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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7741819 | Unipolar or bipolar chopping converter with two magnetically coupled windings In order to reduce the cost of a chopping converter supplying a continuous voltage at the terminals of a load (Z), a circuit with two windings (Lp, Ls) and a single magnetic core is proposed, according to the present invention, which enables the cost and the size of... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7656137 | Unipolar or bipolar chopping converter with three magnetically coupled windings In order to reduce the cost of a chopping converter supplying a continuous voltage at the terminals of a load (Z), a circuit with three windings (Lp, Ls1, Ls2) and a single magnetic core is proposed, according to the present invention, which enables th... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7405951 | Switching power supply device A switching power supply includes: a first series circuit, connected to both terminals of a direct current power supply Vdc1, in which a primary winding 5a of a transformer T, a reactor L3 and a first switch Q1 are connected in ser... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7236378 | Signal distribution to a plurality of circuit units A device for distributing a signal, in particular a clock signal or a command/address signal from a signal source to a plurality of circuit units, includes a transformer. The transformer has a primary winding receiving the signal from the signal source. Further, the... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7212067 | Voltage regulator with bypass for multi-voltage storage system A system and method for supplying power to a peripheral device where the voltage supplied by a host device may be the voltage required for operation of the peripheral, or a higher voltage. A memory system includes a voltage regulator including an input, and output a... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7180206 | System for voltage stabilization of power supply lines The invention relates to a voltage stabilization system for power supply lines, comprising a variable inductance, an autotransformer and a system for controlling the variable inductance to automatically compensating for voltage variations of the power supply lines. ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 6980077 | Composite magnetic core for switch-mode power converters A composite magnetic core formed of a high permeability material and a lower permeability, high saturation flux density material prevents core saturation without an air gap and reduces eddy current losses and loss of inductance. The composite core is configured such... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6965291 | Circuit component and transformer device with controllable impedance and with systems equipped with such devices A circuit component (L1) with controllable impedance, includes a body (1) of a magnetizable material, a main winding (A1) wound round the body (1) about a first axis and a control winding (A2) wound round the body (1) about ... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6933822 | Magnetically influenced current or voltage regulator and a magnetically influenced converter A magnetically influenced current or voltage regulator includes a body of an anisotropic magnetisable material that provides a closed magnetic circuit. A first electrical conductor is wound around the body along at least a part of the close circuit for at least one ... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6911797 | Multi-axes industrial processing machine A multi-axes industrial processing machine with a multi-axes electrical drive system and at least two axle drives that have each an axle module and a built-in motor is disclosed. The machine further includes an impedance that is transformer-coupled with a supply mod... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6894596 | Inverter transformer to light multiple lamps An inverter transformer includes: a frame-core shaped substantially square; a plurality of I-cores disposed inside and coupled to the frame-core so as to provide a predetermined leakage inductance; and a plurality of primary and secondary windings provided respectiv... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6714111 | Inverter transformer An inverter transformer is provided which can turn on a plurality of cold cathode fluorescent lamps (CFLs) with a minimized increase in the number of components, thereby reducing costs. The inverter transformer comprises a plurality of bobbins for windings. The plur... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6483279 | Device for attenuating parasitic voltages A reactance coil (1) has an annular core (2) on which reactance coils are wound. Said reactance coils (3) are divided up into coil sectors 6 (4) that are separated from each other by means of gaps (5) in the windings. The gaps (5) in the windings reduce r... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6424247 | Inverter transformer In an inverter transformer, since a plurality of secondary windings 2, 2 are wound around a plurality of bar-shaped magnetic cores 3, 3 which are formed independently of each other and electromagnetically coupled to a primary winding 1 with equivalent cha... | 07/23/2002 |
| 5889373 | Fluorescent lamp ballast with current feedback using a dual-function magnetic device A fluorescent lamp ballast utilizes a single a transformer for providing both tank inductance and current mode feedback to the ballast driver circuitry. The transformer has an "EE" core with inductor windings on the center legs and gate windings on one of... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5497310 | High-frequency power unit for neon tubes DC power is converted by an inverter to high-frequency power, which is supplied to the primary winding of a neon transformer. One or more neon tubes are connected in series across the secondary winding of the neon transformer. A saturable reactor is conne... | 03/05/1996 |
| 5363035 | Phase controlled transformer An operator controllable transformer having a shunt magnetic path with a control coil is provided. The transformer includes phase control circuitry to control the output of the transformer by phase controlling current flow in the shunt coil, thereby contr... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5342497 | Electrophoresis system The invention provides an electrophoresis system which separates charged chemical substances by means of applying an electrical potential across a buffer solution which includes those chemical substances. The system of the invention includes a power suppl... | 08/30/1994 |
| 5187428 | Shunt coil controlled transformer A transformer having a shunt magnetic path and a shunt coil is provided. The transformer includes control circuitry to control the output of the transformer by controlling current flow in the shunt coil, thereby controlling the flux through the shunt magn... | 02/16/1993 |
| 5119059 | Combined differential and common mode choke for a power supply A dual mold choke is provided to reduce both differential and common mode electromagnetic interference. Ferrite cores are placed around DC power bus bars providing an inductor limiting differential mode noise and creating a choke reducing common mode nois... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5066900 | DC/DC converter switching at zero voltage A two switch, DC/DC converter provides sufficient inductive energy storage at the termination of the "on" period of each switch to alter the charge on the intrinsic and stray capacitance of the combination of switches producing zero voltage across the alt... | 11/19/1991 |
| 4980811 | Power source apparatus A power source apparatus includes a transformer having a plurality of paired winding portions of primary and secondary windings wound around cores divided by a gap, a driver, connected to the primary winding of the paired winding portion, for switching en... | 12/25/1990 |
| 4959764 | DC/DC converter switching at zero voltage A two switch, DC/DC converter provides sufficient inductive energy storage at the termination of the "on" period of each switch to alter the charge on the intrinsic and stray capacitance of the combination of switches producing zero voltage across the alt... | 09/25/1990 |
| 4876638 | Low-noise switching power supply having variable reluctance transformer 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 produ... | 10/24/1989 |
| 4774649 | Integrated magnetic resonant power converter A resonant power converter is disclosed which is constructed on an integrated magnetic core, with primary, secondary and tertiary windings occupying separate legs of the core. The tertiary winding is connected in a resonant circuit and induces a flux in t... | 09/27/1988 |
| 4682101 | Current transformer for direct and alternating current Two ferromagnetic cores (11, 12) are provided for a transformer, only one of the cores (11) exhibits an air gap (13) in which a Hall effect element (3) is housed. The current flowing in a conductor (10) can be direct or alternating current and induces in ... | 07/21/1987 |
| 4652776 | Circuit using a multi-path magnetic core with common output limb An AND function gating circuit for A.C. signals comprising several magnetic circuits around a common limb, each circuit having a separate input winding and a single output winding on the common limb. The magnetic flux level in the common limb is greatly i... | 03/24/1987 |
| 4639610 | Rotating flux transformer A rotating flux transformer having at least two magnetic cores, each in the form of a torus, with each magnetic core having poloidal and toroidal windings. The need for breaking the torus and bringing out leads from the poloidal winding is eliminated by p... | 01/27/1987 |
| 4638177 | Rotating flux transformer A rotating flux transformer which includes a magnetic core having poloidal primary and secondary windings and toroidal primary and secondary windings. Quadrature flux is produced in the magnetic core by connecting one end of the poloidal primary winding t... | 01/20/1987 |
| 4620144 | Self-controlled variable inductor with air gaps An electric power apparatus, namely a variable inductor comprising a magnetic core provided with a center limb and two outer limbs all having first and second ends. The first ends are interconnected through a first common point of the magnetic core, and t... | 10/28/1986 |
| 4600872 | Apparatus for variable speed drive of an induction motor from a fixed frequency AC source A control system for driving a variable speed AC motor employing a fixed frequency AC power source, combines pulses representative of a desired slip frequency with pulses of a frequency proportional to the speed of the motor. The combined pulses are emplo... | 07/15/1986 |
| 4435747 | High voltage supply system for medical equipment This disclosure relates to a system for supplying a stable DC high voltage to a load by resonantly driving a high voltage transforming circuit comprising a VLT and a capacitor type multiple boosting circuit. The system includes a VLT, a capacitor type mul... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4419648 | Current controlled variable reactor A variable reactor having main windings wound on one set of legs of a magnetic core and control windings mounted on another set of legs. The core provides common paths for the control flux resulting from the control windings and the main windings, but the... | 12/06/1983 |
| 4346340 | Method and means for controlling the flux density in the core of an inductor In a method for the enhancement of the A.C. performance of an inductor such as a transformer or choke, the tendency of the core of the inductor to become saturated by flux arising from low frequency A.C. or D.C. currents flowing in the inductor winding is... | 08/24/1982 |
| 4339792 | Voltage regulator using saturable transformer A voltage regulator using a saturable transformer comprises a transformer having a primary and secondary windings, an AC power source for supplying the primary winding a fluctuating alternating current, and a rectifier connected to the secondary winding f... | 07/13/1982 |
| 4327348 | Variable leakage transformer A variable leakage transformer or a variable voltage transformer comprising a magnetic core with a main-magnetic path and a sub-magnetic path, the main magnetic path having at least a common magnetic path with the submagnetic path, a primary winding wound... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4308495 | Transformer for voltage regulators A transformer for voltage regulators has a first core provided with four legs and two common base plates, which are magnetically joined to the four legs, with an input winding being wound on the first and second legs, an output winding being wound on the ... | 12/29/1981 |
| 4213084 | Variable leakage transformer A variable leakage transformer or a variable voltage transformer comprising a magnetic core with a main magnetic path and a sub-magnetic path, the main magnetic path having at least a common magnetic path with the sub-magnetic path, a primary winding woun... | 07/15/1980 |
| 4210858 | High frequency high voltage power supply 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 i... | 07/01/1980 |
| 4177418 | Flux controlled shunt regulated transformer The output voltage of a transformer is regulated by controlling the flow of magnetic flux through a shunt core. The transformer includes a main core fabricated from U-I laminations and is arranged to form a substantially rectangular structure. A primary a... | 12/04/1979 |
