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REACTOR, CONVERTER, AND POWER CONVERSION DEVICE
20230100669 · 2023-03-30 ·

Provided is a reactor including a coil and a magnetic core. The coil includes a winding portion, the number of winding portions is one, the winding portion has a rectangular tubular shape, the magnetic core is an assembly obtained by combining a first core portion and a second core portion, and the first core portion and the second core portion are constituted by compacts made of different materials.

Coil molded article and reactor

Provided is a coil molded article including: a coil having a winding portion; and an integration resin portion that coats at least an inner peripheral face of the winding portion, wherein the coil molded article further includes a gap portion that is integrated into the inner peripheral face and divides an internal space of the winding portion into two portions in an axial direction of the winding portion. Further provided is a reactor including: the above-described coil molded article; and a magnetic core including an inner core portion that is arranged inside the winding portion included in the coil molded article, and an outer core portion that is arranged outside the winding portion.

Low-height coupled inductors

A coupled inductor includes a ladder magnetic core including (a) a first rail and a second rail separated from each other in a first direction and (b) a plurality of rungs separated from each other in a second direction. The second direction is orthogonal to the first direction, and each rung of the plurality of rungs is disposed between the first rail and the second rail in the first direction. The coupled inductor further includes a plurality of windings, where each winding of the plurality of windings is partially wound around a respective one of the plurality of rungs such that each winding of the plurality of windings does not overlap with itself when the coupled inductor is viewed cross-sectionally in a third direction. The third direction is orthogonal to each of the first direction and the second direction.

Reactor

A reactor includes an assembly, stored in a case, including a coil and a magnetic core; an insertion member, having a type A durometer hardness of 50 or higher, that is stored side-by-side with the assembly; and a sealing resin portion that fills the case. The case includes a bottom portion and a side wall portion. The insertion member includes a leading end portion separated from the bottom portion via a gap. A space formed between the assembly and the case and between the insertion member and the case includes a first region provided between the bottom portion and the leading end portion and a second region that is a region other than the first region. The sealing resin portion includes a first resin portion that fills the first region and a second resin portion that fills at least a portion of the second region.

Reactor

A reactor includes an assembly, stored in a case, including a coil and a magnetic core; an insertion member, having a type A durometer hardness of 50 or higher, that is stored side-by-side with the assembly; and a sealing resin portion that fills the case. The case includes a bottom portion and a side wall portion. The insertion member includes a leading end portion separated from the bottom portion via a gap. A space formed between the assembly and the case and between the insertion member and the case includes a first region provided between the bottom portion and the leading end portion and a second region that is a region other than the first region. The sealing resin portion includes a first resin portion that fills the first region and a second resin portion that fills at least a portion of the second region.

Fully Coupled Magnetic Device

The present invention relates to the technical field of coupled inductors, in particular discloses a fully coupled magnetic device, including at least two phases of circuits, with each phase formed by several coupling units connected in series. Every two phases of circuits are directly coupled through at least one coupling unit, and a direction of a magnetic field generated by DC (direct current) of one phase of the two phases of circuits is opposite to that of another phase of the two phases of circuits. The fully coupled magnetic device of the present invention provides direct coupling between any two phases of circuits, which facilitates lower phase current ripple. It has excellent scalability with the highly regular device layout. It is small in size, low in cost, and highly integrated. The device is able to be integrated into a single chip by stacking itself on top of other semiconductor chips. It is also able to be directly built on top of power management integrated circuits (IC) fabricated in advance on a silicon wafer, thereby forming a monolithically integrated power supply, a miniaturized solution with no need of external magnetic devices. The resulting integrated power supplies are able to be applied to replace the traditional discrete-component-based power solutions in a variety of applications.

HIGH-ENERGY SCALABLE, PULSE-POWER, MULTIMODE MULTIFILAR-WOUND INDUCTOR
20230088782 · 2023-03-23 ·

Embodiments of a multifilar inductor with at least three windings that are switchable, having a power assigned winding denoted as P1, a suppression assigned winding denoted as B, a containment assigned winding denoted as T, a switching apparatus to switch assignments between the P1, B and T windings; and a capacitor bank, wherein B suppresses the back EMF generated by a pulse power, T contains field emitted EMF generated by the pulse power. The input pulse power input is converted to a constant current output into the capacitor bank such that its time duration is extended by the combination of the inductor windings plus the capacitor bank to thereby minimize the peak inductance below the inductor's saturation point.

Individualized vehicular charging mat
11485246 · 2022-11-01 ·

An individualized vehicular charging mat includes a body defining two tire channels terminating at respective channel ends, and a wireless charging element arranged within or on top of the body. The two tire channels include respective entrances at a side edge of the body, and are separated by a track width for a particular vehicle make, model and model year(s). The wireless charging element is arranged at a location where the wireless charging element is configured to optimally charge a vehicle of the particular vehicle make, model and model year(s) when tires of the vehicle come to rest at the channel ends.

POWER CONVERSION CIRCUIT
20230085737 · 2023-03-23 ·

Disclosed is a power conversion circuit, comprising a three-phase inductor and a switching conversion unit, and the three-phase inductor is integrated into a magnetic assembly, the magnetic assembly comprising: two magnetic yokes relatively parallel to each other; a first, a second and a third winding column spaced apart sequentially and located between the two magnetic yokes, and three windings wound around the first, the second and the third winding column in one-to-one correspondence for forming an phase inductor of the three-phase inductor respectively, and phase differences between power frequency currents flowing in any two of the windings are 120°; wherein when a reference current is applied to each of the windings, magnetic fluxes on the first and the third winding column have a first reference direction, and a magnetic flux on the second winding column has a second reference direction opposite to the first reference direction.

COMPENSATION BLOCK FOR AIR-CORE REACTORS AND TRANSFORMERS
20220344094 · 2022-10-27 ·

A compensation block for air-core inductors or transformers is formed as a sandwich structure. The sandwich structure of the compensation block includes an upper insulating material block, a lower insulating material block, and an elastomer block arranged between the upper and lower insulating material blocks. The novel compensation block allows the formation of gaps due to settlement to be reduced.