Proposal for a Nomenclature System for the Rodin Coil

Nomenclature Dewayne J.
Broussard

A consistent nomenclature system provides a easy

method to communicate the design specification of the
coil in order for testing results to be duplicated and
verified.

The Rodin coils has these inherent

properties:
• Toroidal in shape
• Trifilar wound with one circuit being a Circuit 1
null (no wire). The term bifilar wound
is typically used with the third null
circuit as being understood. Circuit 2

• The circuit are wound in parallel in a

spiral pattern. Null
Circuit
• The physical phase difference due to
the winding is typically zero.
Concept does not indicate start nor
stop point of the circuits.

Beginning and
End of the
circuits
Conceptual Coil as presented by Marko Rodin.
Proposal for a Nomenclature System for the Rodin Coil
Nomenclature
General Coil
Ød Any torus having a circular cross section and revolved around a
single axis may be described by its outer and inner diameters D
and d respectively.
The torus is divided into sections. In the case of the drawing
above it is divided into 12 sections. The pitch is 5 as shown
below.
ØD
A proposed nomenclature is:
{ØD}-{Ød}:{sections}p{pitch}
Winding of Torus shown
above An example would be:
0 100-75:12p5
11 1
indicating a 100mm (4 inch) outer diameter, a 75mm (3 inch)
inner diameter and a pitch of 5 wound around 12 sections.
2
10 Pitch of 5

Additional qualifiers can be added to describe new attributes

9 3
such as:
• torus shapes other than circle. Current construction is actually
8 4
an tear drop shape.

5 • nested structures
7
6
• twin axis i.e. elliptical
• wire size (i.e. 24AWG, etc..)

Non-circular toroid Nested torus Bi-axial toroid