Split-Flux Transformer Reducing Power Loss via Segmented Core
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional transformers have efficiency limitations due to power losses, particularly in the transformation of input real power to output real power, with overall efficiency being less than 100%, leading to energy wastage and inefficiencies in energy management systems.
Innovation Solution
The split-flux transformer design redirects opposing magnetomotive forces away from the primary coil through an alternate flux path, utilizing a magnetic core and bifilar-like coil configuration to minimize power loss and maximize energy return to the source, allowing for significant improvements in efficiency by making the primary coil almost entirely reactive.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of energy
If traditional transformer design is used, then the transformer can transform input power to output power, but the overall efficiency is less than 100% due to power losses including eddy current losses
Solution Approach 1:
The transformer core is divided into two separate cores instead of a single continuous core. This segmentation allows the magnetic flux paths to be separated, enabling the secondary coil to generate magnetomotive force that opposes the primary coil's flux in one core while the other core maintains the forward flux path. This resolves the technical contradiction by eliminating the harmful opposing flux from the primary core, thereby reducing power loss and improving efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The secondary coil acts as an intermediary element that generates a magnetomotive force to counteract the opposing flux in the primary core. By introducing this intermediary magnetic field, the system compensates for the energy loss and improves overall transformer efficiency, allowing the primary coil to operate with almost entirely reactive power.
2Loss of energy
If the primary coil operates with real power transformation, then energy can be transmitted, but efficiency is reduced due to power loss
Solution Approach 1:
By segmenting the transformer into two separate cores with distinct flux paths, the system allows one core to handle the real power transformation while the other core manages the opposing flux from the secondary coil. This segmentation enables the primary coil to operate with almost entirely reactive power, minimizing real power loss and energy wastage.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention changes the operational parameters of the primary coil by using two separate cores, which allows the primary coil to operate with almost entirely reactive power instead of real power. This parameter change significantly reduces energy wastage while maintaining the necessary power transformation capability through the secondary coil.
3Reliability
If opposing magnetomotive force from secondary coils is allowed to act on primary coil flux, then transformer operation is maintained, but efficiency is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The transformer is segmented into two separate cores, which physically separates the flux paths. This allows the secondary coil's opposing magnetomotive force to act on one core while the primary coil's flux operates independently on the other core. This segmentation maintains reliable transformer operation while eliminating the harmful interaction that causes power loss.
Solution Approach 2:
The harmful opposing flux interaction is extracted and isolated to a separate core. By taking out the opposing magnetomotive force effect from the primary core and allowing it to operate independently on the second core, the system maintains transformer operation reliability while eliminating the power loss associated with flux opposition.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This design achieves high transformer efficiencies, enabling the system to function as a pumped phase conjugate mirror, transforming conjugated electromagnetic energy into real energy, with the potential for infinite efficiency in ideal configurations and substantial energy conservation in practical applications.
Implementation Method 1
a source of electricity connected to the primary coil which when turned on creates a magnetic field in the core
Implementation Method 2
The magnetic flux in the secondary coils induces a varying and usually different electromotive force or voltage
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AI summary
A split-flux transformer has a primary or input coil, at least two secondary or output coils, spaced apart and arranged in 3D, a magnetic core running through the primary and secondary coils, a source of electricity connected to the primary coil which when turned on creates a magnetic field in the core, and electrical wires connected to the secondary coils, each of which provides additive electricity into an output circuit.