Transmission control apparatus using the same isolation transformer

• US 6,559,560 B1
• Filed: 09/28/2000
• Issued: 05/06/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 07/03/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Furukawa Electric Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Furukawa Electric Company Limited
• Inventors: Jin, Dongzhi, Abe, Fumihiko, Mochizuki, Hajime
• Primary Examiner(s): Sircus, Brian
• Assistant Examiner(s): RIOS CUEVAS, ROBERTO JOSE
• Application Number:
  US09/671,691
• Time in Patent Office: 950 Days
• Field of Search: 307/104, 336/130, 336/131
• US Class Current: 307/104
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 2019/085 Transformer for galvanic isolation
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 38/14 Inductive couplings for wireless supply or distribution of electric power using inductive coupling H02J50/10
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 38/18 Rotary transformers

Abstract

An isolation transformer is provided having primary and secondary cores (2, 4) and primary and secondary coils (3, 5), with the primary coil and the secondary coil being disposed with a gap G provided therebetween. Each of the primary coil and the secondary coil is formed of a wire having at least two substantially parallel long sides, and a length of the two long sides in each of the wires is set to be longer than a distance between the two long sides in each of the wires. Each of the wires is wound to have a plurality of turns in a manner such that an outer one of the two long sides of each inner one of the turns is adjacent to an inner one of the two long sides of each respective adjacent outer one of the turns.

Claims

1. A transmission control apparatus for controlling transmission of a high output signal for air bag ignition and a low output signal for transmission of other information, said transmission control apparatus comprising:

an isolation transformer having a primary core, a secondary core disposed to oppose said primary core with a predetermined gap therebetween, and at least first and second primary coils and first and second secondary coils attached to said primary core and said secondary core respectively such that said first primary coil is inductively coupled to said first secondary coil and such that said second primary coil is inductively coupled to said second secondary coil;

high output signal transmission means connected to said first primary coil and said first secondary coil for transmitting the high output signal; and

low output signal transmission means connected to said second primary coil and said second secondary coil for transmitting said low output signal;

wherein an input/output impedance between said first primary coil and said first secondary coil which are inductively coupled to each other is lower than an input/output impedance between said second primary coil and said second secondary coil which are inductively coupled to each other;

wherein the high output signal transmitted by said high output signal transmission means has a lower frequency than the low output signal transmitted by said low output signal transmission means; and

wherein said high, output signal transmission means comprises a power source connected to said first primary coil and a shot-firing circuit connected to said first secondary coil, and a number of windings of said first primary coil is less than a number of windings of said first secondary coil.