Find a Consultant Buy BSD Products Buy Linux Products FREE IT Consulting MagneTek Files Patent on Miniature Power Supply By Gretchen Hyman MagneTek Inc, a developer and manufacturer of digital power products and systems, today announced that it has filed a patent for its compact coil technology for high-frequency transformers. The company believes that its coil technology could cut electronic systems size and increase power-handling capacity by 30 percent or more.
Most electronic systems incorporate power supplies containing magnetic transformers.
For telecommunications networks, computers, and Internet appliances, the size and weight of these components have imposed substantial design limitations on electronic equipment manufacturers. Standard-size power supplies using MagneTek's miniature magnetic transformers are expected to handle from 15 to 30 percent more wattage than standard power supplies based on prior technology. Power supplies using our miniature magnetics could, in turn, enable higher power density data storage and networking systems and, ultimately, more compact, lighter weight electronic products of all kinds. The company employs approximately 2,000 people and has offices in Los Angeles and Nashville, Tennessee. InternetNews Radio Copyright 2001 INT Media Group, Incorporated All Rights Reserved.