Patent ID: 7915990

Claim:
A method for constructing a conductor assembly of the type which, when conducting current, generates a magnetic field or which, in the presence of a changing magnetic field, induces a voltage, comprising: providing a first insulative layer having a curved surface along which a conductor segment may be positioned; forming a channel in the first insulative layer defining a first conductor path, the channel including first and second opposing channel surfaces each extending from the surface of the first insulative layer into the first insulative layer and a third channel surface extending between the first and second channel surfaces, each of the first and second channel surfaces including a substantially flat surface portion with the surface portion of the first channel surface parallel with the surface portion of the second channel surface, wherein the step of forming the channel includes positioning the channel so that an angle of one of the flat opposing channel surface portions relative to an adjacent portion of the surface of the first insulative layer varies as a function of position on the path; and placing a first segment of conductor in the channel.