Conical Patents (Class 336/231)
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Patent number: 9013262Abstract: A coil component includes: a bar-like core; and a winding part formed of a conducting wire that is wound in a plurality of layers around the outer periphery of the core according to a solenoidal winding method. Winding collapse preventing shifts D1 to D4 each corresponding to a plurality of turns between an end part of a lower winding layer and an end part of an upper winding layer are respectively set to both end parts in the winding width direction of winding layers of the winding part. In transitioning from the lower winding layer to the upper winding layer, the conducting wire is turned back from the end part of the lower winding layer, and is obliquely wound in a small number of turns across each winding collapse preventing shift corresponding to the plurality of turns, and dense winding of the upper winding layer is started.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2012Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: Sumida CorporationInventors: Yasunori Morimoto, Masakazu Fukuoka
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Patent number: 8424193Abstract: A wiring assembly having a conductor positioned about an axis in a helical-like configuration to provide a repetitive pattern which rotates around the axis. In one embodiment, when a current passes through the conductor, a magnetic field having an orientation orthogonal to the axis changes direction as a function of position along the axis.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2011Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Advanced Magnet Lab, Inc.Inventor: Rainer Meinke
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Patent number: 7825760Abstract: An electromagnet having a conical bore. The conical bore is created by wrapping a conductor around a conically-offset helix. The cross sectional area of the conductor can be varied in order to maintain a desired current carrying capacity along the helix. A single element can be used as the conductor. The conductor can also be created by stacking a series of specially-shaped plates analogous to prior art Bitter-disks.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2008Date of Patent: November 2, 2010Inventors: Mark D. Bird, Jack Toth
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Patent number: 7808353Abstract: A coil system for a plasmoid thruster includes a bias coil, a drive coil and field coils. The bias and drive coils are interleaved with one another as they are helically wound about a conical region. A first field coil defines a first passage at one end of the conical region, and is connected in series with the bias coil. A second field coil defines a second passage at an opposing end of the conical region, and is connected in series with the bias coil.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2006Date of Patent: October 5, 2010Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationInventors: Richard H. Eskridge, Michael H. Lee, Adam K. Martin, Peter J. Fimognari
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Patent number: 7701317Abstract: A system and method reduces AC losses in a magnetic coil with a magnetic core with one or more gaps. A foil winding is formed with one or more cavities and is positioned about the magnetic core such that the cavities are adjacent to the gaps.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2005Date of Patent: April 20, 2010Assignee: The Trustees of Dartmouth CollegeInventors: Charles Roger Sullivan, Jennifer Pollock
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Patent number: 7518463Abstract: A circuit assembly has a conical inductor disposed in a slot formed in a substrate.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2004Date of Patent: April 14, 2009Assignee: Agilent Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Uriel C. Fojas
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Patent number: 7443279Abstract: A coil package which makes it easy to handle a high-frequency cone/pyramid-shaped coil and enhance frequency characteristics without degrading the characteristics of the coil. The cone/pyramid-shaped coil has a conical or pyramidal shape formed by wiring a conductor wire around an outer peripheral surface of a core such that the winding diameter of the coil progressively decreases from one end to the other end of the coil. The coil and a dielectric substrate are integrated with each other by forming a hole for inserting a tip portion of the coil in the dielectric substrate, making the bottom of the hole and a back surface of the dielectric substrate electrically continuous by a via, placing the coil in the hole by directing a small-diameter side of the cone/pyramid-shaped coil to the hole, electrically connecting the bottom of the hole and a tip-side lead wire extending from the coil to each other, and connecting an electrode on a large-diameter side of the coil to an electrode on the dielectric substrate.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2006Date of Patent: October 28, 2008Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Takatoshi Yagisawa, Tadashi Ikeuchi, Yasuhide Kuroda, Tszshing Cheung
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Patent number: 7142086Abstract: Systems and apparatuses for providing a broadband inductor assembly. One broadband inductor assembly includes a conical coil inductor having a broad end with radius r1 and a narrow end with radius r2, the conical coil inductor also having a broad end terminal and a narrow end terminal. The broadband inductor assembly includes a base. The broadband inductor assembly includes at least one support, such that the conical coil inductor is supported by the at least one support above the base at a distance greater than or equal to r1 from the base. An ultra broadband bias tee is provided that includes a broadband inductor assembly and a DC block.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2004Date of Patent: November 28, 2006Assignee: Oplink Communications, Inc.Inventors: John A. Nguyen, Anand Gundavajhala
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Patent number: 6975200Abstract: A surface-mount microconverter is formed by mounting a microinductor chip and a semiconductor integrated circuit chip on a circuit board. Stud terminals are arranged on the circuit board and the microinductor chip is supported on the stud terminals, and the microinductor chip and the semiconductor integrated circuit chip are superposed on the circuit board. The microconverter has an improved ability and is small and thin. The microconverter includes an effective laminated magnetic-core inductor. The inductor comprises a helical coil formed by uniting alternately superposed insulating magnetic layers and conductive pattern layers, and an annular closed magnetic path formed by the insulating magnetic layers and defining a magnetic field created by the coil. The inductor can be miniaturized in a thin chip, and a wide range in which magnetic flux density varies linearly can be secured by balancing a closed magnetic path for a magnetic field created by the coil.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2005Date of Patent: December 13, 2005Assignee: FDK CorporationInventors: Fumiaki Nakao, Yasuo Yamashita, Teruo Kiyomiya, Tetsuya Suzuki, Masayuki Inagaki, Mikio Kitaoka
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Publication number: 20040027222Abstract: An ignition coil for a spark ignition internal combustion engine has a central core. The central core is cylindrical in shape, and includes a plurality of laminations composed of magnetically-permeable plates that are sector-shaped. The sector-shaped laminations improve the fill percentage allotted for core material. The central core has a central bore extending therethrough that allows a return of a primary winding lead, allowing an odd number of primary winding layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2002Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventors: John E. Hazelwood, Viorel N. Moga, Thomas B. Bennett, Albert Anthony Skinner
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Publication number: 20030189478Abstract: The present invention provides a detection device, which comprises a light-emitting device for projecting a light source to a slotted mask. An optical detector is used to detect the light passing through the slots. A plurality of optical detection units are disposed in the optical detector. Each of the optical detection unit comprises an optical detection component for converting light into a current signal. The optical detection component is connected to a signal selection circuit via a current mirror circuit. When the current of one of optical detection units is maximal in all of the optical detection units and larger than a half of the total current, the optical detection unit will output a voltage signal of high voltage. Otherwise, it will output a voltage signal of low voltage. The present invention has the advantages of high resolution and high noise immunity.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2002Publication date: October 9, 2003Inventors: Chih-Hsiung Shen, Chun-Fang Hsiao
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Patent number: 6509821Abstract: A microwave inductor including a coil with windings tapered from a first end of the coil to a second end of the coil to reduce resonant loss glitches found in conventional inductors which have uniform diameter windings. The coil further includes a core composed of a dielectric material containing a colloidal suspension of magnetic particles, the magnetic material preferably being iron powder and the dielectric preferably being epoxy, making the core a poly-iron material. The magnetic particles being colloidally suspended in dielectric increase the impedance of the coil at high frequencies to reduce resonant glitches without lowering the low frequency Q of the inductor. As such, a single coil can be utilized both in a filter which requires a low impedance at low frequencies to create a high Q, and as a bias line which operates at frequencies well beyond the resonant frequency of the inductor since a high impedance is provided by the core at higher resonant frequencies.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 1998Date of Patent: January 21, 2003Assignee: Anritsu CompanyInventor: William W. Oldfield
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Publication number: 20020110758Abstract: Several methods and structures for improving the yield of out-of-plane micro-device structures including springs and coils are described. Structures and methods for adjusting the coil diameter after spring release, if necessary, are also disclosed. In one method the radius of curvature of the released elastic members is controlled by depositing a layer of a reflow material and reflowing the layer after release. The high yield structures may be used in numerous electronic applications such as filter circuits.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2001Publication date: August 15, 2002Applicant: Xerox CorporationInventors: David K. Fork, Christopher L. Chua
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Publication number: 20020080002Abstract: An inductor coil is made with windings turns in a conical shape tapered from a very small diameter and gradually increasing. The core of the coil is composed of a dielectric material with a colloidal suspension of magnetic particles, i.e. poly-iron. The core functions to increase impedance at higher frequencies to reduce resonant loss glitches, while providing a low impedance at low frequencies to provide a high Q at low frequencies. The core can be part air (or non-magnetic dielectric) and part poly-iron, with the air portion provided closest to a transmission line where the inductor is connected to prevent the core from interfering with the magnetic field of signals on a transmission line.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2002Publication date: June 27, 2002Inventors: William W. Oldfield, Richard Simmons
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Publication number: 20020057183Abstract: A microwave inductor including a coil with windings tapered from a first end of the coil to a second end of the coil to reduce resonant loss glitches found in conventional inductors which have uniform diameter windings. The coil further includes a core composed of a dielectric material containing a colloidal suspension of magnetic particles, the magnetic material preferably being iron powder and the dielectric preferably being epoxy, making the core a poly-iron material. The magnetic particles being colloidally suspended in dielectric increase the impedance of the coil at high frequencies to reduce resonant glitches without lowering the low frequency Q of the inductor. As such, a single coil can be utilized both in a filter which requires a low impedance at low frequencies to create a high Q, and as a bias line which operates at frequencies well beyond the resonant frequency of the inductor since a high impedance is provided by the core at higher resonant frequencies.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 1998Publication date: May 16, 2002Inventor: WILLIAM W. OLDFIELD
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Patent number: 6344781Abstract: An electrically conductive wire wound into a conical coil 1 with leads from the small and large ends of the coil. The coil is filled with fine-grained magnetic material 11, and is mounted in a thin-walled, electrically non-conductive carrier 21 designed for precise automated assembly onto a circuit board 15. The wire leads are plastic-welded onto the carrier, and no metallic pads are used, greatly increasing the effective bandwidth of the choke. The small end 4 of the coil is positioned precisely on a micro-strip 17 on the circuit board. Attachment of the wire lead from the small end of the coil to the microstrip is done with minimum lead length and minimum conductive material for the highest possible frequency response. Precise coil positioning, minimal lead length, and a totally non-conductive carrier virtually eliminates electrical reflections and resonances to yield a broadband choke with exceptional frequency range.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2001Date of Patent: February 5, 2002Inventor: Stephen Amram Slenker
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Patent number: 6278355Abstract: A transformer including a core having first and second portions, and first and second primary winding sections. The first primary winding section includes a plurality of winding layers (L1−Ln) about the first portion of the core, and the second primary winding section includes a plurality of winding layers (L1−Ln) about the second portion of the core. Corresponding winding layers of the first and second winding sections are separated by a distance (D1−Dn). The distance (D1−Dn) between the corresponding layers of first and second primary winding sections increases as the number of winding layers (L1−Ln) increases.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 1999Date of Patent: August 21, 2001Assignee: Square D CompanyInventors: Philip J. Hopkinson, Dilip R. Purohit, Gary D. King
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Patent number: 6236289Abstract: A thin electrically conductive wire wound into a conical coil 1 with leads from the small and large ends of the coil. The coil is filled with powdered iron 11, and is mounted in a thin-walled, completely non-conductive, leadless carrier 21 for ease of assembly onto a circuit board 15. The small end 4 of the coil is positioned precisely on a micro-strip 17 on the circuit board to provide maximum bandwidth. The coil is held by the carrier at an angle such that the large end of the coil is displaced from the circuit board by a distance D of at least half the radius of the large end of the coil. Attachment of the leads from the small and large ends of the coil to respective contacts on the circuit board is done with minimum lead length, minimum conductive material, and without the use of metallic pads on the carrier, to yield the highest possible frequency response.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2000Date of Patent: May 22, 2001Inventor: Stephen Amram Slenker
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Patent number: 6169470Abstract: A coiled component (K1) having an insulating member (3) and a conductive member (5). The conductive member is provided in the insulating member (3) and has a plurality of turns which are gradually different, in diameter, from each other from one end towards the other end of the conductive member (5) such that at least the turns of the conductive member (5) are disposed in different planes, respectively. Also, a magnetic layer (8, 9) is provided on at least one of upper and lower faces of the insulating member (3).Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 1998Date of Patent: January 2, 2001Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihiko Ibata, Shinji Harada, Tadashi Kawamata
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Patent number: 6163242Abstract: A transformer of a Tesla type, and energy supply and particle accelerator devices that include such transformers. The electrical transformer includes a primary winding, a secondary winding which is electromagnetically coupled to the primary winding, and is characterized in that the primary winding consists of one single turn. The transformer operates without any soft magnetic core. The single turn is formed by at least two sector segments of a rotationally symmetric body, over which segments a voltage is applied. Preferably, the segments are equal in size, the voltages are equal in magnitude and one end of each segment is kept at ground potential. In an energy supply and an accelerator according to the present invention, a switch controlling the application of the voltage over the primary winding has controlled turn-on and turn-off preferably is an IGBT switch.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 1999Date of Patent: December 19, 2000Assignee: Scanditronix Medical ABInventors: Walter Frederick John Crewson, David Kerr Woodburn, Mikael Rolf Lindholm
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Patent number: 6060973Abstract: An electromagnetic coil which may be employed as an ignition coil for an internal combustion engine is disclosed. The electromagnetic coil includes a lower voltage winding portion and a higher voltage winding portion. The lower voltage winding portion is wound around a spool and includes a plurality of winding layers overlapped with each other and inclined at a given angle to the length of the spool. Each of the winding layers includes a collection of turns made up of a leading portion of wire. The higher voltage winding portion is wound around the spool adjacent the lower voltage winding portion and includes a plurality of winding layers overlapped with each other and inclined at a given angle to the length of the spool. Each of the winding layers includes a collection of turns made up of a trailing portion of the wire.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 1996Date of Patent: May 9, 2000Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.Inventors: Keisuke Kawano, Kazutoyo Oosuka, Masami Kojima, Akimitsu Sugiura, Yoshitaka Satou, Katsumi Nakazawa
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Patent number: 5568114Abstract: A winding support body (6, 10) for transformers/reactors with a winding of a tape-formed superconductor (8), wherein the support body consists of a substantially straight, circular-cylindrical tubular body which, on the side where the winding is to be placed and out towards the two ends, is provided with a helical slot with a plane surface with a width equal to the width of the tape. In this way, each turn of the slot around the support body forms a surface which practically constitutes the envelope surface of a straight frustum of a cone. The angle (v) between a generatrix (9) of the envelope surface and the axial center line of the support body increases for each turn out towards the ends of the support body in such a way that the envelope surface at all points coincides with the direction of the magnetic field (FIG. 4 ).Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 1995Date of Patent: October 22, 1996Assignee: ASEA Brown Boveri ABInventors: Thomas Fogelberg, Uno Gafvert, Sven Hornfeldt
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Patent number: 5047715Abstract: An electromagnetic device for inductive position measurements for eliminating both the disadvantage of a limited measuring range and the disadvantage of superimposed interference voltages in the event of directional changes by providing a probe having a plurality of winding axes having coils with turn diameters which are greater, as the distance from the center of the probe increases. This creates the possibility of filling the entire probe volume with turns, and an almost complete independence from the direction of the probes relative to one another is shown for distance measures.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 1988Date of Patent: September 10, 1991Inventor: Jurgen Morgenstern
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Patent number: 4684912Abstract: An automotive ignition system transformer including a ferromagnetic core, a primary coil and a secondary coil. The secondary windings are wrapped on a tubular insulating winding form or bobbin with annular radial portions defining a plurality of annular coil chambers including a plurality of central chambers and at least one end chamber. The end chamber defines a spiral land that proceeds both axially toward the respective end and radially outward for three or more complete turns. The respective end turns of the coil are wrapped one turn of coil on each turn of the spiral land so that successive turns of the end portions of the secondary coil are both axially and radially spaced from one another sufficiently to minimize arcing.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 1986Date of Patent: August 4, 1987Assignee: Marshall Electric CorporationInventors: Ordean Kiltie, Thomas C. Marrs
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Patent number: 4422377Abstract: Disclosed is a unique wire coil having flat sides and a maximum packing density. The coil is wound in a hex fashion (i.e., with each interior turn of the coil being in contact with six other turns of the coil) and has a plurality of turns and a plurality of layers of turns. The coil is wound generally perpendicular to a central axis, and each layer of turns is wound at an angle of approximately 30 degrees with respect to the axis, which results in a coil having flat sides.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 1981Date of Patent: December 27, 1983Assignee: Dataproducts CorporationInventor: Val K. Jezbera
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Patent number: 4336561Abstract: A superconducting transformer having a winding arrangement that provides for current limitation when subjected to a current transient as well as more efficient utilization of radial spacing and winding insulation. Structural innovations disclosed include compressed conical shaped winding layers and a resistive matrix to promote rapid switching of current between parallel windings.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 1981Date of Patent: June 22, 1982Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.Inventor: John H. Murphy
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Patent number: 4307364Abstract: An iron core shunt reactor is constructed of a plurality of foil windings coaxially positioned along an iron core a discrete distance from each other. A coolant circulates axially along the core and radially outward between each of the foil windings providing the shunt reactor with improved thermal characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 1980Date of Patent: December 22, 1981Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.Inventors: Thomas J. Lanoue, Alan H. Cookson, Thomas W. Dakin
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Patent number: 4210858Abstract: A compact and lightweight power supply particularly suited for use as a high voltage supply capable of switching voltage values in short time. The high voltage output is compared against a desired reference value to produce a difference voltage which is integrated. The integrated difference voltage is converted to recurrent pulses having a corresponding width. The pulses are applied alternately to the opposite ends of a centertapped primary winding of a specially wound transformer characterized by a specially wound secondary winding and an air-gapped E-shaped core linking the primary and secondary windings. The secondary voltage is applied to a voltage multiplier circuit to produce the high voltage output of the power supply.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 1978Date of Patent: July 1, 1980Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Leland W. Ford, Alberto M. Ramirez, Gerald L. Smith
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Patent number: 4084144Abstract: A high-voltage winding for use with voltage transformers wherein the winding is provided with a plurality of component coils of decreasing diameter arranged one after the other along an axial direction and with a number of connecting elements for connecting adjacent ones of the aforesaid coils, each of which connecting elements comprises a cylindrical member having a first portion which surrounds the one of its associated adjacent coils having the smaller diameter and a second portion for supporting the one of its associated adjacent coils having the larger diameter.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 1977Date of Patent: April 11, 1978Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventor: Manfred Weniger