With Closed Coil Or Conductor Member Patents (Class 336/73)
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Patent number: 11605497Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 23, 2021Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: Silanna Asia Pte LtdInventor: Ningliang Mi
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Patent number: 11075031Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 8, 2018Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: Würth Elektronik eiSos GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Ranjith Bramanpalli
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Patent number: 10790077Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 31, 2017Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: Waymo LLCInventor: Harry Johnson
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Patent number: 10690700Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 7, 2019Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Leviton Manufacturing Company, Inc.Inventors: Ronald Jansen, Michael Kamor, Michael Ostrovsky, Alfred J. Lombardi
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Patent number: 9355771Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 13, 2010Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: AKADEMIA GORNICZO-HUTNICZA IM. STANISLAWA STASZICA W KRAKOWIEInventors: Cezary Worek, Robert Maslanka
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Patent number: 9177718Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 22, 2014Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: Veris Industries, LLCInventors: Martin Cook, Mark D. Rowan, Marc Bowman, Troy Earl Wecker, Mark Taft, Gary Richmond, Cristin Rosenbaum, Kenneth Courian, Doug Porter
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Patent number: 9146259Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 19, 2011Date of Patent: September 29, 2015Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC IT CORPORATIONInventors: Arthur J. Blake, Vishwas M. Deokar, Namwook Paik, James S. Spitaels
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Patent number: 8961384Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 11, 2013Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Medical Energetics LtdInventor: David G. Schmidt
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Publication number: 20150015356Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2013Publication date: January 15, 2015Inventors: Boris S. Jacobson, Stephen R. Elkins, Bradley S. Jaworski, Erik T. Kazior
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Patent number: 8933771Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 23, 2013Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Jian Huang, Jeffrey J. White
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Publication number: 20140218149Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: LIFEWAVE, INC.Inventor: David G. Schmidt
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Publication number: 20140184373Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2011Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: ALSTOM Technology LtdInventor: Francis Mumford
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Publication number: 20140159845Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2014Publication date: June 12, 2014Applicant: Levitronics, Inc.Inventor: William N. Barbat
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Patent number: 8749333Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 26, 2012Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: LifeWave, Inc.Inventor: David G. Schmidt
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Patent number: 8652023Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 27, 2012Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: LifeWave, Inc.Inventor: David G. Schmidt
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Publication number: 20140022037Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2013Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Jian Huang, Jeffrey J. White
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Patent number: 8593244Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 18, 2008Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Jian Huang, Jeffrey J. White
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Publication number: 20130285782Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2012Publication date: October 31, 2013Applicant: LIFEWAVE, INC.Inventor: David G. SCHMIDT
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Publication number: 20130176093Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2012Publication date: July 11, 2013Applicant: Schneider Electric Sachsenwerk GmbHInventor: Raimund Summer
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Patent number: 7993968Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 29, 2010Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignee: MetaMEMS Corp.Inventor: Thaddeus John Gabara
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Publication number: 20100194510Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2009Publication date: August 5, 2010Inventor: Klemens Pruegl
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Patent number: 7728427Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 7, 2007Date of Patent: June 1, 2010Assignee: LCtank LLCInventor: Thaddeus John Gabara
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Publication number: 20100066474Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2008Publication date: March 18, 2010Applicant: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Jian Huang, Jeffrey J. White
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Patent number: 6753070Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 11, 2001Date of Patent: June 22, 2004Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naoya Mori, Yasutaka Sugimoto, Osamu Chikagawa
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Patent number: 6573822Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 18, 2001Date of Patent: June 3, 2003Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Qing Ma, Peng Cheng, Valluri Rao
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Publication number: 20020140539Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2002Publication date: October 3, 2002Inventors: Koichi Takashima, Hiromichi Tokuda
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Publication number: 20020033054Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2001Publication date: March 21, 2002Inventors: Daniel Frey, Antonio Magliocca
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Publication number: 20020030573Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2001Publication date: March 14, 2002Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naoya Mori, Yasutaka Sugimoto, Osamu Chikagawa
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Patent number: 6277253Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 6, 1999Date of Patent: August 21, 2001Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Murali Narasimhan, Xiangbing Li
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Patent number: 6002319Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 1, 1998Date of Patent: December 14, 1999Assignee: TDK CorporationInventor: Tooru Honma
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Patent number: 5789907Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 13, 1996Date of Patent: August 4, 1998Assignee: Top Gulf Coast CorporationInventor: Serge Casagrande
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Patent number: 5770984Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 23, 1996Date of Patent: June 23, 1998Assignee: Corcom, Inc.Inventors: Michael P. Raleigh, Thomas McCartney
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Patent number: 5432439Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 29, 1993Date of Patent: July 11, 1995Assignee: ABB Energi ASInventor: Geir Svoen
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Patent number: 5339061Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 1, 1993Date of Patent: August 16, 1994Assignee: Michael EbertInventor: Franklin G. Reick
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Patent number: 5307040Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 27, 1992Date of Patent: April 26, 1994Assignee: Measurement Technology LimitedInventor: Barry J. Lytollis
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Patent number: 5274207Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 12, 1991Date of Patent: December 28, 1993Assignee: Electricity Association Technology LimitedInventor: John T. Griffith
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Patent number: 5163173Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 29, 1991Date of Patent: November 10, 1992Assignee: Top Gulf Coast CorporationInventor: Serge Casagrande
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Patent number: 5111174Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 16, 1990Date of Patent: May 5, 1992Assignee: AVP/MegascanInventor: J. Stanley Kriz
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Patent number: 5105095Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 20, 1991Date of Patent: April 14, 1992Assignee: AMP IncorporatedInventors: William J. Rudy, Jr., Howard R. Shaffer
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Patent number: 5089930Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 12, 1991Date of Patent: February 18, 1992Assignee: Pickering Controls, Inc.Inventor: Jacob Chass
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Patent number: 4994952Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 20, 1989Date of Patent: February 19, 1991Assignee: Electronics Research Group, Inc.Inventors: Donald M. Silva, LeRoy F. Silva, Fred M. Fehsenfeld, Sr.
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Patent number: 4904879Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 30, 1988Date of Patent: February 27, 1990Assignee: AMP IncorporatedInventors: William J. Rudy, Jr., Howard R. Shafter
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Patent number: 4843201Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 17, 1988Date of Patent: June 27, 1989Assignee: The Electricity CouncilInventor: John T. Griffith
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Patent number: 4814587Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 10, 1986Date of Patent: March 21, 1989Assignee: Metcal, Inc.Inventor: Philip S. Carter
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Patent number: 4806896Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 13, 1988Date of Patent: February 21, 1989Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshirou Shikano, Shinichirou Hayashi
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Patent number: 4713723Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 1, 1986Date of Patent: December 15, 1987Inventor: Lance R. Kaufman
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Patent number: 4471333Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 22, 1982Date of Patent: September 11, 1984Assignee: Sprecher & Schuh AGInventor: Viktor H. Stephanides
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Patent number: 4460884Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 25, 1982Date of Patent: July 17, 1984Assignee: U.S. Philips CorporationInventors: Sieghard Post, Siegfried Mehl
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Patent number: 4425511Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 9, 1981Date of Patent: January 10, 1984Inventor: Amnon Brosh
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Patent number: 4382230Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 25, 1980Date of Patent: May 3, 1983Assignee: Thomson-CSFInventor: Gerard Gauthier