Patents Examined by Gary Nash
  • Patent number: 11979097
    Abstract: A converter circuit converts AC electric power into DC power. An inverter circuit converts the DC power into AC power. A capacitor is connected in parallel to each of the converter circuit and the inverter circuit between these circuits. The capacitor allows variation of an output voltage from the converter circuit, and absorbs variation of an output voltage from the inverter circuit due to a switching operation. An overvoltage protection circuit includes a resistor and a semiconductor element connected in series to each other. The overvoltage protection circuit is connected in parallel to the capacitor to protect the inverter circuit from an overvoltage. First and second control units respectively control the inverter circuit and the overvoltage protection circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryou Matsuyama, Masaki Kono, Tomoisa Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 11979069
    Abstract: The coil winding has an electrical conductor for an electrical machine and includes at least two layers. The electrical conductor, following its longitudinal extension, runs inwardly wound in a first of the at least two layers, and then extends to a second of the at least two layers and runs outwardly wound in the second layer. The electrical machine includes at least one such coil winding. The hybrid electric aircraft is in particular an airplane and includes such an electrical machine and/or at least one such coil winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventors: Matthias Böhm, Mykhaylo Filipenko, Thomas Gleixner, Peter Gröppel, Marc Lessmann
  • Patent number: 11973412
    Abstract: This power conversion device has: a main breaker and a main electromagnetic contactor connected to a main power supply; a converter body having a switching element; a power supply-side reactor and a device body-side reactor connected to the main electromagnetic contactor; a current detector; a smoothing capacitor; a DC voltage detector that detects a voltage of the smoothing capacitor; a control unit; and accessories. The accessories have: a power-supply phase detection transformer that detects the phase and the amplitude of a power supply voltage; a current limiting resistor that suppresses rush current to the smoothing capacitor at an initial turning-on stage of the main power supply; an electromagnetic contactor which is for turning on current limiting operation and which connects the current limiting resistor and the main power supply; and a filter circuit that removes current ripples caused by switching of the switching element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouga Suzuki, Toshihiko Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11973429
    Abstract: The resonant tank circuit (102) comprises: a transformer (T); a primary circuit (M1); and a secondary circuit (M2); wherein the transformer (T) and the primary and secondary circuits (M1, M2) are designed to operate in a forward mode and in a reverse mode; and wherein the transformer (T) and the primary and secondary circuits (M1, M2) have, at a resonant frequency (FR), a forward gain (GF(FR)), respectively a reverse gain (GR(FR)), essentially independent of the load, when operating in the forward mode, respectively the reverse mode. The primary and secondary circuits (M1, M2) are different one from another and the forward gain (GF(FR)) and the reverse gain (GR(FR)) at the resonant frequency (FR) are essentially equal to one another, notably to within 5%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Inventors: Chen He, Gang Yang
  • Patent number: 11973423
    Abstract: A system includes a load and a switching converter coupled to the load. The switching converter includes at least one switching module and an output inductor coupled to a switch node of each switching module. The switching converter also includes a controller coupled to each switching module, where the controller is configured to adjust a pulse clock rate and a switch on-time for each switching module. The controller comprises a pulse truncation circuit configured to detect a voltage overshoot condition and to truncate an active switch on-time pulse in response to the detected voltage overshoot condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Kuang-Yao Cheng, Muthusubramanian Venkateswaran, Dattatreya Baragur Suryanarayana, Preetam Charan Anand Tadeparthy
  • Patent number: 11973419
    Abstract: An inverter circuit receives an AC input signal and uses at least two bidirectional switches between the input terminals and a junction node to perform the electrical inversion function. A resonant circuit is formed by a primary side inductor between the junction node and a second node and a capacitor arrangement between the second node and the input terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventor: Reinhold Elferich
  • Patent number: 11967906
    Abstract: A hybrid power conversion circuit includes a high-side switch, a low-side switch, a transformer, a resonance tank, a first switch, a second switch, a first synchronous rectification switch, a second synchronous rectification switch, and a third switch. The resonance tank has an external inductor, an external capacitance, and an internal inductor. The first switch is connected to the external inductor. The second switch and a first capacitance form a series-connected path, and is connected to the external capacitance. The first and second synchronous rectification switches are respectively coupled to a first winding and a second winding. The third switch is connected to the second synchronous rectification switch. When an output voltage is less than a voltage interval, the hybrid power conversion circuit operates in a hybrid flyback conversion mode, and otherwise the hybrid power conversion circuit operates in a resonance conversion mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Sheng-Yu Wen, Cheng-Yi Lin, Ting-Yun Lu
  • Patent number: 11967453
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a primary transformer circuit including a plurality of primary coils. The apparatus further includes a delta secondary transformer circuit configured to magnetically couple to the primary transformer circuit. The delta secondary transformer circuit includes a first plurality of secondary coils, a first plurality of nodes coupled to the first plurality of secondary coils, and a second plurality of secondary coils configured to magnetically couple to the plurality of primary coils. Each coil of the second plurality of secondary coils is physically coupled to a respective node of the first plurality of nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventor: Jian Huang
  • Patent number: 11967866
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for a new and improved multi-tunnel motor and controller for an electric motor, where the motor controller is able to dynamically modify the number of phases and pole count of the electric machine in order to reduce the torque output and increase speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Linear Labs, Inc.
    Inventor: Fred E. Hunstable
  • Patent number: 11967827
    Abstract: A split DC (Direct Current) bus inverter architecture includes a positive DC bus, a negative DC bus, and a neutral node. It further includes a split phase output. A first output of a DC-DC converter is connected to the neutral node and a second output of the DC-DC converter is connected to one of the positive DC bus or the negative DC bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Lunar Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Holveck, Anthony Sagneri
  • Patent number: 11962191
    Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core, a first permanent magnet that is W1 mm long in a longitudinal direction, and a second permanent magnet that is W1 mm long in a longitudinal direction. The rotor core includes a first magnet insertion hole, a second magnet insertion hole, and a center lib. The first magnet insertion hole includes a first outside opening part having a radius of curvature of R1 mm, and a first inside opening part having a radius of curvature of R2 mm. The second magnet insertion hole includes a second outside opening part having a radius of curvature of R1 mm, and a second inside opening part having a radius of curvature of R2 mm. The rotor satisfies R1>R2 and 0<(R1+R2)/W1<0.082.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoki Masuko, Atsushi Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 11962187
    Abstract: A stator for a rotary electric machine, having a stator mass that has slots in which electrical conductors introduced axially into the slots are housed, each of the slots having a continuously closed contour.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Moteurs Leroy-Somer
    Inventor: Jacques Saint-Michel
  • Patent number: 11951823
    Abstract: The invention relates to an insulating device (40) having integrated cooling medium channels (44, 46), comprising an insulating body (74) made of a plastic material (52, 60), in which conductor rails (18, 20, 22) are accommodated. The cooling medium channels (44, 46) are integrated into the plastic material (52, 60) of the insulating body (74).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Zweigle, Johannes Riedl, Philipp Breinlinger, Heiko Wurster
  • Patent number: 11952477
    Abstract: A curable composition includes a curable resin and a magnetic body, wherein the magnetic body comprises magnetic particles and a surface treatment agent present on a surface of the magnetic particles. The curable composition has low viscosity, and fluidity, and capable of effectively cured without causing curing shrinkage or the like to form a cured product having desired physical properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Bum Ahn, Jin Kyu Lee
  • Patent number: 11949322
    Abstract: A power conversion device includes a first control device to an m-th control device that are capable of communicating with each other. A k-th control device transmits specific information to control devices other than the k-th control device among the first control device to the m-th control device. The specific information includes voltage values of a plurality of unit converters included in a k-th cell set in each of a first arm to a third arm. From each control device other than the k-th control device among the first control device to the m-th control device, the k-th control device receives specific information including the voltage values of the plurality of unit converters. The k-th control device calculates a phase representative value of the voltage values of the plurality of unit converters included in each of the first arm to the third arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Kondo, Ryota Okuyama, Takashi Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 11948770
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a gas discharge tube (GDT) can include first and second electrodes each including an edge and an inward facing surface, such that the inward facing surfaces of the first and second electrodes face each other. The GDT can further include a sealing portion implemented to join and seal the edge portions of the inward facing surfaces of the first and second electrodes to define a sealed chamber between the inward facing surfaces of the first and second electrodes. The GDT can further include an electrically insulating portion implemented to provide a surface in the sealed chamber and to cover a portion of the inward facing surface of each of at least one of the first and second electrodes such that a leakage path within the sealed chamber includes the surface of the electrically insulating portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Bourns, Inc.
    Inventor: Kelly C. Casey
  • Patent number: 11949343
    Abstract: Control systems for a multi-level diode-clamped inverter and corresponding methods include a processor and a digital logic circuit forming a hybrid controller. The processor identifies sector and region locations based on a sampled reference voltage vector V* and angle ?e*. The processor then selects predefined switching sequences and pre-calculated turn-on time values based on the identified sector and region locations. The digital logic circuit generates PWM switching signals for driving power transistors of a multi-level diode-clamped inverter based on the turn-on time values and the selected switching sequences. The control system takes care of the existing capacitor voltage balancing issues of multi-level diode-clamped inverters while supplying both active and reactive power to an IT load. Using the control system, one can generate a symmetrical PWM signal that fully covers the linear under-modulation region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Inertech IP LLC
    Inventor: Subrata K Mondal
  • Patent number: 11942874
    Abstract: A control system of a power converter includes a plurality of carrier wave generating units which are respectively provided for a plurality of power converters connected between a plurality of DC power supplies and a common AC power supply and which are configured to respectively generate carrier waves on the basis of an AC voltage of the AC power supply. The control system of the power converter can thereby synchronize carrier phases of a plurality of power converters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Issei Fukasawa, Masahiro Kinoshita, Kenta Yamabe
  • Patent number: 11929669
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a totem pole bridgeless power factor correction device and a power supply system. The device includes a power factor correction module. The power factor correction module includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a fourth transistor, an inductor and a control module for generating a zeroth control signal in the first time period to control the third transistor and the fourth transistor to be in an off state, performing a zero-crossing detection on an AC voltage in the first time period, generating a first control signal to control a conduction state of the first transistor and the second transistor before the AC voltage crosses zero, and generating a second control signal to control the conduction state of the first transistor and the second transistor after the AC voltage crosses zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: InventChip Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhong Ye, Danyang Zhu, Qixiang Han
  • Patent number: 11929654
    Abstract: Inclined surfaces are formed in areas adjacent to a tooth protruding from the inner circumferential surface of the yoke, on both sides in a motor rotation circumferential direction, and the inclined surfaces are inclined or curved toward a protruding direction of the tooth as a distance from the tooth increases in the motor rotation circumferential direction. The conductive wire includes parts extending in the motor rotation circumferential direction on both sides of the tooth in the motor rotational shaft direction in each of first to n-th turns, and bent portions bending in a thickness direction of the conductive wire are formed in the parts so as to align in a winding axis direction through the width of the conductive wire. Portions of the conductive wire on are inclined toward the protruding direction of the associated tooth as the distance from the bent portion increases in the motor rotation circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime Ukaji, Mitsuoki Hishida