Patents Examined by Tuyen T. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11430606
    Abstract: An inductor is disclosed, including a first wire, a non-conductive material, and a shell. The non-conductive material may cover the first wire, with a portion of each end of the first wire uncovered. The shell may include a top portion and a bottom portion and include at least one magnetized layer and at least one gap between the first portion and the second portion. The shell may also surround a portion of the non-conductive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: David P. Cappabianca, Joseph T. DiBene, II, Shawn Searles, Le Wang, Yizhang Yang, Sean Cian O'Mathuna, Santosh Kulkarni, Paul McCloskey, Zoran Pavlovic, William Lawton, Graeme Maxwell, Joseph O'Brien, Hugh Charles Smiddy
  • Patent number: 11430603
    Abstract: An inductor includes a core including a multilayer part in which magnetic layers and insulating layers are alternately stacked; a coil including a wound part having a winding axis substantially perpendicular to a stacking direction of the multilayer part; and an element body. The multilayer part includes a first multilayer part in which first magnetic layers and insulating layers are alternately stacked and second and third multilayer parts in which second magnetic layers and insulating layers are alternately stacked, the electrical resistivity and/or relative magnetic permeability of the second magnetic layers being larger than those of the first magnetic layers. The first multilayer part has first and second surfaces that are perpendicular to the stacking direction and face each other and third and fourth surfaces that are parallel to the stacking and winding axis directions. The second and third multilayer parts are arranged on the first and second surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seigou Shirai, Kachiyasu Satou
  • Patent number: 11424071
    Abstract: A power conversion device includes an isolation transformer, the isolation transformer including: a primary winding; a secondary winding; and a magnetic shield portion configured to suppress magnetic interference between the primary winding and the secondary winding by interrupting a magnetic flux generated by a current flowing through each of the primary winding and the secondary winding. The magnetic shield portion is formed of, for example, a magnetic shield plate arranged between the primary winding and the secondary winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Tatsuro Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 11410806
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a magnetic core containing soft magnetic powder and a coil component using the magnetic core. The soft magnetic powder has particles each having at least one pore therein, and the number of pores present in a region of 2.5 mm square in a cross section of the magnetic core is 60×(?/80) or more and 10000×(?/80) or less, in which the volume packing density of the soft magnetic powder in the magnetic core is ?%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Okuda, Hiroyuki Matsumoto, Kazuhiro Yoshidome
  • Patent number: 11404196
    Abstract: A core for an electric induction device includes a multiplicity of magnetizable metal sheets which form a stack of metal sheets resting on each other. Spacers that are each disposed between two metal sheets form at least one cooling channel which can be subjected to a greater thermal load and at the same time allows improved cooling. Said spacers are made, at least in part, of metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Joerg Findeisen
  • Patent number: 11398333
    Abstract: An inductor has one or more wires and a multipart magnetic core. The multipart magnetic core has magnetic core parts that are adjacent and magnetically coupled. The inductor provides an inductance of at least 40 nH for currents greater than 1 A and less than 60 A, and at least 20 nH for currents of at least 60 A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: MONOLITHIC POWER SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Dawson Huang, Ting Ge
  • Patent number: 11398336
    Abstract: A transformer assembly includes an electric transformer a temperature sensor system, and a computation unit for determining a thermal state of the electric transformer. The electric transformer includes a cooling device having at least one liquid coolant channel to absorb exhaust heat from the electric transformer a heat spreader for transferring heat from the liquid coolant to a heat dissipation surface of the heat spreader, and an air blower configured to effect an airstream along the heat dissipation surface. The temperature sensor system includes an entering coolant sensor for providing an entering coolant temperature signal, a leaving coolant sensor for providing a leaving coolant temperature signal, an entering airstream sensor for providing an entering airstream temperature signal, and a leaving airstream sensor for providing a leaving airstream temperature signal. The computation unit is configured to determine a thermal state of the transformer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Energy Switzerland AG
    Inventors: Stephane Isler, Valter Porcellato
  • Patent number: 11393620
    Abstract: A transformer apparatus (200) comprising a transformer core (210), at least one primary winding and at least one secondary winding. The transformer apparatus (200) also comprises an insert element (220), in which the at least one primary winding is arranged, and one printed circuit board (230), in which the at least one secondary winding is arranged. The insert element (220), the circuit board (230) and the transformer core (210) can hereby be coupled together or are coupled together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventor: Thomas Bosch
  • Patent number: 11380471
    Abstract: A spiral inductor includes a spiral trace and a plurality of first projections extending along a first edge of the spiral trace. The spiral inductor may further include a plurality of second projections extending along a second edge of the spiral trace, the second edge being opposite the first edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Daniel Daeik Kim, Bonhoon Koo, Babak Nejati
  • Patent number: 11380476
    Abstract: In a multilayer coil component, a ferrite element body includes a first element body portion and a second element body portion adjacent to each other in an axial direction of the multilayer coil, in which a dielectric constant of the second element body portion is lower than a dielectric constant of the first element body portion, and a magnetic permeability of the second element body portion is higher than a magnetic permeability of the first element body portion. The inventors newly found that the first element body portion and the second element body portion contribute to coil characteristics when a coil winding portion is provided to extend over the first element body portion and the second element body portion. In the multilayer coil component, desired coil characteristics can be obtained by adjusting proportions of the first element body portion and the second element body portion in the ferrite element body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Sato, Hitoshi Kudo, Takashi Suzuki, Kouichi Kakuda, Tatsuro Suzuki, Hiroyuki Tanoue
  • Patent number: 11380473
    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: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: VISHAY DALE ELECTRONICS, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Ebner, Matthew Foley
  • Patent number: 11380479
    Abstract: An ignition coil has a ferromagnetic core with a primary coil surrounding a first portion of the ferromagnetic core and a secondary coil surrounding the second portion of the ferromagnetic core. The secondary coil is wrapped around a bobbin. The bobbin has an interior receiving the second portion of the ferromagnetic core. A form is interposed between the secondary coil and the second portion of the ferromagnetic core. The form extends longitudinally along the second portion of the ferromagnetic core. The form is of a non-ferrous metal material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas C. Marrs, Donald Recupido
  • Patent number: 11373798
    Abstract: An ignition device includes a case having an opening and a bottom wall, a coil bobbin arranged in the case having a through hole, a first end and a second end, an ignition coil wound around the coil bobbin, a core made of magnetic material and projecting from the opening and from the bottom wall, and extending through the coil bobbin, a retainer having a ring portion and multiple leg portions extending from the ring, and a filling resin in the case. The core extends through the ring portion and the leg portions extend in between an inner surface of the coil bobbin and an outer peripheral surface of the core toward the bottom wall, and the case is filled with the filling resin in a manner that at least a part of the ring portion is not covered by the resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Walbro LLC
    Inventors: Shunya Nakamura, Yuki Tanaka, Kazunori Tsubakino
  • Patent number: 11367566
    Abstract: The present application provides an internal combustion engine ignition device such that irregular winding of a primary coil and a tertiary coil and an increase in a number of components can be restricted. A recessed portion that forms a tertiary coil winding portion is provided in a portion of a surface portion of a trunk portion of a primary bobbin, a tertiary coil is formed winding a copper wire around the recessed portion with no gap, and a primary coil is formed by winding a copper wire around a surface portion of the tertiary coil and a trunk portion surface portion of the primary bobbin in which the recessed portion is not formed, that is, a whole region of the trunk portion positioned between flanges after the tertiary coil is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Shuji Yamada
  • Patent number: 11367563
    Abstract: A power-reception-side coil unit includes: a housing, a ferrite, a power reception coil, a shield, and a metal member. The metal member includes a peripheral wall, a partition wall, and a shield. The ferrite includes a first principal surface, and a second principal surface. The power reception coil is provided on the side of the second principal surface, and the shield is provided on the side of the first principal surface. The shield has an outer peripheral edge including a step portion extending away from the first principal surface. The ferrite includes an exposed part exposed through the shield by forming the step portion. In the separation direction from the outer peripheral edge of the ferrite plate to the metal member, the length from the outer peripheral edge of the ferrite plate to the metal member is longer than the length of the exposed part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroaki Yuasa
  • Patent number: 11361890
    Abstract: One object is to lessen the difference between the direction of the magnetic flux and the easy direction of magnetization in a coil element and improve the effective permeability of the coil element. A coil element according to one element of the present invention includes: a coil conductor wound around a coil axis; at least one isotropic magnetic material layer provided on at least one of an upper surface and a lower surface of the coil conductor, the at least one isotropic magnetic material layer being made of an isotropic magnetic material; and at least one anisotropic magnetic material layer provided on an opposite surface of the at least one isotropic magnetic material layer to the coil conductor, the at least one anisotropic magnetic material layer being made of an anisotropic magnetic material having an easy direction of magnetization oriented perpendicular to the coil axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kobayashi, Satoshi Tokunaga
  • Patent number: 11355273
    Abstract: A non-liquid immersed transformer including a magnetic core having a winding axis and at least two coil windings wound around the magnetic core along the winding axis. One or more cooling tubes made of dielectric material are arranged inside at least one of the coil windings to cool down the coil winding using dielectric fluid flowing through the dielectric cooling tubes. Each cooling tube is wound continuously forming one or more complete loops around the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Energy Switzerland AG
    Inventors: Antonio Nogues Barrieras, Rafael Murillo, Martín Carlos Roy, Lorena Cebrian, Luis Sanchez Lago
  • Patent number: 11355278
    Abstract: Dry-type transformers with insulating modules are disclosed. Example insulating modules include dielectric screens and supporting blocks. The supporting blocks support the dielectric screens over windings of the transformer. The dielectric screens have first substantially even portions configured to adapt in spaces defined by corresponding cylindrical barriers arranged between first and second windings of the transformers and second substantially even portions, transversal to the first portions and to the first windings of the transformers and extending outwards from the first portions and beyond the supporting blocks. The dielectric screens partly extend around a winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Energy Switzerland AG
    Inventors: Antonio Nogués Barrieras, Carlos Roy Martín, Lorena Cebrián Lles, Rafael Murillo, Luis Sánchez Lago, Rahul R. Shah
  • Patent number: 11348717
    Abstract: An inductor assembly includes a housing including a base, a sidewall, and an insert. The base and the sidewall define a cavity and the insert being positioned within the cavity. A core assembly is positioned within the cavity. The core assembly includes a core and a plurality of windings wrapped about the core and disposed between the sidewall and the insert. A flow path is formed in the housing for receiving a coolant to remove heat from the core assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ashutosh Joshi, Debabrata Pal, Mark W. Metzler, Richard L. Downing, Charles Patrick Shepard
  • Patent number: 11342104
    Abstract: A inductor arrangement has a toroidal core with a central opening, a winding which is arranged around the core and has two winding ends, and an electrically insulating insert which is inserted into the central opening in a clamping manner. Here, the winding ends are inserted into the insert in a clamping manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: SMA Solar Technology AG
    Inventors: Mariusz Gwadera, Jakub Hachlowski, Mariusz Walczak, Zajac Tomasz