Patents Examined by Alex W. Mok
  • Patent number: 11973386
    Abstract: Since the shape of the insulating paper is complicated, a forming and bending step of the insulating paper is required, and further there is a step of inserting the insulating paper in the middle of coil forming, which causes a problem of damaging the insulating paper. A fitting state of an insulating paper 201 into the inter-coil gap has an annular taper shape in which a diameter dimension D1 of an annular opening of the insulating paper 201 on a coil end tip side is long, and a diameter dimension d2 of an annular opening of the insulating paper 201 on a stator end face side on the opposite side is short. The insulating paper 201 is made to follow the tapered shape of the inter-coil gap 140 between an inner peripheral coil 120 and an outer peripheral coil 130, and the insulating paper 201 is fitted in a state inclined from the coil end tip side to the stator end face side with respect to an axial direction of the stator 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Nakayama, Ryoji Kobayashi, Yuichiro Baba
  • Patent number: 11973406
    Abstract: A rotor (1) for an electric machine (25) which comprises a rotor support (2). The rotor support has cylindrical inner and outer shells (3, 4). A magnetic flux-carrying rotor component has first and second end faces (6, 7) and carries the cylindrical outer shell (4). A rotationally shaft section (8) is arranged in an inside space (9) of the rotor support and mounted coaxially with the rotor support. At least in the area of the first end face (6) the outer shell has first teeth which face toward the magnetic flux-carrying rotor component and a first tooth base between respective pairs of first teeth, and at least in the area of the second end face (7) the outer shell (4) has second teeth which face toward the magnetic flux-carrying rotor component and a second tooth base between respective pairs of second teeth. The invention also relates to an electric machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Rayk Gersten, Stefan Spühler, David Wörzler, Martin Christians, Martin Jelinewski, Alexander Baur
  • Patent number: 11967865
    Abstract: A drive motor includes a housing and a stator iron core arranged inside the housing. A rotor iron core is placed through the inside of the stator iron core. The rotor iron core includes a cylindrical iron core body, and two openings are symmetrically formed on a periphery of the iron core body in a radial direction of the iron core body. The iron core body is provided with a plurality of mounting slots for receiving magnets, and each of both sides of the mounting slot is provided with a magnetic-leakproof air slot. The central part of the iron core body is provided with a through hole into which a rotating shaft is inserted. Moreover, the magnets are mounted in the mounting slots by means of insertion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignees: ZHEJIANG BAOLONG M&E CO., LTD., SHENZHEN YUNDING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhiyan Guo, Jun Li, Fangkui LIn
  • Patent number: 11938807
    Abstract: A device cools a power train of a vehicle including an electric machine with a wound rotor coupled to a speed reducer. The device includes: an oil cooling circuit for cooling the electric machine, the circuit include a heat exchanger connected to an oil tank and a water circuit that connects members of the power train through the radiator of the vehicle; a temperature adjuster of the oil flow supplied at the outlet of the exchanger to a distribution circuit projecting the oil to elements for heating the electric machine; a circuit for lubricating the reducer, the circuit including a sump, the bottom of the sump forming a reserve of oil for lubricating the reducer; and a bypass channel at the outlet of the exchanger, for conveying a portion of the temperature-adjusted oil in contact with the bottom of the sump in order to cool the oil reserve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignees: RENAULT s.a.s., NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bassel Assaad, Julien Borie
  • Patent number: 11942822
    Abstract: Presented are electric machines with optimized stator tooth geometries and multi-gauge stator conductors, methods for making/using such electric machines, and motor vehicles equipped with such electric machines. An electric machine includes a housing, a rotor assembly rotatably attached to the housing, and a stator assembly coaxial with and separated by an airgap from the rotor assembly. The rotor assembly includes one or more magnets mounted to a rotor core. The stator assembly includes a stator core with multiple axially elongated, circumferentially spaced stator slots, multiple radially aligned stator teeth interleaved between and separating the slots, and multiple electromagnetic windings wound through the slots. Each stator tooth has an elongated tooth body with a tooth head at a radial end of a tooth root, which attaches to a cylindrical hub of the stator core. The tooth head has an axial cross-section with a trapezoidal crown integral with a rectangular tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Mohammad F. Momen, Edward L. Kaiser
  • Patent number: 11936312
    Abstract: A rotor of a rotary electric machine includes magnets arranged to face a winding. The magnets are movable relative to the winding upon the winding being energized. The magnets are arranged in a relative movement direction while magnetic polarities based on the magnets are alternately changed. Each magnet includes a first magnet member configured to generate magnet flux in accordance with a corresponding one of the polarities. The first magnet member has first magnetic orientations defined therein. Each magnet includes a second magnet member provided at a q-axis side end of the corresponding magnet located closer to a pole boundary. The second magnet member has second magnetic orientations defined therein. The second magnetic orientations intersect with the first magnetic orientations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11923729
    Abstract: A transport apparatus comprising a housing, a variable reluctance drive mounted to the housing, and at least one transport arm connected to the variable reluctance drive where the drive includes at least one rotor having salient poles of magnetic permeable material and disposed in an isolated environment, at least one stator having salient pole structures each defining a salient pole with corresponding coil units coiled around the respective salient pole structure and disposed outside the isolated environment where the at least one salient pole of the at least one stator and the at least one salient pole of the rotor form a closed magnetic flux circuit between the at least one rotor and the at least one stator, at least one seal partition configured to isolate the isolated environment; and at least one sensor including a magnetic sensor member connected to the housing, at least one sensor track connected to the at least one rotor, where the at least one seal partition is disposed between and separates the mag
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Brook Automation US, LLC
    Inventors: Jairo T. Moura, Reza Saeidpourazar, Branden Gunn, Matthew W. Coady, Ulysses Gilchrist
  • Patent number: 11909272
    Abstract: An oil-cooling structure for motor magnets, that includes: a pair of end plates that are disc-shaped and are mounted at both end portions of a rotor core; third oil paths formed at interiors of the end plates, and having axial direction portions that extend in an axial direction of a rotor shaft and are connected to axial direction end portions of second oil paths, respectively, and discharging portions that extend toward a radial direction outer side from axial direction outer side end portions of the axial direction portions and are open at end portions of the end plates; and angle mitigating members disposed in the third oil paths at corner portions formed by the axial direction portions and the discharging portions, configured to mitigate angles formed by the axial direction portions and the discharging portions in axial direction cross-sections that include the third oil paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hironobu Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 11901775
    Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor iron core, a rotor shaft, and a fastening plate. The rotor iron core includes a first and a second end, and extends along an axial direction. The first fastening plate is fastened to at least the first or second end, and includes a through hole and a first runner. An inlet of the first runner communicates with the through hole. An outlet of the first runner is on a surface of a side of the fastening plate. The rotor shaft includes a second runner and a third runner in the rotor shaft. An inlet of the second runner is at one end of the at least one end of the rotor shaft. An outlet of the second runner communicates with an inlet of the third runner. An outlet of the third runner communicates with the inlet of the first runner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI DIGITAL POWER TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiangang Wang, Quanming Li, Tingyu Xie
  • Patent number: 11901768
    Abstract: Plural windings are wound around plural teeth in sequence such that crossover wires formed in the plural windings are all arranged on another axial direction side of an annular section of a stator core. When this is performed, the plural windings are wound around the plural teeth in sequence such that terminal portions of the plural windings are placed in a fifth slot, a sixth slot, an eighth slot, and a ninth slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshimichi Sahara, Akio Murase
  • Patent number: 11901770
    Abstract: The invention relates to an external stator of a rotating-field machine with internal rotor, which external stator is designed as an internal stator or external stator and which external stator has a number of N stator teeth which together form a number of N/2 tooth groups, and each stator tooth has in each case one pole core and one pole shoe integrally formed thereon, wherein the pole cores are manufactured from a first material, and that in each case one tooth group is formed by two directly adjacently arranged stator teeth which, together with a magnetic return means, are constituent parts of a magnetic circuit, characterized in that, between two adjacent stator teeth of two adjacent tooth groups, there is arranged in each case at least one intermediate element which extends in particular in an axial direction of the stator and which is manufactured from a second material, and in that differs from the first material of the pole cores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: LSP INNOVATIVE AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Leiber, Jochen Keller
  • Patent number: 11894719
    Abstract: A rotor of an electric machine includes a rotor core defining a magnet channel extending axially between opposing ends of the rotor core. A permanent magnet is disposed in the channel and has opposing ends and opposing major sides. The magnet includes a central piece of anisotropic magnetic material having a first magnetically easy crystallographic axis, and a corner piece of anisotropic magnetic material joined to the central piece and having a second magnetically easy crystallographic axis that is oblique to the first easy axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Chuanbing Rong
  • Patent number: 11894750
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a motor comprising: a motor housing; a stator which is provided in the motor housing and has a coil; a rotor installed in the stator to be rotatable about a rotary shaft; and a spray hole which is formed in the circumferential surface of the rotor by passing through the circumferential surface in a radial direction and which sprays a cooling fluid in the motor housing onto the coil according to the rotation of the rotor. Therefore, cooling by oil convection can be accelerated while minimizing resistance due to the oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: LG Magna e-Powertrain Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jongsu Kim, Jungwook Moon, Changhum Jo, Minjung Kim, Taehee Kwak
  • Patent number: 11894726
    Abstract: In a rotating electric machine, a rotor core includes; a gap surface; a plurality of magnet insertion holes; a slit which is formed in a core region between the gap surface and, among the plurality of magnet insertion holes, a magnet insertion hole into which a permanent magnet forming one magnetic pole is inserted, and divides the core region into a plurality of divided core regions in the circumferential direction; and a cutout formed by denting the gap surface of a divided core region, wherein a shortest distance between a stator core imaginary gap surface which is in contact with distal end surfaces of the plurality of teeth, and a bottom point of the cutout is longer than a shortest distance between the stator core imaginary gap surface and each of two intersections between the cutout and the gap surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junji Kitao, Kosho Yamane, Tomohira Takahashi, Yoshihiro Miyama
  • Patent number: 11888355
    Abstract: An embodiment relates to a rotor and a motor comprising same, the rotor comprising: a rotor core; and a plurality of first magnets and second magnets arranged along the outer circumferential surface of the rotor core, wherein each of the second magnets is disposed between the first magnets, and the outer circumferential surface of each of the first magnets has a curvature greater than that of the outer circumferential surface of the second magnet. Therefore, the motor can reduce cogging torque by using the first magnet and the second magnet having different shapes, and thus can improve the quality of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Su Pyeon, Seong Jin Kim
  • Patent number: 11888377
    Abstract: An axle assembly having an electric motor module. The electric motor module may include a rotor, a rotor shaft, a stator, a coolant jacket, an end plate, and a motor housing. The motor housing may encircle a portion of the coolant jacket. The end plate may be disposed outside and may not be received in the motor housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: ArvinMeritor Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Tomaz Varela, Somalingayya G. Math, Brian Hayes
  • Patent number: 11888353
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor rotatable about a rotation axis, and a stator surrounding the rotor so as to form an air gap between the stator and the rotor. The rotor has a rotor core having a magnet insertion hole and a rare earth magnet provided in the magnet insertion hole. The rotor core has a plurality of slits on an outer side of the magnet insertion hole in a radial direction about the rotation axis. Each of the plurality of slits has a length in the radial direction which is longer than a length in a circumferential direction about the rotation axis. The plurality of slits have a uniform minimum distance to the magnet insertion hole. When the minimum distance is expressed as T and the air gap is expressed as G, 2.75?T/G?5.25 is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 11877698
    Abstract: A blender system is shown and described herein. In one aspect, the blender system includes a base with an interior and an exterior formed by a housing. The housing may include an air inlet port and an exhaust port. The interior of the base includes a motor bore forming an air pathway connecting the air inlet port to the exhaust port. The motor bore also includes an entry aperture fluidly connecting the motor bore to the air inlet port. The entry aperture is indirectly in line with the air inlet port. The exit aperture fluidly connects the motor bore to the exhaust port, and the exit aperture is indirectly in line with the exhaust port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: VITA-MIX MANAGEMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael Arnett, Eugene J. Kozlowski
  • Patent number: 11876433
    Abstract: A housing of a drive device includes a tubular portion, a side plate portion, a plate portion, and a peripheral wall portion. The tubular portion extends in a first direction and accommodates a motor. The side plate portion has a plate shape intersecting the first direction, and is at one end portion of the tubular portion in the first direction. The plate portion expands from the tubular portion along one of the first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The peripheral wall portion surrounds an inverter accommodation portion that accommodates inverter when viewed from a third direction perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction, and is connected to the plate portion. Each of a pump and an oil cooler is at any of one end portion of the peripheral wall portion in the second direction, another end portion of the plate portion in the third direction, and another end portion of the side plate portion in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Ishikawa, Hitoshi Kuroyanagi, Naohiro Wada
  • Patent number: 11876410
    Abstract: A rotor for a motor includes: a rotor core including accommodation holes penetrating the rotor core in an axial direction; permanent magnets respectively accommodated in the accommodation holes; an endplate configured to cover an end of the rotor core; and a soft magnetic core disposed on the endplate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hae Jun Yang