Patents Examined by Jose A Gonzalez Quinones
  • Patent number: 11923754
    Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for a system for cooling an electric motor that includes a rotor shaft rotatably mounted inside a motor housing, a lamination stack integrally connected to the rotor shaft, an encoder-end balance plate integrally connected to a first end of the lamination stack and a first end of the rotor shaft, an output-end balance plate integrally connected to a second end of the lamination stack and a second end of the rotor shaft, an oil supply coupled to the output-end balance plate and the rotor shaft. A closed-looped coolant pathway is formed between the transmission, the rotor shaft, the encoder-end balance plate, the lamination stack, and the output-end balance plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: DANA BELGIUM N.V.
    Inventors: Shawn P. A. Jackson, Steven Vanhee
  • Patent number: 11923753
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a housing, a stator assembly disposed in the housing, a rotor assembly rotatably disposed in the stator assembly, and an impeller configured to be rotated by the rotor assembly and to generate a flow of air. The stator assembly defines an inner flow path configured to guide a part of the air to pass through an inside of the stator assembly. The housing defines a bypass flow path at an outside of the stator assembly, where the bypass flow path is configured to guide another part of the air to bypass the stator assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Taeyong Jung, Jeongho Lee, Joongkeun Choi, Seongho Cho
  • Patent number: 11916450
    Abstract: A pump system for pumping production fluids from a wellbore or pumping well treatment fluids into a wellbore comprising: an axial flux electric motor; a seal section coupled to the axial flux motor; a pump intake coupled to the seal section; a pump coupled to the pump intake, and a fluid discharge coupled to the pump. The torque capacity axial flux motor may be modified without removing the axial flux motor from the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Ketankumar Kantilal Sheth, Donn J. Brown, David Christopher Beck, Robert Charles de Long, Trevor Alan Kopecky
  • Patent number: 11916451
    Abstract: A pump system for pumping production fluids from a wellbore or pumping well treatment fluids into a wellbore comprising: an axial flux electric motor; a seal section coupled to the axial flux motor; a pump intake coupled to the seal section; a pump coupled to the pump intake, and a fluid discharge coupled to the pump. The torque capacity axial flux motor may be modified without removing the axial flux motor from the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Ketankumar Kantilal Sheth, Donn J. Brown, David Christopher Beck, Robert Charles de Long, Trevor Alan Kopecky
  • Patent number: 11909280
    Abstract: A modular device that can operate as an electrical generator. First and second coil support plates are arranged in parallel orientation relative to each other forming a gap between the first and second coil support plates. Removable C-cores, each having wire coils, are removably attached to the first and second coil support plates. A rotor disc having selectively arranged magnets is disposed in the gap between the first and second coil support plates and is permitted to rotate about an axis that is perpendicular to the rotor disc and the parallel first and second coil support plates; a drive motor can power rotation of the rotor disc. As the disc rotates, electrical current is generated. The C-core assemblies can be interchanged, checked, removed and/or replaced while the electrical generator remains in operation without requiring cessation of such operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: EDGE POWER SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventors: Eric J. Blanchard, Dennis L. Fontenot, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11894747
    Abstract: A drive motor for a suction device or a machine tool in the form of a handheld power tool or a semi-stationary machine tool, wherein the drive motor includes a stator having an excitation coil assembly and a rotor having a motor shaft, which is rotatably mounted around a rotational axis on the stator or with respect to the stator by means of a bearing assembly, wherein the rotor is received in a rotor receptacle of the stator, the inner circumference of said receptacle having grooves which extend along longitudinal axes that run parallel to the rotational axis and have insertion openings which are open towards the rotational axis and are provided for inserting excitation coils of the excitation coil assembly and are closed by groove covers, wherein the groove covers are in engagement with the engage-behind contours of the grooves at their opposite longitudinal sides, each of which extends along the longitudinal axis of the respective groove, said longitudinal axis being transverse to a transverse spacing betw
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: FESTOOL GMBH
    Inventors: Florian Goos, Volker Barth, Hans-Dieter Braun
  • Patent number: 11892071
    Abstract: A bearing unit includes: a thrust damper extendable in an axial direction of a shaft placed in a gearbox, the movement of which toward one side in the axial direction is regulated; a shaft receiver component held by the thrust damper on the other side of the thrust damper in the axial direction; a metal holder that holds the shaft receiver component in such a manner as to be detachable in the axial direction; and an oilless metal held by the metal holder and placed on the other side of the shaft receiver component, in which the thrust damper, the shaft receiver component, the metal holder, and the oilless metal are integrated all together before being incorporated into the gearbox.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: MABUCHI MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuyuki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11888357
    Abstract: A method and apparatus serve to mount a calibrated encoder assembly to an electric motor so that a sensor output signal waveform produced by the calibrated encoder assembly is aligned with a back electromotive force (BEMF) waveform of the electric motor. The calibrated encoder assembly is fixed to an alignment plate, which is attached to the electric motor. The electric motor is rotated using a servo driven functional tester and the BEMF waveform of the electric motor is measured. The sensor output signal waveform is measured, and the alignment plate is adjusted relative to the electric motor to align the sensor output signal waveform to the BEMF waveform. The alignment plate is secured to the electric motor in the adjusted orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Nidec Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Jeremy Beck, Timothy H. Sullivan, Bruce Nielsen
  • Patent number: 11884409
    Abstract: Aircraft electric motors include a motor unit having a rotor and a stator. The stator includes a plurality of windings and cooling channels arranged to provide cooling thereto. A drive unit is configured to drive operation of the motor unit. A cooling system includes a working fluid arranged within a cooling fluid flow path, wherein the cooling fluid flow path includes a liquid cooling path configured to direct flow of the working fluid through, at least, the cooling channels of the motor unit and a vapor cooling path configured to direct flow of the working fluid through the drive unit and a separator arranged upstream of each of the liquid cooling path and the vapor cooling path and configured to direct a liquid portion of the working fluid into the liquid cooling path and configured to direct a vapor portion of the working fluid into the vapor cooling path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Abbas A Alahyari, Kimberly Rae Saviers, Joseph Turney, Jagadeesh Kumar Tangudu
  • Patent number: 11888346
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a compact bionic eye device based on a two-degree-of-freedom electromagnetically-driven rotating mechanism, which can be used as a vision sensor of bionic robots such as humanoid robots. The compact bionic eye device includes a rotor, stator cores, windings, an angular displacement camera, a spherical hinge pressing block, a stator connector, a camera, a spherical hinge, a camera connector, a rotor connector and an outer spherical shell. According to the compact bionic eye device of the present disclosure, the rotor is driven to achieve limited rotation with pitching and yawing degrees of freedom by regulating a current of the windings of four stators. By adopting a two-degree-of-freedom of electromagnetically-driven rotating mechanism which is compact in structure, the bionic eye device of the present disclosure can achieve a human eye size, and provides important foundation for practical application of bionic eyes in humanoid robots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: BEIHANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Tong Wei, Zhongwen Shan
  • Patent number: 11881756
    Abstract: A rotor for an electric motor includes a ring portion and a hub portion. The ring portion contains a permanent magnet material and is configured to at least partially rotate about at least a portion of a stator of the electric motor. The hub portion is configured as a fan including two or more blade elements each being connected to the ring portion. The blade elements encompass two or more axial air passages. An electric motor including the rotor, a pump device and a household appliance each including the electric motor, as well as a method of producing the rotor, are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventor: Michal Kalavsky
  • Patent number: 11881749
    Abstract: The synchronous reluctance motor includes: an annular stator core having slots; and a cylindrical rotor core-having, for each magnetic pole, slits formed by arc-shaped openings which are convex toward a cylinder center and whose apexes are positioned on a q axis. The nth arc that is an inner edge of the opening close to the cylinder center has an arc center point on the q axis at a distance D(n) from-the rotor core. Where the radius of the nth arc with respect to the arc center point is denoted by R(n) and a ratio k(n) is defined as D(n)/R(n), the values of the ratios k(1) to k(n) are determined such that 0.20?k(nmax)?0.37 and k(nmax)< . . . <k(n)< . . . <k(1)<1 are satisfied and a slope a is in a range of (?0.92/nmax)?a?(?0.71/nmax).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Moriyuki Hazeyama, Shinsuke Kayano
  • Patent number: 11876404
    Abstract: The electric machine includes a rotor and an internal stator operatively coupled to the rotor. The internal stator further includes a back iron having a bearing and a plurality of teeth, a plurality of ring coils wound around the back iron, a central hub, and a plurality of connectors that connects the central hub to the back iron. The back iron is made of a first material and at least one connector is made of a second material that is different from the first material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: CUMMINS INC.
    Inventors: Bradford Palmer, Codrin Cantemir
  • Patent number: 11876408
    Abstract: An electric tool includes a motor. The motor includes a stator core and a rotor. The rotor rotates with respect to the stator core. The rotor includes: a rotor core having a circular cylindrical shape; a plurality of permanent magnets; and an output shaft. The output shaft is held inside the rotor core. The plurality of permanent magnets are arranged as spokes around a center of the rotor core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsumasa Mizuno, Akito Nakamura, Koichiro Esaka, Kenji Okada
  • Patent number: 11876402
    Abstract: A motor includes a stator, a rotor, and a cover. The rotor is disposed inside the stator with a gap left with respect to the stator. The rotor is provided to be rotatable with respect to the stator. The stator includes a plurality of coils, a plurality of teeth, and a coupling portion. Around the plurality of teeth, the plurality of coils are respectively arranged via an insulator. The coupling portion is located closer to the rotor than the plurality of coils. The coupling portion couples at least some adjacent ones of the plurality of teeth. The cover is formed mechanically integrally with the insulator. The cover is disposed to face at least a space inside the coupling portion along a rotational axis X of the rotor. The cover closes the gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Akito Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11870320
    Abstract: A rotary machine includes a rotating shaft, a housing that surrounds a portion of the rotating shaft and has an initial pressure therein and a gas seal that pumps gas out of the housing to reduce pressure in the housing to an operating pressure that is less than the initial pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: JOHN CRANE UK LIMITED
    Inventor: Graham Barlow
  • Patent number: 11870385
    Abstract: A linear motor includes a magnetic assembly and a coil assembly having at least one coil positioned to magnetically engage the magnetic assembly for linear displacement between the magnetic assembly and the coil assembly. The linear motor further includes an encoder strip attached to one of the magnetic assembly and the coil assembly and an encoder reader attached to the other one of the magnetic assembly and the coil assembly to read the encoder strip during the linear displacement between the magnetic assembly and the coil assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Arcus Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher C. Chang
  • Patent number: 11863034
    Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus for sensing rotor location, the apparatus comprising: a central shaft; a magnet coupled to the central shaft; a sensor portion is disposed correspond to the magnet; wherein the sensor portion comprising a substrate, a first group including a first Hall sensor and a third Hall sensor disposed on the substrate, and a second group including a second Hall sensor and a fourth Hall sensor, the first Hall sensor and the third Hall sensor are arranged to overlap in a radial direction about the central shaft and the second Hall sensor and the fourth Hall sensor are arranged to overlap in a radial direction about the central shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shung Hun Woo, Nam Hoon Kim
  • Patent number: 11863016
    Abstract: An electric motor having a rotor with an axis of rotation and an annular stator surrounding the rotor, the stator extending along an axial direction parallel to the axis of rotation and having a first end face and a second end face pointing in opposite axial directions. The stator has exactly two stator teeth extending from an annular circumferential surface that runs between the end faces of the stator, in a radially inward direction to the rotor and facing one another in relation to the axis of rotation, a first stator slot and a second stator slot, which faces the first slot in relation to the axis of rotation, extending along the circumferential surface, between the stator teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: GKN Sinter Metals Engineering GmbH
    Inventors: Hong Giang To, Stefan Tiller, Maurice Andree
  • Patent number: 11859623
    Abstract: A cooling system for an electric motor includes means for mixing water with cooling air applied to the motor. The water is preferably provided as a mist of water droplets sprayed into cooling air e.g. cooling air generated by a propulsive element being driven by the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadashi Sawata, Aaron Day