Long, narrow, uniform magnetic field apparatus and method

Claim 1

Magnetostatic delay line apparatus comprising: first and second sources of magnetomotive force located at two displaced points along an axis and polarized to establish primary magnetic field flux lines commencing at said first source, extending along said axis in an outward curving line pattern having flux line components directed both parallel and perpendicular to said axis and ending at said second source; magnetomotive force source means located along said axis for diverting said magnetic field flux lines from said curving line pattern to a pattern of flux lines extending parallel to said axis between said first and second sources, said magnetomotive force source means including a plurality of discrete magnetomotive force sources dispersed along said axis and radially thereabout for generating magnetic field lines that are orthogonally oriented with respect to said axis, said discrete magnetomotive force sources being of predetermined finite, non-zero spacial separations measured along said axis, with said predetermined finite non-zero spatial separations being determined in response to the local degree of said outward curvature and the required diversion of said primary magnetic field flux lines to achieve said flux lines extending parallel to said axis; a cavity receptacle concentric with said axis and communicating therealong between said first and second sources of magnetomotive force; and a magnetostatic delay line element lengthwise located within said cavity receptacle surrounded by said parallel extending flux lines.

Claim 12

The method of generating laminar magnetic flux within a cavity which also contains a central axis comprising the step of: generating magnetic field flux lines commencing at a first source thereof and tending to extend along said axis in an outward curving line pattern having flux line components directed both parallel and perpendicular of said axis and ending at a second source thereof; and diverting said magnetic field flux lines from said curving line pattern to a pattern of lines extending parallel to said axis between said first and second sources, said diverting including creating interacting magnetic field lines that are orthogonally oriented with respect to said axis at axially segregated spatially separated points along said axis, said spatial separations being of predetermined finite length in response to the localized degree of said outward curvature and the parallel line required diversion of said first and second source magnetic field flux lines.

Claim 13

The method of generating laminar magnetic flux within a cavity which also contains a central axis comprising the step of: generating magnetic field flux lines commencing at a first source thereof and tending to extend along said axis in an outward curving line pattern having flux line components directed both parallel and perpendicular of said axis and ending at a second source thereof; and diverting said magnetic field flux lines from said curving line pattern to a pattern of lines extending parallel to said axis between said first and second sources, said diverting including creating interacting magnetic field lines that are orthogonally oriented with respect to said axis at axially segregated spatially separated points along said axis, said spatial separations being of predetermined finite length in response to the localized degree of said outward curvature and the parallel line required diversion of said first and second source magnetic field flux lines.