US 5,508,674 AGranted

Core-form transformer

AssigneeElectric Power Research Institute, Inc.

InventorsRamsis S. Girgis, William N. Kennedy, Chung-Duck Ko, Carl M. Pandza

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Abstract

An improved core-form transformer is disclosed. The core-form transformer includes a c-wrapped ribbon conductor with opposing wide sides and opposing thin sides. The c-wrapped ribbon conductor is wound around a core to form a plurality of coil sections. Adhesive is applied directly to one of the wide sides of the ribbon conductor to form a strong mechanical coupling within the coil sections. A novel transposing fold of the ribbon conductor is employed to create coil transpositions. The core-form transformer of the invention reduces circulating current losses while utilizing only a small number of transposing folds, generally adjacent to a first coil section, a last coil section, and an intermediate coil section.

Claims7

Dependent claims

A core-form transformer comprising:

a ribbon conductor, with opposing wide sides and opposing thin sides, formed from a plurality of rectangular conducting elements, each of said rectangular conducting elements including opposing wide sides and opposing thin sides, said opposing thin sides of said plurality of rectangular conducting elements being aligned to form said ribbon conductor;
a plurality of axially displaced coil sections wound from said ribbon conductor, including a first coil section axially displaced from a second coil section;
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a transposition arrangement between said first coil section and said second coil section, said transposition arrangement including a set of folds causing an inside axially positioned rectangular conducting element of said ribbon conductor of said first coil section to be positioned as an outside axially positioned rectangular conducting element in said second coil section.

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