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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2007
David Wayne Cripe, Mount Vernon, IA (US);
Bryan S. Mccoy, Cedar Rapids, IA (US);
Ryan J. Legge, Cedar Rapids, IA (US);
Gerard A. Woychik, Shellsburg, IA (US);
Robert P. Campbell, Marion, IA (US);
David Wayne Cripe, Mount Vernon, IA (US);
Bryan S. McCoy, Cedar Rapids, IA (US);
Ryan J. Legge, Cedar Rapids, IA (US);
Gerard A. Woychik, Shellsburg, IA (US);
Robert P. Campbell, Marion, IA (US);
Rockwell Collins, Inc., Cedar Rapids, IA (US);
Abstract
A shape memory element (a structure formed from a shape memory alloy) includes an electrically conductive ferromagnetic material. The ferromagnetic material may be magnetostrictive. In some embodiments, the shape memory element is formed from a shape memory alloy core and has a cladding over the core that includes the ferromagnetic material. In other embodiments, the shape memory alloy may be selected to be ferromagnetic.