Abstract: An underground transmitter can be configured for use with a drill head and configured for wireless communication. The underground transmitter can include a control circuitry and a multi-coil antenna assembly. The control circuitry is configured for transmitting data associated with an operation of the drill head. The multi-core antenna can include an antenna core and a plurality of distinct wire coils. The plurality of distinct wire coils can be positioned proximate (e.g., around) the antenna core, with the distinct wire coils each having a different inductance associated therewith and thereby capable of transmitting in a separate frequency range. The control circuitry can be selectably coupled with the distinct wire coils to control which of the distinct wire coils are activated and thereby generating data signals at a given time.

Abstract: A device for sewage treatment including a reactor and a magnetic field generator. The reactor includes a water inlet at the upper end, a water outlet on the side wall, and a sludge outlet at the lower end. A stirrer and an aeration device are disposed in the reactor. The reactor is filled with magnetic powder and activated sludge. The magnetic field generator includes a magnetic field tester, an iron cover, a power supply, a transformer, and a spiral coil. The spiral coil loops around the outer surface of the reactor. The transformer, the spiral coil, and the power supply are connected in sequence. The iron cover surrounds the periphery and the bottom of the reactor, and the magnetic field tester is disposed within the reactor. A method for sewage treatment using the device is also provided.

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.

Abstract: A trimmable inductor assembly is provided for optimal balancing of phase currents in a multi-phase resonant converter. A magnetic device includes first and second core portions defining an outer edge of the device having a first axis, and further defining a first air gap. A bracket is positioned proximate the outer edge of the device and a magnetic plate is coupled to the bracket, with the magnetic plate and the second core portion defining a second air gap. A positioning device is coupled to the bracket and is responsive to control signals based on a detected phase current imbalance to drive the bracket and the magnetic plate between a first position defining a minimum air gap for the assembly and a second position defining a maximum air gap for the assembly.

Abstract: Example methods include calculating a first number of turns of a shield winding included in an energy transfer element of a power supply. A first number of turns of the shield winding is calculated for the power supply to have a low noise current in an input conductor of the power supply. The method then includes increasing the first number of turns to a second number of turns. The power supply is then operated, which generates a first voltage waveform of a voltage between the input conductor and an output conductor of the power supply. An impedance is then inserted between the shield winding and the input conductor. The noise current is reduced by adjusting a value of the impedance until a second voltage waveform of the voltage between the input conductor and the output conductor reverses polarity to be the opposite of a polarity of the first voltage waveform.

Abstract: A variable inductor is provided. The variable inductor includes a dielectric core having a helical thread on an outer surface thereof for receiving the coil, and a non-magnetic element positioned coaxially within the core. The non-magnetic element could be provided in the form of a bushing or a solid rod, and could be manufactured from any suitable, non-magnetic metal, such as copper, brass, etc.

Abstract: A method includes calculating a number of turns of a shield winding included in an energy transfer element of a power supply, where the calculating is to have a low noise current in an input conductor of the power supply. The method further includes: increasing the number of turns for the shield winding; operating the power supply; and adjusting a value of a shield impedance to substantially reduce the noise current. An apparatus includes a power supply having an energy transfer element and a shield impedance. The energy transfer element includes a shield winding having an end terminated externally to the energy transfer element. The shield impedance is coupled between the externally terminated end of the shield winding and an input conductor of the power supply, where the shield impedance has a non-zero finite impedance value to substantially reduce a noise current in the input conductor.

Abstract: Disclosed is an integrated tunable inductor having mutual micromachined inductances fabricated in close proximity to a tunable inductor that is switched in and out by micromechanical ohmic switches to change the inductance of the integrated tunable inductor. To achieve a large tuning range and high quality factor, silver is preferably used as the structural material to co-fabricate the inductors and micromachined switches, and silicon is selectively removed from the backside of the substrate. Using this method, exemplary tuning of 47% at 6 GHz is achievable for a 1.1 nH silver inductor fabricated on a low-loss polymer membrane. The effect of the quality factor on the tuning characteristic of the integrated inductor is evaluated by comparing the measured result of substantially identical inductors fabricated on various substrates. To maintain the quality factor of the silver inductor, the device may be encapsulated using a low-cost wafer-level polymer packaging technique.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a coil (1) having a plurality of turns (2). The characteristic feature of the invention is that the turns (2) include a magnetic material or the turns (2) have an outer layer for carrying an electric current and have a magnetic material in their interior.

Abstract: A tunable inductor is disclosed. The tunable inductor comprises a helical or spiral inductor formed on a semiconductor substrate having an input and an output. The helical inductor has a full length that provides a full inductance. Also, a full inductance switch is disposed between the output and the full length of the helical inductor. Finally, at least one microelectromechanical (MEMS) switch is disposed between the output and an intermediate location of the helical inductor.

Abstract: A current variable inductor having closed loop characteristics and a horizontal linearity compensation circuit. The current variable inductor having the closed loop characteristics is constructed with the legs of the first E-shaped core and the legs of the second E-shaped core extend toward each other, an I-shaped core is arranged between the first E-shaped core and the second E-shaped core such that the I-shaped core is in contact with the first E-shaped core, and the I-shaped core is spaced apart from the second E-shaped core. A primary coil is wound around a center leg of the first E-shaped core and a secondary coil is wound around a center leg of the second E-shaped core. A magnetic flux generated from the primary coil is cut due to the magnetic resistance characteristics of the I-shaped core to vary the inductance of the secondary coil, to thereby form enclosed loops of magnetic flux inside the first and second E-shaped cores, respectively.

Abstract: An article comprising a micro-machined, passively self-assembling inductor is disclosed. The inductor is fabricated using MEMS technology and advantageously utilizes materials compatible with CMOS such that inductor is monolithically integrable with a CMOS chip. The inductor includes passive self-assembly means by which the inductor loop is moved away from an underlying substrate, typically silicon, in the final steps of inductor assembly. Such passive self-assembly does not require separate actuation or monitoring steps.

Abstract: A differential transformer is provided comprising an elongated bobbin having primary and secondary coils wound about separated sections. A ferromagnetic armature is movably disposed within a core of the bobbin for movement between the separated sections. A tube of electrically conducting material surrounds the bobbin core. The tube is formed of a material whose resistance varies with temperature in the same manner as the primary coil.

Abstract: A position sensor includes of two primary sense windings for establishing a forward or drive field, two secondary sense windings in which a voltage may be induced in the presence of the drive field, and at least one conductive screen capable of blocking the magnetic coupling between the primary and secondary sense windings. When the screen blocks the magnetic coupling between one pair of sense windings to the same extent that ti does between the other pair of sense windings, the sensor circuitry generates a marker signal to indicate the position of the screen.

Abstract: A variable inductance transducer includes a winding which is wound about a cylindrical former and a tubular member formed from electrically conductive material which is located about the winding and is movable axially relative thereto. The tubular member is provided with a number of apertures along its length in order to improve the linearity of the transducer.

Abstract: A tuning coil assembly includes an adjustable coil wound on a bobbin around which is placed a plastic coil support sleeve. The sleeve provides protection for the coil and aids in adjustment of a tuning slug inside the coil by an automatic alignment fixture. The plastic coil support sleeve is coated with a thin metallic layer or alternately impregnated with metallic particles to provide electromagnetic radiation shielding for the coil. The combination of the sleeve for both coil adjustment and electrical shielding permits placement of the coil assembly on a smaller area of a circuit board than would be possible with a separate metal shield can.

Abstract: An induction device comprises a winding support with a base having connection points. The upper side of the base carries a centering member having an exterior surface that defines either a cylindrical or conical surface co-axial with the cylindrical central portion of a core. A winding is provided about the central portion of the core. The core has a non-circumferentially or rotationally symmetrical upper flange. A ferromagnetic adjusting core in a form of a cap is arranged over the core that carries the coil, the portion of the cap facing the base having internally a shape a radial dimensions corresponding to the cylindrical or conical surface of the centering member. The cap encloses the centering member with a close fit, so that the adjusting core is rotatable about the axis of the core that carries a winding. The portion of the adjusting core adjacent to the upper flange portion of the core that carries a winding is also non-circumferentially (i.e., rotationally) symmetrical.

Abstract: An a-c current sensor for measuring the current which flows in a conductor has an insulating frame having a central compartment open at its upper end and encompassed by a U-shaped receptacle for a bent portion of the conductor. A coil is housed in the central compartment. The frame is slidingly mounted within a sleeve made of a soft magnetic material and having two assembled half-shells. The voltage generated by the current across the coil is proportional to the intensity of current flow.

Abstract: In a high frequency coil device including a drum core having a lower flange and a shield casing to be securely attached thereto, lugs are provided at the lower ends of a pair of opposing side walls of the shield casing; grooves are formed in a pair of opposing side walls of the lower flange; and the lower ends of those side walls of the shield casing which are provided with the lugs are located at a higher level than the lower ends of the remaining side walls of the shield casing which are provided with no lugs. The lugs are disposed in engagement with the aforementioned grooves and bent into contact with the lower flange. The lower ends of the side walls provided with the lugs are disposed in abutment with the upper surface of the lower flange, and inner surface portions, adjacent to the lower ends, of the side walls provided with no lugs are disposed in engagement with the other opposing side walls of the lower flange.

Abstract: A helical resonator filter comprising two or more helical coils is provided with a conductive coupling element between the helical coils for modifying the filter bandwidth. A coupling element is a conductor and is positioned in the maximum of the electrical field at the open end of the helical coils or at the maximum of the magnetic field at the grounded end of the coils, or both thereby creating controlled change in capacitive (electrical) or inductive (magnetic) coupling, respectively. A block of suitable dielectric with grooves for receiving the coupling element and the ribs on the inside of a conductive cover can be used to center the coupling element and the whole filter assembly structure when the cover is put in place and clamps the block securely to the base of the filter. Additional coupling elements can be used in a similar manner as above when additional helical coils are used in a filter.

Abstract: A displacement-measuring transducer has a laminar member displaceable, for example under control of a vacuum actuator, within a housing containing respective pairs of coils spaced part in the displacement direction of the laminar member, which is provided with two apertures spaced apart in the said direction, such that the coupling between the coils of each pair is dependent upon the position of said apertures and, therefore, on the displacement of the laminar member.

Abstract: An inductive transducer intended, according to the invention, for converting the displacement of mechanical objects into an electric signal, comprising primary and secondary coils with cores, connected to one of mutually moving mechanical objects. The coils are arranged one opposite the other with a gap, wherein a main screen connected to the other moving object and at least one auxiliary screen are located. The auxiliary screen is set movably in a plane parallel to the main screen. The inductive transducer of this invention permits obtaining a functional relationship between the output signal and two or more displacements of mechanical objects, and thereby enables the relationship, including the slope thereof, to be controlled by simple means.

Abstract: An induction-type meter for measuring mechanical quantities, comprising a first converter to convert the controlled parameter into a displacement and having elements adapted to be moved relative to each other, and a second converter to convert the displacement into an electric signal and including a magnetic circuit with a block of coils mounted on one of the elements capable of relative movement, and a diamagnetic screen mounted on the other element capable of relative movement. The magnetic circuit is embodied as a closed-open loop system comprised of two parallel parts formed by armored cores mounting said coils and arranged to provide a gap accommodating said diamagnetic screen with profiled working edges.

Abstract: An orthogonal coil metal detector with nesting rectangular coils, each comprising a plurality of turns encapsulated in an insulating material and having a layer of electrical resistive material thereon. An encapsulating material in the gap between the coils bonding the coils together. A fixture for supporting the coils in spaced relations and providing for translation and rotation of one coil relative to the other for adjusting the coil position to a minimum coupling condition, and for holding the coils in the adjusted condition during curing.