Patents Examined by Minki Chang
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Patent number: 11451099Abstract: A method of assembling a coil on an irregular-shaped multi-part tooth of an electric machine may include inserting at least one wedge-portion of the multi-part tooth into an opening of the coil such that a broader end of the at least one wedge-portion extends out of the opening in the coil. The method may also include mounting the coil with the inserted at least one wedge-portion on a core tooth-portion of the multi-part tooth such that the broader end of the at least one wedge-portion remains extended out of the opening in the coil, exerting a force on the broader end of the at least one wedge-portion to tighten the coil on the multi-part tooth.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2021Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: EVR MOTORS LTDInventors: Victor Kislev, Oleg Gaspar, Ruslan Shabinski, Eliyahu Rozinsky
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Patent number: 11444519Abstract: A resin molding method includes a first step of supplying electricity to and heating a stator coil via a stator terminal in a state that the stator terminal clamped; and a second step of molding an insulating resin at a coil end of the heated stator coil. The first step places the stator terminal on a conducting terminal block in such a state that clamping of the stator terminal by the conducting terminal block and a terminal holding member is released, before supplying electricity to the stator coil, and lifts up and down the conducting terminal block, such that the portion of the stator terminal becomes within a predetermined range.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2019Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akihide Shimmei, Yoshiaki Tokunaga
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Patent number: 11444503Abstract: A motor includes a rotor including a shaft extending along a central axis, a stator including a coil and opposing the rotor in a radial direction with a gap, and a busbar positioned at one axial-directional side of the stator. The busbar includes a conducting wire-connecting portion connected to a conducting wire extending from the coil. A notch into which the conducting wire is inserted is provided in the conducting wire connecting portion. An inner circumferential surface of the notch includes a bottom surface opposing an opening side of the notch, a first opposed surface extending from the bottom surface towards the opening, and a second opposed surface extending from the bottom surface towards the opening and opposing the first opposed surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuya Onishi, Kosuke Ogawa, Takashi Seguchi, Shunsuke Murakami
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Patent number: 11437879Abstract: A bus-bar unit includes bus-bars and a bus-bar holder supporting the bus-bars. The bus-bar includes a first and a second bus-bar piece, including a plate. The first bus-bar piece includes a coil wire connecting portion connected to a coil wire drawn from a stator, and a first junction terminal joined to the second bus-bar piece. The second bus-bar piece includes an external connection terminal connected to an external device, a second junction terminal joined to the first bus-bar piece, and a second piece main body connecting them. The second piece main body has a first extension extending from the external connection terminal along a direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the axial direction, a second extension extending from the second junction terminal along a direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the axial direction, and a crank portion located between them and bent in a crank shape in a plate thickness direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2018Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori Yoshikawa, Yusaku Yoshida, Hideo Fujiwara, Takashi Seguchi, Kosuke Ogawa
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Patent number: 11418091Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a stator extending along an axis and having teeth arranged about the axis. The teeth are circumferentially spaced apart by slots. Conductors extend around the teeth and through the slots. The conductors are electrically connected to one another to form phases. A cooling device is provided in at least one winding slot. The cooling device includes an outer tube and an inner tube provided in the outer tube such that cooling fluid flows in a first axial direction within the inner tube and a second axial direction opposite the first axial direction within the outer tube.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: KOCH ENGINEERED SOLUTIONS, LLCInventors: Dylan Broomfield, Russel Hugh Marvin, Matthew Honickman
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Patent number: 11411475Abstract: A method for producing a rotor for an electric rotating machine includes spraying in a rolling manner a first metallic material and a second metallic material, which is different from the first metallic material, onto at least part of a substantially cylindrical outer surface of a shaft body by a thermal spraying method to form on the shaft body a coating which forms at least part of a squirrel cage.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2019Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Horst Kümmlee, Frank Seibicke
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Patent number: 11394272Abstract: A stator comprises a main body with a slot defined therein. A winding is positioned within the slot and a wire is positioned within the slot. The wire is positioned between the winding and the main body.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2021Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATIONInventor: Ryan B. Jipp
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Patent number: 11374444Abstract: A method of fabricating a coil for mounting on a tooth of a stator or a rotor of an electric machine includes winding a wire about a mandrel to form a coil having a first shape corresponding to the shape of the mandrel. The method may also include removing the coil having the first shape from the mandrel, and applying a mechanical force on the coil to change the shape of the coil from the first shape to a second shape. The second shape may correspond to the shape of the tooth. The method may also include mounting the coil of the second shape on the tooth.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2021Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: EVR MOTORS LTDInventors: Victor Kislev, Ruslan Shabinski, Eliyahu Rozinsky
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Patent number: 11374463Abstract: A stator for a rotating electrical machine includes a stator coil and a stator iron core having slots into which the stator coil is mounted, wherein a coil end of the stator coil is elliptical in shape around a center axis of the stator iron core.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2018Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.Inventors: Kenichi Nakayama, Naoki Nishikawa
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Patent number: 11374453Abstract: A winding system for a stator of an electric machine is specified. The winding system comprises at least two first conductor segments and at least two second conductor segments, at least two half-bridges, at least one first short-circuit means and at least one second short-circuit means. Each half-bridge is connected to least one first conductor segment and one second conductor segment, each first conductor segment is connected to the first short-circuit means, and each second conductor segment is connected to the second short-circuit means. Further, an electric machine having a winding system is specified.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2018Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: MOLABO GMBHInventor: Gurakuq Dajaku
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Patent number: 11368078Abstract: An electrical machine (20) has a stator (22) comprising: a core (50) having a first end (52) and a second end (54); one or more windings carried by the core and having: one or more first portions (62) protruding from the first end; and one or more second portions (64) protruding from the second end. A rotor (24) is mounted for rotation relative to the stator about an axis (500, 502). One or more chambers (70, 72) surround the one or more first portions and the one or more second portions. Ferromagnetic particles are in a fluid in the one or more chambers. The machine has means (80, 82, 104, 106) for varying a concentration of the ferromagnetic particles in the one or more chambers.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2018Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: Carrier CorporationInventors: Jagadeesh Kumar Tangudu, Parag M. Kshirsagar
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Patent number: 11362568Abstract: Provided is a liquid cooling structure of a rotating electric machine, which is capable of suppressing the reduction of cooling efficiency even with a coil using a flat lead wire. Guide block walls 12Ac are provided on both sides in the width direction of a bobbin 12 along the axial direction of a stator 10 so as to position each between adjacent teeth portions 11b in the circumferential direction of a stator core 11 of the stator. A gap is formed between the coil 13 and the guide block wall 12Ac, and the guide block walls 12Ac are positioned adjacent to each other so as to make a closing between the guide block walls 12Ac of adjacent bobbins 12.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2019Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: MEIDENSHA CORPORATIONInventors: Tamotsu Sakai, Yuya Fujiwara
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Patent number: 11356001Abstract: A cooling device for a stator of an electrical machine, for fitting together with a hollow cylindrical laminated core of the stator, includes multiple cooling channels for conducting cooling fluid along the laminated core, and a fluid ring for provision on an end face of the laminated core. The fluid ring has two fluid ring channels for distributing the cooling fluid to the cooling channels and for receiving the cooling fluid from the cooling channels, and at least two cooling fluid connections for introducing and removing the cooling fluid into and from the fluid ring channels. The fluid ring channels have circumferential-angle-dependent flow cross-sections in the flow direction, in order to evenly distribute the cooling fluid to the cooling channels.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2020Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Andreas Huber, Benjamin Krank, Jens Richter
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Patent number: 11349366Abstract: A winding overhang (20) configured for supporting windings of an electric motor (40) comprise a cylindrical wall (22) extending around a center axis (A). The cylindrical wall (22) includes a plurality of grooves (28a-28e) formed along the circumference (37, 38) of the cylindrical wall (22), each groove (28a-28e) having a constant width (W) along the circumference (37, 38); and a plurality of openings (26) having different heights (H1, H2, H3, H4, H5). Each opening (26) extends from an end surface (36) of cylindrical wall (22) and allows a wire (30a-30c) to pass between an outer area (34) outside the cylindrical wall (22) and an inner space (32) defined by the cylindrical wall (22).Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2019Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANYInventors: Enrique Ramos Ibarra, Carlos Fernandez Troconiz, Jose Manuel Sancho, Jose Ramon Martinez de Icaya
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Patent number: 11349364Abstract: A stator of an electrical machine which has stator slots and conductor elements arranged in the stator slots, which conductor elements each have two conductor ends, is already known. A plurality of conductor ends, which are situated next to one another, of different conductor elements are in each case connected to one another by means of a weld connection, which is provided at the end sides of the conductor ends in question, without additional material. The conductor ends which are connected to one another in each case form a common rectangular conductor cross section which has a height H and a width B, wherein the height H corresponds to the height h of an individual cross section of the conductor ends, and the width B of the common conductor cross section is made up of the sum of the widths b of the individual cross sections of the conductor ends. The weld connection is in each case provided, as seen in the direction of the width B, between two non-melted edge sections of the outermost conductor ends.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2017Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Tobias Hein, Fabian Lange, Patrick Priebe, Stefan Ossenkopp
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Patent number: 11336151Abstract: An electric starter-generator is described. The generator may comprise a rotor, a housing, two bearings, a stator, and a cooling-fluid flowpath. The cooling-fluid flowpath may comprise a cooling-fluid entrance and exit, and a cooling-fluid channel in fluid communication with the entrance and exit. At least a portion of the channel may be defined by a fluid-tight coupling of the housing and a sleeve radially surrounding the outer race of either the bearings. The portion may form an annulus about the axis. The portion may comprise a radially inner surface defined by the sleeve, a radially outer surface define by said housing, and two axial surfaces. The two axial surfaces may extend a distance from the radially inner to outer surfaces that is less than a distance from one of the two axial surfaces to the other of the two axial surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2019Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignees: ROLLS-ROYCE PLC, ROLLS-ROYCE CORPORATIONInventors: David Scothern, Mark Boden, Don Klemen, William Williamson, Brian Maners
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Patent number: 11316398Abstract: Provided is a terminal device for a rotary electric machine, in which a plurality of conductive members, each having a first connecting portion having a flat plate shape, are provided to a base made of an insulating material. Each of a plurality of connection terminals has a second connecting portion having a flat plate shape. The second connecting portion is connected to a corresponding one of the first connecting portions. After a processed connecting portion being at least any one of the first connecting portion and the second connecting portion is formed through press-working performed for a conductive flat plate, compression processing is performed for a front surface and a back surface at both ends of the processed connecting portion in a width direction of the processed connecting portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2017Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Toyoaki Udo, Zhishuai Gao
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Patent number: 11309772Abstract: An electric motor includes a stator, and a metal component that is in contact with the stator. The stator includes a first tooth, a second tooth, a first winding wound around the first tooth by concentrated winding, a second winding wound around the second tooth by concentrated winding, and a thermal conduction sheet held between the first winding and the second winding. The thermal conduction sheet is held between the metal component and the first winding in a deformed state.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2017Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Naohiro Oketani
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Patent number: 11309774Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotor rotatable about a rotation axis, and a stator that externally surrounds the rotor and includes a stator core and coils wound on the stator core. The windings are defined by a winding wire including winding wire end portions that are electrically contacted at end surfaces thereof by busbars held at least partially in a busbar holder, and include a ground contact to connect the stator to a ground potential. The ground contact includes a first end region received in a longitudinal groove on an outside of the stator core.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2019Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Pascual Guardiola, Thomas Kübler
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Patent number: 11303178Abstract: The object of the invention is to improve operability of the process for inserting the coil conductor into the insulating member stored inside the slot of the rotor core. Each of the first insulating member and the second insulating member has one side arranged between the first coil and the second coil so that the respective sides are superposed along the radial direction of the stator core. The side of the first insulating member and the side of the second insulating member are connected with the first connection part at one end in the longitudinal direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2017Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.Inventors: Tomohiro Fukuda, Satoshi Yamamura, Yousuke Umesaki, Tomohiro Adachi