Toroidal Patents (Class 336/229)
  • 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: 5214403
    Abstract: An inductive device comprises a first winding which is provided on a core and which is composed of electrically conductive segments which are shaped approximately as a U-shaped plate having two substantially parallel end portions of unequal width and a wedge-shaped central portion. The segments are formed as metallized portions of the outer surface of a cap which is made of an electrically insulating material and which is shaped as a ring having a U-shaped cross-section. The segments are electrically isolated from one another by non-metallized strip-shaped portions of the outer surface of the cap. The cap comprises includes metallized pins which constitute connection members for the segments and which are connected to electrical conductors, for example, on a printed circuit board. In conjunction with the segments, the conductors constitute the first winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1993
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel N. L. G. Bogaerts, Raymond J. P. Van der Borght
  • Patent number: 5191699
    Abstract: A miniaturized or chip-type HF magnetic-coil arrangement, e.g. a toroidal core transformer, comprising a basic body (1) of plastic material, which is provided with openings for magnetic cores (2), the upper side (10) and the lower side (11) of said basic body (1) including electric conductors (5) and the interior thereof being provided with plated-through holes in openings (16) to which the conductors (5) are connected in such a way that individual turns around the magnetic core are formed, said turns defining windings of coils (6, 7). Moreover, methods are provided, which permit a production of these arrangements in large numbers of pieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1993
    Assignee: GW-Elektronik GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Ganslmeier, Horst Wunschmann
  • Patent number: 5192375
    Abstract: An Fe-based soft magnetic alloy essentially consisting of an Fe-based alloy including fine crystal grains used for such as a magnetic core. An average size of the fine crystal grains is controlled to 300.ANG. or less. Each of the fine crystal grains is composed of a body-centered cubic phase at least partially including a super lattice. This alloy has a high saturation flux density and excellent soft magnetic characteristics such as a low iron loss and a high magnetic permeability. This alloy is suitable as a core material for various kinds of choke coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1993
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takao Sawa, Masami Okamura, Yumiko Takahashi
  • Patent number: 5165162
    Abstract: A small, high-frequency, high-efficiency inductor includes a segmented toroidal core with a winding wound thereon. The toroidal core has either a solid core structure, a laminated core structure, or a strip-wound core structure that is cut into segments. The segmented toroidal core is made of a relatively high-permeability magnetic material and has a plurality of narrow gaps having a width less than approximately 2% of an average linear dimension across the face of each segment. Nonconductive, nonmagnetic spacers are inserted and bonded in the gaps. The inductor winding preferably comprises litz wire in order to further reduce losses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1992
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Richard J. Charles
  • Patent number: 5122725
    Abstract: In a power supply apparatus for a load such a toroidal core testing apparatus, an input current is supplied to the load, and an output voltage of the load is obtained. A current corresponding to one part of the output voltage is negatively fed back to the input current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1992
    Assignee: Kitamura Kiden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumio Kitamura, Toshitsugu Tajima
  • Patent number: 5099756
    Abstract: Apparatus for treating neoplasms in humans and animals comprising a hollow toroidal applicator which resonates at a specific radiofrequency, and which possess electrically conductive walls on which radial radiofrequency currents flow and generate a high density of uninterrupted magnetic flux within the hollow body. A rotatable antenna connected to a source of radiofrequency power is mounted inside the applicator body to couple with the electromagnetic field of the applicator. The body part to be treated is interposed through side apertures or through the space created by removing a segment of the toroid which can have orifices of predetermined cross sectional areas across which a tubular zone of high magnetic flux travels through the interposed tumor and normal tissue to induce more heat in the interposed tumor tissue than in the interposed normal tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1992
    Assignee: Harry H. LeVeen
    Inventors: Cafiero Franconi, Carlo A. Tiberio, Harry H. LeVeen
  • Patent number: 5097404
    Abstract: A supply circuit for supplying electronic devices with current or voltage and mountable as a module has input and output connections, a rectifier cirucit, a transformer having a primary winding coupled with the inputs of the supply circuit and a secondary winding coupled with the rectifier circuit and at least one high-capacity capacitor. The capacitor is coupled with an output of the rectifier circuit for smoothing generated direct current or direct voltage. The capacitor has a housing which housesd the capacitor, the rectifier circuit and the transformer in or on the housing. The input and output connections are arranged on the housing so as to be accessible from outside of the housing. At least a parat of the housing consists of a magnetizable material and carries the primary and secondary windings in the manner of a winding body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1992
    Assignee: Technology Service Inc.
    Inventor: Hans-Dieter Layh
  • Patent number: 5091707
    Abstract: A coaxial cable shield filter for reducing RF signal interference from cable television lines is connected in series between a cable system coaxial cable and a television receiver. Each choke consists of a ferromagnetic toroidal core, with coaxial cable being wound about each toroidal core. The filter device attenuates secondary RF signals carried by the shielding of the coaxial cable that interfere with the primary signals carried by the cable's center conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1990
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1992
    Inventors: Steven M. Wollmerschauser, David M. Mundy
  • Patent number: 5083101
    Abstract: An integrated electromagnetic interference filter includes an inductor assembly for attenuating both common mode and differential mode electromagnetic interference conducted emissions from electronic equipment. The inductor assembly includes an outer core of permeable material defining an outer window, and an inner core of permeable material disposed in the outer window and defining an inner window. A first power lead for connecting the equipment to a source of electrical power includes a portion wound in one direction about only the outer core. The inductor assembly includes a second power lead for connecting the equipment to the source of electrical power with a portion of the second lead wound about both the inner and outer cores in the opposite direction to the winding of the portion of the first power lead. The outer core provides a magnetic path for the attenuation of common mode emissions and the inner core provides a magnetic path for the attenuation of differential mode noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1992
    Assignee: Integrated Power Components
    Inventor: W. Richard Frederick
  • Patent number: 5079532
    Abstract: A muon detector system including central and end air-core superconducting toroids and muon detectors enclosing a central calorimeter/detector. Muon detectors are positioned outside of toroids and all muon trajectory measurements are made in a nonmagnetic environment. Internal support for each magnet structure is provided by sheets, located at frequent and regularly spaced azimuthal planes, which interconnect the structural walls of the toroidal magnets. In a preferred embodiment, the shape of the toroidal magnet volume is adjusted to provide constant resolution over a wide range of rapidity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1992
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy
    Inventor: Peter Bonanos
  • Patent number: 5075663
    Abstract: A noise-shielded transformer which suppresses electrical noises by absorbing conductible electrical noises that flow into the power line to cause interference, consisting of a gapless-type toroidal core, a primary winding and a secondary winding uniformly wound after dividing the entire magnetic path of the toroidal core in two, and conductive plates mounted to wrap the primary winding and secondary winding, respectively, wherein conductive plates are mounted in the gap of the toroidal core to magnetically isolate the primary winding and the secondary winding, conductive plates are mounted outside the gap of the toroidal core and the gapless-type toroidal core has a configuration of continuously winding steel shield of directional silicon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 24, 1991
    Assignee: Goldstar Electric Machinery Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: Seok G. Lim
  • Patent number: 5055816
    Abstract: A method of fabricating an electronic device on a carrier (14) is provided wherein the method comprises forming a hole pattern in the carrier (14), and providing a metallization pattern on the carrier, and through the holes (16, 22, etc.) to define the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1991
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Leonard F. Altman, Robert E. Stengel
  • Patent number: 5045795
    Abstract: A coil array which is installed on a MWD drill collar for use in a resistivity logging system. The drill collar is provided with upper and lower coil support rings. These are toroids which support individual coil segments, and are connected by suitable magnetic shorting bars. The coil segments and shorting bars inscribe a specified solid angle or azimuthal extent. By connecting the outputs of the several coils through a combining circuit, the coils on a single coil form can be connected in series additive, or subtractive relationship. Through the use of two such coil forms with aligned coils on each, an azimuthally oriented window is thereby defined. By proper switching multiple azimuthally oriented windows can be made operative so that there is an azimuthal orientation to the current flow pattern relative to the MWD resistivity logging tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1991
    Assignee: Halliburton Logging Services Inc.
    Inventors: Stanley C. Gianzero, Paul Sinclair, Roland E. Chemali, Shey-Min Su
  • Patent number: 5012125
    Abstract: A current carrying wire is provided with a tubular shield construction which essentially covers the wire with conductive material, and preferably emulates a classical Faraday shield. The shield is formed of a multiplicity of insulated shield wires for minimized eddy current loss. When such a shielded wire construction is formed into a primary winding of a power transformer for a switching power supply, the secondary circuit is protected from electric shock hazards while enabling use of a gap free toroidal core for close coupling between primary and secondary windings. In another embodiment, such shields are used on both the primary and secondary windings of a matching transformer and are arranged for common mode rejection of noise associated with low power data signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 30, 1991
    Assignee: Norand Corporation
    Inventor: David W. Conway
  • Patent number: 5012218
    Abstract: A device for measuring electric current includes a toric core having a gap that establishes a pair of opposed end faces, and a continuous conductor having terminal ends and wound around the core in contiguous turns forming a toric solenoid interrupted by the gap. The solenoid has first and second ends adjacent the respective end faces of the core, and the conductor at each end of the solenoid passes through the core and extends along the axis thereof from the opposed end faces of the core such that the terminal ends of the conductor are located diametrically opposite the gap. A first compensation coil is serially connected to said first end of the solenoid such that the first coil overlies the first end of the solenoid to which the first compensation coil is connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 30, 1991
    Assignee: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
    Inventors: Robert Haug, Zhong-Jun He, Roger Hahn
  • Patent number: 4975671
    Abstract: A multi-component transformer to be used in conjunction with surface mounting technology. Transformer windings are provided by a plurality of conductors arranged in parallel and disposed around a ferrite core. A portion of the winding is disposed in a spacer member or alternatively is formed from tracings of a circuit board. A portion of a ferrite core is disposed above the conductors. Then a bridge member, which is U-shaped and has a plurality of conductors disposed in a dielectric body, is disposed to overlie a portion of the magnetic core overlying the first tracings. The conductors of the bridge member are coupled to the underlying tracings such that the tracings form a continuous loop around a portion of the magnetic core to function as a winding of a transformer. Alternative embodiments are disclosed in which variations of the multi-component provides variations in the design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1990
    Assignee: Apple Computer, Inc.
    Inventor: Wolfgang Dirks
  • Patent number: 4975672
    Abstract: A toroidal core is mounted on an alignment disc having uniformly distributed circumferential notches or holes therein. Wire is then wound about the toroidal core in a uniform pattern defined by the notches or holes. Prior to winding, the wire may be placed within shrink tubing. The shrink tubing is then wound about the alignment disc and core and then heat-shrunk to positively retain the wire in the uniform position on the toroidal core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1990
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    Inventor: Colonel W. T. McLyman
  • Patent number: 4958134
    Abstract: A noise suppression device is disclosed which comprises a toroid-shaped device comprising an amorphous magnetic alloy ribbon wound with plural turns, or ring-shaped pieces formed from an amorphous magnetic alloy ribbon and laminated in plural number, and a through-hole through which an electrical line or lead is inserted, and having a value of Do satisfying the relation of L<Do.ltoreq.5L when an average diameter of said device is Do, provided that the average diameter is an arithmetic mean value of the outer diameter of the device and the diameter of the through-hole, and the largest length at a cross section of said line or said lead, L, is smaller than the diameter of the through-hole.The noise suppression device according to this invention is improved in heat-dissipation properties with a great decrease in breakage, and has a superior noise suppresion effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 18, 1990
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takao Sawa, Masami Okamura, Taiju Yamada, Takao Kusaka, Hiroshi Sasaki
  • Patent number: 4928020
    Abstract: Saturable inductor and transformer for magnetic compression of an electronic pulse, using a continuous electrical conductor looped several times around a tightly packed core of saturable inductor material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 22, 1990
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy
    Inventors: Daniel L. Birx, Louis L. Reginato
  • Patent number: 4901048
    Abstract: Windings for magnetic core devices are preformed as a flat conducting strip disposed in a helical coil configuration of circular shape, having elongated tabs at selectible angles to the coil from substantially tangential to substantially radial orientation for cooperation with the magnetic core exit slots, thereby maximizing core window utilization and adapting to conventional cores. The cross sectional area of the tabs may be substantially less than the cross sectional area of helix turns thereby further eliminating interference with smaller core exit slots. A plurality of such windings are stacked, one on top of the other, or interleaved or placed on torroidal core with flexible orientation of the tabs being available to facilitate access to each of multiple terminals and to isolate or group electrical functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1990
    Assignee: Williamson Windings Inc.
    Inventor: James A. Williamson
  • Patent number: 4891558
    Abstract: An adapter for gas discharge lamps has a housing comprising a socket for connection to the mains and a holder for the gas discharge lamp or low voltage lamp, wherein the series reactor, choke, transformer and/or transmitter with coil and magnetic circuit are arranged to surround the holder for the gas discharge lamp in the housing. To provide an adapter in compact form with small dimensions and low weight which can be simply made, the coil is wound as a circular toroidal coil or a polygon toroidal coil around the longitudinal axis of the adapter, while the magnetic circuit is made to surround the circular toroidal coil or the polygon toroidal coil on all sides and form locked on the exteriors of said coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 2, 1990
    Assignee: May & Christe GmbH Transformatorenwerke
    Inventor: Robert Tschuk
  • Patent number: 4878291
    Abstract: A toroidal coil device used in a circuit of an automobile radio receiver as an element for blocking AM waves, including a ring core, U shaped first conductive members arranged on the core at circumferentially equal intervals, and second conductive members mounted on the first conductive members such that the inner end of each first conductive member is connected to the outer end of the next first conductive member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 7, 1989
    Assignee: Harada Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kazuhiko Suguri
  • Patent number: 4868532
    Abstract: Described is a transformer having a two-piece primary winding and housing wherein the second piece is mechanically received within the first piece and electrically coupled together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1989
    Assignee: LTV Aerospace & Defense Company
    Inventors: Dan Ehrenhalt, George R. Giles
  • Patent number: 4868533
    Abstract: Described is a transformer wherein the primary winding is formed from the same unitary piece of electrically conductive metal that comprises the housing of the transformer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1989
    Assignee: LTV Aerospace & Defense Company
    Inventors: Dan Ehrenhalt, George R. Giles
  • Patent number: 4847583
    Abstract: The invention provides a toroidal transformer with integrated self inductance device, comprising a closed main annular magnetic circuit on which an inner electric winding is coiled. A magnetic core, in the form of an open annular sector, is held in position at the periphery of the inner winding by peripheral bars. The assembly is covered by the outer electric winding. The magnetic core determines the value of the self inductance of the transformer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1989
    Assignee: Societe Pour L'Application de L'Optique et de L'Electronique a La Recherche et a L'Automatisation Optelec, societe anonyme
    Inventor: Chappel Bernard
  • Patent number: 4841270
    Abstract: A heat-distributing winding for the equalization of uneven heating of the winding parts of an annular core transformer including a winding concentric with the core and made from juxtaposed turns of wire-shaped heat-conducting material substantially perpendicular to and in heat-conductive contact with, but electrically insulated from the winding parts extending along the cylindrical external surface of the core and mainly in the generatrix direction of said core. The heat-distributing winding is applied to the inner side of or on either side of said above mentioned winding parts of the transformer and consists of turns electrically insulated from each other and consisting of wire of for instance rectangular cross-section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 20, 1989
    Assignee: Transpower A/S
    Inventor: Ove Hansen
  • Patent number: 4833437
    Abstract: A winding for a magnetic core is preformed as a flat conducting strip disposed in a helical coil configuration of circular shape, having elongated integral tabs at selectible angles to the coil from substantially tangential to substantially radial orientation for cooperation with the magnetic core exit slots, thereby maximizing core window utilization and adapting to conventional cores. The cross sectional area of the tabs is less than the cross sectional area of helix turns thereby further eliminating interference with smaller core exit slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1989
    Assignee: Williamson Windings Inc.
    Inventor: James A. Williamson
  • Patent number: 4833436
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a formed metal blocking, for mounting within wedge-shaped gaps between coils of a toroidal transformer, including butterfly-shaped top and bottom core blockings. The blockings are formed from identical stampings, each stamping having a pair of U-shaped coil-engaging faces joined along their inner legs by a center web. The stampings are joined back to back and have a number of flanges which are bent over for securing the stampings to one another. The stampings have an apertured tab at the end of the center web used to form a lifting eye for the top blocking. With the bottom blocking the tabs are folded over for mounting to a base plate. The outer legs of the U-shaped faces are longer than the inner legs and center web to create a gap in the electric path surrounding the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1989
    Assignee: Kuhlman Corporation
    Inventors: Richard W. Martin, John L. Fisher, William R. Fortenberry, Randall L. Schlake, Ronald F. Dornbrock, James D. Richerson, Kenneth E. Marrett, Sr.
  • Patent number: 4814735
    Abstract: Windings for magnetic core devices are preformed as a flat conducting strip disposed in a helical coil configuration of circular shape, having elongated tabs at selectible angles to the coil from substantially tangential to substantially radial orientation for cooperation with the magnetic core exit slots, thereby maximizing core window utilization and adapting to conventional cores. The cross sectional area of the tabs may be substantially less than the cross sectional area of helix turns thereby further eliminating interference with smaller core exit slots. A plurality of such windings are stacked, one on top of the other, or interleaved or placed on torroidal core with flexible orientation of the tabs being available to facilitate access to each of multiple terminals and to isolate or group electrical functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1989
    Assignee: Williamson Windings Inc.
    Inventor: James A. Williamson
  • Patent number: 4811477
    Abstract: Secondary winding configurations and methods particularly applicable for toroid transformers are described for winding secondary windings over the indexed primary winding and toroidal core. The secondary winding is formed in the configuration of a multifilar winding of a plurality of coplanar parallel filaments with a first elongate strip of electrically insulating material bonded to the filaments on one side and a second elongate strip of electrically insulating material bonded to the filaments on the other side and to the first elongate strip. The resulting electrically insulated multifilar strap winding contains the filaments in substantially parallel coplanar relationship. The multifilar strap winding is wound around the toroidal core in substantially equally spaced turns. The strap winding maintains the filaments substantially in equally spaced relationship relative to each other over irregular surfaces and compound curvature of the toroidal core without crossover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1989
    Assignee: GFS Manufacturing Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert D. Sylvester, Jr., Paul C. Horn, Vincent J. Bober
  • Patent number: 4806895
    Abstract: A mounting device includes a clamp-like first end portion adapted to engage an upper portion of a ferrite core and toroidal winding combination and an elongated, linear second end portion. Disposed along the length of the second end portion of the mounting device in a spaced manner are a plurality of transverse, flexible fingers. The second end portion of the mounting device is adapted for insertion through an aperture in a printed wiring board (PWB), such that the flexible fingers are deflected upon insertion of the mounting device through the aperture and prevent the removal of the mounting device from the PWB. A double coated foam-type tape or an epoxy glue is disposed between the PWB and a lower portion of the coil/core combination as well as between the first upper end portion of the mounting device and an upper portion of the coil/core combination to protect the toroidal winding from unnecessary contact and possible damage and to maintain the mounted assembly under tension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1989
    Assignee: Zenith Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: William M. Petrow
  • Patent number: 4795605
    Abstract: A nuclear fusion apparatus comprises a central support stay device having a central support stay portion and a plurality of radial portions radially extending from the central support stay portion and circumferentially spaced from each other at predetermined angles, a plurality of poloidal coils disposed in the circumferential direction of the central support stay device and supported by the radial portions, and a plurality of toroidal coils radially disposed around the central support stay device and adjacent the radial outer ends of the radial portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1989
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tokio Fukunaga, Fukutaro Kishimoto, Mitsuru Sato, Kazuyoshi Yabuuchi, Haruhiko Tomita, Kazuo Maeno
  • Patent number: 4782582
    Abstract: A process for the manufacture of a generally toroidal or annular choke, in which a magnetic core is provided with an insulative layer, e.g., by an injection or other molding process, and divided into two parts. Each of the parts is then provided with a respective winding. The two chokes thus made can be electrically connected in series and mechanically joined to form a choke having the shape of the original core. Preferably, the original core is annular and each of the pieces is roughly semi-annular.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1988
    Assignee: Eastrock Technology Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph A. Venezia
  • Patent number: 4777465
    Abstract: A square toroid transformer is assembled on a ceramic hybrid integrated circuit substrate. The primary and secondary windings of the transformer are provided on opposite arms of a square toroid ferrite core by providing first and second groups of spaced, parallel metal conductors on the surface of the ceramic substrate and adherent thereto, and an insulative layer over the first and second groups of conductors, leaving their respective end portions exposed. The square toroid ferrite core, coated with dielectric material, is attached to the insulative layer. Wire bonds in planes perpendicular to the longitudinal axes of the opposite arms each are wire bonded, respectively, to an inner end of one of the metal conductors and an outer end of an adjacent one.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1986
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1988
    Assignee: Burr-Brown Corporation
    Inventor: Walter B. Meinel
  • Patent number: 4763072
    Abstract: A magnetic sensor including an annular iron core, an annular hollow bobbin for a primary winding which incorporates therein the annular iron core, the bobbin having a plurality of protruded portions which are arranged along a circumference of the annular bobbin with an equal distance, each of the protruded portions being extended in a direction parallel to a center axis of the annular iron core, the primary winding being wound on the annular bobbin at respective portions between adjacent protruded portions with an equal number of turns, a bobbin for a secondary winding having a positioning means for the primary winding in association with the protruded portions of the bobbin for the primary winding when the bobbins for the primary and secondary windings are assembled, the secondary winding being wound on the bobbin to form more than two pairs of winding groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1988
    Assignee: Kabushikikaisha Tokyo Keiki
    Inventors: Mitsuru Katoh, Shin-Ichi Kawada, Isao Masuzawa
  • Patent number: 4754250
    Abstract: A holding device for wound toroidal cores is formed of a carrier plate and a centering arbor extending from the carrier plate into the inside of the wound core. The wound core is fixed in place on the arbor by a casting compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1988
    Assignee: Firma Wilhelm Sedlbauer GmbH
    Inventor: Albert Duin
  • Patent number: 4724603
    Abstract: This process produces a small toroidal winding used, for example, to make very stable, thin magnetic magnatometers. To produce a winding having turns which are perfectly radial with respect to a cylinder, use is made of an internal cylinder and an external cylinder provided with slots arranged along the generatrixes of these cylinders. Hairpin-shaped conductive wires are introduced into these slots and welded to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1988
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventors: Roland Blanpain, Andre Dumont
  • Patent number: 4707619
    Abstract: A saturable inductor switch. The switch includes a number of spaced cores disposed adjacent one another with each core being made of ferromagnetic material. An insulative layer is disposed about each core and each core has an electrical winding about the insulative layer for that core. Each winding has a first end and a second end and is electrically connected to its respective core intermediate the ends. The windings are connected in series. All the cores have substantially the same size and shape, and all windings have substantially the same number of turns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1987
    Assignee: Maxwell Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Edmond Y. Chu, Vance I. Valencia
  • Patent number: 4694140
    Abstract: The invention is directed to an AC power supply for portable welding machines or the like which employ a transformer of either single or multi-phase power wound around a cylindrical core. The core is constructed from a continuous length of steel alloy ribbon. The individual windings of both the primary and secondary are spaced apart. In operation the transformer is submerged in a heat transfer medium to provide cooling thereof by heat transfer therefrom. The transformer may have either a tapped primary or secondary or both to provide secondary amperage for the intended use of the transformer. An external cooling radiator may be employed to provide additional cooling to the heat transfer medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1987
    Inventors: William M. Wheeler, David C. Wheeler, Ernest E. Wheeler
  • Patent number: 4687987
    Abstract: A current sensor for measuring the DC component of a beam of charged particles employs a superconducting pick-up loop probe, with twisted superconducting leads in combination with a Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID) detector. The pick-up probe is in the form of a single-turn loop, or a cylindrical toroid, through which the beam is directed and within which a first magnetic flux is excluded by the Meisner effect. The SQUID detector acts as a flux-to-voltage converter in providing a current to the pick-up loop so as to establish a second magnetic flux within the electrode which nulls out the first magnetic flux. A feedback voltage within the SQUID detector represents the beam current of the particles which transit the pick-up loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1987
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy
    Inventors: Moyses Kuchnir, Frederick E. Mills
  • Patent number: 4679007
    Abstract: A matching circuit is provided for delivering radio frequency electromagnetic energy from a radio frequency power supply to a variable impedance load such as a gas plasma. The matching network couples and impedance matches the power supply to the load. The matching network includes a ratio circuit for establishing a voltage ratio between the power supply and the load and a tuning circuit for tuning out a complex portion of the reactance of the load. Separation and control of the ratio and tuning variables is achieved through provision of a ratio control circuit comprising a lumped quarter wave transformer and a tuning control circuit comprising a variable tuning capacitance and a tuning inductance electrically connected in parallel to the load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1987
    Assignee: Advanced Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: George Reese, Richard Spielmaker, Douglas Schatz
  • Patent number: 4675577
    Abstract: An electrodeless lighting system (10) is provided for converting electromagnetic energy whose spectrum is within the ultraviolet bandwidth into energy within the visible bandwidth of the electromagnetic spectrum through excitation of fluorescent composition coatings (20). The lighting system (10) provides for an excitation mechanism (12) which generates an enclosed magnetic field, an induced electrical field, and a radiating electrical field, where the induced electrical field is substantially parallel and in the same direction as the magnetic field. Both the magnetic and induced electrical fields are applied at substantially the same frequency for accelerating and directing electrons for collision with gas composition atoms contained within a closed contour gas housing (14) and in particular within a gas housing chamber (16). An electrostatic shield (26) substantially encompasses the excitation mechanism (12) is provided for containing the radiating electrical field within the lighting system (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1987
    Assignee: Intent Patents A.G.
    Inventor: Jacques M. Hanlet
  • Patent number: 4652771
    Abstract: An oscillating flux transformer for transforming relatively large blocks of electrical power at power frequencies in direct accordance with the turn ratio of toroidal primary and secondary windings. The transformer includes a core-coil assembly having a poloidal winding in addition to primary and secondary toroidal windings, with the poloidal and toroidal windings being disposed on a magnetic core which is in the form of a closed loop or torus. Direct current in the poloidal winding establishes an equilibrium position of a saturation induction phasor. The AC flux produced by the toroidal primary winding combines vectorially with the DC flux to cause the induction phasor to oscillate about the equilibrium position, with an angular excursion responsive to the magnitude of the voltage applied to the toroidal primary winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1987
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.
    Inventors: Theodore R. Specht, Robert M. Del Vecchio
  • Patent number: 4649639
    Abstract: An electromagnetic apparatus is provided with a magnetic core and a segmented electrical winding. The core has an enclosed trunk defining a central opening. At least three coil sections of the electrical winding encircle the trunk and are circumferentially spaced about the periphery of the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1987
    Assignee: Allied Corporation
    Inventor: Joseph Mas
  • Patent number: 4639707
    Abstract: A transformer with a toroidal magnetic core. The toroidal magnetic core is housed in an insulating case. The insulating case has a top and bottom annular winding frames. These frames provide radial winding conductor grooves. The top annular winding frame provides a plurality of grooves for guiding an inter-connecting conductor therein each of which is formed between two adjacent winding conductor grooves. The inter-connecting conductor is guided through said guiding groove to connect between the adjacent two unit coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1987
    Assignee: Allied Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Tanaka, Yasuo Yamamoto, Katsumi Hanaoka, Masatake Hirai
  • Patent number: 4639610
    Abstract: A rotating flux transformer having at least two magnetic cores, each in the form of a torus, with each magnetic core having poloidal and toroidal windings. The need for breaking the torus and bringing out leads from the poloidal winding is eliminated by passing each torus through the core window of the remaining torus, or tori. Each poloidal winding is shorted, with the toroidal winding, or windings, of the other magnetic core or cores, inducing an excitation voltage into each shorted poloidal winding which is 90.degree. out of phase with the voltage applied to the toroidal winding on the same magnetic core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1987
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.
    Inventors: Robert M. Del Vecchio, Theodore R. Specht
  • Patent number: 4638177
    Abstract: A rotating flux transformer which includes a magnetic core having poloidal primary and secondary windings and toroidal primary and secondary windings. Quadrature flux is produced in the magnetic core by connecting one end of the poloidal primary winding to the center of the toroidal primary winding. The quadrature flux combines vectorially to produce a rotating induction vector in the magnetic core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1987
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.
    Inventors: David S. Takach, Rao L. Boggavarapu, Ram R. P. Sinha
  • Patent number: 4631511
    Abstract: Secondary winding configurations and methods particularly applicable for toroid transformers are described for winding secondary windings over the indexed primary winding and toroidal core. The secondary winding is formed in the configuration of a multifilar winding of a plurality of coplanar parallel filaments with a first elongate strip of electrically insulating material bonded to the filaments on one side and a second elongate strip of electrically insulating material bonded to the filaments on the other side and to the first elongate strip. The resulting electrically insulated multifilar strap winding contains the filaments in substantially parallel coplanar relationship. The multifilar strap winding is wound around the toroidal core in substantially equally spaced turns. The strap winding maintains the filaments substantially in equally spaced relationship relative to each other over irregular surfaces and compound curvature of the toroidal core without crossover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1986
    Assignee: GFS Manufacturing Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert D. Sylvester, Jr., Paul C. Horn, Vincent J. Bober
  • Patent number: RE33345
    Abstract: Secondary winding configurations and methods particularly applicable for toroid transformers are described for winding secondary windings over the indexed primary winding and toroidal core. The secondary winding is formed in the configuration of a multifilar winding of a plurality of coplanar parallel filaments with a first elongate strip of electrically insulating material bonded to the filaments on one side and a second elongate strip of electrically insulating material bonded to the filaments on the other side and to the first elongate strip. The resulting electrically insulated multifilar strap winding contains the filaments in substantially parallel coplanar relationship. The mulfifilar strap winding is wound around the toroidal core in substantially equally spaced turns. The strap winding maintains the filaments substantially in equally spaced relationship relative to each other over irregular surfaces and compound curvature of the toroidal core without crossover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 18, 1990
    Assignee: GFS Manufacturing Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert D. Sylvester, Jr., Paul C. Horn, Vincent J. Bober