Electrical generator or motor structure – Dynamoelectric – Rotary
Patent
1995-02-23
1997-07-01
Stephan, Steven L.
Electrical generator or motor structure
Dynamoelectric
Rotary
310 42, 310DIG6, H02K 1500, H02K 5700
Patent
active
056441770
ABSTRACT:
Micromechanical structures capable of actuation for purposes such as fluid flow control are formed on substrates in sizes in the range of one or two millimeters or less using micromechanical processing techniques. A magnetic core having a gap therein is fixed on the substrate, and a plunger is mounted by a spring for movement parallel to the substrate in response to the flux provided to the gap of the fixed core. An electrical coil wound around a mandrel is engaged to the fixed magnetic core such that flux is induced in the core when current is supplied to the coil, driving the plunger against the force of the spring. A micromechanical fluid control unit includes a metal frame structure formed by electrodeposition on a substrate with the inner wall of the frame having slots formed therein to admit a separator wall which divides the interior of the frame into separate chambers, with a cover secured over the top of the frame and the separator wall to seal the chambers. A plunger actuator can be mounted within the frame with fixed core sections extending through the walls of the frame, and with the mandrel and coil engaged to the fixed core sections outside of the frame to provide magnetic flux to a gap to actuate the plunger within the sealed enclosure.
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Earles Thomas L.
Guckel Henry
Klein Jonathan L.
Jones Judson H.
Stephan Steven L.
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
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