By Winding Or Coiling Patents (Class 29/605)
  • Patent number: 9697938
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a device that includes a first inductor. The first inductor includes a first coil portion having more than one turn that defines a first enclosed area and a second coil portion having more than one turn that defines a second enclosed area. The first coil portion and the second coil portion are arranged to generate magnetic fields having substantially equal strength and opposite directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.
    Inventors: Wen Yan, Hongzheng Han, Zhao Liu, Zhenhua Xiong, Yuan Lu
  • Patent number: 9646947
    Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) that includes a semiconductor die in an IC package. The semiconductor die includes an electrical endpoint. The IC also includes a pad affixed to the semiconductor die. The pad is characterized by a capacitance and is coupled to the electrical endpoint. The IC also includes a bond wire coupling the pad to an IC package pin. The bond wire is an inductor characterized by an inductance. The inductance is configured to decrease signal degradation caused by the capacitance of the pad on electrical signals transmitted between the pin and the electrical endpoint of the semiconductor die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Justin P. Bandholz, Pravin Patel, Peter R. Seidel
  • Patent number: 9570871
    Abstract: An active bipolar cardiac electrical is assembled by coupling an inner conductor coil to a connector pin to form an inner conductor assembly. The inner conductor assembly is threaded through a connector insulator. An insulating tubing is placed over the inner coil. A proximal end of the insulating tubing is sleeved over the distal extension of the connector insulator. An outer conductor coil is coupled to a ring connector to form an outer conductor assembly. The inner conductor assembly is threaded through the outer conductor assembly. The ring connector is sleeved on the distal extension of the connector insulator and over the insulator tubing. A proximal seal is sleeved over a socket end of the connector pin. The proximal seal is seated on the proximal extension of the connector insulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: SHANGHAI MICROPORT MEDICAL (GROUP) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Grace Ying Yang Jang, Zhijun Cheng, Yongqiang Wei, Jing Wen
  • Patent number: 9496085
    Abstract: A plurality of cores are arranged in a loop between an inner wall and an outer wall. A gap filler is arranged circumferentially between each of the plurality of cores. A high thermal conductivity potting material is arranged around both the inner and outer edges of the core segments. A winding wraps around each of the plurality of core segments. The windings may be embedded within the high thermal conductivity potting material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Debabrata Pal, John Horowy
  • Patent number: 9487374
    Abstract: An automatic annular winding machine includes a paying off unit, a sending wire group, a winding wire group, a sending material group, and a perpendicularly vibrating hopper. The wires are sent to the winding wire group by the sending wire group. A magnetic ring is put into the perpendicularly vibrating hopper and sent to a clamping holder by the sending material group. Then the wires are winded on the magnetic ring by a lead pin of the winding wire group. The winding wire group further includes a pull wire slanting wheel group comprising of a pull wire slanting wheel, a spring, and a regulatable suspending sliding block. Accordingly, the heads of the plurality twisted wires would not branch off during working, and the length of the heads is left after winding accomplishing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Inventor: Desmond Decker
  • Patent number: 9480835
    Abstract: A passive cardiac electrical lead is assembled by coupling an inner conductor coil to a connector pin to form an inner conductor assembly. The inner conductor assembly is threaded through a connector insulator. An insulator tubing is placed over the inner coil. A proximal end of the insulator tubing is sleeved over the distal extension of the connector insulator. An outer conductor coil is coupled to a ring connector to form an outer conductor assembly. The inner conductor assembly is threaded through the outer conductor assembly. The ring connector is sleeved on the distal extension of the connector insulator and over the insulator tubing. A proximal seal is sleeved over a socket end of the connector pin. A portion of the proximal seal is seated on the proximal extension of the connector insulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: SHANGHAI MICROPORT MEDICAL (GROUP) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Grace Ying Yang Jang, Zhijun Cheng, Yongqiang Wei, Jing Wen
  • Patent number: 9460846
    Abstract: Methods of and systems for directing flux from a transmit coil to a receive coil within an inductive power transfer system are disclosed. For example, a transmit coil can be shielded with a contoured shield made from a ferromagnetic material. The contoured shield can contour to several surfaces of the transmit coil so as to define a single plane through which flux is directed to the receive coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher S. Graham, Eric S. Jol, Makiko K. Brzezinski
  • Patent number: 9455606
    Abstract: The invention relates to a winding carrier (1) for the defined application of a coil winding, comprising: a winding section (2) for placing onto a cylindrical tooth component; a groove structure (3), which is arranged in at least one region of the winding section and extends transversely to the winding axis in order to receive a winding wire; wherein the groove structure (3) has a cross section having two mutually opposite, preferably flat side faces (7), which taper in the direction of a bottom face (6) of the groove structure (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Ewert, Lukas Leitz, Bjoern Nommensen
  • Patent number: 9379508
    Abstract: Various coiled conductors having two or more sections and methods and devices for constructing such conductors are disclosed. The various embodiments of coiled conductors and related methods include two or more sections that can have different mechanical, structural, and/or electrical characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua Haarer, Yevgenia Sheikholeslami, Patrick Willoughby, Andrew L. De Kock, Kimberly A. Morris, Benjamin J. Haasl, Brian L. Schmidt, Emilio Abner Avilés Delgado, Fabian E. Morales-Ortiz, Ronald W. Kunkel
  • Patent number: 9379585
    Abstract: A permanent magnet motor, generator or the like that is constructed with a concentrated winding and edge form wound stator coils. This achieves less eddy current losses in the windings as well as a much higher power density than conventional techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: LCDRIVES CORP.
    Inventors: Russel H. Marvin, Thomas Johnson
  • Patent number: 9318251
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electronic component including providing a wire having first and second ends and a pre-formed core, winding the wire about at least a portion of the pre-formed core and connecting the first and second wire ends to at least one terminal for mounting the component to a circuit, and using a wet press process to form a mixture of magnetic and/or non-magnetic material over at least a portion of the wire and pre-formed core, and harden the mixture without exposing the wire and pre-formed core to the damaging forces of a dry press process to form an electronic component with a generally planar top surface with which the component can be picked and placed on a circuit using conventional pick-and-place equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Coilcraft, Incorporated
    Inventors: Andrzej Klesyk, Scott D. Hess, Lawrence B. Lestarge
  • Patent number: 9312056
    Abstract: A coil assembly is provided, comprising a coil former, a coil, and a connection block which is pivotally joined to the coil former. The coil is wound while the connection block is pivoted away, the winding wire ends are soldered to the terminal pins, and the connection block is pivoted close to the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ralf Hoffmann, Olaf Abel, Thomas Kuehne
  • Patent number: 9306426
    Abstract: A rotor of a rotating electric machine is configured in such a way that a conductor wire 40 is wound around a bobbin 50 having first and second latching sections 60 and 61 provided in such a way as to extend radially outward from first and second flange sections 51 and 52, respectively, provided respective axis-direction ends of a winding section 59, and includes a magnetic-field coil 15 in which a winding-end section 41 of the conductor wire 40 is wound and latched around the second latching section 61 and in which a lead wire 42 drawn from the winding-end section 41 of the conductor wire 40 by way of the second latching section 61 is wound and latched around the first latching section 60; the radial-direction length of the second latching section 61 is shorter than the radial-direction length of the first latching section 60.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Kimura, Kazunori Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9305696
    Abstract: A stacked inductor is provided with a conductive frame including a top surface, two side surfaces depending downward from the top surface, two spaced bottom surfaces each inward bending from a bottom of either side surface, an upper space defined by the top surface, the side surfaces, and the bottom surfaces, two vertical legs each depending downward from either bottom surface, two supports each inward bending from a bottom of either leg, and a lower space defined by the bottom surfaces, the legs, and the supports; an upper core including a bottom groove; an intermediate core; and a lower core including a top groove. The bottom groove is on the top surface, the intermediate core is in the upper space, the lower core is in the lower space and supported by the supports. The upper, intermediate, and lower cores are magnetically connected together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: ALLIANCE MAGNETICS (H.K.) CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Martin Kuo, Andrew Chu
  • Patent number: 9214845
    Abstract: In a method for manufacturing a helically wound alternator core, stamping an electrical steel strip to create a lamination strip having a back-iron and projecting teeth. The lamination strip is helically wound by bending to form the helically wound alternator core. The core is then welded. Thereafter the helically wound welded alternator core is annealed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: TEMPEL STEEL COMPANY
    Inventor: Gwynne Johnston
  • Patent number: 9190793
    Abstract: An implantable lead includes an elongated member. A plurality of electrodes are disposed on a distal end of the elongated member. A plurality of terminals are disposed on a proximal end of the elongated member. Each of a plurality of conductors electrically couples at least one of the electrodes to at least one of the terminals. The plurality of conductors are disposed in the elongated member in a coiled configuration and have an end portion. Each of a plurality of constraining elements is disposed over at least one of the plurality of conductors such that the underlying at least one of the plurality of conductors is maintained in the coiled configuration. At least one of the plurality of electrodes or terminals is disposed over the constraining element and electrically coupled to at least one of the plurality of conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corporation
    Inventor: Matthew Lee McDonald
  • Patent number: 9111677
    Abstract: Method of manufacturing a dry-type open wound transformer having disc windings is provided. The transformer has one or more high voltage windings, each of which includes a plurality serially connected discs. Each disc has two or more sections, wherein the sections are separated from each other by spaces arranged in a circumferential configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: ABB Technology AG
    Inventors: Charlie Sarver, William E. Pauley, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9104178
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for making a spring for a timepiece that comprises at least one monobloc ribbon of metal glass including at least one curvature. The method is characterized in that said method comprises the step of shaping by means of plastic-deformation said monobloc ribbon in order to obtain at least a portion of said curvature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: ROLEX S.A.
    Inventors: Thomas Gyger, Vincent Von Niederhäusern
  • Publication number: 20150137927
    Abstract: A transformer skeleton and a winding method using the same are provided. The transformer skeleton includes at least one limiting hook. The limiting hook and a pin of the transformer skeleton are located on a same side of the transformer skeleton. A wire, which is led out from a winding groove of the transformer skeleton, electrically contacts the pin and passes through the limiting hook. The limiting hook is used to prevent the wire from moving upward. The advantage of the transformer skeleton is that the transformer skeleton disposes at least one limiting hook which is used to prevent the wire from moving upward and only a single layer of the wire contacts the pin in order to reduce the height of a tin cone. The transformer skeleton can decrease the height of the tin cone by 70%˜80%, thereby efficiently decreasing the height and width of the transformer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Song LUO, Xiao-Xia YUAN, Shao-Dong ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20150137933
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for providing vehicles with energy by magnetic induction. The apparatus has a primary side electric conductor and a field shaping layer. The invention also relates to a composite layer for shaping magnetic field lines of an electromagnetic field generated by an electric conductor. The composite layer includes a continuous supporting layer and a plurality of elements made of magnetizable material. Finally, the invention relates to a method of generating an apparatus for providing vehicles with energy by magnetic induction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventor: Robert Czainski
  • Publication number: 20150130576
    Abstract: U-shaped cores and fasteners are embedded in resin members, and brackets provided at respective ends of the fasteners protrude from the resin members. By fixing the brackets and a casing with screws, a reactor main body and the casing are fixed together. Openings formed by a partition wall that suppresses a direct application of a resin flowing from resin-filling portions to the fasteners are provided between the respective fasteners and the respective resin-filling portions. A protrusion extending in an opposite direction to a core and in parallel with the partition wall is provided between the resin-filling portions and the partition wall. The resin flowing from the resin-filling portion flows in between a core upper face and the fastener, and between a fastener surface located behind the partition wall and the internal surface of a die.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventor: Kotaro Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20150130577
    Abstract: A low cost, high performance electronic device for use in electronic circuits and methods. In one exemplary embodiment, the device includes an interleaved flat coil and coil winding arrangement that ensures low leakage inductance while using a combination of flat coil windings and self-bonded Litz coil windings. The flat coil windings further include features that are configured to mate with the header assembly terminal pins which substantially simplify the manufacturing process. Methods for using and manufacturing the aforementioned inductive devices are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Ma Hongzhong, Li Huatu
  • Publication number: 20150128407
    Abstract: An assembling method of a coil and an elastic plate of a voice coil motor assembly includes a coil support, a coil wound on the coil support, and two opposing lower elastic plates disposed on an upper part of the coil support. The outer edge of an upper flange of the coil support has at least two opposing protrusions which are arranged radially. The coil has a head end and a tail end which are respectively wound on the two protrusions. The two lower elastic plates are respectively connected with the coil wound on the two protrusions by welding. To prevent the head end from slanting, the lower elastic plates are mounted on the coil support through the operation of an automation apparatus to be soldered with the coil wound on the protrusions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: XIAMEN XINHONGZHOU PRECISION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenchen SHEN, Chengyang WU, Shanmu LIU, Jianlong ZHANG, Huangjie LU, Fang HUANG
  • Patent number: 9027232
    Abstract: A cylindrical magnet assembly has at least one coil mounted on a former, assembled to a bore tube by a number of inserts within holes formed in a material of the former. Each insert can bear on a dished radially outer extremity of a radially-outwardly directed protrusion or each insert can bear on a radially outer concave surface of a radially-inwardly directed protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Siemens Plc.
    Inventor: Russell Peter Gore
  • Patent number: 9027229
    Abstract: Coil assembly (1) comprising a planar coil (2) comprising a plurality of turns (15) arranged in a trench (10) in a first magnetic core plate (3) and a second magnetic core plate (8), where the first magnetic core plate (3) and second magnetic core plate (8) are in direct contact with each other or separated by an electrically insulating insulator layer (5) with a thickness (t) equal to or less than 50 ?m and least one tap (6) extends from the coil (2) in a respective via hole (11) through the first magnetic core plate (3) to a respective contact pad (7), wherein the coil (2) and the tap (6) are integrally formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: ÅAC Microtec AB
    Inventor: Robert Thorslund
  • Patent number: 9027228
    Abstract: Methods for the manufacture of an electromagnetic coil assembly are provided. 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. In certain cases, the masking material may be removed from the braided lead wire after curing, and the electrically-insulative body may be sealed within a canister.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: James Piascik, Eric Passman, Robert Franconi
  • Publication number: 20150123680
    Abstract: An inductive sensor and to a method for manufacturing an inductive sensor is provided. The inductive sensor comprises a winding body, an induction coil made of a high-temperature resistant metal alloy and wound onto the winding body, and a metal casing at least partially surrounding the induction coil. Here, the induction coil is compressed with metal oxide powder inside the metal casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventor: Knut ROSENAU
  • Publication number: 20150115962
    Abstract: An MR coil former apparatus includes a body, a coil array, and a coil cover. The body defines a patient-facing positive surface opposite a non-patient-facing negative surface. The positive surface of the body includes an anatomic contour, and the coil array is disposed adjacent and conformed to the anatomic contour. The coil cover is disposed overlying the coil array and conformed to the anatomic contour.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Craig William Culver, John Edward Lorbiecki, Michael James Calloway, Sahil Bhatia, Tae Young Yang, YunJeong Stickle, Tom Zink, Darren Gregan
  • Publication number: 20150116069
    Abstract: There are provided a coil component having external connecting terminals firmly coupled to a bobbin thereof, and a method of manufacturing the same. The coil component includes: a bobbin having a coil wound therein; and at least one external connecting terminal coupled to the bobbin so that one end thereof protrudes outwardly, wherein the external connecting terminal includes a terminal pin inserted into the bobbin and an extension part enlarges a cross-sectional area of the terminal pin in the bobbin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Duck Jin AN, Soon Young KWON, Geun Young PARK
  • Publication number: 20150109223
    Abstract: A haptic electromagnetic actuator for track pad is provided. The actuator includes an array of electromagnets with alternating South and North poles on a first end, each magnet comprising a metal core and an electrical wire around the metal core. The array of magnets is coupled to a base plate on a second end opposite to the first end. The actuator also includes an attraction plate at a distance from the first end of the array of the magnets such that the attraction plate moves toward the magnets when an electrical current flows through the electrical wire around the metal core and moves away from the magnets when the current becomes zero. The array of magnets is configured to form a uniform gap from the attraction plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Patrick Kessler, Dhaval Chandrakant Patel, Jonah A. Harley, Brett W. Degner, Nicholas Alan Rundle, Peteris K. Augenbergs, Nicholaus Lubinski, Kenneth L. Staton, Omar Sze Leung
  • Publication number: 20150109085
    Abstract: A transformer and a method of manufacturing a transformer are disclosed. The transformer can include a transformer core with at least three core limbs which are arranged in parallel with respect to one another and perpendicular to corner points of an area spanned by a polygon, and wherein axial end regions of each of the at least three core limbs transition into a respective yoke segment arranged transversely with respect to the axial end regions. Main windings can be arranged around each of the at least three core limbs in a hollow-cylindrical winding region. A magnetic cross section of a respective core limb can be greater than a magnetic cross section of the respective yoke segment. Additional windings can be electrically connected to a respective main winding and can be arranged around each of the respective yoke segments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: ABB Technology AG
    Inventors: Benjamin WEBER, Frank CORNELIUS, Jiahua ZHANG, Martin CARLEN, Thorsten STEINMETZ
  • Publication number: 20150109082
    Abstract: There is provided a coil component capable of significantly decreasing interference between coil components while implementing a plurality of coil components as a single component. The coil component according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure may include: at least two drum cores; a plurality of coils wound around each of the respective drum cores; and a base interposed between the two drum cores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Duck Jin AN, Jin An JUNG, Young Min LEE, Eun Hee YOON
  • Patent number: 9009951
    Abstract: An electromagnetic component includes a coil portion with a multi-layer stack structure, a molded body encapsulating the coil portion, and two electrodes respectively coupled to two terminals of the coil portion. The coil portion is fabricated using plating, laminating and/or pressing manufacturing techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Cyntec Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wei-Chien Chang, Chia-Chi Wu, Lang-Yi Chiang, Tsung-Chan Wu, Jih-Hsu Yeh
  • Patent number: 9009949
    Abstract: A method of fabricating an electric machine stator includes inserting one or more electrical coils into a form and partially curing the one or more electrical coils. The method also includes populating the electric machine stator with the one or more electrical coils and curing the electric machine stator with one or more electrical coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: DRS Power Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Edgar S. Thaxton, Gregory Cervenka, Raymond Jones, Eric Tripodi
  • Publication number: 20150102890
    Abstract: A coil substrate includes a stacked structure in which a plurality of structures are stacked, each of the structures including a first insulating layer and a wiring formed on the first insulating layer, which becomes a part of a spiral-shaped coil; and an insulating film that covers a surface of the stacked structure, the spiral-shaped coil being formed by connecting the wirings of the adjacent structures in series.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventors: Atsushi NAKAMURA, Tsukasa NAKANISHI, Yoichi SASADA
  • Patent number: 9003641
    Abstract: A nickel strip is made from a starting material of solid cathode sheets having a minimum nickel content of 99.94% by weight and a maximum trace element content, in ppm by weight, of <35 carbon, <5 sulphur, <14 manganese, <11 magnesium, <11 aluminum, <25 titanium, and <15 silicon. The sheets are hot-rolled individually in a single layer/ply. The sheets are then joined to form the strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Inventor: Theodor Stuth
  • Publication number: 20150096168
    Abstract: A method of producing a transformer module by placing at least one transformer which includes a core, a primary winding, and a secondary winding at a bottom surface of a case at which a plurality of external terminals are provided. The method comprising placing two support columns on the bottom surface, placing the bottom surfaces of cores near the lead-out points of the leads of the windings at the two sides of the cores on core support parts of the two support columns to support them, stringing leads at the two sides of the cores to the external terminals and electrically joining them, removing the two support columns so that the bottom surfaces of the cores are placed on the bottom surface of the case, then fastening the cores to the bottom surface of the case to produce a transformer module where the leads from the cores are given excess length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Inventors: Masayuki ITOH, Hiroshi KUROSAWA
  • Patent number: 8997332
    Abstract: A method for forming an armature for an electric motor includes: securing a lamination stack having slots therein on an armature shaft, securing a commutator on one end of the armature shaft, winding magnet wires in the slots in the lamination stack and securing ends of the magnet wires to the commutator, the magnet wires having armature lead wires that extend from the slots to the commutator; and molding plastic over the magnet wires to encase at least the armature lead wires in plastic. Alternatively and/or additionally, plastic is molded over the magnet wires to retain them in the slots and to support the armature lead wires and prevent them from vibrating when the armature rotates during operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Hung T. Du, Brandon L. Verbrugge, Joshua F. West, Michael R. Sell, Richard T. Walter, David J. Smith, Earl M. Ortt, John C. Stone, Howard T. White
  • Publication number: 20150091687
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a winding and a method for preparing a winding of inductive devices. The winding includes at least a plurality of layers, where each layer includes at least one conductive loop; the conductive loops are electrically connected to form a winding; and the conductive loop or the portion of the conductive loop of at least one layer is not spatially aligned with the conductive loop or the portion of the conductive loop of at least one another layer. Preferably, except for the conductive loop that includes a center tap, other conductive loops are each divided into 2N loop sections, each loop section is electrically connected to a corresponding loop section of another layer through a pair of crossover conductive via plugs, so as to form N windings, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Applicant: MONTAGE TECHNOLOGY (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Raphael VALENTIN
  • Patent number: 8991036
    Abstract: A method for producing a gradient coil assembly for a magnetic resonance imaging system includes applying a number of primary gradient coils and a number of secondary gradient coils to a winding mandrel to form the gradient coil assembly. A control coil arrangement is associated with the winding mandrel. During an intermediate check before completion of the gradient coil assembly, at least one coupling inductance value between the control coil arrangement and at least one of the primary gradient coils and/or at least one of the secondary gradient coils is determined. An arrangement of the relevant gradient coils on the winding mandrel is corrected as a function of the at least one coupling inductance value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Sascha Fath, Ralph Kimmlingen, Johann Schuster
  • Publication number: 20150084406
    Abstract: An arrangement for providing a vehicle with electric energy includes a receiving device adapted to receive the magnetic component of an alternating electromagnetic field and to produce an alternating electric current by magnetic induction. The receiving device includes at least one phase line, each phase line being adapted to carry a phase of the alternating electric current. The at least one phase line forms a line arrangement which extends in a longitudinal direction transversely to a flux line direction, in which magnetic flux lines of the electromagnetic field penetrate the line arrangement, so that the line arrangement has a first end and a second end, the ends being located at opposite ends of the line arrangement in the longitudinal direction. The width of the line arrangement, gradually decreases along the extension of the line arrangement towards the first end and/or towards the second end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Robert Czainski, Konrad Woronowicz
  • Patent number: 8984742
    Abstract: A three dimensional soft magnetic metal mass suitable for milling is formed wrapping soft magnetic metal ribbon into a three dimensional shape and then applying adhesive to the three dimensional shape. The adhesive permeates the three dimensional shape. The adhesive is then cured. If the soft magnetic metal mass is made as a toroid, then it could be processed into an electromechanical component. The electro-mechanical component would then be suitable for use in very high frequency electric motors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Light Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas J. Berwald, Kendall Scott Page
  • Patent number: 8978239
    Abstract: A method for preparing a field coil winding assembly including cleaning a plurality of copper coils followed by developing, after the cleaning, a copper oxide layer on each of the copper coils by oxidizing each of the copper coils in a solution. After the developing, each of the copper coils is rinsed followed by drying. After the drying, a turn insulation system is applied to each of the copper coils. The turn insulation system includes a turn insulation and an adhesive. The turn insulation includes at least one of a glass fiber re-enforced polyamideimide, a glass fiber re-enforced polyester, or a glass fiber re-enforced high temperature novolac epoxy. After the applying, each of the copper coils with the turn insulation system is cured. The plurality of copper coils with the turn insulation system are stacked in each of a plurality of rotor slots in a rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: James Jun Xu, Stephen Frank Francese, Alan Michael Iversen, Leonard Paul Squillacioti
  • Publication number: 20150061809
    Abstract: A coil assembly is provided, comprising a coil former, a coil, and a connection block which is pivotally joined to the coil former. The coil is wound while the connection block is pivoted away, the winding wire ends are soldered to the terminal pins, and the connection block is pivoted close to the coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Ralf Hoffmann, Olaf Abel, Thomas Kuehne
  • Patent number: 8968490
    Abstract: A ferromagnetic amorphous alloy ribbon includes an alloy having a composition represented by FeaSibBcCd where 80.5?a?83 at. %, 0.5?b?6 at. %, 12?c?16.5 at. %, 0.01?d?1 at. % with a+b+c+d=100 and incidental impurities, the ribbon being cast from a molten state of the alloy with a molten alloy surface tension of greater than or equal to 1.1 N/m on a chill body surface; the ribbon having a ribbon length, a ribbon thickness, and a ribbon surface facing the chill body surface; the ribbon having ribbon surface protrusions being formed on the ribbon surface facing the chill body surface; the ribbon surface protrusions being measured in terms of a protrusion height and a number of protrusions; the protrusion height exceeding 3 ?m and less than four times the ribbon thickness, and the number of protrusions being less than 10 within 1.5 m of the cast ribbon length; and the alloy ribbon in its annealed straight strip form having a saturation magnetic induction exceeding 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignees: Metglas, Inc., Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Eric A. Theisen, James Perrozi, Yuichi Ogawa, Yuji Matsumoto, Daichi Azuma, Ryusuke Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20150054350
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus for wireless power transfer and particularly wireless power transfer to remote systems such as electric vehicles are disclosed. In one aspect an induction coil is provided comprising a plurality of substantially co-planar coils formed from one or more lengths of conducting material, each length of conducting material being electrically connectable at each end to a power source or battery, and wherein at least one of the lengths of conducting material is continuously wound around two or more of the coils. In another aspect, a method is provided for forming such an induction coil. In yet another aspect, a switching device is operable to alter the configuration of the coils, for example in response to a detected characteristic of another induction coil or device coupled thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2013
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Grant Anthony Covic, John Talbots Boys, Nicholas Athol Keeling, Edward van Boheemen, Michael Le Gallais Kissin, Jonathan Beaver, Mickel Bipin Budhia, Chang-Yu Huang
  • Patent number: 8959752
    Abstract: A transformer core manufacturing apparatus for manufacturing an annular transformer core having thin plates formed of magnetic materials laminated includes an uncoiler unit which allows a plurality of uncoilers each having a thin plate magnetic material coiled hoop-like to uncoil the magnetic material, a carrier unit for guiding a plurality of the magnetic materials uncoiled from the plurality of the uncoilers as a single group of magnetic body, a first alignment unit for aligning the carried group of the single magnetic body in a width direction, a cut-off unit for cutting the magnetic body aligned by the first alignment unit in a predetermined dimension, a laminating unit for laminating a plurality of the groups of the magnetic body cut by the cut-off unit, a second alignment unit for aligning the magnetic body laminated on the laminating unit, and a control unit for controlling operations of the above cited units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunsuke Ikeda, Junichi Ishizuki, Takashi Kurata, Eisuke Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20150048918
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a coil unit for a thin film inductor, a manufacturing method of a coil unit for a thin film inductor, a thin film inductor, and a manufacturing method of a thin film inductor. According to an embodiment, there is provided a coil unit for a thin film inductor. The coil unit includes an insulator having a dual insulating layer of different materials, and coil patterns respectively embedded in upper and lower surfaces of the insulator. The coil patterns include a coil pattern formed of a plurality of plating layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2014
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jeong Woo PARK, Seon Ha KANG, Oh Hi LEE
  • Publication number: 20150040381
    Abstract: A method for making a magnetic assembly comprises the following steps: twisting a first to eighth magnetic wires to form a bundle of wires having a first end and an opposite second end; providing a magnetic core; winding the bundle of magnetic wires around the magnetic core; sorting the first end and the second end of the bundle of wires to form individual first ends and individual second ends of the first to eighth wires; picking out the second ends of the first wire and the second wire, and the first ends of the third wire and the fourth wire to form a centre tap of a primary coil of a transformer; and picking out the second ends of the fifth wire and the sixth wire, and the first ends of the seventh wire and the eighth wire to form a centre tap of a secondary coil of the transformer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventors: YONG-CHUN XU, JIE ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20150035634
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Atsushi NAKAMURA, Tsukasa NAKANISHI, Yoichi SASADA