Patents Examined by Alexander A Singh
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Patent number: 11677304Abstract: An optical member driving mechanism is provided, including a movable portion, a fixed portion, and a driving assembly. The movable portion is connected to an optical member. The fixed portion has an accommodating space, and the optical member is received in the accommodating space. The movable portion is movable relative to the fixed portion. The driving assembly is configured to drive the movable portion to move relative to the fixed portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2020Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: TDK TAIWAN CORP.Inventors: Sheng-Zong Chen, Sung-Mao Tsai, Chen-Chi Kuo
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Patent number: 11677300Abstract: A motor including a rotating portion that rotates about a center axis that extends vertically and a stationary portion that rotatably supports the rotating portion. The stationary portion includes a stator including a coil, radially facing at least a portion of the rotating portion, a base disposed axially below the stator, a circuit board disposed axially between the stator and the base, a conductor electrically connected to the coil and the circuit board, including an extending portion extending axially downward from the circuit board, and a resin portion covering the circuit board and the conductor, connecting the base and the stator. The base is provided in its axially upper surface with an opening that overlaps the conductor when viewed axially.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2020Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Yukinobu Shiraishi, Takashi Uchino
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Patent number: 11670987Abstract: An electric machine for converting between electrical and rotary mechanical energy includes a rotor that is journalled to rotate about an axis of rotation, and an adjacent stator that magnetically exerts torque upon the rotor across a magnetic airgap in response to applied electric power to air core stator windings that are bonded in thermal contact to a slotless ferromagnetic stator backiron forming the stator surface facing the magnetic airgap, the rotor has a surface that is opposed to, and spaced apart from, the corresponding surface on the stator, the rotor surface and the stator surface define the airgap therebetween. The rotor has permanent magnets that generate magnetic flux across the magnetic airgap and through the air core stator windings. The air core windings are cooled by a physical loop having an evaporator, a remote located condenser and connected by two fluid flow lines filled with two phase fluid comprising liquid and gas both traveling in the same direction around the physical loop.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Inventors: Christopher W. Gabrys, Timothy S. Rodgers
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Patent number: 11670983Abstract: A motor-driven compressor includes a compression unit, an electric motor, a motor controller, a housing, and a connector. The motor controller includes a circuit board. The housing includes an inverter accommodation chamber, and the inverter accommodation chamber accommodates the motor controller. The connector is accommodated in the inverter accommodation chamber and electrically connects the circuit board and a member located outside the inverter accommodation chamber. The connector includes one or more busbars and a case. The one or more busbars are electrically connected to the circuit board. The case is formed from a resin and accommodates the one or more busbars. The circuit board and the connector are fastened to the housing. The one or more busbars are allowed to move in the case when the circuit board vibrates.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Shumpei Yamakage, Yusuke Kinoshita, Koki Shinohara
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Patent number: 11664710Abstract: A variable-speed control assembly for use in controlling speed of an electric motor of an electric device, the variable-speed control assembly including: a housing; a speed signaling circuit module located within the housing including a pair of spaced-apart electrically-conductive stationary contact members and a movable electrically-conductive contact member configured for movement relative to the pair of stationary contact members between at least one of an OFF position in which the movable contact member does not electrically connect the pair of stationary contact members, and, a plurality of ON positions in which the movable contact member electrically connects the pair of stationary contact members such that an electric current supplied to the speed signaling circuit module from a power supply of the electric device is able to flow between the pair of stationary contact members via the movable contact member; wherein the movable contact member includes an elastically-deformable material configured for deType: GrantFiled: October 14, 2020Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignees: DEFOND COMPONENTS LIMITED, DEFOND ELECTECH CO., LTDInventor: Wai Man Wong
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Patent number: 11664697Abstract: A wiring member for rotating electrical machine that connects coil ends of a stator to electrodes of a terminal block in a rotating electrical machine. The wiring member includes a plurality of conductive wires, and a holding portion for holding the plurality of conductive wires. The holding portion includes an adhesion portion adhered and fixed to a fixing target member. A fixing structure of wiring member for rotating electrical machine is configured that the wiring member for rotating electrical machine including the plurality of conductive wires and connecting coil ends of a stator to electrodes of a terminal block in the rotating electrical machine is fixed to a fixing target member. The rotating electrical machine includes the stator including a stator core and a plurality of coil pieces adhered and fixed to the stator core, and the wiring member for rotating electrical machine.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2020Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: PROTERIAL, LTD.Inventors: Noriyuki Takahashi, Jun Umetsu
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Patent number: 11658552Abstract: A rotor position detecting apparatus includes a rotor, a stator disposed in correspondence with the rotor and a sensing assembly disposed at one side of the rotor. The sensing assembly includes a substrate, a first magnetic element part and a second magnetic element part disposed on the substrate and a first ground pattern and a second ground pattern disposed on the substrate. The first ground pattern is electrically connected to the first magnetic element part. The second ground pattern is electrically connected to the second magnetic element part, and the first ground pattern is electrically disconnected from the second ground pattern.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventor: Jin Su Pyeon
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Patent number: 11658551Abstract: An electric motor vehicle auxiliary unit includes a housing which is at least partly electrically conductive. An electric drive motor having stator-side motor coils, a unit mechanism which is driven by the electric drive motor, and a motor electronics circuit board are each arranged within the housing. The motor electronics circuit board includes motor electronics having control and power electronics which control the electric drive motor, and at least one housing ground connection which is electrically conductively connected directly to the housing via a housing ground element. A punch comb arrangement has at least two plug pins. A plug connection connects the motor electronics circuit board to an engine control unit. The plug connection is electrically connected to the motor electronics circuit board via the punch comb arrangement. The housing ground element is designed as a plug pin of the at least two plug pins of the punch comb arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2018Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: PIERBURG PUMP TECHNOLOGY GMBHInventors: Christian Schulz, Peter Gross
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Patent number: 11658545Abstract: An end cap for a brushless motor that dissipates heat from a controller and switching elements of the motor through fins in the end cap. The end cap can be directly or thermally coupled to the controller and switching elements to dissipate heat out through the fins.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Snap-on IncorporatedInventors: Isidro Alanis, Jason Genz, Michael Rajzer
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Patent number: 11658543Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotor assembly, a stator assembly, a printed circuit board, and a solder cup. The stator assembly includes a lamination stack defining teeth, coils supported about the teeth, and a conductive terminal electrically connected to at least one coil. The conductive terminal includes a lead portion. The printed circuit board is coupled to the stator assembly and includes opposed first and second sides, and a through hole extending through the printed circuit board and receiving the lead portion. The printed circuit board further includes a solder pad surrounding the through hole on at least one of the first side or the second side. The solder cup is supported on the lead portion between the printed circuit board and the stator assembly, and includes a wide end facing toward the printed circuit board, and a narrow end opposite the wide end.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATIONInventor: Gerald A. Zucca
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Patent number: 11658524Abstract: Provided is a rotary electric machine that is able to suppress vibration noise of the rotary electric machine caused by an out-of-plane deformation. The rotary electric machine includes a stator including a frame being an annular member, and a plurality of split cores arranged in an annular shape and fitted to and held by a radially inner portion of the frame, wherein the frame is formed such that an inner diameter of each of both end portions thereof is smaller than an inner diameter of an axial middle portion thereof, and fitting fastening force between the frame and each split core is set to be greater at both the end portions than at the axial middle portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2018Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Keiichi Konishi, Naoki Ohashi, Ryuichi Kitora, Koichi Shimizu
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Patent number: 11646624Abstract: An electric compressor includes a cylindrical motor housing, an inverter case, and a conductive member. The inverter case is joined to an end portion of the motor housing. The inverter case includes a cylindrical case peripheral wall surrounding the end portion. The end portion has an end face that extends in a radial direction of the motor housing and a peripheral surface that extends in an axial direction of the motor housing and is connected to the end face. A ring-shaped sealing member is disposed between the peripheral surface and the case peripheral wall. An accommodation groove for accommodating the sealing member is recessed in the peripheral surface. The sealing member is held by the peripheral surface and the case peripheral wall in a radial direction of the sealing member to seal a space in which the conductive member is disposed.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2020Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Shumpei Yamakage, Yusuke Kinoshita, Junya Yano
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Patent number: 11646623Abstract: Described herein are fractional slot electric motors with compact crowns. A motor comprises multiple coil elements protruding through a stator core and forming electrical connections with each other and/or with a lead assembly. The lead assembly comprises phase busbars connected to selected coil elements and comprising terminals for connecting to an external power supply. The lead assembly also comprises neutral busbars, with no external connections and internally connected to other coil elements. Each coil element has a rectangular cross-sectional profile to maximize the slot-fill-ratio of the motor. Each coil element is electrically coupled to two other components. For example, each looped coil element is coupled to two other coil elements at a stator side, opposite the lead assembly. Each extended coil element is coupled to another coil element at that same side and coupled to another coil element or a busbar at the lead assembly side.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Canoo Technologies Inc.Inventors: James Dameron, Evan Filter, Phillip Weicker, Charles Garmel
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Patent number: 11641143Abstract: A control device-integrated rotary electric machine that has a light weight and a small radial-direction dimension. A cylindrical member is provided between a stator formed by stacking electromagnetic steel sheets and a frame retaining the stator, such that the cylindrical member is in a press-fitted state against the stator and the frame. The cylindrical member has a flange portion at one end thereof, and the flange portion is fixed by being held between the frame and a heat sink which is a member composing a control device.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2018Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Mitsunori Ishizaki, Toshihiro Matsunaga, Takashi Yamamoto
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Patent number: 11637475Abstract: Tail cone assemblies for gas turbine engines are described. The tail cone assemblies include a generator housing having an electrical connector, the generator housing defining a longitudinal axis. A first casing is arranged radially outward from the generator housing relative to the longitudinal axis and a second casing arranged radially outward from the first casing relative to the longitudinal axis. A hollow strut extends radially between the first casing and the second casing and defining an interior cavity, the hollow strut located circumferentially relative to the longitudinal axis at a location radially aligned with the electrical connector of the generator housing. An electrical conductor is arranged within the interior cavity of the hollow strut and an adapter is configured to electrically connect the electrical conductor with the electrical conductor.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2020Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATIONInventor: Glenn C. Lemmers, Jr.
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Patent number: 11637483Abstract: An electronic component fixation structure disclosed in the present application includes a holding member which, being made of an insulating material, is formed of a storing portion which stores a main body portion of an electronic component, a protection portion which surrounds a plurality of connection terminals of the electronic component, and a pair of protrusion portions which protrude upward from the respective central portions of a pair of side walls of the protection portion; and a wiring substrate on which to connect between electronic components, wherein the pair of protrusion portions of the holding member are engaged with the wiring substrate, and the plurality of connection terminals of the electronic component are solder connected to the wiring substrate.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2020Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Masahiro Noguchi
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Patent number: 11637521Abstract: A driving device is used with a compressor including a motor including coils. The driving device drives the motor. The driving device includes an inverter connected to the coils, a connection switching unit to switch a connection state of the coils between a first connection state and a second connection state, a controller to control the inverter and the connection switching unit, and a compressor state detection unit to detect a state of the compressor. When the connection state of the coils is the first connection state, the controller controls the motor based on a first detection value detected by the compressor state detection unit and a first threshold. When the connection state of the coils is the second connection state, the controller controls the motor based on a second detection value detected by the compressor state detection unit and a second threshold.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2016Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Masahiro Nigo
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Patent number: 11637473Abstract: A seat ventilation blower may include a first housing; a second housing coupled and assembled to the first housing; an impeller inserted inside the first housing or the second housing, the impeller configured to rotate; and a circuit board body having a motor assembly coupled to the impeller to rotate the impeller wherein the circuit board body is configured to control operation of the motor assembly and installed in the housing when the first and second housings are coupled and assembled together.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2019Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, INZICONTROLS CO., LTD., Hyundai Transys Inc.Inventors: Ju-Hyun Kim, Sang-Uk Yu, Doo-Ri Kim, Yo-Han Kim, Byung-Jae Lee, Byung-Yong Choi, Seon-Chae Na, Ho-Sub Lim, Jin-Hyuk Kim, Young-Dae Hong, You-Jeong Jeong, Sang-Kyung Koh
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Patent number: 11637484Abstract: A low profile electric pump arrangement having a motor housing connected to a pump element of a transmission for a vehicle. An inverter housing connected to the motor housing and has a where an electronics control unit (ECU) connects through the inverter housing to selectively supply power to the motor within the motor housing. The recess and the ECU are covered and sealed off from the elements by a plastic cover. In order to obtain a low profile of the electric pump arrangement so it can fit within a desired packaging line on a transmission casing a metal bracket is over molded into the plastic cover. The metal bracket has at least one exposed surface that engages the inverter housing to hold the plastic cover onto the inverter housing in a position so that the plastic cover covers and seals the ECU and recess at the second side of the inverter housing.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2020Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: HANON SYSTEMSInventors: Manmohan Sehmby, Harpreet Baraich
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Patent number: 11632009Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a busbar assembly, a motor, an electrical product, and a method for manufacturing a busbar assembly. The busbar assembly includes a busbar for conducting electricity and a busbar holder for supporting the busbar. The busbar extends in a circumferential direction, a height of the busbar in an axial direction is greater than a thickness in a radial direction, and the busbar holder is integrally molded with the busbar. The busbar includes a plurality of convex portions extending in the axial direction, and the convex portions are exposed from the busbar holder.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2021Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Yu Wang, Jun Gao, Wenlong Zhang