Abstract:
An apparatus for connecting an electric cable to a cable lug is described. The lug has a palm portion, and a barrel portion integrated with the palm portion for receiving wires of the cable. The apparatus comprises one or more inductor coils. Each coil comprises a pair of connector terminals separated by a slot; and an aperture having dimension sufficient for placing the barrel portion therein. The apparatus also comprises an electric discharge unit coupled to the pair of connector terminals for providing a rapid intense current discharge through the inductor coil. The aperture of the coil has a shape that conforms to the shape of a cross-section of the lug along its length.
Abstract:
An electromagnetic forming apparatus for forming an essentially planar metal plate into a dish having a three-dimensional pattern, is provided. The apparatus comprises a mould having a forming surface with a contour corresponding to said three-dimensional pattern; a forming coil device; and an electric discharge circuitry for discharging a short and intense electric current pulse through the forming coil device to yield a pulsed magnetic forming (PMF) force for deforming said plate.
Abstract:
A system for producing a high intensity electric current pulse is described. The system includes a plurality of discharge modules connected in parallel to a load device. Each discharge module comprises a capacitor bank and a high current switch connected in series to the load device. The system also includes a high voltage supply device coupled to the capacitor banks for charging thereof. Any two of the discharge modules are coupled to each other through a resistive element so as to prevent sharp voltage decrease across the capacitor banks, and thereby to enable a concurrent operation of the high current switches.
Abstract:
An apparatus for connecting an electric cable to a cable lug is described. The lug has a palm portion, and a barrel portion integrated with the palm portion for receiving wires of the cable. The apparatus comprises one or more inductor coils. Each coil comprises a pair of connector terminals separated by a slot; and an aperture having dimension sufficient for placing the barrel portion therein. The apparatus also comprises an electric discharge unit coupled to the pair of connector terminals for providing a rapid intense current discharge through the inductor coil. The aperture of the coil has a shape that conforms to the shape of a cross-section of the lug along its length.
Abstract:
An apparatus (30) and method for forming of a vehicle's driveshaft (32) is provided which makes use of a PMF process. The coil device used in the PMF apparatus is assembled around the shaft from two or more coil sections (40, 41, 43; 42, 44, 45) firmly attached to one another, and which may be disassembled from one another to allow to remove the formed driveshaft (32).
Abstract:
Two workpieces are joined together or welded to one another by inducing movement in a first of the two workpieces or a portion thereof by means of a pulsed magnetic force, whereby the first workpiece or portion impacts onto the second of the two workpieces and the two then become joined or welded to one another.
Abstract:
A system and method for treatment of a contaminated liquid is described. The system includes a high voltage supply device, a general capacitor bank, one or more general limiting member, such as general switch devices or general resister devices, coupled to the high voltage supply device and to the general capacitor bank. The system further includes one or more working capacitor banks coupled to the general capacitor bank through the general limiting member, and one or more working switches arranged in series with the corresponding working capacitor bank. The system also includes one or more potential electrodes and grounded electrodes immersed in the contaminated liquid and coupled to the working capacitor banks for providing an electric discharge through the contaminated liquid.
Abstract:
A pulsed magnetic method of sealing a vessel (20) is provided. The method includes providing a vessel's body (21) having at least one open end, providing a cover (23) having a welding part (24). The welding part (24) of the cover (25) is placed over the open end of the vessel' s body (21) to overlap at least a portion of the vessel's body (21), thereby to define an air gap (26) between the portion of the vessel's body (21) and the welding part (24) of the cover (23). A welding induction coil (22) is provided around the vessel's body (21) at least at the place where the welding part (24) of the cover (25) is located. The welding induction coil (22) is energized to generate a pulsed magnetic force sufficient to cause bending the welding part (24) of the cover (21) in the air gap (26) in a radially inward direction around the portion of the vessel's body (21). The pulsed magnetic force has such a value so as to provide an effective radial velocity value of the cover's welding part (24) in the range of 150m/sec to 600m/sec at the moment of impact with the vessel's body (21), thereby to provide mutual diffusion of atoms of the vessel's body (21) and the cover (23) at their impact.
Abstract:
A bimetallic connecting element has a first part made from a first metal, and a portion of this part is adapted for being attached to a structure. A second portion of this part has a peripheral wall defining a cavity. A second part of the connector is made from a second metal, and has a third portion concentrically received with respect to the cavity and fixed with respect to the first part by means of a pulse magnetic forming (PMF) process, in which the peripheral wall is impacted onto said third portion. The second part of the connector has a fourth portion adapted for attaching thereto a component made from a third metal. The structure onto which the connector is to be fixed, typically by welding, is made from a fourth metal that is weld-compatible with said first metal. A method is also disclosed for connecting a bimetallic connector to a structure to enable a component made from a metal that is not compatible with the structure to be connected to the structure.
Abstract:
A system for producing a high intensity electric current pulse is described. The system includes a plurality of discharge modules connected in parallel to a load device. Each discharge module comprises a capacitor bank and a high current switch connected in series to the load device. The system also includes a high voltage supply device coupled to the capacitor banks for charging thereof. Any two of the discharge modules are coupled to each other through a resistive element so as to prevent sharp voltage decrease across the capacitor banks, and thereby to enable a concurrent operation of the high current switches.