Patents Examined by Alexander Talpalatski
  • Patent number: 11955304
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electric switch that serves to switch on and/or off electric devices and for this purpose has a contact system in the switch housing. By means of a manual actuating element or a remotely controlled actuator, a switching operation can be effected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC GERMANY GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Joerg Gassmann
  • Patent number: 11955859
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a busbar unit for a motor, the busbar unit including: a first terminal; a second terminal provided to be spaced apart from the first terminal in a first direction; a third terminal stacked on the first terminal in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; a fourth terminal stacked on the second terminal in the second direction; and a holder configured to support the first terminal, the second terminal, the third terminal, and the fourth terminal, thereby obtaining an advantageous effect of simplifying a structure and improving a degree of design freedom and spatial utilization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yeong Woo Seo, Jong Bin Park, Jung Kyu Yim
  • Patent number: 11948737
    Abstract: A solenoid includes a coil portion, a yoke having a side portion and a bottom portion, a plunger, and a stator core. The stator core has a magnetic attraction core and a sliding core which has a tubular core portion and a first magnetic flux transfer portion formed from the tubular core portion and the core end portion toward an outside in a radial direction to transfer magnetic flux between the yoke and the core portion. A breathing groove communicating an inside and an outside of the first magnetic flux transfer portion in the radial direction is formed on at least one of a first facing surface facing the bottom portion in a first magnetic flux transfer portion and a second facing surface facing the first magnetic flux transfer portion at the bottom portion so as to be positioned in a vertical direction when the solenoid is assembled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Sasao
  • Patent number: 11942296
    Abstract: A contactor includes first and second fixed contacts coupled to a housing having mating ends located in the cavity. The contactor includes a movable contact movable within the cavity between a mated position and an unmated position. The movable contact engages the second mating end in the mated position and is separated from the second fixed contact in the unmated position. The contactor includes a coil assembly in the cavity operated to move the movable contact. The contactor includes a magnetic shroud coupled to at least one of the movable contact and the second fixed contact to provide a magnetic holding force to hold the movable contact relative to the second fixed contact in the mated position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignees: TE Connectivity Brasil Industria De Electronicos LTDA, TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH
    Inventors: Xiaobao Geng, Amadeu Luiz Fazani Cavallieri
  • Patent number: 11940511
    Abstract: A superconducting magnet may include magnet coils including at least one group of outer coils and at least one group of inner coils, a container including an accommodating space, at least one first chamber that is disposed within the accommodating space and houses the at least one group of the inner coils, and at least one second chamber that is disposed within the accommodating space and houses the at least one group of the outer coils. The at least one first chamber and the at least one second chamber may be configured to be filled with a cooling medium and are in fluid communication with each other. The cooling medium may be configured to cool the magnet coils to a superconducting state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jianfeng Liu, Yanqing Cai, Lijun Zou, Jin Qian, Jian Gu
  • Patent number: 11936264
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a housing, a rotor rotatably mounted in the housing a stator fixedly mounted to the housing. The stator includes a stator core and a plurality of stator windings supported by the stator core. The stator core surrounds the rotor. A busbar including a plurality of electrically conductive members is coupled to the stator windings and an insulating cover extends across at least a portion of the electrically conductive members. A bracket is coupled to the busbar and one of the stator core and the housing, the bracket supporting the busbar in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: BORGWARNER INC.
    Inventors: Ryan J. Jones, Mariusz J. Kalisz, Scott W. Bitzer, Tim Sailors
  • Patent number: 11923161
    Abstract: A Shunt Trip Circuit Interrupter is to be installed within an electrical panel and includes a number of sets of separable contacts, a housing, an operating mechanism structured to move each set of separable contacts between at least an ON condition and an OFF condition, and a tripping mechanism situated within an interior of the housing and including an electronic circuit, a solenoid electrically connected with the electronic circuit, and a wire electrically connected with the electronic circuit and extending between the electronic circuit and an exterior of the housing, the wire being structured to be electrically connected with a switch system having at least one of a manual switch and an electronic switch that, when actuated, actuates the solenoid that engages the operating mechanism which moves each set of separable contacts from the ON condition to the OFF condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: Ruben Gamaliel Herrera Ortiz, Evelyn Patricia Baez Lorenzo, Ramon Alexander Perez Suarez, Glennys Johanny De Jesus Reyes, Luis Jose Ynfante Peña
  • Patent number: 11916456
    Abstract: A connection structure of a stator of a drive motor is configured to allow coils to be wound in a plurality of slots provided in a stator core and to connect the coils withdrawn from the slots. The coils are wound in the slots to form first-type structures and second-type structures configured such that withdrawal directions of three-phase (U-, W- and V-phase) withdrawal lines and N-phase withdrawal lines withdrawn from the slots of the first-type structures are opposite to withdrawal directions of three-phase (U-, W- and V-phase) withdrawal lines and N-phase withdrawal lines withdrawn from the slots of the second-type structures. The first-type structures and the second-type structures are disposed symmetrically to each other with respect to a reference line formed to divide the slots in half.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ga Eun Lee, Dong Yeon Han, Yong Sung Jang, Deok Hwan Na, Jae Won Ha, Myung Kyu Jeong
  • Patent number: 11909263
    Abstract: One example device includes a rotor platform that rotates about an axis of rotation. The device also includes a rotor coil comprising a first plurality of conductive loops disposed along a planar mounting surface of the rotor platform. The device also includes a stator platform and a stator coil comprising a second plurality of conductive loops disposed along a planar mounting surface of the stator platform. The rotor coil and the stator coil are coaxially arranged about the axis of rotation. The stator coil remains within a first predetermined distance to the rotor coil in response to rotation of the rotor platform. The device also includes a magnetic core extending along the axis of rotation and through the stator coil. The magnetic core remains within a second predetermined distance to the stator coil in response to rotation of the rotor platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventor: Paul Karplus
  • Patent number: 11894721
    Abstract: A stator includes four split cores arranged in the circumferential direction. Each split core includes a yoke including a pair of joint parts, and a tooth. The shape of an end of the tooth is asymmetrical. An angle ?1 (degrees) formed by a side surface of the tooth and a side surface of the yoke on the inner side in the radial direction of the stator satisfies 90 degrees<?1<180 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuchika Tsuchida, Sachiko Kawasaki, Mitsumasa Hamazaki, Takayuki Onihashi, Yutaka Nomiyama
  • Patent number: 11882953
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a system includes a cabinet and an apparatus. The cabinet includes a cabinet housing, a door coupled to the cabinet housing to form a cabinet storage compartment, and a support member mounted in the cabinet storage compartment, the support member having a front surface having a first mounting element. The apparatus has a second mounting element and a locking element. The locking element is alterable between: (1) an unlocked state in which the second mounting element of the apparatus can be coupled and decoupled from the first mounting element of the support member of the cabinet; and (2) a locked state in which the second mounting element of the apparatus is prohibited from being decoupled from the first mounting element of the support member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignees: Robern, Inc., Kohler Co
    Inventors: James L Stanley, Jr., Howard Katz, Marwan Estiban, James A. DeHope, Travis Andren
  • Patent number: 11875936
    Abstract: A method is provided for homogenizing a magnetic field profile of a superconductor magnet system having a cryostat with a room temperature bore, a superconductor bulk magnet with at least three axially stacked bulk sub-magnets, arranged coaxially with the room temperature bore, and a cryogenic cooling system for cooling the superconductor bulk magnet. The cryogenic cooling system independently controls the temperature of each bulk sub-magnet to provide different respective temperatures to the sub-magnets and thereby provide the sub-magnets with different relative currents such that a first subset of the bulk sub-magnets are almost magnetically saturated, and a second subset of the bulk sub-magnets are significantly away from magnetic saturation. By controlling a heating power and/or a cooling power at the bulk sub-magnets without measuring the temperatures of the bulk sub-magnets, the respective currents of the bulk sub-magnets are changed to increase a homogeneity of the field profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Inventors: Stephen Alfred March, Joerg Hinderer, Franck Borgnolutti
  • Patent number: 11875937
    Abstract: A magnet array (700) includes multiple magnet rings (711-720) and a frame. The multiple magnet rings are positioned along a longitudinal axis and coaxially with the longitudinal axis, wherein at least one (712, 713, 719) of the magnet rings possesses rotational symmetry and has both a finite component of magnetization along an azimuthal (?) coordinate, and a finite magnetization in a longitudinal-radial plane. The multiple magnet rings configured to jointly generate a magnetic field along a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis. The frame is configured to fixedly hold the multiple magnet rings in place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Epsitau Ltd.
    Inventor: Noam Haham Hay
  • Patent number: 11870299
    Abstract: A motor assembly comprises a composite housing having a core of sprayed magnetic particles and a winding on the core; and a rotor having a magnet located thereon, the rotor being rotatably mounted within the winding. The core of sprayed magnetic particles comprises particles of an iron-containing material that when deposited results in an aggregate of small micro-domains separated by insulation boundaries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Persimmon Technologies, Corp.
    Inventors: Martin Hosek, Christopher Hofmeister
  • Patent number: 11869735
    Abstract: A contactor (1) comprising a first contact member (3) fixed and connected to a first conductor (5) of an electrical circuit; a second contact member (7) connected to a second conductor (9) of the electrical circuit by a connector (11); wherein the second contact member moves between a break position, in which the first and second contact members are out of contact, and a make position, in which the first and second contact members are in contact; an actuator assembly (15) coupled to the second contact member such that actuation of the actuator assembly translates into movement of the second contact member; an electromagnetic arrangement comprising an electromagnetic coil (17) and at least a part of the actuator assembly, wherein, when the coil is energised, the coil generates a magnetic field and thereby the actuation assembly is caused to move under the influence of the magnetic field, which in turn causes the second contact member to move; a hermetically sealable enclosure (2); wherein the first and second
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Solid State PLC
    Inventors: Mark Stephen Del Giudice, John Hamilton Merrill
  • Patent number: 11862424
    Abstract: The main body frame includes a first frame including a flexible protruding plate portion, a second frame facing the first frame in a first direction to form the housing section, and a snap-fit mechanism connecting the first frame to the second frame. The snap-fit mechanism includes a fitted portion provided on the flexible protruding plate portion and a fitting projection portion provided on a side wall of the second frame and fitting with the fitted portion. The fitting projection portion and the fitted portion are fitted by bringing the first and second frames into relative proximity in the first direction, and the fitting is released by relatively displacing the first and second frames in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC FA COMPONENTS & SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi Sekiya, Kouetsu Takaya, Koumei Hazawa, Shouta Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 11852212
    Abstract: An adjustable magnetic counterbalance assembly wherein a counterbalance force of the adjustable magnetic counterbalance is adjustable. The adjustable magnetic counterbalance assembly includes at least one ferromagnetic tube; a magnet disposed in the at least one ferromagnetic tube and configured to be axially movable and wherein the magnet is configured to be rotationally movable relative to the respective at least one ferromagnetic tube; wherein the counterbalance force is configured to be adjustable by adjusting the rotational position between the magnet and a respective ferromagnetic tube to change the polar alignment of the magnet. Alternatively, the adjustable magnetic counterbalance assembly changes the counterbalance force based on the relative alignment of the poles of one magnet to an adjacent one.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Invetech, Inc.
    Inventors: Chris Lo, Mark L'Italien
  • Patent number: 11854756
    Abstract: Provided herein is an improved solenoid electrical switch. In some embodiments, a solenoid electrical switch may include a plunger at least partially disposed in a central aperture of a solenoid for rotation and axial reciprocation between at least two positions into and out of the central aperture relative to a magnetic coupling member. The plunger may include a first component including a main body and a central slot within the main body, and a second component at least partially disposed within the central slot, wherein the second component may include an engagement surface engaged with an inner surface of the central slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Suzhou Littelfuse OVS Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yanqiu Jia, Dan Jin, Du Cheng
  • Patent number: 11842869
    Abstract: A reclosing switch capable of stably opening and closing, including a bracket, a permanent magnet moving core, a driving member, a linkage assembly, a limit assembly, an opening assembly and a contact mechanism. The permanent magnet moving core is configured to provide a force to drive a magnet to move axially along the permanent magnet moving core. When closing the switch, the driving member applies a pressure to the linkage assembly to drive the limit assembly to limit driving member. The opening assembly is configured to provide a force to push the limit assembly to reset, so as to release the driving member. The magnet is provided with a transmission member for connection with the contact mechanism. The contact mechanism is configured to contact with contacts in the switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Nanjing Tianzhuo Electrical Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Jimei Xi, Xiaosong Yang, Jianxin Zhou
  • Patent number: 11842865
    Abstract: An electromagnetic contactor including: an arc-extinguishing chamber in which a contact portion is disposed; a case having an arc-extinguishing chamber housing portion in which the arc-extinguishing chamber is housed; and an arc-extinguishing cover mounted on the case and configured to cover the arc-extinguishing chamber housing portion, wherein at least one of the case and the arc-extinguishing cover has a first engaging portion and a second engaging portion, the other has a third engaging portion configured to engage with the first engaging portion and the second engaging portion, and the arc-extinguishing cover is held to the case in either a first state in which the first engaging portion and the third engaging portion are engaged with each other or a second state in which the second engaging portion is engaged with the third engaging portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC FA COMPONENTS & SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigenori Kawashima, Yukinari Furuhata, Haruki Shoji, Masayoshi Sakata