a coil is level with or lower than an upper end of the holding hole, and a gap G is present between an inner surface of the holding hole and the coil. Next, a flowable coating resin is supplied into the holding hole holding the wound coil element such that the coating resin is held without flowing away downwardly from the gap G, and the upper end 16a of the coil is buried in the coating resin. Next, the supplied coating resin is subjected to curing, thereby forming a wound coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takayuki Yamakita
  • Patent number: 10267826
    Abstract: A bus bar module equipped with current sensors is provided. The module includes a plurality of bus bars, a current sensor, and shield plates. The current sensor is formed of a magneto-resistive element. The plurality of bus bars are arrayed along a width direction (X direction) of the bus bars that is at right angles to both the thickness direction (Z direction) and the extension direction (Y direction) of the bus bars. The current sensor is arranged being spaced apart from the bus bars, while being adjacent to the bus bars in the Z direction. The bus bars and the current sensor are covered from both sides in the Z direction, by the shield plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naohisa Harada
  • Patent number: 10247765
    Abstract: Activity sensing in the home has a variety of important applications, including healthcare, entertainment, home automation, energy monitoring and post-occupancy research studies. Many existing systems for detecting occupant activity require large numbers of sensors, invasive vision systems, or extensive installation procedures. Disclosed is an approach that uses a single plug-in sensor to detect a variety of electrical events throughout the home. This sensor detects the electrical noise on residential power tines created by the abrupt switching of electrical devices and the noise created by certain devices while in operation. Machine learning techniques are used to recognize electrically noisy events such as turning on or off a particular light switch, a television set, or an electric stove. The system has been tested to evaluate system performance over time and in different types of houses. Results indicate that various electrical events can be learned and classified with accuracies ranging from 85-90%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shwetak N. Patel, Thomas M. Robertson, Gregory D. Abowd, Matthew S. Reynolds
  • Patent number: 10178803
    Abstract: An apparatus includes at least one evaporator having a surface configured for mounting of a power electronic device thereon, a condenser fluidically coupled to the at least one evaporator by at least two coolant conduits that electrically insulate the at least one evaporator from the condenser, and a dielectric coolant contained in a thermosyphon loop comprising the at least one evaporator, the condenser and the at least two coolant conduits. The at least one evaporator may include at least two evaporators fluidically coupled by at least one coupler that electrically insulates the at least two evaporators from one another. The at least one evaporator may be housed within an enclosure, and the condenser may be positioned within the enclosure or outside of the enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power Limited
    Inventors: Abhinav Dixit, Atul Singhal, David Glenn Woolard, Tarun Malik
  • Patent number: 10134525
    Abstract: The present invention provides a dust core including, as principal components, a pulverized powder of an Fe-based amorphous alloy ribbon; and a Cr-containing Fe-based amorphous alloy atomized spherical powder, and the pulverized powder is in the shape of a thin plate having two principal planes opposing each other, and assuming that a minimum dimension along a plane direction of the principal planes is a grain size, the pulverized powder includes a pulverized powder with a grain size more than twice and not more than six times as large as a thickness of the pulverized powder in a proportion of 80 mass % or more of the whole pulverized powder and includes a pulverized powder with a grain size not more than twice as large as the thickness of the pulverized powder in a portion of 20 mass % or less of the whole pulverized powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS LTD.
    Inventor: Kazunori Nishimura
  • Patent number: 10008316
    Abstract: Some novel features pertain to a package substrate that includes a core layer, a first via, a first dielectric layer, and a first inductor. The core layer includes a first surface and a second surface. The first via is located in the core layer. The first dielectric layer is coupled to the first surface of the core layer. The first inductor is located in the first dielectric layer. The first inductor is coupled to the first via in the core layer. The first inductor is configured to generate a magnetic field that laterally traverses the package substrate. In some implementations, the package substrate further includes a first pad coupled to the first inductor, wherein the first pad is configured to couple to a solder ball. In some implementations, the package substrate includes a second via located in the core layer, and a second inductor located in the first dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Siamak Fazelpour, Charles David Paynter, Ryan David Lane
  • Patent number: 9989562
    Abstract: A sensor of electric current including a fiber (1) from a soft magnetic material with a uniform cross-sectional area and uniform magnetic properties along its whole length, equipped with an excitation coil (2) wound on said fiber (1) with a uniform winding density along the substantially whole length and possibly equipped with a sensing coil (3) wound on said fiber (1) with uniform winding density along the substantially whole length, where said fiber (1) ends are mechanically joined to form a loop enclosing the measured current carrying conductor (4) by said fiber (1), wherein said excitation coil (2) is connected to the current output of a current source (5) through a current transducer (6) generating a current signal corresponding to the excitation current flowing through said excitation coil (2) wherein the sensor is equipped with a voltage transducer (7) generating a voltage signal corresponding to the voltage on the possibly present sensing coil (3) or on the excitation coil (2) wherein said voltage sig
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Inventor: Ladislav Gr{hacek over (n)}o
  • Patent number: 9900987
    Abstract: There are provided a coil component and a board for mounting the same. The coil component includes a magnetic body including first and second coil portions disposed on one surface of a substrate and disposed linearly, based on a central portion of the magnetic body, and third and fourth coil portions disposed on the other surface of the substrate and disposed linearly, based on the central portion of the magnetic body; and first to fourth external electrodes disposed on an external surface of the magnetic body and connected to the first to fourth coil portions. The first coil portion and the third coil portion have a first core portion, and the second coil portion and the fourth coil portion have a second core portion. A peripheral portion disposed outwardly of the first to fourth coil portions has greater permeability than that of the first and second core portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chan Yoon, Dong Hwan Lee, Young Ghyu Ahn
  • Patent number: 9832896
    Abstract: A flat cable wiring structure includes an operation mechanism that detects a physical operation made on an operating surface and outputs a detection signal, a control board, disposed facing the operating surface of the operation mechanism, that outputs a driving signal for imparting vibration to the operation mechanism on the basis of the detection signal, and a flat cable that electrically connects the operation mechanism and the control board. The flat cable includes a routing portion that extends from the operation mechanism to the control board along a movement direction of the operation mechanism. The routing portion includes a bending portion that bends at a bending angle allowing the routing portion to be routed along the control board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventor: Ryosuke Okuda
  • Patent number: 9651586
    Abstract: A method for checking the plausibility of a measurement result for an electric current by a current sensor connected to an electrical circuit, the method including: making a predetermined change to the switching state of the electrical circuit; detecting, by the current sensor, a change to the electric current resulting from the change to the switching state as a measurement result; and checking the plausibility of the measurement result by contrasting the change to the switching state and the change to the electric current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Jörg Eckrich, Wolfgang Jöckel, Klaus Rink, Martin Haverkamp, Torsten Martin, Jens Herchenröder
  • Patent number: 9607752
    Abstract: A wire-wound inductor includes: a magnetic core; a first coil unit embedded in the magnetic core and formed by winding a conductive wire; a pair of second coil units bent from both ends of the first coil unit and including lead portions exposed to opposing surfaces of the magnetic core; and a pair of external terminals disposed on the opposing surfaces of the magnetic core and electrically connected to the lead portions of the pair of second coil units, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu Na Kim, Jong Ho Lee, Sang Ho Shin, Moon Soo Park
  • Patent number: 9488678
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for measuring geomagnetically induced currents (GIC) is disclosed. The apparatus is configured to measure GICs temporarily flowing in high-voltage, 60 Hz power transmission conductors, and includes a securing means for securing the apparatus to the power transmission conductor. The apparatus further includes a flux concentrator having a toroidal ferrite core and winding wound around the core configured to capture a magnetic field from the power transmission conductor; a hall-effect sensor assembly configured to receive the magnetic field from the flux concentrator and produce a voltage signal corresponding to the magnetic field; and an electronics module configured to receive the voltage signal from the hall-effect sensor assembly, conduct measurements, and transmit the measurements to a local access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew John Philips, Richard Lordan, J. Mark Major
  • Patent number: 9424975
    Abstract: A first housing portion of a split core sensing transformer includes a guide element arranged to engage a guide surface of a separable second housing portion and to control rotation and translation of the housing portions to align the housing portions during joining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Veris Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Martin Cook, Mark D. Rowan, Marc Bowman, Troy Earl Wecker, Mark Taft, Gary Richmond, Cristin Rosenbaum, Kenneth Courian, Doug Porter
  • Patent number: 9305702
    Abstract: [Technical Problem] This invention provides a surface-mount inductor that is capable of positioning a coil in a predetermined position in a mold, thereby to position the coil in a predetermined position of a core and to prevent led-out ends from being buried in the core. [Solution to the Problem] A surface-mount inductor of the present invention comprises: a coil formed by winding a winding wire; and a core containing a magnetic powder and including the coil therein. The coil has opposite led-out ends, each of which is exposed on respective ones of opposed side surfaces of the core. Each of the led-out ends of the coil is connected to an external electrode formed on the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: TOKO, INC.
    Inventors: Kunio Sasamori, Masaaki Totsuka, Chitoshi Sakai, Naoto Takahashi, Hiroyasu Mori
  • Patent number: 9013258
    Abstract: A rectifier transformer including at least one secondary with windings, one pair of magnetic transductors per winding, one of the transductors having one or more first busbars and the other having one or more second busbars. All of the busbars of the pair of transductors are connected to the same winding. The or each first or second, busbar is connected to a single positive or negative, terminal (2w+) designed to be connected to a positive or negative, arm of the rectifier. All of the busbars of the pair of magnetic transductors form one or more groups that are encircled by at least one magnetic toroid and that comprise at least one first busbar and at least one second busbar, so that, when the terminals are short-circuited, the busbars of a group pass currents of opposite directions such that the sum of the currents in one direction is equal to the sum of the currents in the other direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: ALSTOM Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Serge Tirilly, Triomphant Ngnegueu, David Marnay
  • Patent number: 9013260
    Abstract: A cable for winding of an electromagnetic device. The cable includes a conductor, and a layer including a magnetic material having a relative permeability in the range 2 to 100000, wherein the layer at least partly surrounds the conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: ABB Research Ltd.
    Inventors: Christer Tornkvist, Goran Eriksson, Jan Hajek, Joachim Schiessling, Manoj Pradhan
  • Patent number: 9000875
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided for securing to and collecting power from an electrical conductor including a wire clamp that clamps to and secures the apparatus to the electrical conductor, a current transformer (“CT”) that clamps to the electrical conductor and collects power from the electrical conductor, and a housing including a cavity that encloses circuitry associated with the apparatus. According to various aspects, the circuitry may include one or more sensors and wireless communications circuitry, and the CT may include a core and an electrical winding that receives an induced current from magnetic flux generated according to alternating current present on the electrical conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventors: Bruce W. McBee, Gregg James Haensgen, John Fredrick Banting, William J. Kostolni, Bryan C. Cochran
  • Patent number: 8994370
    Abstract: The invention relates to an integrated sensor, including terminals (1, 2) for connection to an electric generator, said terminals being connected to a metal measuring line (4, 5) in which a current proportional to the voltage or current of the generator to be measured flows, and magnetoresistors (31, 32, 33, 34). The metal measuring line includes elongate and parallel sections (4, 5) in which the current flows in opposite directions, said sections being connected to a portion (3) for closing the metal measuring line (3, 4, 5), which is arranged on a galvanic isolation layer (8) that is in turn arranged on an integrated circuit portion including the magnetoresistors (31, 32, 33, 34), each of which have a sensitive portion that is vertically adjacent to one of the elongate sections (4, 5). The sensor can be integrated into a diagnostic system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignees: Peugeot Citroën Automobiles SA, Commissariat a l'energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventors: Myriam Pannetier-Lecoeur, Claude Fermon, Alain Giraud, Francis Roy
  • Patent number: 8957753
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments are directed to a current transformer having a toroidal magnetic core around which an even number of shielding coils is wound. The shielding coils are operatively associated two by two to form corresponding couples. The shielding coils of each couple are wound on parts of the toroidal magnetic core opposite to each other and are connected in parallel to each other for obtaining a magnetic flux in them. The magnetic flux in a first shielding coil of a couple of shielding coils has an opposite direction with respect to a magnetic flux in a second shielding coil of the couple. The couples of shielding coils are connected in series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: ABB Technology AG
    Inventors: Martin Odehnal, Roman Pernica, Pavel Vano
  • Patent number: 8952680
    Abstract: A magnetic sensor includes two sensor units with curved cores including meshing portions at front and base ends thereof and constructs a ring when the meshing portions mesh together. The meshing portions include main meshing portions that entirely overlap in a completely meshed state where the meshing portions overlap to the greatest extent. Auxiliary meshing portions that protrude inside and/or outside the ring are provided on the main meshing portions at the front and/or the base ends. In the completely meshed state, the auxiliary meshing portions do not overlap the main meshing portions or auxiliary meshing portions of the other core. In a non-completely meshed state where the main meshing portions partially do not overlap, the auxiliary meshing portions at least partially overlap the main meshing portions and/or auxiliary meshing portions of the other core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Hioki Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihiro Nagai, Yoshinori Furuhata, Satoshi Imaizumi
  • Publication number: 20150028980
    Abstract: A transformer includes a magnetic core assembly and a hollow pad. The magnetic core assembly includes a first magnetic part and a second magnetic part. Each of the first magnetic part and the second magnetic part includes a middle post. The hollow pad is arranged between the middle post of the first magnetic part and the middle post of the second magnetic part. The hollow pad has an opening for accommodating a gluing material. The first magnetic part and the second magnetic part are combined together through the gluing material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Yu-Chin Lin, Yu-Jen Huang, Shao-Dong Zhang, Cheng-Chang Tsai
  • Patent number: 8902036
    Abstract: A ferrite clamp includes a pair of divided cores, each being formed in an open circular shape; and a pair of case parts, each being adapted to hold each of the divided cores. When the case parts are assembled with each other, the pair of divided cores held by the case parts constitute a circular magnetic core having an insertion hole to insert an electric cable therethrough. The case part includes, in a portion thereof to hold an outer peripheral surface of the divided core, a protruding portion which is outwardly convex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Kitagawa Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideharu Kawai
  • Publication number: 20140266532
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a line is provided. The line includes a center conductor and a covering portion. The covering portion covers the center conductor. The covering portion includes at least one layer that is made of a soft magnetic material and is thinner than a skin depth at a frequency where supply of a signal or power is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Keiju YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20140266533
    Abstract: An electronic device comprising a first magnetic powder; a second magnetic powder, wherein the mean particle diameter of the first magnetic powder is larger than the mean particle diameter of the second magnetic powder, wherein the ratio of the mean particle diameter of the first magnetic powder to the mean particle diameter of the second magnetic powder is greater than 2, and the first magnetic powder mixes with the second magnetic powder; and a conducting wire buried in the mixture of the first magnetic powder and the second magnetic powder; wherein the mixture of the first magnetic powder and the second magnetic powder and the conducting wire buried therein are combined to form an integral magnetic body at a temperature lower than the melting point of conducting wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: CYNTEC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wen-Hsiung Liao, Roger Hsieh, Hideo Ikuta, Yueh-Lang Chen
  • Patent number: 8813346
    Abstract: A coil-type electronic component has a coil inside or on the surface of its base material and is characterized in that: the base material is constituted by a group of grains of a soft magnetic alloy containing iron, silicon and other element that oxidizes more easily than iron; the surface of each soft magnetic alloy grain has an oxide layer formed on its surface as a result of oxidization of the grain; this oxide layer contains the other element that oxidizes more easily than iron by a quantity larger than that in the soft magnetic alloy grain; and grains are bonded with one another via this oxide layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Ogawa, Atsushi Tanada, Hitoshi Matsuura, Kiyoshi Tanaka, Hiroshi Kishi, Kenji Kawano
  • Publication number: 20140216344
    Abstract: In large area plasma processing systems, process gases may be introduced to the chamber via the showerhead assembly which may be driven as an RF electrode. The gas feed tube, which is grounded, is electrically isolated from the showerhead. The gas feed tube may provide not only process gases, but also cleaning gases from a remote plasma source to the process chamber. The inside of the gas feed tube may remain at either a low RF field or a zero RF field to avoid premature gas breakdown within the gas feed tube that may lead to parasitic plasma formation between the gas source and the showerhead. By feeding the gas through an RF choke, the RF field and the processing gas may be introduced to the processing chamber through a common location and thus simplify the chamber design.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Jozef KUDELA, Carl A. SORENSEN, John M. WHITE
  • Publication number: 20140210585
    Abstract: An electromagnetic device includes a variable magnetic flux core having a plurality of core sections stacked on one another. At least one core section of the plurality of core sections may include a different selected geometry and/or a different chosen material. The at least one core section is configured to provide a predetermined inductance performance. An opening is provided through the stacked plurality of core sections for receiving a conductor winding. An electrical current flowing through the conductor winding generates a magnetic field about the conductor winding and a magnetic flux flow in each of the plurality of core sections. The magnetic flux flow in the at least one core section is different from the other core sections in response to the different selected geometry and/or the different chosen material of the at least one core section to provide the predetermined inductance performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventor: James Leo Peck, JR.
  • Patent number: 8789262
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an inductor includes a mold device having a mold cavity, disposing a coil member above the mold cavity of the mold device, filling metallic particles into the mold cavity of the mold device, forcing the coil member into the metallic particles to form a base member, applying two conductive coating members onto the base member and electrically connecting to the terminals of the coil member respectively, and attaching two conductive coverings onto the conductive coating members respectively and electrically connecting to the conductive coating members respectively for allowing the inductors to be quickly manufactured in a mass production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Mag. Layers Scientific Technics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chien Chih Liu
  • Patent number: 8766757
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for detachably fastening a current conductor (10) to a current transformer housing (12) comprising a fastening element (16, 32), wherein the fastening element (16, 32) can be guided such that the fastening element (16, 32) at least partially contacts the surface of the current conductor (10) in a fastening state of the current conductor (10) on the current transformer housing (12). The invention is characterized in that the fastening element (16, 32) is implemented such that it performs a translatory displacement in the direction of the current conductor (10) when transitioning from an unfastened state to the fastened state of the current conductor (10) to the current transformer housing (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG.
    Inventors: Christoph Leifer, Carsten Thörner, Dat-Minh Trinh
  • Patent number: 8760254
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided for securing to and collecting power from an electrical conductor including a wire clamp that clamps and secures to an electrical conductor, a current transformer (“CT”) that clamps to the electrical conductor and collects power from the electrical conductor, and a housing that supports the wire clamp and the current transformer. According to various aspects, the apparatus may include a wire clamp including a compression post and clamp arms that surround and compress an electrical conductor in a closed position of the wire clamp, where each of the clamp arms includes pivot posts, and the clamp arms pivot between closed and open positions. According to other various aspects, the apparatus may include a split magnetic core that surrounds an electrical conductor in a closed position of the current transformer, where the split magnetic core includes pivot posts, and the split magnetic core pivots between closed and open positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Cooper Technologies Company
    Inventors: Bruce W. McBee, Gregg James Haensgen, John Fredrick Banting, William J. Kostolni, Bryan C. Cochran
  • Patent number: 8723630
    Abstract: A current transformer supplying a power for an electronic controller comprises two independent core magnetic circuits, wherein a first core magnetic circuit is a closed loop formed by connecting a U-shaped core and a linear core, a primary conductor extends through the closed loop, and a secondary winding for power supply is wound on the linear core; a second core magnetic circuit having an opening shape is disposed in parallel to the linear core of the first core magnetic circuit, and the open end of the second core magnetic circuit is coupled to the first core magnetic circuit through air gaps. The area of the cross section of the linear core is less than that of the cross section of the U-shaped core, so that the linear core can be magnetically saturated earlier than the U-shaped core. The centerline length of the U-shaped core is 1.5 to 4 times of that of the linear core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Noark Electric (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yinglong Hu, Zeliang Xu
  • Publication number: 20140085030
    Abstract: A transformer includes a bobbin, a magnetic core assembly, and a hollow pad. The bobbin includes a main body and a channel. The channel runs through the main body. The magnetic core assembly includes a first magnetic part and a second magnetic part. Each of the first magnetic part and the second magnetic part includes a middle post. The middle post is partially inserted into the channel. The hollow pad is arranged between the middle post of the first magnetic part and the middle post of the second magnetic part. The hollow pad has an opening for accommodating a gluing material. The first magnetic part and the second magnetic part are combined together through the gluing material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Yu-Chin Lin, Yu-Jen Huang, Shao-Dong Zhang, Cheng-Chang Tsai
  • Publication number: 20140062640
    Abstract: [TECHNICAL PROBLEM] The present invention provides a surface-mount inductor allowing the Q to be improved at a higher frequency and preventing the efficiency of the inductor from getting worse even at the higher frequency. [SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM] A surface-mount inductor comprises: a coil formed by winding a conductive wire; and a core containing the coil and formed by subjecting a mixture of a magnetic powder and a binder to powder-compacting. The magnetic powder contains plural types of magnetic powders each having a different particle size from the other, and the plural types of magnetic powders are mixed to satisfy the following relationship: ?an·?n?10 ?m, where an is a mixing ratio, ?n is an average particle size, and n is an integer of 2 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Inventors: Kunio Sasamori, Masaaki Totsuka, Yasuyuki Kawauchi, Keita Muneuchi, Hiroyasu Mori
  • Publication number: 20140062639
    Abstract: [TECHNICAL PROBLEM] Present invention provides a surface-mount inductor allowing the Q to be improved at a higher frequency and preventing the efficiency of the inductor from getting worse even at the higher frequency. [SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM] A surface-mount inductor comprises: a coil formed by winding a conductive wire; and a core comprising mainly of a magnetic powder and a resin and containing the coil therein. The magnetic powder contains plural types of magnetic powders each having a different particle size from others, and the plural types of magnetic powders are mixed to satisfy the following relationship: ?an·?n?10 ?m, where an is a mixing ratio, ?n is an average particle size, and n is an integer of 2 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: TOKO, INC.
    Inventors: Kunio Sasamori, Masaaki Totsuka, Yasuyuki Kawauchi, Keita Muneuchi, Hiroyasu Mori
  • Publication number: 20140062638
    Abstract: [Technical Problem] This invention provides a surface-mount inductor that is capable of positioning a coil in a predetermined position in a mold, thereby to position the coil in a predetermined position of a core and to prevent led-out ends from being buried in the core. [Solution to the Problem] A surface-mount inductor of the present invention comprises: a coil formed by winding a winding wire; and a core containing a magnetic powder and including the coil therein. The coil has opposite led-out ends, each of which is exposed on respective ones of opposed side surfaces of the core. Each of the led-out ends of the coil is connected to an external electrode formed on the core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: TOKO, INC.
    Inventors: Kunio SASAMORI, Masaaki Totsuka, Chitoshi Sakai, Naoto Takahashi, Hiroyasu Mori
  • Publication number: 20140035712
    Abstract: A cable for winding of an electromagnetic device. The cable includes a conductor, and a layer including a magnetic material having a relative permeability in the range 2 to 100000, wherein the layer at least partly surrounds the conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Inventors: Christer Thornkvist, Goran Eriksson, Jan Hajek, Joachim Schiessling, Manoj Pradhan