Patents Examined by Tuyen Nguyen
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Patent number: 9691543Abstract: A high voltage transformer arrangement for supplying power to a high voltage tank assembly is disclosed. The high voltage transformer arrangement includes a first core arranged in the high voltage tank assembly and a secondary winding configured on the first core, a second core positioned outside of the high voltage tank assembly and at a predefined distance from the first core, and a primary winding configured on the second core. The second core and the primary winding transfers current received from an external power source to the first core and secondary winding for supplying power to the high voltage tank assembly.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2014Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Niranjan Kumar, Dennis Perrillat-Amede, Venugopal Vadivel
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Patent number: 9685812Abstract: A device for inductive energy transfer between a stationary three-phase primary system and a mobile three-phase secondary system shows a stationary iron core part and two mobile iron core parts (3, 5) which are connected electrically in series are each designed as an equilateral triangle or as a star which spans an equilateral triangle and has limbs (3a, 3b, 3c; 5a, 5b, 5c) of equal length which run at the same angle in relation to one another, and supporting posts (3a?, 3b?, 3c?; 5a?, 5b?, 5c?) which start from the ends of said limbs, and also primary and secondary windings (4, 6) which are arranged at the same distance from one another. The device of simple design has a high degree of efficiency in respect of energy transfer. In the case of energy transfer only in the inoperative state, a stationary iron core part and a mobile iron core part can also be positioned directly one on the other without magnetic rails.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2012Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: INGENIEURBURO DUSCHLInventor: Georg Duschl-Graw
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Patent number: 9672971Abstract: A coil component includes a coil section and an outer package made of magnetic material in which the coil section is embedded. Both ends of the coil section are drawn out as outer electrodes from a first lateral face of the outer package, and the drawn-out sections are bent toward a bottom face of the outer package, and further bent along the bottom face and a second lateral face, then bent toward a cut-out section provided to the top face of the outer package before engaged with the cut-out section. Recesses are provided on the bottom face at places where the outer electrodes overly, and the outer electrodes are bent toward the recesses, respectively. Inside the bent section of each of the outer electrodes, a notch is formed and the notch includes an opening that spreads over the two faces. A vertex portion of the bent section inside the notch is curved.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2015Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Mutsuyasu Ohtsubo, Ryusuke Teramoto
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Patent number: 9666351Abstract: A device including a high voltage apparatus enclosing a fluid for providing cooling and/or electrical insulation of the apparatus, and a detector for one or more physical properties of the fluid positioned spaced apart from the housing. The device includes a pipe assembly for housing a fluid, whereby the pipe assembly is arranged between the detector equipment and the housing such that the fluid is extended without interruption in the pipe assembly. The fluid in the pipe assembly is in communication with the fluid in the housing, and the detector equipment is in direct communication with the fluid in the pipe assembly. The detector equipment is positioned below a top level of the housing and at a safe distance from the housing of the apparatus, which makes it possible to carry out inspection, testing, maintenance, and calibration of the detector equipment without taking the high voltage apparatus out of operation.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2015Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: ABB Schweiz AGInventor: Tommy Larsson
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Patent number: 9659709Abstract: A common mode filter and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. A common mode filter in accordance with an aspect of the present invention includes: a substrate: a filter layer disposed on the substrate and configured to remove a signal noise; an electrode column formed to be bent along a perimetric portion of the filter layer and electrically connected with the filter layer; an electrode pad formed to have a larger longitudinal cross-sectional area than the electrode column and integrally coupled on the electrode column; and a magnetic layer formed on a layer on which the electrode column and the electrode pad are formed.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2015Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Geon-Se Chang, Jeong-Min Cho, Jin-Hyuck Yang
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Patent number: 9660546Abstract: A coil structure includes: a magnetic core that defines a closed loop magnetic path in which a magnetic flux flows, the magnetic core including a core leg; a coil that is wound around the core leg about a coil axis extending in a first direction, the coil generating the magnetic flux; a detour member that is separate from the magnetic core, the detour member defining a detour magnetic path that detours around the closed loop magnetic path between first and second points, the detour member including a first piece that defines the first point and a second piece that defines the second point; and a fixing portion that includes an adjoining member adjoining the core leg and a connecting portion connecting at least one of the first piece and the second piece to the adjoining member and fixes positional relations among the core leg and the first and second points.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2015Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Akira Kato, Kazuyuki Sakiyama, Hirohide Ichihashi
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Patent number: 9653199Abstract: Embodiments of an electromagnetic coil assembly are provided, as are methods for the manufacture of an electromagnetic coil assembly. In one embodiment, the method includes joining a first end portion of a braided lead wire to a coiled magnet wire. A dielectric-containing material is applied in a wet-state over the coiled magnet wire and over the first end portion of the braided lead wire. The dielectric-containing material is cured to produce an electrically-insulative body in which the coiled magnet wire and the first end portion of the braided lead wire are at least partially embedded. Prior to application of the dielectric-containing material, the braided lead wire is at least partially impregnated with a masking material deterring wicking of the dielectric-containing material into an intermediate portion of the braided lead wire.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2015Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: James Piascik, Eric Passman, Robert Franconi
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Patent number: 9653532Abstract: An on-chip magnetic structure structure includes a magnetic material comprising cobalt in a range from about 80 to about 90 atomic % (at. %) based on the total number of atoms of the magnetic material, tungsten in a range from about 4 to about 9 at. % based on the total number of atoms of the magnetic material, phosphorous in a range from about 7 to about 15 at. % based on the total number of atoms of the magnetic material, and palladium substantially dispersed throughout the magnetic material.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2016Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Hariklia Deligianni, William J. Gallagher, Andrew J. Kellock, Eugene J. O'Sullivan, Lubomyr T. Romankiw, Naigang Wang
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Patent number: 9653203Abstract: A multilayer inductor providing improved DC superposition characteristics by a permanent magnet that emits a bias magnetic flux, and having a low-loss material as a magnetic body to improve converter conversion efficiency. The multilayer inductor has a plurality of laminated electrically insulating magnetic layers; and laminated conductive patterns, each of the conductive patterns being connected in sequence in the lamination direction forming a spiral coil inside the magnetic layer. An magnetized annular permanent magnet layer emits a magnetic flux whose direction is opposite that of a magnetic flux excited by the coil is between an outer peripheral edge of the inductor and an outer peripheral edge of the coil so as not to overlap an inner peripheral part of the magnet layer with the conductive patterns and so as to block a space between the conductive patterns and the magnet layer, in axial view of the coil.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2014Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: FDK CORPORATIONInventors: Kiyohisa Yamauchi, Daisuke Matsubayashi, Juji Kato, Mikio Kitaoka, Shigenori Suzuki
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Patent number: 9640318Abstract: Techniques of forming a transmitter coil are described herein. The techniques may include forming turns of the transmitter coil, wherein a non-uniform spacing between the turns of the transmitter coil is to reduce a magnetic field variation associated with the transmitter coil.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2014Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Jonathan Rosenfeld, Sreenivas Kasturi, Songnan Yang, Essam Elkhouly
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Patent number: 9633778Abstract: An embodiment of an inductor assembly includes at least a first inductive loop with a first wire formed into a plurality of conductive windings around a first magnetic core section. The first magnetic core section includes at least a radially inner magnetic core portion with a first inner effective radius, Rin(1), and a radially outer magnetic core portion with a first outer effective radius, Rout(1). The radially inner magnetic core portion is formed from a first material having a first core maximum permeability value, Mmax(1). The radially outer magnetic core portion is formed from a second material having a first core minimum permeability value, Mmin(1), less than the first core maximum permeability value, Mmax(1). A single turn of each winding extends fully around both the first radially inner and outer core portions without passing between them.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2014Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand CorporationInventor: Miaosen Shen
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Patent number: 9633773Abstract: Disclosed herein are a thin film common mode filter and a method of manufacturing the same. The thin film common mode filter according to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a magnetic substrate made of a magnetic ceramic material; and coil patterns formed on the magnetic substrate, wherein external electrodes connected with the coil patterns are sequentially stacked and insulating layers formed on and beneath the coil pattern are made of a composite of ferrite powder and thermosetting resin.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2014Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jeong Min Cho, Won Chul Sim, Ho Jin Yun, Ju Hwan Yang, Young Seuck Yoo
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Patent number: 9633776Abstract: An electromagnetic device includes a variable magnetic flux core having a plurality of core sections stacked on one another. At least one core section of the plurality of core sections may include a different selected geometry and/or a different chosen material. The at least one core section is configured to provide a predetermined inductance performance. An opening is provided through the stacked plurality of core sections for receiving a conductor winding. An electrical current flowing through the conductor winding generates a magnetic field about the conductor winding and a magnetic flux flow in each of the plurality of core sections. The magnetic flux flow in the at least one core section is different from the other core sections in response to the different selected geometry and/or the different chosen material of the at least one core section to provide the predetermined inductance performance.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2016Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventor: James Leo Peck, Jr.
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Patent number: 9620279Abstract: In a power supplying side core around which a power supplying side resonant coil is wound that contactlessly supplies power to a power receiving side resonant coil, a pair of protrusion portions is provided that protrudes from central axis direction both sides of the power supplying side resonant coil toward the power receiving side resonant coil. Further, in a power receiving side core around which the power receiving side resonant coil is wound that contactlessly receives power from the power supplying side resonant coil, a pair of protrusion portions is provided that protrudes from central axis direction both sides of the power receiving side resonant coil toward the power supplying side resonant coil.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2015Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Hajime Terayama, Kazuyoshi Kagami, Shingo Tanaka
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Patent number: 9620277Abstract: Core bodies which have an alignment structure and allow an alignment during the production of magnetic cores irrespective of production tolerances, in which the production tolerances are compensated. In illustrative embodiments a core body of ferromagnetic material comprises a crossbar having an aspect ratio of length to width greater than 1, and at least one core leg extending laterally away from the crossbar along an extension direction. An alignment recess is formed in a rear surface of the crossbar, which is arranged on a side of the crossbar opposite the core legs. A magnetic core is formed of core bodies, whereby at least one core body is provided with an alignment recess, and the core bodies are aligned relative to one another.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2015Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: Sumida Components & Modules GmbHInventors: Martin Grubl, Helmut Rott
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Patent number: 9601258Abstract: A multi-phase autotransformer (10) is disclosed. The exemplary transformer includes primary windings PWA, PWB, PWC) and secondary windings (SWA1-SWA4, SWB1-SWB4, SWC1-SWC4). The primary windings are connected in a delta configuration and to a three-phase input voltage source. Each secondary winding is electrically connected to a primary winding but is magnetically coupled to a different primary winding. Three sets of secondary windings provide three three-phase outputs (350A, 350B, 350C), each of which has a voltage which is less than the three-phase input voltage, the three-phase output of each set being phase-shifted with respect to the other sets. These three sets also, collectively, provide a multi-phase output (325). Another set of secondary windings, in conjunction with the input voltage, provides another multi-phase phase output (360) which has approximately the same voltage as the three-phase input voltage.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2014Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: Jian Huang, Eugene V. Solodovnik, Kamiar J. Karimi
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Patent number: 9601254Abstract: An air core, dry type, power reactor (10) of the type having multiple concentrically positioned winding layers (12) extending along a central axis and above arms (24) of a first spider unit (16) when the reactor is horizontally positioned with respect to a horizontal ground plane, the winding layers (12) arranged in spaced-apart relation providing air gaps (20) between the winding layers allowing air to flow along the winding layers. A deflector (40) is positioned between the winding layers (12) and the ground plane to receive air from wind blowing toward the reactor (10) and guide the air in an upward direction from the deflector (40) and along the gaps (20).Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2013Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Michael Sharp, Mark Gvozdanovic
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Patent number: 9595379Abstract: A cooling device for a transformer, capable of reducing heat generation from windings and a core, is provided. The cooling device for the transformer includes a primary winding and a second winding wound around a center part of the core and separated from each other. A heat-dissipating panel for releasing heat generated from the core, the primary winding, and the secondary winding to the exterior using heat conductance is inserted between the primary winding and the secondary winding. In addition, the heat-dissipating panel is configured to release heat using exposed edges of the primary winding and the secondary winding.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2014Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: In Yong Yeo, Byeong Seob Song, Dae Woo Lee, Jin Young Yang, Woo Young Lee
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Patent number: 9595384Abstract: A coil substrate includes a substrate, a coil-shaped wiring provided on one surface of the substrate, the coil-shaped wiring including adjacent parts provided adjacent to each other, and an insulating layer formed between the adjacent parts of the coil-shaped wiring. The coil-shaped wiring includes a first wiring, and a second wiring that is layered on the first wiring and has a thickness greater than a thickness of the first wiring. A space is provided between a side surface of the first wiring and the insulating layer. The second wiring fills the space and covers the first wiring. Both side surfaces of the second wiring contact the insulating layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2014Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: SHINKO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Atsushi Nakamura, Tsukasa Nakanishi, Yoichi Sasada
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Patent number: 9589716Abstract: Miniaturized magnetic components for electronic circuit board applications include enhanced magnetic composite sheets facilitating increased direct current capacity and higher inductance values. The components may be manufactured using relatively simple and straightforward lamination processes.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2010Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: COOPER TECHNOLOGIES COMPANYInventors: Frank Anthony Doljack, Hundi Panduranga Kamath