Laminated Type (includes Bundles Of Rods Or Wires) Patents (Class 336/234)
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Patent number: 6570479Abstract: The invention provides a transformer system and method of attaching a laminated housing on the same. The transformer system includes a laminated housing with a plurality of laminates. A coil assembly producing a magnetic field is positioned within the laminated housing. At least one low power weld is positioned on the laminated housing to bond the laminates together without substantially disrupting the magnetic field. The method of attaching the laminated housing on the transformer includes applying a low power weld to the laminated housing including a plurality of laminates. The laminates are bonded together without substantially disrupting a magnetic field produced by a coil assembly positioned within the laminated housing.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2001Date of Patent: May 27, 2003Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventor: Gerald F. Colby
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Publication number: 20030076212Abstract: A fault current limiter (FCL) comprises: an air core flat clock spiral inductor comprising wound electrically conductive material and insulated turns; and two terminations configured for attaching the spiral inductor in series with a power carrying conductor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2001Publication date: April 24, 2003Inventors: Manoj Ramprasad Shah, William James Premerlani, Patricia Chapman Irwin, Guanzhong Gao, Nancy Ellen Frost, Karen Broadwell Lausier
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Patent number: 6538548Abstract: The magnetic performance, rigidity and mechanical precision of an iron core assembly can be improved. A plurality of plate-shaped core segments are disposed in succession to form a plurality of first and second core members respectively. Edge portions of adjacent core segments of the first and second core members are coupled with each other. The first and second core members are alternately laminated one over another in such a manner that first inter-segment positions each defined between adjacent two first core segments of the first core member are offset from second inter-segment positions each defined between adjacent two second core segments of the second core member in a longitudinal direction of the first and second core members, with those edge portions of the respective first and second core segments which adjoin each other in a laminating direction in which the first and second core members are laminated being overlapped each other.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2002Date of Patent: March 25, 2003Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroyuki Akita, Yuji Nakahara, Nobuaki Miyake, Ken-Ichi Azuma, Takashi Anamura
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Patent number: 6535099Abstract: The present invention relates to cores and coils for electrical transformers in which lateral walls of either Wescore or toroidal type cores are manufactured by winding strips of different heights or only one strip whose width reduces gradually, so that the lateral walls form an angle relative to the core upper wall. The corresponding coil is manufactured following the core pattern, on which core the coil will be placed or wound. The use of the cores and coils of the present invention achieves substantial savings in materials used to manufacture electrical transformers, while the resulting characteristics and electrical losses are improved, with load and with no-load.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2000Date of Patent: March 18, 2003Inventor: Alfonso Hernandez Cruz
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Patent number: 6531946Abstract: A wound and laminated iron core is formed by winding a soft magnetic thin strip into a circular ring shape or elliptical ring shape. A coil is then wound around almost an entire outer periphery of the ring of wound and laminated iron core. A cross sectional shape of the wound and laminated iron core vertical to a peripheral direction of the ring is any one of: (i) a circular shape, (ii) an elliptical shape, (iii) a substantially regular polygon of at least 6 sides, (iv) a shape encircled by a pair of point-symmetrically positioned circular arcs or elliptical arcs with a nearly straight line connecting respective edges of the pair of circular arcs or elliptical arcs on both sides of the pair of circular arcs or elliptical arcs, and (v) a shape of a substantially regular polygon of at least 4 sides whose apexes comprise a circular arc or an elliptical arc.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2001Date of Patent: March 11, 2003Assignee: NKK CorporationInventors: Masahiro Abe, Michio Tatsuno, Fumio Kitamura
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Publication number: 20030038700Abstract: A low-power planar transformer for cell phone chargers or the like includes a primary bobbin structure carrying connection pins aligned for mounting the transformer in a through-hole configuration or directly on a circuit board, and a secondary bobbin structure that fits wholly within the primary bobbin structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2001Publication date: February 27, 2003Inventor: John Joseph Piechnick
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Publication number: 20030030535Abstract: A laminated plate assembly in which the laminations in a stack are secured together by means of one or more interlocks or tabs that project from the uppermost lamination in the assembly through holes or slots in all the other laminations in the assembly, or around the periphery of the other laminations in the assembly, with each tab being bent or pressed against the underside of the bottom lamination in the assembly. This secures all the laminations in the stack together, much like a staple secures papers in a stack together, allowing for additional handling and processing of the laminated plate assembly without concern that the laminated plates in the stack will become misaligned or even become removed from the stack.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2001Publication date: February 13, 2003Inventors: Robert Sirois, James J. Holich, Dennis P. Bobay, Robert K. Hollenbeck, Jeffrey A. Hall
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Publication number: 20030001714Abstract: The invention provides a transformer system and method of attaching a laminated housing on the same. The transformer system includes a laminated housing with a plurality of laminates. A coil assembly producing a magnetic field is positioned within the laminated housing. At least one low power weld is positioned on the laminated housing to bond the laminates together without substantially disrupting the magnetic field. The method of attaching the laminated housing on the transformer includes applying a low power weld to the laminated housing including a plurality of laminates. The laminates are bonded together without substantially disrupting a magnetic field produced by a coil assembly positioned within the laminated housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2001Publication date: January 2, 2003Applicant: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventor: Gerald F. Colby
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Patent number: 6501365Abstract: An ignition coil contains an elongated substantially circular coil core which includes a primary coil and a secondary coil each disposed radially outwardly of the core with the core composed of a plurality of generally rectangular elements at least some of which have a different width than others and the elements being in surface-to-surface contact with each other. The lateral walls of the elements may have a shape which is not perpendicular to the longitudinal extent of the elements. The core may be welded at its ends. A core contained within this ignition coil, which may be an automotive ignition coil, is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2000Date of Patent: December 31, 2002Assignee: Oberg IndustriesInventors: E. Wesley Elliott, D. Bradley Williams, Joseph A. DeAngelo
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Patent number: 6498554Abstract: An auxiliary wiring structure for stabilizer which includes a ferrite core and a separator. The ferrite core is assembled by annular silicon sheets and has a slot formed at a selected location. The separator is clamped in the slot and enables wiring for a coil around the ferrite core be done in a well organized layer structure thereby to provide a stable current output for discharging lamp tube or other electric devices use.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2001Date of Patent: December 24, 2002Inventor: Albert Chow
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Patent number: 6480084Abstract: An inductance element comprises a coil having a hollow portion opened at both ends and provided with a winding of which number of turns (N) per length 10 mm is 20 or more and 500 or less, and a core having a single layer or a plurality of layers of magnetic ribbon of a thickness of 4 &mgr;m or more and 50 &mgr;m or less and a width of 2 mm or more and 40 mm or less, at least part thereof being disposed in the hollow portion. In such an inductance element, a ratio (N/n) of a number of turns (N) of the coil per length 10 mm to a number of layers (n) of the magnetic ribbon is set at 20 or more and 500 or less. The magnetic ribbon, for instance in a state disposed in the hollow portion of the coil, has an open magnetic circuit structure. Instead, the magnetic ribbon, by disposing penetrating the hollow portion and magnetically connecting both ends thereof, forms a closed magnetic circuit loop. Such an inductance element possesses excellent inductance characteristics and is good in winding efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2000Date of Patent: November 12, 2002Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Tadao Saito, Yasuaki Moriya, Kazumi Sakai, Takao Kusaka
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Publication number: 20020158744Abstract: The invention provides an apparatus and manufacturing methods useful in the manufacture of large transformer cores, particularly, in the manufacture of large transformer cores made of a ferromagnetic material, especially of annealed amorphous metal alloys. The invention further provides transformer cores produced utilizing the inventive apparatus and manufacturing methods, as well as finished transformers which include such transformer cores.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2001Publication date: October 31, 2002Inventors: Dung A. Ngo, Kimberly M. Borgmeier
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Patent number: 6456184Abstract: A reduced-cost core for an electrical-power transformer comprises at least a first magnetic loop and a second magnetic loop. The first and the second magnetic loops are positioned substantially side by side to form a winding leg for a phase winding. The first magnetic loop includes a first plurality of laminae each having a first thickness, and the second magnetic loop includes a second plurality of laminae each having a second thickness, where the second thickness is less than the first thickness.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2000Date of Patent: September 24, 2002Assignee: ABB Inc.Inventors: Tri D. Vu, Varagur R. Ramanan, Arthur L. Lanni
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Patent number: 6448878Abstract: An ignition coil assembly is disclosed for a spark plug of the type used in internal combustion engines. The ignition assembly includes a housing, a tubular and cylindrical primary coil, and a tubular and cylindrical secondary coil. The primary and secondary coils are each wound on their individual bobbins and the bobbins are mounted in the housing such that the primary coil is coaxially positioned inside the secondary coil. The ignition coil assembly further includes a magnetic core having a first portion which extends through the interior of both the primary and secondary coil and a second portion which extends exteriorly of the primary and secondary coils. The first portion of the coil is substantially circular in cross sectional shape thus matching the circular interior of the primary bobbin. In order to construct the primary coil and secondary coil subassembly, the primary bobbin is first positioned on a winding machine and the primary wire is wound on the bobbin.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2000Date of Patent: September 10, 2002Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Products (USA), Inc.Inventors: David H. Mullins, Hayato Koguchi
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Patent number: 6420949Abstract: A core of a solenoid actuator is provided which is improved in durability, and at the same time ensures high energy efficiency of the solenoid actuator. The core of the solenoid actuator attracts an armature during operation of the solenoid actuator. A plurality of core plates are formed of a magnetically soft material and laminated in a predetermined direction orthogonal to a direction of attracting the armature to form a laminated stack. The core plates form magnetic circuits between the armature and the core plates themselves during the operation of the solenoid actuator. Two core holders formed of a non-magnetic material sandwiches the laminated stack of the plurality of core plates from opposite sides along the predetermined direction. The plurality of core plates are each coated with insulating film, which insulate adjacent two core plates from each other.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2000Date of Patent: July 16, 2002Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Atsushi Umemoto, Kenji Abe, Hisao Sakai, Chihaya Sugimoto
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Patent number: 6416879Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide an Fe-based amorphous alloy thin strip capable of realizing an excellent soft magnetic property for use in alternating current applications while keeping a high magnetic flux density even in a composition range with a high Fe content, and an Fe-based amorphous alloy thin strip with which a core having an excellent soft magnetic property can be manufactured, even if there occurs a temperature difference among different portions of the core during annealing. The present invention is an Fe-based amorphous alloy thin strip having a high magnetic flux density, consisting of the main component elements of Fe, Si, B, C, and P and unavoidable impurities, characterized by having: a composition, in atomic %, of 82<Fe≦90, 2≦Si<4, 5<B≦16, 0.02≦C≦4, and 0.2≦P≦12; Bs of 1.74 T or more after annealing; B80 exceeding 1.5 T; and a low core loss of 0.12 W/kg or less.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2001Date of Patent: July 9, 2002Assignee: Nippon Steel CorporationInventors: Hiroaki Sakamoto, Yuichi Sato
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Patent number: 6413351Abstract: Provided is a magnetic core for transformers which is made at least in part of amorphous metal lamination layers. The lamination layers are coated on the edges with a low-stress, low-viscosity coating material which, when cured, becomes sufficiently rigid to support the lamination layers of amorphous material. The coating material can be applied to the entire edge surface of both sides of the core or only to select portions of the edges on either side. In either instance, the coating material is applied in a manner that allows built-in stresses to relax out before all the coating material is fully cured.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2000Date of Patent: July 2, 2002Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Ira Goldman, Terry W. Grant, Joseph K. Grote, Ralph L. Collins, Kirk Houser
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Publication number: 20020075121Abstract: The magnetic performance, rigidity and mechanical precision of an iron core assembly can be improved. A plurality of plate-shaped core segments are disposed in succession to form a plurality of first and second core members respectively. Edge portions of adjacent core segments of the first and second core members are coupled with each other. The first and second core members are alternately laminated one over another in such a manner that first inter-segment positions each defined between adjacent two first core segments of the first core member are offset from second inter-segment positions each defined between adjacent two second core segments of the second core member in a longitudinal direction of the first and second core members, with those edge portions of the respective first and second core segments which adjoin each other in a laminating direction in which the first and second core members are laminated being overlapped each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2002Publication date: June 20, 2002Inventors: Hiroyuki Akita, Yuji Nakahara, Nobuaki Miyake, Ken-Ichi Azuma, Takashi Anamura
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Patent number: 6407655Abstract: A wound core for a toroidal transformer has an improved shape, for example, circular or elliptic longitudinal ends in section, to properly attach a coil (toroidal winding) to the wound core. Therefore, the wound core allows a toroidal transformer that employs the wound core to achieve full performance, and improves the productivity of the toroidal transformers.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 1997Date of Patent: June 18, 2002Assignee: Kitamura Kiden Co., Ltd.Inventor: Fumio Kitamura
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Publication number: 20020067239Abstract: A transformer core comprises a plurality of segments of amorphous metal strips. Each of the segments comprises at least one packet of the strips. The packet comprises a plurality of groups of cut amorphous metal strips arranged in a step-lap joint pattern. Packets thus formed can have C-shape, I-shape or straight segment-shape configurations. Assembly of the transformer is accomplished by placing at least two of the segments together. Core manufacturing is simplified and core and coil assembly time is decreased. Stresses otherwise encountered during manufacture of the core are minimized and core loss of the completed transformer is reduced. Construction and assembly of large core transformers is carried out with lower stress and higher operating efficiencies than those produced from wound core constructions.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 1997Publication date: June 6, 2002Inventors: DAVID M, NATHASINGH, DUNG ANH NGO
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Publication number: 20020057185Abstract: An ignition coil for an internal combustion engine is mainly made up of a transformer part and a control circuit part and a connecting part, and the transformer part is made up of a iron core which forms an open magnetic path, magnets, a secondary spool, a secondary coil, a primary spool and a primary coil. By respectively setting the cross-sectional area SC of the iron core between 39 to 54 mm2, the ratio of the cross-sectional area SM of the magnets with the cross-sectional area SC of the iron core in the 0.7 to 1.4 range, the ratio of the axial direction length LC of the iron core with the winding width L of the primary and secondary coils in the 0.9 to 1.2 range, and the winding width L in the 50 to 90 mm range, the primary energy produced in the primary coil can be increased without increasing the external diameter A of the case.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2001Publication date: May 16, 2002Inventors: Kazutoyo Oosuka, Masami Kojima, Keisuke Kawano
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Patent number: 6369687Abstract: The magnetic performance, rigidity and mechanical precision of an iron core assembly can be improved. A plurality of plate-shaped core segments are disposed in succession to form a plurality of first and second core members respectively. Edge portions of adjacent core segments of the first and second core members are coupled with each other. The first and second core members are alternately laminated one over another in such a manner that first inter-segment positions each defined between adjacent two first core segments of the first core member are offset from second inter-segment positions each defined between adjacent two second core segments of the second core member in a longitudinal direction of the first and second core members, with those edge portions of the respective first and second core segments which adjoin each other in a laminating direction in which the first and second core members are laminated being overlapped each other.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 1999Date of Patent: April 9, 2002Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroyuki Akita, Yuji Nakahara, Nobuaki Miyake, Ken-Ichi Azuma, Takashi Anamura
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Patent number: 6369686Abstract: A resolver having a first winding core with a first set of core plates that are laminated to each other and that have a plurality of winding spaces with winding openings that are larger than the diameter. A primary winding wire wound on the first winding core, wherein the winding openings of the first set of core plates are larger in diameter than the diameter of the primary winding wire. A second winding core comprising a second set of core plates that are laminated to each other and that have a plurality of winding spaces with winding openings. A secondary winding wire wound on the second winding core, wherein the winding openings of the second set of core plates are larger in diameter than the diameter of the secondary winding wire. The first set of core plates are rotated with respect to each other in such a way that the remaining total winding opening of the first winding core is less than the diameter of the primary winding wire.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2000Date of Patent: April 9, 2002Assignee: LTN Servotechnik GmbHInventor: Gerhard Pielok
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Patent number: 6353378Abstract: An ignition coil for an internal combustion engine is mainly made up of a transformer part and a control circuit part and a connecting part, and the transformer part is made up of a iron core which forms an open magnetic path, magnets, a secondary spool, a secondary coil, a primary spool and a primary coil. By respectively setting the cross-sectional area SC of the iron core between 39 to 54 mm2, the ratio of the cross-sectional area SM of the magnets with the cross-sectional area SC of the iron core in the 0.7 to 1.4 range, the ratio of the axial direction length Lc of the iron core with the winding width L of the primary and secondary coils in the 0.9 to 1.2 range, and the winding width L in the 50 to 90 mm range, the primary energy produced in the primary coil can be increased without increasing the external diameter A of the case.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 1995Date of Patent: March 5, 2002Assignee: NippondensonInventors: Kazutoyo Oosuka, Masami Kojima, Keisuke Kawano
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Patent number: 6337616Abstract: An ignition coil for an internal-combustion engine has satisfactory electrical insulation capacity and is excellent in reliability and durability. The ignition coil for an internal-combustion engine comprises a primary bobbin on which a primary coil is wound, a secondary bobbin on which a secondary coil is wound, and a center core. The area of a cross section of the center core perpendicular to an axis of the coils at a position on the inner side of the opposite ends of the center core is a maximum.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 1999Date of Patent: January 8, 2002Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takanori Sato, Ryozo Takeuchi
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Patent number: 6335673Abstract: The current transformer comprises a magnetic circuit and a secondary winding. The magnetic circuit is formed by stacked metal plates. Each plate comprises a cut-out without an air-gap. The magnetic circuit comprises a fixed first part enabling the secondary winding to be received and a flexible second part able to be momentarily deformed. The current transformer is advantageously used in protection relays and electronic trip devices of circuit breakers.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 1997Date of Patent: January 1, 2002Assignee: Schneider Electric SAInventors: Pascal Houbre, Claude Rubbo
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Patent number: 6328025Abstract: An ignition coil having a core with a first leg and a second leg, a first primary winding arranged over the first leg, a second primary winding arranged over the second leg, a first secondary winding arranged over the first primary winding, a second secondary winding arranged over the second primary winding, and a spark plug terminal electrically connected to one end of the second secondary winding. The first primary winding is connected in series to the second primary winding. The first secondary winding is connected in series to the second secondary winding. The core is of a laminated steel construction. The first and second secondary windings are progressively wound in multiple layers over respective bobbins.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2000Date of Patent: December 11, 2001Inventor: Thomas C. Marrs
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Patent number: 6320492Abstract: A transformer comprising: a coil bobbin which includes a pair of core winding portions and a pair of coupling portions for coupling the core winding portions so as to space the core winding portions a predetermined distance from each other and is formed, on its whole outer periphery, with a groove; a winding which is obtained by winding a conductor around the groove of the coil bobbin a predetermined number of times; and a pair of wound cores each of which is obtained by winding an electromagnetic steel plate around each of the core winding portions of the coil bobbin a predetermined number of times; wherein an outer peripheral surface of each of opposite side walls of the groove at the core winding portions is curved so as to have an arcuate cross-sectional shape.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 1999Date of Patent: November 20, 2001Assignees: WB Transformer Corporation, Nishimoto Gosei Hanbai Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tokutaro Kubomura, Shiro Kokura
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Patent number: 6313727Abstract: The invention relates to a current transformer for three-phase systems and it used to detect currents, for example with three-phase current meters or electronic devices which trigger low voltage protection breakers. The invention aims at developing a current transformer that can be produced and fixed in a simple and low cost fashion and permitting to measure total current. Therefore, four mutually spaced apart, parallel, identical cylindrical conversion coils (4-7) are provided. In each case, a three-phase current lead (1, 2, 3) runs between two conversion coils (4-5, 5-6, 6-7) arranged adjacent and substantially normal to their longitudinal axes (10). Conversion coils (4-7) are held headwise through two low coercivity yokes (8, 9) extending in their longitudinal axes plane.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2000Date of Patent: November 6, 2001Assignee: Moeller GmbHInventor: Rupprecht Gabriel
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Patent number: 6299989Abstract: The present invention relates to a high stack factor amorphous metal transformer core, and to a process for constructing a high stack factor amorphous metal transformer core. The process uses high lamination factor amorphous metal ribbon (the term lamination factor is generally used to express the smoothness and uniformity of the ribbon, whereas the term stack factor is applied to cores made from ribbon); that is, amorphous metal ribbon with a highly smooth surface and a highly uniform thickness as measured across the ribbon width. High stack factor amorphous metal ribbon can be efficiently packed, by winding or stacking operations, into compact transformer core shapes. The transformer core can then be clamped, to further reduce overall dimensions, and annealed, to relieve residual mechanical stresses and to generate a desired magnetic anisotropy, without detriment to the final magnetic properties.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 1999Date of Patent: October 9, 2001Assignee: AlliedSignal Inc.Inventors: Nicholas De Cristofaro, Richard L. Bye, Jr., Dung A. Ngo, Michael L. Briggs
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Patent number: 6294974Abstract: In a first embodiment, an ignition coil includes a disk-shaped primary coil section having a primary coil winding wound thereon and a disk-shaped secondary coil section having a secondary coil winding wound thereon, the primary coil section and secondary coil section facing each other. A core of each winding is aligned with each other to form a coil member. The coil member has a thickness parallel to the thickness direction of the primary and secondary coil sections of from about 10 mm to about 25 mm. The coil member has radial core sections installed on its lower and upper surfaces and is accommodated inside a case member and fixed to the case member by insulation resin injected into the case member. In a second embodiment, a coil winding is wound between upper and lower flange portions of a primary coil winding seat. The axial width of the coil winding is substantially equal to the interval between the pair of flanges.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 1999Date of Patent: September 25, 2001Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventor: Koji Fukumoto
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Patent number: 6232865Abstract: A tubular core (6) for a controllable inductor with a main winding (1) surrounding the core and a control winding (7) passing substantially axially through the core. The core (6) is capable of receiving a magnetic flux from the main winding (1) running substantially axially therethrough and having a plurality of core rings (8) stacked co-axially on top of each other and connected to a rigid unit. The core rings (8) are connected to each other forming a walled construction. The core (6) also has an inner envelope (18) with an outer cross-section that is substantially equal to the inner cross-section of the core ring walled construction. The walled construction has joints (16) between the core rings (8) in an axial direction which are overlapped by a part of the envelope (18).Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 1997Date of Patent: May 15, 2001Assignee: Asea Brown Boveri ABInventors: Gunnar Zinders, Tommy Holmgren, Björn Sandin, Stefan Valdemarsson, Dan Elofsson, Olle Ekwall
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Patent number: 6218926Abstract: A magnetic core assembly and method of assembling a magnetic core assembly. The core assembly includes laminated magnetic core tightly clamped together by a pair of unitized flanged clamps. Each unitized flanged clamp has a generally flat surface and a peripheral flange. The generally flat surface defines at least one opening for receiving a coil and a number of holes adjacent the opening for receiving assembly hardware. The core is assembled by placing a first one of the two unitized flanged clamps, flange down on a generally horizontal work surface. Alignment pins are placed in one or more of the assembly hardware apertures adjacent the coil opening. The segments of the first core lamination are slidably placed on the alignment pins such that they lie on the flat surface of the first unitized flange clamp. The segments of each remaining core lamination are slidably placed on the alignment pins until the required number of laminations have been installed.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 1998Date of Patent: April 17, 2001Assignee: Square D CompanyInventor: Scott Edwards May
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Patent number: 6218927Abstract: A stacked magnetic transformer core is disclosed with center leg curvilinear S-joints for reducing losses and for minimizing waste or scrap material during the manufacture of the laminations.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 1999Date of Patent: April 17, 2001Assignee: ABB Power T&D Company Inc.Inventor: Vladimir Segal
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Patent number: 6210596Abstract: A magnetic ceramic composition containing ferrite serving as a primary component and a sintering aid. The composition can be sintered at low temperature. The sintering aid contains about 2-45 mol % Li2O; about 5-40 mol % RO, with R being at least one of Ba, Sr, Ca, and Mg; and about 30-70 mol % (Ti, Si)O2 with SiO2 accounting for at least about 15 mol %. The resultant composition provides inductor elements in which migration of inner conductors is suppressed, and insulation deterioration and increase of direct-current resistance is restrained.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 1998Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiko Takenaka, Tatsuru Takaoka
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Patent number: 6175293Abstract: A planar inductor has a spiral coil, insulating layers stacked on both surfaces of the spiral coil, and ferromagnetic layers stacked on the insulating layers, wherein each ferromagnetic layer has a saturation magnetization 4&pgr;MS of 10 kG or more, and a thickness of 100 &mgr;m or less.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 1993Date of Patent: January 16, 2001Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Michio Hasegawa, Masashi Sahashi
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Patent number: 6165626Abstract: A laminated magnetic core assembly and method of manufacture having at least one notch formed along opposite sides of a strip material from which the laminations are formed. The notches on the opposite sides of the strip are punched out and separated from each other by a fixed distance. The notches minimize the amount of scrap material by avoiding the need for increasing the width of the strip from which a narrower strip having precision cut sides is formed.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 1993Date of Patent: December 26, 2000Assignee: Philips Electronics North America CorporationInventor: Valeriu Bularca
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Patent number: 6144282Abstract: A high voltage transformer having radiation ribs has a laminated core formed of a plurality of accumulated iron plates, first and second windings wound in the laminated core for converting an input voltage to a predetermined output voltage, and a plurality of radiation ribs formed in the accumulated direction of the plurality of iron plates on the outer periphery of the laminated core. The plurality of radiation ribs are formed as the plurality of iron plates are accumulated, by the accumulation of a plurality of protrusion portions formed along each of the plurality of iron plates. Since the radiation ribs are formed on the outer periphery and in the accumulated direction of the laminated core, all the iron plates constituting the laminated core have the same shape and are disposed in the same direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 1999Date of Patent: November 7, 2000Inventor: Chea-how Lee
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Patent number: 6118366Abstract: A method of securing a core of an electromagnetic device to a housing assembly is provided. The core includes a stack of a plurality of laminations. Each of the laminations has a plurality of apertures extending therethrough which cooperate to define a plurality of apertures through the core. The core has generally planar ends. The housing assembly includes first and second housing portions constructed and arranged to receive the core. Each housing portion has first and second opposing surfaces with the first surface defining a generally planar contact surface. Each housing portion includes a recess extending inwardly from the contact surface and a plurality of apertures extending from the first surface to the second surface. The apertures in the housing portions are disposed at locations corresponding to locations of the apertures in the core.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 1998Date of Patent: September 12, 2000Assignee: Siemens Automotive CorporationInventors: Dennis Bulgatz, Robert W. McFarland
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Patent number: 6118363Abstract: This element comprises a winding (4, 5) wound on a rectilinear magnetic core formed by various ferrite rods (1, 2, 3) placed side by side as in a bundle, and the winding is wound partly in one direction (9) and partly in the other (10). Application: Cable television distribution.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 1999Date of Patent: September 12, 2000Assignee: U.S. Philips CorporationInventors: Pierre Chanteau, Hubert Paquet
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Patent number: 6100783Abstract: A hybrid transformer core assembly having a first leg having a first end and a second end, a second leg having a first end and a second end, and opposing first and second yokes coupling the first and second legs to the first and second yokes to create a closed core. The first leg and second legs are made of a plurality of packets of laminations having a high grain orientation, and the first and second yokes are made of a plurality of packets of laminations having a lower grain orientation than the material of the first and second legs. Alternating laminations of the first and second legs are staggered to alternately extend beyond adjacent laminations of the respective leg at first and second ends thereof. A portion of the laminations of the first and second legs which extend beyond adjacent laminations of the first and second legs, respectively, overlaps portions of alternating laminations of the yokes and couples with notches of alternating laminations of the yokes.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 1999Date of Patent: August 8, 2000Assignee: Square D CompanyInventors: Philip J. Hopkinson, Wesley W. Schwartz
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Patent number: 6094125Abstract: A thin plate stack assembly formed by stacking a plurality of metallic thin plates and connecting the thin plates to one another, wherein each thin plate comprises a slit and formed leaf which is formed by press working to downwardly slit and form a partial area which is surrounded by an outer edge which is a part of the outer periphery of a thin plate, side edges extending by a certain length toward the inside from both ends of the outer edge, and an inner edge connecting the inside ends of the side edges to each other, and which is bent obliquely downward from said thin plate at the location of said inner edge. The side edges are cut from the thin plate, and a slit and formed hole formed behind the slit and formed leaf, and the slit and formed leaf of each thin plate is inserted into the slit and formed hole in a thin plate disposed just under the thin plate in force fitting for connecting the upper and lower thin plates to each other.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 1999Date of Patent: July 25, 2000Assignee: Wako Seiki Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kunio Ito
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Patent number: 6094124Abstract: Ballast for a discharge lamp, which can make a sustained power supply to the discharge lamp, and method and apparatus for manufacturing the same, are disclosed. The ballast having a core assembly (4) with one pair of stacks of a plurality of cores (3) symmetrically inserted into a bobbin (2) wound with copper wire (1), and the ballast including one retainer (9) for surrounding and fixing the entire core assembly (4).Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 1998Date of Patent: July 25, 2000Inventor: Kyung-Soo Lee
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Patent number: 6060978Abstract: Size constraints imposed by riveting of the laminations of a sensing core transformer that cost constraint imposed through the use of adhesive in assembling laminations together in a sensing core along with the use of additional fasteners are eliminated through the use of two lamination assemblies, that are interference fitted at complementary surfaces to form a series of lamination assemblies to which a coil assembly may be applied. Individual laminations may be held together by stake holding structure.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 1998Date of Patent: May 9, 2000Assignee: Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc.Inventor: Terry Lynn Marquardt
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Patent number: 6052048Abstract: Plane sheets which have the same shape as the magnetic circuit and are relatively movable along their contact surface are arranged in a stack. The stack is grasped and part of the circuit is bent out of alignment with the plane of the sheets to enable a coil to be placed on a portion of the circuit which is next to the air gap, whereafter said part is bent back into alignment with said sheets.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 1995Date of Patent: April 18, 2000Assignee: Liaisons Electroniques-Mecaniques Lem S.A.Inventor: Pierre Cattaneo
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Patent number: 6049264Abstract: A core assembly for an electromagnet includes a plurality of stacked laminations extending along a stacking axis. The laminations each having generally the same thickness in a direction along the stacking axis. A solid core member has opposing ends. The core member is disposed generally centrally with respect to the plurality of stacked laminations such that each end of the core member contacts a lamination of the plurality of laminations. The core member has a thickness in a direction along the stacking axis substantially greater than the thickness of a lamination. The core member also has an aperture therethrough disposed generally perpendicular to the stacking axis for receiving a shaft of an armature assembly.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 1998Date of Patent: April 11, 2000Assignee: Siemens Automotive CorporationInventors: Hans J. Sailer, James A. Nitkiewicz
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Patent number: 6025770Abstract: An ignition coil having a transformer surrounding a cylindrical magnetic core. The transformer has a primary coil, to which a DC potential is applied in bursts and which generates a primary magnetic field, and a secondary coil, which retrieves induced electromotive force. An outer cylinder, surrounding the transformer, is also provided. At at least one end of the ignition coil at least one toroidal magnet is located. The inside and outside perimeters of the toroidal magnets have polarities which are opposite to each other. When a plurality of magnets is provided, they are nested inside one another between the magnetic core and the outer cylinder. The direction of the reverse biasing magnetic field generated by the magnet(s) is opposite to that of primary magnetic field generated by the primary coil. The foregoing construction provides a compact ignition coil which is efficient in operation and is capable of making effective use of the induced electromotive force generated.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 1998Date of Patent: February 15, 2000Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Noriya Okamoto, Shinichi Amano
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Patent number: 6014071Abstract: A choke coil for preventing harmonic distortions having a plurality of laminated iron core sheets formed into a core. A first coil is wound around a first limb of a first core, and a second coil is wound around a first limb of a second core. A third coil is wound around the second limb of both the first core and the second core, and the second core is disposed within the magnetic circuit of the first magnetic core. The iron core sheets have embossments formed on a front and back side for fitting the iron core sheets together. The embossments have longitudinal sides formed orthogonally to the direction of magnetic fluxes in the core, and may be inwardly inclined to face each other.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 1998Date of Patent: January 11, 2000Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuaki Onishi, Hidenori Uematsu, Tsunetsugu Imanishi, Munekazu Sato
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Patent number: 6005468Abstract: An amorphous transformer prevents deformation or deflection caused by the repulsion force between an outer coil and an inner coil and prevents formation of a one-turn-current through a reinforcement member and a coil frame. The amorphous transformer includes amorphous cores, an outer coil and an inner coil, a coil frame and a reinforcement member. The reinforcement member prevents the amorphous core from being deformed inward by the electromagnetic force of the coil, and the frame member and the reinforcement member prevents formation of an electrical closed-loop. Accordingly, the amorphous transformer core is protected from being damaged.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 1998Date of Patent: December 21, 1999Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Toshiki Shirahata, Masayuki Horiuchi, Katsutoshi Inagaki, Takayuki Yamazaki, Koji Yamanaka
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Patent number: 6002253Abstract: A probe for the detection of alternating magnetic fields has a highly permeable probe core (10) and a measuring winding (11) surrounding the probe core, with the measuring winding being put together of several coils (111, 112, 113) which are connected in series. In order to produce a probe which is suitable for the detection of extremely low-frequency alternating magnetic fields from a minimum distance commonly required for the detection of floating bodies that emit such alternating fields, the probe core (10) is put together from flat strips (16) of amorphous or microcrystalline magnetizable material with insulating strips (17) disposed in-between. The coils of the measuring winding (11) are configured as self-supporting coils, preferably as self-bonding wire coils, and surround the probe core (10) with almost no clearance.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 1997Date of Patent: December 14, 1999Assignee: STN Atlas Elektronik GmbHInventors: Wolfgang Bornhofft, Gerhard Trenkler