Patents Examined by Tsz Chan
  • Patent number: 9478349
    Abstract: Line conductors are provided on one principal surface of a magnetic layer, and line conductors are provided on the other principal surface of the magnetic layer. In addition, side conductors are provided on side surfaces of the magnetic layer to connect the line conductors in a coil shape. A non-magnetic layer is stacked at the one principal surface side of the magnetic layer, and a non-magnetic layer is stacked at the other principal surface side of the magnetic layer. Line conductors are provided within the non-magnetic layer, and line conductors are provided within the non-magnetic layer. Via-hole conductors are provided within the non-magnetic layer to connect the line conductors in parallel with the line conductors. In addition, via-hole conductors are provided within the non-magnetic layer to connect the line conductors in parallel with the line conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoya Yokoyama, Koki Nishimura
  • Patent number: 9466416
    Abstract: A multilayer inductor device in which parasitic inductance is made smaller while preventing increase in a mounting area of the device and complexity of a wiring pattern, and a manufacturing method of the stated multilayer inductor device. An outer electrode and a terminal electrode are connected to each other through a via hole. A side surface of a non-magnetic member forms a part of an end surface of the device, while the other side surface thereof being in contact with the via hole. A side surface of the via hole that makes contact with the non-magnetic member is opened, which prevents the parasitic inductance from being increased. The via hole being provided in an arbitrary position makes it possible to prevent the wiring pattern from being complicated and a mounting area of the device from being increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoya Yokoyama, Jyunichi Nanjyo
  • Patent number: 9455658
    Abstract: The invention relates to an on-load tap changer for switching among different winding taps of a step transformer without interruption. According to the invention, the selector contact unit (7) and the switching means (16, 17) for switching the load without interruption are jointly actuated without using an intermediate energy accumulator, by means of a threaded spindle (5) which is rotated by a drive motor (2) during a switching operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: MASCHINENFABRIK REINHAUSEN GMBH
    Inventors: Herbert Kammerl, Alfred Bieringer
  • Patent number: 9440378
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a planar board substrate for receiving a magnetic core. The method includes providing a cover layer having a layer side and providing a base layer having first and second sides. The base layer includes a material hole that extends completely through the base layer between the first and second sides. The method also includes coupling the cover and base layers to each other along the first side and the layer side. The cover layer extends over at least a portion of the material hole. The method also includes providing a dielectric member within the material hole, wherein a core-holding channel exists between the dielectric member and the base layer. The core-holding channel extends circumferentially around the dielectric member and is configured to have a magnetic core therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Sidharth Dalmia, William Lee Harrison
  • Patent number: 9424974
    Abstract: A dry-type electrical transformer includes a coil assembly having at least one winding wound into a plurality of concentric turns, at least one cooling sector defined between adjacent concentric turns, spacers positioned inside the cooling sector and spaced from each other to allow a plurality of air ducts each defined between two adjacent spacers, and at least one electrical shield positioned in the cooling sector and arranged to electrically shield the air ducts. At least one electrical shield is positioned in the cooling sector and arranged to electrically shield the air ducts. The electrical shield include a first end edge connected to the turn at the inner side of the cooling sector, a second end edge which is free and electrically insulated from the surrounding parts, and a central portion extending between the first and second end edges and is positioned at the outer side of the spacers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: ABB Technology AG
    Inventors: Carlos Roy, Rafael Murillo, Lorena Cebrian Lles
  • Patent number: 9424987
    Abstract: A three-phase/two-phase rotary transformer, includes a first single-phase rotary transformer and a second single-phase rotary transformer, the first transformer including a first body defining a first slot, a first coil in the first slot, a second body defining a second slot, and a second coil in the second slot, the second transformer including a third body defining a third slot, a third coil in the third slot, a fourth body defining a fourth slot, and a fourth coil in the fourth slot, wherein one terminal of the first coil is connected to the midpoint of the third coil, the first body, the first coil, the third body, and the third coil forming a three-phase portion of the transformer, the second body, the second coil, the fourth body, and said fourth coil forming a two-phase portion of the transformer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: LABINAL POWER SYSTEMS
    Inventor: Cedric Duval
  • Patent number: 9412511
    Abstract: A transformer includes a primary coil, a secondary coil, and a core. The core is to be used in combination with the primary coil or the secondary coil, and includes a conductor storage part and a central part. The conductor storage part is a concave recess formed in an annular manner and configured to store a conductor of the coil therein. The central part is a region inward from the conductor when the core is used in combination with the coil. The central part has a recessed shape having an opening that opens toward a direction opposite to a direction of an opening of the concave recess. The central part has an end, at a side opposite to a side of the opening of the central part, which is generally flat so as to be contiguous with an inner opening edge of the conductor storage part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Central Japan Railway Company
    Inventors: Daisuke Shimode, Toshiaki Murai, Tadashi Sawada
  • Patent number: 9406433
    Abstract: An air core reactor (47) including a plurality of concentric conductor winding packages (44, 46) wherein a force (F+) generated by the interaction of current (+) flowing through one package and a magnetic field (42) generated by the reactor is out of phase (F?) with a force generated in another package, thereby effectively mitigating audible sound generated by power operation of the reactor. In one embodiment (FIG. 3), the out of phase force may be generated when at least one winding (38c, 37d) of one package (38) is configured to conduct a current (?) that is at least 10 degrees out of phase with a current (+) conducted by another package (40) or other windings (38a, 38b) of the reactor (36).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: TRENCH LIMITED
    Inventors: Tom Chiu Hung Lau, Fabian Best, Terry Wai Cheong Wong, Willie Kim Fung Chan, Sean Alves, Thong Tong, Michael Sharp
  • Patent number: 9406419
    Abstract: A magnetic component, with a first and a second U/UR core (U1, U2) assembled to a first O-shaped core assembly, wherein an U/UR core has—according to its shape—a first post and a second post with free ends on one side and a leg connecting the first post and the second post on their other side, wherein the first and the second U/UR core (U1, U2) are assembled with their free ends abutting each other to form the first O-shaped core assembly. The free ends of a third U/UR core (U3) are abutting the outside of the first O-shaped core assembly on one side and that the free ends of a fourth U/UR core (U4) are abutting the outside of the first O-shaped core assembly on an opposite side. In another embodiment, the leg of a third U/UR core (U3) is abutting the outside of the first O-shaped core assembly, wherein the ends of a fourth U/UR core (U4) are abutting the ends of the third U/UR core (U3). In a further embodiment, the ends of a third U/UR core (U3) are abutting the outside of the first O-shaped core assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: DET INTERNATIONAL HOLDING LIMITED
    Inventors: Hugues Douglas Njiende T., Roland Robrecht, Jochen Mielke
  • Patent number: 9396863
    Abstract: A transformer, according to one possible embodiment, includes: a bobbin part formed by stacking a plurality of bobbins including external connection terminals; and coils respectively wound around the plurality of bobbins. At least one bobbin of the plurality of bobbins includes withdrawing grooves formed in a space between the external connection terminals, the respective coil wound around the at least one bobbin being withdrawn outside the bobbin via the withdrawing grooves and coupled to the external connection terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: SOLUM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Gen Eom, Myeong Sik Cheon, Deuk Hoon Kim, Sang Joon Seo, Geun Young Park
  • Patent number: 9373439
    Abstract: A transformer is configured to receive an input electrical signal at input nodes and supply an output electrical signal at output nodes. The transformer includes windings wound on the core between the input and output nodes. The windings define a signal path to transform the input electrical signal into the output electrical signal along the signal path. The transformer includes a first insulated conductive layer arranged between first and second windings configured to receive a first bias voltage. The transformer includes a second insulated conductive layer arranged spatially proximate to the first and second windings configured to receive a second bias voltage. The first and second insulated conductive layers form an electrostatic field that is based on a potential difference between the first and second bias voltages independent of the signal path. The windings are arranged to be within the formed electrostatic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: The Quest Group
    Inventor: Garth Judson Powell
  • Patent number: 9373440
    Abstract: A composite transformer with a longer creepage distance includes a primary winding rack and an insulation support rack mounted onto the primary winding rack. The insulation support rack includes a first insulation half shell and a second insulation half shell that have respectively a first encasing portion and a second encasing portion to encase the primary winding rack. The first and second encasing portions have respectively a first insulation portion and a second insulation portion, and a first isolating portion and a second isolating portion extended respectively from the first and second insulation portions. The first isolating portion has a first covering section extended towards the second isolating portion to cover the second isolating portion. The second isolating portion has a second covering section extended towards the first isolating portion to cover the first isolating portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: INNOTRANS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tsung-Han Chou
  • Patent number: 9368272
    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems described herein provide a shielded power coupling device, such as may be used to transfer electric power from a stator portion of a computed tomography (CT) apparatus to a rotor portion. The shielded power coupling device comprises a rotor portion and a stator portion, separated by an airgap, respectively comprising one or more windings and a core. The shielded power coupling device further comprises a fringe field mitigation element(s) (e.g., an electrically conductive wire) that is configured to carry an induced current that creates a magnetic field that mitigates, or substantially cancels, magnetic flux generated by current in the windings that escapes from the core near the core airgap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: ANALOGIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: John Dobbs
  • Patent number: 9368267
    Abstract: An inductor apparatus includes an inductor winding, a core defining a magnetic circuit for a magnetic flux generated by a current flowing through the inductor winding, at least one permanent magnet magnetically biasing the core by its permanent magnetization, and a magnetization device operable for adjusting a desired magnetization of the permanent magnet. The at least one permanent magnet is arranged within the magnetic circuit of the magnetic flux generated by the current flowing through the inductor winding. The magnetization device includes a magnetization winding and a circuitry configured to subject the magnetization winding to magnetization current pulses, thereby generating at a location of the permanent magnet a magnetic field which is able to change the permanent magnetization of the permanent magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: SMA SOLAR TECHNOLOGY AG
    Inventors: Michael Viotto, Klaus Rigbers, Jens Friebe, Peter Zacharias
  • Patent number: 9368270
    Abstract: A planar transformer assembly, for use in charging capacitors of an ICD, includes windings arranged to minimize voltage across intervening dielectric layers. Each secondary winding of a preferred plurality of secondary windings is arranged relative to a primary winding, in a hierarchical fashion, such that the DC voltage, with respect to ground, of a first secondary winding, of the plurality of secondary windings, is lower than that of a second secondary winding, with respect to ground, wherein the first secondary winding is in closest proximity to the primary winding. The primary winding and each secondary winding are preferably formed on a corresponding plurality of dielectric layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark R Boone
  • Patent number: 9362041
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a common mode filter that comprises a drum core including a winding core portion and a pair of flange portions provided at both ends of the winding core portion, and first and second wires wound around the winding core portion so as to form a pair-wire for each turn. The first and second wires includes one or a plurality of sparsely-wound portions in which the first and second wires are wound with adjacent pair-wires spaced from each other, and one or a plurality of closely-wound portions in which the first and second wires are wound with adjacent pair-wires in close contact with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshio Tomonari, Tsutomu Kobayashi, Kazunori Arimitsu
  • Patent number: 9362042
    Abstract: An electronic component having: a laminate formed by laminating a plurality of insulator layers; and a coil consisting of linear coil conductor layers that are laminated along with the insulator layers, the coil having a spiral form or a helical form that windingly extends in a direction of lamination. In a cross section perpendicular to a direction in which the coil conductor layers extend, the coil conductor layers have recesses provided in their surfaces directed toward an inner circumference side of the coil, the recesses being set back toward an outer circumference side of the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Yoneda, Kenji Yoshida, Yasunari Nakashima
  • Patent number: 9355956
    Abstract: An inductor includes a plurality of first conductive lines, a plurality of second conductive lines and a plurality of contacts. Each of the first conductive lines is spaced apart from one another. Each of the second conductive lines is spaced apart from one another, and each of the second conductive lines crosses over each of the first conductive lines. Each of the contacts electrically interconnects one of the first conductive lines and one of the second conductive lines. These contacts are arranged in a way such that at least parts of the first conductive lines and at least parts of the second conductive lines form an electric current path serving as an inductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hao-Hsiang Chuang, Jeng-Shien Hsieh, Chuei-Tang Wang, Chen-Hua Yu
  • Patent number: 9357651
    Abstract: An inductor is integrated into a multilevel wiring network of a semiconductor integrated circuit. The inductor includes a planar magnetic core and a conductive winding. The conductive winding turns around in generally spiral manner on the outside of the planar magnetic core. The conductive winding is piecewise constructed of wire segments and of VIAs. The wire segments pertain to at least two wiring planes and the VIAs are interconnecting the at least two wiring planes. Methods for such integration, and for fabricating laminated planar magnetic cores are also presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Ferric Inc.
    Inventor: Noah Andrew Sturcken
  • Patent number: 9349520
    Abstract: Ferromagnetic cores made from amorphous glasses and methods of forming ferromagnetic cores from metallic glasses are provided. The method forms a magnetic core from a section of a series of concentrically nested ferromagnetic tubes formed of an amorphous metallic material having a Curie-point temperature above room temperature and demonstrating soft ferromagnetic properties, thereby simplifying the manufacturing process and improving the electrical and mechanical performance of the core itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Marios D. Demetriou, William L. Johnson, Xiao Liu, Joseph P. Schramm, Georg Kaltenboeck