Uniform rotating field network structure to efficiently package a magnetic bubble domain memory

• US 4,106,106 A
• Filed: 03/16/1976
• Issued: 08/08/1978
• Est. Priority Date: 02/11/1975
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Rockwell International Corporation
• Original Assignee: Rockwell International Corporation
• Inventors: Chen, Thomas T., Ypma, John E., Murray, Glen W., Wolfshagen, Ronald G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Moffitt, James W.
• Application Number:
  US05/667,338
• Time in Patent Office: 875 Days
• Field of Search: 340/174 TF
• US Class Current: 365/2
• CPC Class Codes: G11C 19/085 Generating magnetic fields therefor, e.g. uniform magnetic field for magnetic domain stabilisation
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 5/00 Coils superconducting coils H01F6/06; fixed inductances of the signal type H01F17/00

Abstract

A unique and compact open coil rotating magnetic field network structure to efficiently package an array of bubble domain devices is disclosed. The field network has a configuration which effectively enables selected bubble domain devices from the array to be driven in a vertical magnetic field and in an independent and uniform horizontal rotating magnetic field. The field network is suitably adapted to minimize undesirable inductance effects, improve capabilities of heat dissipation, and facilitate repair or replacement of a bubble device.

Claims

1. An open coil field network comprising:

at least first and second core means aligned in substantially adjacent planes with respect to one another;

coil means having terminal means,

said coil means wound respectively around each of said first and second core means;

said terminal means adapted to receive a signal to energize said coil means and thereby induce a magnetic field between said adjacent first and second core means having a planar direction substantially coincident with that of said core means; and

at least one magnetic bubble domain device disposed in the induced magnetic field between said adjacent first and second core means.

2. The open coil field network recited in claim 1, wherein said core means is comprised of a ferromagnetic material.

3. The open coil field network recited in claim 2, wherein said ferromagnetic material is a ferrite.

4. The open coil field network recited in claim 1, wherein said coil means includes respective first and second windings;

said first winding wound around at least first and second faces of said first core means;

said second winding wound around at least first and second faces of said second core means; and

said at least one bubble domain device disposed outside of said first and second windings and between said adjacent first and second core means.

5. The open coil field network recited in claim 1, wherein said coil means includes first and second windings orthogonally wound with respect to one another around at least first and second faces of each of said first and second core means so as to cause said induced magnetic field between said adjacent core means to rotate relative to said at least one magnetic bubble domain device.

6. The open coil field network recited in claim 1, including bias structure means to enclose said first and second core means;

said bias structure having top, bottom, and end walls;

said end walls comprised of magnetic material magnetized in the same direction with respect to one another and adapted to generate a uniform, vertical magnetic field in a direction relatively perpendicular to the planar direction of said magnetic field induced between said first and second adjacent cores.

7. The open coil field network recited in claim 1, wherein said at least one magnetic bubble domain device is disposed on a non-conducting and non-magnetic substrate positioned between said first and second core means in a direction substantially coincident to that of said first and second core means.

8. The open coil field network recited in claim 1, wherein said at least one first and second core means are disposed on respective non-conducting and non-magnetic substrates, said substrates aligned in parallel planes with respect to one another.

9. In combination:

at least one core means;

first and second coil means having terminal means;

said first and second coil means orthogonally wound with respect to one another around said at least one core means;

first and second non-magnetic shield means aligned in substantially parallel planes with respect to one another;

said terminal means adapted to receive a signal to energize said coil means and thereby induce a uniform magnetic field between said core means and said first and second shield means; and

at least one magnetic bubble domain device disposed outside the windings of said first and second coil means and between said core means and at least one of said first and second shield means in the region of said induced magnetic field.

10. The combination recited in claim 9, wherein at least one magnetic bubble domain device is arranged between said core means and said first shield means and at least one bubble domain device is arranged between said core means and said second shield means.

11. The combination recited in claim 9, wherein said first and second shield means are comprised of an electrically conducting material.

12. The combination recited in claim 9, further including:

at least third and fourth non-magnetic shield means aligned in substantially parallel planes with respect to one another and connected to said first and second shield means to form an enclosure therewith,

said third and fourth shield means comprised of an electrically conducting material.

13. The combination recited in claim 12, wherein each of said first, second, third and fourth shield means is comprised of copper.

14. The combination recited in claim 9, wherein said core means is disposed immediately adjacent said first shield means, and

said magnetic bubble domain device is disposed immediately adjacent said second shield means.

15. The combination recited in claim 9, including a plurality of bubble domain device planes disposed in substantially parallel alignment with each other between said core means and at least one of said first and second shield means, and

non-magnetic plate means positioned adjacent each side of and aligned in a substantially parallel plane with said bubble domain device planes to thereby provide a uniform and planar magnetic field therebetween for each bubble domain device.

16. The combination recited in claim 15, wherein said plates are comprised of an electrically conducting material.