With Closed Coil Or Conductor Member Patents (Class 336/73)
  • Patent number: 11605497
    Abstract: A transformer includes first and second primary windings serially electrically connected in a primary-side series combination. The transformer further includes a secondary winding disposed between the first primary winding and the second primary winding. The transformer further includes first and second shielding windings serially electrically connected in a shielding series combination. The first shielding winding is disposed between the first primary winding and the secondary winding, and the second shielding winding is disposed between the second primary winding and the secondary winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Silanna Asia Pte Ltd
    Inventor: Ningliang Mi
  • Patent number: 11075031
    Abstract: An inductor comprises an excitation coil with an excitation coil axis and at least one shielding coil with a respective shielding coil axis. The excitation coil axis and the shielding coil axis define an angle ?, wherein applies: 60°???120°, preferably 75°???105°, and preferably 85°???95°. The inductor is shielded and enables in an easy and flexible manner the attenuation of electric and magnetic fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Würth Elektronik eiSos GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Ranjith Bramanpalli
  • Patent number: 10790077
    Abstract: Example implementations herein relate to electromagnetic coils. One example device includes a plurality of coil windings. Each coil winding may extend around a shared core region inside the plurality of coil windings between a respective first end and a respective second end. The respective first end is electrically connected to a respective first-end electrical contact. The respective second end is electrically connected to a respective second-end electrical contact. The device also includes a plurality of mountable components. Each mountable component electrically couples a respective first coil winding to a respective second coil winding via the respective first-end electrical contact of the respective first coil winding and the respective second-end electrical contact of the second coil winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventor: Harry Johnson
  • Patent number: 10690700
    Abstract: A circuit interrupting device includes a grounded neutral transformer core, a high frequency transformer core, and a differential transformer core nested within the grounded neutral transformer core and/or the high frequency transformer core. The grounded neutral transformer core and the high frequency transformer core are disposed in a stacked configuration with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Leviton Manufacturing Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald Jansen, Michael Kamor, Michael Ostrovsky, Alfred J. Lombardi
  • Patent number: 9355771
    Abstract: A contactless energy transfer circuit, comprising a magnetic receiving element (EMO) comprising a reactance receiving element (L4) configured to receive magnetic field energy from an integrated reactance module comprising a magnetic element (EM) and a plurality of coaxial windings of reactance power elements (L1), (L2) . . . (LN), separated from each other by means of magnetic flux conductors (SM) constituting an integral part of the magnetic element (EM), which is configured to concentrate magnetic field lines generated by the reactance power elements (L1), (L2) . . . (LN), wherein the outermost winding of reactance power elements (L2) is situated outside the magnetic element (EM) and the other windings of reactance power elements (L1), (L3) . . . (LN) are situated inside the magnetic element (EM), wherein the magnetic receiving element (EMO) is separated from the magnetic element (EM) by an insulating spacer (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: AKADEMIA GORNICZO-HUTNICZA IM. STANISLAWA STASZICA W KRAKOWIE
    Inventors: Cezary Worek, Robert Maslanka
  • Patent number: 9177718
    Abstract: A split core sensing transformer comprises a first core portion and a second core portion joined to the first core portion for pivoting relative to the first core portion about a first axis and for rotation relative to the first core portion about a second axis substantially normal to said first axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Veris Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Martin Cook, Mark D. Rowan, Marc Bowman, Troy Earl Wecker, Mark Taft, Gary Richmond, Cristin Rosenbaum, Kenneth Courian, Doug Porter
  • Patent number: 9146259
    Abstract: According to one aspect, embodiments of the invention provide a current monitoring device comprising a current transformer configured to be removeably coupled to a power line and to generate a reference signal having a level related to a current level of the power line, a sensor circuit connected to the current transformer and configured to be removeably coupled to a communications bus and to convert the reference signal to a digital reference signal and provide a signal indicative of the current level to the communication bus, and a housing containing the sensor circuit and the current transformer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC IT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Arthur J. Blake, Vishwas M. Deokar, Namwook Paik, James S. Spitaels
  • Patent number: 8961384
    Abstract: An electrical system having an underlying structure resembling the double helix most commonly associated with DNA is used to produce useful electromagnetic fields for health applications and/or medical applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Medical Energetics Ltd
    Inventor: David G. Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20150015356
    Abstract: A magnetic assembly to receive current having a high current and high frequency includes a transformer, at least one resonant inductor, and at least one auxiliary inductor. The resonant inductor is in electrical communication with the transformer, and the auxiliary inductor is in electrical communication with the resonant inductor. The magnetic assembly further includes at least one conductor having a first end coupled to the auxiliary inductor and a second end coupled to the transformer. The conductor extends continuously between the first and second ends without terminating to form an auxiliary winding of the auxiliary inductor, a resonant winding of the resonant inductor, and at least one primary winding of the transformer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2013
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Boris S. Jacobson, Stephen R. Elkins, Bradley S. Jaworski, Erik T. Kazior
  • Patent number: 8933771
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a transformer is provided that includes a first conductive coil wound about a first coil axis and a second conductive coil wound about a second coil axis. The second conductive coil is disposed proximate to the first conductive coil and the second coil axis is substantially parallel to the first coil axis. A closed-loop conductive winding is disposed proximate to the first conductive coil and the second conductive coil. The closed-loop conductive winding is wound about a loop axis at least one time where the loop axis is substantially parallel to the first coil axis and the second coil axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Jian Huang, Jeffrey J. White
  • Publication number: 20140218149
    Abstract: An electrical system having an underlying structure resembling the double helix most commonly associated with DNA may be used to produce useful electromagnetic fields for various applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: LIFEWAVE, INC.
    Inventor: David G. Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20140184373
    Abstract: A current limiter comprises a plurality of electrically conductive wires shaped to define two or more primary coils, the primary coils being connected in parallel; and at least one electrically superconductive element shaped to define a secondary coil, wherein the primary coils are magnetically coupled to the or each secondary coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2011
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: ALSTOM Technology Ltd
    Inventor: Francis Mumford
  • Publication number: 20140159845
    Abstract: Electrical oscillations in a “sending coil” radiate inductive photons toward one or more “energy-magnifying coils” comprised of a photoconductor, doped semiconductor, or a superconductor. Electrons of low inertial mass in the energy-magnifying coil(s) receive from the sending coil a transverse force having no in-line backforce. The low-mass electrons in the energy-magnifying coil(s) receive acceleration proportional to normal electron mass divided by the lower mass. Secondarily radiated inductive-photon energy is magnified proportionally to the electrons' greater acceleration, squared. Magnified inductive-photon energy from the energy-magnifying coil(s) induces oscillating electric energy in one or more “output coil(s).” The electric energy output exceeds energy input if more of the photon-induction energy is directed toward the output coil(s) than as a counter force to the sending coil. After initiating the oscillations, the generation of electric power becomes self-sustaining.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: Levitronics, Inc.
    Inventor: William N. Barbat
  • Patent number: 8749333
    Abstract: An electrical system having an underlying structure resembling the double helix most commonly associated with DNA may be used to produce useful electromagnetic fields for various applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: LifeWave, Inc.
    Inventor: David G. Schmidt
  • Patent number: 8652023
    Abstract: An electrical system having an underlying structure resembling the double helix most commonly associated with DNA is used to produce useful electromagnetic fields for health applications and/or medical applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: LifeWave, Inc.
    Inventor: David G. Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20140022037
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a transformer is provided that includes a first conductive coil wound about a first coil axis and a second conductive coil wound about a second coil axis. The second conductive coil is disposed proximate to the first conductive coil and the second coil axis is substantially parallel to the first coil axis. A closed-loop conductive winding is disposed proximate to the first conductive coil and the second conductive coil. The closed-loop conductive winding is wound about a loop axis at least one time where the loop axis is substantially parallel to the first coil axis and the second coil axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Jian Huang, Jeffrey J. White
  • Patent number: 8593244
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a transformer is provided that includes a first conductive coil wound about a first coil axis and a second conductive coil wound about a second coil axis. The second conductive coil is disposed proximate to the first conductive coil and the second coil axis is substantially parallel to the first coil axis. A closed-loop conductive winding is disposed proximate to the first conductive coil and the second conductive coil. The closed-loop conductive winding is wound about a loop axis at least one time where the loop axis is substantially parallel to the first coil axis and the second coil axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Jian Huang, Jeffrey J. White
  • Publication number: 20130285782
    Abstract: An electrical system having an underlying structure resembling the double helix most commonly associated with DNA may be used to produce useful electromagnetic fields for various applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: LIFEWAVE, INC.
    Inventor: David G. SCHMIDT
  • Publication number: 20130176093
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electric coil for current limitation in medium voltage networks and high voltage networks, for example an inductance coil, having a conductive coil wire which is wound to form a cylindrical coil, with the conductive coil wire being wound around a segment of a core which conducts a closed magnetic flux. The core is interrupted by at least one non-magnetizable gap with small thickness to reduce a saturation of the core even with high currents flowing through the electric gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2012
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Applicant: Schneider Electric Sachsenwerk GmbH
    Inventor: Raimund Summer
  • Patent number: 7993968
    Abstract: A system is described that connects the surface of a first substrate to the edge of a second substrate. The surfaces of additional substrates can be placed on the remaining edges of the second substrate to form a 3-D structure. Rigid support substrates can be connected to the first substrate to provide support for the first and additional substrates. The second substrate can be used to carry heat, fluids, electrical power or signals between first and additional substrates besides providing a mechanical support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: MetaMEMS Corp.
    Inventor: Thaddeus John Gabara
  • Publication number: 20100194510
    Abstract: An inductive electrical device according to an embodiment of the present invention including a core structure, wherein the core structure includes a synthetic antiferromagnet is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2009
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Inventor: Klemens Pruegl
  • Patent number: 7728427
    Abstract: A system is described that can assemble substrates over one another to form a stacked substrate. The various layers of the stacked substrate can be separated from each other by using Coulomb forces. In addition, a beam substrate can be used to increase the separation. The instructions for assembly and a FSM (Finite State Machine) can be included in the stacked substrate to pave the way for a self-constructing 3-D automaton. The beam substrate can be used to carry heat, fluids, electrical power or signals between the various layers of the stacked cells besides providing a mechanical support. A stacked substrate can be assembled into a cylindrical coil, a transformer or a coupled transformer depending on the construction of the beam structure. The magnetic coupling of the transformer can be altered by changing the distance between the separated substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: LCtank LLC
    Inventor: Thaddeus John Gabara
  • Publication number: 20100066474
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a transformer is provided that includes a first conductive coil wound about a first coil axis and a second conductive coil wound about a second coil axis. The second conductive coil is disposed proximate to the first conductive coil and the second coil axis is substantially parallel to the first coil axis. A closed-loop conductive winding is disposed proximate to the first conductive coil and the second conductive coil. The closed-loop conductive winding is wound about a loop axis at least one time where the loop axis is substantially parallel to the first coil axis and the second coil axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2008
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Applicant: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Jian Huang, Jeffrey J. White
  • Patent number: 6753070
    Abstract: An insulating ceramic compact is provided which can be obtained by low-temperature firing, has a low relative dielectric constant and superior high frequency characteristics, and can be co-sintered with a material having a high coefficient of thermal expansion. The insulating ceramic compact is a fired mixture of an MgAl2O4-based ceramic and a borosilicate glass, in which an MgAl2O4 crystal phase and at least one of an Mg3B2O6 crystal phase and an Mg2B2O5 crystal phase are precipitated as primary crystal phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoya Mori, Yasutaka Sugimoto, Osamu Chikagawa
  • Patent number: 6573822
    Abstract: A tunable inductor is disclosed. The tunable inductor comprises a helical or spiral inductor formed on a semiconductor substrate having an input and an output. The helical inductor has a full length that provides a full inductance. Also, a full inductance switch is disposed between the output and the full length of the helical inductor. Finally, at least one microelectromechanical (MEMS) switch is disposed between the output and an intermediate location of the helical inductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2003
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Qing Ma, Peng Cheng, Valluri Rao
  • Publication number: 20020140539
    Abstract: In a laminated impedance device, coil conductor patterns are electrically connected in series through via-holes to form a substantially U-shaped spiral coil. A first group of the coil conductor patterns defines a first coil portion of a high-permeability coil unit. A second group of the coil conductor patterns defines a second coil portion of a low-permeability coil unit, and a third group of the coil conductor patterns defines a third coil portion of the low-permeability coil unit. A fourth group of the coil conductor patterns defines a fourth coil portion of the high-permeability coil unit. The first, second and third coil portions are wound clockwise, while the fourth coil portion is wound counterclockwise, as viewed from the top of the impedance device. Therefore, the laminated impedance device yields a high inductance in the low-permeability coil unit, and can be mounted in any direction and orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2002
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Inventors: Koichi Takashima, Hiromichi Tokuda
  • Publication number: 20020033054
    Abstract: This method reduces the cost and complexity of the manufacture of an electromagnetic flow sensor having a measuring tube (1) with an insulating liner (12) having an open-pore reinforcing body (13) embedded therein. The liner is produced in situ in the prefabricated support tube (11) rather than inserting it therein as a prefabricated component. A sintering space (41) is formed in the support tube (11) by inserting a sintering mandrel (411) with a smallest diameter greater than the smallest inside diameter of the liner (12) into the support tube (11) and fixing it therein. The support tube (11) is closed, leaving one filling aperture (414) for a granular material to be sintered. The reinforcing body (13) is formed in the support tube (11) in such a manner that it fits its lumen, by introducing the material to be sintered into the sintering space (41), sintering the material and removing the mandrel (411).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2001
    Publication date: March 21, 2002
    Inventors: Daniel Frey, Antonio Magliocca
  • Publication number: 20020030573
    Abstract: An insulating ceramic compact is provided which can be obtained by low-temperature firing, has a low relative dielectric constant and superior high frequency characteristics, and can be co-sintered with a material having a high coefficient of thermal expansion. The insulating ceramic compact is a fired mixture of an MgAl2O4-based ceramic and a borosilicate glass, in which an MgAl2O4 crystal phase and at least one of an Mg3B2O6 crystal phase and an Mg2B2O5 crystal phase are precipitated as primary crystal phases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2001
    Publication date: March 14, 2002
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoya Mori, Yasutaka Sugimoto, Osamu Chikagawa
  • Patent number: 6277253
    Abstract: Embodiments include a method for depositing material onto a workpiece in a sputtering chamber. The method includes sputtering a target and a coil in said sputtering chamber. The coil may have a preformed multilayer structure formed outside of the sputtering chamber. The outer layer of the coil may act as a secondary source of deposition material. The multilayer structure may be formed with an inner region or a base metal and an outer layer of a sputtering metal. The outer layer may be formed using a process such as plasma spraying, arc spraying, flame spraying, ion plating, chemical vapor deposition and electroplating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2001
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Murali Narasimhan, Xiangbing Li
  • Patent number: 6002319
    Abstract: An inductance device comprises: an EE type ferrite core with an air gap at a center leg portion; a bobbin having at least three chambers wound by coils, said ferrite core being placed on said bobbin; and a shield coil formed by a first part and a second part of the coil, in which the first part is wound a chamber surrounding a peripheral portion of the air gap and the second part is wound the chamber in a reverse direction of the first part, the ends of the shield coil being short-circuited. In the inductance device with gap, the first and second parts of the coil are wound in the chamber surrounding the peripheral portion of the air gap in opposite direction each other, and the ends of the coil are shorted circuited. Thus, it is formed the shield coil for a leak magnetic flux from the air gap containing a component perpendicular to the main magnetic flux.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1999
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventor: Tooru Honma
  • Patent number: 5789907
    Abstract: An enhanced variable impedance transformer is disclosed for controlling the power from an alternating input power source to a load in accordance with a direct current control signal. The variable impedance transformer comprises a first and a second annular saturable reactor core and an annular power core with a power input winding being simultaneously wound about the annular power core and the first and second annular saturable reactor cores. A power output winding is wound about the annular power core for transferring power to the load. The power input windings are connected to the alternating input power source for establishing a magnetic flux in the annular power core and in the first and second annular saturable reactor cores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1998
    Assignee: Top Gulf Coast Corporation
    Inventor: Serge Casagrande
  • Patent number: 5770984
    Abstract: An EMI filter formed with a U-shaped ferrite core with parallel first and second legs and a center leg surrounded by a grounding and shorting strap and a capacitor connected between the grounding and shorting strap and a portion of a conductor which extends between the first and second legs. Two or more of the filters can be formed as a stacked array. The filter has a substantially improved frequency response over the prior art.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1998
    Assignee: Corcom, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael P. Raleigh, Thomas McCartney
  • Patent number: 5432439
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an arrangement in a current detection circuit. There is a primary coil for the current to be detected, a separate transformer core which is influenced by the current of the primary coil, a secondary coil conducting a transformed secondary current, as well as a tertiary coil connected to an operational amplifier including a feedback resistor and constituting a current-voltage converter circuit with an input resistance of nearly zero ohms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1995
    Assignee: ABB Energi AS
    Inventor: Geir Svoen
  • Patent number: 5339061
    Abstract: An iron-free transformer in which electrical energy is transferred from a primary winding to a secondary winding without any electrical connection or inductive coupling therebetween. The transformer includes an iron-free conductive closed loop having input and output sections. Coiled about the input section to form the primary winding is a solenoidal flux tube whose ends are the input terminals of the transformer. Coiled about the output section is a solenoidal flux tube whose ends are the output terminals of the transformer. When the input terminals are connected to an alternating current source, the lines of flux in the electromagnetic field created by the primary flux tube winding do not intercept the secondary flux tube winding, but induce alternating current in the input section which is continuously circulated in the loop and flows through the output section thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1994
    Assignee: Michael Ebert
    Inventor: Franklin G. Reick
  • Patent number: 5307040
    Abstract: A transformer, particularly for use in intrinsically safe systems, has separate first and second magnetic cores mounted in wells in a one-piece elastics housing which serves both as a housing and to electrically segregate the cores. Passing through the housing and through the cores is a wire loop which is turned back and joined outside the housing so as to link the two cores electromagnetically. The cores are preferably toroidal cores carrying windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1994
    Assignee: Measurement Technology Limited
    Inventor: Barry J. Lytollis
  • Patent number: 5274207
    Abstract: An induction heater for heating a material is described which has an alternating current carrying conductor 30 extending along an axis of rotation. Mounted about the axis are containers 32 which rotate about the axis and hold the material to be heated. A core 34 is provided encircling the alternating current carrying conductor 30. The core 34 guides the magnetic flux resulting from an alternating current flowing in the conductor 30 to induce a current in the inner sleeve 38 between the conductor 30 and core 34. Current flowing in the inner sleeve 38 is conducted to end plates 40 and 42 and through the containers 32. The containers 32 are heated by the electrical current induced by the magnetic flux in the core 34.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1993
    Assignee: Electricity Association Technology Limited
    Inventor: John T. Griffith
  • Patent number: 5163173
    Abstract: An apparatus and method is disclosed for an improved variable impedance transformer for controlling the power from an alternating input power source to a load in accordance with a direct current control signal. The invention comprises a DC control winding simultaneously wound about a plurality of saturable reactor cores and a plurality of AC power input windings simultaneously wound about a power core and each of the saturable reactor cores. A power output winding is wound about the power core for delivering power to the load. A low impedance equalizing winding is wound about the saturable reactor cores for shunting any resultant alternating voltage as a result of physical variations between the saturable reactor cores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1992
    Assignee: Top Gulf Coast Corporation
    Inventor: Serge Casagrande
  • Patent number: 5111174
    Abstract: A high frequency power transformer having a multi-element magnetic shield conforming to the surface of the structure including provisions for specific features of the magnetic circuit and winding assembly. The winding is disposed on one side of a four-sided magnetic circuit and is partially surrounded by a close fitting electrically continuous loop. The winding assembly includes an area having a higher electrostatic field and is surrounded by a second electrically continuous loop which is spaced apart from the winding assembly, providing significant electrostatic shielding and air movement over the winding assembly while avoiding arcing between the shield and the winding assembly due to the high electrostatic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1992
    Assignee: AVP/Megascan
    Inventor: J. Stanley Kriz
  • Patent number: 5105095
    Abstract: An improved data coupler assembly provides an improved electromagnet insert having conductive wires positioned within arcuate channels formed along with electromagnet insert. Sealing means to position and seal the conductor wires to the assembly are included. Improved electromagnetic shielding by using metallic plating on the upper member of the coupler assembly provides effective, but lightweight, EMF/RFI protection. A rugged resilient spring means improves the formation of an electromagnet core by biasing the electromagnet insert, and thereby biasing together each electromagnet pair form cores having a minimal air gap. A quick-action panel mounting means secures the coupler assembly to a panel, and improved aligning means precisely secures the upper member of the coupler assembly to the lower member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1992
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventors: William J. Rudy, Jr., Howard R. Shaffer
  • Patent number: 5089930
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1992
    Assignee: Pickering Controls, Inc.
    Inventor: Jacob Chass
  • Patent number: 4994952
    Abstract: There is provided a low-noise switching power supply for producing a regulated output voltage from an unregulated supply. The power supply includes a main transformer having first, second and third legs. A primary winding associated with a first leg produces an alternating magnetic flux in the core. A load winding associated with a second leg produces the output voltage from the power supply. A control winding is associated with the third leg. The regulated output voltage is compared to a reference voltage and used to operate a control circuit which alternately short circuits the control winding so as to vary the reluctance pass in the transformer and maintain the output voltage at a substantially constant predetermined value. A feedback circuit including a coupling transformer connects the primary coil to the switching circuit to improve regulation and provide a "soft start" capability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 19, 1991
    Assignee: Electronics Research Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald M. Silva, LeRoy F. Silva, Fred M. Fehsenfeld, Sr.
  • Patent number: 4904879
    Abstract: A coupler assembly for noninvasive coupling to conductor wires of a twisted pair cable of a data bus uses mating pairs of E-shaped electromagnets defining a pair of electromagnet cores having windings about central legs thereof electrically connected to a control unit for sensing and transmitting signals along the data bus. A lower member with lower electromagnets is mounted to a panel, while an upper member with upper electromagnets includes a circuit substrate having trace windings about substrate apertures receiving the central legs of the upper electromagnets, an electronic subassembly to which the windings are electrically connected to amplify signals received and signals to be sent, and a shielded electrical connector secured at a connector end connected to circuits of the electronic subassembly and matable with a connector of a cable extending to the control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 27, 1990
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventors: William J. Rudy, Jr., Howard R. Shafter
  • Patent number: 4843201
    Abstract: An induction heater comprising an alternating-current-carrying conductor (1) extending along an axis; a plurality of core sections (3, 4, 5) arranged in line and each substantially encircling the axis to guide magnetic flux resulting from the alternating current in the conductor (1); a plurality of heating element sections respectively associated with the core sections and each comprising an electrically conductive closed loop encircling magnetic flux in the associated core section (3, 4, 5) and being heated by electrical current induced thereby; and means (13, 14) to at least partially saturate at least one (4, 5) of the core sections thereby to reduce the coupling between the conductor (1) and the heating element section associated with said one core section (4, 5) and thus control the heating effected by said one core section (4, 5) and its associated heating element section (FIG. 4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1989
    Assignee: The Electricity Council
    Inventor: John T. Griffith
  • Patent number: 4814587
    Abstract: An improved performance ferromagnetic self-regulating heater. Constant alternating current is applied to a layered structure including at least one ferromagnetic layer. One or more layers of non-magnetic material is added to the ferromagnetic layer in such a way that the power factor of the heater is very significantly increased above its value in the absence of at least one of the layers. The alternating current flows through the different layers in varying quantities depending on layer composition, temperature and Curie point of the ferromagnetic layer. The structure generates heat by resistive heating as a function of the power applied. In one embodiment a single layer of non-magnetic, high-resistance material is in intimate electrical and thermal contact with one surface of the ferromagnetic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1989
    Assignee: Metcal, Inc.
    Inventor: Philip S. Carter
  • Patent number: 4806896
    Abstract: An electromagnetic shield for electromagnetic apparatus comprises a plurality of shield coils (2-7) wound intermittently on a looped magnetic core (11). Same polarity terminals of the shield coils are connected to form current paths which prevent external fluxes .phi..sub.1, .phi..sub.2 from entering into the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1989
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshirou Shikano, Shinichirou Hayashi
  • Patent number: 4713723
    Abstract: An isolation transformer is provided by a primary conductor formed on an insulating layer above a secondary conductor formed on a chip therebelow, with flux lines coupling between the primary and secondary conductors to provide transformer action through the insulating layer therebetween. The primary is formed by a serpentine pattern having a plurality of parallel strips transverse to a plurality of parallel strips forming the secondary conductor. The secondary conductor may be formed on an extra insulating layer on the chip substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1987
    Inventor: Lance R. Kaufman
  • Patent number: 4471333
    Abstract: A current transformer having at least one ring-shaped core with a secondary winding mounted thereon, and a primary conductor, located within its casing. An inner tube is provided between the ring-shaped core and the primary conductor, one end of the tube being electrically connected to the casing and its other parts electrically insulated therefrom. A cylindrical, electrically conductive screening shield at least partially overlaps the inner tube and is electrically connected to the casing on the side of the ring-shaped core which is distal from the electrical connection between the casing and the inner tube, while the other parts of the shield are electrically insulated from the casing. This overlap forms a short-circuit loop for any steep progressing wave which is generated when switching on a potential-free part of the circuitry, or when due to an interruption, a small capacitive current breaks off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1982
    Date of Patent: September 11, 1984
    Assignee: Sprecher & Schuh AG
    Inventor: Viktor H. Stephanides
  • Patent number: 4460884
    Abstract: A transformer including a lamination core of band iron and a magnetic screen which consists of a wound iron band arranged around the lamination core (5) and which is secured to the core by means of expansion wedges provided in the space between the core and the screen 13. The expansion wedges (7) extend transversely of or at an angle with respect to the winding direction of the wound iron band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1982
    Date of Patent: July 17, 1984
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Sieghard Post, Siegfried Mehl
  • Patent number: 4425511
    Abstract: A planar coil apparatus is disclosed for providing an output signal indicative of a movement between at least a first and a second position. A first stationary planar member has disposed on a surface, a first flat coil configuration which is emplaced thereon by a printed circuit or similar technique. Located adjacent to this coil on the board is a second coil of similar configuration. A drive signal such as that obtained from an AC or pulse source is applied to the input terminals of one of the coils which constitutes the drive coil. A second planar board is positioned relatively congruent and above the first board and has located thereon a closed coil configuration which constitutes a closed coil loop. As this movable board is brought into proximity with the stationary board, magnetic flux is coupled via the loop from the drive coil to the second coil which serves as the sense coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1984
    Inventor: Amnon Brosh
  • 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