Patents Examined by Michael Andrews
  • Patent number: 11975386
    Abstract: A motor comprises a stator comprising at least one core; a coil wound on the at least one core of the stator; a rotor having a rotor pole and being rotatably mounted relative to the stator; and at least one magnet disposed between the rotor and the stator. The at least one core comprises a composite material defined by iron-containing particles having an alumina layer disposed thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Persimmon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Martin Hosek, Sripati Sah, Jayaraman Krishnasamy
  • Patent number: 11979063
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a field system, which includes a magnet section, and an armature. The magnet section includes a plurality of magnets that are arranged at predetermined intervals and in alignment with each other in a circumferential direction. The magnets have easy axes of magnetization oriented such that at locations closer to a d-axis, the directions of the easy axes of magnetization are more parallel to the d-axis than at locations closer to a q-axis. In the magnets, magnet magnetic paths are formed along the easy axes of magnetization. The field system further includes a field-system core that is formed of a soft-magnetic material. The field-system core has protrusions protruding to the armature side. Each of the protrusions is located closer to the q-axis than to the d-axis in the circumferential direction. Circumferential end surfaces of the protrusions respectively abut circumferential end surfaces of the magnets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11973394
    Abstract: A linear drive system adapted for repetitive driving using a linear motor. Linkages are used to maintain the driven portion in linear motion. A coupled dual drive system in which two driven portions are coupled such that their coupled motions travel at the same velocity in opposed directions. A linear drive system with a return spring portion which is adapted to facilitate linear direction changeover. A coupled linear drive system which may be used as a mechanical power source for drive systems used in transportation and industry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Inventor: Damjan Zabovnik
  • Patent number: 11973393
    Abstract: A movable part of a linear motor, having a primary part movable relative to a secondary part, includes a carriage, the primary part, and an interface member for removably connecting the carriage to the primary part. The carriage is configured to fixedly support an object to be moved, such as, for example, a machine part of a machine tool. The carriage includes two opposite lateral sides and a bottom side having an interface member receiving portion including anchoring receiving parts. The carriage interface member is fixedly connected to the primary part and includes anchoring portions mounted on respective anchoring receiving parts of the carriage. Two opposite edge portions of the carriage interface member are aligned and are fixedly connected to a portion of respective opposite lateral sides of the carriage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: ETEL S.A.
    Inventors: Philippe Tamigniaux, Yannick Droval
  • Patent number: 11958335
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electric actuator (1) suitable for driving a movable element for a heating, ventilation and/or air conditioning system for a motor vehicle, comprising: an electric motor (10) comprising a stator (100) and a rotor (101); a satellite ring gear (12) comprising at least one satellite (120); an output wheel (13) suitable for being rotated by said satellite ring gear (12); wherein: said electric actuator (1) further comprises a drive wheel (11), directly connected to said rotor (101), suitable for being rotated by said rotor (101) and suitable for rotating said satellite ring gear (12); said output wheel (13) comprises an output star wheel (130) suitable for driving said movable element (20) of said ventilation, heating and/or air conditioning system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: VALEO SYSTEMES THERMIQUES
    Inventors: Rawane Seck, Laurent Tellier, Didier Barat, Sébastien Colinet, Dione Gomis
  • Patent number: 11949311
    Abstract: Halbach array of magnetically isotropic electromagnets, comprised of loosely-wound, spring-like nested electromagnetic coils, wound and arranged in close proximity in Halbach array sequence, encased in various combinations of powdered magnetic metal composite and binder, formed, wired, and assembled to serve as a stater and/or rotor of an electric motor or generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Inventor: Roberto Sanchez Catalan
  • Patent number: 11936262
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electric motor (2) comprising a switching unit (8) having a number of contact wires (24) arranged in relation to a connection ring (22) for coil ends of a stator winding, and comprising an annular frame part (28) having a number of sockets (30) into each of which an insulation-displacement contact (14) with an insulation-displacement slot (52) can be inserted or is inserted, between two insulation-displacement limbs (54) for making terminal contact with at least one w ire end (26) of the contact wires (24), said sockets (30) each comprising a socket slot (38), on opposing socket walls (36), which is flush with the insulation-displacement slot (52) of the insulation-displacement contact (14) plugged into said socket (30), and the two socket walls (36) of each socket (30) each have a first clamping contour (42) protruding into the socket slot (38), for each wire end (26) received in the socket slot (38).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Würzburg
    Inventors: Micha Dosch, Alexander Volkamer
  • Patent number: 11936263
    Abstract: A stator assembly and stator for a motor is provided that directly installs in a conductor slot a slot wedge having a width approximately the same as the width of the conductor slot. The slot wedge is limited in three directions, circumferential, radial, and axial, by means of cooperation between a slot wedge pressing ring, a conductor, and a sidewall of the conductor slot, and at the same time, the slot wedge is capable of preventing the conductor from falling out of the conductor slot. In addition, in the stator assembly for a motor disclosed, when the slot wedge is installed, the slot wedge may not only be inserted and installed in the conductor slot along the axial direction, but may also be inserted and installed in the conductor slot along the radial direction, and thus, the installation mode is flexible, which may improve the installation efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Yu Gong, Lei Liu
  • Patent number: 11923744
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a brushless direct drive linear servo actuator, comprising: a stator, a mover and a housing, wherein the stator is a pair of armatures arranged in mirror symmetry at both sides of the mover, the housing integrally encapsulates the stator and forms a cavity for the mover at the mover, and the mover has an output end protruding out of the housing and is linearly movable along a direction of the output end. A displacement signal emitter is provided at a side of the mover, and a signal receiver is provided within a cover arranged outside the housing on said side for detecting a displacement signal emitted by the emitter of the mover. The actuator of the present disclosure is characterized by high reliability, high accuracy and low cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: FUGNA MECHATRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haifeng Zhang, Chengjiong Ying
  • Patent number: 11923130
    Abstract: A laminated core includes: a plurality of electrical steel sheets stacked in a thickness direction, wherein the electrical steel sheet includes an annular core back part and a plurality of tooth parts protruding from the core back part toward a radial direction and arranged at intervals in a circumferential direction of the core back part, and wherein among the plurality of electrical steel sheets, the tooth parts of the electrical steel sheets located at one side on the outside in a stacking direction are adhered to each other by an adhesion part provided between the tooth parts adjacent to each other in the stacking direction, the tooth parts of the electrical steel sheets located at the other side on the outside in the stacking direction are adhered to each other by an adhesion part provided between the tooth parts adjacent to each other in the stacking direction, and the tooth parts of the electrical steel sheets located at a center part in the stacking direction are not adhered to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahito Kamikawabata, Ryu Hirayama, Kazutoshi Takeda
  • Patent number: 11916459
    Abstract: Various systems and methods are provided for an electric motor of a vehicle, and particularly to an electric motor including a coolant spray ring. In one example, a spray ring for an electric motor comprises an outer circumferential surface including a plurality of axial grooves, an inner circumferential surface including a plurality of nozzle orifices in fluidic communication with the plurality of axial grooves, and a plurality of nozzle guide surfaces formed through the spray ring and extending from the plurality of axial grooves to the plurality of nozzle orifices in a direction toward a central opening of the spray ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: DANA HEAVY VEHICLE SYSTEMS GROUP, LLC
    Inventors: Darren J. Ziskovsky, Steven Vanhee, Louis Lambourg
  • Patent number: 11909267
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a first permanent magnet and a second permanent magnet are disposed in each magnetic pole of a rotor core. When angular coordinates of intersections of a flux line in a d-axial direction passing an outer end A1 of the first permanent magnet, a flux line in the d-axial direction passing through an inner end A2 of the first permanent magnet, a flux line in the d-axial direction passing an outer end B1 of the second permanent magnet, a flux line in the d-axial direction passing an inner end B2 of the second permanent magnet and a circumscribing circle of the rotor core are respectively defined as ?dA1, ?dA2, ?dB1 and ?dB2, the ?dA1, ?dA2, ?dB1 and ?dB2 satisfy a formula (?34/p<(?dB1-?dA1)<22/p, ?34/p<(?dB2??dA2)<22/p).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Makino, Makoto Matsushita, Katsutoku Takeuchi, Daisuke Misu, Fumiaki Ito, Masakatsu Matsubara, Mikio Takabatake
  • Patent number: 11901774
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a rotor includes a coil slot, a sub-slot, and coil airflow paths arranged in the rotor axial direction. At least one coil airflow path among the coil airflow paths includes a first wall surface disposed on a core central portion side of a cooling gas inlet portion of the coil airflow path, a second wall surface disposed on the core central portion side of an inside of the coil airflow path, and located more on the rotor radially outward side and more on a core end portion side than the first wall surface, and a third wall surface configured to connect the first wall surface and the second wall surface, the third wall surface including a surface perpendicular to a rotor radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Harakawa, Shinji Kubo, Yasuo Kabata, Yoshihiro Taniyama, Ryo Fuchimoto, Koji Ando
  • Patent number: 11881752
    Abstract: A direct-drive type annular flexible transportation system and a collaborative control method thereof are provided. The direct-drive type annular flexible transportation system includes an annular base, a primary excitation type linear motor, an power supplying module, a power driving module, a position detection module, and a wireless communication module. The primary excitation type linear motor includes a long stator and a plurality of movers. The long stator is formed by connection of stator iron cores presenting a multi-segment cogging structure and is installed on the annular base. Each of the movers includes a short primary, a power driving module, a position detection module, and a wireless communication module. The short primary is formed by an asymmetrically-structured permanent magnet array, an armature winding, and a primary iron core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignees: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY, ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY ADVANCED ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT INNOVATION CENTER
    Inventors: Yiming Shen, Yanfei Cao, Yan Yan, Tingna Shi, Changliang Xia
  • Patent number: 11870323
    Abstract: An ultra-thin vehicle-mounted magnetic suspension flywheel battery for an electric vehicle and an operating method thereof are provided. A motor bracket, an axial flux motor, a flywheel, and an inner stator, a coil, and a permanent magnet of a five-degree-of-freedom magnetic bearing are coaxially arranged in a shell from top to bottom. The flywheel consists of an upper layer, a middle layer, and a lower layer which are continuous. An upper annular groove is formed in a middle of a flywheel upper annular layer of the upper layer. The axial flux motor is placed in the upper annular groove. An annular inner groove, a middle-layer annular cavity, and a lower annular groove are communicated with each other and jointly used for placing the inner stator, the coil, and the permanent magnet of the five-degree-of-freedom magnetic bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: JIANGSU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Weiyu Zhang, Juexin Yu, Long Shan, Huangqiu Zhu, Kai Li, Xiaoxiao Zhang, Zhen Wang
  • Patent number: 11855511
    Abstract: A wind power generation unit, an electric motor, and an airflow delivery for an electric motor air gap are provided. The airflow delivery device for the electric motor air gap comprises an annular air distribution chamber, wherein the annular air distribution chamber is located at at least one end of the air gap, and the annular air distribution chamber has a delivery port facing the air gap so as to deliver a hot or cold airflow to the air gap. The annular air distribution chamber is arranged at an end part of the air gap, the required airflow is introduced into the annular air distribution chamber, and the annular air distribution chamber can output the accumulated airflow to the air gap, facilitating the airflow in flowing smoothly through the air gap, such that the flow of the air gap is relatively easy to control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING GOLDWIND SCIENCE & CREATION WINDPOWER EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shengjun Ma
  • Patent number: 11848596
    Abstract: An actuator assembly includes one or more conductive coils each positioned in a movable supporting frame configured to be coupled to a load. A pair of permanent magnets are located on each side of each of the coils to provide opposite polarity magnetic fields to each of the coils. A drive circuit is coupled to the each of coils and configured to supply a drive current to each of the conductive coils. A controller is coupled to each of the coils through the drive circuit and is configured to independently control the drive current supplied to each of the coils to provide movement of the supporting frame to provide a force to the load, based on the opposite polarity fields and the drive current, wherein the movement of the supporting frame is in proportion to an amplitude and polarity of the drive current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: New Scale Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Conrad R. Hoffman, Robert Culhane, Qin Xu, David A. Henderson
  • Patent number: 11843300
    Abstract: The disclosed linear motor includes a stator having a plurality of cores and coils that excite the plurality of cores, respectively, and a movable element having a permanent magnet and configured to move using electromagnetic force applied from the stator as driving force, each of the plurality of cores has an excitation unit wound with the coil and an acting unit configured to be magnetically coupled to the excitation unit and cause a magnetic flux applied from the excitation unit to work on the permanent magnet of the movable element, and the linear motor includes an airgap or a heat conduction reduction portion between the excitation unit and the acting unit, and the heat conduction reduction portion reduces heat conduction from the excitation unit to the acting unit more than in a case where the excitation unit and the acting unit are in direct contact with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaharu Naka, Norihiro Suzuki, Satoru Deguchi
  • Patent number: 11837943
    Abstract: A rotor air cooling system including an outer housing and an inner housing configured to be inserted into the outer housing, the inner housing including an open backend. The system further includes a stator attached to an interior side of the inner housing, a main rotor body included in the inner housing, the main rotor body being arranged around a rotor shaft arranged to extend through the inner housing and the outer housing, wherein cooling air axially enters the main rotor body in an inlet end, passes through cavities of the main rotor body, and exits the main rotor body in an outlet end, and a water jacket arranged between the inner housing and the outer housing. Moreover, the system includes a heat exchanger for dissipating heat from the cooling air exiting the main rotor body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Volvo Car Corporation
    Inventors: Emil Håkansson, Johan Brunberg, Johan Andersson
  • Patent number: 11811267
    Abstract: A stator plate packet (7, 7a, 7b) for a stator (5) of an electrical machine (1) is described, which comprises several stator plates (6) stacked one against the other and with stator grooves (13) open towards the inside for receiving a stator winding (8), wherein the stator plates (6) are welded together by means of a plurality n of external weld seams (14) or weld seam portions which are evenly distributed over the periphery of the stator plate packet (7, 7a, 7b). The weld seams (14) or weld seam portions each run from a first end face (B) of the stator plate packet (7) to a second end face (C) of the stator plate packet (7) and each extend over an angle (?) with respect to the rotational axis (A) of the electrical machine (1). The angle (?) lies in a range of ??360°/n?10%. Furthermore, an electrical machine (1) with such a stator plate packet (7, 7a, 7b) or stator (4), and a vehicle (15) with such an electrical machine (1), are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Valeo Siemens eAutomotive Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Böhm, Michael Müller