697 results about "Single coil" patented technology

An implantable device, such as an infuser device for bidirectional hydraulically controlling a medical artificial sphincter, enhances power transfer characteristics to a secondary coil thereby allowing implantation to greater physical depths and / or enclosing the secondary coil within a housing of the infuser device. The enhanced power transfer is achieved with multiple coils that are longitudinally aligned and physical and electrical parallel to form the secondary loop of a transcutaneous energy transfer system (TET) instead of a single coil. It better optimizes the power transfer from a parallel tuned tank circuit primary coil to an implanted secondary series tuned tank circuit coil.

There are provided a contactless power transmission device and an electronic device having the same. The contactless power transmission device includes: a flexible substrate; a coil unit formed in the flexible substrate and including a coil part formed to have a wiring pattern form and having a plurality of coil strands connected in parallel with each other to thereby form a single coil pattern; and a circuit unit formed in the flexible substrate and electrically connected to the coil unit.

A combination charging and telemetry circuit for use within an implantable device, such as a microstimulator, uses a single coil for both charging and telemetry. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, one or more capacitors are used to tune the single coil to different frequencies, wherein the coil is used for multiple purposes, e.g., for receiving power from an external source and also for the telemetry of information to and from an external source.

An improved magnetic bearing that uses permanent magnets to provide the bias flux. The magnetic circuits generating the control flux and bias fluxes are substantially non-coincident but share the same path over some portions that include radial and axial airgaps allowing for a low reluctance and an efficient path for the electromagnetic flux. The flux paths of the permanent magnets are completely defined with minimized airgaps for achieving higher forces and efficiency and very low control currents that produce extremely large forces. A single coil and amplifier for the axial force control and two coils with one associated amplifier for each radial axis of control provides simplicity and cost effectiveness. A single thrust disk is provided that is reacted against for both radial and the axial displacement. The permanent magnets used in the present invention are first fabricated and axially magnetized as segments or as continuous rings prior to being mounted on the sides of the rotor pole, providing an effective and inexpensive technique of manufacturing magnetic bearings.

An inductor is provided which includes a plurality of via holes vertically passing through a substrate, the substrate having insulating properties, vertical conductive portions filling the via holes, and horizontal conductive portions connecting each individual vertical conductive portions at the top and the bottom of the substrate to form a single coil structure with the vertical conductive portions.

The presently described technology provides a method for simultaneously employing two or more coil architectures in an electromagnetic tracking system. The method includes providing a transmitter that includes three single-coil transmitters, one or more receivers each including three single-coil receivers, and a receiver array that includes a plurality of single-coil receivers; tracking one or more of the single-coil transmitters of the transmitter with respect to the receiver array; and simultaneously tracking one or more of the receivers with respect to the transmitter.

An apparatus includes a narrow elongate probe is adapted for insertion into the body of a living subject. The probe may be flexible and has a plurality of sensors consisting of single coils of very fine wire wound about a backbone of the probe, which transmit signals proximally via fine connecting wires to a position processor. The position processor analyzes the signals to determine position coordinates at multiple points along the length of the probe.

An improved magnetic bearing that uses permanent magnets to provide the bias flux. The magnetic circuits generating the control flux and bias fluxes are substantially non-coincident but share the same path over some portions that include radial and axial airgaps allowing for a low reluctance and an efficient path for the electromagnetic flux. The flux paths of the permanent magnets are completely defined with minimized airgaps for achieving higher forces and efficiency and very low control currents that produce extremely large forces. A single coil and amplifier for the axial force control and two coils with one associated amplifier for each radial axis of control provides simplicity and cost effectiveness. A single thrust disk is provided that is reacted against for both radial and the axial displacement. The permanent magnets used in the present invention are first fabricated and axially magnetized as segments or as continuous rings prior to being mounted on the sides of the rotor pole, providing an effective and inexpensive technique of manufacturing magnetic bearings.

Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for electromagnetic tracking using a single-coil transmitter. The system includes a single coil transmitter emitting a signal, a receiver receiving a signal from the single coil transmitter, and electronics for processing the signal received by the receiver. The electronics determine a position of the single coil transmitter. The transmitter may be a wireless or wired transmitter. The receiver may be a printed circuit board. In an embodiment, the receiver may be a twelve receiver circuit printed circuit board including single coils and / or pairs of coils. The electronics may determine position, orientation, and / or gain of the transmitter.

A tracking system for estimating the position and orientation of an object inside a patient comprising electromagnets that generate magnetic fields used to navigate an object, including rotating and translating the object, are used to track the position of the object. Position tracking of the object is concurrent with navigating the object; or interleaved with navigating the object. Using the same electromagnets for navigation and tracking ensure coordinate system registration between the navigation system and the position tracking system. A tracking sensor attached to the object comprises at least a single coil generating signals in response to time varying tracking magnetic field generated by the electromagnets. Iterative algorithm is used to estimate position and orientation from sensor's signal. Linearly time varying current in the tracking electromagnets is produced by applying calculated voltage waveform to the electromagnet coils.

A sensor body for use in a pig for determining characteristics of a pipeline wall though which the pig passes includes a circuit board and a single coil wrapped around the circuit board. A microcontroller is mounted to the circuit board and connected to the single coil and configured to induce a waveform on the coil to thereby create an eddy current in the pipeline wall adjacent the sensor body. The microcontroller is also configured to measure changes in a characteristic of the induced waveform on the single coil that correspond to the presence of anomalies on an inside diameter of the pipeline wall. The sensor body also includes a sensor body cover molded about the circuit board, the microcontroller and the single coil. The sensor body cover consists essentially of a wear resistant, non-conductive material that includes a polymer material.

An implantable device, such as an infuser device for bidirectional hydraulically controlling a medical artificial sphincter, enhances power transfer characteristics to a secondary coil thereby allowing implantation to greater physical depths and / or enclosing the secondary coil within a housing of the infuser device. The enhanced power transfer is achieved with multiple coils that are longitudinally aligned and physical and electrical parallel to form the secondary loop of a transcutaneous energy transfer system (TET) instead of a single coil. It better optimizes the power transfer from a parallel tuned tank circuit primary coil to an implanted secondary series tuned tank circuit coil.

A single coil solenoid includes a permanent magnet with bidirectional assist capabilities. The solenoid includes an armature that during de-energization of a single coil of wire is attracted to the permanent magnet thereby maintaining a hold position and during energization of the single coil has a polarity that repels the permanent magnet thereby creating a push / pull force. In this regard, the permanent magnet operates to not only hold the armature but also is used to push the armature when current is induced in the single coil.

The invention relates to a miniature self-locking electromagnetic valve. The electromagnetic valve comprises a permanent magnet, an electromagnetic coil, a flange flux sleeve, a cylindrical magnetic shield, a magnetic insulation limit pad and a boss, wherein the permanent magnet is arranged between a valve seat and the lateral surface of a valve plug, and is close to the end surface of the valve seat; the electromagnetic coil is a single-coil electromagnetic coil capable of normal and reverse electrification; the flange flux sleeve is arranged among the permanent magnet, the valve seat and the valve plug; the cylindrical flux insulation sleeve is arranged between the electromagnetic coil and the valve plug; the inner end surface of the valve seat is provided with the magnetic insulation limit pad; and the boss is arranged on the end surface contacted with the valve body on the valve plug. The electromagnetic valve solves the technical problems that the conventional electromagnetic valve cannot meet the requirement of a micro-propulsion system on the power consumption and quality of the electromagnetic valve, and is the miniature self-locking electromagnetic valve with small mass, simple and reliable structure, low power consumption and quick response time.

The armature of a motor comprises a core constituted by assembling a plurality of split core members. Each split core member has at least two teeth. The method for manufacturing the armature comprises the steps of: winding a conductive wire on each tooth of each split core member to form a first coil on the teeth; spanning the conductive wire extending from a winding finishing end of the first coil from each tooth to the other tooth; winding the conductive wire on the tooth to which the conductive wire is spanned to form a second coil on the first coil; joining a winding starting end of the first coil and a winding finishing end of the second coil in each tooth to form a single coil; and mutually assembling the plurality of split core members each comprising the coils. As a result, productivity is improved, while reducing size.

A single coil, direct current permanent magnet brushless motor including a stator including six alternately-wound coils connected into a single coil having first and second ends, the oppositely-wound coils forming stator poles, and six magnets of alternating polarity coupled to a rotor and rotatably journaled in the stator. A sensor, such as a dual output Hall sensor, is used for sensing rotation of the rotor. A drive circuit, such as an H-bridge circuit, is coupled to the first and second ends of the single coil to drive the motor. The H-bridge circuit includes two high-side switches for alternately receiving signals from the Hall sensor, and two low-side switches alternately receiving signals from the Hall sensor. A high-side switching signal can be controlled by an inverted low-side switching signal. A voltage boost circuit is also provided, having capacitors to provide a boosted voltage to alternately turn on the high-side switches of the H-bridge. The capacitors can be charged by an unregulated bus voltage.

A multi-point chemical species (e.g., water, fat) separation process which is compatible with rapid gradient echo imaging such as SSFP uses an iterative least squares method that decomposes water and fat images from source images acquired at short echo time increments. The single coil algorithm extends to multi-coil reconstruction with minimal additional complexity.

Methods and apparatus for increasing the efficiency of a voice coil motor (VCM) are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a cylindrical and radially symmetric VCM includes a plurality of sets of magnets, and a single coil. The plurality of sets of the magnets are each arranged in an array configuration, and cooperate to form a magnetic field. The coil receives current and has a plurality of windings. A first space is defined within the coil, and the plurality of sets of the magnets are arranged such that a first set of the magnets is positioned within the first space and a second set of the magnets is positioned external to the coil.

A single coil solenoid includes a permanent magnet with bidirectional assist capabilities. The solenoid includes an armature that during de-energization of a single coil of wire is attracted to the permanent magnet thereby maintaining a hold position and during energization of the single coil has a polarity that repels the permanent magnet thereby creating a push / pull force. In this regard, the permanent magnet operates to not only hold the armature but also is used to push the armature when current is induced in the single coil.

An electromagnetic tracking system includes a transmitter assembly having a transmitter coil trio, a receiver assembly having a receiver coil trio, and a single coil mounted on one of the receiver assembly and the transmitter assembly. The single coil is positioned a fixed and known distance away from one of the receiver coil trio and the transmitter coil trio. When the receiver assembly is moved relative to the transmitter assembly, relative motion between at least two of the transmitter coil trio, the receiver coil trio and the single coil is asymmetrical, thereby generating different magnetic fields therebetween. The sensed magnetic field, or mutual inductances, between the transmitter assembly and the receiver assembly is different at each position. Thus, each position within a detectable area of the system is distinguishable.

A microtransformer for a high-performance system-on-chip power supply is disclosed. Through-wafer openings in a substrate allow the primary and secondary wiring on both surfaces of the silicon substrate. An insulating silicon oxide layer is first deposited on all surfaces of the substrate. A magnetic film is further deposited on the silicon oxide layer followed by the application of another insulating layer. Coils are fabricated next by patterned deposition on both sides of the substrate and through the holes. The coils can be, e.g., single coils or primary or secondary coils of a transformer structure, with secondary having one or more output taps to supply different output voltages. For better flux closure, various magnetic layers and insulators can be deposited on top of the windings.

A plasma source for use in, for example, semiconductor processing contains a radio-frequency generator, an impedance matching network, and a coil that encloses a tube. The coil is bifilar, i.e., the turns of one are interlaced with the turns of a second winding. The matching network supplies only a single coil in the plasma source, unlike conventional arrangements wherein a single matching network supplies multiple coils in the plasma source.

The invention relates to the machining for a stainless steel coil of a heat exchanging pipe. A production process for a continuous stainless steel coil comprises a pipe making step, a pipe bending step and a cutting step which adopt continuous on-line machining, wherein the first pipe making step comprises the following step: using a steel band as a raw material to perform on-line continuous pipe making; the second pipe bending step comprises the following steps: conveying an obtained steel pipe into a pipe bending machine; conveying a bent pipe to a second pipe bending position to bend the bent pipe for a second time; continuously bending the pipe in turn until the steel pipe is bent and assumes a single continuous bent pipe; and the third cutting step comprises the following step: sizing the single continuous bent pipe and cutting pipe end excess materials to obtain a single coil single pipe with a length of between 15 and 133 meters without a radial weld joint. The production process has the advantages of low cost, continuous pipe making and pipe bending and convenient machining, assembling and transportation. The obtained stainless steel coil has few or no radial welding spot, strong corrosion resistance without stress corrosion or corrosive pitting phenomenon, stable mechanical strength and relatively better heat exchanging efficiency.

Methods and apparatus for increasing the efficiency of a voice coil motor (VCM) are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a cylindrical and radially symmetric VCM includes a plurality of sets of magnets, and a single coil. The plurality of sets of the magnets are each arranged in an array configuration, and cooperate to form a magnetic field. The coil receives current and has a plurality of windings. A first space is defined within the coil, and the plurality of sets of the magnets are arranged such that a first set of the magnets is positioned within the first space and a second set of the magnets is positioned external to the coil.

A two-coil pickup having a magnetic flux shield configuration which shields an upper coil from magnetic flux variations caused by unwanted noise and concentrates this noise flux in a lower coil. The magnetic flux shield also concentrates magnetic flux generated by magnets and which envelopes strings of a stringed instrument in the vicinity of the upper coil. The upper coil and lower coil are coupled so that the noise signal generated in the lower coil is subtracted from the signal generated in the upper coil so as to cancel noise therefrom. The resulting output signal has substantially less noise than a one coil pickup. The shield also allows the lower coil to be smaller such that the overall size of the two coil pickup can be small enough to fit into the cavities formed for traditional one coil pickups.

A medical device for providing a stimulation therapy includes a coil configured to receive both inductive charging and telemetry signals. The inductive charging signals are in a first frequency band. The telemetry signals are in a second frequency band higher than the first frequency band. The medical device includes inductive charging circuitry configured to provide electrical power to the medical device via the inductive charging signals. The medical device includes telemetry circuitry configured to conduct telecommunications with external device via the telemetry signals. The medical device includes a first component electrically coupled between the coil and the inductive charging circuitry. The first component is configured to allow the inductive charging signals to pass through. The medical device includes a second component electrically coupled between the coil and the telemetry circuitry. The second component is configured to substantially block the inductive charging signals while allowing the telemetry signals to pass through.

A string musical instrument, such as an electric guitar, comprises a plurality of sound pickups and a user interface which allows the user rapid access to various configurations of pickup settings and connections. An embodiment of the musical instrument has a user interface which allows quick access to all forty-seven possible pickup connections available in a guitar having three single-coil pickups. Another embodiment of the invention allows rapid to access a large number of possible pickup connections made possible with the use of dual coil pickups, or a combination of single-coil and dual-coil pickups on a single guitar. The different pickup configurations are accessed via user operated controls such as clear illuminated momentary buttons or touch pads. Although the musical instrument provides a large number of accessible pickup configurations, a user display makes the determination of the pickup configuration intuitive and relatively simple.

An electromagnetic pickup for a musical instrument, has two coils (2, 3) with pole pieces (4-8, 9-13) in their core regions and a connection that connects the two coils together, out of phase, in series or in parallel, so that they cancel each others extraneous noise and hum. To accomplish a noise-free pickup with the clarity and dynamics of a single coil pickup, and a uniform output level throughout its longitudinal axis, the coils are partly overlapping each other, the pole pieces in the core region of the first coil are partly overlapping with the pole pieces in the core region of the second coil, and the coils (2, 3) with the pole pieces (6-8, 1-13) induce the same voltage in the overlapping area (14) as the voltage induced by the coils and the pole pieces in their core regions outside the overlapping area (14).

A coil apparatus comprising: a core-insertion hole; a plurality of wiring layers including a first wiring layer and a second wiring layer; a coil pattern, which is formed on each of the plurality of wiring layers into a spiral shape around the core-insertion hole, wherein the coil patterns is connected in series and integrated so as to form a single coil formed of laminated wiring layers; and a slit, which divides at least part of each of the coil patterns formed on each of the respective the first wiring layer and the second wiring layer into a plurality of wiring patterns, wherein an outermost wiring pattern on the first wiring layer is connected to an innermost wiring pattern on the second wiring layer, and wherein an innermost wiring pattern on the first wiring layer is connected to an outermost wiring pattern on the second wiring layer.