Patents by Inventor Edward A. Moorehead

Edward A. Moorehead has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method for winding a toroid coil on a toroidal body
    Patent number: 5331729
    Abstract: Method for forming a toroid coil on a toroidal body. A wire feeder feeds the wire forward in the direction of its length toward the toroidal body. The wire is fed along a path which at the toroidal body is generally tangent to the surface of the toroidal body and nonparallel to the radial plane of the toroidal body. A die having a wire forming path defined therein constrains the wire to bend as it is fed forward into the convolutions of a helix extending through the opening in the toroidal body and advancing circumferentially around the toroidal body to form the toroid coil.An inductor formed by the method of the present invention is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1994
    Assignee: Basler Electric Company
    Inventor: Edward A. Moorehead
  • Apparatus for winding a toroid coil on a toroidal body
    Patent number: 5274907
    Abstract: Apparatus for forming a toroid coil on a toroidal body comprising a wire feeder for feeding the wire forward in the direction of its length toward the toroidal body. The wire is fed along a path which at the toroidal body is generally tangent to the surface of the toroidal body and nonparallel to the radial plane of the toroidal body. A die having a wire forming path defined therein constrains the wire to bend as it is fed forward into the convolutions of a helix extending through the opening in the toroidal body and advancing circumferentially around the toroidal body to form the toroid coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 4, 1994
    Assignee: Basler Electric Company
    Inventor: Edward A. Moorehead