Liquid MEMS magnetic component
View Patent ↗A liquid micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) magnetic component includes a board, a channel, one or more windings, a magnetizing-doped droplet, and a droplet activating module. The channel is implemented or embedding in one or more layers of the board and the one or more windings are proximally positioned to the channel. The magnetizing-doped droplet is contained in the channel and is modified by the droplet activating module based on the control signal. By modifying the magnetizing-doped droplet with respect to the one or more windings changes an electromagnetic property of the liquid MEMS magnetic component.
1. A liquid micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) magnetic component comprises:
a board;
a channel in one or more layers of the board, the channel including at least one flexible section;
one or more windings proximally positioned to the channel;
a magnetizing-doped droplet contained in the channel; and
a droplet activating module operable, based on a control signal, to modify the magnetizing-doped droplet with respect to the one or more windings by generating a force on the at least one flexible section, thereby changing an electromagnetic property of the liquid MEMS magnetic component.
2. The liquid MEMS magnetic component of claim 1 further comprises:
the one or more windings including a winding such that the liquid MEMS magnetic component is a tunable inductor.
3. The liquid MEMS magnetic component of claim 1 further comprises:
the one or more windings including a primary winding and a secondary winding such that the liquid MEMS magnetic component is a tunable transformer.
4. The liquid MEMS magnetic component of claim 1 , wherein the magnetizing-doped droplet comprises:
a plurality of ferrite particles suspended in a non-magnetic liquid solution.
5. The liquid MEMS magnetic component of claim 1 , wherein the magnetizing-doped droplet comprises:
a plurality of permanent magnetics particles suspended in a non-magnetic liquid solution.
6. The liquid MEMS magnetic component of claim 1 further comprises:
a second magnetizing-doped droplet, wherein the magnetizing-doped droplet has first magnetic properties and the second magnetizing-doped droplet has second magnetic properties.
7. The liquid MEMS magnetic component of claim 1 , wherein the channel comprises one of:
a square-tubular shape;
a cylinder shape;
a non-linear square-tubular shape; and
a non-linear cylinder shape.
8. The liquid MEMS magnetic component of claim 1 , wherein the droplet activating module comprises at least one of:
an actuator;
a compression source; and
an expansion source.
9. The liquid MEMS magnetic component of claim 8 , wherein the droplet activating module provides a force on the magnetizing-doped droplet such that the magnetizing-doped droplet moves within the channel, wherein the magnetizing-doped droplet is responsive to at least one of:
compression from the compression source; and
expansion from the expansion source.
10. The liquid MEMS magnetic component of claim 1 , wherein the board comprises at least one of:
a printed circuit board (PCB);
an integrated circuit (IC) package substrate;
a redistribution layer (RDL) of a PCB or of an IC package substrate.
11. A liquid micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) magnetic component comprises:
a board;
a channel in one or more layers of the board, the channel including at least one flexible section;
one or more windings proximally positioned to the channel;
one or more magnetizing-doped droplets of varied magnetic properties contained in the channel; and
a pressure force droplet activating module operable, based on a control signal, to modify at least one of the one or more magnetizing-doped droplets with respect to the one or more windings by generating a force on the at least one flexible section, thereby changing an electromagnetic property of the liquid MEMS magnetic component.
12. The liquid MEMS magnetic component of claim 11 , wherein the droplet activating module provides a force on the one or more magnetizing-doped droplets such that the one or more magnetizing-doped droplets move within the channel, wherein the one or more magnetizing-doped droplets are responsive to at least one of or both of:
compression and expansion.