ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,669, issued on June 10, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Power inductor with variable width air gap" was invented by Myung Ki Sung (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Wanfeng Li (Novi, Mich.) and Leyi Zhu (Novi, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power inductor includes a housing and a magnetic core disposed in the housing. The core includes a first segment and a second segment spaced apart from each other to define a gap. The first and second segments are supported in the housing such that they are movable relative to each other to increase and decrease the size of the gap. A passive actuator is disposed in the h...