Patents Examined by Tuyen T. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11670450
    Abstract: A tapered ferrite core having a solid or hollow cylindrical shape with larger length than outer diameter, and comprising a ground taper portion in at least one end portion, the taper portion having ground streaks extending in the longitudinal direction of the ferrite core, can be formed by centerless-grinding a rotating ferrite core by a rotating grinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: PROTERIAL, LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Maeta, Katsumasa Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 11657962
    Abstract: An inductor includes an air-core coil assembled with a T-shaped core and a composite magnetic material and resin mixture embedding the T-shaped core and the air-core coil. The air-core coil has: a coil member having a coil axis and first and second sides opposite to each other; and first and second leads that are integrally connected to the coil member. The first and second leads respectively have: first and second bent members at the first side; first and second ends at the second side; and first and second bottom extensions respectively connected between the first and second bent members and the first and second ends. The first and second bent members extend in a first direction parallel to the coil axis, the first and second ends extend in a second direction parallel to the coil axis, and the first and second bottom extensions extend perpendicular to the coil axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Inventors: Shinichi Sakamoto, Douglas James Malcolm
  • Patent number: 11652511
    Abstract: Various embodiments of inductor coils, antennas, and transmission bases configured for wireless electrical energy transmission are provided. These embodiments are configured to wirelessly transmit or receive electrical energy or data via near field magnetic coupling. The embodiments of inductor coils comprise a figure eight configuration that improve efficiency of wireless transmission efficiency. The embodiments of the transmission base are configured with at least one transmitting antenna and a transmitting electrical circuit positioned within the transmission base. The transmission base is configured so that at least one electronic device can be wirelessly electrically charged or powered by positioning the at least one device in contact with or adjacent to the transmission base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: NUCURRENT, INC.
    Inventors: Jason Luzinski, Oleg Los
  • Patent number: 11646145
    Abstract: A low-profile high minimum creepage housing for electronic components such as transformers is provided. The housing can include a body and a lid. The lid can have attachment members that secure the lid to the body, after an electronic component is installed into the body. The attachment members of the lid may also secure a wire routed along the outside of the body against the body. The lid may include protruding portions that extend into the body, thereby elongating a minimum creepage path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Bourns, Inc.
    Inventors: Cathal Sheehan, Tom Hennessy
  • Patent number: 11640869
    Abstract: A bonding structure of a sheet core and a pair of flange parts wherein the pair of flange parts is formed on both ends of a shaft part to constitute a drum core together with the shaft part; the sheet core is bonded, in a manner connecting the pair of flange parts across the shaft part, to the top faces of the flange parts facing away from the bottom faces of the flange parts to be mounted on a circuit board; and a coil-shaped conductor is constituted by sheathed conductive wires wound around the shaft part; wherein the bonding surfaces of each of the flange parts and the sheet core have multiple contact areas where the flange part makes direct contact with the sheet core, as well as adhesive areas between the contact areas where an adhesive is disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tsutomu Kojima
  • Patent number: 11631518
    Abstract: A power inductor includes a housing and a magnetic core disposed in the housing. The core includes a first segment and a second segment spaced apart from each other to define a gap. The first and second segments are supported in the housing such that the they are movable relative to each other to increase and decrease the size of the gap. A fluid having a positive thermal expansion coefficient is disposed in the housing such that expansion and contraction of the fluid due to change in temperature increases and decreases the gap, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Myung Ki Sung, Wanfeng Li, Leyi Zhu
  • Patent number: 11632092
    Abstract: An on-chip transformer circuit is disclosed. The on-chip transformer circuit comprises a primary winding circuit comprising at least one turn of a primary conductive winding arranged as a first N-sided polygon in a first dielectric layer of a substrate; and a secondary winding circuit comprising at least one turn of a secondary conductive winding arranged as a second N-sided polygon in a second, different, dielectric layer of the substrate. In some embodiments, the primary winding circuit and the secondary winding circuit are arranged to overlap one another at predetermined locations along the primary conductive winding and the secondary conductive winding, wherein the predetermined locations comprise a number of locations less than all locations along the primary conductive winding and the secondary conductive winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Kaushik Dasgupta, Chuanzhao Yu, Chintan Thakkar, Saeid Daneshgar, Hyun Yoon, Xi Li, Anandaroop Chakrabarti, Stefan Shopov
  • Patent number: 11631533
    Abstract: A transformer includes a tank with an insulating fluid, a radiator for cooling the insulating fluid, and one or more sensors arranged to measure insulating fluid properties in a location where the insulating fluid has a lower temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Inventors: Luiz Cheim, Pierre Lorin
  • Patent number: 11626242
    Abstract: A winding assembly for a transformer, in particular with a medium operating voltage of Um?79.5 kV, wherein the winding assembly includes at least one winding, which ends in a winding conductor, where the winding conductor is connected to a switching line, which is configured to interconnect the winding to other windings, and where the connection of the switching line to the winding conductor is arranged inside the winding so as to reduce the danger of partial discharges and flashovers in the high-voltage end-line region for high-temperature applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: SIEMENS ENERGY GLOBAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Jürgen Gangel, Hans Jürgen Wagner
  • Patent number: 11621119
    Abstract: Provided is a reactor including a coil that has wound portions formed by winding a winding wire, and a magnetic core that includes inner core portions arranged inside of the wound portions and outer core portions arranged outside of the wound portions. The reactor includes an outer resin portion covering at least outer surfaces of the outer core portions. A terminal platform is formed in one piece protruding on the outer surface of an outer resin portion among the outer resin portions and has fastening portions configured to fasten terminal fittings connected to end portions of the winding wire to terminals of an external wiring. A fixing portion is formed in one piece on the terminal platform and fixes the reactor to an installation target. The terminal platform and the fixing portion are integrated and the thickness of the terminal platform is less than that of the fixing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Misaki, Shinichiro Yamamoto, Seiji Shitama, Tatsuo Hirabayashi
  • Patent number: 11615907
    Abstract: A reactor includes an assembly, stored in a case, including a coil and a magnetic core; an insertion member, having a type A durometer hardness of 50 or higher, that is stored side-by-side with the assembly; and a sealing resin portion that fills the case. The case includes a bottom portion and a side wall portion. The insertion member includes a leading end portion separated from the bottom portion via a gap. A space formed between the assembly and the case and between the insertion member and the case includes a first region provided between the bottom portion and the leading end portion and a second region that is a region other than the first region. The sealing resin portion includes a first resin portion that fills the first region and a second resin portion that fills at least a portion of the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takehito Kobayashi, Kohei Yoshikawa, Naotoshi Furukawa, Masaya Murashita
  • Patent number: 11615909
    Abstract: A coil component includes a first core having a leg portion, a second core joined to the first core with the leg portion therebetween, and a magnet disposed between the leg portion and the second core. Movement of the magnet in a first direction intersecting a direction in which the first core and the second core face each other is at least restricted by an uneven structure provided on a junction surface between the magnet and at least one of the first core and the second core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ge Li, Masahiro Gamou
  • Patent number: 11610720
    Abstract: A combined transformer/inductor device includes a core having a central core leg and an outer core leg spaced apart from the central core leg, an inner bobbin disposed around the central core leg, an outer bobbin disposed around the inner bobbin and the central core leg and having an upper portion having a first oblong portion disposed around the outer core leg, a lower portion having a second oblong portion disposed around the outer core leg, and a central portion disposed around the inner bobbin and the central core leg, a first winding wound around the inner bobbin, and a second winding wound around the outer bobbin, the second winding having a first portion wound around the first oblong portion, a second portion wound around the central portion, and a third portion wound around the second oblong portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: VISHAY DALE ELECTRONICS, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Ebner, Matthew Foley
  • Patent number: 11610715
    Abstract: An ignition coil is described for an internal combustion engine, with a housing, a transformer, which is arranged in an interior space of the housing, and potting compound, with which the interior space of the housing is cast. In accordance with this disclosure provision is made for the transformer to be covered by a mat, which is embedded in the potting compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: BorgWarner Ludwigsburg GmbH
    Inventors: Sven Schumm, Manfred Adolf, Timo Stifel, Dirk Wüstenhagen, Manuel Bauer, Alexander Stark
  • Patent number: 11610719
    Abstract: An embodiment provides a magnetic core comprising a first powder and a second powder, wherein the hardness of the first powder is lower than that of the second powder, and the volume of the first powder is 40% to 60% with respect to the combined volume of the first powder and the second powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jai Hoon Yeom, Hyun Min Nah, Seok Bae, Sang Won Lee, Hyun Ji Lee
  • Patent number: 11605486
    Abstract: An inductor includes an integrated preform having a coil installed thereinside. The coil includes extension portions extending from two stages of a spiral wound portion. The integrated preform is formed by bonding together first and second preforms. The first and/or second preform is shaped like a housing including a plate-shaped bottom, a wall provided around the periphery of the bottom portion, and two cut out portions provided in the wall. The extension portions extend to outside the integrated preform via the cut out portions. The difference between a first distance from a reference surface, which is the bottom surface of the bottom of the first or second preform, to a bottom surface of one cut out portion and a second distance from the reference surface to the bottom surface of the other cut out portion is substantially an integer multiple of the width of the flat wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshiaki Hirama
  • Patent number: 11605488
    Abstract: A high-voltage device includes a housing and at least one subassembly which is electrically insulated from the housing. The at least one subassembly is spaced from the housing and mechanically connected to the housing. At least one ceramic spacer element is disposed between the housing and the at least one subassembly. A method of using the high-voltage device includes transferring heat, which is produced at connection elements of the at least one subassembly which is electrically insulated from the housing, from the subassembly through the at least one ceramic spacer element to the housing and emitting the heat from the housing to the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Robert Goepfert, Sebastian Mueller
  • Patent number: 11605494
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a coil component that includes an insulating substrate, a first coil part formed on the first surface of the insulating substrate, and a second coil part formed on the second surface of the insulating substrate. At least an innermost turn of the first coil part is radially separated by spiral-shaped slits into three or more conductor parts. At least an innermost turn of the second coil part is radially separated by spiral-shaped slits into three or more conductor parts. Inner peripheral ends of respective innermost to outermost conductor parts of the three or more conductor parts of the first coil part are connected to inner peripheral ends of the respective outermost to innermost conductor parts of the three or more conductor parts of the second coil part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Syun Ashizawa, Masato Otsuka, Hanako Yoshino, Toshio Tomonari, Kohei Wada
  • Patent number: 11605496
    Abstract: A magnetic assembly includes a magnetic core including at least one winding leg and at least one winding. The at least one winding inductively coupled to the magnetic core and wound around the at least one winding leg. The at least one winding includes a foil conductive material and a tape. The tape includes a thermally conductive adhesive layer and an electrically insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: ABB SCHWEIZ AG
    Inventors: Robert Joseph Roessler, Anjana Shyamsundar
  • Patent number: 11600432
    Abstract: An embedded-core device including a substrate, a core embedded in the substrate, a winding arranged around the core, and a dummy pin in direct contact with the core and not in direct contact with the winding. A method of a manufacturing an embedded-core device includes providing winding pins and a dummy pin, inserting a core between the winding pins using the dummy pin such that the dummy pin is in direct contact with the core and not in direct contact with the winding pins, and sealing the core with resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Matthew Scott Cooper