Patents Examined by David A Singh
  • Patent number: 11088598
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: FRABA B.V.
    Inventors: Martin Forthaus, Michael Loeken
  • Patent number: 11075575
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Tao Wei, Hao Lu
  • Patent number: 11035907
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Swedish Neutral AB
    Inventors: Klaus Winter, Andreas Winter
  • Patent number: 11025127
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Eunji Hwang, Sunggi Kim, Hangjin Ban
  • Patent number: 11018501
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Foundation of Soongsil University-Industry Cooperation
    Inventors: Sung Hun Lim, Seung Taek Lim
  • Patent number: 11018539
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Holger Fröhlich, David Charles, Sönke Gürtler
  • Patent number: 11018549
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Kawashima, Fumio Matsumoto, Takaaki Nagashima, Takuma Sasai
  • Patent number: 11011994
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Appulse Power Inc.
    Inventor: Aleksandar Radic
  • Patent number: 11009901
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chi Fan Yung, Hua Guan, Ngai Yeung Ho, Kan Li
  • Patent number: 11005357
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Michael Götzelmann, Harald Wiessmann
  • Patent number: 10998794
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: GE ENERGY POWER CONVERSION TECHNOLOGY LTD
    Inventors: Christophe Galmiche, Fabien Roche
  • Patent number: 10992194
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Sunonwealth Electric Machine Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Alex Horng, Ming-Tsung Li, Mu-Kai Yu
  • Patent number: 10992201
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Calebrese, Jeffrey Sullivan, Lili Zhang, Qin Chen, Konrad Weeber
  • Patent number: 10978945
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Matsuda, Satoshi Arima
  • Patent number: 10965177
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Beata I. Wawrzyniak, Jagadeesh Kumar Tangudu
  • Patent number: 10958180
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Xudong Zou, Shuang Liu, Qingbo Tang, Wenchao Jiang, Changle Xu, Weibin Jiang
  • Patent number: 10910921
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Myoung Seok Lee
  • Patent number: 10903708
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Honda, Akira Hamajima, Ryohei Otaka
  • Patent number: 10892682
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: EPC Power Corporation
    Inventors: Devin Dilley, Ryan Smith
  • Patent number: 10879803
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jussi Matti Aleksi Särkkä, Ari Kalevi Väänänen