Internal Inductor Support Patents (Class 336/92)
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Patent number: 6144278Abstract: A transformer including a bobbin formed by uniting a winding member, which has a primary winding and secondary winding and a bore formed thereon and therein, with a primary winding fixture and secondary winding fixture adjoining the openings of the bore, and a ferromagnetic core having a core portion thereof inserted into the bore and including an enclosure for enclosing the windings is manufactured according to a process including an affixing step of firmly affixing both or either of the primary winding fixture and secondary winding fixture to the ferromagnetic core, an impregnation step of impregnating the transformer with a varnish, and an applying step of applying adhesives.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 1998Date of Patent: November 7, 2000Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hideyuki Nishida, Shunichi Haga, Ichiro Shimizu
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Patent number: 6144277Abstract: An electric noise absorber comprising at least two ferrite pieces having abutting planes, at least two case members containing the ferrite pieces respectively and being closed by means of engagement members, and a spring member provided in at least one of the case members for pressing the ferrite pieces against each other when the case members are closed. Since the case members for keeping the ferrite pieces in appropriate positions and the spring member for pushing up the ferrite pieces for close contact are separately molded, the case members are bestowed with strength and the spring member with elasticity, both suitable for their own purposes. The case members requires no apertures for biasing members and therefore outside magnetic substance is prevented from contacting with the ferrite pieces contained in the case members.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 1993Date of Patent: November 7, 2000Inventors: Kazuhiro Matsui, Hiroji Kitagawa
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Patent number: 6121865Abstract: A solenoid assembly is provided having a sealing device disposed in a recess of the over-molded material in order to seal the electrical leads extending from the coil of the solenoid through the recess. The sealing device is an elastomeric member having holes defined therein for the electrical leads to pass through and a larger portion that is disposed in the recess. With the larger portion pressed into the recess, a force is transferred through the elastomeric material onto the electrical leads to prohibit ingression of contaminants into the windings of the coil. The electrical leads could be either lead wires or rigid pins. The elastomeric material also serves to provide vibration damping.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 1998Date of Patent: September 19, 2000Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Maurice J. Dust, Kyle W. Scholl
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Patent number: 6118077Abstract: A noise absorbing apparatus includes a noise absorbing unit and a fixing base. The noise absorbing unit is constituted by a pair of ferrite members and a pair of covers covering the ferrite members. The ferrite members are positioned to oppose each other to be in tight contact with each other to sandwich a cable. The fixing base is fixed on a chassis where the cable extends, and fits on the noise absorbing unit, thereby fixing the noise absorbing unit on the chassis.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 1998Date of Patent: September 12, 2000Assignee: Takeuchi Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yasuichi Takeuchi
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Patent number: 6114933Abstract: An ignition coil assembly module (40) that can be connected to and disconnected from an engine spark plug. The module elements are arranged as a succession of cylindrical layers about a central ferromagnetic core (46). From innermost to outermost, the succession is: a) a secondary bobbin (48), b) a secondary coil (58), c) a secondary encapsulant (194) encapsulating the secondary coil, d) a primary bobbin (50), e) a primary coil (56), f) an inner wall (181) of an environmental shield (42) encapsulating the primary coil, g) a ferromagnetic shell (52), and h) an outer wall (180) of the environmental shield encapsulating the shell. The primary bobbin forms a liquid container for holding secondary coil encapsulant. A terminal (100) extends through a transverse wall (71) of the primary bobbin for carrying secondary current from the secondary coil to another terminal (118) on the other side of the transverse wall that connects to a spark plug (80).Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 1999Date of Patent: September 5, 2000Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Alex William Widiger, Gregg Michael Stefansky, Todd Christopher Sexton, William Douglas Walker
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Patent number: 6115236Abstract: The HT power supply unit modular support according to the invention comprises functional housings intended to accommodate the functional elements of the power supply unit, the insulating walls of which are formed by two protruding walls (2, 3) having overlapping complementary inclined surfaces (5, 6). Application to HT power supply units for X-ray sources.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 1998Date of Patent: September 5, 2000Assignee: GE Medical Systems S.A.Inventors: Hans Jedlitschka, Denis Perillat, Jacques Sireul
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Patent number: 6094121Abstract: An engine igniting coil device adapted to be mounted in a cylindrical bore of an engine and directly connected with an ignition plug therein has a coil case containing an igniting coil assembly and made of conductive magnetic material which is held at the ground potential level, thus preventing a decrease of output factor of the igniting coil of produced magnetic flux when spreading about and passing through a cylinder head of the engine and eliminating the possibility of leakage discharge from a high-voltage portion of the igniting coil assembly to the coil case and the cylinder head.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 1999Date of Patent: July 25, 2000Assignee: Toyo Denso Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Makoto Sakamaki, Toshiyuki Shinozawa, Yoshiharu Saito
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Patent number: 6091211Abstract: A mis-convergence correction device includes a first controlled coil unit, a second controlled coil unit, a controlling coil unit, and a coil holder. The first controlled coil unit includes first and second drum cores and a first controlled coil. Each of the first and second drum cores has circular flanges at its opposite ends respectively. The first controlled coil is provided on a portion of the first drum core between its flanges and also a portion of the second drum core between its flanges. The second controlled coil unit includes third and fourth drum cores and a second controlled coil. Each of the third and fourth drum cores has circular flanges at its opposite ends respectively. The second controlled coil is provided on a portion of the third drum core between its flanges and also a portion of the fourth drum core between its flanges. The controlling coil unit is located between the first and second controlled coil units.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 1998Date of Patent: July 18, 2000Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.Inventors: Takasuke Koga, Naoki Hatakeyama
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Patent number: 6078240Abstract: An isolating cover for mounting on a top of a bobbin of a small-scaled transformer to cover windings and pins provided on the bobbin and isolate them from a frame core of the transformer. The isolating cover is so designed that it has isolating walls to provide increased creepage distances between any two components on the transformer and therefore prevents a hipot from directly crossing from a high-tension end to a low-tension end on the transformer. The increased creepage distances at all areas of the bobbin enable upgraded quality and reliability of the transformer. The isolating cover can be easily mounted to the bobbin to replace conventional insulating tape for covering the top of the bobbin, and has dimensions that do not exceed an overall volume defined by the bobbin. The transformer with the isolating cover can therefore be manufactured with simplified procedures and at reduced cost.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 1999Date of Patent: June 20, 2000Inventor: Ming Shih Huang
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Patent number: 6078241Abstract: A noise absorber capable of preventing a cable from becoming damaged with a high degree of reliability while demonstrating outstanding noise absorbing characteristics is provided with a cover 1 and a pair of ferrites 21 and 22. The cover 1 is constituted through the combination of a first cover 11 and a second cover 12. The first cover 11 is provided with a ferrite storage portion 110 and a cable storage portion 111. The second cover 12 is provided with a ferrite storage portion 120 and a cable storage portion 121 . The ferrite storage portion 110 is formed at an internal surface of the first cover 11 and the ferrite storage portion 120 is formed at an internal surface of the second cover 12. The cable storage portion 111 is formed adjacent to the ferrite storage portion 110 at a side thereof, whereas the cable storage portion 121 is formed adjacent to the ferrite storage portion 120 at a side thereof.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 1999Date of Patent: June 20, 2000Assignee: TDK CorporationInventors: Yuetsu Watanabe, Hiroyuki Uemura
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Patent number: 6072125Abstract: A noise absorbing apparatus includes a noise absorbing unit and a fixing base. The noise absorbing unit is constituted by a pair of ferrite members and a pair of covers covering the ferrite members. The ferrite members are positioned to oppose each other to be in tight contact with each other to sandwich a cable. The fixing base is fixed on a chassis where the cable extends, and fits on the noise absorbing unit, thereby fixing the noise absorbing unit on the chassis.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 1998Date of Patent: June 6, 2000Assignee: Takeuchi Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yasuichi Takeuchi
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Patent number: 6047936Abstract: A fixing bracket for fixing to a support a box-like structure which contains electrical components, such as a transformer, and has an external electrical wiring region, the bracket comprising a base with fastening elements for fastening the base to the support, an elastic coupling element for quick coupling of the box-like structure to the base, a box-like extension protruding from the base and which is partially open for receiving the wiring region, a sealing gasket arranged at the partially open portion of the box-like extension for sealing association with the box-like structure, and a condensate drain.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 1998Date of Patent: April 11, 2000Assignee: Siet Societa' Italiana Elettronica Trasformatori SRLInventors: Virginio Favotto, Fausto Martin
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Patent number: 6023023Abstract: A noise absorbing apparatus includes a noise absorbing unit and a fixing base. The noise absorbing unit is constituted by a pair of ferrite members and a pair of covers covering the ferrite members. The ferrite members are positioned to oppose each other to be in tight contact with each other to sandwich a cable. The fixing base is fixed on a chassis where the cable extends, and fits on the noise absorbing unit, thereby fixing the noise absorbing unit on the chassis.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 1997Date of Patent: February 8, 2000Assignee: Takeuchi Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yasuichi Takeuchi
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Patent number: 6011457Abstract: An engine igniting coil device directly attachable to an igniting plug, wherein both primary and secondary coil bobbins have flangeless ends, the secondary coil bobbin has inwardly protruding ribs for coaxially supporting the flangeless end of the primary coil bobbin mounted therein and the secondary coil bobbin also has protrusions formed at its external wall apart from a high-voltage terminal of the secondary coil wound thereon and is coaxially mounted in a coil case by abutting its protrusions on an inner wall thereof, thus eliminating the possibility of damaging the bobbins by a large thermal stress produced in solidified insulating resin in a coil case by a differential thermal shrinkage in an axial direction and preventing a leakage current from a high-voltage side of the secondary coil bobbin to the coil case through a flange-like connection.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 1997Date of Patent: January 4, 2000Assignee: Toyo Denso Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Makoto Sakamaki, Toshiyuki Shinozawa, Yoshiharu Saito
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Patent number: 6008711Abstract: An arrangement for securing a current transformer to an electric utility meter housing. The arrangement includes a utility meter base plate which forms a portion of the electric utility meter housing. The utility meter base plate includes (i) a first central axis and (ii) a transformer receptacle defined therein. The transformer receptacle has an opening and a first retention surface. The arrangement also has a current transformer assembly including (i) the current transformer and (ii) a wall member affixed to the current transformer. The wall member defines an annular channel having a second central axis, and the current transformer is positioned within the annular channel. The transformer assembly also includes a tab having a second retention surface. The tab extends from the wall member.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 1998Date of Patent: December 28, 1999Assignee: Siemens Power Transmission & DistributionInventor: Charles Bolam
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Patent number: 6005464Abstract: An engine igniting coil device adapted to be mounted in a cylindrical bore of an engine and directly connected with an ignition plug therein has a coil case containing an igniting coil assembly and made of conductive magnetic material which is held at the ground potential level, thus preventing a decrease of output factor of the igniting coil of produced magnetic flux when spreading about and passing through a cylinder head of the engine and eliminating the possibility of leakage discharge from a high-voltage portion of the igniting coil assembly to the coil case and the cylinder head.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 1997Date of Patent: December 21, 1999Assignee: Toyo Denso Kabushiki KasihaInventors: Makoto Sakamaki, Toshiyuki Shinozawa, Yoshiharu Saito
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Patent number: 6005463Abstract: A device for electrically interconnecting the wire leads of various electronic elements within a microminiature package. A non-conducting base member having a plurality of electronic element barriers and wire lead through-holes is provided. The through-holes are generally located within the interior regions of the base element to minimize potentially detrimental field interactions or capacitive coupling between the leads and the external package terminals. During package assembly, the electronic elements are placed within recesses created within the base member by the aforementioned barriers. These recesses and barriers align the elements and help maintain electrical separation and uniformity during manufacturing. The wire leads from two or more elements are interconnected by twisting them together and inserting them into one of the through-holes.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 1997Date of Patent: December 21, 1999Assignee: Pulse EngineeringInventors: James D. Lint, Aurelio J. Gutierrez, Victor H. Renteria
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Patent number: 5996214Abstract: A transformer assembly, particularly for data and audio signals, has first and second bobbins which are telescoped within one another. A method of assembling a transformer assembly is provided which comprises providing first and second bobbins, coils around the bobbins and, as a first step, slidably mounting the bobbins within one another. The core is preformed or comprises laminations formed as E's and I's, which are then fitted through the assembly cap and the bobbins. The cap provides a receptacle for the core, and retains the laminations in position. To secure the laminations in position, an assembly cup is mounted around the outside of the laminations. The assembly cup can include springs or the like, to maintain the laminations in position and allow for expansion and contraction. The springs can additionally mechanically secure the transformer in position. The bobbins, cap, core and cup can be encapsulated together.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 1997Date of Patent: December 7, 1999Assignee: Electronic CraftsmenInventor: Glen A. Bell
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Patent number: 5990756Abstract: An apparatus for reducing electromagnetic interference associated with a signal-conducting cable includes a ferrite bead and a one-piece molded encasement covering the ferrite bead. The encasement includes a number of ribs located within a longitudinal aperture of the ferrite bead. The ribs protrude radially inward to secure the apparatus to the cable and to coaxially align the cable within the aperture. In a preferred embodiment, the encasement and ribs are integrally formed from a resilient material.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 1997Date of Patent: November 23, 1999Assignee: Belden Communications CompanyInventors: Robert Charles France, Jr., Robert Kelly McClellan, John Raymond Gertie
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Patent number: 5977856Abstract: An ignition coil device for an internal-combustion engine reduces the deterioration in reliability caused by heat stress. The ignition coil device is provided with: a case (5); a core (6) provided in the case (5); a primary coil (8) which is provided so that it surrounds the core (6) and which has a primary winding (13) trough which a primary current flows composed of a conductor wound around a bottomed cylindrical primary bobbin (12); a secondary coil (9) which is provided so that it surrounds the primary coil (8) and in which high voltage is generated by the interruption of the primary current; a stopper (21) which is provided at an opening (12a) of the primary bobbin (12) to close the opening (12a) of the primary bobbin (12); and an insulator (11) composed of a thermosetting resin which is provided in the case (5) to secure the primary coil (8) and the secondary coil (9) in the case (5).Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 1997Date of Patent: November 2, 1999Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshio Maekawa, Mitsuru Koiwa
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Patent number: 5977854Abstract: An electromagnetic noise absorber has a pair of ferrite cores arranged with open ends of the ferrite cores facing each other. Each of the ferrite cores includes an axial portion, an outer cylindrical portion and a bottom portion and is constructed by coupling an end of the axial portion and an end of the outer cylindrical portion to the bottom portion. A slot is formed in the outer cylindrical portion and the bottom portion of each ferrite core such that the slot extends from the open end of the outer cylindrical portion to the bottom portion. The electromagnetic noise absorber can be easily attached to a signal line by placing the signal line in the slots and turning one of the ferrite cores. Since the signal line are wound around the axial portion of the ferrite cores, the signal line has a high impedance.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 1997Date of Patent: November 2, 1999Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideyuki Mihara, Satoshi Murata, Yukio Sakamoto
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Patent number: 5977855Abstract: A molded transformer includes a transformer body including a coil bobbin having a spool having a central through-hole and a collar at each of two ends thereof, and a conductive wire, such as a copper wire, wound around the spool, and an EE type or EI type ferrite core which is inserted into the coil bobbin; and a thermoplastic resin for molding the transformer body in such a manner that only a terminal portion used for mounting is exposed through the resin. The resin has a low molecular weight, ensuring a low molding stress and a low melting viscosity.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 1992Date of Patent: November 2, 1999Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsumi Matsumura, Yutaka Hirooka, Kazunari Ishikawa, Masayuki Mizushima, Ken Koyama, Yoshio Sugitatsu
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Patent number: 5949319Abstract: A bar coil for use as an ignition coil in internal combustion engines (of motor vehicles) is designed so that casting resin can be introduced into an interior space of the bar coil in a manner that is advantageous from a manufacturing standpoint. The bar coil has a centrally arranged channel that extends from a connecting segment, through a core of the bar coil, and to a pan-shaped bottom area of the interior space of the bar coil. Casting resin flowing through the channel enters the closed bottom area, from which it is diverted as a uniform front to flow through gaps in the bar coil to the connecting segment.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 1998Date of Patent: September 7, 1999Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Karl-Heinz Nuebel, Wolfgang Endres
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Patent number: 5942963Abstract: A ceramic device having an embedded multiwound coil and a method of making such device is disclosed. The device includes a ceramic unitary structure having at least two sintered ceramic parts, each of which when aligned forms a cavity and two spaced apart outlet holes connected to different portions of the cavity; a sintered ceramic conduit provided in the trough of the ceramic unitary structure and having an inner passageway with such sintered ceramic conduit forming a coil structure; and an embedded multiwound coil formed in the inner passageway of an electrically conductive material.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 1997Date of Patent: August 24, 1999Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Svetlana Reznik, Dilip K. Chatterjee, Edward P. Furlani
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Patent number: 5942964Abstract: A noise absorbing apparatus includes a pair of ferrite members and a pair of covers. The ferrite members are located to oppose each other in tight contact with each other to clamp a cable therebetween. The covers cover the ferrite members. The covers form opening portions through which the cable is inserted. The covers are integrally formed with cable clamping pieces partly projecting in a radially inward direction of the opening portions. Each of the cable clamping pieces has a direction of thickness which is aligned with the radial direction of the cable. The cable is clamped with an elastic deformation force of the cable clamping pieces in the direction of thickness.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 1997Date of Patent: August 24, 1999Assignee: Takeuchi Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yasuichi Takeuchi
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Patent number: 5920250Abstract: A noise absorber capable of preventing a cable from becoming damaged with a high degree of reliability while demonstrating outstanding noise absorbing characteristics is provided with a cover 1 and a pair of ferrites 21 and 22. The cover 1 is constituted through the combination of a first cover 11 and a second cover 12. The first cover 11 is provided with a ferrite storage portion 110 and a cable storage portion 111. The second cover 12 is provided with a ferrite storage portion 120 and a cable storage portion 121. The ferrite storage portion 110 is formed at an internal surface of the first cover 11 and the ferrite storage portion 120 is formed at an internal surface of the second cover 12. The cable storage portion 111 is formed adjacent to the ferrite storage portion 110 at a side thereof, whereas the cable storage portion 121 is formed adjacent to the ferrite storage portion 120 at a side thereof.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 1998Date of Patent: July 6, 1999Assignee: TDK CorporationInventors: Yuetsu Watanabe, Hiroyuki Uemura
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Patent number: 5920249Abstract: A method of assembling an electromagnetic device having a plurality of magnetic cores with substantially planar bases, by placing the magnetic cores upon a fixture adapted to align the planar bases of the magnetic cores in a coplanar relationship, applying a resilient adhesive along a core receiving side of a bracket, placing the bracket over the magnetic cores, pressing the bracket down upon the cores until the bracket's coplanar feet contact the fixture, removing the bracket and cores from the fixture, affixing a thermally conductive elastomeric pad along the coplanar bases of the magnetic cores, and fastening the coplanar feet to a thermally conductive plate so as to uniformly compress the elastomeric pad between the cold plate and the coplanar bases of the magnetic cores thereby providing a thermally efficient and shock resistant support mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 1997Date of Patent: July 6, 1999Assignee: Ford Motor CompanyInventor: John Bernard Huss
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Patent number: 5909167Abstract: A superconductive multi-phase transformer has a toroidal winding disposed in a tank with a cooling medium. The toroidal winding is divided along its course for each phase into winding sections. Magnetic fluxes in the winding sections are closed by at least one yoke. The tank is divided into tank sections at separating points of the toroidal winding by the at least one yoke.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 1997Date of Patent: June 1, 1999Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventor: Walter Muller
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Patent number: 5900796Abstract: An electric noise suppressor is provided for suppressing high-frequency electric noise which comprises a thermoplastic housing and two ferrite members disposed therein. The thermoplastic housing is formed from two hingedly connected case halves, which are substantially identical. A ferrite member is secured to each case half by a laminated compressible adhesive-foam element, which is comprised of a resilient foam core layer and opposing adhesive layers disposed thereabout. Due to the resiliency of the foam core layer, the ferrite members are pressed into tight engagement within the thermoplastic housing. The end walls of the thermoplastic housing are formed with circular apertures, which are each formed with a diameter which is slightly smaller than the diameter of the cable which is engaged by the electric noise suppressor. The dimensional differences between the cable and the apertures allows the end walls to grippingly engage the cable at a predetermined location.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 1997Date of Patent: May 4, 1999Assignee: Fair-Rite Products CorporationInventor: Richard G. Parker
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Patent number: 5896029Abstract: An arrangement for fixing the position of a coil carrier in a cup-shaped formed casing part between a base of the casing part and a closure part which attaches to the casing part, comprises at least one spring element located on the circumference of the coil carrier and extending away from the coil carrier at a right angle to the longitudinal axis of the coil carrier and towards a wall of the casing part. The spring element is sized and shaped so that it presses against the wall of the casing part, thereby elastically fixing the position of the coil carrier in the casing part. In a preferred embodiment, at least one rigid abutment is also provided on the coil carrier. The rigid abutment extends at a right angle to the longitudinal axis of the coil carrier and towards the wall of the casing part. The rigid abutment is sized and shaped to securely support the coil carrier against the wall of the casing part via the rigid abutment.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 1997Date of Patent: April 20, 1999Assignee: WABCO GmbHInventor: Gunther Singbartl
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Patent number: 5870012Abstract: An engine ignition coil device which comprises a coil case composed of a first cylindrical case and a second case having a small tubular hole in its center portion and an upper external shoulder at its open end fitted in an open end of the first case to form a closed end of the coil case and an internal unit assembled from a primary side coil bobbin, a secondary-side coil bobbin having a high-voltage terminal holder projecting from a center of its end flange portion, a rod-shaped core, and a high-voltage terminal attached to the high-voltage terminal holder and having a contact for electrically connecting an ignition plug thereto. The internal assembly is mounted in the coil case by inserting the high-voltage terminal holder in the small tubular hole of the secondary case with a tip of the contact projected outwardly therefrom and formed integrally with the coil case by injecting melted insulating resin into the coil case.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 1996Date of Patent: February 9, 1999Assignee: Toyo Denso Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Makoto Sakamaki, Toshiyuki Shinozawa
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Patent number: 5864276Abstract: A current transformer assembly has an annular transformer encompassing a busbar where it projects through the wall of equipment. The assembly has an electrically-insulative housing bolted to the equipment wall. The housing has a rear wall with an aperture through which the busbar extends, the transformer being located in a recess between the rear wall of the housing and the front of the equipment wall. The housing is open on its front and has a removable cover plate. The busbar is bolted to the upper surface of a plinth in the housing, which also supports the end of a cable entering through the front wall and bolted to the busbar.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 1997Date of Patent: January 26, 1999Assignee: Smiths Industries Public Limited CompanyInventor: Christopher Paul Willie
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Patent number: 5859577Abstract: A transformer with laminated sheet cores consists of a coil bobbin having a core hole, and a plurality of laminated sheet cores, each having a middle leg inserted into the core hole and a fixing member such as a cover fixed to the coil bobbin, receiving the ends of the sheet cores so as to prevent the sheet cores from being removed from the cover. The laminated sheet cores are fixed to the core bobbin without being pressed in the direction of their total thickness and without lowering the core characteristic. The transformer has a smaller number of the cores and can be manufactured at smaller processes.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 1997Date of Patent: January 12, 1999Assignee: TDK CorporationInventors: Takayuki Nihei, Norio Sato
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Patent number: 5844459Abstract: A coil bobbin has first and second end flanges with the first end flange being provided with a projection which receives terminal pins, and this projection is received in a longitudinal extending gap in a yoke ring when the bobbin is inserted therein. To form an aligned firm seating of the coil bobbin in the yoke ring, the second end flange of the bobbin is provided with a radially extending web which forms a press fit with the gap of the yoke ring.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 1997Date of Patent: December 1, 1998Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventor: Hartmut Larsen
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Patent number: 5835000Abstract: A current transformer assembly has three pairs of contacts projecting from the upper and lower surface of a mounting plate. Below the plate, the contacts in each pair are interconnected by a conductor embraced by a toroidal current transformer. The transformers are electrically connected to a connector accessible on the upper surface of the plate. Four mounting bolts project from the upper surface of the plate so that the assembly can be connected to cooperating contacts on an equipment panel. The lower surface of the plate is enclosed by a housing.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 1997Date of Patent: November 10, 1998Assignee: Smiths Industries plcInventors: David Ascroft, David Ian Colguhoun
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Patent number: 5821845Abstract: Proposed is a reduction of variance in electromagnetic noise eliminating effect with signal conductors arranged in a flat cable to which an electromagnetic noise absorber is attached. The electromagnetic noise absorber is provided with a plate magnetic body and a U-shaped magnetic body. Since the width of the plate magnetic body is smaller than the interval between the side walls of the U-shaped magnetic body, the plate magnetic body can be accommodated in the U-shaped magnetic body, with a clearance formed between the end portions of the plate magnetic body and the side walls of the U-shaped magnetic body. The impedance in the vicinity of the clearance is decreased, and the difference in impedance between the end portions and the middle portion of the electromagnetic noise absorber is decreased. Therefore, a variance in the electromagnetic noise eliminating effect with signal conductors of the flat cable is made small.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 1997Date of Patent: October 13, 1998Assignee: Kitigawa Industries Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yoshinori Ohashi
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Patent number: 5819397Abstract: A method of assembling a three phase current transformer for printed circuit board installation. Three current transformers, each having a spin wound coil positioned about one leg of an unassembled continuous lamination core, are placed side-by-side in a transformer carrier such that two parallel core legs of the center transformer overlap the adjacent core legs of the two outside transformers and further such that printed circuit board terminal pins attached to the coils pass through stand-off sleeves formed from the transformer carrier. Rivets are placed through holes in the laminations of the overlapped core legs and in the transformer carrier thereby simultaneously riveting the three transformer cores and the transformer carrier together making a three phase transformer assembly.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 1996Date of Patent: October 13, 1998Assignee: Square D CompanyInventors: Michael W. Knight, Greg Lawrence, Gregory Link, James T. Tucker
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Patent number: 5815059Abstract: A toroidal shaped transformer having two levels of structureborne noise isolation is disclosed. A 30-60 dB reduction in noise is achieved by isolation mounting the toroidal transformers coaxially on a central support rod which in turn is supported by an isolation mounted cradle. The isolation layers are made of compliant elastomeric foam rubber material.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 1996Date of Patent: September 29, 1998Assignee: Lockheed Martin CorporationInventors: George Edward Dailey, Thomas E. Hatton, Rene D. Mock, Frederick Oswald Volles
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Patent number: 5814986Abstract: A coil is inherently aligned with the open face of a cup core and prevented from recessing into the core upon assembly of the coil and core into a housing by placing a resilient foam washer within the core under the coil to cause the coil to normally extend beyond the open face of the core and subsequently securing the subassembled core and coil pressed against a common internal surface of the housing, compressing the foam washer. Internal tabs on the foam washer are compressed between the center boss of the cup core and the internal surfaces of the coil opening to retain the coil assembled to the core as a separate subassembly.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 1997Date of Patent: September 29, 1998Assignee: Eaton CorporationInventors: Mark A. Goskowicz, Timothy A. Christensen, James H. Sager
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Patent number: 5789920Abstract: A sensor and process for manufacturing same having an electrical circuit arranged on a carrier which is connected to an electrical connector and a sensor element. The carrier is disposed within a housing having one opening for the connector element and another opening for the sensor element. The sensor element and a first part of the carrier with the electrical circuit are embedded in a duroplastic molding compound. A second part of the carrier with the electrical circuit and the electrical connector are enclosed by a thermoplastic molding compound. A seal is arranged adjacent an intermediate space between the duroplastic molding compound and the housing.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 1996Date of Patent: August 4, 1998Assignee: Gebhard Balluff GmbH & Co.Inventor: Ernst Gass
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Patent number: 5770941Abstract: The encapsulated transducer (10) includes an injection molded encapsulation (20) having a front end (22) and a back end (24). The encapsulation (20) ensconces a sensing element (40) proximate the front end (22) and a portion of a cable (60) which extends from the back end (24). The sensing element or coil (40) is electrically and mechanically connected to the cable (60) by a pair of suitably sized front and rear ferrules (80), (90) secured to a center and coaxial conductor (66), (70) of the associated cable (60) thereby forming a coil and cable assembly (110). At least the rear ferrule (90) includes a shoulder (100) for firmly anchoring the coil and cable assembly (110) within the encapsulation (20). In addition an injection molding process provides the durable encapsulation (20) which bonds with a dielectric (68) of the cable (60) and symmetrically locks the coil and cable assembly (110) therein.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 1995Date of Patent: June 23, 1998Assignee: Bently Nevada CorporationInventor: Dave Van Den Berg
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Patent number: 5764124Abstract: The invention is directed to an ignition coil for an internal combustion engine which includes a housing having therein a first core, a second core which is received in the housing and magnetically connected to the first core for forming a magnetic path therewith, a bobbin having a cylindrical portion for receiving therein the second core with an end face thereof exposed to the outside of the cylindrical portion, a primary winding wound around the bobbin, a secondary winding wound around the primary winding in co-axial relationship therewith, and a permanent magnet which is disposed between the first core and the second core. The permanent magnet has a planar surface connected to the end face of the second core, and an extending end portion which extends out of the end face of the second core. The housing and the bobbin are arranged to enclose the extending end portion of the permanent magnet.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 1996Date of Patent: June 9, 1998Assignee: Aisan Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazutaka Nakamichi, Kouji Yoshikawa, Katsuji Ishikawa, Toshiro Suzuki
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Patent number: 5764125Abstract: A noise suppressor for engagement over a cable or ribbon, has a pair of ferrite core halves held in a pair of case halves which are closed around the cable or ribbon. The noise suppressor has a pair of case portions made of resilient material, each case portion having opposite side walls and a floor for defining a space with an open top for receiving a ferrite portion, and ends for passing the conductor. Hinges and latches or latches only hold the case portions together in a closed position around a conductor with the open tops of the case portions facing each other. Ferrite portions are in each case portion, each ferrite portion having a channel and at least one face. The faces engage each other and the channels merging when the case portions are in the closed position for passage of the conductor through the channel. A raised platform on the floor of each case portion is made as one piece with the case portion and extends into the space and into engagement of the ferrite portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 1997Date of Patent: June 9, 1998Assignee: FerriShield, Inc.Inventor: James P. May
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Patent number: 5757258Abstract: A high voltage transformer module (50) having a pair of high voltage substrates (64, 66) and a pair of low voltage substrates (62, 68) on which high and low voltage components are respectfully mounted. Mounted between the substrates are a plurality of transformers (92a, 92b, . . . 92n). In a preferred embodiment, each of the plurality of transformers is coupled to a full bridge rectifier (102a, 102b, . . . 102n) and the outputs of the rectifiers connected so that an output voltage produced by each transformer/rectifier pair is summed to produce a total output voltage for the high voltage transformer module. Electrical shorts are prevented within the module by fixedly mounting the substrates in the casing and by filling the cavities formed between the substrates with insulation having a high breakdown voltage. The components on the high voltage substrates are both physically and electrically isolated from the components on the low voltage substrates.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 1996Date of Patent: May 26, 1998Assignee: International Power Group, Inc.Inventors: Igor A. Krichtafovitch, Irina Z. Sinitsyna
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Patent number: 5757259Abstract: A shell/terminal/coil subassembly adapted for an electrically-controlled proportional fluid pressure control valve assembly. The shell/terminal/coil subassembly comprises an encapsulated terminal/coil subassembly, a shell, and an anti-rotation device for preventing relative rotation movement between the terminal/coil subassembly and the shell. The pressure control valve assembly is adapted for, inter alia, a hydraulically-actuated fuel injector system.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 1996Date of Patent: May 26, 1998Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Mark G. Fulford, Roy E. Kline, Jerry A. Wear
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Patent number: 5751119Abstract: A high density dimmer module controls four separate lighting circuits and provides adequate cooling while maintaining a form factor identical to conventional dimmer modules. The module includes circuit breakers arranged in stacks located adjacent to the front of the module. The circuit breaker stacks are spaced apart to allow cooling air to flow between, and to each side of, the circuit breakers. The air then flows past a power device and four toroidal inductors which are arranged behind and between the stacks. In a preferred embodiment, the module includes an input power connector positioned adjacent the rear periphery of the module chassis, first and second stacks of circuit breakers positioned adjacent the front periphery, four inductors arranged in an arcuate pattern behind the circuit breaker stacks, a power device located adjacent a sidewall of the chassis, and four output load connectors positioned adjacent the rear periphery.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 1996Date of Patent: May 12, 1998Assignee: NSI CorporationInventor: Craig LeVasseur
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Patent number: 5744951Abstract: A sensor for detecting the angular velocity of a rotating member. The sensor includes a bobbin having an exterior defining an annular recess and a coil within the recess. The bobbin also has a generally cylindrical aperture and supports a probe and a permanent magnet in the aperture. The housing is secured to the bobbin and the housing and bobbin include tapered inner and outer surfaces, respectively, that are made to form a wedge fit seal between the bobbin and the housing to prevent the introduction of molding material during the overmolding process. The bobbin also includes supports for supporting the lead wires extending between the coil and the terminals.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 1996Date of Patent: April 28, 1998Assignee: SSI Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Brian G. Babin, Daniel D. Jarodsky
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Patent number: 5745020Abstract: A flyback transformer for a display device circuitry is provided. The flyback transformer has a low voltage bobbin, a high voltage bobbin, a core and a casing, and the casing includes a slot. The flyback transformer is characterized in that the flyback transformer comprises a pin inserted within the slot of the casing with two ends of pin sticking out from two end openings respectively, and functions to generate a positive flyback pulse signal and a negative flyback pulse signal at two ends thereof respectively during a flyback operation of the circuitry. An insulating portion is provided between the pin and the core. Wherein, a side edge of the low voltage bobbin comprises a connection portion for insertion into the slot of the casing and functions as the insulating portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 1996Date of Patent: April 28, 1998Assignee: Acer Peripherals Inc.Inventors: Chiang Shen-Long, Kuan Meng-Tsan
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Patent number: 5742159Abstract: A sensor for detecting the angular velocity of a rotating member. The sensor includes a bobbin having an exterior defining an annular recess and a coil within the recess. The bobbin also has a generally cylindrical aperture and supports a probe and a permanent magnet in the aperture. The housing is secured to the bobbin and the housing and bobbin include tapered inner and outer surfaces, respectively, that are made to form a wedge fit seal between the bobbin and the housing to prevent the introduction of molding material during the overmolding process. The bobbin also includes supports for supporting the lead wires extending between the coil and the terminals.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 1996Date of Patent: April 21, 1998Assignee: SSI Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Brian G. Babin, Daniel D. Jarodsky
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Patent number: 5742489Abstract: A transformer housing includes a main compartment enclosing the transformer and an auxiliary compartment. The power source is connected to the primary windings in the auxiliary compartment and the electrical load is connected to the secondary windings in the main compartment. Insulating bushings mounted to the walls of the main compartment support the connections between the secondary windings and the load, maintaining these electrical connections a sufficient distance away from the walls of the housing, and each other, to substantially prevent electrical leakage from the connections to the housing or each other.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 1994Date of Patent: April 21, 1998Assignee: France/Scott Fetzer CompanyInventor: David H. Riesland