Inductor devices inventions 07/09

20090189723 - Transformer with isolated cells: A power transformer apparatus and method of assembling are provided. In one aspect, a method of assembling a transformer is provided. The method includes providing a heat sink including a plurality of exterior ribs, wherein the heat sink forms a bottom wall of an enclosure. The method also includes coupling... Agent: Patent Docket Department Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20090189724 - Electromagnetic actuating apparatus: An electromagnetic actuating apparatus having an elongated actuating element (3) which forms an engagement area (11) at the end, can be moved by the force of a coil device (13), (which is provided in a stationary manner) and has a permanent magnet (4), in places, which are designed to interact... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C.

20090189725 - On-chip integrated voltage-controlled variable inductor, methods of making and tuning such variable inductors, and design structures integrating such variable inductors: On-chip integrated variable inductors, methods of making and tuning an on-chip integrated variable inductor, and design structures embodying a circuit containing the on-chip integrated variable inductor. The inductor generally includes a signal line configured to carry an electrical signal, a ground line positioned in proximity to the signal line, and... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP (ibm-bur)

20090189726 - Dry-type transformer with improved terminal construction and mounting system therefor: The invention is directed to a transformer having a ferromagnetic core with a coil disposed around the core. An insulation layer is disposed over the core and the coil and terminals are connected to the coil. Each of the terminals is formed from cast metal and has a base and... Agent: Abb Inc. Legal Department-4u6

20090189727 - Inductor device: An inductor device includes at least one printed circuit board, a magnetic device and a metal wire. The printed circuit board has through holes disposed on it. The magnetic device passes through the through holes on the printed circuit board. The metal wire surrounds the magnetic device with an eddy... Agent: Ckc & Partners Co. Ltd 12th Fl., Ruttonjee House

20090189728 - Amorphous transformer for electric power supply: This invention provides an amorphous transformer for electric power supply, using a magnetic core formed of an amorphous alloy material, which, as compared with the conventional amorphous alloy material, has a lower annealing temperature and a higher level of magnetic properties. The amorphous transformer for electric power supply is provided... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090189729 - Antenna coil and antenna device: A flexible substrate is wound around a magnetic core to define an antenna coil. A receiver coil including a first receiver coil portion and a second receiver coil portion which have opposite winding directions, and a transmitter coil including a first transmitter coil portion and a second transmitter coil portion... Agent: Murata Manufacturing Company, Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20090184792 - Complex common mode choke: A complex common mode choke includes a base provided with two receiving recesses and a separation groove between the receiving recesses, a coil unit including two coil bobbins each mounted in a respective one of the two receiving recesses of the base and two coils each mounted on a respective... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.A.

20090184793 - Method to fabricate a molding coil structure and a molding coil structure: A method to fabricate a molding coil structure and a molding coil structure are provided. The method comprises the steps of: providing a conductive mean comprising two conductive plates and a connection part, wherein each of the conductive plates comprise a first end and a second end; providing a coil;... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090184794 - Laminated coil: A laminated coil includes a laminated body having magnetic body sections that are provided on both main surfaces of a non-magnetic body section and include a plurality of stacked magnetic layers, the non-magnetic body section including at least one non-magnetic layer, and a coil including helically connected coil conductors provided... Agent: Murata Manufacturing Company, Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20090179721 - Cooled high power vehicle inductor and method: A cooled high-power vehicle inductor includes an inductor core including a central axis; a first series of inductor windings around the central axis of the cooled high-power vehicle inductor, the first series of inductor windings having an outer perimeter; a second series of inductor windings around the central axis of... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20090179726 - Inductor that contains magnetic field propagation: An inductor and method of containing a magnetic field is provided. The inductor includes a first set of layers wound in a first predetermined direction, wherein each layer of the first set of layers is electrically connected to one another, and a second set of layers wound in a second... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20090179722 - Multilayer passive circuit topology: A multilayer passive circuit topology is disclosed. In one embodiment, a multilayer circuit is provided. The multilayer circuit comprises a multilayer inductor comprising a first set of parallel conductive traces formed on a first layer, a second set of parallel conductive traces formed on a second layer spaced apart from... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20090179723 - Method for making magnetic components with m-phase coupling, and related inductor structures: An M phase coupled inductor includes a magnetic core including a first end magnetic element, a second end magnetic element, and M legs disposed between and connecting the first and second end magnetic elements. M is an integer greater than one. The coupled inductor further includes M windings, where each... Agent: Lathrop & Gage LLP

20090179724 - Power inductor: The invention is to provide an inductor which can flow a high frequency current and a large current. An inductor for a power source used in a power source circuit flowing a current larger than a current in an inductor for signal transmission comprises a core provided with a center... Agent: Von Simson & Chin

20090179725 - Winding method and coil unit: A rectangular coil unit 1 is manufactured in such a manner that four wires 2 are simultaneously regularly wound on four outer surfaces of a bobbin 3 having a rectangular section so that the wires 2 advance obliquely together for a lane change corresponding to 0.5 wire on one (a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090174514 - Transformer board: A transformer board is disclosed. In some embodiments, the transformer board includes a base, a circuit board, a transformer having a first and second winding, a first and a second connector, a ribbon cable and a nonconductive fill material. The base has a recess within which the circuit board is... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C. David A. Rose

20090174515 - Compact multiple transformers: Example embodiments of the invention may provide systems and methods for multiple transformers. The systems and methods may include a first transformer that may include a first primary winding and a first secondary winding, where the first primary winding may be inductively coupled to the first secondary winding, where the... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20090174516 - System for isolating a medium voltage: A signal isolating transformer may be arranged such that a first coil of the signal isolating transformer is located in a medium voltage compartment and a second coil of the signal isolating transformer is located external to the medium voltage compartment. The transformer spans an opening defined by a grounded... Agent: Elsa Keller

20090174517 - Conductor assembly formed about a curved axis: A conductor assembly of the type which, when conducting current, generates a magnetic field or in which, in the presence of a changing magnetic field, a voltage is induced. In the assembly a first layer, tubular in shape, is formed about an axis. The axis includes a curved portion along... Agent: Ferdinand M. Romano, Esquire Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P.A.

20090174518 - Toroidal star-shaped transformer: A toroidal power transformer is disclosed. The toroidal power transformer comprises a circular core composed of plurality of laminated electrically conductive materials, a plurality of multi-layered first windings radially wound around the circular core, said winding arranged with an angular spacing of 2θ and a number of windings in each... Agent: Law Office Of Carl Giordano, Pa

20090167478 - Device for improving eddy current loss of transformer and controlling method thereof: The configurations of a device diminishing the eddy current loss for a transformer having a gap are provided in the present invention. The proposed device includes a conductive case having an eddy current diminishing opening opposite to the air-gap and an insulator disposed between the eddy current diminishing opening and... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090167473 - Transformer structure: The present invention discloses a transformer structure, which has a winding reel. The winding reel has an iron-core frame. A first primary winding, a second primary winding and at least one secondary winding are wound on the iron-core frame. The first primary winding is electrically connected to the second primary... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20090167474 - Transformer improved in leakage inductance: There is provided a transformer improved in leakage inductance including: a core having first, second and third legs electromagnetically coupled to one another; a primary winding formed of a conductor having one end and another end receiving power from the outside and dividedly wound around the first, second and third... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090167475 - Winding method and coil unit: A rectangular coil unit is manufactured in such a manner that two wires are simultaneously regularly wound on four outer surfaces of a bobbin having a rectangular section so that the wires advance obliquely together for a lane change corresponding to 0.5 wire on one (a lower surface side) of... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090167477 - Compact inductive power electronics package: An inductive power electronics package is disclosed. It has a circuit substrate with power inductor attached atop. The power inductor has inductor core of closed magnetic loop with an interior window. The closed magnetic loop can include air gap for inductance adjustment. The circuit substrate has bottom half-coil forming elements... Agent: Chein-hwa S. Tsao

20090167476 - Inductor structure: An inductor structure disposed over a substrate and including a coil layer is provided. The coil layer has a plurality of coil turns electrically connected with each other. An innermost coil turn of the coil layer has a portion with a narrower width in a region with a higher magnetic... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.