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A drawing extracted from a US patent[([[http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US4445104|Kou C. Lin, Charles E. Burkhardt, Compact step-lap magnetic core, US Patent US4445104, 1980]])], showing that the trasnformer core [[/lamination|laminations]] can be cut at various angles, and that the resulting [[/air gap|air gaps]] are [[/distributed air gap|distributed]].

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