Inductive device having orthogonal windings
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1. An inductive device comprising in combination:
- a magnetic core formed of ferromagnetic material;
inductive means for producing a first magnetic field in a closed path substantially throughout said core;
inductive means for producing a second magnetic field in a closed path substantially throughout said core;
wherein said first field is substantially orthogonal to said second field at all points within said core; and
means for controlling one of said magnetic fields to reduce the rate of fall-off of the inductance of the inductive means which produces the other orthogonal field while increasing the inductive coupling between the inductive means.
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Abstract
An inductive device comprising a magnetic core and windings for producing two or three substantially orthogonal magnetic fields at all points within the core. The device may be utilized as an inductor or transformer in a variety of applications.
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51 Claims
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1. An inductive device comprising in combination:
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a magnetic core formed of ferromagnetic material; inductive means for producing a first magnetic field in a closed path substantially throughout said core; inductive means for producing a second magnetic field in a closed path substantially throughout said core; wherein said first field is substantially orthogonal to said second field at all points within said core; and means for controlling one of said magnetic fields to reduce the rate of fall-off of the inductance of the inductive means which produces the other orthogonal field while increasing the inductive coupling between the inductive means. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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37. A method of increasing the energy stored in an inductive device having a magnetic core formed of ferromagnetic material, said method comprising the steps of:
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producing a first magnetic field in said core of sufficient flux density to at least partially saturate said core in a first direction; and producing a second magnetic field in said core of sufficient flux density to at least partially saturate said core in a second direction which is orthogonal to said first direction and wherein the flux density of each magnetic field is substantially constant throughout said core. - View Dependent Claims (38)
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39. An inductive device comprising in combination:
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a magnetic core formed of ferromagnetic material; a first electrical winding for producing a first magnetic field substantially throughout said core; and a second electrical winding for producing a second magnetic field substantially throughout said core;
wherein said first field is substantially orthogonal to said second field at all points within said core, said core is a spheroid comprising an inner spheroidal core having at least two grooves extending orthogonally around its outer surface and an outer shell enclosing and in contact with the surface of said inner core and said first and second windings are each arranged, respectively, in one of said grooves.
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40. An inductive device comprising in combination:
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a magnetic core formed of ferromagnetic material; a first electrical winding for producing a first magnetic field substantially throughout said core; a second electrical winding for producing a second magnetic field substantially throughout said core;
wherein said first field is substantially orthogonal to said second field at all points within said core;a third electrical winding for producing a third magnetic field substantially throughout said core;
wherein said third field is substantially orthogonal to said first and second fields at all points within said core, said core is a spheroid comprising an inner spheroidal core having three grooves extending orthogonally around its outer surface and an outer shell enclosing and in contact with the surface of said inner core and said first, second and third windings are each arranged, respectively, in one of said grooves.
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41. A method of increasing the energy stored in an inductive device having a magnetic core formed of ferromagnetic material comprising the steps of
producing a first magnetic field in a closed path substantially coextensive with said core by an inductive means, producing a second magnetic field in a closed path substantially coextensive with said core by an inductive means, wherein said first field is substantially orthogonal to said second field at all points within the core, and controlling one of said magnetic fields to reduce the rate of fall-off of inductance of the inductive means which produce the other orthogonal field while increasing the inductive coupling between the inductive means.
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44. An inductive device comprising
a pair of orthogonally related windings having substantially no magnetic coupling therebetween, a magnetic core having at least two closed orthogonally-related magnetic paths, each lying in the field of one of said windings, means for impressing an AC voltage across one of said windings for generating an output voltage in the other winding, and means for controlling the magnetic field associated with the other winding to reduce the rate of fall-off of inductance of the winding on which the AC voltage is impressed and control the voltage across the output winding.
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49. A method of controlling an output voltage in an inductive device embodying a magnetic core having at least two closed orthogonally related magnetic paths, each lying in the field of one of a pair of orthogonally related windings, comprising the steps of
impressing an AC voltage across one of the windings which is not normally inductively coupled with the other output winding and controlling the magnetic field associated with the output winding to reduce the rate of fall-off of inductance of the winding on which the AC voltage is impressed and increasing the magnetic coupling between the windings to control the voltage across the output winding.
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