Patents Examined by Susan A. Steward
  • Patent number: 4456900
    Abstract: A high frequency coil including an inductance device formed by fitting a pair of electrode caps at both ends of a ferrite magnetic core wound by a winding on a peripheral surface of the core; a heat resistant electric insulating coated layer formed on the peripheral surface of the inductance device and a heat resistant electric insulating resilient tube fitted onto the peripheral surface of the coated inductance device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 26, 1984
    Assignees: TDK Electronics Co., Ltd., NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yohtaro Toyoshima, Yasuhiro Sasaki, Minoru Uchida
  • Patent number: 4456899
    Abstract: Method and device of utilizing, through heat exchanger or heat pump provided in addition to a normal cooling system, heat due to energy loss in a coil device, such as a transformer or a choke coil having a liquid-cooled interior, which includes throttling the normal cooling system so as to set a difference between the temperature of the interior liquid coolant, at a location under a casing cover of the coil device, and a maximum permissible temperature for a normal useful life of insulation for the coil winding so that the temperature of the inner coolant is lower when the coil device is under full load than when it is under partial load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 26, 1984
    Assignee: Transformatoren Union AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Matthes, Heinz Ubl
  • Patent number: 4453150
    Abstract: This induction winding includes a magnetic core formed by a vertical stack of iron disks separated by air gaps. The disks (8) include a plurality of sector-shaped portions (1) each of which is constituted by a succession of magnetic laminations (6), a first part (12,13) of these laminations are all of identical length and a second part (14) are of regularly decreasing length from one lamination to the next. The direction (F.sub.1) in which the laminations are rolled in the mill is perpendicular to the axis (7) of the winding. The increased magnetic loss that this causes is compensated by the improved filling coefficient that can then be readily obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 5, 1984
    Assignee: Alsthom-Atlantique
    Inventors: Gerard Messe, Michel Faure, Marcel Ducombs
  • Patent number: 4449110
    Abstract: A device for chocking an inverted type current transformer when transported on its side.It comprises at least one jack (12) within the metal enclosure (1) but operable from outside the latter and disposed, during transportation of the transformer on its side, between the transport platform (36) and the magnetic core (8) of the current transformer to eliminate any cantilever loading.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 15, 1984
    Assignee: Alsthom-Atlantique
    Inventor: Jean C. Duchene
  • Patent number: 4447795
    Abstract: A laminated magnetic core characterized by an electromagnetic core having core legs which comprise elongated apertures and edge notches disposed transversely to the longitudinal axis of the legs, such as high reluctance cores with linear magnetization characteristics for high voltage shunt reactors. In one embodiment the apertures include compact bodies of microlaminations for more flexibility and control in adjusting permeability and/or core reluctance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 8, 1984
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy
    Inventors: John Sefko, Norman M. Pavlik
  • Patent number: 4445103
    Abstract: A rotary differential transformer is provided which has a constant amplitude output the phase angle of which varies with the angular displacement of a rotor. The rotor contains a pair of core segments of magnetic material which serve to couple portions of first and second primary coils to a secondary coil. The primary coils are connected to AC sources 90.degree. out of phase with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1983
    Date of Patent: April 24, 1984
    Assignee: Pickering & Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Jacob Chass
  • Patent number: 4443778
    Abstract: An adaptor for the connection of a low-voltage lamp to mains voltage has a housing with an assembly member which has a flange and a tubular part. The tubular part projects through an aperture in the housing and is connected to a lamp cap. The lamp cap and the flange retain the housing in position. A ring core transformer is present in the housing around the tubular part. The assembly member bears a lamp holder for a low voltage lamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 17, 1984
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventor: Jan A. C. Mewissen
  • Patent number: 4437082
    Abstract: Electrical inductive apparatus having a tank, an insulating and cooling liquid in the tank and an electrical winding structure immersed in the liquid, the liquid having a low vapor pressure and containing contaminants derived from various sources within the tank. Filter means associated with the liquid including a liquid recirculating device for degassing, demoisturizing, and filtering insoluble particles out of the liquid, whereby the liquid is decontaminated and upgraded in a continual process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 13, 1984
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.
    Inventors: Edward J. Walsh, Robert A. Kurz
  • Patent number: 4437083
    Abstract: A mounting device is disclosed which provides mechanical support and electrical insulation for a current transformer used in monitoring radio frequency signals in the neutral lead of a dynamoelectric machine. By encapsulating the current transformer in a rigid insulative apparatus with a central conductor passing therethrough, the transformer can be placed proximate the neutral bus of the dynamoelectric machine to avoid attenuation of the radio frequency signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 13, 1984
    Assignee: Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventor: Franklin T. Emery
  • Patent number: 4430632
    Abstract: A coupling mechanism is disclosed for coaxially connecting a pair of connectable components, such as a pair of transducer assemblies each having a stator. A coupling ring is carried by one stator and engageable with the other for drawing the stators together axially in response to relative rotation of the coupling ring. First friction mechanism between the stators prevent relative rotation between the stators after the stators are aligned angularly to align the electrical zeros thereof. Second friction mechanism of lesser coefficient of friction between the coupling ring and the one stator permit relative rotation therebetween whereby the stators can be finally coupled by further rotation of the coupling member while the first friction means maintains the stators in zero electrical alignment. Subsequently, locking washers are fastened between the coupling ring and stators to permanently lock the stators in relative aligned position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1984
    Assignee: MPC Products Corporation
    Inventor: Richard K. Carlson
  • Patent number: 4425511
    Abstract: A planar coil apparatus is disclosed for providing an output signal indicative of a movement between at least a first and a second position. A first stationary planar member has disposed on a surface, a first flat coil configuration which is emplaced thereon by a printed circuit or similar technique. Located adjacent to this coil on the board is a second coil of similar configuration. A drive signal such as that obtained from an AC or pulse source is applied to the input terminals of one of the coils which constitutes the drive coil. A second planar board is positioned relatively congruent and above the first board and has located thereon a closed coil configuration which constitutes a closed coil loop. As this movable board is brought into proximity with the stationary board, magnetic flux is coupled via the loop from the drive coil to the second coil which serves as the sense coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1984
    Inventor: Amnon Brosh
  • Patent number: 4424502
    Abstract: A transformer with a controlled flow of cooling liquid has a pressure chamber (10) which, via a hydraulic connecting member (14), is connected to a circulating pump which is included in a cooling circuit arranged outside a transformer tank (1). The connecting member (14) has a cavity (19), which is substantially formed as a rotational paraboloid, whereby an inlet tube (21), arranged at one end of said cavity and tangentially thereto, is connected to the circulating pump. One end of the member (14) is directly connected to the pressure chamber (10), whereas the other end of said member is connected to a cooling liquid collecting chamber (13) positioned outside the pressure chamber and defined by the transformer tank. (FIG. 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1984
    Assignee: ASEA Aktiebolag
    Inventors: Kenneth Kullinger, Mats Mattsson
  • Patent number: 4422061
    Abstract: In the conventional stacking method of the laminated core of a transformer, grain-oriented silicon steel sheet pieces of an identical grade or the identical magnetic properties are used as legs and yokes of the core. In a highly oriented silicon steel sheet having a high B.sub.8 value due to excellent magnetic properties in the rolling direction of the sheet, the excellent magnetic properties cannot be fully utilized for the watt loss reduction in the conventional stacking method. In a laminated core of the present invention, the transformer core comprises a grain-oriented silicon steel sheet having a higher orientation used for a leg(s) and a grain-oriented silicon steel sheet having a lower orientation used for a yoke(s). The former steel has the B.sub.8 value of generally 1.88 Tesla or higher and preferably 1.89 Tesla or higher. The latter steel has the B.sub.8 value of generally 1.86 Tesla or lower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1983
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Takaaki Yamamoto, Yoshihiro Ohya
  • Patent number: 4419645
    Abstract: A one-half turn inductor is formed in a mold having a series of spaced ribs forming grooves therebetween, a U-shaped coil has its bight portion positioned in a selected one of the grooves corresponding to the inductance value of the inductor with the legs of the coil projecting beyond the cavity. Plastic is introduced into the cavity to create a coil form with the coil embedded in the plastic. The ribs and grooves form an inspection window consisting of spaced parallel rungs, one of said rungs being an exposed segment of the coil, the remainder being plastic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1983
    Assignee: Standex International Corporation
    Inventor: Robert D. Lennon
  • Patent number: 4415873
    Abstract: A variable inductance includes a coil and a moveable contactor which maintains continuous contact with the coil. An electrical connection, which is moveable along with the moveable contactor and away from a first end of the coil, connects the moveable contactor with further contact means positioned remote from the first end of the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1982
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1983
    Assignee: Rockwell International Corporation
    Inventors: Jack C. Thornton, Randy G. Russell
  • Patent number: 4412198
    Abstract: A rotary transformer such as for use in a torque-meter structure arranged to have reduced cross talk between the excitation and signal transformer portions, and to have improved durability. In the illustrated embodiment, the air gaps of the transformer section are disposed outboard relative to each other, with the U-shaped cores opening away from each other toward outboard support bearings to provide a circuitous flux path and thereby reduce cross talk between the transformer sections. A two-piece housing structure minimizes dimensional errors in manufacture. The rotor support has a large axial mounting contact for improved accuracy and stability as a result of the short length of the core housing the improved structural arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1983
    Assignee: S. Himmelstein and Company
    Inventor: Richard B. Reich
  • Patent number: 4412200
    Abstract: As part of a moveable carriage assembly, a plurality of trolley wheels are capable of being driven, in worm-gear fashion, along a coil which is rotatable about its axis. One end of the coil is conductive and the other end of the coil is preferably non-conductive. A further part of the traveling carriage assembly electrically interconnects a conductive trolley wheel with an electrical contact situated remote from one end of the coil. Multiple conductive wheels are electrically interconnected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1982
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1983
    Assignee: Rockwell International Corporation
    Inventors: Jack C. Thornton, Randy G. Russell
  • Patent number: 4408176
    Abstract: A flyback transformer includes a casing and a coil-block accommodated in the casing. The casing has a guide opening communicating between inside and outside of the casing. The coil-block has a tongue portion which is formed with an opening. A cap member made of brass is supported in the opening of the tongue portion with an opening of the cap member being in alignment with the guide opening. The outside of the cap member is electrically connected to a wire extending from the coil-block and inside the cap member fittingly receives a lead wire which has been inserted into the casing through said guide opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1983
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kengi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 4394635
    Abstract: The quantity of SF.sub.6 gas dissolved in a halogenated dielectric coolant used in transformers can be determined by heating a sample quantity of the sample gas coolant to the point of cavitation and comparing the temperature and pressure at which cavitation first appears to a graphic representation of the relationship between concentration, pressure and temperature to obtain the gas concentration from the observed temperature point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1981
    Date of Patent: July 19, 1983
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Stephen D. Foss
  • Patent number: 4390858
    Abstract: Liquid-cooled transformer for large power ratings, including a tank having a bottom, large-area base plates resting on the tank bottom, an active part and a pressure device fastened to the base plates, a plurality of synthetic resin-filled cups disposed in the tank bottom, a post supported by and projecting downward from the base plates being immersed in each of the cups for horizontally locking the base plates relative to the tank bottom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1983
    Assignee: Transformatoren Union Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Odilo Schulzer