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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 1995
Filed:
Aug. 30, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Joseph P Teter, Silver Spring, MD (US);
James B Restorff, College Park, MD (US);
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
310 26 ;
Abstract
Flux leakage resulting from interaction between the static bias flux and variable magnetic flux additively applied to obtain magnetostrictive deformation of an active actuator element, is reduced by bias flux of a separate magnetic field perpendicular to the orientation of the additively applied static bias and variable magnetic flux to improve actuator operation.