Patents Examined by Shawki S. Ismail
  • Patent number: 12211636
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a coil component that includes a coil pattern provided on the substrate. The outer and inner shapes of the coil pattern are both larger in width in a first direction than a second direction. The outer shape of the coil pattern has a pair of first outer shape sections and a second outer shape section positioned between the pair of first outer shape sections in the first direction and having a width in the second direction larger than that of the first outer shape sections. The inner shape of the coil pattern has a pair of first inner shape sections and a second inner shape section positioned between the pair of first inner shape sections in the first direction and having a width in the second direction larger than that of the first inner shape sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Noritaka Chiyo, Takuya Yoshida
  • Patent number: 12211645
    Abstract: A solenoid actuator 1 includes: a coil 3; a first stator 10 that includes a first yoke 14 and a cylindrical guide 30 fixed to an inner peripheral side of the first yoke 14; a second stator 20 arranged to face the first stator 10 in an axial direction so as to form a magnetic path 4 around the coil 3 together with the first stator 10; and a mover 50 configured to move in the axial direction toward the second stator 20 from an original position radially inward of the first stator 10 by a magnetic force generated by energizing the coil 3. The cylindrical guide 30 includes: a magnetic tube 32 disposed in contact with an inner peripheral surface of the first yoke 14; and a non-magnetic layer 34 covering an inner peripheral surface of the magnetic tube 32. A minimum distance d1 between the second stator 20 and the magnetic tube 32 is greater than a minimum distance d2 between the second stator 20 and the mover 50 at the original position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: MIKUNI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiki Ogasawara, Hirofumi Saito
  • Patent number: 12211635
    Abstract: An arrangement to cool a coil, comprising an enclosure, which at least partially incorporates or houses the coil, and a device to create an airflow to cool the coil, wherein the coil comprises at least one cooling channel to guide the airflow through the windings of the coil and an outer air duct lying radially in the outer circumference area of the coil or lying radially inside below an outer part of the coil, characterized in that an air guidance plate is placed at or near one longitudinal end of the outer air duct and/or of the coil to prevent bypasses of the airflow and/or to block at least partially the airflow through and/or along the outer air duct, achieves the object to cool a coil, especially a coil of a transformer, in an efficient manner using space-saving means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: HITACHI ENERGY LTD
    Inventors: Yong Wang, Jens Tepper, Jiahua Weng
  • Patent number: 12211661
    Abstract: A switchgear assembly includes an indicator assembly to indicate whether a movable contact is in an open or a closed position. The indicator assembly includes an indicator body having first and second sections. The indicator body is rotatable to display the first section in the open position and the second section in the closed position. The indicator assembly also includes a drive gear having a first helical spline and coupled to an actuator of the switchgear assembly such that operation of the actuator moves the drive gear, and an elongated driven gear having a second helical spline extending along a length of the driven gear and engaged with the first helical spline of the drive gear such that movement of the drive gear rotates the driven gear. The driven gear is coupled to the indicator body such that rotation of the driven gear causes rotation of the indicator body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: G & W ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: James K. Simonelli, Sean G. Murphy, Arturas Dauksas, Blair S. Kerr
  • Patent number: 12211640
    Abstract: A multi-phase transformer includes a centrally-disposed first core, a plurality of second cores each provided outside the first core so as to constitute a loop-shaped magnetic path with respect to the first core, and a primary winding and a secondary winding wound on each of the second cores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takuya Maeda
  • Patent number: 12205743
    Abstract: A modularized transformer includes an annular iron core, a first module encircling the annular iron core, a second module encircling the first module, a third module encircling the second module, a fourth module encircling the third module, and a primary-side power supply line mounted on the fourth module and encircling the annular iron core. Thus, the modularized transformer has a modularized structure and includes multiple modules that are extended and increased to amplify the voltage or current continuously and to regulate the voltage or current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Inventor: Hsun-I Lin
  • Patent number: 12205742
    Abstract: In the wound inductor component, a flange is connected to a first end of a winding core in the central axial line direction, and protrudes from both sides of the winding core along a height direction. A cover member covers a portion from the upper end of the flange to the upper end of the winding core from above. In a sectional view including the central axial line and along the height direction, an area of a first region at an upwardly protruding portion of the flange defined by a boundary between the flange and the winding core, a straight line parallel to the central axial line and passing through the upper end of the flange, and a region surrounded by a portion of the surface of the flange is larger than an area of a similarly defined second region at a downwardly protruding portion of the flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Noboru Shiokawa
  • Patent number: 12205786
    Abstract: A direct current relay is disclosed comprising a pin member and a support member. The support member allows a housing for receiving a movable contactor and an upper yoke for attenuating electromagnetic repulsive power to be coupled to each other. The pin member passes through and is coupled to the support member and the movable contactor to prevent the movable contactor from being unintendedly separated. The support member passes through and is coupled to the housing and the upper yoke, and then extends toward the radial outside by receiving applied pressure which faces the radial outside. The pin member passes through and is coupled to the support member, and then extends toward the radial outside when the pressure is released. Therefore, a separate fastening member for coupling the pin member and the support member to the housing, the upper yoke, the movable contactor, and the like is not required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: LS ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jungwoo Yoo
  • Patent number: 12205755
    Abstract: An inductor structure includes a first connecting component, a second connecting component, and a center-tap terminal. In the inductor structure, a first port of the first connecting component is coupled to a first wire, and a second port of the first connecting component is coupled to a second wire. The second connecting component disposed above or beneath the first connecting component in an interlaced manner. The center-tap terminal is coupled to one of the first connecting component and the second connecting component. The center-tap terminal is disposed on a layer that is different from the layer where the first connecting component is disposed or the layer where the second connecting component is disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hsiao-Tsung Yen, Ka-Un Chan
  • Patent number: 12207387
    Abstract: Employing undulator devices as x-ray radiation sources requires expensive and bulky support systems for operation, which are not robust and lead to limited ranges of generated radiation energies. A force-compensated undulator device is described. The device includes an undulator having first and second magnet arrays disposed along a central axis. The first magnet array is translatable along the central axis. The device further includes a compensator unit disposed adjacent to the first magnet array with the compensator unit having a first row of magnets disposed along a compensator axis with the compensator axis being parallel to the central axis, and a second row of magnets disposed along the compensator axis. The first row of magnets is translatable along the compensator axis. The compensator provides magnetic forces that neutralize the system dynamic magnetic forces generated by the undulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Z. Xu, Maofei Qian, Alexander A. Zholents
  • Patent number: 12198881
    Abstract: An electromagnetic switch, including a driving apparatus and a contact apparatus. The contact apparatus includes a moving contact assembly, a chamber, and two spaced fixed contacts disposed on a top part of the chamber. The moving contact assembly includes an insulating part, a push rod, a moving contact, and an elastic part. One end of the push rod is mounted on the driving apparatus, and the other end of the push rod is mounted on the insulating part. The moving contact is mounted on one side that is of the insulating part and that is back to the push rod. The elastic part is clamped between the insulating part and the moving contact, so that the moving contact is in contact with or separated from the pair of fixed contacts under the action of the push rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaokang Tian, Taixian Chen, Fugao Zhao, Guangming Huang
  • Patent number: 12198847
    Abstract: An inductor includes a coil including a winding section in which a conductor having two opposite width surfaces is wound and extended sections extended from the winding section, an element body including a magnetic section in which the coil is embedded, the magnetic section including magnetic powder, and an outer electrode arranged on a surface of the element body and connected to the extended sections. The element body has first side surfaces opposite to each other. Each of the extended sections has a first zone approximately parallel with a corresponding one of the first side surfaces in one of the width surfaces of the conductor. The first zone is exposed from the first side surface and connected to the outer electrode. At least one of the extended sections includes a planar section meeting the first zone at an obtuse angle and extending to a tip of the extended section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasutaka Mizukoshi
  • Patent number: 12198842
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a magnetic assembly and a power supply apparatus. The magnetic assembly of the present disclosure includes: a first magnetic core, a plurality of windings, a housing and a second magnetic core, where the first magnetic core has a winding area, and the plurality of windings are wound with an interval on the winding area of the first magnetic core; the housing has an accommodating cavity, and at least part of the plurality of windings is accommodated in the accommodating cavity, and the second magnetic core is arranged between a cavity wall of the accommodating cavity and the plurality of windings. According to the present disclosure, parasitic parameters such as leakage inductance of the magnetic assembly are relatively stable, and the power supply efficiency is improved and higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Delta Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zengyi Lu, Haijun Yang, Shiwei Liu, Jinfa Zhang
  • Patent number: 12198854
    Abstract: A solenoid driving a shaft in a direction along a central axis includes a coil that generates magnetic flux and a magnetic container that accommodates the coil. The container has a side surface portion and a bottom portion. A plunger arranged inside the coil and sliding in a direction along the central axis to move the shaft, and a stator core are provided. The stator core has a plunger accommodating portion and a shaft accommodating portion that accommodates the shaft and attracts the plunger. The plunger accommodating portion has a cylindrical core portion that accommodates the plunger inside, and a flange portion that is provided radially outward at an end of the core portion on the bottom portion side and is welded to the bottom portion of the container. A ring core provided on the opposite side of the shaft accommodating portion to the plunger accommodating portion is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shodai Tomita, Kazuhiro Sasao, Masato Arai
  • Patent number: 12191095
    Abstract: An electromagnetic relay device includes a mover, a plunger, and a solenoid unit that causes the plunger to reciprocate. The mover includes a movable contact movable to abut onto or separate from a stationary contact. The plunger causes the mover to reciprocate to accordingly cause the movable contact to abut onto or separate from the stationary contact. A heat-resistant member is interposed between the insulator and the mover. The plunger enables indirect abutment onto the mover through the insulator and the heat-resistant member. A heat-resistant temperature of the heat-resistant member is set to be higher than that of the insulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, DENSO ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Komatsu, Hiroshi Nagura, Naoki Uejima
  • Patent number: 12183528
    Abstract: The electromagnetic relay includes a fixed terminal, a movable contact piece, a drive device, a contact case, at least one magnet, and at least one yoke. The fixed terminal includes a fixed contact. The movable contact piece includes a movable contact disposed to face the fixed contact. The drive device moves the movable contact piece in a direction in which the movable contact comes into contact with the fixed contact and in a direction in which the movable contact is separated from the fixed contact. The contact case is made of resin. The contact case houses the fixed contact and the movable contact piece. The at least one magnet is disposed around the contact case for generating a magnetic field inside the contact case. The at least one yoke is fixed to the contact case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohei Otsuka, Ryota Minowa, Hiroyuki Iwasaka, Hiroyuki Harimochi, Shinichi Ogawa, Naoki Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 12176134
    Abstract: A multilayer coil component includes an element body, a coil disposed in the element body, and an external electrode disposed in the element body and electrically connected to the coil. The element body includes a principal surface that is a mounting surface, and an end surface positioned adjacent to the principal surface and extending in a direction crossing to the principal surface. The external electrode includes an underlying metal layer and a conductive resin layer. The underlying metal layer is formed on the principal surface and the end surface. The conductive resin layer is formed to cover the underlying metal layer. A thickness of the conductive resin layer at an end positioned above the principal surface of the underlying metal layer is equal to or greater than 50% of a maximum thickness of a portion positioned above the principal surface of the conductive resin layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masashi Shimoyasu, Shinichi Sato, Seiichi Nakagawa, Mamoru Kawauchi, Shigetoshi Kinouchi, Mitsuru Ito, Yuto Shiga
  • Patent number: 12171340
    Abstract: A connection structure includes a first apparatus and a second apparatus. The first apparatus includes a first contact portion and a surrounding wall surface. The second apparatus includes a second contact portion and a hollow projection. The first apparatus and the second apparatus are connected as being rotatable relatively to each other around a magnetic force direction and attachable to and detachable from each other, as a result of attraction by magnetic force. The projection is located with a clearance being interposed between the wall surface and the first contact portion, where the projection can be tilted in accordance with pulling including a direction component perpendicular to the magnetic force direction. In the first apparatus, a clearance between a top portion and the projection in a first direction is larger than a clearance between the top portion and the projection in a second direction different from the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kensuke Morita, Noboru Wakitani, Masaki Amano, Tetsuji Kawamura
  • Patent number: 12176137
    Abstract: A coil component includes: a body having a first surface and a second surface opposing each other, and a side surface connecting the first surface and the second surface to each other; a support member disposed in the body; a coil unit disposed in the body and including a coil pattern disposed on the support member, and first and second lead patterns respectively extending from the coil pattern and exposed to the first surface of the body; a first insulating layer disposed on the first surface of the body and having first and second openings exposing at least a portion of the first and second lead patterns, respectively; and a second insulating layer covering the side surface of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Myoung Ki Shin, Ji Hoon Hwang
  • Patent number: 12177978
    Abstract: A circuit board includes a glass substrate having a first surface and a second surface facing away from the first surface; a first coil wiring pattern formed on the first surface and a second coil wiring pattern formed on the second surface, the first and second coil wiring patterns constituting part of a coil; a through hole extending through a predetermined portion of the glass substrate from an end of the first coil wiring pattern to an end of the second coil wiring pattern; a through hole inner conductive surface formed on the inner side of the through hole, the first and second coil wiring patterns and the through hole inner conductive surface constituting the coil wound around a direction perpendicular to an axis of the through hole and to a direction in which the first and second coil wiring patterns extend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jun Onohara