Abstract:
878,261. Transformers. SERVO CORPORATION OF AMERICA. Oct. 16, 1959 [Jan. 27, 1959], No. 35166/59. Class 38 (2). [Also in Group XXXIX] A non-contact-making selector switch for connecting the antennµ of a radio-navigation system to a transmitter or receiver 10 comprises a non-magnetic stator disc 2 carrying one or more circular sets of half-toroid transformer sections 3 and a co-operating non-magnetic rotor disc carrying one or more similar halftoroid members 7 connected to 10 through a centrally arranged transformer 12, 13, 15. The discs may be of epoxy resin and the transformer core members of soft iron or nickel-zinc or manganese-zinc ferrite. The windings 5 on the half-toroid transformer sections 3 are each coupled to an antennµ terminal 6. The ends of core members 7 are wider than the ends 4 of members 3. An aluminium or brass housing may be provided.