Abstract: An isolation coupling structure for transmitting a feedback signal between a secondary side and a primary side of a voltage conversion device includes a first dielectric layer including a first face and a second face opposite to the first face, a first coupling coil disposed on the first face enclosing to form an inner region; a second coupling coil configured to couple with the first coupling coil. The second coupling coil includes a first coil portion and a second coil portion, where the first coil portion is disposed on the second face, the second coil portion is disposed on the first face and located inside the inner region. The second coil portion is isolated from the first coupling coil, and the first coil portion and the second coil portion are electrically connected. The technical effect is that it can realize the electrical isolation and the coupling with low cost and small package size.

Abstract: Apparatus and associated methods relate to a linear variable differential transformer (LVDT) probe. The LVDT probe includes a plunger rod and a metal sheet formed into a cylinder with a C-shaped cross-section, the metal sheet configured to couple to the plunger rod. In an illustrative example, the coupling may be an interference fit aided by spring retention forces of the metal sheet. The metal sheet may be stamped, formed and applied to the plunger rod without annealing. In another example, the C-shaped metal sheet may be welded to the plunger rod at a distal and/or proximal end. The ratio of relative electromagnetic permeability of the metal sheet to the plunger rod may be greater than 10.

Abstract: A valve control head is provided, comprising a housing, control electronics, at least one control valve, fluid connections, electrical connections, a first measuring object, rigidly coupled to a first valve closure part, and a position measuring system, comprising measuring electronics and a first position sensor, wherein the first position sensor can detect a position of the first measuring object, and wherein the valve control head comprises a fastening device formed to couple a second position sensor.

Abstract: A method is provided for determining the thermal expansion of a low thermal expansion material with very high accuracy of at most +/?3 ppb/K or less and/or with a reproducibility of at most +/?1 ppb/K or less. A measuring device is also provided that includes an advanced push rod dilatometer.

Abstract: A tunable magnetic assembly includes a bobbin, an outer core, and an inner core. The bobbin has a first and second flanges. The bobbin has a passageway extending between the first and second flange. The passageway has a spiral track defined in a passageway surface. The outer core is positioned around the first and second flanges. The outer core includes an opening positioned near the first flange. The inner core is positioned in the opening and in the cylindrical passageway. The inner core includes at least one protrusion extending from an outer surface and configured to engage the spiral track. A gap distance is defined between the inner core and a portion of the outer core near the second flange. The gap distance is adjustable by moving the protrusion within the spiral track. Adjusting the gap distance modifies the inductance.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a power semiconductor system includes providing a power stage module having one or more power transistor dies attached to or embedded in a first printed circuit board and attaching an inductor module to the power stage module such that the inductor module is electrically connected to an output node of the power stage module. The inductor module includes a ferrite sheet embedded in a second printed circuit board and windings patterned into the second printed circuit board. Further methods of manufacturing power semiconductor systems and methods of manufacturing inductor modules are also described.

Abstract: A flow meter for determining the flow rate of a fluid through a conduit, including an upper body having an inlet chamber, an acoustic channel, an outlet chamber, a sound wave generator, and a sound wave receiver. The inlet chamber, acoustic channel, and outlet chamber are fluidly connected together and are oriented so as to create a symmetrical fluid pathway through the inlet chamber, the acoustic channel the outlet chamber. The sound wave generator and the sound wave receiver are aligned along a longitudinal axis of the acoustic channel and the sound wave generator is creates a sound wave that moves along the longitudinal axis of the acoustic channel as fluid flows through the acoustic chamber. The receiver detects that sound wave that has moved through the acoustic channel and such information is used to determine the flow rate of the fluid through the flow meter.

Abstract: Methods and devices for measuring the size of a body lumen and a method for ablating tissue that uses the measurement to normalize delivery of ablational energy from an expandable operative element to a luminal target of varying circumference are provided. The method includes inserting into the lumen an expandable operative element having circuitry with resistivity or inductance that varies with circumference of the operative element, varying the expansion of the operative element with an expansion medium, measuring the resistivity of the circuitry, and relating the resistivity or inductance to a value for the circumference of the operative element. In some embodiments the sizing circuit includes a conductive elastomer wrapped around the operative element. Other embodiments apply to operative elements that include an overlapping energy delivery element support in which the overlap varies inversely with respect to the state of expansion, and electrodes that sense the amount of the overlap.

Abstract: A multilayered electromagnetic assembly. The assembly has a plurality of substantially planar substrate layers, each substrate layer having a cutaway portion. An insulated electrically conductive material is provided, arranged in a spiral configuration on at least two of the substrate layers. The spiral configuration is formed from adjacent the cutaway portion to the edges of the substrate layer. The electrically conductive material is formed substantially on and/or partially recessed or beneath the surface of the substrate layer. The spiral configurations has first and second electrical contacts that are operable to pass electric current to electrical contacts of spiral configurations on other substrate layers. A ferromagnetic core is located through the cutaway portions of the substrate layers. The substrate layers are stacked and an electrical current is passed sequentially through the two or more spiral configurations, thereby generating a magnetic field in the core.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for power contacting having a contact-pin receptacle and at least one electrical connector where the contact-pin receptacle is integrally formed from two partial contacts that are arranged one over the other at a distance from each other and can be moved relative to each other. Each partial contact has an opening with contact arms protruding into the opening, and the two openings are arranged coaxial to each other. The contact arms of one opening are bent toward the contact arms of the other opening in such a way that the contact arms mesh with each other.

Abstract: Embodiments generally relate to linear variable displacement transformer (LVDT) position sensors. The position sensor comprises a bobbin, a moveable core, a primary coil of wire wound around the bobbin, and two secondary coils of wire wound around the bobbin about the primary coil using a fractional winding technique. For example, the winding length of the bobbin may be separated into three consecutive parts. Generally, the primary coil may be wound around the entire winding length of the bobbin. The first secondary coil may be wound around the first and second parts of the winding length. The second secondary coil may be wound around the second and third parts of the winding length. Additionally, the first secondary coil and the second secondary coil may overlap over the second part of the winding length.

Abstract: A cable that includes outer cable jacketing located about a conductor layer. The conductor layer includes cable elements that are resistant to compression and a plurality of compression-resistant members.

Abstract: There are provided a coil component and a board having the same. The coil component may include: a magnetic body including a substrate having two cores, first and second coil parts disposed on one surface of the substrate, and third and fourth coil parts disposed on the other surface of the substrate; a connection part disposed to penetrate through the two cores in the magnetic body and connecting the two cores to each other; and first to fourth external electrodes disposed on outer surfaces of the magnetic body and connected to the first to fourth coil parts.

Abstract: An apparatus of adjusting and controlling the stacking-up layer manufacturing comprises a target, a powder providing unit, an energy generating unit, and a magnetism unit. The powder providing unit is coupled on a top of the target. The energy generating unit is also coupled on the top of the target. The powder providing unit provides a powder to a surface of the target. The energy generating unit provides the energy beam to selectively heat the powder on the surface of the target to form a melted or sintered powder layer. The magnetism unit provides a magnetic field to control the solidification of the melted or sintered powder layer.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electromagnet includes a first electromagnet coil having a first portion and a second portion. The first portion of the first electromagnet coil extends in a direction in parallel with a first plane. The second portion of the first electromagnet coil extends in a direction in parallel with a second plane. The first and second planes intersect at a predetermined angle.

Abstract: Motorized skating systems and methods for controlling the systems are disclosed. One exemplary system may include a primary skate and a secondary skate. The primary skate may include a sensor configured to detect a tilting signal. The primary skate may also include a first processor. The processor may be configured to determine a first control signal for moving the primary skate based on the tilting signal and determine a motion signal for moving the secondary skate based on the first control signal. The primary skate may further include a first communication interface configured to send the motion signal to the secondary skate. The secondary skate may include a second communication interface configured to receive the motion signal from the first communication interface. The secondary skate may also include a second processor configured to determine a second control signal for moving the secondary skate based on the received motion signal.

Abstract: A method of assembling the ignition coil assembly including a first spool, a first coil, and a second spool. The first coil is wound around a first spool outer surface. The first spool and the first coil are disposed within a cavity of the second spool and an electrically insulating material injected into an annular space defined between a first coil outer surface and a second spool inner surface. The first spool is configured to allow a decrease of a circumference of the first spool when the first coil is wound around an outer surface of the first spool. Decreasing the circumference of the first spool increases the annular space sufficient to inject the electrically insulating material into the annular space without creating substantial voids in the electrically insulating material.

Abstract: An industrial machine includes a moving mechanism moving one of a probe and a tool relative to a work piece, using three displacement axes parallel to each of three orthogonal axis directions; a low thermal expansion member formed with a material having a smaller thermal expansion coefficient than a material forming a structural element of the moving mechanism; and an expansion/contraction measurer measuring, using the low thermal expansion member as a reference, an amount of expansion/contraction of the structural element in one of the three orthogonal axis directions, the expansion/contraction occurring due to a change in temperature.

Abstract: A printed circuit board is fixed to a resin insulation plate by using a first metal screw, and a metal casing is fixed to the resin insulation plate by using a second metal screw. The cuboid insulation plate is arranged to match the shapes of the long sides of the printed circuit board and the metal casing necessary for screw fixation. The first and second metal screws are attached to the resin insulation plate with a lateral shift. This makes it possible to reduce the insulation distance around the first metal screw on the printed circuit board and to increase the wiring pattern area and the component mounting space, realizing a reduction in the size of an electronic device.

Abstract: Alignment systems, and wafer bonding alignment systems and methods are disclosed. In some embodiments, an alignment system for a wafer bonding system includes means for monitoring an alignment of a first wafer and a second wafer, and means for adjusting a position of the second wafer. The alignment system includes means for feeding back a relative position of the first wafer and the second wafer to the means for adjusting the position of the second wafer before and during a bonding process for the first wafer and the second wafer.

Abstract: A hydraulic actuator includes a hollow tube that has a first opening at a first end of the hollow tube and that has a second opening at a second end of the hollow tube. The hollow tube contains hydraulic fluid. A moveable magnet moves within hollow tube as a result of a magnetic field within the hollow tube. A magnetic field source located outside the hollow tube creates the magnetic field within the hollow tube. When the moveable magnet moves to the first end of the hollow tube, a first piston pushes hydraulic fluid out of the first opening. When the moveable magnet moves to the second end of the hollow tube a second piston pushes hydraulic fluid out of the second opening.

Abstract: A communications structure comprises a first semiconductor substrate having a first coil, and a second semiconductor substrate having a second coil above the first semiconductor substrate. Inner edges of the first and second coils define a boundary of a volume that extends below the first coil and above the second coil. A ferromagnetic core is positioned at least partially within the boundary, such that a mutual inductance is provided between the first and second coils for wireless transmission of signals or power between the first and second coils.

Abstract: An inductive sensor including a casing in which are positioned: a ferromagnetic core having a U shape, which core includes two external branches and a transverse branch linking the two branches; two detection coils disposed respectively on the external branches of the core; a calibration mechanism positioned between the two external branches of the magnetic core, a longitudinal positioning of the calibration mechanism with respect to an end of the external branches being adjustable; an intermediate fixing piece for fastening the calibration mechanism onto the ferromagnetic core, the intermediate fixing piece being placed forcibly in an opening made in the transverse branch, the calibration mechanism including a threaded zone configured to be screwed into a smooth hole made in the intermediate fixing piece.

Abstract: A coil device 10 comprises a first bobbin 40 having a first bobbin plate 42 provided with a first hollow cylinder 44 on which a primary coil 20 is wound at the outer periphery, and a second bobbin 50 mounted on the first bobbin 40 and having a second bobbin plate 52 provided with a second hollow cylinder 54 on which a secondary coil 30 is wound at the outer periphery. A winding center C1 of the primary coil 20 and a winding center C2 of the secondary coil 30 displace with a predetermined displacement (Lx) along a predetermined reference direction X.

Abstract: A transformer includes a bobbin, an iron core assembly, and a first sleeve. The bobbin includes a main body and a channel passing through the main body. The iron core assembly includes a first iron core and a second iron core. The first end of the first iron core and the second end of the second iron core are disposed near the periphery of the bobbin. The first sleeve is disposed at a first gap between the first end and the second end, so as to make the first end and the second end to be accommodated within the first sleeve. And, the first end is aligned opposite to the second end.

Abstract: Axisymmetric solid of revolution derivable from section at FIG. 5 is generally toroidal with electric current(s) in windings 110, 160 preferably flowing circumferentially along major circle(s) during power coupling device operation. Current(s) in windings 110, 160; current(s) in half-shields 120, 170; and the volume of space swept out by shield airgap(s) 101 emerge from plane of paper perpendicularly at FIG. 5 but as these emerge therefrom they curve to follow toroidal major circle(s). Cores 115, 165 preferably shunt and align magnetic flux such that magnetic field lines escape therefrom primarily only in region(s) of core airgap(s) and such that magnetic flux loops lie in planes of toroidal minor circle(s).

Abstract: A bobbin structure is disclosed. The bobbin structure comprises plural modular bobbin members each connected with each other. Each modular bobbin member comprises a perforation channel, a first baffle disposed on one end of the perforation channel and placed perpendicularly to the perforation channel, and a second baffle disposed on the other end of the perforation channel and placed oppositely to the first baffle. The first baffle has a first connecting member, and the second baffle has a second connecting member. A first winding slot is disposed between the first baffle and the second baffle. The bobbin structure is formed by the engagement between the first connecting member of one modular bobbin member and the second connecting member of another connected one, wherein a second winding slot is formed between two connected modular bobbin members.

Abstract: A variable inductor 10 includes: a first coil 1; a second coil 2 which emanates a magnetic flux in a cancelling direction with respect to the magnetic flux generated in the first coil 1; a movable core 5 positioned between the first coil 1 and the second coil 2 for carrying out opening & closing operation; and a magnetic core 3a, 3b having a closed magnetic-path structure which involves the first coil 1, the second coil 2 and the movable core 5. The magnetic core 3a includes a magnetic-core center-core portion 4a around which the first coil 1 is wound and the second magnetic core 2 includes a magnetic-core center-core portion 4b around which the second coil 2 is wound.

Abstract: The present invention provides a transformer capable of driving a plurality of lamps with one transformer by increasing the number of outer bobbins wrapping an outer circumferential surface of an inner bobbin wound by a coil and the number of output terminals by winding other coils around the outer bobbins.

Abstract: A variable inductor is provided. The variable inductor includes a dielectric core having a helical thread on an outer surface thereof for receiving the coil, and a non-magnetic element positioned coaxially within the core. The non-magnetic element could be provided in the form of a bushing or a solid rod, and could be manufactured from any suitable, non-magnetic metal, such as copper, brass, etc.

Abstract: A compact position sensor with high operational reliability is provided. This sensor has a tubular detection coil, a magnetic core movable in the detection coil, a drive circuit for the detection coil, a signal processing circuit for converting a change in impedance of the detection coil into an electric signal, and a guide means for guiding a movement of the magnetic core in the detection coil. The guide means has a guide portion connected to the magnetic core and a support portion for slidably supporting the guide portion. The magnetic core can be smoothly displaced in the detection coil without contacting an inner surface of the detection coil by a sliding movement of the guide portion relative to the support portion.

Abstract: A linear variable differential transformer (LVDT) assembly comprises a housing. A tube extends into the housing. An armature mounts inside of the tube and can move longitudinally within the tube. A coil assembly, which includes a primary coil and two secondary coils mounts on the outside of the tube. The coil assembly has adjustable connection with the housing. Consequently, the coil assembly can be adjusted longitudinally with respect to the armature until the LVDT is in the null position. That occurs when the differential voltage from alternating current through the secondary coils is zero.

Abstract: A deflection yoke includes a bobbin having a cavity formed in the longitudinal direction of the bobbin, and an adjusting coil having a magnetic core on which a thread is cut. The core inserted into the cavity is slidable in the longitudinal direction of the bobbin. The core has a marker formed on only one of ends of the core in the longitudinal direction. The core has been inserted into the cavity from the one end formed with the marker or the other end. The marker is formed on only one of ends of the core before or after the thread is cut thereon.

Abstract: In a position transducer having detection coils 11 and 21, auxiliary coils 12 and 22 are driven in phase with the detection coils 11 and 21 and are lap-wound on the ends of the detection coils to substantially increase the winding density at the ends of the detection coils 11 and 21, thereby reducing the magnetic field non-linearity at the coil ends.

Abstract: A linear position sensor is provided which employs phase quadrature sensor windings, an excitation winding and a resonator. When an excitation current is applied to the excitation winding, it causes the resonator to resonate which in turn induces signals in the sensor windings. The sensor windings are spatially arranged so that the electromagnetic coupling between them and the resonator varies with the position of the resonator. The excitation windings, phase quadrature windings and resonant circuit are arranged so that the magnetic fields involved in the operation of the position sensor are substantially parallel to each other and the direction of movement of the resonator. Consequently, the effect of rotation of the resonator or lateral movement of it relative to the excitation and phase quadrature windings is alleviated.

Abstract: A deflection yoke includes a bobbin having a cavity formed in the longitudinal direction of the bobbin, and an adjusting coil having a magnetic core on which a thread is cut. The core inserted into the cavity is slidable in the longitudinal direction of the bobbin. The core has a marker formed on only one of ends of the core in the longitudinal direction. The core has been inserted into the cavity from the one end formed with the marker or the other end. The marker is formed on only one of ends of the core before or after the thread is cut thereon.

Abstract: A linear gauging head, or cartridge head, comprises a casing, a spindle movable with respect to the casing along a longitudinal axis, a feeler coupled to a first end of the spindle and a differential position transducer with windings, fixed with respect to casing, and a core coupled to a second end of spindle. The spindle is guided by recirculating ball bushings with rolling elements that cooperate with the spindle and thus allow its displacement with respect to the casing.

Abstract: A linear gauging head, or cartridge head, comprises a casing (1), a spindle (10) movable with respect to the casing along a longitudinal axis, a feeler (12) coupled to a first end of the spindle and a differential position transducer with windings (13, 14, 15), fixed with respect to casing (1), and a core (16) coupled to a second end of spindle (10). The spindle is guided by recirculating ball bushings (18, 19) with rolling elements (29) that cooperate with the spindle and thus allow its displacement with respect to the casing.

Abstract: A differential transformer includes a primary coil for excitation and first and second secondary coils for detection which can be wound up on an outer surface of a bobbin made of a non-magnetic substance. In the bobbin, i.e., in a differential coil composed of the primary coil and the first and second secondary coils, a core is movably inserted in an axial direction thereof and is made of a magnetic substance. In the differential transformer, when AC current is applied on the primary coil, an induced voltage corresponding to a relative displacement between the core and the differential coil is generated, so that a size of a measured member can be measured by detecting the induced voltage. In the first and second secondary coils, a compound conducting wire is used, which includes two conducting wires which are different from each other in forms of a thermal coefficient of resistivity and are connected by a predetermined rate with regard to their length.

Abstract: A variable inductance device for indicating the position of one body relative to another includes primary and secondary windings which are mounted such that one is slidable over the other. The primary winding is wound on a body including annular channels for retaining the winding turns in an arbitrarily selectable turns distribution. The secondary is a shorted winding. A signal producing circuits electrically connected to the primary winding for producing a signal which varies with the device inductance. By selecting the turns distribution such that the device's inductance variation with position and the signal producing circuit's output variation with inductance complement each other, the output signal is made to vary as an arbitrarily selectable function of the position.

Abstract: A transformer arrangement is provided which has a primary and at least one secondary winding coupled via a movable armature which is outside of the windings. A second transformer can be provided which has primary and secondary windings coaxial with and surrounding the corresponding windings of the first transformer. The armature is tubular and slidable in the radial clearance defined between the windings of the first transformer and the windings of the second transformer.

Abstract: The variable inductance coil device having an outer magnetic member, a bobbin member, a coil member and an inner magnetic member. A female thread (thread portion) is provided in the inner periphery of the tube of the bobbin member, and a male thread (thread portion) which meets with the female thread of the tube is provided in the outer periphery of the inner magnetic member. The inductance varies accurately by rotating and moving the inner magnetic member. Since the outer magnetic member is formed in the closed shape, the leakage flux can be lowered.

Abstract: A thread type magnetic core structure, including: a magnetic core having a thread formed on the outer surface of the core; and a resin structure of a rod type fixedly mounted on one end surface of the magnetic core in the longitudinal direction of the core, the resin structure having an engaging member at the top portion of the resin structure, and the engaging member being adapted to couple to a driver for rotating the magnetic core, wherein the engaging member is formed in a polygonal shape in section including a triangle, and the outer periphery of the resin structure having the polygonal engaging member is set within the circumference of the magnetic core.

Abstract: A bobbin provides a coil wound on the outer peripheral surface and allows a threaded core to be screwed on the inner peripheral surface. This bobbin is covered with a jar-like core and a metal case. The jar-like core and the metal case provide through holes for receiving a driver used to handle a threaded core. The edge of the through hole of the metal case is located radially inside or outside of the edge of the through hole of the jar-like case. It results in preventing the edge of the through hole of the jar-like core from being broken by a burr formed on the edge of the through hole of the metal case.

Abstract: The improved device for measuring liquid-level changes in storage tanks uses a float to track vertical displacement of the surface of a liquid and a linear variable differential transducer (LVDT) sensor positioned below the surface of the liquid to measure changes in the surface level. The center of gravity of the device is located below the center of buoyancy, thereby minimizing instability of the LVDT sensor.

Abstract: A differential transformer is provided comprising an elongated bobbin having primary and secondary coils wound about separated sections. A ferromagnetic armature is movably disposed within a core of the bobbin for movement between the separated sections. A tube of electrically conducting material surrounds the bobbin core. The tube is formed of a material whose resistance varies with temperature in the same manner as the primary coil.

Abstract: A variable transformer is disclosed. The transducer includes a uniform pitch winding wound on a hollow bobbin with several continuously variable concentric coils wound over it with layers of insulation in between. The variable coils are wound in accordance with true trigonometric functions by adjusting the pitch between adjacent turns and reversing the direction of winding at each maximum pitch point corresponding to the zero crossover. The variable pitch coils are physically wound in quadrature with respect to a reference point on the bobbin. The transducer is finished by placing a magnetic shield over the bobbin which may include magnetic end washers. Lead wire connections are made and the entire unit is placed in a suitable housing. A moveable core, made from a highly permeable material, is placed inside the unit for slidably engaging the bobbin in its hollow.

Abstract: An electronic position sensor and a pneumatic microactuator form a portable robot master that may be operated by the fingers of a user's hand in the same, natural manner that the user would normally grasp an object to be finger manipulated. The master requires only two contact points to secure its ends to the user's fingers and to be manipulated by the user. The master includes a compact, hand-held unit that fits within the space defined by the user's palm and fingers, and functions as a position controller for a robot having a dextrous hand. The position sensor includes a linear variable differential transformer having an output signal that is proportional to the distance between the user's fingers, i.e. the two contact points, that are used to manipulate the master. A force feedback system, including the pneumatic micro-actuator, senses forces exerted by end effectors on the robot hand and causes a corresponding force to be exerted by the user.

Abstract: The transducer comprises only a simple coil in which a core normally connected to a device the position of which is to be measured is displaced axially. The core comprises a rod of ferromagnetic material surrounded by a tube of good electrical conductivity but of small magnetic permeability. The coil is supplied by an alternating current producing eddy currents in the tube. The drop of sensitivity due to the increase of the resistivity of the tube with the increase of the temperature is compensated by the increase of the sensitivity due to the increase of the permeability of the rod with the increase of the temperature. The transducer is of light weight and of small dimensions and it is compensated in temperature in the temperature range comprised between -40.degree. C. and +20.degree. C.

Abstract: A sensing system including a sensing device with cooperating electrical components which move relative to each other in response to a sensed environmental parameter to yield a reactance signal, which is transmitted to a remotely located processor having an oscillator for receiving the transmitted signal and generating a transduced signal whose value corresponds to the value of the environmental parameter.