Patents Examined by Jose A Gonzalez Quinones
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Patent number: 11769603Abstract: The present invention discloses an H-3 silicon carbide PN-type radioisotopic battery and a manufacturing method therefor. The radioisotopic battery has a structure including, from bottom to top, an N-type ohmic contact electrode, an N-type highly doped SiC substrate, an N-type SiC epitaxial layer, and a P-type SiC epitaxial layer. A P-type SiC ohmic contact doped layer is disposed on a partial upper area of the P-type SiC epitaxial layer, a P-type ohmic contact electrode is disposed on top of the P-type SiC ohmic contact doped layer, a SiO2 passivation layer is disposed on an upper area of the P-type SiC epitaxial layer where the P-type ohmic contact doped layer is removed, and an H-3 radioisotope source is provided on the top of the SiO2 passivation layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2018Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: CHANG'AN UNIVERSITYInventors: Lin Zhang, Xiaoyan Wang, Liya Zhu
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Patent number: 11764625Abstract: A segment sheet for a stator lamination stack of a generator of a wind turbine, wherein the segment sheet has the shape of a ring segment, having a first radial section, in which recesses are provided for receiving a stator winding, having a second radial section, which is arranged radially adjacent to the first section and which forms a segment of a magnetic yoke of the generator, and having a third radial section, which is arranged radially adjacent to the second section. The proposal is that the third radial section has at least two recesses arranged in an azimuthally spaced manner, which are designed for a positive connection to profiled strips arranged on a stator support ring.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2019Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbHInventor: Jochen Röer
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Patent number: 11764661Abstract: The eddy current deceleration device according to the present disclosure includes: a stator including a cylindrical body and a plurality of magnets disposed on an outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical body; and a rotor including a cylindrical part that houses the cylindrical body, wherein the cylindrical part of the rotor includes, on an inner circumferential surface of the cylindrical part, in order closest to the inner circumferential surface: a first layer consisting of one of an Ni—P alloy that is an Ni alloy consisting of P with the balance being Ni and impurities and an Ni—B alloy that is an Ni alloy consisting of B with the balance being Ni and impurities; a second layer consisting of nickel; a third layer consisting of one of copper and copper alloy; a fourth layer consisting of nickel alloy; and a fifth layer consisting of nickel.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2020Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Hirokazu Okada, Yasutaka Noguchi, Nao Otaki, Tetsuya Yamada
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Patent number: 11764659Abstract: A vibration actuator includes a movable body provided with one of a coil and a magnet that is disposed radially inward of the coil with a gap formed therebetween, a fixing body provided with the other of the coil and the magnet and a shaft portion, and an elastic support portion, the movable body vibrating in a vibration direction by means of cooperation between the coil supplied with power and the magnet. The movable body is provided with a through-hole into which the shaft portion is inserted with a gap formed between the through-hole and an outer peripheral surface of the shaft portion and the elastic support portion supports the movable body such that the movable body does not come into contact with the shaft portion at a time when the movable body does not vibrate and at a time when the movable body vibrates.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Chikara Sekiguchi, Yuta Yoshii, Daisuke Kodama, Shigenori Inamoto
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Patent number: 11764634Abstract: A fan motor waterproof structure includes a fan motor, a disk-shaped member, and a tubular member. The fan motor is arranged with a shaft projecting upward from a motor body. The a disk-shaped member is fitted to an outside of a projecting portion of the shaft of the fan motor on a motor body side. The tubular member is press-fitted onto the disk-shaped member and disposed on an outer periphery of the shaft. The tubular member covers a boundary between an upper surface of the disk-shaped member and the shaft.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2019Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Teppei Kobata, Jun Ishimaru, Takayuki Hatakeyama
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Patent number: 11757330Abstract: An outer-rotor brushless direct-current (BLDC) motor is provided including a rotor shaft, a motor housing having an open end and a closed end that supports a first motor bearing, a stator core having an aperture extending therethrough, a stator mount coupled to the open end and including an elongated cylindrical member projecting into the aperture of the stator core and a radial wall that supports a second motor bearing, an outer rotor, and a rotor mount including an outer rim arranged to couple to the outer rotor and an inner body mounted on the rotor shaft. An intermediate bearing is received at least partially within the aperture of the stator core to radially support the stator core relative to the rotor shaft.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: BLACK & DECKER, INC.Inventors: Dustin Jefferies, Marcus E. E. Rydin, Jarrett A. Dunston, Timothy W. French, Gale A. Heslop, Ross A. Billings
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Patent number: 11752674Abstract: A method is provided for the production of an electrical or electronic component having a conductor element with two contact points and a plastic structure injection-molded thereon. A strip-type metal substrate, having multiple conductor element blanks and a carrier structure, is provided. Grooved depressions are produced on all peripheral surfaces of the blanks on a texturing section with one or two laser light sources. With a single laser light source the grooved depressions are produced on at least two primary peripheral surfaces which adjoin one another and form a common edge such that a multiplicity of the grooved depressions extends without interruption continuously into the primary peripheral surfaces. A conductor element blank is separated from the carrier structure. The resulting conductor element is encapsulated with plastic by injection molding on all peripheral surfaces within a section to be encapsulated. The plastic structure thereby formed extends into the grooved depressions.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: KOLEKTOR MOBILITY D.O.O.Inventors: Ana Drmota Petric, Zmago Jereb, Ludvik Kumar
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Patent number: 11757320Abstract: An electric motor includes a case, a stator having stator windings, a rotor having a rotor shaft, and at least one main rotor bearing coupling the rotor shaft to the case. Common mode charge builds up on the rotor due to imbalances of the stator. The at least one main rotor bearing has a first electrical resistance between the rotor shaft and the case. The electric motor further includes a rotor discharge bearing coupling the rotor shaft to the case. The rotor discharge bearing has a second electrical resistance between the rotor shaft and the case that is less than the first electrical resistance, causing the common mode charge to discharge through the rotor discharge bearing. In a differing embodiment, a rotor discharge brush coupled between the case and the rotor shaft along the longitudinal axis of the rotor shaft discharges the common mode charge.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Tesla, Inc.Inventors: Scott Michael Graves, Diego Alberto Silva Rodriguez, Tyler Nils Grendahl, Alexander Hain
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Patent number: 11750061Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a gear motor formed of a housing. An electric motor includes a stator assembly and a rotor driving a reduction gear train having a plurality of intermediate stages each formed by a shaft coupled to a toothed wheel and to a toothed gear. Also, an output stage is formed by a shaft coupled to a wheel and a coupling component, the shafts of the rotor, of the intermediate stages and of the output wheel being parallel. The gear motor further includes a printed circuit transversely positioned above the stator assembly, wherein the wheel of the output stage is positioned above part of the stator assembly, the shafts of the intermediate stages are located in the zone of the housing located on the opposite side, relative to a transverse vertical plane, of the zone including the shaft of the rotor and the shaft of the output wheel.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2018Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: MMT AGInventor: Mathieu Watrin
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Patent number: 11750066Abstract: The present disclosure provides for an electric motor that comprises a housing and a shaft disposed through the housing. The electric motor further comprises a rotor fitted on the shaft within the housing and a stator disposed within the housing and around the rotor. The electric motor further comprises a fan covering disposed on a first end of the housing and a first bearing cap disposed at the first end of the housing, wherein the first bearing cap is configured to house a first bearing, wherein the first bearing cap comprises a plurality of protrusions configured to operate as a heat sink for the electric motor. The electric motor further comprises a first fan disposed at an end of the shaft and within the fan covering, wherein the first fan is operable to generate a first airflow configured to flow over an external surface of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Toshiba International CorporationInventor: Sergio Hernandez
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Patent number: 11750050Abstract: A washing machine includes a motor. The washing machine includes a cabinet, a tub arranged inside the cabinet, a drum rotatively arranged inside the tub, and the motor. The motor includes a stator arranged on the rear wall of the tub, and a rotor. The stator is arranged to rotate by electromagnetically interacting with the stator. The rotor includes a plurality of rotor cores alternatingly arranged with a plurality of magnets in a radial form. Each of the rotor cores includes a body, a tooth formed in the front end part of the body, a first groove formed in the upper part of the body, and a second groove formed in the lower part of the body. A partition between the first and second grooves constitutes a part of the body providing an interval between the first and second grooves.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Ukho Seo, Deokjin Kim, Yongwoo Nam, Jaewoong Jung
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Patent number: 11742739Abstract: A gimmick device according to one or more embodiments may include a gimmick and a voice coil motors (VCM). The VCM includes a casing, a permanent magnet, a yoke and iron-core, a bobbin, and a coil part. The gimmick is mounted to the casing on a movable side. The coil part includes a drive and primary coil serving as a drive coil and a primary coil of a displacement sensor including a differential transformer, the drive and primary coil being interlinked with a magnetic flux by the permanent magnet, and two secondary coils of the displacement sensor. The yoke and iron-core may be disposed in a central space defined in the coil part, and serves as an iron core of the displacement sensor.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: OMRON CORPORATIONInventor: Ryuji Kawamoto
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Patent number: 11738876Abstract: The invention relates to an electric propulsion unit for an aircraft comprising at least one first propulsion member, a second propulsion member and a single electric motor configured to drive the first propulsion member and the second propulsion member in a counter-rotating manner, the electric motor comprising a peripheral stator element comprising a first peripheral stage and a second peripheral stage which are offset along an axis, the first peripheral stage comprising at least a first phase, a second phase and a third phase which are alternated according to a first sequence in such a way as to allow a rotation of the first rotor element in the first direction of rotation, the second peripheral stage comprising phases which are alternated according to a second sequence in such a way as to allow a counter-rotating rotation of the second rotor element.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2020Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: SafranInventors: Christelle Saber, Anthony Gimeno, Sébastien Merle
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Patent number: 11742713Abstract: A method for fixing a first component in a second component. At least part of an internal side of the second component is overmolded for a plastic sleeve, and the first component is centered and fixed within the plastic sleeve of the second component by a press-fit. Secure fixing of the first component in the second component is achieved in this way. A unit is formed by a method of this type.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBHInventors: Eusebio-Marius Albert, Mihai Drienovsky
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Patent number: 11742129Abstract: An adhesively-laminated core includes: a plurality of electrical steel sheets which are stacked on each other and of which both surfaces are coated with an insulation coating; and an adhesion part which is provided between the electrical steel sheets adjacent to each other in a stacking direction and adheres the electrical steel sheets to each other, wherein an adhesive forming the adhesion part contains an organic resin and an inorganic filler, wherein a 50% particle size of the inorganic filler is 0.2 to 3.5 ?m, wherein a 90% particle size of the inorganic filler is 10.0 ?m or less, and wherein an amount of the inorganic filler is 5 to 50 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the organic resin.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2019Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Nippon Steel CorporationInventors: Hiroyasu Fujii, Shinsuke Takatani, Kazutoshi Takeda
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Patent number: 11735990Abstract: The invention relates to a linear motor system, in particular a transport system, e.g.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Schneider Electric Industries SASInventor: Thomas Leibl
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Patent number: 11735987Abstract: In a method for connecting a housing cover to a cup-shaped housing structure for an electric machine, and a cup-shaped housing structure produced by means of the method, the cup-shaped housing structure has an opening and has an opening edge surrounding the opening. The housing cover is of cup-shaped form, wherein a collar of uninterrupted encircling form is integrally formed on a cup-shaped structure wall in the region of an opening edge, which collar points radially outward. In a first method step, the housing cover is at least partially inserted into the housing opening such that a channel is formed by mutually opposite regions of the housing cover wall and of the cup-shaped housing structure wall. In a further step, the channel is at least partially or completely filled with a sealing compound, which is in particular of elastic form, or an adhesive.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2019Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Sascha Bader, Heinz Reiske, Philipp Rohr, Sebastian Jobst, Markus Moeller
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Patent number: 11728707Abstract: According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a driving device is a driving device for rotating an axle of a vehicle and includes: a motor having a rotor rotating about a motor axis extending in a horizontal direction orthogonal to a vertical direction; a reduction gear connected to the rotor; a differential gear connected to the motor via the reduction gear; and a housing configured to house the motor, the reduction gear and the differential gear therein. The housing has a protrusion that protrudes upward in the vertical direction, and at least one circumferential rib that extends in a circumferential direction. The protrusion has a female screw hole into which an eye bolt can be tightened. At least one of the circumferential ribs is connected to the protrusion.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2019Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Yuki Ishikawa, Hayato Nakama, Keisuke Fukunaga
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Patent number: 11728700Abstract: A power tool includes a housing having a rear wall, a motor assembly coupled to the rear wall, and a plurality of mounting legs projecting from the rear wall toward the motor assembly. The motor assembly defines a motor axis, and includes a stator assembly defining a plurality of axially extending mounting apertures. Each mounting leg defines a threaded boss corresponding to a respective mounting aperture of the stator assembly, and each threaded boss is configured to receive a threaded fastener. The mounting legs are angularly spaced at unequal intervals about the motor axis.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATIONInventors: Andrew T. Beyerl, Derek J. Schwab, Samantha L. Billetdeaux, Kyle Greunke, Hans T. Banholzer, Carmen J. Castanos
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Patent number: 11728699Abstract: A stator assembly and an electric motor are provided. The stator assembly has an upper end cover, a stator core, an insulation frame, a fixing piece and a communicating piece. The stator core is located below the upper end cover. The insulation frame is arranged on the stator core. The fixing piece is arranged at a top of the insulation frame. One end of the communicating piece is sandwiched between the fixing piece and the upper end cover, and another end extends in a thickness direction of the upper end cover and is connected to the stator core. The fixing piece fixes the insulation frame, the communicating piece and the upper end cover.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignees: FOSHAN WELLING WASHER MOTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., HUAI'AN WELLING MOTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Jing Ren, Jianwu Tang, Xiaogang Zhu, Xi Luo