Patents Examined by Livius R Cazan
  • Patent number: 11979058
    Abstract: An object is to assemble a housing to a mating bracket with high accuracy and to improve the reliability of a rotating electrical machine. A housing of a rotating electrical machine according to the present invention is a housing of a rotating electrical machine that accommodates a stator of the rotating electrical machine and is supported by a support member, the housing including: a first tab that forms a first through-hole through which a first screw passes; and a second tab that forms a second through-hole through which a second screw passes and forms a fitting portion that fits with a position adjustment member, wherein the first tab is formed such that a first facing surface facing the support member of the first tab is farther from the support member than a second facing surface facing the support member of the second tab.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinjirou Watari, Shinji Yamazaki, Tomohiro Fukuda, Mohdbasir Zulaika
  • Patent number: 11973382
    Abstract: A device for positioning electrically conductive segments of a winding of a stator of a rotary electrical machine, including at least one rotative ring with at least one cam arranged around a revolution axis, the rotative ring being arranged to set in a radial motion at least two series of fingers to ensure the position of the conductive segments, wherein the two series of fingers are set in motion in opposite directions one to the other, such that a finger of a first series of fingers and a finger of a second series of fingers are configured to press two conductive segments of a pair of segments against each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Valeo Electric and Electronic Systems Sp. z o.o.
    Inventors: Daniel Ciuk, Wojciech Mandok, Miroslaw Skrzypczak, Marcin Zebrowski
  • Patent number: 11972968
    Abstract: The present invention features a system and manufacturing arrangement for multiple die chips onto a receiver substrate. The system includes a donor chuck; a receiver chuck configured for supporting the receiver substrate; a pick and place gripper mechanism configured for retrieving a die chip supported on the donor chuck; a gang carrier configured for receiving the die chip from the gripper mechanism; a flipper mechanism configured for delivering the die chip in an inverted orientation relative to the orientation of the die chip when received by the gang carrier; and computer controlled interconnected inspection cameras configured for ensuring accurate alignment of the receiver substrate relative to the die chip in the inverted orientation. The gang carrier has a thermocouple controlled heating element therein to maintain a proper computer controlled temperature therewithin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHARPACK TECHNOLOGY PTE. LTD.
    Inventor: Jian Zhang
  • Patent number: 11955852
    Abstract: Presented are oleophilic surface treatments for electric machines, methods for making/using such electric machines, and vehicles employing traction motors having stator windings with oleophilic treatments on select surfaces. An electric machine includes an outer housing with a direct-cooling thermal management system fluidly connected to the housing to circulate thereto a coolant fluid. A stator assembly, which is attached to the housing, includes a stator core with one or more electromagnetic windings mounted to the stator core. A rotor assembly is movably mounted to the hosing adjacent the stator assembly. The rotor assembly includes a rotor core with one or more magnets mounted to the rotor core spaced, e.g., across an air gap, from the winding(s). Select components of the stator assembly have a target surface with an oleophilic surface treatment that enlarges the target surface's wetted area and increases a coolant mass of the coolant fluid contacting the target surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: SeungHwan Keum, Mei Yang, Neal Parsons, Ruth Herrera Reed
  • Patent number: 11950377
    Abstract: Provided are flexible interconnect circuits comprising signal circuit elements. For example, a signal circuit element can be formed from the same metal sheet as a signal trace, thereby being monolithic with the signal circuit element. This integration of signal circuit elements into a flexible interconnect circuit reduces the number of additional operations and components (e.g., attaching external circuit elements). In some examples, a flexible interconnect circuit is used in a battery pack for interconnecting batteries while providing external terminals on the same side of the pack. Specifically, a flexible interconnect circuit comprises an interconnecting conductive layer (for connecting to batteries) and a return conductive layer, both extending between the first and second circuit edges. Each of these conductive layers comprises a corresponding external terminal at the first edge, while these layers are interconnected at the second edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: CelLink Corporation
    Inventors: Jean-Paul Ortiz, Malcom Parker Brown, Casey Anderson, Will Findlay, Gabrielle Tate, Shawn D'Gama, Arturo Cantu-Chavez
  • Patent number: 11950362
    Abstract: A method for producing a film composite for electrical connection inside a power electronic switching device has the steps: A) forming a film composite having an electrically insulating insulant film with a first and a second main face. A first electrically conductive metal film, forms conductor tracks insulated from one another on the first main face, and having a second electrically conductive metal film forming conductor tracks arranged insulated from one another on the second main face of the insulant film; B) folding the film composite on a fold line, so that a first contact face of a first conductor track lies on a first contact face of a second conductor track of the first main face, and a second contact face of this first conductor track of the first main face lies on a second contact face of the second conductor track of the first main.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SEMIKRON ELEKTRONIK GMBH CO., KG
    Inventor: Stefan Schmitt
  • Patent number: 11943874
    Abstract: A method of processing component carriers is disclosed. The method includes providing a plurality of arrays each comprising a plurality of component carriers, providing a plurality of separator bodies, forming an alternating stack of the arrays and the separator bodies so that each adjacent pair of stacked arrays is spaced by a respective separator body, and carrying out at least one process, in particular at least one back-end process, using the stack. A separator sheet for spacing arrays and a method of using separator sheets for spacing arrays during processing the arrays are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: AT&S (Chongqing) Company Limited
    Inventors: Amin Nickkolgh, Yu-Hui Wu, Ismadi Bin Ismail
  • Patent number: 11925970
    Abstract: A coil winding apparatus includes: a core rod feeding unit configured to feed a string-shaped core rod from a core rod nozzle; a core rod drawing unit configured to draw out the core rod; a wire rod feeding unit configured to feed a wire rod towards the core rod; a rotator capable of rotating about the core rod nozzle; the guide member provided on the rotator, the guide member being configured to clamp, with the core rod, the wire rod that has been fed from the wire rod feeding unit; and a rotating unit configured to rotate the rotator to rotate the guide member together with the rotator so as to revolve the wire rod around the core rod in a vicinity of the core rod nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: NITTOKU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nao Shibuya, Yuji Higeta
  • Patent number: 11916441
    Abstract: A rotor includes a shaft having an outer surface including a first diameter and a flange extending from the outer surface. A first plurality of laminations is arranged about the shaft. The first plurality of laminations includes an outer annular surface and an inner surface defining an opening including a second diameter that is substantially equal to the first diameter. A second plurality of laminations is arranged about the shaft and coupled to the first plurality of laminations. The second plurality of laminations include an outer annular surface portion and an inner surface portion defining a third diameter that is greater than the first diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: BORGWARNER INC.
    Inventors: Joshua B. Lahrman, David A. Fulton
  • Patent number: 11899512
    Abstract: The technology relates to a memory insertion apparatus for pushing memory modules into corresponding memory sockets on a circuit board. The memory insertion apparatus may include a frame and an actuation assembly coupled to the frame, and one or more cam assemblies each rotatably coupled to the frame and operatively coupled to the actuation assembly. Each cam assembly may include a central shaft extending in a longitudinal direction, and a plurality of cams each having a tip configured to engage one of the memory modules, the tip extending from the central shaft in a respective radial direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. A center of each cam may be offset from centers of adjacent ones of the cams by a pitch distance that is about equal to a pitch distance between centers of adjacent ones of the memory sockets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Suk Wong, Umakaran Nemallan, Ryan Schiller
  • Patent number: 11901778
    Abstract: A method for producing an electric motor having a coil includes providing a coil core where the coil core has a slot which extends in a longitudinal direction of the coil core. The method further includes introducing a slot insulation into the slot such that the slot insulation projects beyond the coil core in the longitudinal direction and forms a projection, introducing a conductor material layer by layer into the slot, and using a first layer of the conductor material to retain the slot insulation in a region of the projection during an introduction of a second layer of the conductor material into the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Martin Holzhey
  • Patent number: 11887750
    Abstract: An apparatus to process a plurality of electrical wires as well as a method that uses the apparatus are indicated. The apparatus includes a feed device, a stationary holding device, a holding device that is non-stationary along a linear guiding direction, a non-stationary bundling device that is separate from the non-stationary holding device and a controller connected to a drive of the non-stationary bundling device. The stationary holding device and/or the non-stationary holding device are configured to twist the respectively held end of the wires; The controller controls the drive in such a way that a distance between a bundling segment of the non-stationary bundling device and the non-stationary holding device assumes a specified or a specifiable distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: KOMAX HOLDING AG
    Inventors: Dominik Staubli, Markus Bucher, Beat Suter
  • Patent number: 11888349
    Abstract: A stator assembly of a hairpin winding motor including hairpin coils continuously connected along a circumferential direction to form a coil winding; and a stator core configured to fix the hairpin coils. Outer circumferential surfaces of the hairpin coils formed in the circumferential direction contact an inner circumferential surface of the stator core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Ho Kim, Min Mo Koo, Joon Hyung Kim
  • Patent number: 11877401
    Abstract: A work machine including a holding head provided with multiple component holding tools; a moving device configured to move the holding head in a horizontal plane direction and a vertical direction; an imaging device provided with side lighting configured to emit light from a side direction onto leads of the components held by the component holding tools; and a control device, the control device is provided with a first lowering instruction section configured to lower the holding head such that the leads of at least two components held by at least two of the multiple component holding tools enter a lighting range of the side lighting, a first imaging instruction section configured to image the leads of the at least two components based on reflected light of the side lighting that is reflected by the leads of the components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Awada, Satoru Otsubo
  • Patent number: 11870134
    Abstract: A radiating element for a base station antenna includes a feed stalk and a cross-dipole radiator mounted thereon. The cross-dipole radiator includes a dielectric mounting substrate, a first metal dipole that extends along a first axis on the dielectric mounting substrate, a second metal dipole that extends along a second axis on the dielectric mounting substrate that is generally perpendicular to the first axis, and an adhesive layer between the dielectric mounting substrate and the first and second metal dipoles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Ozgur Isik, Hemanshu Duggal
  • Patent number: 11864338
    Abstract: A system is disclosed which utilizes a stabilization disk 30 or rigid cup containing adhesive which is bonded to an underside of a circuit board and then bolted to a chassis of a piece of military electronic equipment, so as to create a mounting location between the circuit board and the chassis where the circuit board is lacking a regular fastener receiving mounting hole therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Crystal Group, Inc.
    Inventors: James E Shaw, Moji Hosseini
  • Patent number: 11848589
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for forming a head portion and a leg portion of a hairpin applied to a hairpin type drive motor. The system includes: an unwinder unit configured to unwind a material coil wound around a bobbin and flatten the material coil by a plurality of flattening rollers; a feeding unit configured to receive the material coil from the unwinder unit and cut the received material coil to a preset length; and a forming unit including a mold device having a plurality of forming blocks and a pair of forming roller units. The plurality of forming blocks are configured to process the material coil supplied from the feeding unit. The forming unit is configured to form the material coil by the plurality of forming blocks and the pair of forming roller units through a driving device connected to the mold device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignees: Kia Corporation, Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventor: Jiwon Yu
  • Patent number: 11843290
    Abstract: The invention relates to a coil former (1) for winding conductor wire (100) into coil windings (101), in particular for subsequent insertion in a stator carrier, said coil former having a coil former front (2) and a coil former rear (3), wherein the coil former front (2) and the coil former rear (3) span, by means of a peripheral surface (4), a spiral winding path (P) around a spiral axis (W) for the conductor wire (100), and wherein support elements (10, 11) are arranged along the winding path (P) and protrude beyond the peripheral surface (4) and laterally delimit the spiral winding path (P). The invention also relates to a winding device (50) having a coil former (1) of this kind and to a method for operating the winding device (50).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Schaeffler ELMOTEC STATOMAT GmbH
    Inventor: Sadik Sadiku
  • Patent number: 11834856
    Abstract: A method for creating a tapered spiral welded conical structure where the overall shape of the cone is first graphically slit axially and unwrapped, and then a series of construction arcs and lines are created to form the edge lines of a strip that can then be wrapped (rolled) to form a tapered conical structure. The edges of the spirally wound strip can be welded together, and a very large conical structure can thus be achieved. Various construction options are presented from a constant width strip to strip made from straight segments. Equations are given for the formation of the strips to enable those skilled in the art of spiral welded tubing to practice the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: KEYSTONE TOWER SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Eric D. Smith, Alexander H. Slocum
  • Patent number: 11821922
    Abstract: A method for producing a device for measuring current intensities, including: providing a resistor arrangement having connection elements and a resistor element arranged therebetween in a current flow direction. The resistor element and the connection elements consist of different electrically conductive materials; forming a contact pin from the material of at least one connection element; positioning a printed circuit board with a conductor track and a passage bore on the resistor arrangement such that the contact pin projects through the passage bore and has on the side of the printed circuit board facing away from the resistor arrangement a protrusion; laterally widening the contact pin in the region of the protrusion by deforming the material such that the printed circuit board is mechanically fixed to the resistor arrangement; and producing an electrically conductive connection between the contact pin and the conductor track of the printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: WIELAND-WERKE AG
    Inventors: Gerhard Thumm, Volker Voggeser, Michael Wolf