With Permanent Magnet Patents (Class 336/110)
  • Patent number: 5568005
    Abstract: The Acoustic Magnetic Field Power Generator uses an acoustic signal focused into a permanent magnet to stimulate the nuclear structure of the magnet to cause the magnetic field of the permanent magnet to move or oscillate. This effect can be used to tap power from the oscillating magnetic field by putting a coil of wire in the oscillating field. When an alternating current signal generator is connected simultaneously to an acoustic transducer and a stimulating coil; whereby, both the acoustic transducer and the stimulating coil are located within the magnetic field of the magnet, the acoustic signal enhances the stimulating effect to the permanent magnet transformer. The acoustic transducer can be any acoustic generation device such as a piezoelectric, magnetostictive, or other acoustic transducer. The combined effect of the acoustic signal and the stimulating coil increases the efficiency of permanent magnet induction transformers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1996
    Inventor: Dan A. Davidson
  • Patent number: 5473299
    Abstract: A horizontal linearity correction coil is used for a television receiver having a cathode ray tube of a wide deflection angle and has excellent productivity, quality and loading respectively. The ferrite magnetic core has the flanges at both ends and the middle and has a hollow shape at one winding core portion of the ferrite magnetic core. The windings are wound around the winding core portions and the permanent magnets are combined to both end flanges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1995
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutaka Tsutsumi, Isago Konno, Takanobu Ito
  • Patent number: 5462054
    Abstract: A permanent magnet assembly used for creating a uniform magnetic field across a portion of an air gap has a permanent magnet grouping, including a first, principal magnet, a pole piece contacting said principal magnet, and a set of auxiliary magnets extending about the periphery of the pole piece. Two such magnet groupings are positioned within a test chamber, separated a spacer, with the magnet groupings and the chamber defining the air gap across which the magnetic field extends. The strength and uniformity of the magnetic field is adjusted by including a second set of auxiliary permanent magnets or a set of electromagnetic shim coils positioned within the air gap surrounding and overtapping a portion of the air gap. Further adjustment of the magnetic field is accomplished shaping the front surfaces of the pole pieces, thus affecting the shape and direction of the resulting magnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1995
    Assignee: Advanced Techtronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Uri Rapoport, Richard Panosh
  • Patent number: 5350628
    Abstract: A magnetic material is provided which includes a discrete phase including grains made of a first substance which comprises a magnetic metal; and a continuous phase including a thin coating film made of a second substance which comprises a dielectric or insulating substance. The thin coating film is formed on the surface of the grains and has a mean thickness smaller than the mean particle size of the grains. The grains are separated substantially from each other by the thin coating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1994
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Koichi Kugimiya, Yasuhiro Sugaya, Osamu Inoue, Ken Hirota, Mitsuo Satomi
  • Patent number: 5350980
    Abstract: A nonlinear inductor for a CRT line timebase circuit comprises a bobbin carrying an inductive coil 41 and a first permanent magnet adjacent the coil. A second permanent magnet is positioned and oriented relative to the first magnet in such a manner that the magnetic field generated by the nonlinear inductor is substantially reduced. Because the second magnet is integral, the nonlinear inductor occupies the same printed circuit board area as a conventional nonlinear inductor. Furthermore, because the second magnet is oriented to substantially cancel the magnetic field, no additional magnets are required for deflecting the magnet field away from the CRT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1994
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Malcom Dye, Terence K. Gibbs, Ian D. Mercer, Graham Luck
  • Patent number: 5349320
    Abstract: An ignition coil for internal combustion engines including a primary core formed in a shape of rectangular ring and fixed on the inner peripheral edge of the bottom wall of a casing, a secondary core having a main portion of which is formed in a shape of straight beam, a primary winding assembly having a primary bobbin formed on the main portion of the secondary core, and a secondary winding assembly. Both winding assemblies are housed in an internal space of the casing, and a synthetic resin is filled in the internal space of the casing and cured. In the side wall of the casing is formed a rectangular opening portion which opens at the top end; and on the primary bobbin a rectangular closing member is formed integrally therewith. When the opening portion of the casing is closed with the closing member, both end faces in the longitudinal direction of the secondary core formed in the primary bobbin face to the inside peripheral surfaces of the primary core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1994
    Assignee: Aisan Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuo Suzuki, Koji Yoshikawa, Hitoshi Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 5335642
    Abstract: An ignition coil having primary and secondary coils, the primary coil wound around a central core member and including a permanent magnet made of a magnetic material that is less than fully dense, and is interposed between one end of the central core member and one end of an outer core surrounding the primary and secondary coil assembly and assuring the elimination of any air gap between the iron core and the central core member. The ignition coil further having a common modular design for a slip-in fit into differing modular housing designs depending upon the number of cylinders in the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1994
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: Robert L. Hancock, Steven E. Pritz, Robert C. Bauman, Shawn J. Nowlan
  • Patent number: 5320103
    Abstract: A permanent magnet assembly used for creating a uniform magnetic field across a portion of an air gap has a permanent magnet grouping, including a first, principal magnet, a pole piece contacting said principal magnet, and a set of auxiliary magnets extending about the periphery of the pole piece. Two such magnet groupings are positioned within a test chamber, separated a spacer, with the magnet groupings and the chamber defining the air gap across which the magnetic field extends. The strength and uniformity of the magnetic field is adjusted by including a second set of auxiliary permanent magnets or a set of electromagnetic shim coils positioned within the air gap surrounding and overtapping a portion of the air gap. Further adjustment of the magnetic field is accomplished shaping the front surfaces of the pole pieces, thus affecting the shape and direction of the resulting magnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1994
    Assignee: Advanced Techtronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Uri Rapoport, Richard Panosh
  • Patent number: 5241941
    Abstract: An ignition coil having annular primary and secondary coils, the primary coil wound around a central core member and including a permanent magnet made of a magnetic material that is less than fully dense, and is interposed between one end of the central core member and one end of a C-shaped iron core surrounding the primary and secondary coil assembly and assuring the elimination of any air gap between the C-shaped iron core and the central core member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1993
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: Robert L. Hancock, Steven E. Pritz, Robert C. Bauman, Shawn J. Nowlan
  • Patent number: 5221892
    Abstract: A direct current flux compression transformer includes a magnetic envelope having poles defining a magnetic axis and characterized by a pattern of magnetic flux lines in polar symmetry about the axis. The magnetic flux lines are spatially displaced relative to the magnetic envelope using control elements which are mechanically stationary relative to the core. Further provided are inductive elements which are also mechanically stationary relative to the magnetic envelope. Spatial displacement of the flux relative to the inductive elements will cause flow of electrical current. Further provided are magnetic flux valves which provide for the varying of the magnetic reluctance to create a time domain pattern of respectively enhanced and decreased magnetic reluctance across such magnetic valves and, thereby, across the inductive elements. A flow of electric current is generated without mechanical motion of inductive elements relative to the magnetic envelope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1993
    Inventors: Richard A. Sullivan, Melvin K. Silverman
  • Patent number: 5146906
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes a cylinder head having a plug insertion hole, an ignition plug inserted in the plug insertion hole and having an input terminal covered with a plug cap. An ignition system includes an ignition coil assembly having a primary coil, a secondary coil, and a core extending through the primary and secondary coils, the ignition coil assembly being disposed in the plug cap. The ignition system also includes magnets mounted on respective ends of the core, the magnets being oriented so as to produce magnetic fluxes in a direction opposite to magnetic fluxes generated by the primary coil. The ignition system also has a shield member of a magnetic material surrounding the ignition coil assembly, and an insulating member of an electrically nonconductive material interposed between the shield member and an inner wall surface of the plug insertion hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1992
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Eiji Agatsuma
  • Patent number: 5128645
    Abstract: The invention is directed to an ignition coil for use in an internal combustion engine. The ignition coil includes a core having at least two parts between which a gap is formed. A primary winding and a secondary winding are mounted on the core in such a manner that the gap of the core is substantially enclosed in the primary winding at least. A permanent magnet, whose cross section is larger in area than the cross section of the core, is disposed in the gap of the core to form a substantially closed magnetic circuit with the core. Preferably, there are disposed a primary bobbin for mounting thereon the primary winding and receiving therein the permanent magnet, and a secondary bobbin for mounting thereon the secondary winding and receiving therein the primary bobbin with the primary winding mounted thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1992
    Assignee: Aisan Koygo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Koichi Suda
  • Patent number: 5128646
    Abstract: The invention is directed to an ignition coil for use in an internal combustion engine. The ignition coil includes a center core which has a plurality of core members aligned. At least one permanent magnet is disposed between the core members. A primary winding and a secondary winding are mounting on the center core and permanent magnet. The permanent magnet is enclosed in the primary winding at least. An outer core having at least one core member is disposed around the primary winding and secondary winding. One end of the outer core is connected to one end of the center core, wheras the other end of the outer core is connected to the other end of the center core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1992
    Assignee: Aisan Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshiro Suzuki, Koji Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 5101803
    Abstract: An ignition coil disposed and used in the neighborhood of a part made of a conductive material is provided with a first core made of a magnetic material, around which a primary coil and a secondary coil are wound; and a second core made of a magnetic material and having a cylindrical portion, in which the primary coil and the secondary coil and the first core are contained, and forms a closed magnetic path in conjunction with the first core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1992
    Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naotaka Nakamura, Shigemi Ito
  • Patent number: 5103201
    Abstract: A switching mode power transformer for operation as feedback converter has a core which is made in only one piece and which does not require any particular finishing operations. The core has a center core part with windings thereon and outer core parts which are chamfered on their mutually remote sides to form outer surfaces which converge towards each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1992
    Assignee: Vogt Electronic Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Anton Schmeller
  • Patent number: 4989574
    Abstract: An electromagnetic pickup has a coil and a core. A noise shielding cylindrical member of magnetic material is provided around the coil to form an open magnetic circuit between the noise shielding member and the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kunihiro Abe
  • Patent number: 4990881
    Abstract: In an ignition coil in which an air gap portion is provided at a portion of an iron core forming a closed magnetic circuit, which includes an exciting part iron core having a primary coil and a secondary coil wound therearound, and a strong permanent magnet is inserted in the air gap portion, the closed magnetic circuit is constructed to have the iron core and permanent magnet provided with respective suitable shapes, dimensions, properties, etc. so as to make most of the characteristics of the strong permanent magnet, thereby drastically reducing the size and weight of the ignition coil. Further, a concrete improvement of the construction of the closed magnetic circuit of the ignition coil is attained to assure excellent magnetoelectric conversion performance of the ignition coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1991
    Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinji Ooyabu
  • Patent number: 4904926
    Abstract: A magnetic motion electrical generator includes an electrical winding defining a magnetically conductive zone having bases at each end, the winding including elements for the removing of an induced current therefrom. The generator further includes two pole magnets, each having a first and a second pole, each first pole in magnetic communication with one base of the magnetically conductive zone. The generator further includes a third pole magnet, the third pole magnet oriented intermediately of the first poles of the two pole electromagnets and in magnetic communication with the electromagnets, the third pole magnet having a magnetic axis substantially transverse to an axis of the magnetically conductive zone, the third magnet having a pole nearest to the conductive zone and in magnetic attractive relationship to the first poles of the two pole electromagnets, in which the first poles thereof are like poles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 27, 1990
    Inventor: Mario Pasichinskyj
  • Patent number: 4878412
    Abstract: A pickup for an electrical instrument of the stringed type which comprises a pair of coil assemblies disposed within hollow magnetic bushings, the coils having its winding axis perpendicular to the strings, a hollow cylindrical shaped permanent magnet made of rubber-like plastic positioned around the outside circumference of each coil assembly, parallel to the winding axis of the coil. The direction of coil winding and magnet polarity around the first bobbin is opposite to that of the second bobbin. The magnets being disposed within the body of the pickup, said magnets serving as a sleeve for mounting coil assemblies and coil forms and suppresses microphonics by acting as a dampening means. A very dense and improved magnetic flux path passes from the inside surface of the hollow magnets through the coil assemblies disposed within said magnetic assemblies, said flux then sweeping the string area in a radial motion therein producing a novel tone having improved sustain qualties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 7, 1989
    Inventor: Martin H. Resnick
  • Patent number: 4869144
    Abstract: Slotted bobbins consisting of a plurality of wire coils, are secured within a pickup for a stringed instrument assembly having an upper plate with a plurality of slots running in the direction of the strings, the slots of the bobbins being aligned with those of the upper plate. A magnetic pole piece is slidably disposed within each slot, each pole piece being independently slidable along the length of its slot, to allow reading each string at a different spectrum. The pole pieces are releasably secured within the slots so that they can be set at a desired point prior to playing of the instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1989
    Assignee: Thomas G. Lieber
    Inventor: Thomas G. Lieber
  • Patent number: 4849728
    Abstract: The invention provides an iduction generator comprising a plastic injection-molded housing having a port and one or more pole shoe(s) associated with a permanent magnet. A plastic bobbin inserted into the port and having a coil wound thereon which, through soldering eyelets, is connected to two contact tags in communication with an outwardly guided cable. A mounting member, with the port at the end thereof facing the soldering eyelets being closely sealed by a lid welded to the housing.To provide an induction generator that is easy to manufacture and that insures a substantially improved operation, the port of the housing at the end thereof facing away from the soldering eyelets is closed by a bottom integrally formed with the housing and the pole shoe or shoes along with the associated permanent magnet are integrated in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1989
    Assignee: Alfred Eves, GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Goll, Erkenbert Wehner
  • Patent number: 4808925
    Abstract: For use with casing having flush joint collars, a detection system is set forth which comprises a tool body made of nonmagnetic material and enclosing abutted first, second and third permanent magnets. The magnets are axially aligned, abutted so that opposing poles are in contact with one another, thereby forming a magnetic field from the center magnet which is focused out into the metal of the casing. Separate detection coils spaced along the tool body detect signals induced by variations in magnetic reluctance as the tool traverses the cased well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1989
    Assignee: Halliburton Company
    Inventor: Gary K. Baird
  • Patent number: 4774465
    Abstract: A sensor for identifying the position of a test object has a strip-shaped core of low magnetic coercivity which is magnetized with opposite polarities by two excitation coils disposed at opposite ends of the core, and a secondary coil wrapped around the core between the two excitation coils. The test object generates a magnetic field which saturates the core at a location corresponding to the position of the test object between the two excitation coils, thereby simulating an air gap in the core at this location. The voltage across the terminals of the secondary coil changes in accordance with the position of the simulated air gap, thus providing a signal indicating the position of the test object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1988
    Assignee: Vacuumschmelze GmbH
    Inventor: Hans-Joachim Nilius
  • Patent number: 4713589
    Abstract: A sawtooth current fed to a cathode ray tube horizontal deflection coil is linearized with a structure including first and second saturable cores respectively coupled to the north and south pole sides of a single permanent magnet. The permanent magnet is interposed between the cores so that a magnetic flux caused by the permanent magnet passes through the first and second saturable cores in series. First and second windings, respectively wound on the first and second saturable cores and connected in series with each other, are arranged such that, when a current flows through them in one direction, a magnetic flux induced by the first winding in the first core is added to the magnetic flux coupled by the permanent magnet in the first saturable core and the magnetic flux coupled by the permanent magnet to the second core is subtracted from magnetic flux induced by the second winding in the second core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1987
    Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shigeru Kashiwagi
  • Patent number: 4675615
    Abstract: A magnetic amplifier employing a single four-legged ferrite core having orthogonally disposed through holes in the core. Biasing is provided of the magnetic core so as to provide operation in the non-linear parts of the core's hysteresis cycle. A first coil on the ferromagnetic core has an AC excitation signal applied thereto and a second coil on the core is wound orthogonally to the first coil and is adapted to have an output signal derived therefrom. A control or input current in a third coil is used to unbalance the magnetic bridge formed by the four legs, so as to produce a mutual inductance different from zero between the first and second coil. The biasing may be provided by a fourth coil or by permanent magnet means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1987
    Inventor: Donato Bramanti
  • Patent number: 4647892
    Abstract: A dual magnetic sensor utilizing a pair of separate coils to generate separate and isolated signals from a single pickup point, each signal having a power output at least equal to that of a conventional single coil sensor, the dual sensor having physical dimensions making it substitutable for a conventional single coil sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1987
    Inventor: John T. Hewitt
  • Patent number: 4627292
    Abstract: A position and motion transducer is described comprising means for providing a permanent magnetic field adjacent an appropriately oriented toroidal transformer, which can be either an isolation transformer or an autotransformer. The means for providing a permanent magnetic field, in an especially useful embodiment is a permanent magnet cobalt disk magnet with its surface pole facing generally radially in the plane of the torus or generally perpendicular the axis thereof. Appropriate excitation of one winding of the toroidal transformer enables readout equipment connected with the other winding to indicate the position and movement of the magnet relative the toroid. Appropriate mounting of the magnet enables various measurands to be indicated. For example, mounting the magnet on or for movement with a diaphragm enables fluid pressures applied thereto to be measured while mounting the magnet on a spring support force plate or piston/cylinder enables the force or weight applied thereto to be measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 9, 1986
    Assignee: Randek Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen A. Dekrone
  • Patent number: 4627407
    Abstract: To reliably provide ignition energy only to specific spark plugs (11, 12; 14, 15) of a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine (ICE), a double-E core has primary windings (6, 8) located on a main or central branch, and separate secondary windings (10, 13) located in shunt branches, each secondary winding being associated with respective spark plugs. The primary windings are so energized that, at any one time, only one of the primary windings is conductive. In accordance with the invention, permanent-magnet biasing magnets (18, 20) are located in air gaps in the shunt magnetic paths (17, 19), and so polarized that the flux generated upon current flow through the respective branches of the primary windings is counter the bias magnetization of the respective magnet (18, 20) in the respective shunt path (17, 19) on which the secondary winding (10, 13) is wound which is associated with the respectively energized primary winding (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 9, 1986
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Dieter Betz
  • Patent number: 4596973
    Abstract: An inductive transmitter has a housing 1 within which two pole shoes 8, a permanent magnet 7 arranged between the pole shoes 8 and a coil 6 surrounding the permanent magnet 7 and the pole shoes 8 are arranged. The two ends of the coil 6 are connected with an output connection from which a cable 16 is conducted outwardly from the housing 1. The electric components, such as the coil 6, output connection pieces 9, 9' and output connection contacts 23, 23', are arranged in the watertight inside of the housing 1, while the permanent magnet 7 and the pole shoes 8 are received in a pot-shaped recess 14 developed communicatingly outside the inside of the housing in a coil support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 24, 1986
    Assignee: VDO Adolf Schindling AG
    Inventors: Roland Form, Horst Welter
  • Patent number: 4546753
    Abstract: A coil including a closed magnetic circuit (1), constituted by metal sheets which are stamped and stacked, so as to form a first part (12) which is U-shaped, of which one of the portions (12a) is stamped with a chamfered edge (12b), a second part (13), which is L-shaped, has a portion (13a) stamped with a chamfered edge (13b) such that after an insulating housing (6) containing the primary (4) and secondary (5) windings has been located on the arm (8) and a permanent magnet (2) has been inserted between the chamfers (12b and 13b) the first and second parts (12 and 13) are made rigid, by means of rivets (14, 15) and extensions (9b) of the metal plates (9) constituting a shunt circuit for magnetic flux created by the primary winding (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1985
    Assignee: Ducellier & Cie
    Inventor: Jean M. Pierret
  • Patent number: 4544803
    Abstract: A positional transducer includes a nonconductive plate having four ferrite tube inductors mounted at preselected locations in the plate. Two interconnected permanent magnets are mounted on either side of the plate with opposite poles facing the plate for magnetic interaction. Manual movement of the permanent magnets varies the impedance of the inductors to indicate the relative position of the magnets to the inductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1985
    Assignee: Ceramic Magnetics, Inc.
    Inventor: George E. Schaller
  • Patent number: 4544890
    Abstract: A flat coil velocity transducer includes a thin, flat coil mounted to a member whose velocity is to be measured. The convolutions of the coil are skewed so that regions at opposite ends of the coil contain predominantly upper or lower legs of the convolutions. The coil moves transverse to a magnetic field to induce voltage in the legs of the coil. However, the field induces voltage in one, but not the other, end region so that a resultant voltage is induced in the coil dependent on the strength and direction of the magnetic field, the number and length of the legs in the region, and the direction and velocity of movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1985
    Assignee: Magnetic Peripherals Inc.
    Inventor: Glenn D. Albert
  • Patent number: 4494109
    Abstract: Noncontacting transformer switches are interconnected into keyboard networks which include insertable magnetic core, shorted turn or combination actuators. In a preferred embodiment, windings are provided and interconnected to form differential transformers. An actuator is inserted through one primary/secondary winding pair to switch the differential transformer between a balanced or "off" state and an unbalanced or "on" state. In one embodiment, single turn primary windings and their interconnecting network are printed on one side of a printed circuit board, and single turn secondary windings and their interconnecting network are printed in proper alignment on the opposite side of the board. A single hole aligned with a switched primary/secondary winding pair is provided for each transformer switch and actuators are arranged to be inserted through the holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 15, 1985
    Inventor: Victor M. Bernin
  • Patent number: 4491819
    Abstract: An inductor having an air gap in its magnetic core is provided with a magnetic shield which surrounds the inductor air gap to not only reverse bias the inductor magnetic circuit so as to increase the amount of current required to achieve inductor saturation but also to return any stray flux radiating from the inductor back into the inductor magnetic circuit to reduce the radiated electromagnetic interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 1, 1985
    Assignee: Allen-Bradley Company
    Inventor: Glen Ray
  • Patent number: 4471303
    Abstract: A flexural vibration sensor including a housing fabricated from a magnetizable material for providing an internal magnetic path and having a coupling surface for contact with an associated structural member; electrically conductive coil means positioned within the housing; and means for generating a magnetic field within the internal magnetic path, through the coil means and along the coupling surface in the region exterior to the housing so that variations in the strength of that portion of the magnetic field in the region exterior to the housing caused by flexural vibration of the associated structural member when the sensor is attached thereto are sensed by the electrically conductive coil means and manifested by a variable electrical signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1982
    Date of Patent: September 11, 1984
    Assignee: Design Professionals Financial Corporation
    Inventor: Shigeo Okubo
  • Patent number: 4398419
    Abstract: A rotational angle sensor arrangement includes a casing, a rotary center shaft rotatably supported by the casing, a permanent magnetic secured to the casing, and at least one magnetically soft member carrying an electrical winding thereon firmly disposed in the casing. A ferromagnetic member is attached to the rotary shaft, and is capable of angular displacement above the upper ends of the permanent magnet and the magnetically soft member without making contact with the same. The angular displacement of the ferromagnetic material member causes corresponding changes in the magnetic flux provided by the permanent magnet acting on the magnetically soft member which are detected. The magnetically soft member is preferably formed from an amorphous magnetic material. Various embodiments of the rotational angle sensor device are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1983
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Company, Limited
    Inventor: Shinichiro Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 4398180
    Abstract: In a contactless keyboard including for each key a transformer with a core displaceable by the key operation and including a compensation transformer common to all key the compensation transformer is so designed that with an unactuated key the signal component of the compensation transformer in the signal applied to the evaluation circuit exceeds the component of the key transformer, whereas with an actuated key the signal component of the key transformer predominates. Therefrom results a phase change of the signal applied to the evaluation circuit with the actuation of a key. The evaluation circuit compares the phase of the key output signal with that of a reference signal. For increasing the immunity from disturbance the evaluation circuit delivers an output signal (key operated or key nonoperated) only when several successive comparison operations give the same result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1983
    Assignee: International Standard Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Johannes Rometsch, Werner U. Frey, Hans Diem
  • Patent number: 4382230
    Abstract: A magneto-electric sensor for sensing the movement of a moving part in a severe environment, comprising a magnetic circuit, in front of the pole faces of which moves a permanent magnet connected to the mobile part, and electric windings at the terminals of which the induced voltages are collected, wherein said windings are reduced to two turns formed by cutting out the support plate of the magnetic circuit, and connected in parallel to said terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 3, 1983
    Assignee: Thomson-CSF
    Inventor: Gerard Gauthier
  • Patent number: 4380928
    Abstract: A rotational angle sensor device includes a casing, a movable body rotatably supported on the casing, a permanent magnet secured to the movable body, a magnetically soft member adjacent to the permanent magnet, and an electrical coil wound on the magnetically soft member. The movable body is responsive to a rotational angle or angular displacement caused by an external object, in response to which the permanent magnet moves in relation to the magnetically soft member, causing variations in the external flux. Those variations in external flux cause corresponding variations in the time interval from the instant at which a voltage is applied to the electrical coil to the instant at which the coil current reaches a certain level. The variations in the time interval are detected to determine the rotational angle caused by the external object. The magnetically soft member is preferably formed from an amorphous magnetically soft material. Various embodiments of the rotational angle sensor device are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1983
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Company, Limited
    Inventor: Shinichiro Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 4339955
    Abstract: A pressure sensor comprising a pressure-displacement translating mechanism including a movable body driven by a hydraulic pressure and a spring for urging the movable body in a direction opposite the pressure, and a displacement-pulse phase conversion unit including a permanent magnet secured to the movable body and a magnetically soft member carrying an electrical coil thereon and disposed at a stationary point adjacent to the region of movement of the permanent magnet. A pulse voltage is applied to one end of the electrical coil, the other end of which is connected in series with a resistor. A voltage drop across the resistor is detected, and a time lag of the voltage drop with respect to the pulse voltage, representing a measure of hydraulic pressure, is provided in the form of an analog voltage or a digital code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1980
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1982
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinichiro Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 4331907
    Abstract: To provide linearity correction to horizontal scanning current, a linearity coil is coupled to the horizontal deflection winding of a horizontal deflection circuit. The magnetic structure of the linearity coil includes a magnetizable material with generally rectangularly cross-sectioned center and end sections. The faces of the end sections are oriented generally perpendicular to an axis of the center section thereby forming an H-bar core. The H-bar core is located inside a plastic coilform cup, with the sides of the cup generally conforming to the shape of the core. Permanent magnets for biasing the H-bar core are located at opposite ends of the coilform cup adjacent the end sections of the core. The linearity coil conductor turns are wound around the coilform cup over the center section of the H-bar core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1982
    Assignee: RCA Corporation
    Inventors: David E. Laux, Kenneth E. Meyer
  • Patent number: 4314202
    Abstract: A flexural vibration sensor including a housing fabricated from a magnetizable material for providing an internal magnetic path and having a coupling surface for contact with an associated structural member; electrically conductive coil means positioned within the housing; and means for generating a magnetic field within the internal magnetic path, through the coil means and along the coupling surface in the region exterior to the housing so that variations in the strength of that portion of the magnetic field in the region exterior to the housing caused by flexural vibration of the associated structural member when the sensor is attached thereto are sensed by the electrically conductive coil means and manifested by a variable electrical signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1978
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1982
    Inventor: Shigeo Okubo
  • Patent number: 4300127
    Abstract: A solid state noncontacting mechanically actuated keyboard type switch and interconnecting networks for switch arrays are described herein. The basic switch is a balanced or differential transformer element with a movable magnetic core, or shorted turn, actuator which is inserted through one-half of the transformer element, one primary-secondary pair, causing the transformer to change from a balanced or "off" state to an unbalanced or "on" state. The single turn coils that make up the differential transformer element lie in a plane, and in one embodiment of this invention the primary coils and their interconnecting network are printed on one side of a doubled sided printed circuit board, and the secondary coils and their interconnecting network are printed in proper alignment on the opposite side. A hole is provided through the printed circuit board for each transformer element for insertion of a magnetic actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1978
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1981
    Inventor: Victor M. Bernin
  • Patent number: 4257026
    Abstract: An adjustable linearity coil assembly for use such as with a cathode ray picture tube. The coil is adjustable for providing correction for non-linearity of the display on the picture tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1979
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1981
    Assignee: Bel-Tronics Corporation
    Inventors: Ted S. Zelazo, Thomas J. Wright
  • Patent number: 4222263
    Abstract: A crankshaft position transducer system for providing triggering pulses for an electronic ignition system comprising an internal combustion engine having a flywheel, a pair of reference elements mounted at circumferentially and radially spaced locations on the flywheel and a transducer head having two individual transducers. Each individual transducer co-operates with a respective one of the reference elements to produce a triggering pulse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1980
    Assignee: Lucas Industries Limited
    Inventor: Clifford M. Armstrong
  • Patent number: 4156223
    Abstract: An improved positional transducer is disclosed which utilizes an elongated, hollow, cylindrical tube of a magnetically saturable material, a sense wire that runs through the tube parallel to its elongated axis and a pair of elongated, generally rectangular shaped magnets of opposite polarity which are closely positioned adjacent diametrically opposite exterior portions of the tube. As the magnets move over in the tube, they provide substantially complete saturation of the tube in the portion over which they extend while the remaining portion of the tube remains unsaturated thereby giving a linear indication of the position of the magnets with respect to the tube. In the improved version, shown herein, adjustments of the electrical slope (volts/inches of travel) are achieved by a slot cut through the wall of the tube in the direction of the tube's length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1978
    Date of Patent: May 22, 1979
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventor: John D. Spindler
  • Patent number: 4146859
    Abstract: A saturable reactor for correction of pincushion distortion of a TV picture tube raster has, in one form, a magnetically saturable two window core. A single wire control coil is wound transversely around the central leg segment of the core and is connected with the vertical frequency sawtooth driver in a parabolic wave shaping network. A first load coil, wound transversely around one outer core leg, is connected in series circuit with the horizontal frequency sawtooth driver and the horizontal deflection coils. A second load coil is wound around the exterior of the core, in lengthwise embracing relation to its other outer leg, and is connected in series with the vertical deflection coils and also in a phase inverting resonant loop circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1979
    Assignee: Whitewater Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Patric C. Quirke
  • Patent number: 4137512
    Abstract: A contactless magnetic switch is provided by utilizing at least one pair of hollow elongated tubular magnetic sensing elements which are each threaded with at least one sense wire and a movable permanent magnet which is positioned adjacent and over the sensing elements. The magnet has two straight edges which in a nominal zero position of the switch extend along the longitudinal axes of the sensing elements, preferably for a distance which is slightly longer than their lengths. The magnet is carried in a revolvable or otherwise movable carrier. If the carrier is revolvable, the magnet may be shaped as part of a circular disc and the two tubes may have their longitudinal axes disposed at an angle relative to each other so that when the permanent magnet is rotated in one direction from the initial zero position, one of the sensing elements will lie completely under the magnet while the other will be removed from the magnet and not affected by it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1979
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventor: Edward F. Sidor
  • Patent number: 4122385
    Abstract: A current limiter to protect circuit elements from excessive current caused by transient load impedance or power supply surges. A multiple branch element magnetic circuit includes at least one saturable branch element inductively coupled by a coil connected in series with the load of an external electric circuit. The magnetic circuit further includes lower permeance bias branch element which biases the saturable branch element in a low permeance, saturated state when current through the coil is below a predetermined threshold value, and which biases at least one saturable branch element in its high permeance, non-saturated state when current through the coil is in a predetermined range above and extending from the threshold value. A relatively high permeance shunt branch element provides a shunt path for magnetic flux.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1978
    Assignee: The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.
    Inventor: George A. Oberbeck
  • Patent number: 4121185
    Abstract: An improved linear position sensor that utilizes a pair of elongated magnetically permeable tubular sensing elements and a pair of elongated magnets positioned to move with respect to the tubular sensing elements is disclosed. The sensor is provided with a housing structure having a pair of guide slots which guide a support plate for the tubular sensing elements, and a second pair of guide slots formed at right angles to the first pair of guide slots, which guide a pair of wings on the control member that carries the magnets, so that the elongated tubular sensing elements and the magnetic elements are accurately retained in place with respect to each other. The housing is formed with channels in its interior which receive a pair of elongated coil springs that bias the member. The structure is designed for ease of assembly with snap-together sub-assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1978
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventor: Earl James Genz