Patents Examined by David A Singh
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Patent number: 11088598Abstract: An arrangement of a magnet-based rotational angle measuring system on a drive motor housing part. The arrangement includes the drive motor housing part, a drive shaft with a free end which extends out of the drive motor housing part, an exciter unit connected to the free end of the drive shaft to rotate therewith, a stationary sensor unit which cooperates with the exciter unit to detect a rotary movement of the drive shaft, a shielding body arranged between the stationary sensor unit and the drive motor housing part, and an alignment element which directly aligns the stationary sensor unit with respect to the drive motor housing part.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2016Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: FRABA B.V.Inventors: Martin Forthaus, Michael Loeken
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Patent number: 11075575Abstract: A resonant converter is disclosed, including: a primary side circuit including at least one set of primary side switches, where the primary side circuit is configured to receive an input voltage; a resonant network coupled to the primary side circuit; a transformer having a primary side winding and a secondary side winding, where the primary side winding is coupled to the resonant network; a secondary side circuit including at least one set of secondary side switches, where the secondary side circuit is coupled to the secondary side winding of the transformer; and a control block that controls the secondary side switches according to the input voltage, the output voltage and the current detection signal, so that the secondary side winding of the transformer is short-circuited during a preset time interval before operating state of the primary side switches changes.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2020Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.Inventors: Tao Wei, Hao Lu
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Patent number: 11035907Abstract: In a multi-phase power grid fed by a power source, earth fault (460) is located by means of a power supply source synchronized with the power grid, which is connected between a zero point of the grid and earth. In a fault current compensation mode (420), a control unit controls the alternating voltage source to compensate for any ground fault current in the power grid to a value below a threshold level. In a fault detecting mode (430), the control unit gradually adjusts the output voltage of the alternating voltage source with respect to amplitude and/or phase angle (440). A change of zero-sequence current and zero-sequence admittance between the alternating voltage source and a fault location is measured (450) by means of at least one detector. The at least one detector is communicatively connected to the control unit and reports recorded measured values representing zero-sequence current and/or zero-sequence admittance to the control unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2017Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: Swedish Neutral ABInventors: Klaus Winter, Andreas Winter
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Patent number: 11025127Abstract: A motor includes a motor housing, a rotating shaft assembly including a rotating shaft, a rotor, and a bearing in which the rotor and the bearing are mounted to the rotating shaft. The motor further includes a stator installed in the motor housing, the stator surrounding the rotor, a bracket mounted to the motor housing, and an elastic mesh that defines a plurality of pores, that is disposed between the bracket and the bearing, and that contacts at least one of the bracket or the bearing.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2020Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Eunji Hwang, Sunggi Kim, Hangjin Ban
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Patent number: 11018501Abstract: A directional overcurrent relay using a superconducting fault current limiter voltage as a relay element includes: a current measuring circuit measuring a current of a line connected from a system power source to a load, a voltage measuring circuit measuring a voltage at both ends of a superconducting fault current limiter connected to the line, and a correcting circuit correcting a tripping time Ttrip by using a fault current If that is the current of the line and a superconducting fault current limiter voltage VSFCL that is the voltage at both ends of the superconducting fault current limiter and the tripping time Ttrip is maintained consistently regardless of whether the superconducting fault current limiter operates or not.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2018Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: Foundation of Soongsil University-Industry CooperationInventors: Sung Hun Lim, Seung Taek Lim
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Patent number: 11018539Abstract: An electric machine for a drivetrain of a motor vehicle may comprise: a rotor with a rotor laminated core; a stator with winding heads on opposite end faces; and a housing with a a cooling liquid reservoir. The rotor core comprises multiple stacked laminations each with an aperture connecting the end faces to one another. The apertures of adjacent laminations are offset in a circumferential direction so: a first helical cooling channel connects an inner region of the core to a first end face; a second helical cooling channel connects the inner region of the core to a second end face; and the first cooling channel and the second cooling channel are oriented oppositely with respect to one another and are connected via a passage within the rotor laminated core to a feed line conducting the cooling liquid within the rotor shaft.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2016Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBHInventors: Holger Fröhlich, David Charles, Sönke Gürtler
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Patent number: 11018549Abstract: A dynamic vibration absorber needs to be designed so that the natural frequency of the dynamic vibration absorber alone becomes equal to the natural frequency of a stator. If these natural frequencies greatly deviate from each other, the effect is reduced. Therefore, the natural frequency of the dynamic vibration absorber alone needs to be accurately calculated to make designing. However, in actual, the natural frequency is greatly influenced by the rigidity around the mounting position of a vibration damping target, and thus there is a problem that the natural frequency becomes different from the designed value upon mounting. An object of the present invention is to reduce an influence on the natural frequency of the dynamic vibration absorber alone given by the rigidity around the mounting position, by mounting a plurality of dynamic vibration absorbers to a dynamic vibration absorber mounting member, thereby making the dynamic vibration absorber more effective.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2016Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Kawashima, Fumio Matsumoto, Takaaki Nagashima, Takuma Sasai
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Patent number: 11011994Abstract: A flyback converter includes a primary-side circuit to receive an input voltage, a secondary-side circuit to generate an output voltage, a transformer coupling the primary-side circuit to the secondary-side circuit, a main switch coupled to a primary winding of the transformer, and a converter controller having a primary-side controller in signal communication with the main switch to control an on time and an off time of the main switch and to detect one or more valleys of a resonant waveform developed at the main switch during the off time of the main switch. The primary-side controller is configured to operate in a valley reduction mode of operation upon determining that the output voltage is less than a reference voltage minus a predetermined threshold value. The valley reduction mode of operation includes decrementing, for each switching cycle of the main switch, a number of valleys occurring during that switching cycle.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2020Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Appulse Power Inc.Inventor: Aleksandar Radic
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Patent number: 11009901Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate a regulator. For example, the regulator may include a control stage, a sense capacitor having first and second terminals, the first terminal coupled to an output of the voltage regulator, and a current amplifier having an input coupled to the second terminal of the sense capacitor and an output coupled to the control stage. The control stage of the regulator may adjust the output voltage of the regulator based at least in part on a current generated by the current amplifier.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2017Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Chi Fan Yung, Hua Guan, Ngai Yeung Ho, Kan Li
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Patent number: 11005357Abstract: A converter feeds phase currents into phase lines by applying alternately a high and a low potential via phase units. The phase currents are supplied via a filter device arranged downstream of the converter, with a portion of the filter currents supplied to filter capacitors connected to the phase lines, and feeds the remaining parts of the phase currents supplied to an electric load. The control device accepts the phase currents. A regulating device determines control signals for the phase units by direct-current control, such that a voltage profile downstream of the filter device has a predetermined amplitude when and as long as the supplied phase currents have minimum spacing from a predetermined maximum value. Otherwise, the control device intervenes in the control of the phase units by limiting the phase currents to the maximum value, until the voltage profile downstream of the filter device regains the predetermined amplitude.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2019Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Michael Götzelmann, Harald Wiessmann
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Patent number: 10998794Abstract: Element of a rotating electrical machine, of the rotor or stator type, comprising a plurality of stacks of magnetic sheets each equipped with a tooth comprising notches intended to accommodate electrical windings, and pins arranged between two successive bundles of sheets forming an air-flow duct. A portion of the pins is distributed asymmetrically on the tooth of the stator or rotor sheet with respect to a median axis of the width of the tooth.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2018Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: GE ENERGY POWER CONVERSION TECHNOLOGY LTDInventors: Christophe Galmiche, Fabien Roche
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Patent number: 10992194Abstract: A rotor of an inner-rotor motor includes a shaft having a connecting portion. A permanent magnet is mounted around the connecting portion of the shaft. The permanent magnet includes at least one first engaging portion. At least one coupling member includes a through-hole. The shaft extends through the through-hole. The at least one coupling member includes a second engaging portion engaged with the at least one first engaging portion of the permanent magnet.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2018Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: Sunonwealth Electric Machine Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Alex Horng, Ming-Tsung Li, Mu-Kai Yu
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Patent number: 10992201Abstract: An electrical machine of a vehicle electrical propulsion system includes a stator, a rotor, and a stator winding all disposed within a housing thereof. The stator defines a central bore elongated along a longitudinal axis, and multiple slots circumferentially disposed around the central bore. The rotor is held within the central bore and rotates relative to the stator. The stator winding includes a core conductor, an insulation layer surrounding the core conductor, and a conductive shield layer surrounding the insulation layer. The stator winding extends through the slots of the stator. The stator winding includes an in-slot portion within the slots of the stator and an end-winding portion outside of the slots. The conductive shield layer surrounds the insulation layer along both the in-slot portion and the end-winding portion of the stator winding.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2017Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Christopher Michael Calebrese, Jeffrey Sullivan, Lili Zhang, Qin Chen, Konrad Weeber
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Patent number: 10978945Abstract: Disclosed is a semiconductor device for switching power supply control including: a power supply terminal; a current inflow terminal; a starting circuit; and a brownout detection circuit, wherein a control signal of a switching element is generated, the starting circuit includes: a first comparator; a starting control circuit which controls on and off of the switch; and an operation start circuit which detects that the voltage of the power supply terminal becomes equal to or more than a predetermined voltage, and generates a signal for operating an internal circuit, and the brownout detection circuit includes: a voltage divider; a second comparator which has a hysteresis characteristic for detecting generation of a brownout state; a timer circuit which measures a predetermined time during which the generation of the brownout state continues; and an output stop circuit which stops outputting of a switching control signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2019Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroki Matsuda, Satoshi Arima
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Patent number: 10965177Abstract: A motor includes a plurality of ends, including a first end and an opposing second end, an outer surface of the magnetic carrier extends between the ends, and a plurality of magnetic poles including a first magnetic pole and a second magnetic pole, the plurality of magnetic poles disposed on the magnet carrier, extending between the ends, and being adjacent on the outer surface of the magnet carrier, wherein each of the plurality of poles comprising an array of magnets, each magnet in the array of magnets being a permanent magnet, each array of magnets comprising a plurality of magnets including a first magnet and a second magnet, the plurality of magnets differing from each other in one or more of material and magnetic field strength (MGOe), wherein the first plurality of magnets and the second plurality of magnets are adjacently disposed within the array of magnets.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2018Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANYInventors: Beata I. Wawrzyniak, Jagadeesh Kumar Tangudu
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Patent number: 10958180Abstract: A DC-DC converter includes an inductor, a rectifier module, a first bridge arm topology and a second bridge arm topology and a third bridge arm topology in parallel as well as a capacitor, wherein the first bridge arm topology includes a first switching tube and a fourth switching tube in series, the second bridge arm topology includes a second switching tube and a fifth switching tube in series, and the third bridge arm topology includes a third switching tube and a sixth switching tube in series; the inductor has one end connected to a coupling point formed by connecting the first switching tube and the fourth switching tube in series, and the other end connected to a coupling point formed by connecting the second switching tube and the fifth switching tube in series.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2018Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Xudong Zou, Shuang Liu, Qingbo Tang, Wenchao Jiang, Changle Xu, Weibin Jiang
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Patent number: 10910921Abstract: The present invention provides a rotor position detection device including a sensor having a first chip and a second chip which are aligned with a first line and detect a change in magnetic flux in a sensing magnet, wherein the sensor has the first line which is inclined with respect to a second line passing through any one of the first chip and the second chip in a radial direction of the sensing magnet. Accordingly, the present invention provides an advantageous effect of detecting a rotational direction and a precise rotational angle of the motor by utilizing one sensor.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2016Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventor: Myoung Seok Lee
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Patent number: 10903708Abstract: A stator of a brushless motor may include a core; a bobbin including a pair of side surfaces, an inner wall, and an outer wall; a conductor wire wound by being overlapped in plural layers; and a resin layer covering the bobbin and the conductor wire. A profile of the conductor wire may become larger towards an outer circumferential side of the stator. Among portions of the conductor wire arranged along a rotary axis direction of a rotor on at least one side surface included in the pair of side surfaces and located on an innermost circumferential side of the stator in the respective plural layers, a portion of the conductor wire exposed to the resin layer and separated from the inner wall and the outer wall may be tilted from an inner circumferential side of the stator toward the outer circumferential side of the stator.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2018Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshihiko Honda, Akira Hamajima, Ryohei Otaka
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Patent number: 10892682Abstract: An electrical power conversion system includes an alternating current (AC)-to-direct current (DC) power converter that is configured to convert power between AC power and DC power. The AC-to-DC power converter includes switching legs that each connect to a phase of the AC power. Each of the switching legs includes two electronic devices connected in series with one another between a positive DC bus terminal and a negative DC bus terminal. The electrical power conversion system also includes a DC-to-DC power converter that is configured to convert power between the DC bus power and DC terminal power via a positive DC terminal and a negative DC terminal. The DC-to-DC power converter is configured to control a differential voltage between the positive and negative DC terminals and a common-mode voltage that is between a neutral of the AC power and each of the positive and negative DC terminals.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2018Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: EPC Power CorporationInventors: Devin Dilley, Ryan Smith
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Patent number: 10879803Abstract: A power converter includes a power conversion circuit, an adaptive compensator coupled to a first output of the power conversion circuit, the adaptive compensator including, a voltage receiving circuit to generate a first current and a second current, a current mirror circuit coupled to the voltage receiving circuit, wherein the current mirror circuit replicates at least one of the first current or the second current, and a second output of the adaptive compensator, and a comparator to receive an input that is related to the second output of the adaptive compensator.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Jussi Matti Aleksi Särkkä, Ari Kalevi Väänänen