Patents Examined by Jose Gonzalez Quinones
  • Patent number: 11502573
    Abstract: A motor assembly for powering a fluid blower includes a stator, a rotor rotatable relative to the stator about an axis of rotation, and an inner shell. The inner shell includes axially opposite first and second shell ends and encloses, at least in part, the stator and the rotor. An outer housing at least partly surrounds the inner shell such that an axially extending fluid channel is defined between the inner shell and the outer housing. A motor controller is positioned within the outer housing and is configured to control at least one operational parameter of the motor assembly. Furthermore, the motor assembly includes a flow-directing endshield located within the outer housing and adjacent the first shell end. The rotor is supported, at least in part, by the flow-directing endshield. The flow-directing endshield is fluidly interposed between the fluid channel and motor controller and is configured to direct a fluid flow between the fluid channel and the motor controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Nidec Motor Corporation
    Inventors: David E. Lass, Gregory A. Davis, Michael E. Williams, Dale R. Wilson
  • Patent number: 11496022
    Abstract: A power tool including a housing, a controller within the housing, and a brushless motor within the housing and controlled by the controller. The brushless motor including a stator assembly including a stator core having stator laminations with an annular portion and inwardly extending stator teeth. The stator assembly defines a stator envelope in an axial direction extending between axial ends of stator end caps of the stator assembly. The brushless motor further includes a rotor assembly including a rotor core having rotor laminations and defining a central aperture that extends in the axial direction and that receives a shaft, and a position sensor board assembly including position sensors and configured to provide position information of the rotor core to the controller. The rotor assembly and the position sensor board assembly are provided at least partially within the stator envelope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew T. Beyerl, Keith Boulanger, Alex Huber, William A. Elger, Jeffrey M. Wackwitz
  • Patent number: 11489470
    Abstract: A sensor device for an electric machine includes a rotor shaft mounted rotatably in a housing, with a signal generator that is or can be joined non-rotatably to the rotor shaft and is or can be arranged axially on the end face of the rotor shaft. A signal sensor is fixed to the housing opposite on the end face of the signal generator and at a distance from the signal generator. The signal sensor acquires an axial distance from the signal generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Frischen, Fabian Utermoehlen
  • Patent number: 11489376
    Abstract: A stator is formed by laminating electrical steel sheets punched into a predetermined shape. The stator includes split cores that are punched out from the electrical steel sheets to have an annular shape. A first group of the split cores adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction have the same rolling direction, and a second group of the split cores adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction have different rolling directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Ichien, Yusuke Arao
  • Patent number: 11489410
    Abstract: A shaft (12) for cooling an electric machine (10) includes: an outer sub-shaft (32), which is designed for being rotationally fixed to a rotor (14) of the electric machine; an inner sub-shaft (30), which is rotationally fixed to the outer sub-shaft and is designed as an output shaft of the electric machine; an inflow (36) arranged in the radial direction between the outer sub-shaft and the inner sub-shaft, in order to supply cooling fluid (28) to the shaft; and an outflow (42) arranged in the radial direction between the outer sub-shaft and the inner sub-shaft, in order to discharge cooling fluid supplied to the shaft. The outer sub-shaft encloses a fluid chamber (40), which is arranged in the axial direction between the inflow and the outflow. A direction of flow of cooling fluid in the fluid chamber is established by a delivery direction of a fluid pump (24).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG
    Inventors: Martin Lang, Thomas Auer, Sebastian Paulik, Harald Wendl, Gerhard Obermaier, Maria Lang
  • Patent number: 11482895
    Abstract: An electric machine may include a substantially annular stator stack having a plurality of laminations which include mounting ears. A fraction of the laminations may be oriented such that the mounting ears are angularly offset from the others. The stator may be secured to a housing at both mounting ear locations thus improving structural rigidity and enhancing performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Hongliang Wang, Yew Sum Leong, Song He, Edward L. Kaiser, John S. Agapiou
  • Patent number: 11476735
    Abstract: An electric work machine with a product structure that effectively reduces noise caused by a brushless motor without changing the motor specifications. A hammer drill includes a brushless motor including a stator including an insulator, a cylindrical stator core, and a coil wound around the stator core via the insulator, and a rotor rotatable relative to the stator, a cylindrical member fixed along an entire outer circumference of the stator core and made of material with a Young's modulus higher than a Young's modulus of the insulator, and a housing accommodating the brushless motor and the cylindrical member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshinori Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11469644
    Abstract: A multipart rotor shaft for an electric machine comprises a first shaft journal with a first end flange and a first axial passage bore, a second shaft journal with a second end flange. The rotor shaft also includes a hollow carrier for a laminated rotor core, a line element for conducting a cooling medium, and a separating element which divides a cavity between the carrier and the line element into a first partial cavity and a second partial cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventor: Holger Fröhlich
  • Patent number: 11462955
    Abstract: An electric rotating machine according to an embodiment includes a stator, and a rotor that is rotatable about a rotational center. The stator includes a winding having an annular shape with the rotational center, a first core, and a second core. The first core surrounds a part of the winding, and has a pole face to which a magnetic flux is input in a first direction, and a pole face from which the magnetic flux is output in the first direction. The second core surrounds a part of the winding, and has a pole face to which a magnetic flux is input in a second direction, and a pole face from which the magnetic flux is output in the second direction. The rotor is positioned spaced from the first core and the second core, and is rotatable about the rotational center, relatively with respect to the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yasuhito Ueda, Hiroshi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11462981
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a cylindrical rotor with a plurality of wires parallel to the cylindrical axis nested between two cylinders of magnets in a stator. The cylinders of magnets may be a solid magnet, a plurality of bar magnets, a plurality of coils generating magnetic fields or other magnets or generated magnetic fields. A nested electric motor includes a first electric motor additionally including a first shaft, which first electric motor nests within the hollow center of a second larger electric motor additionally including a second shaft. The first shaft is coaxial with the second shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Inventor: Hossam Abdou
  • Patent number: 11451117
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a plurality of conductive tracks defining an electric power circuit, to provide current for electronic power components, a printed circuit board which mounts the conductive tracks, an enclosure which defines a housing for the printed circuit board and has a dissipative wall, a heat-conductive filler interposed between the printed circuit board and the enclosure, an elastic device acting on the printed circuit board to press it against the dissipative wall, a conductive element held in position by at least one heat-sensitive joint and disposed to connect a first track and a second track to close the electric power circuit. The elastic device includes an elastic element pressed against the conductive element to apply a force on the heat-sensitive joint and the heat-sensitive joint is configured to break if subjected to a temperature higher than a predetermined threshold temperature to open the electric power circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: SPAL AUTOMOTIVE S.R.L.
    Inventor: Pietro De Filippis
  • Patent number: 11451123
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a stator and a rotor positioned in operational engagement with one another and defining a radial gap extending circumferentially between the stator and the rotor, the rotor including a plurality of rotor segments defining a plurality of segment gaps between adjacent pairs of the plurality of rotor segments, the rotor segments radially moveable relative to the stator, wherein movement of the plurality of rotor segments radially outward increases the radial gap between the stator and the rotor and the segment gaps between adjacent pairs of the plurality of rotor segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Alireza Fatemi, Thomas W. Nehl, Derek F. Lahr
  • Patent number: 11451106
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a motor including a base, a stator and a rotor. The stator is disposed on the base. The base includes a cylinder. There is a flange disposed on a side of the cylinder neighboring to the rotor. Fins are axially disposed on the flange, and the periphery of the flange has a breach. The breach is partially extended to the cylinder, and there is also a plurality of fins disposed in the breach. A plurality of air-guiding members are annularly disposed on the periphery of the rotor. The air-guiding members are connected to each other through a connecting rim. The fins on the flange and the air-guiding members of the rotor are both extended axially, thus the interference therebetween is avoided. When the motor rotates, the air-guiding members are able to drive the flow passing through the breach for achieving heat-dissipating effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Yi-Ta Lu, Wei-Ming Lai, Yun-Hung Chen
  • Patent number: 11444507
    Abstract: An electromechanical actuation motor includes a main housing, a series of stator windings, and a first circumferential row of fins. The series of stator windings is disposed inside of the main housing. The first circumferential row of fins is connected to and extends radially from an outer surface of the main housing. The main housing and the first circumferential row of fins are formed as a single piece of material via layer-by-layer additive manufacturing. Each fin of the first circumferential row of fins includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is integrally formed with and attached to the outer surface of the main housing at a first end of the first portion. The second portion is attached to and integrally formed with a second end of the first portion. The first portion intersects the second portion to form a T-shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Naison E. Mastrocola, Debabrata Pal
  • Patent number: 11437900
    Abstract: An outer-rotor brushless direct-current (BLDC) motor is provided including a stator core having an aperture extending therethrough, a stator mount including an elongated cylindrical member projecting into the aperture of the stator core, an outer rotor, and a rotor mount including an outer rim arranged to couple to the outer rotor and an inner body supporting an outer race of a motor bearing. A piloting pin is provided including a rear portion received within the hollow portion of the elongated cylindrical member of the stator mount and a front portion received within the inner race of the motor bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Ross A. Billings, Evan M. Cain, Jarrett A. Dunston, Timothy W. French, Robert S. Gehret, Michael R. Marjomaa, Scott M. Rudolph, Gale A. Heslop
  • Patent number: 11437899
    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: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shung Hun Woo, Nam Hoon Kim
  • Patent number: 11431231
    Abstract: Cable-actuated position sensors are described that employ multiple block and tackle arrangements to measure displacement of a draw wire or flexible cable. The disclosed sensors are relatively small and inexpensive. The disclosed sensors may also be used as part of a servo motor, or in conjunction with gear motors to provide positional information for operation of the gear motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Inventor: Shaun William Fetherston
  • Patent number: 11421669
    Abstract: A motor assembly for compressing a fluid by causing a rotational shaft to reciprocate by providing a drive force to the rotational shaft, and a reciprocating compressor including a motor assembly are provided. The motor assembly may include a cylinder block in which a bore is formed and which is penetrated by the rotational shaft, a stator coupled to the cylinder block, a rotor installed at an outer circumferential surface of the stator so as to be rotated by the stator and which is coupled to the rotational shaft so as to rotate together with the rotational shaft, and at least one fastening member that fastens the stator and the cylinder block to each other such that the stator is supported by the cylinder block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Ki Yeon Lee, Jinkook Kim, Wonseok Kang
  • Patent number: 11414198
    Abstract: An aircraft propulsion system comprises a vertical lift propulsor mounted within a wing of the aircraft. The vertical propulsor comprises an electric motor comprising a rotor mounted to a plurality of propulsor blades, the motor further comprising a stator. The rotor is provided radially outwardly of the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE PLC
    Inventor: Giles E. Harvey
  • Patent number: 11418103
    Abstract: A power system for an aircraft engine provides rotational drive to propeller driven and turbofan jet engine powered aircraft by use of a propeller or fan drive motor. Electrical power is provided to the drive motor by a high efficiency electrical power generator with reduced electromagnetic drag or reverse torque. The electric generator utilizes a solid state rotor that does not rotate which allows for power generation without reverse torque or the usual energy required to rotate the rotor inside the stator of the generator. Only the magnetic poles of the disclosed rotor rotate to generate the power. The fan blades of the turbofan jet engine are driven by the electric drive motor in which the rotor is a part of the fan as well as the drive from the high pressure turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Inventor: Robert Ray Holcomb