Patents Examined by Demetries A. Gibson
  • Patent number: 10940578
    Abstract: An induction-powered device for use in an alternating magnetic field comprises: a magnetically permeable core; an electrically conductive coil surrounding the core; and an electrical load electrically connected to the coil. The coil is configured to generate a voltage when exposed to the alternating magnetic field, to power the electrical load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: 1543803 ONTARIO LTD.
    Inventors: Jon J. Leininger, Richard A. Hornung
  • Patent number: 10931206
    Abstract: There is provided a power supply that includes a primary block having an inverter circuit and a secondary block connected to the primary block, the secondary block having a transformer with a primary side connected to the inverter circuit and having a rectifier that is connected to a secondary side of the transformer and outputs DC power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ryuji Yamada
  • Patent number: 10916975
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a motor assembly and a cleaner having the same. The motor assembly includes a rotor configured to rotate and a stator configured to electromagnetically interact with the rotor. The stator includes a pair of stator bodies disposed to be symmetrical to each other with the rotor in between, each stator body having at least two stator cores arranged in parallel to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keun Young Yoon, Young Kwan Kim, Kwang Soo Kim, Deok Jin Kim, Mohammad Ali, Byung Ryel In, Jong Jin Park, Myung Bae Bang
  • Patent number: 10892678
    Abstract: A bidirectional phase-shift full bridge converter includes a primary side having switch devices forming a full-bridge power stage and a first inductor connected to the power stage, a secondary side having switch devices forming a power stage and a second inductor connected to that power stage, a transformer, and a controller for controlling switching of the switch devices to transfer energy from the primary to secondary side in a first mode, and to transfer energy from the secondary to primary side in a second mode. In the second mode, the controller controls switching of the switch devices to pre-charge the first inductor at, near or above a current level of the second inductor prior to transferring energy from the secondary to primary side, so that the current in the first inductor is at, near or above the current in the second inductor at the beginning of the energy transfer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies Austria AG
    Inventors: Manuel Escudero Rodriguez, Matteo-Alessandro Kutschak, David Meneses Herrera
  • Patent number: 10886859
    Abstract: The alternating-current power supply device 1 has: an alternating-current generation bridge 10 for obtaining an alternating-current output; PWM control bridges 20, 30, each including two switch components; and a coupling reactor 40 connected to the PWM control bridges 20, 30. The coupling reactor 40 includes: a core 43; and windings 41, 42 which are connected at one end to respective output ends of the PWM control bridges 20, 30 while being coupled with each other via the core 43. The windings 41, 42 are respectively wound in such directions that magnetic fluxes generated in the core 43 cancel each other out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: ROHM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotaka Otake, Yusuke Nakakohara, Mamoru Tsuruya
  • Patent number: 10879762
    Abstract: A actuator and a pump using the actuator are provided. The actuator is used to drive a pump body. The actuator includes a base, a transmission assembly and a motor received in the base. The motor includes a stator, a rotor, and a driving shaft. The driving shaft is connected to the transmission assembly. The base includes a mounting bracket. The mounting bracket is partly embedded in the motor. The actuator has good integrality and a compact structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Yong Bin Li, Chuan Lin Zhao, Ping Wang, Sheng Li Li
  • Patent number: 10873244
    Abstract: An electronic module is provided for a power tool having an electric motor. The module includes a printed circuit board (PCB) having a first surface and a second surface; first set of power switches mounted on the first surface of the PCB; second set of power switches mounted on the PCB and electrically coupled to the first power switches forming an inverter bridge circuit for driving the electric motor; a first heat sink surface-mounted on the first surface of the PCB and having a planar main body disposed over the first power switches; a module housing arranged to receive the PCB therein; and a second heat sink secured to the module housing in thermal communication with the first heat sink to transfer heat from the first power switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Madhur M. Purohit, Joshua M. Lewis, Marcell E. Coates, Michael D. Grove, Victor A. Dorado
  • Patent number: 10874014
    Abstract: A cover covering a rectifying device includes a cover end wall portion, a cover outer wall portion, and a cover intermediate portion interposed between the cover end wall portion and the cover outer wall portion. The cover end wall portion includes an inner peripheral side intake portion, and the cover intermediate portion includes an outer peripheral side intake portion. The outer peripheral side intake portion includes an axial direction covering portion existing in a position that is closer to a rotary electric machine main body than the cover end wall portion in an axial direction, and a radial direction covering portion that connects the axial direction covering portion to an outer peripheral portion of the cover end wall portion. Intake holes are provided respectively in the inner peripheral side intake portion, the axial direction covering portion, and the radial direction covering portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masao Akiyoshi, Yuzuru Kobayashi, Kentaro Honsho
  • Patent number: 10873263
    Abstract: System controller and method for a power converter. For example, a system controller for a power converter includes a logic controller configured to generate a modulation signal, and a driver configured to receive the modulation signal, generate a drive signal based at least in part on the modulation signal, and output the drive signal to switch to affect a current flowing through an inductive winding for a power converter. Additionally, the system controller includes a voltage-to-voltage converter configured to receive a first voltage signal, the modulation signal, and a demagnetization signal, and to generate a second voltage signal based at least in part on the first voltage signal, the modulation signal, and the demagnetization signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: On-Bright Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhuoyan Li, Liqiang Zhu, Jiqing Yang, Lieyi Fang
  • Patent number: 10833555
    Abstract: A rotary motor capable of reducing repulsive force is disclosed. The rotary motor comprises a housing, a stator located in the housing and configured to have a shape of a cylinder on which a central part is penetrated, and a rotator configured to rotate in the stator. Here, the stator rotates clockwise or counterclockwise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: FOUNDATION OF SOONGSIL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY COOPERATION
    Inventor: Hyeong Joon Ahn
  • Patent number: 10832858
    Abstract: A transformer assembly includes a transformer with primary windings located on multiple layers and with secondary windings interleaved with the multiple layers and includes a substrate connected to the transformer and with a first transistor with first, second, and third terminals, in which the first terminal is connected to the secondary windings, the second terminal is connected to an output terminal of the transformer assembly, and the third terminal is a control terminal; first conductive layers; second conductive layers interleaved with the first conductive layers; a first via that is solid filled and that connects the first conductive layers and the first terminal; and a second via that is solid filled and that connects the second conductive layers and the second terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jahangir Afsharian, Bing Gong, Hussain S. Athab
  • Patent number: 10824180
    Abstract: A DC-to-DC power converter includes a reference voltage generator and a tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable memory. The memory stores a temperature coefficient, and the temperature coefficient is based upon a temperature response of said reference voltage generator over a range of temperatures. The DC-to-DC power converter also includes a controller coupled to the reference voltage generator and the memory and operable to retrieve the temperature coefficient from the memory, and adjust an output voltage of the DC-to-DC power converter based upon the temperature coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: ABB Power Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Abhiman Ananthakrishna Hande, Richard Paul Massetti, Jr., Mark Andrew Dubecky
  • Patent number: 10826373
    Abstract: A communication circuit for communication over a voltage isolation barrier, the communication circuit including a pulse driven transformer coupled to a current sensing input, wherein information is transferred in the current domain and wherein during the information transfer, the receiver input is made low ohmic, a current pulse transformer including a primary winding, a core, and a secondary winding, a resistor in parallel with the secondary winding, a current sensor having a low ohmic input to receive a pulse from the secondary winding, and a signal processing unit to extract information from the received pulse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventor: Hans Halberstadt
  • Patent number: 10819215
    Abstract: Many DC applications switching converter modules are multilevel, series connected converters. If an individual converter cell fails, it is desirable to be able to bypass the failed cell, in order to continue operating the rest of the converter. A bypass switch is provided as a hybrid switch, including a parallel combination of a slow mechanical switch with high current conduction capability and a low power semiconductor switch with faster acting switching capabilities. When the bypass switch is activated (closed), the low power semiconductor switch is turned on first and quickly establishes the bypass within 10 ?s or less, to temporarily conduct required current until the slower mechanical switch turns on. The mechanical switch is subsequently turned on with zero voltage, given the parallel-connected semiconductor switch being on. If desired, the semiconductor switch can then be turned off with zero voltage, given the presence of the mechanical switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: University of South Carolina
    Inventor: Enrico Santi
  • Patent number: 10804790
    Abstract: In some examples, a controller is configured to control a primary-side switch in a power converter circuit, and the controller includes a first node configured to receive a first signal indicating a current or a voltage through a primary side of a transformer of the power converter circuit. The controller also includes a second node configured to receive a second signal indicating a current or a voltage through a primary-side switch of the power converter circuit. The controller further includes processing circuitry configured to determine a target value for the second signal based on the first signal and generate the control signal for the primary-side switch based on the target value for the second signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies Austria AG
    Inventors: Zan Wang, Wee Tar Richard Ng
  • Patent number: 10804791
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a driver circuit that is intended for a power semiconductor switch having a unidirectional flow direction and having a control connection, a reference potential connection and a controlled connection. The driver circuit includes a driver module having a control output, a reference potential input and an overvoltage monitoring input. In this case, the control output is connected to a first connection that is provided for connection to the control connection, the reference potential input is connected to a second connection that is provided for connection to the reference potential connection, and the overvoltage monitoring input is connected, via a first diode, to a third connection that is provided for connection to the controlled connection. The overvoltage monitoring input is also connected to the reference potential input via a capacitance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: SMA SOLAR TECHNOLOGY AG
    Inventors: Andrzej Mondzik, Adam Penczek, Marek Rylko, Slawomir Szot, Milosz Szarek, Robert Stala
  • Patent number: 10797551
    Abstract: A motor enables an insulator and an iron core to be secured without a reduction in the efficiency of the motor. A motor includes an iron core and an insulator disposed on an axial end surface of the iron core. The iron core includes at least one of grooves on an outer circumferential portion. Each of the grooves is arranged in an axial direction of the iron core on the outer circumferential portion from the end surface. The insulator includes at least one of claws protruding downward in the axial direction from a surface in contact with the iron core. The claws are fitted into the grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi ElectricCorporation
    Inventor: Kazunori Adachi
  • Patent number: 10797561
    Abstract: In a brushless wiper motor, a rotor (33) is rotatably provided inside a stator (32) provided with a coil (32b), one end side of a rotation shaft (34) in the axial direction is fixed to the axial center of the rotor (33), a worm (35) is provided on the other end side of the rotation shaft (34) in the axial direction, the first and second bearings (36, 37) are respectively provided on one end side of the rotation shaft (34) in the axial direction and the other end side of the rotation shaft (34) in the axial direction than the worm (35) of the rotation shaft (34), the rotation shaft (34) is rotatably supported by only the first and second bearings (36, 37), and with the position of the first bearing (36) being defined as a reference position, a length thereof in the axial direction to the second bearing (37) is longer than a length thereof in the axial direction to the rotor (33).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsuba Corporation
    Inventors: Hirokazu Shoda, Yukiyoshi Iso, Osamu Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10790765
    Abstract: An electrostatic energy collector and an electrostatic energy collecting method. The electrostatic energy collector comprises: a vibrating table (101), the vibrating table being fixedly connected to a first end of a first cross beam (102) and a first end of a second cross beam (103), the first cross beam being parallel to the second cross beam, a vertical projection of the first cross beam being overlapped with that of the second cross beam, both of the first cross beam and the second cross beam being conductors, a first mass block (104) being fixedly arranged on the first cross beam, an electret layer (106) being coated at the side, close to the first cross beam, of the second cross beam, a second mass block (105) being fixed at the sided, facing away from the first cross beam, of the second cross beam, a first lead (107) being connected to the first cross beam and a first end of a load (109), and a second lead (108) being connected to the cross beam and a second end of the load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Southern University of Science and Technology
    Inventor: Fei Wang
  • Patent number: 10784788
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a small-sized and highly heat-dissipative reactor and a DC-DC converter using the reactor. A reactor according to the present invention includes a plate bus bar, a core, and a heat sink. The core includes a middle leg portion. The heat sink cools the plate bus bar. The plate bus bar is formed such that a winding axis of a winding including the plate bus bar passes through the middle leg portion. A main surface of the plate bus bar is disposed in parallel with a direction of the winding axis and thermally connected to the heat sink via an insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadahiko Chida, Akihiro Goto