Patents Examined by Leda T. Pham
  • Patent number: 11973384
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a stator, an insulating layer, and a wire. The stator includes a first circular laminate and a second circular laminate. The first laminate includes a first finger having a distal end extending toward a center point of the first circular laminate. The second laminate includes a second finger having a distal end extending toward a center point of the second circular laminate. The first and second fingers define a wall. The distal ends of the first and second fingers define a space therebetween. The insulating layer extends along the wall and into the space. The insulating layer is spaced from the distal end of the second finger. The wire extends along the insulating layer below the distal ends of the first and second fingers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventor: Xiaogang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11967886
    Abstract: Proposed is a portable self-power-generating apparatus which has small size and is capable of charging a battery by realizing self-power generation with high efficiency in emergencies in which normal electricity supply is not available, such as a military operation, a refugee village, a disaster caused by earthquake or the like, an emergency situation on ships, or an outdoor activity, and which can be used in combination with various smart modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: N-RIT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Dae Up Sohn
  • Patent number: 11962201
    Abstract: The present invention may provide a motor including a rotary shaft, a yoke coupled to the rotary shaft, a stator disposed between the rotary shaft and the yoke, a first magnet and a second magnet disposed in the yoke, and a circuit board on which a first Hall sensor is disposed to correspond to the first magnet and a second Hall sensor is disposed to correspond to the second magnet, wherein the second magnet includes a plurality of split magnets and one index magnet, a width of the split magnet in a circumferential direction is the same as a width of the index magnet in the circumferential direction, each of the split magnets and the index magnet are formed by combining a first pole and a second pole, a width of the first pole of the split magnet in the circumferential direction is the same as a width of the second pole in the circumferential direction, and a width of the first pole of the index magnet in the circumferential direction is different from a width of the second pole in the circumferential directi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jin Yong Kim
  • Patent number: 11958158
    Abstract: An electric tool includes a housing; a brushless motor, housed in the housing; an output shaft configured to hold a tip tool; a switching circuit controlling the brushless motor; a circuit board; a case, accommodating the circuit board, the case is filled with a resin, wherein the resin covers at least a part of the circuit board; the housing includes a motor housing element and a cover element covering at least a part of the case. The motor housing element includes a motor housing part accommodating the brushless motor, and a fixing part, configured to fix the case to the motor housing by the fixing part abutting the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Koki Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuuki Takeda, Hironori Sakai
  • Patent number: 11955861
    Abstract: A stator of a brushless motor is disclosed which includes a stator core, an insulating frame arranged on the stator core, and a plurality of windings wound around the insulating frame. The stator core includes a ring-shaped yoke part and a pole part mounted to the radial inner side of the yoke part. The pole part includes a plurality of teeth spaced-apart from each other along the circumferential direction, and a ring-shaped portion arranged at and connected to the radial inner side of the teeth. The radial outer sides of the teeth abut against the radial inner side of the yoke part. The insulating frame is arranged on the pole part. A plurality of power terminals are fixed to one axial end of the insulating frame and respectively electrically connected to the windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Ying Feng, Yick Kun Kenny Tsui, Ping Wo Poon, Kam Ting Ko, Siu Kin Tam, Da Wei Zhou
  • Patent number: 11955876
    Abstract: An electrical fan and an electric appliance are provided. The fans has a driving structure, an impeller, a wind hood and a diffuser. The impeller has a cover plate installed on the driving structure. The wind hood is covered on the impeller and has an air inlet and an air outlet communicated to each other. The diffuser is located at one end of the impeller facing the air outlet. The diffuser has a first protrusion connected to the driving structure. The first protrusion protrudes in a direction of the wind hood. The diameter of an end of the first protrusion adjacent the cover plate is smaller than the diameter of an end away from the cover plate. The diffuser has an inner ring arm connected to the first protrusion and an outer ring arm sleeved outside the inner ring arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: MIDEA WELLING MOTOR TECHNOLOGY (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tiantian Yan, Yiming Hu
  • Patent number: 11955849
    Abstract: A wedge for use in an electric machine includes a central portion comprising at least a first material, a first wing integrally attached to the central portion, and a second wing integrally attached to the central portion opposite the first wing, wherein the first wing, and the second wing include a second material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Kris H. Campbell, Shin Katsumata, Brian C. Konopa, Erika M. Danckers, Andreas C. Koenig, Ashutosh Joshi
  • Patent number: 11951688
    Abstract: A generator injection tool is provided. The generator injection tool injects an adhesive into a generator that includes a rotor positioned within a stator having a stator vent, the stator and rotor having a gap therebetween. The generator injection tool includes a first carriage sized to fit within the gap, a tube, a first motor, a controller, and an adhesive source. An end of the tube is movable between a first position in which the end is outside of the stator vent and a second position within the stator vent. The first motor is operable to move the tube between the first position and the second position. The controller is operable to selectively activate the first motor to position the end of the tube within the stator vent. The adhesive source moves the adhesive through the tube end to inject a portion of the adhesive into the stator vent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SIEMENS ENERGY, INC.
    Inventors: Anthony Barca, Lucas Ramsey, Bryce Merrill, Eric Evans, Michael A. Hall, Carl R. Larson
  • Patent number: 11949287
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a consolidated electric motor stator lamination for multiple enclosure types such that a single stator assembly can be used for different classifications of an electric motor. Each layer of the stator lamination includes external features that, when combined with the external features of the other layers in the lamination, can be adapted to conform the electric motor to one of a plurality of enclosure types. The external features include retaining features for one or more covers, fins, and a profile configured to accept cooling tubes. In various embodiments, a single consolidated stator lamination assembly can be adapted to provide a motor having at least two of an open-drip proof (ODP), a totally enclosed fan cooled (TEFC), or a totally enclosed water cooled (TEWC) enclosure classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: William E. Martin, Stephen T. Evon, Jerry L. Martin, Barron D. Grant, John M. Zedek
  • Patent number: 11949302
    Abstract: In some examples, a stator assembly includes a stator body including a base portion and a plurality of stator teeth projecting radially inward from the base portion. The stator assembly further includes an electrically conductive member wound about a tooth of the plurality of stator teeth to define a winding about the tooth, the winding comprising a single layer of the conductive member and including a plurality of turns of the electrically conductive member, wherein the electrically conductive member has a thickness in the radial direction that is less than its width in a direction perpendicular to the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Evgeni Ganev, Robert Alan Dietrich, Jens Gehrke
  • Patent number: 11949295
    Abstract: A power tool that includes a motor and a printed circuit board (“PCB”). The motor includes a rotor and a stator. The stator includes a plurality of stator terminals. The PCB is electrically connected to the stator. The PCB includes a switch and an embedded busbar. A first end of the embedded busbar is electrically connected to the switch. The embedded busbar extends away from the PCB. A second end of the embedded busbar electrically connects to a stator terminal of the plurality of stator terminals for providing power to the motor using the switch. The embedded bus bar is embedded between two layers of the printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
    Inventors: Lucas A. Rutowski, Maxwell L Merget, Douglas R. Fieldbinder
  • Patent number: 11949296
    Abstract: A sensor assembly is provided comprising two rotational angle sensors of different type. The sensor assembly has a rotor and a stator. The first rotational angle sensor has an antenna comprised by the stator and a modulator comprised by the rotor. The second rotational angle sensor having a magnet comprised by the rotor and a magnetoresistive element or a hall sensor comprised by the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Karine Godelar, Herve Gasc, Charles-Henry Feuillet, Arnaud Rafel, Michel Moutarde
  • Patent number: 11946778
    Abstract: A retaining device for coupling an encoder unit of a rotary encoder to an electric machine includes an end shield having a guide groove for receiving an encoder module of the encoder unit, and a retaining ring including a first coupling element for mechanically coupling the retaining ring to the end shield, with the first coupling element being embodied as a hole. A fastening screw is received in the hole to mechanically fasten the retaining ring to the end shield. A shielding element is integrally formed on the retaining ring for shielding against an external interference field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Volker Dölz
  • Patent number: 11949285
    Abstract: An electric machine for a vehicle includes: a stator body, the stator body having, in an alternating manner, stator teeth and stator grooves with conductor elements which are arranged therein, and a yoke section with a radially extending yoke height on the stator body radially outside the stator grooves and the stator teeth, the stator body having a stator outer radius. A ratio of the yoke height in relation to the stator outer radius is between 0.20 and 0.28.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: David Bauer, Josef Dubsky, Tobias Engelhardt
  • Patent number: 11942845
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a stator coil that includes a first turn with two or more strands is provided. The first turn includes first and second opposite sides, a coil termination at a first end of the first turn and an inversion region disposed at a second end, opposite the coil termination. The stator coil also includes at least one additional turn with two or more strands. The at least one additional turn includes first and second opposite sides, and an inversion region located adjacent to the inversion region of the first turn. The first and second sides of the first turn are inverted relative to the first and second sides of the at least one additional turn outside their respective inversion regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Cristian E. Anghel, Tom Phielix, Yongbae Jung
  • Patent number: 11942835
    Abstract: This invention discloses a wireless digital remote control inverter of AC motor. The wireless digital remote control inverter of AC motor comprises a control circuit module. The control circuit module includes a controller as a main processor and is connected to the wireless transmission module. Users can use the wireless transmission module which comprises multiple wireless communication protocols and the handheld device for information transmission, operation monitoring and control to achieve the purpose of wireless remote control of the wireless digital remote control AC motor inverter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Inventor: Cheng-Chung Sui
  • Patent number: 11942846
    Abstract: Various disclosed embodiments include illustrative stator winding interface devices, electric motors, and methods of manufacturing an electric motor. In an illustrative embodiment, a stator winding interface device includes phase plates, a neutral plate, and a structure configured to maintain the phase plates and the neutral plate in a rigid orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Rivian IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Dang Dang, Logan Balliett
  • Patent number: 11942853
    Abstract: An electric motor including a housing, a busbar, an end plate, and a contact adapter. The housing may include a shield that may define an aperture. The busbar may extend from a stator towards the aperture and the busbar may be disposed within the housing. The contact adapter may include a base member, a contact member, and a protrusion. The contact member may extend from the base member and contact the busbar. The protrusion may extend from the base member and the protrusion may be sandwiched between the shield and the end plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft
    Inventors: Stanley Simpson, Joseph Suriano
  • Patent number: 11935680
    Abstract: A stator for an electric motor is provided, the stator comprising a hollow cylindrical stator yoke and comprising a stator star arranged within the stator yoke and including a plurality of radially outwardly extending stator teeth having tips contacting, in the assembled state, corresponding connection positions on the inner circumference of the stator yoke, wherein the stator yoke and the stator star are each formed by a laminated metal sheet pack, wherein the metal sheet pack of the stator star comprises sheet metal layers of stator sheets, closed in the circumferential direction, comprising stator teeth connected with each other via pole shoe bridges and sheet metal layers of individual stator teeth spaced with respect to each other in the circumferential direction. Each of the pole shoe bridges may have at least one material recess extending in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Minebea Mitsumi Inc.
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Glatz, Peter Würfel, Vladimir Popov, Mark Kempa, Peter Borsai
  • Patent number: 11916462
    Abstract: A harvesting system that includes a dynamo with a rotor and a stator, a push magnet that is attached to the rotor or is a part of it, a moving magnet that moves from a first position to a second position, and a push back magnet. The repulsive magnetic force that is exerted by the moving magnet on the push magnet in the second position is greater than that force in the first position. The moving magnet moves from the first position to the second position and causes the rotor to rotate from a dynamo first position to a dynamo second position that causes the dynamo to produce current. When the moving magnet moves back to the first position the dynamo returns to its first position due to magnetic force that the push back magnet exerts on the push magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Inventors: Michael Haronian, Danny Stanislav Korotaev