Patents Examined by Jose Gonzalez Quinones
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Patent number: 11569707Abstract: An enclosure for an electric machine includes a housing defining an axial bore having an opening at a first end of the bore. The housing comprises a first wall having a first inboard surface partially defining the bore, and a first outboard surface spaced from the first inboard surface, the first wall defining a first coolant channel disposed between the first inboard and first outboard surface. An end cap is fastenable to the housing to cover the opening.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLCInventors: Arthur William Sibbach, Hao Huang
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Patent number: 11569706Abstract: An electric machine comprising at least one housing in which a rotor having coolant guide vanes provided at an end face is accommodated, and an annular cooling fin structure through which coolant conveyed by the coolant guide vanes is passed and having cooling fins which are axially covered by an annular cover section in such a way that there is an inlet area for the coolant supplied by the coolant guide vanes and an outlet area, wherein the cooling fin structure is formed on a side of an axial end wall of the housing facing the interior of the housing, on which an annular disk-shaped cover forming the cover section is attached.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Audi AGInventors: Jason Cox, Zsolt Bárány
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Patent number: 11569719Abstract: An electric motor for an appliance includes a rotor coupled with a drive shaft. The rotor includes a plurality of rotor magnets that each define a magnet assembly including a plurality of magnet portions having different magnet pole orientations. A stator is in electromagnetic communication with the rotor. A gap is defined between the stator and the rotor. The stator comprises a stator core. A plurality of stator poles define the gap. Stator magnets are positioned within the stator core and are located to partially define the gap. Each stator magnet defines a pair of flux paths that extend around an outer perimeter of the stator magnet and onto the gap. The different magnet pole orientations of the plurality of rotor magnets operate to direct an effective magnetic flux toward the gap.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: Fang Deng, Cheng Gong
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Patent number: 11559916Abstract: An electric working machine may include: a support rod constituted of metal; a tool disposed at a front end of the support rod; a motor configured to drive the tool; a control unit disposed at a rear end of the support rod and configured to control the motor; and a heat transfer structure configured to transfer heat from the control unit to the support rod.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2020Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventor: Takuma Niiyama
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Patent number: 11563362Abstract: The invention relates to a rotating electrical flux-switching machine, comprising a rotatable tubular rotor (2), an inner first stator (3), and an outer second stator (4) that is concentric and spaced apart relative to the first stator (3), wherein the rotor (2) is arranged concentrically relative to the first and second stator (3, 4) and is arranged between the first and the second stator (3, 4) in such a way that a first air gap (10) is formed between the first stator (3) and the rotor (2), and a second air gap (11) is formed between the second stator (4) and the rotor (2). The invention also relates to an aircraft comprising a rotating electrical machine of this type.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2019Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KGInventor: Mykhaylo Filipenko
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Patent number: 11563351Abstract: A hand-guided treatment device has a motor housing which includes a basic housing body that extends at least on a first housing side, and a remaining housing body, which is connected to the basic housing body and, together with the basic housing body, encloses a housing interior. A drive motor in the housing interior is held on the basic housing body. The basic housing body has a tool-holding device for holding a tool driven by the drive motor. The basic housing body forms a rigid motor- and tool-supporting structure which extends at least on the first housing side and on an adjoining second housing side, forming an L shape, wherein the remaining housing body forms a non-rigid remaining housing structure.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2021Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KGInventors: Georg Heinzelmann, Martin Failenschmid
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Patent number: 11552512Abstract: A generator air gap baffle train assembly includes linearly aligned baffle segments, linearly aligned wedge blocks, and a tensioning rod. Each baffle segment includes a radially outer portion having an outer surface to interface with the axial slot and a side surface angled with respect to the outer surface and an axially aligned first thru bore and a radially inner portion which projects into an air gap. A pair of wedge blocks are positioned on opposing sides of the radially outer portion, each wedge block including a side surface that interfaces with the side surface of the radially outer portion so that the interfacing surfaces are in abutting contact and an outer surface that interfaces with the axial slot and a second thru bore axially aligned with the first thru bore of each baffle segment. The tensioning rod is enclosed by a non-conducting hollow tube spanning between adjacent baffle segments.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Siemens Energy, Inc.Inventors: Benjamin Todd Humphries, Robert Gore
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Patent number: 11545875Abstract: A motor is provided. The motor includes a cooling system configured to cool a stator having a core wound around by a coil, wherein the cooling system includes oil holders installed on a side under the stator in an inner space of a motor housing and provided to allow oil to be collected up to a level capable of allowing at least some of a lower end section of the stator to be immersed for cooling.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Jae Hyeon Lee, Jeong Bin Yim, Jin Ho Kim, Tae Kil Kim, Dae Woong Han, Ji Wan Cha
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Patent number: 11539251Abstract: An electrical machine that is an outer runner motor having a rotor mounted rotatably about a machine axis, with the rotor rotatively attached to a shaft. A stator assembly having a stator core with a non-ferromagnetic material. An axial-flux yoke with an inner wall rigidly attached on an outer surface of a first edge wall of the stator core, or a radial-flux yoke with a continuous inner wall rigidly attached on a continuous outer wall of the stator core. Wherein the axial-flux yoke or the radial-flux yoke, include laminated sheets and slots. Windings can be positioned in the slots of either the axial-flux stator yoke or the radial-flux stator yoke. Wherein the stator core and the shaft include a spline coupling feature adapted to selectively couple and mate the stator core to the shaft.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Hongyu Wang, Lei Zhou, Bingnan Wang
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Patent number: 11539254Abstract: An electric drive apparatus includes a rotating electric machine and a transmission. The transmission is provided, on one axial side of the rotating electric machine, integrally with the rotating electric machine. The rotating electric machine includes a stator coil that is assembled to a stator core to have first and second coil end parts respectively protruding from first and second axial end faces of the stator core. The axial protruding height of the second coil end part from the second axial end face of the stator core is larger than the axial protruding height of the first coil end part from the first axial end face of the stator core. The first coil end part is located on the same axial side of the stator core as the transmission whereas the second coil end part is located on the opposite axial side of the stator core to the transmission.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Ryo Tanie, Hiroshi Endo
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Patent number: 11539252Abstract: A flux machine includes a stator and a rotor. A set of electrical coil assemblies with side surfaces and sets of plural permanent magnets are arranged circularly on the stator and the rotor. Pole faces of the magnets are positioned adjacent to and spaced apart from side surfaces of permeable cores of the coil assemblies. In each coil assembly a pair of like pole faces of the magnets mutually face across the permeable core and a third magnet pole face faces transversely relative to the mutually facing pole faces of the pair of magnets.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: CLEARWATER HOLDINGS, LTD.Inventors: Keith Klontz, Haodong Li
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Patent number: 11539268Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a motor and an industrial robot. The motor comprises a main body, an inner end cover, an outer end cover, a first oil seal, a second oil seal and an oil leakage sensor. The main body comprises a rotor extending along an axial direction. The inner end cover is coupled to the main body and comprises a first hole for the rotor to pass through. The outer end cover is arranged outside the inner end cover along the axial direction and abuts against the inner end cover. The outer end cover comprises a second hole for the rotor to pass through, wherein a first oil seal is arranged adjacent to the second hole and a second oil seal is arranged inside the first oil seal and is adjacent to the second hole. A gap is provided between the first oil seal and the second oil seal along the axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2021Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: ABB SCHWEIZ AGInventors: Yun Su, Guangming Xie, Fengqing Lin
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Patent number: 11539276Abstract: A molded product in which a parting line can be disposed at an inconspicuous position on the appearance of the product. The molded product includes a main body having a cylindrical shape and a hole penetrating through the main body in a radial direction, or a protrusion protruding in the radial direction from the main body, and in the molded product, a parting line corresponding to a matching surface of molds is formed in the molded product, and the parting line has a first line extending from the hole or the protrusion to one side in a circumferential direction of the main body, and a second line extending from an end point on the one direction of the circumferential direction of the first line to an end portion in an axial direction of the main body.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Fanuc CorporationInventor: Ryuya Yasuda
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Patent number: 11532961Abstract: A number of illustrative variations may include a rotor core for an electric motor comprising permanent magnets wherein the rotor core comprises lobes of the core material that magnets may be attached to.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2019Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignees: Steering Solutions IP Holding Corporation, Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.Inventor: Christopher J. Sommer
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Patent number: 11527982Abstract: A linear motor system comprises a plurality of stator elements that have one or more magnetic coils for generating a magnetic flux in the respective stator element and at least one mover that has at least one magnetic element that interacts with the magnetic coils of the stator elements. The mover is moved by means of activation of at least one stator element in a direction of movement relative to the stator elements. At least one selected stator element is configured to change with respect to the magnetic flux from a first state into a second state or to have the second state permanently while at least some of the other stator elements remain in the first state so that the selected stator element exerts a braking and/or holding force on the mover in the second state.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Schneider Electric Industries SASInventor: Wolfgang Brandstaetter
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Patent number: 11522426Abstract: A twin radial air gap permanent-magnet-on-rotor brushless motor with a rotor comprising two magnet rings and a stator comprising individual iron-core-based stator pole modules containing a wound stator pole element with outward facing and inward facing radial pole surfaces, co-planar with the two magnet rings across the twin radial motor operating air gaps. Pole modules are mounted in a circular array upon an insulating surface or printed circuit board in automatic assembly operations interconnecting field coil windings in the desired pattern and including other electrical control components, with pole modules centered on the motor rotation axis and predominantly enclosed by the rotor. Field coil windings are supported by insulating bobbins located around the radial extent of the stator pole elements between the outer and inner facing radial pole surfaces with electrical means for connection to the electrical interconnection function supplied with the insulating surface or circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2020Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: Petersen Technology CorporationInventor: Christian C. Petersen
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Patent number: 11515817Abstract: A voice coil motor driving device and a method for providing control signals of the same are provided. The voice coil motor driving device includes a control module, a current driving module, and an input module. The current driving module outputs a plurality of digital current signals according to a driving signal, each of the plurality of digital current signals includes a plurality of current unit signals, and each of the plurality of digital current signals is arranged in a first time period, each of the plurality of digital current signals includes a plurality of reverse current unit signals, and the plurality of reverse current unit signals are arranged in a second time period, which is at a beginning of the first time period, or arranged in a third time period, which is at the end of the first time period.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: SILICON TOUCH TECHNOLOGY INC.Inventor: Chi-Yuan Chin
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Patent number: 11515752Abstract: A power tool device comprises a housing, a transmission mechanism installed in the housing, and an adapting mechanism deployed with a tool head, a switch member adopted for manipulating the attachment and detachment between the transmission mechanism and the adapting mechanism in a steady and safety manner. Therefore, that the operator only needs to carry a variety of tool heads and a power tool device is ample enough to deal with most of the situations which makes it much easier for the operators to work in a high flexibility and efficiency fashion.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2021Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: JU HE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventor: Ting-Yuan Chen
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Patent number: 11509193Abstract: A brushless direct-current (BLDC) motor is provided with a stator assembly including a stator core and stator windings wound around stator teeth, a rotor shaft extending along a longitudinal axis, and a rotor including a rotor core mounted on the rotor shaft supporting at least one permanent magnet. A circuit board is provided including a main body and at least one leg radially projecting from the main body to support at least one magnetic sensor near the permanent magnet. The leg of the circuit board oriented along a radial plane that intersects the stator windings.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.Inventors: David J. Smith, Justin H. Ayers, Abraham Sanchez
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Patent number: 11502560Abstract: The disclosed assembly comprises a housing and a stator inserted inside a cylindrical cavity in said housing. Said assembly comprises a means for point-to-point attachment of the stator to the housing.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2018Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: AETC SAPPHIRE LLCInventors: Lionel Julliand, Fabien Roche, Pierre Humbert, Jan Hemmelmann