Gapless core reactor

Title: Gapless core reactor

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A gapless core reactor includes a saturable magnetic core having reactor legs without air gaps and multiple windings. The windings are each wound around a common leg, spaced apart from each other and connected in counter series. The windings are configured such that a magnetic flux generated from an alternating current flowing through the windings generates a plurality of substantially equal and counter magnetic fluxes flowing through two or more separate magnetic circuits.

Inventors:: Dimitrovski, Aleksandar D.

Issue Date:: 2019-12-10

Research Org.:: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1600390

Patent Number(s):: 10504645

Application Number:: 15/147,630

Assignee:: UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, TN)

Patent Classifications (CPCs):: H - ELECTRICITY H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS H01F - MAGNETS

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H - ELECTRICITY H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS H01F - MAGNETS
H01F27/24 - Magnetic cores
H01F37/00 - Fixed inductances not covered by group H01F17/00
H01F27/33 - Arrangements for noise damping

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DOE Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

Resource Type:: Patent

Resource Relation:: Patent File Date: 05/05/2016

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 42 ENGINEERING; 22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS

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