Patents Examined by Jose Gonzalez Quinones
  • Patent number: 11646630
    Abstract: A system and method for generating rotation of a body includes a rotating body configured to rotate about a rotation axis, at least one permanent flanking magnet and a bias object (or material non-uniformity) both arranged at least partially on or within the rotating body, and a drive or ring element. An axial gap between the ring element and the rotating body exists in an axial direction parallel to the rotation axis. The ring element may be a ferrous body, permanent magnet or electromagnet, and the bias object may be made from one or more materials of magnetic states, such as magnetic, ferromagnetic, paramagnetic, and diamagnetic or be a change in material properties of the rotating body. In some embodiments, a center of the ring element is not aligned with the rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: GREEN WAVE POWER SYSTEMS LLC
    Inventors: Mark Lawrence Clymer, Brenda Lee McConnell
  • Patent number: 11632014
    Abstract: A joint shaft includes at least one cross pin, the at least one cross pin including oppositely disposed pins on each of which a shaft member is attached; and a generator attached to at least one of the shaft members. The joint shaft may further include a sensor energized by the generator and attached to the joint shaft and/or a logic configured to evaluate an electrical output of the generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Off-Highway Powertrain Services Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Timur Mehmet Kisla, Max Krüger
  • Patent number: 11626776
    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: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Dana Belgium N.V.
    Inventors: Shawn P.A. Jackson, Steven Vanhee
  • Patent number: 11626783
    Abstract: An electric power generator comprises a rotor and a plurality of stators arranged coaxially and concentrically about a central axis. There is an inner stator provided radially inwardly of the rotor separated by an inner airgap and an outer stator provided radially outwardly of the rotor separated by an outer airgap. The rotor includes a plurality of magnetic pole structures configured to provide or generate a magnetic field having plurality of magnetic poles. The rotor is not of uniform cross-sectional thickness, wherein: an inner surface of the rotor bulges inwardly at the pole structures, the inner airgap being non-uniform as it is radially shorter at the pole structures and longer in between the pole structures; and an outer surface of the rotor bulges outwardly at the pole structures, the outer airgap being non-uniform as it is radially shorter at the pole structures and longer in between the pole structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Inventor: Kabu Walter Makgeru
  • Patent number: 11626824
    Abstract: The identifier for identifying the slider is given to this slider. In contrast, the control signal transmitted to the plurality of linear drivers indicates the position command value and the speed command value for the slider and the identifier of this slider in association with each other. The linear driver reads the identifier for identifying the slider from this slider overlapping the assigned region thereof and supplies the current corresponding to the position command value and the speed command value associated with this identifier by the control signal to the linear motor stators. In this way, it is possible to cause the linear driver corresponding to the assigned region, in which the slider is present, to precisely drive the slider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenji Ueno, Takayoshi Fujita, Shunsuke Aoki
  • Patent number: 11622486
    Abstract: A motor includes: a rotating shaft; a motor portion; a circuit board; a case having a circuit housing recess portion for housing the circuit board; and a cover made of a synthetic resin and sealing the opening portion of the circuit housing recess portion. The cover has an outer circumference rib and an inside rib. The outer circumference rib is located on the outer circumferential side from the opening end surface of the circuit housing recess portion and projects from the outer circumferential edge of the cover toward the front surface side of the cover and the rear surface side of the cover. The inside rib is located inside from the opening end surface and projects at least either on the front surface side of the cover or on the rear surface side of the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Otawara, Yuki Fujita, Yosuke Kanbe, Kenji Kani, Hiroyuki Okada, Yoshiaki Fukuta
  • Patent number: 11621602
    Abstract: A motor is provided. The motor includes a motor body and a rotor assembly. The rotor assembly includes a magnetic core mounted to a rotor shaft. The rotor assembly may include standoffs for accurately axially locating the magnetic core relative to rotor bearings. A drive nut adjustment arrangement may be provided. A mechanical interconnection between the drive nut and rotor shaft may be provided. A trailing end lead screw support may be provided. An axial preload arrangement may be provided to axially locate the rotor assembly within the motor body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Pacific Bearing Corp.
    Inventors: Robert Schroeder, Jonathan R. Schroeder, Timothy Joseph LeCrone, Kent Proffitt, Kollin Proffitt, Keith Cummings
  • Patent number: 11611268
    Abstract: Provided is a stator device for an electric flat motor, including a first stator side part and a second stator side part which can be arranged in such a way that a gap is formed between the first stator side part and the second stator side part to accommodate a rotor, the first stator side part includes an electrically insulating carrier substrate with an electrically conductive conductor layer arranged thereon, and wherein coil-like conductor tracks are formed in the conductor layer. The stator device includes a stiffening device for stiffening the first stator side part, wherein the stiffening device is designed as a magnetic inference for the first stator side part. Furthermore, provided is an electric flat motor for a quick adjustment device for a motor vehicle and a method for producing a stator device for an electric flat motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: HS PRODUCTS ENGINEERING GMBH
    Inventor: Martin Specht
  • Patent number: 11611271
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a rotor, a stator, and an air gap formed between a magnetic device of the rotor and the stator. For the selective setting of the air gap, movement devices implemented by piezoelectric stacks are provided on the rotor and/or on the stator. The movement devices may influence radial positions of the respective magnetic device and thus set the radial air gap width. It is thereby possible to exert open-loop and/or closed-loop control over a power or torque of the electric machine without adjusting stator currents. Vibration or unbalance of the rotor may also be counteracted quickly and effectively during operation of the machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventors: Christian Stanek, Dieter Cramer
  • Patent number: 11608890
    Abstract: An electro-mechanical park lock actuator includes a shaft and a circuit board. The shaft is arranged for connecting to a transmission park pawl. The circuit board includes a first non-contact inductive position sensor integrated circuit, a first trace electrically connected to the first non-contact inductive position sensor integrated circuit for determining an angular position of the shaft, and an electrical connector for connecting the circuit board to an external master controller. In some example embodiments, the electro-mechanical park lock actuator includes an electric motor drivingly connected to the shaft, and a transmission arranged in a torque path between the electric motor and the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Angad Boralkar, Todd Sturgin, Chris Luipold
  • Patent number: 11606006
    Abstract: A system for overcooling a drive motor and a method for controlling the same may include a first cooling loop in which a first coolant circulate, the first coolant being in a heat exchange with a power electronics (PE) part and a drive motor cooler mounted in the first cooling line and configured to cool cooling oil supplied to the drive motor fluidically connected to the drive motor cooler; a second cooling loop disposed independently from the first cooling loop, wherein a second coolant circulates in the second cooling loop, the second coolant being in a heat exchange with a battery module and a battery chiller mounted in the second cooling loop; and a switch unit configured to selectively shift a flow path of the second coolant such that the second coolant is in a heat exchange with the drive motor cooler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Byoung Hoon Choi, Sung Hyun Ahn, Hee Ra Lee, Jong Hyun Kim
  • Patent number: 11605997
    Abstract: An electric motor assembly for, for example, a hair dryer, includes an impeller, an outer housing in which the impeller is accommodated, an inner housing concentrically disposed in the outer housing, a stator having one side thereof accommodated in the inner housing, a rotor provided with a rotating shaft having one end coupled to the impeller and rotatably accommodated in the stator, a first bearing disposed at one side of the rotor, a second bearing disposed at another side of the rotor, and a bracket coupled to the stator and the outer housing so as to support the second bearing. Accordingly, initial alignment of the stator and the rotor may be securely maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jaeho Kim, Sunghyun Kim, Kyungho Ha, Sunghoon Kwak
  • Patent number: 11605990
    Abstract: An annular core piece in which an annular core piece can be received inside a contour of an outer circumstance of the annular core piece and the number of recesses formed on the outer circumstance is small is provided. In an annular core piece including a plurality of recesses opened in an outer circumferential part, the recess includes a narrowed part and a raised part, and a transverse width of the narrowed part is made narrower than a transverse width of a different region present on a side of a bottom of the recess further beyond the narrowed part, and the raised part is formed such that a part of the bottom of the recess is raised and projected toward an opening end of the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUI HIGH-TEC, INC.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Arakawa, Yusuke Hasuo
  • Patent number: 11606014
    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: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shung Hun Woo, Nam Hoon Kim
  • Patent number: 11601023
    Abstract: Provided is a rotary electric machine including a rotor and a stator. The rotor includes a refrigerant passage. An axial direction of the rotor is along the horizontal direction. The stator is placed around the rotor and includes a tubular stator core. The stator core includes: a communication passage via which an inner peripheral surface of the stator core communicates with an outer peripheral surface of the tubular stator core such that the communication passage guides the refrigerant from the inner peripheral surface of the stator core to the outer peripheral surface of the stator core; and a projection portion provided on the outer peripheral surface of the tubular stator core such that the projection portion extends in the axial direction of the tubular stator core. The projection portion is placed downward in the gravitational direction from an opening of the communication passage on the outer peripheral surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi Matsumoto, Kenta Tabuchi, Masachika Kawa
  • Patent number: 11602057
    Abstract: A display device including a display panel, a shaft, a correcting sensor and a driving module is provided. The display panel has a display surface. The shaft has an axial end and a correcting end opposite the axial end. The correcting sensor is disposed on the correcting end. When the shaft is rotated relative to the axial end, the correcting sensor is moved to a second position from a first position and faces the display surface at the second position. The driving module is configured to translate the shaft when the correcting sensor is at the second position, such that the correcting sensor can be moved to a detecting position from the second position, wherein the distance of the second position relative to the display surface is greater than the distance of the detecting position relative to the display surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Qisda Corporation
    Inventors: Wu-Shen Lin, Hung-Hsun Liu, Wen-Ching Hsieh, Chin-Yi Yu
  • Patent number: 11594923
    Abstract: A rotor and a motor including the same. The motor includes a stator and a rotor configured to rotate by interacting with the stator. The rotor includes a plurality of permanent magnets disposed in a circumferential direction of the rotor and rotor cores disposed between the plurality of permanent magnets. The rotor core includes a notch cut inward from a circumferential surface thereof, and the notch is formed in an asymmetric shape. The rotor core has a notch formed on one side of the circumferential surface and the rotor core has a shape inverted left and right with the rotor core are alternately stacked, so that a magnitude of a synthetic cogging torque generated in the rotor is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yongwoo Nam, Deokjin Kim, Ukho Seo, Jaewoong Jung, Youngkwan Kim
  • Patent number: 11581779
    Abstract: A machined object that can prevent a coating material of a coating surface from peeling off when a machined surface that is adjacent to the coating surface is machined after coating of the coating surface. The machined object includes a main body and a coating material applied to the main body, the main body includes a machined surface that is machined, a coating surface that is arranged adjacent the machined surface via a boundary and to which a coating material is applied, and a recess formed in the main body and recessed toward an inner side of the main body from the machined surface and the coating surface at the boundary, and the recess extends along the boundary so as to separate the machined surface and the coating surface from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jun Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 11581778
    Abstract: A motor and a rotating shaft cooling device thereof are disclosed. A rotating shaft of the motor is formed with an annular space. A shaft has a front end and a rear end. The shaft is a blind tube formed with a channel communicating with the annular space through a plurality of nozzles. The distance between the nozzles and the rear end is less than one-half of the length of the shaft. A cooling fluid flows through the nozzles to form a jet array to impinge on the inner wall of the rotating shaft to cool the rotating shaft, and flows back in the annular space to enhance the cooling effect, increase the heat exchange area, and improve the cooling effectiveness of the rotating shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: National Cheng Kung University
    Inventors: Mi-Ching Tsai, Shyy-Woei Chang, Min-Fu Hsieh, Kai-Jung Shih, Wei-Ling Cai, Bi-Sheng Wei
  • Patent number: 11581769
    Abstract: In one possible implementation, a motor is provided including a rotor and a stator. Front cooling fins are thermally coupled to a front of the stator, and rear cooling fins are thermally coupled to a rear portion of the stator. The winding is between the front and rear cooling fins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: AeroVironment, Inc.
    Inventors: Zaher Abdallah Daboussi, Lindsay Aspinwall Sheppard, Bart Dean Hibbs, Wally Ewald Rippel