Patents Examined by Bryan R Perez
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Patent number: 11495427Abstract: Disclosed herein is a leakage protector, which includes a housing. A base plate and a brush are arranged in the housing. A first conducting strip and a second conducting strip spaced apart are arranged on the base plate. The brush is provided with contact pins to contact the first conducting strip and the second conducting strip, respectively. The second conducting strip can generate different analog voltages, and the first conducting strip is configured to transmit different analog voltages to a microprocessor. A user can drive the brush to move through an actuating part, and set the power-on time of the leakage protector in one step.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2021Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: KEDU ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Chunkai Zheng, Ziping Li, Jun Liao, Desheng Zhao
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Patent number: 11495425Abstract: The disclosure relates to a circuit breaker with a monitoring device having an electronic switch and a mechanical changeover switch, where the mechanical changeover switch has a first terminal, a second terminal and a third terminal, where in a neutral position of the mechanical changeover switch the first terminal is connected to the third terminal and where in an operating position of the mechanical changeover switch the second terminal is connected to the third terminal, where the electronic switch is connected to the third terminal of the mechanical changeover switch as a series circuit, where when switching on the circuit breaker in a first switching state, initially the electronic switch is activated, where a measurement is taken at the first terminal using the monitoring device to determine whether essentially the same potential is present at the first terminal as at the third terminal and, it this is the case, the electronic switch is activated and the mechanical changeover switch is in an operating pType: GrantFiled: June 7, 2019Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Gerhard Wölk, Martin Striewe, Alexander Fomenko
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Patent number: 11495932Abstract: Embodiments of a slip ring for use in a rotatable substrate support are provided herein. In some embodiments a slip ring includes a main body having a top wall, a bottom wall, and a sidewall extending between the top and bottom walls, wherein the top wall, bottom wall, and sidewall define an inner volume within the main body, wherein a central opening is formed through the top wall; a plurality of annular containers disposed within the inner volume and coaxially with the main body, wherein the plurality of annular containers are vertically spaced apart from one another, and wherein each of the plurality of annular containers contains a first volume of an electrically conductive liquid; an upper cylindrical body rotatably disposed in the central opening; a lower cylindrical body fixedly coupled to the lower wall of the main body.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2018Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.Inventors: Muhannad Mustafa, Yu Chang, William Kuang, Muhammad M. Rasheed, Xiping Huo
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Patent number: 11496023Abstract: A drive apparatus includes: a motor having a rotor and a stator core; a housing; and a first injection port to inject a refrigerant into the stator core. The stator core includes: a core body surrounding the rotor; and a fixing portion projecting radially outward from the core body and fixed to the housing. The fixing portion includes an upper fixing portion. The first injection port is lower than an end portion of the upper fixing portion. The upper fixing portion is on one circumferential side of the first injection port. The first injection port is open in a first direction facing a directly lower side or a second direction angled to the one circumferential side with respect to the first direction, and is facing a portion on the other circumferential side of a boundary with an end portion of the upper fixing portion on the other circumferential side.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2020Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Keigo Nakamura, Daichi Furukawa
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Patent number: 11489375Abstract: A single phase permanent magnet motor includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes a stator corer and windings. The stator corer includes a yoke portion and stator teeth. Each stator tooth includes a winding portion and a pole shoe connected to an end of the winding portion. Each pole shoe includes a pole face. The pole face defines a first positioning notch at a middle thereof. Each of the pole faces further defines at least one second positioning notch. Said at least one second positioning notches in one of pole shoe are located at the same side of the first positioning notch of the corresponding one pole shoe. The first and second positioning notches are configured such that an initial position of the rotor received in the space of the stator is offset from a dead point position.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2016Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AGInventors: Yue Li, Tao Zhang, Jie Chai, Chiu You Zhou, Qiang Zhou
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Patent number: 11488798Abstract: A system includes a contactor operatively connected to a coil for actuating the contactor to open and close a circuit. A pass element includes a source, a drain, and a gate, wherein the drain is electrically connected to the coil, and wherein the coil is in series between the pass element and ground. A voltage source is connected to the source of the pass element to pass current into the coil when the pass element is in a pass state. A current source control circuit with economizer is operatively connected to the gate of the pass element. A delay circuit is operatively connected to the current source control circuit with economizer and to a command line to command a lower current for holding the contactor closed after a delay has expired for the contactor to transition.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand CorporationInventors: Thomas P. Joyce, Jordan K. Vanevenhoven, Natalie Filipski
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Patent number: 11489414Abstract: A drive device, in particular for a motor vehicle, including an electric motor and an inverter, wherein the electric motor includes at least one electrically conductive motor contact element for electrically contacting a respective electrically conductive inverter contact element of the inverter, wherein the motor contact element is mounted directly or via a motor sealing means on a motor housing component of a motor housing of the electric motor and the inverter contact element is mounted directly or via an inverter sealing means on an inverter housing component of an inverter housing of the inverter, wherein the motor contact element and the inverter contact element are mechanically fastened to one another by a fastening means, wherein the fastening means and a respective housing-external section of the motor contact element and the inverter contact element are accommodated in a liquid-tight receptacle chamber.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: AUDI AGInventors: Benjamin Söhnle, Sebastian Witt
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Patent number: 11482854Abstract: There is disclosed a circuit breaker arrangement for interrupting a current flowing through a direct current (DC) transmission line including a semiconductor switching device and a pulse injection circuit configured to inductively inject into the transmission line a pulse current that opposes the current flowing through the transmission line to thereby reduce the current in the transmission line to cause the semiconductor switching device to turn-off to interrupt the path for the current flow through the transmission line.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2021Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATIONInventors: Sebastian Rosado, Chi Zhang, Adam Whitford
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Patent number: 11473669Abstract: An electric drive apparatus includes a rotating electric machine and a transmission. The rotating electric machine includes a rotor, a stator and a first housing. The transmission includes a motive power transmitting unit, a second housing provided integrally with the first housing, and lubricating oil provided in the second housing to lubricate the motive power transmitting unit. The stator includes a stator coil that has first and second coil end parts respectively protruding from first and second axial end faces of a stator core. Each of phase windings of the stator coil has turn portions included in the first coil end part and joints included in the second coil end part. The second coil end part is located on the same axial side of the stator core as the transmission whereas the first coil end part is located on the opposite axial side of the stator core to the transmission.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2020Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Endo, Ryo Tanie
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Patent number: 11476527Abstract: An electrical combination, a motorized device system, a motor assembly, a battery pack, and operating methods. The combination may include an electrical device including a device housing, a load supported by the device housing, the load being operable to output at least about 1800 watts (W), and a device terminal electrically connected to the load; a battery pack including a pack housing, battery cells supported by the pack housing, the battery cells being electrically connected and having a nominal voltage of up to about 20 volts, and a pack terminal electrically connectable to the device terminal to transfer current between the battery pack and the electrical device; and a controller operable to control the transfer of current.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2018Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATIONInventors: Samuel Sheeks, Keith Boulanger, Andrew T. Beyerl, Timothy R. Obermann, Carl B. Westerby, Matthew J. Mergener, Cameron R. Schulz, Kyle C. Fassbender, Matthew R. Polakowski
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Patent number: 11469594Abstract: An arrester for lightning protection of electrical equipment or power transmission lines is disclosed. The arrester comprises an insulating body made of a dielectric and five or more electrodes mechanically connected to the insulating body and arranged to allow the formation of an electric discharge between adjacent electrodes under the influence of lightning overvoltage. The electrodes are located inside the insulating body and separated from its surface by a layer of insulation. Adjacent electrodes exit into discharge chambers having outlets to the surface of the insulating body. At least a part of the discharge chambers is provided with pressurizing chambers located near the electrodes and connected to the discharge chambers through the discharge gaps between adjacent electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2017Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: STREAMER, ELECTRIC COMPANY INC.Inventor: Georgy Viktorovich Podporkin
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Patent number: 11460902Abstract: Presented herein are methodologies for providing power for last gasp operations of a circuit board when power is unexpectedly interrupted. A method includes monitoring a voltage of a main power supply; when the voltage of the main power supply falls below a predetermined threshold, disabling a first point of load (POL) converter that is being powered by the main power supply; boosting a voltage of an output capacitor of the first point of load converter to obtain a boosted voltage; and supplying the boosted voltage to an input of a second point of load converter.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2019Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Michael Robert Grant, Dean Ton Nguyen, Matthew Patrick Howard
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Patent number: 11456142Abstract: Hazardous location compliant solid state circuit protection devices include safety lockout components ensuring disconnection as a safeguard in the completion of power system maintenance and service tasks by responsible personnel. The safety lockout components may include a mechanical lockout interfacing with a physical lock element, an electrical lockout implemented through the controls of the solid state circuit breaker device, and combinations thereof. Visual device feedback and confirmation may be provided to personnel that the lockouts have been successfully activated, as well as successfully deactivated to reconnect and restore operation of the load side circuitry.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2019Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power LimitedInventors: Joseph Michael Manahan, Adam Ledgerwood, Andrew Butler, Graig DeCarr
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Patent number: 11450490Abstract: A panelboard system includes a panelboard, a first circuit breaker in the panelboard, a second circuit breaker in the panelboard, and an interlock assembly. The interlock assembly includes: an interlock panel, a first protrusion on the interlock panel and positioned above the first circuit breaker, a second protrusion on the interlock panel and positioned above the second circuit breaker, and a toggle bracket pivotally connected to the interlock panel at a pivot member between the first and second protrusions. The toggle bracket includes a first arm extending from the pivot member toward the first circuit breaker and a second arm extending from the pivot member toward the second circuit breaker.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2020Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power LimitedInventors: Andrew Molitor, Matthew Jennings, Matthew D. Occhipinti
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Patent number: 11444457Abstract: An electrical wiring device having a solid-state switch element positioned between the fault detection switch element and the solenoid coil to prevent the solenoid coil from being energized when the circuit interrupter is in the tripped state. The solid-state switch element may have a gate that receives a gate signal that turns the solid-state switch element on when the circuit interrupter is in the reset state and does not receive the gate signal so that the second switch element is turned off when the circuit interrupter is in the tripped state. The gate may be connected to the line terminals and to ground by a mechanical switch responsive to the circuit interrupter state or by another solid-state switch driven by a processor that is programmed to detect whether the circuit interrupter is in the reset state or the tripped state.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2019Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Inventors: Joshua P. Haines, Michael F. McMahon
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Patent number: 11441568Abstract: The invention relates to an electric motor comprising an electronics housing in which motor electronics are accommodated, a stator bush for accommodating a stator and which is axially adjacent to the electronics housing, and a cooling impeller which is axially adjacent to the stator bush and which can be driven via a rotor, wherein a fluidically connected axial through-channel is provided in the stator bush and in the electronics housing, through which channel a cooling air flow generated by the cooling impeller can be conveyed, and wherein the cooling impeller has a blade geometry such that, in normal operation of the electric motor, the cooling air flow is drawn in radially from outside at a peripheral radial air inlet of the cooling impeller and pressed through the through-channel in axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2016Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Katrin Bohl, Christian Pfaff
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Patent number: 11444539Abstract: A switching regulator including a first converting stage and a second converting stage may be provided. The first converting stage may include a first output capacitor connected between a first output node and ground, the first converting stage configured to receive a first input voltage and provide an output voltage by adjusting a level of the output voltage based on a first dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) rate relating to a first load condition of a processing circuit. The second converting stage may include a second output capacitor connected between a second output node and the ground, the second converting stage configured to receive a second input voltage and provide the output voltage by adjusting the level of the output voltage based on a second DVS rate relating to a second load condition of the processing circuit, which is heavier than the first load condition of the processing circuit.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Nomiyama, Ik-hwan Kim, Ji-seon Paek
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Patent number: 11444508Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotor, a stator, and an electric motor casing. The electric motor casing forms a first accommodating space accommodating a rotary shaft and a rotor core and a stator, and has an inner peripheral surface including an abutting inner peripheral surface in contact with a top portion on the radially outer side of a core convex portion. An outer peripheral-side flow path through which a cooling medium is capable of flowing is formed between the core convex portions adjacent to each other in the peripheral direction. The outer peripheral-side flow path is defined by an outer peripheral surface of the core main body and the inner peripheral surface of the electric motor casing.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2018Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Takuya Kanada, Takaaki Kimura, Ryuichi Kuramae, Teiichirou Chiba, Atsuyoshi Koshiba, Akira Minamiura
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Patent number: 11437887Abstract: An electric generator system may include a housing assembly that forms an inlet vent opening and an outlet vent opening, an electric generator, an engine, and at least one fan positioned within the housing assembly, an electrical component, and an electrical component fan that is positioned proximate to the inlet vent opening and configured to draw air from externally of the housing assembly through the inlet vent opening and direct air to the electrical component during operation of the electric generator system. The at least one fan may be positioned generally opposite of the electrical component fan relative to the electrical component to draw air across the electrical component during operation of the electric generator system.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: RV MOBILE POWER, LLCInventors: Michael Roll, Barry Ousley, Evan Whitney
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Patent number: 11437808Abstract: A wind turbine includes a superconducting generator having an armature and a superconducting field winding set. The armature includes at least one multiphase armature winding set having a plurality of armature windings. The superconducting field winding set is separated by a gap from the armature. The superconducting field winding set includes a plurality of field windings, wherein one of the armature winding set and superconducting field winding set is connectable to rotate with a rotating component of the wind turbine and another of the armature and the superconducting field winding set being non-rotating. The wind turbine also includes a controllable power converter coupled to the at least one multiphase armature winding set and a controller configured to control switching operations of the controllable power converter to effect a phase shift among the plurality of armature windings.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2019Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Nathaniel Benedict Hawes, Yuntao Xu, Nidhishri Tapadia, David Allan Torrey, Anbo Wu