Patents Examined by Robert E. Mates
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Patent number: 11482916Abstract: The present application discloses a linear motor, which includes a housing having a receiving cavity, a vibrator received in the receiving cavity, a stator received in the receiving cavity, and a flexible support connecting to the housing and suspending the vibrator in the receiving cavity. The stator includes an iron core fixed to the housing and a coil winded on the iron core. The iron core includes a first iron core and a second iron core perpendicular to the first iron core, the coil includes a first coil winded on the first iron core and a second coil winded on the second iron core, and the winding directions of the first coil and the second coil are perpendicular to each other. The linear motor of the present invention not only effectively widens the working frequency band of the motor, but also enriches the vibration effect of the motor.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2019Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Lubin Mao, Zhaoxian Chen, Zijie Zhang
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Patent number: 11471377Abstract: A device and a method for switchable vibration modal ultrasonic are provided. The device includes a hollow shaft, an ultrasonic motor, a limit shell, an electromagnet, a moving tool head, a vibration source and a tool head. The structure design of the ultrasonic motor, the magnetostrictive materials and the drive coil combination of different functions are configured so that, without changing the condition of components, the ultrasonic can switch mode, namely the longitudinal vibration, torsional vibration, and longitudinal and torsional vibration in three different vibration modes. During the operation of the device, different vibration modes are excited without changing the parts, which meets the machining requirements of different vibration forms. Meanwhile, the operation is more convenient and faster, and the overall design structure of the device ensures the efficient and safe operation of the device.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2020Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: JIANGSU UNIVERSITYInventors: Wenfan Jiang, Yinfang Jiang, Bo Wu, Zhengqian Dong, Wei Jin
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Patent number: 11476730Abstract: An electric machine, for example for a motor vehicle, is disclosed. The electric machine includes a rotor rotatable about an axis of rotation that defines an axial direction of the electric machine, and a stator including stator windings. A coolant distributor chamber and a coolant collector chamber are provided, and arranged with an axial spacing to one another. The coolant distributor chamber fluidically communicates with the coolant collector chamber for cooling the stator windings via at least one cooling channel that can be flowed through by a coolant. At least one of the stator windings is embedded into a plastics compound composed of an electrically insulating plastic for thermal coupling.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2018Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Inventors: Mirko Hoerz, Hans-Ulrich Steurer, Josef Sonntag, Stojan Markic, Andrej Licen, Aleks Medvescek, Peter Sever, Philip Grabherr
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Patent number: 11469656Abstract: The present application provides a linear vibrating motor comprising a housing, a vibrator and a stator that is secured to the housing and is parallel to the vibrator, the vibrator comprises a mass block and a vibrating block embedded in the middle of the mass block; the vibrating block includes a permanent magnet; push-pull structures adjoin two ends of the vibrating block respectively; the push-pull structure comprises a push-pull magnet embedded in the mass block and a push-pull coil secured to the housing; an interaction force for enhancing a magnetic field is generated between the push-pull magnet and an adjacent permanent magnet; and the push-pull coil generates a push-pull force in a horizontal direction together with the push-pull magnet after being electrified to provide an initial driving force for a reciprocating motion of the vibrator in a direction that is parallel to a plane where the stator is located.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2016Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: GOERTEK INC.Inventors: Fenglei Zu, Chunfa Liu
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Patent number: 11462986Abstract: An embodiment of the invention provides a linear vibration motor. The linear vibration motor includes a base with a containing space, a vibration unit arranged in the containing space, an elastic piece suspending the vibration unit in the containing space, and a magnet assembly fixed to the base and driving the vibration unit to vibrate. The vibration unit includes a weight, a containing groove penetrating through the weight and at least one pair of coils which are oppositely fixed to the weight. The magnet assemblies has two magnets which are respectively fixed on two opposite sides of the base. The two magnets are at least partially located in the containing grooves, and are magnetized in the vibration direction. Compared with the related art, the linear vibration motor is improved in vibration performance and reliability.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2019Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Yun Tang, Lubin Mao
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Patent number: 11462985Abstract: The present invention generally relates to a system for generating a linear movement, comprising an electromagnetically charged body (30, MM) free to move along a main direction, a static field generator (50, Bob), and two buffer elements (20,40; RM,RM; ML, ML; MA,MA; MF,MF). The movement of the electromagnetically charged body (30, MM) along the main direction is controlled by the static field generator (50, Bob) and by the buffer elements (20,40; RM,RM; ML, ML; MA,MA; MF,MF). The static field generator (50, Bob) is alternately supplied with a power profile such as to generate the displacement of the system in either orientation along said main direction with a frequency ? obtained through the formula (I).Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2020Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: GENERGO S.R.L.Inventors: Vincenzo Tirella, Simone Brunetti
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Patent number: 11451115Abstract: An electric motor includes: a stator having a sleeve shape; a rotor inside the stator; a shaft coupled to the rotor and stretching along a central axis of the stator; a board case on one end side of the stator in a direction along the central axis; a circuit board on an opposite side of the stator with the board case interposed; a heat generating component on a mounting surface, which is opposite to a surface of the circuit board oriented to a side of the stator; a casing that covers a side of the mounting surface; and a heat transfer component between a surface of the casing that faces the circuit board and the heat generating component. The board case is provided with an extension portion that extends toward the circuit board. The heat transfer component is formed with a first engagement portion with which the extension portion engages.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2017Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Takuya Nakamura, Junji Okada
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Patent number: 11407007Abstract: A mini subwoofer double drive low-frequency vibrator includes a base, an upper cover, a side cover, a flexible printed circuit, a coil, a magnetic body, a counterweight, a spring piece, an internal welding piece, an external welding piece, an insulating tape, and a buffer. The magnetic body and the coil includes a symmetrical double-driving structure at both upper and lower part to mutually offset components in a non-vibration direction of an electromagnetic force and cancel vibration noises. The spring piece adopts a V-shape structure to increase an effective length of a deformation zone and to make a response frequency even lower. Two V-shape springs are distributed symmetrically in a center, making an operation more stable. The buffer is adopted to enhance service life, for fear of a spring damage caused by high circuit voltage.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Chizhoushi Honggang Science and Technology Electronics Co., LtdInventor: Qiang Liu
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Patent number: 11411482Abstract: An actuator comprising: a support body; a movable body which is movable with respect to the support body; and a drive mechanism structured to drive the movable body; wherein the drive mechanism comprises: a first magnetic drive circuit which comprises a first coil and a first magnet facing each other in a first direction and is structured to drive the movable body in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; and a second magnetic drive circuit which comprises a second coil and a second magnet facing each other in the first direction at a position overlapping with the first magnetic drive circuit in the first direction, the second magnetic drive circuit being structured to drive the movable body in a third direction perpendicular to the first direction and intersecting the second direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2018Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Kitahara, Tadashi Takeda, Masao Tsuchihashi
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Patent number: 11411481Abstract: An actuator may include a movable body, a support body, a connection body having at least one of elasticity and viscoelasticity, and a magnetic drive circuit having a coil provided in one side member of the movable body and the support body, and a permanent magnet provided in the other side member to vibrate the movable body. The one side member may include a coil holder and a power feeding circuit board fixed to the coil holder in a state that one side face of the circuit board faces an outer side, and the one side face may have a land connected with a coil wire structuring the coil. The circuit board may be fixed to the coil holder in a state that the one side face is retracted from an end face of the coil holder, and the coil wire may have a slack portion fixed to the one side face.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventor: Akira Mori
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Patent number: 11411480Abstract: A linear vibration actuator motor comprises a housing, a coil, a conductive sheet, a bracket, a magnet assembly and two elastic members. The coil is fixed to the bottom wall of the housing. The conductive sheet is fixed to the top wall of the housing and is located above the coil. The bracket is disposed in an accommodating space of the housing, forming framed space, and located above the coil and below the conductive sheet. The magnet assembly is disposed in the framed space above the coil and directly below the conductive sheet. The two elastic members are respectively located between two ends of the bracket and the inner side of two side walls of the housing. Thereby, the invention utilizes the induced current to provide resistance to achieve the damping effect against the motion of the assembly of the bracket and the magnet set with respect to conductive sheet.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2019Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: TOPRAY MEMS INC.Inventors: Chin-Sung Liu, Shin-Ter Tsai
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Patent number: 11411448Abstract: A stator core is provided and includes laminations disposed in a laminated arrangement to form a stator core body having an axial length extending in a lamination dimension. The stator core body includes an annular portion extending along the axial length and teeth extending radially from the annular portion and along the axial length. Each tooth has a trapezoidal shape and is formed to define one or more triangular holes running along the axial length.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2019Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATIONInventors: Joseph Kenneth Coldwate, Wilfredo E. Colon Velazquez
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Patent number: 11411479Abstract: Disclosed is a linear vibration motor including a housing, a vibrator assembly, and a driving assembly. The housing is provided with a circuit board. The vibration assembly is disposed in the housing. A through hole is defined in the vibration assembly along the thickness of the housing. The driving assembly is disposed in the through hole and fixedly connected to the housing. The driving assembly includes an iron core and a coil. The iron core includes an intermediate shaft extending along the length of the housing and two end blocks disposed at two ends of the intermediate shaft. The cross-sectional area of the intermediate shaft is smaller than the cross-sectional area of each of the two end blocks. The coil is sleeved on the intermediate shaft and connected to the circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2018Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: LANTO ELECTRONIC LIMITEDInventors: Bingbing Ma, Yifeng Zhang
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Patent number: 11398761Abstract: A motor includes: a housing that accommodates a stator that has a field coil and a rotor; an inverter that is provided in the housing; a voltage boosting circuit that has a reactor provided in the housing; and a coolant flow path that is provided at a position at which the coolant flow path overlaps with the inverter and the voltage boosting circuit in the housing in a diameter direction, and the inverter has a control board that controls a drive current or a drive voltage and a drive element that is provided on the side of the housing with respect to the control board and supplies power to the field coil in accordance with control from the control board.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2018Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihisa Okuhata, Tadayuki Hatsuda
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Patent number: 11387693Abstract: A thrust assembly motor is described, which can be used in a distributed electric propulsion system. The thrust assembly motor may include a revolved-wedge shaped ring on a leading edge of a motor stator, with a row of axial stator blades extending therefrom. The revolved-wedge shaped ring provides a mounting surface for the axial stator blade row while also controlling the ratio of airflow mass entering the outer gap versus the inner gap. The axial stator blade row, mounted to the revolved-wedge shaped ring, is configured to convert tangential kinetic energy (i.e., associated with a velocity component of the airflow) in the cooling airflow aft of the cooling fan rotors into static pressure rise after interaction with the axial stator blade row, during flight of the hybrid-propulsion aircraft.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2018Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: Aurora Flight Sciences CorporationInventor: Garrett Steven Hennig
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Patent number: 11374445Abstract: A stator unit of a rotary electric machine, which includes a stator including a stator core in which a plurality of slots are formed at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction; and a stator coil inserted into the slots and having a coil end portion protruding from at least one end surface of the stator core; a stator holder disposed to surround an outer peripheral surface of the stator core and supporting the stator; and a refrigerant guide portion disposed above the coil end portion and configured to supply a first refrigerant to the coil end portion. The refrigerant guide portion protrudes from an end surface of the stator holder to above the coil end portion and is integrally formed with the stator holder.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2019Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hirotaka Yokota, Manabu Sakurada
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Patent number: 11374464Abstract: A detection part of a temperature detection element is mounted to ends of drawn portions which are further protruded in the axial direction than coil end portions. The detection part and the ends of the drawn portions provided with the detection part are covered with a covering member. The ends of the drawn portions provided with the detection part and covered with the covering member are inserted into a through hole of a wall member which is disposed so as to axially face an axial end face of a stator core. In this case, the detection part is located at a position deeper (on the rear side) than a position of a stator core side opening of the through hole.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2019Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoyuki Shinkai, Takashi Satou, Takeo Maekawa
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Patent number: 11336132Abstract: An electric machine includes a rotor configured to rotate about an axis of rotation, a stator having a stator core and a plurality of teeth annularly arranged on the stator core about the axis of rotation, a plurality of electromagnetic coils, and a base plate. Each coil of the plurality of electromagnetic coils may be mounted on a separate tooth of the plurality of teeth. The base plate may be located adjacent to the plurality of electromagnetic coils and the stator core. The base plate may have a first side and an opposing second side. The first side may be in thermal contact with the plurality of electromagnetic coils and the stator core. A liquid-coolant channel may be defined on the second side of the base plate such that as the coils and the stator core heats during operation, the base plate is configured to transfer the heat to a liquid coolant in the liquid-coolant channel to dissipate heat from the plurality of electromagnetic coils and the stator core.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2021Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: EVR MOTORS LTDInventors: Victor Kislev, Oleg Gaspar, Ruslan Shabinski, Eliyahu Rozinsky
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Patent number: 11336164Abstract: A holder is used while attached to a chassis of a vibration generator that moves a vibrator to generate a vibration. The holder includes a vibrator retention unit retaining the vibrator, a fixed unit fixed to the chassis, and an arm. The arm connects the fixed unit and the vibrator retention unit, and the arm supports the vibrator retention unit while the vibrator retention unit can be displaced with respect to the fixed unit. The fixed unit, the arm, and the vibrator retention unit are integrally formed using resin.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2019Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI INC.Inventors: Minoru Kuroda, Makoto Tanaka
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Patent number: 11329540Abstract: An actuator may include a movable body; a support body; a connecting body arranged where the movable body and the support body face each other to contact both of the movable body and the support body; and a magnetic drive circuit. The magnetic drive circuit may include an air-core coil provided on a first-side member among the movable body and the support body; and a permanent magnet provided on a second-side member among the movable body and the support body to face the coil in a first direction, the magnetic drive circuit being configured to vibrate the movable body with respect to the support body in a second direction crossing the first direction. In the first-side member, the coil may be fixed by an adhesive to a surface of a plate-shaped coil holder on a first side in the first direction while an air-cores is directed in the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventors: Masao Tsuchihashi, Tadashi Takeda, Hiroshi Kitahara